It is not a complain, but a fact. Confirmed by Hazel himself. Might not be 2024, but your first sentence shows the path.

Nope. I am getting closer to my third turret, only two hulls, one drone, one decent augment in total (no self damage twins) taken with crystals. Got everything at -30% and a little at -50%. 1 set of of weekly missions... Also this one needs to be debunked. Having a poor garage and playing MM battles for missions, means to end each battle at 4-20 K/D, generally meaning 0 stars. One could possibly end those 60 levels leading to 100 tankoins if playing all day, for a full week. I can guarantee you that 3 hours a day, every day, are hardly getting you half the way, beside being terribly disgusted by the constant inability to compete. And, just to explain that I am not such a bad player, I am generally leading most tables when playing in Pro Battles.

I do respect you because you show up for a discussion. But you insist in misrepresenting the truth. First, you are not playing as a "born free player", correct? Probably, you never did. I am not accusing here, just stating a fact, which explains why you are missing the Free Player (disgusting) experience. Now, use a Brutus, play without augments, pick only two or three turrets/hulls between the older models, play on a PC and spend a full week on Tanki like that. Feel free to use all the supplies you want. I would love to see it... ? Someone has done that for a decade. You do not think we can recognize Buyers from Free Players? That we cannot see the disappearance of Free Players? In the past Buyers, with their infinite supplies, were... at least 5 times stronger (double armor, double damage, double speed, mines, health)? Now, including drones and augments, we are talking about at least 20 times stronger (actually quite unbeatable, as they have constant access to health reset). Forget the P2P definition given by a dictionary. Nowadays many kids are paying and not winning. That is, in reality, Pay to Participate. Thanks to TheCongoSpider for the clarification on tankoins. A Free Player would not "forget" that, because now either we upgrade our equipment wasting the few tankoins received as gift over the years, or leave the game altogether, as we are constantly pushed out of the door.

Wrong. I do not think I was around in 2010, but in 2014 (approx) I made it to Legend without using Supplies (or money). Try now. Several Free Players back then: I guess it is me and a couple others remaining since. % of buyers literally skyrocketed simply because you cannot make it otherwise. But the main point is: are you aware that, to the infinite supplies, they have been adding drones, augments and extra equipment? And: back then you could get all equipment with crystals. Now you need tankoins just to upgrade. As a Free Player with poor garage, you have to play a week full time to make 100 tankoins. It used to be Pay to Win. Now it is Pay to Participate.

Buyers, to have "a nice experience", would need to be few, possibly in the same team, against a bunch of free players. So they would be feel so highly skilled, when they actually have a tank 20 times stronger. That is not the case anymore. Majority of players are or have been buyers. Free players are gone. Therefore it is now heavy buyers vs light buyers. It would not be "a good experience" for them too. But then comes age. Age has been dropping dramatically. Young teens playing this game have "still-developing" brain functions. They get happy with a new skin. With gold drops. They get excited for a new augment. They write gg when their team loses 7-0 or when their K/D is 6/21. And Tanki keeps feeding candies to these kids. If you play on mobile, you shoot somewhere and you kill. In the meantime PC experience is neglected and you find invisible stones flipping you, your keyboard keys will get stuck at least twice in the same battle, you will not get point while shooting at the center of a tank and get killed long time after you took cover. Long times to reach garage. Passing through boxes unable to pick them up. Every day it gets worse.

Thanks, but in reality legendary augments are forbidden to free users.

What the heck is "SAVED"??? Shooting a tank, not making any damage and the word "Saved" comes up. Another of those Buyers thing?

OP Augments since 2009? Equipment not available with crystals? Drones? Prices? Flying hulls? Phoenix? I would say it went $$$ 100x

95% of the battles are all buyers equipment enabled. Probably 80% of players are/have been buyers. 100% of OP equipment is only for buyers. As a Free Player, how can I not be disgusted? Even in Arms race the 4-protection module is on. To upgrade a hull/turret, you now need tankoins. Pro Battles used to be good, but with all free players forced to leave the game, there are few battles. What is the sense to follow announcements, if all they say is "new augment here, new event there, just take out your wallet or you will not go anywhere".

If everything is enabled, why should a free player participate? To be slaughtered? These are $$$ battles. By the way, I did play that... Festive Mode. First game I did not understand anything (entering with a Railgun, finding myself with a Smoky and and XT skin, dying for not apparent reason, no idea about the scoring way, etc.). Second time so, so. Third time I got first spot. Still, I do not understand why to make something so different for a brief amount of time. And the many golds are just spoiling the game with all kids running for them.

Thanks. I will try it later. From what I see it will be over in 2 days. Then back to $$$ ?

I wish I could reply, but I do not know what that Race is. Most of the stuff happening in Tanki is now incomprehensible to Free Players: from Events requiring thousands of tankoins, to discussions of augments that sound like Shyriiwook. I am not even trying to understand because I know that whatever it is, it is asking for money.

I used to see railguns shooting meters away or way after you turned the corner (yes, I know, it is all our computers being slow...) and they were always getting the hit no matter what. I just got my railgun and I am far away from being a Pro with it, but sometimes I see my shot getting in the center of the enemy tank and no numbers showing the damage coming up. Obviously this is not while they respawn... I play from a PC. Could it be that from the mobile they made it easier to kill (just point in the right direction), while PC guys enjoy the occasional bug? Also, my railgun does not shoot a bit higher or a bit lower, just straight. Does it depend on the hull? I have Hunter.

I assume there is an augment to block enemy tanks from using their OD, correct? Pardon the ignorance on the matter, but as a F2P, I have no access to any of that stuff.

MM battles being fun and good for F2P ??? Man, It is the most disgusting experience one might have in all videogames ever created!

If you can find it, I would love to see it. I am not following the guy, but the few videos I saw were all about him showing all the (F2P unreachable) augments, while he was crashing everybody else. I met him only once in a real game, I do not know if he was taping or doing something else, but I left few "words" because he was on the way and not really playing well. Only later I realized that my "encouragement words" might have been ending in a YT video...

Taspens always had a full garage (thanks to Tanki Online promotion) and enjoyed taking advantage of weaker tanks for years. He called it fun. Now free players are rare and buyers are annoyed that there are too many buyers. LOL. Taspens should make a video where he plays with free player's equipment in a MM battle. That would be really fun to watch.

An interesting read, that I tend to believe. As a Free Player, I do not have ANY of all those OP augments/drones, so I do not know how they work and how really powerful they are. You say that some railguns kill you with one shot, while with my M7+ railgun with DD on and maxed Brutus drone, I can continue to shoot 4/5 times the same medium hull and I will never kill it before they press 1. On the other side my Hunter, maxed out, with Double Armor on and Brutus, gets killed by anyone either with one shot or in a matter of 2 seconds. In Pro battles, still now, I am always doing extremely well, but in MM I feel like I have a carton box with pedals equipped with a water gun.

Does it work sometimes?

There is no solution anymore. It is not an MM problem. It is the difference between too many heavy buyers, having equipment valued at 100, few free players having equipment valued at 5, and light buyers at 70. Skills are absolutely not making any difference, as anyway you get killed within 30 seconds max. Even today I shot a medium hull 4 times with my M7+ railgun with DD on, but nothing, even without pressing 1, buyers do not die. Then add that you pass on top of boxes and cannot pick them up, the usual getting killed when you already took cover (they keep saying it is a delay, but it never happens to your advantage), keys on the keyboard getting stuck just in this software... A major disgusting experience. One hopes to finally get a decent augment to keep up, but still ZERO on my main turret. In the meantime 78 skins... only good for those many 12 years old kids spending their parents money here.

Yeap. I also got a billion containers today. Thanks. Pity all contents were pretty much useless between skins for kids and drugs I am not using. Hopes for augments were high, considering I still have an empty garage, but nope, just a useless one.

In reality most players here pay and do not win ? P2W games I know have FEW players paying and MOST players not paying: those are P2W. In this game very few players left not paying (not having paid earlier). So this one is Pay-To-Participate. I get the same impression, but between super-augments and super-drones... as I said before: you can shoot a low-rank buyer 20 times and he won't die. He will shoot you once with your 50% protection, and you are dead. I just spent (best definition "wasted") my first tankoins to upgrade my railgun to M7 something plus. There is no difference at all. I hit tanks and I see "348", "423"... then they saw me, reached me, one shot and I was done. I read the Forum, they talk about special equipment and I do not understand a word they are saying because all that stuff they talk about is out of reach for Free Players.

It is more Buyers vs Free Players. Most low ranks kill me with one shot, while I have to shoot them 10 times, before they press 1...

Average battle where Free Players end at 6/20 - 3/15 - 2/15 - 7/31 MM battles stand for Money Matching.

Zerei_0_Game_YT just watch his battles and you will see a light hull flying in a micro second to the flag, and fly away in another micro second. So fast that you hardly see it. Best hacking I have ever seen. Of course I called the Battle Mod for 10 minutes and of course none showed up. If you think I am going to download a software to make a video, to find out how to upload to whatever RU forum... Game reliability is on you guys. We give you easy ways to find the cheaters and you refuse to pursue before, during and after. PS.: just saw a very similar hack in YT called "Tanki Online simple hack".