Cannot relate... for example, I was going to do the puzzle piece contest... got to 12 pieces and everything on the first day right away, then yesterday went to work all day, completely forgot about it... Came home super tired, and passed out almost instantly at about 10 pm. The puzzle contest would've required me to stay up until 2 am (I am on the west coast of the U.S.) so I completely missed the window. Also I am mostly only doing missions these days since pro battles are largely dead. The only thing which ever got me to no-life was like the 5 hour Arena CPs. I have an old screenshot of getting like 11k xp and 8k crystals in one battle during the midranks. I miss that old Tanki.

Well, if we are going that route, I wish they would also remove drones. Between the drones and overdrives (mostly Hornet of course), the new mode pretty much sucked in my opinion. Either I was constantly getting killed or I was unable to do more than scratch any of the other players because of Defender. There were the most Defender drones I'd seen in my life in these battles... These battles have really changed my outlook of the game (its gotten way more negative) because now I am seeing the true force of the amount of unbalanced changes and equipment that the devs have added to the garage really adding up. In normal MM battles with all Legends, you see many players with 9999 GS and such, but you are rarely forced to fight against them without any aid from teammates because, well, it's not DM. Now I realize how inadequate my GS of about 8.5k on average is against 50% prots, drone users, and all the overdrives out there. It only is good in team modes. Overall, the event was OK. At least there were the micro upgrade sales, which are what I took advantage of. I managed to upgrade my whole garage another step forward. Now I am less than 4 steps away from max on all my equipment which I am getting to M4. How on earth do you manage this?? I know you run meta combos (vulcan) and probably use a 9999 GS combo, but I would still be nowhere near this amount of xp and cry in one week. Are you basically playing all day and all night for this?

I hope they will stop with the stupid skins already. They come in absolute last on my list of interests... I like the standard look on m3's more than most of them anyway. Select few I like being fire xt, thunder xt, hornet xt, viking xt, rail xt (don't even use rail), and isida xt. Basically all the old skins that were around for so long before they screwed alot of stuff up...

Yes I agree about all of this. The reason I picked "no skill" in my approach is mainly because Firebird is considered (by the devs themselves in the little charts in the TO mobile garage) to be a low skill turret, or at least lowest relative to others. That is why I picked this combo. Also, it is one that I have used for these exact purposes before. I would argue it definitely is plug and play, there isn't much skill to it. Now that I think about it, imagine a buyer gets the hornet fire kit for tankoins at whatever rank it becomes available, buys defender, and maxes everything, plus whatever prots they can get (and incendiary mix). This would probably net 30+ kills per game on average, far past what any of us probably consider possible (maybe 40)...

In fact, to add onto your point @yellowghetto, you can have a completely winning strategy that is super low skill these days!! All you do is equip your 20/20 Defender drone, your maxed out hornet, 50% protections, and max Firebird with incendiary mix, and drive around spamming the 3 then 2 on your keyboard and proceeding to kill everyone in front of you. Of course, make sure to pick a mode like CP or Siege. Then you can simply press shift and drive over and annihilate everyone by the point, even when they are under a Titan dome!! This strategy would probably work for anyone who has played for more than 10 hours. It'll even net you upwards of 350 battle points each match, and hundreds of crystals!! Isn't it GREAT to see what Tanki's gameplay has come to?!

Extremely annoying glitch (cost me a mission). Playing on the browser Html5 version, the game suddenly stopped allowing me to deal damage to other players. My ping was 80. The game was otherwise working perfectly. Please look into fixing this. I hate it so much when it happens.

My idea for this all along has been to simply add a chat that is always open for when you are in a group. It REALLY sucks to have no communication with the other players when you are in a group outside of battle. The chat should be between only members of the group, and be erased/closed when the group is left. This would make things a million times simpler...

Well, I am overall happy with this event. The 6x xp will be nice since I am Legend rank, and so will the MU discounts, because through small events like these I will be able to max my equipment out probably by Christmas. Only got about 4 or 5 steps left on every piece in my garage. Then, it's on to buying protections full time. Might buy Freeze if it becomes viable again, or maybe Rail. Golds are good too. Might be able to get Trickster, depending on my level of luck. The only bad part of this event is that the special missions are kinda crappy...

By the way, who misses the days when most turrets weren't able to one shot your tank? We wouldn't need spawn protection if it wasn't for this... Now we have Magnum, Railgun, Hammer, Shaft, and Gauss. Plus, with Hornet OD, almost everything else falls under this category (not a direct oneshot, but death in about 2 seconds or less). I wish we could go back to the days when it actually took a bit of time to get killed, when light hulls couldn't have about as much health as Titan, and when heavy hulls couldn't get oneshotted by anything except Shaft.

By the way, who misses the days when most turrets weren't able to one shot your tank? We wouldn't need spawn protection if it wasn't for this... Now we have Magnum, Railgun, Hammer, Shaft, and Gauss. Plus, with Hornet OD, almost everything else falls under this category (not a direct oneshot, but death in about 2 seconds or less). I wish we could go back to the days when it actually took a bit of time to get killed, when light hulls couldn't have about as much health as Titan, and when heavy hulls couldn't get oneshotted by anything except Shaft.

Thanks Congo. So that actually means that it largely isn't possible to get 5 kills with one shot? This is the only thing I like about Gauss. It needs a nerf on the splash damage range, but at least that works against it when it comes down to the players who will snipe shot you up close and self destruct. This happens to them when I fight them on a regular basis. Overall, I really kinda wish that Gauss was never added to the game. It has such an imbalanced set of stats in some respects that it's almost irresponsible to have added it. Mostly the sniping shots, lock on time, and emp alt.

I hope they will somehow get more players, that may bring back enough revenue that they are able to stop pumping out updates that appeal only to buyers. The right thing to do is only sell cosmetic changes for equipment, not actual gameplay upgrades (emp gauss, rubberized rounds). Crystals are ok too, because they still can only buy things available at your rank. I'd really love to be able to go back to the days before drones and the stupid ultra containers so that I could actually be on equal footing again with every player. I wouldn't be surprised if the main reason they currently feed the buyers so much is because without them the game would be finished. The overall player count has declined enough to a point where if the buyers weren't able to have a significant advantage over the average-joe, they would probably leave, and without them Alternativa wouldn't be able to keep the lights on. The only way better days for Tanki will be ahead is if they are able to get out of this death spiral they are currently in...

Wow, I have probably never gotten 5 kills at once. Also, do you often die to self damage? In the Legend ranks there are many Hornet magnums, and they seem to rarely die of self damage. They normally have 50% prot, DA, and DD. I would think dealing about 1k of damage to themselves would be catastrophic, but they never seem to die. I'm not sure how they seem to avoid the splash dmg.

You are wrong. Mk5 magnum has a reload of 3.32 seconds. My Mk7-15 Thunder has a reload of 1.6875 to be exact (with sledgehammer). Assuming Thunder is dealing minimum damage: (1/1.6875)*(717.65) = 425.274 DPS Magnum Mk5: (1/3.32)*(1809.41) = 545.003 DPS So, you get: Marginally better DPS from Magnum. Far better aiming from Thunder. Far better close combat with Thunder. Better shot recovery with Thunder (allows the player to take the next shot quicker if they missed). Better splash radius with Magnum. When looking at the Mag statistics, I realized where it really needs a nerf at high ranks... From Mk7 to Mk7+ it has a 35% decrease in reload. This is absolutely criminal compared to the fact that it has about half that in the gap between all other levels...

Whenever I make pro battles, I will always turn alterations off. They appear to only have the potential to foul something up with the battle. Take for example any battle in the Noise map. With alterations off, there is a diverse range of turrets being used. With alterations on, there suddenly becomes a massive overload of magnums using the mine alteration and shooting down into the bottom of the map and mining up that team's base. The team with the mines going into their base almost always loses due to this (in my experience).

Is the game still down for everyone else?? It isn't working for me (I am testing from mobile) and it appears we are WELL past the 4:00 AM UTC mark.

Well, I think html5 is ok, Flash is definitely better though. It seems easiest to just play ads vs denying them 2 cents though...

Sledgehammer has been great for me recently... The protections have certainly gone down by a huge amount. I'd guess it is because we have Magnum, Vulcan, and Gauss all dominating right now, so protections are probably heavily weighted towards them. For me, the realization was very sudden. It was as if one day someone flipped a switch, and boom -- about 60% of the thunder protections were gone. Now I see between about 0-3, with the odd battle that has 5+ with thunder prot. That is what I was used to seeing all the time. Use your thunder with Hornet overdrive in siege. Hide out near the point and shoot as much as you can before dying. Use the overdrive when they drop the titan dome, as they will all cluster underneath it and you will get to take most of the kills (as your teammates cannot damage them easily).

I agree, this is annoying. I would highly recommend getting TO mobile on whatever device you have available. It allows you to change missions by playing an advertisement. You can do this many times, I have done it at least 5 or 6 times in a row before (I always go for crystal missions, and easier ones).

I second the issue. I am a Warrant Officer 5 on my second account, and today I played two Marshals. 5k gs vs 8.4k gs. How does matchmaking allow this?

Person_Random, I know the promocode, but I have a question about it. Did you mean to spell promocode "promodcode" within the code, and also, has it been taken? There was another problem too. It seems much too long for the promocode box, so I couldn't enter it. I'm not sure if it has just been taken, or if I'm doing something wrong.

Just wondering, when did this actually start?? I can't pinpoint when Hornet moved to the top of the pack exactly.

It is nothing of the sort. It just means I am going to get vaporized in a half second instead of a second by some notorious buyer like @Victorious or @Alklines or many of the other Legend rank people who beat up on me (and who I hate with a burning passion) with their game ruining, buyer only alteration. The situation would still be bad but a completely different story if the EMP alt was at least available for crystals in the garage. EMP gauss is also in some ways a buff to Gauss's overall performance, regardless of the emp effect. To address what you said about the EMP immunity, don't even mention it in this light. Completely buyer only, another expensive purchase you have to make just to counter one stupid alt. This also supports the theory people have talked about that instead of balancing the game, they have created a checks and balances system. This is why we seem to see so many of the same combo going around dominating. Instead of seeing many different combos that can be used to dominate based on skill, such as in a balanced game. The checks and balances ensure that there is a clear-cut way to win, meaning many players who only seek to dominate will only choose this path. You can basically follow a formula: 1) Pick most broken turret. 2) Pick most broken hull. 3) Add alts/drones to make the equipment more powerful or negate some of the effects meant to balance the equipment's power. 4) Use supplies until the cows come home. A good example of this is: Hornet/Vulcan/Incendiary Band/Heat Immunity/Defender. Defender exacerbates Vulcan's DPS because it allows you to use Double Damage faster, and negates Hornet's weakness (armor). Heat immunity negates Vulcan's weakness (overheating), so they can fire forever and give opponents afterburn. Hornet overdrive boosts the player's DPS even more. Incendiary Band ensures that nobody will escape. When will the developers realize how wrong this is?

I think this'll be the metaphorical moment at which the chair is kicked out from under the game. I'm expecting to get down to about 5k players max at peak times, 2k or less the rest of the time. I've personally gotten used to HTML5 because it actually runs well on my browser (google chrome) and hadn't realized until I started reading on the forum a few weeks ago exactly how many players still used flash. I agree the controls are far superior, and I like the in-battle feel much more. Either way, this may be the last straw for many people judging by how loved flash is. I'm not sure what this means for the flash client (never have used really), but the best case scenario is just that people use it I guess.

@E_polypterus Basically, if you only go online to play enough MM to do missions plus a few extra battles and then go to pro battles, you will be able to essentially "profit". By this I mean that you can stack positive amounts of drugs. Overall, with 360 of each at legend and 120 repairs, plus those that you get from containers, it is definitely possible. For this reason I always change my missions to give crystals, because the amount of drugs is already enough. Just can't use them super quickly or the advantage is completely lost.