I see what you mean. Yeah that is something that could happen in battles. However, compared to the current overdrives for me, I still feel the old blue one was better. This is speaking from personal opinion and my experiences in battles. I most certainly prefer the old blue overdrives over Hopper's OD (jump hack). Pair crisis hopper with Crisis and it's pretty much over. But yeah, I had way more fun with the blue overdrives. Hmm maybe even when there were no such thing as an overdrive I had more fun with that.

I miss the old Blue Overdrive that everyone had. I felt that was equal to all since everyone had the same thing. It healed yourself and your teammates and gave everyone supplies. It wasn't too OP. Games were insanely fun when it existed. What a time to be alive. ?

I dislike hopper in CTF, Rgby, Assault modes. Especially if hopper is equipped with Crisis drone. Then there are times where the hopper would take the ball/flag and use their OD to get to a spot that makes him/her impossible to kill. Then they just camp there the entire game with magnum and damage us while we are on the ground unable to damage them. I think the devs allowing "safe zones" for hopper outside the map is insanely stupid.

Yo chill on the Mod Candidate. He has every right to express his opinion. ?

I knew you had some type of augment helping you. There's no way you were able to beat Crisis/Hopper with regular equipment. Now, you do realize that the majority of people are able not to afford immunity? Or even the battle pass and premium to get immunity? You say get a good augment or drone like that's a simple thing to do unless you have $$$ to spend on shop. Before you say do special missions to get ultra containers and try our luck, majority of special missions are suited to buyers with premium. I don't mean this in a offensive way at all but I feel like your judgement is clouded by your happy go lucky positive-about everything personality. Look at this objectively here. Is Hopper/Crisis not a flying hack given the parameters you are a non buyer that can't afford Mk8s? Or even a casual buyer to broaden the audience.

Bless your heart man. Bless your heart. I apologize for what I said about the sucking up to the higher ups thing. Quite immature. On note of how you view hopper/crisis, I just have to disagree with you as non buyer. Not sure if you are a buyer or not and are able to defend yourself from it. Put yourself in the perspective of the non buyer. It's hard enough as it is. Adding hopper/Crisis on top of that is just brutal. If you like that battles ended quickly, more power to you. But for those tankers who can't spawn in fast enough, F in the chat for them :\

That's true. Some other modes are fun even if the guy has hopper/crisis. I feel that hopper/crisis is only a complete abomination in CTF/Rgby modes. I prefer playing CP mode as that has everyone moving around and playing a lot. Not really a single objective to get. However, my favorite mode is CTF and it's sad that I am forced to not wanna play CTF because of hopper/crisis. On the note of overdrives. I prefer getting stunned and flag dropped by hunter instead of hopper setting me on fire, making me drop flag, and jumping over me. Hunter has effects on different hulls. Hopper does the same 3 things on every hull. Before you say get immunity, keep in mind that I am speaking from the perspective a non buyer that's unable to spend money on this game.

? I love how you call em clowns haha. That is very good method I use but it's not always effective as half my team does not spawn in for a few minutes. Although, I am a nonbuyer so I don't have stun immunity augment and I don't get lucky in containers. :\

I don't understand that appeal of that type of gameplay either. Intense battles to the last second even if my team loses are some of the most fun I have in TO. But those are rare. Interesting to see a player of your caliber not having fun pub stomping non-buyer noobs. I'm used to the super buyers calling me noob kid as they show off their "hard-earned" money bought equipment I only have 1 xt that I grinded for when Super missions were a thing back then. I feel that's worth more than anything buyers purchase. I feel like TO should have a MM for buyers and non buyers however, there are so many implications of that suggestion. At the end of the day, hopper/crisis is buyer's hack and ruins the game for everyone. And I didn't mean anything I said in offensive way. I have nothing bad against you and I respect you. For me, I guess I'll just have to stick to creating Pro Battles with certain parameters and only do MM for missions. ?

Thank you! I bet they were a clan. I had the same thing happen to me lol. It was just awful haha.

True that is a great strategy. Glad it worked for you cause it surely hasn't for me. How often will you have a team that spawns in fully? Almost all my games half the team have not spawned in yet and I can't 3v8 a full team.

True true true. I stated what I said knowing what would happen. If it makes all parties feel better, I apologize to Thunderhunter. I'm sure he is a great guy and I hope he gets the full position he is applying for. I just feel those positives he explained do not outweigh the negatives by a lot. There are more negatives than positives. If you were a non buyer who couldn't afford the expensive stuff and you see a hopper/crisis on other team, are you gonna say "oh man, this is such a positive thing for the game, I can't wait to play against the guy that will stun me and fly across the map to end the game in 2 minutes." I'm not trying to be an impertinent smarty pants here, that is a serious question. Glad you could agree with me on the hopper/crisis thing.

@wolverine848 I know you. Not for your work on the Forum but for the absolute hell and turmoil you bring in battles. And that's not a compliment. I hate queuing up against you or even with you on the team. I don't hate you as person, I'm sure you're a good guy considering your reputation. I just hate you cause your one of the main Crisis/Hopper guys I have in mind. You make games just the absolute worst. I agree with you if you say Crisis is balanced on any other hull other than Hopper. You agree with some of my points on the overdrive being unbalanced as heck. Glad we could find some common ground there. I can understand why you abuse that mechanic. With hopper/crisis, you're an all powerful buyer god amongst the norm, who's gonna stop unless another hopper/crisis buyer god. Just one thing. Do you find it fun to end battles in 2-3 minutes even before half of each team is spawning? By the time people spawn, you would have captured the 5 flag and battles over.

So you mean to tell me it's 4 overdrive effects is fair? Having a hopper/Crisis super buyer take your flag/ball and hop across the map so fast you can't shoot it and they end the game in 2-3 mins is fun and fair? You must like really short games then. One thing, getting augments is god hard for non buyers and casual buyers. You think non buyers have premium and battle pass money to get that? And yes I still hate Crisis. You say hunter and Stun and yes that is true but how many times do you think you can do that before the Hopper/Crisis kills you and ends the game. You get killed as the lone hunter saving the team and boom hopper/crisis makes his move. What then? Rely on your teammates? What are the chances that they are actual "good" players that have the capacity stop the hopper/crisis. Pretty slim if you ask me. I can't tell if you're only saying all these "positive" things because you're a Forum Moderator Candidate and you're trying to suck up to your higher ups so they can see you're a good match for the job. If you truly feel that hopper/crisis at its current state belongs in the game then bless your heart.

I understand what you're saying. It seems like you're looking at this from a buyer's perspective. Not everyone is able to afford most of those things. Look at how you said you have mu 20/20 saboteur and any other drone. You have to be a major buyer cause there is no way in heck non buyers are having that. Same with EMP Gauss Salvo. You have to be extremely lucky to get that. Just cause I'm legend rank does not mean anything. I do not have any mk8s cause I can't afford that crap. It's hard enough to earn crystals in battle as a non buyer. Btw, the name Heliophile looks like a buyer's name but I got it as a gift from a friend. I'm not a buyer and believe me I suffer tremendously. Why do you think the Tanki player base has decreased over the years?

Let's just get straight into it. Here's the scoop. This is speaking from experience but I am sure most of you have had the same experience. I know a lot of you feel this way. Crisis and hopper. When you see it in battle, you immediately know one thing. Unless you have god tier players or another crisis hopper on your team, you are going to lose guaranteed. It's just insane how "curse word" it is. By the way, I'm using "curse word" to censor what I actually wanna say. You get the idea. Whenever I see a Crisis/Hopper player in the game, I just leave the game and literally queue up with another Crisis/hopper ?. You have crisis, one of the most foolish drones in existence as if the current equipment wasn't already powerful on their own. And you have Hopper, one of the most idiotic things I have ever seen to exist in this game. In this rant, I will go into further detail. Disclaimer: This is my opinion and not really fact. Although, it could be fact but who knows? Crisis You have crisis, one of the most foolish drones in existence as if the current equipment wasn't already powerful on their own. It's like the devs met up and thought "hmmm, how could we make the non buyers suffer even more, further reduce our player base, and make our game ratings on Steam and other sites even more trash?" It is just ridiculous that such a thing exists. There were enough OP drones as it is such as Defender, Booster, Saboteur, and Hyperion. And you have Hopper, one of the most idiotic things I have ever seen to exist in this game. Hopper's Overdrive Let's talk about Hopper for a second. The main issue with hopper in itself is its overdrive. Look at this objectively for a second and you will realize that Hopper's overdrive is literally jump hack. It's jump hack and there is nothing you can say to prove me otherwise. I've been a player since 2009 so I've seen many things in the game. Back then, you could get banned for using jump hack but now with Hopper, the developers are legalizing it? In what world does that make any sense. To make matters worse, Hopper's overdrive stuns you, makes you drop flag/ball, and sets you on fire. In combination with it's jump hack, that is 4 overdrives on one hull. How is that fair? Someone in the replies please enlighten me. I'd rather they name the hull Dasher and it does a short fast dash on the ground but that's story for a whole other topic. Gameplay This may or may not be a lot of words so bear with me. If you thought what I wrote above was over bearing strap in your seatbelts. Playing against hopper/crisis is absolutely awful. In a CTF or Rugby, here is a breakdown of how the game usually goes. Hopper/Crisis player takes the flag/ball, uses speed and yeets their self across the map in 10 seconds using their jump hack over drive to hop over everyone and captures easily. Repeats this 5 times and boom game's over and finished in 2-3 minutes. Imagine you're a tanker without good connection and you take time to load into battle and as soon as you load into it, a hopper captures 5-0 and game over. Tell me, does that sound fun to you guys? You think you're going to stop them from capturing the ball/flag, oh no no no sweetheart, you better believe they have their jump hack overdrive ready. They jump over you and literally land on the flag/point to capture. While they are in the air, unless you have god tier aim with magnum, you will not stop them. You may be from a distance with railgun, smoky, or striker and might be able to shoot them but let's be real, what are the chances of that happening? Let's say they don't have overdrive and you are trying to block them with your tank. Guess again cause they will literally just lag on top of you, under you, or even inside of you and capture. A goldbox or container is dropping and you know in your heart you're going to get it? Guess again as hopper jump hacks to it leaving you in a (◕︵◕) face. Even when there is a hopper/crisis on my team, I still do not have fun as they just do the same cycle of taking the flag/ball and ending the game in 2-3 minutes. It's to a point where you can literally just stand still and watch them end the game right then and there. God forbid there is a clan of Hopper/Crisis. Oh my my my. I've queued up against a clan of 4 Hopper/Crisis since TO allows you to group up to 4 people. That was literal hell. On top of that, they each had Gauss Salvo alteration. You literally could not move for 5 seconds without getting decimated. I still get PTSD from it to this day lol. For real though, it sucked a lot. Furthermore, you have people who jump onto the top corners of the map and hide there with the flag for the entire game. They won't self destruct cause TO allowed them to do this. Either they are camping with the flag or camping near your base behind a cover that's impossible to reach them and they are shooting at you. Concluding Statements That was my rant about hopper/crisis. As you can tell, I really hate that it's in the game. I've held and hosted Pro battles without hopper or any overdrives just like old Tanki back in the day, and the feedback I've received was incredible. All the participants have said they have not had this much fun in a battle ever. All cause there were no hoppers or overdrives. What are the odds hmm? I know what you're going to say. "If you're complaining about Hopper/Crisis, why don't you just keep making pro battles." To that I say, you're right. I could however nowadays, it's difficult to organize a pro battle and actually have players there. All in all, Hopper/Crisis is just one of the many cancers of the game. I want you to do something for me. Go on your search bar and type in Tanki Online Reviews and click any link and read. Here is a link for example if you wanna check it out https://www.trustpilot.com/review/tankionline.com . I wanna know what you think, leave your comments below. Do you feel the same way as me? Do you feel differently? Let's have a discussion about this.