I am not expecting any radical increase in the fund even with the Black Friday advent calendar. A lot of buyers who wanted to participate probably already purchased some offers, and given how the fund is progressing, I dont think there will be a big motivation to purchase any additional offers. Others with funds to spare may still wait for the low chance of higher levels being reached before participating, which may not even happen. For an increased prize of entry, there is no guaranteed initial reward. That's why people started to prefer events like Freezer Games, because it is cheaper and you know what you are buying. You pay the initial prize of 700 rubies, and you know you will get to lvl.13 with just missions. If you want two extra rather op augments, you pay 1.8 m crystals or extra rubies. But in Tanki Fund, you are not guaranteed rewards, unless others push it far enough before you participate. If you participate early, you dont know what you will get. Will it stop at level 8? Will it get to at least Tandem? Is there even a chance to get to Sustainable Nanobots and Destroyer? That's too many unanswered questions for many to risk the participation. Fingers crossed ? to those who choose to participate.

Happened to me too when I was adding a gif to my post and it timed me out, not sure what the exact wording of the message was or the reason. i think it was mentioning something else in that message but I forgot it.

Ou no! What a nightmare! Vacuum is basically unusable now :(. And this was in a battle where a decent number of people had Striker protection, really good GS and other powerful augments. Even if we somehow take into consideration Phoenix and the fact this guy seems to be a nolifer mastering the "extreme skill" that is Vacuum, I think this in all seriousness pretty much answers the question whether this nerf was sufficient enough.

i think it will be more used by clans, I can see the Akumas and alike storming the battlefield with this while using some busted augments in conjuction with it. Youtubers will probably also have some friends boosting them or themselves boosting others. I think it will be mostly for clans and friend gameplay since those tend to be slightly more organized while playing. If I am not mistaken, Tanki follows the european time, so you will have to wait for server restart.

Cough, cough Quoting the announcement: "From the moment of purchase, starting from December 1st, new gifts will appear in the Advent Calendar section of Missions every day. "

Who said anything about deleting it? People only asked for it to be nerfed becase many have been running around getting 1000+ points with augment that basically had a very limited counterplay options and them being basically spawnkilled. The nerfs should be sensical and should make augments good while not busted and respecting the hierarchy of garage, legendary, and exotic augments. Obviously, Tanki is either outright ignoring or prolonging the process of balancing for the monetary reasons, as their monetary model was more or less almost always based on selling power. But, that does not mean that every busted augment should stay this way forever. And as we could also see many times in a past, a single nerf or rework isn't always enough to just call the augment balanced. Even recently, we saw Tandem getting nerfed, and surprise, surprise it did not make the augment balanced at all. Now, it received another nerf, and it is finally in a state where it still performs better than garage augments, but it isn't as oppresive as it used to be. played it yesterday, and it is still pretty good augment. I haven't seen many Vacuums, because of the distribution of freezer game augments that people are trying right now, but I doubt that 250% to 230% made Vacuum so much worse that it forced anyone to switch to RRE.

People do be so impatient these days, despite knowing very well how long it often takes Tanki to add items from events to accounts ?

By what I got from the rather poor browser translation, it's pretty much the same as here. Mainly its too expensive for most people, and for those that are willing to fork out those 1500 rubies are only going to do so if the fund reaches at least 15 levels. Most people are just meming on it.

Lol this hits hard. It really feels like the best the mods and helpers in general can ever reply these days is: a) "Wow what a great new art, the designers outdone themselves" b) "Good luck everyone" c) "Awesome new pay 2 participate event" (that only buyers, select few f2p who saved for months and years on end, and me cause I get paid in game resources for the helper job be participating) d) "What a great balance changes and fixes, great job devs!" (meanwhile years old visual bugs, other bugs, and 95% of broken equipment is still running around, while other equipment that desperately needs buffs or reworks hasnt been touched in months or years on end) Dont get me wrong, not really discussing their job or anything. I get it, dont bite the hand that feeds you (said metaphorically as they are not paid real money afaik), but boy oh boy, a lot of helpers do really come around as the npcs in the games that only have 3 preprogrammed lines to use xD

That is actually a very bad idea. First, it promotes the very act of sabotage as something legal and "good" which only leads to more people sabotaging and doing it even without the use of grenades. It also creates a lot of bad blood between players which leads to more personal conflicts and more sabotage. People start sabotaging back and it creates endless vicious circle of more and more sabotage that heavily distracts from actual gameplay. Additionally, the problem isn't in the camper players themselves. Camping existed from the very beginning of the game. Tanki even created turrets like Shaft and Railgun that are more or less for ages camper turrets, along with many more that can be to extent used for camping. The problem is in gameplay itself: a) Tanki failed to introduce effective anticamping options. Stuff like Magnum and Striker that have been advertised as anticamping new options have become some of the most effective camping turrets themselves. b) Gameplay heavily shifted away from battle objectives. Completing battle objectives is one of the main stimulants for players to not camp. Apart from TDM, most other game modes require you to move around the map to actually complete the battle objective - you need to move to capture flags, to deliver the rugby ball, to capture the points, etc.. However these days, completing battle objectives either outright does not give enough points to justify playing it (like after the score nerf, delivering flags in ASL), or even if the battle objectives do give quite good amount of points (like for delivering flag in CTF), you can still outperform players who are completing battle objectives by simply camping or playing every mode as a deathmatch, because a lot of equipment these days gives you more points than doing something useful like capturing flags, or delivering balls. For example, in my opinion, destroying an enemy should give far less points (excluding TDM) than something like delivering flags or rugby balls, These modes should be focused more on objectives and give far more points for succesfully completing them. On top of all of this, completing battle objectives has been far less important because winning or losing is no longer important for getting good rewards after the battle. You can lose 6-0 in CTF and still get more crystals than the winning team just because you have some busted augment that gives you more points than players on the winning team gained from capturing flags. And of course, missions and special missions which is the sole reason some players even play the game daily, rarely have any focus on battle objectives these days. c) A lot of people camp because they cant do anything else in battle. There is still a big imbalance between equipment of f2p and buyers. Lot of people cant leave the safety of their base, because the moment they leave, they get picked up by enemy campers or busted augments that kill them in nanoseconds. Some people simply dont have the skills or equipment to keep up with more powerful equipment of buyers or endgame players. So they stay in the safety of bases that often provide the power in numbers and camp because it is the only thing that somehow gives them a fighting chance.

No, it is not okay to sabotage your teammates. Sabotage of camping teammates was not magically legalized just because one description hinting at it appeared in the game. From my perspective, its one of those descriptions that should be taken with a grain of salt. Obviously, using smoke grenade on enemies is preferable and I believe in this camping meta, you throwing grenade at your teammates will not change anything. People will camp because they want to camp, or because it is their prefered playing style, or because it gives them better results than actively playing other objectives in the field. Throwing smoke grenade will most likely just distract both you and the camper even more, making your team perform even worse rather than forcing the camper to change his playing style. As for whether this will be considered a sabotage that needs some intervention is hard to say, and it is more of a question for the battle moderation. If I were you, I would not try my luck with any kind of sabotage or harrasment of your own teammates.

Just click on your rubies right over the crystals: → it will automatically take you to a converter where you can choose the amount of tankoins you want to change to rubies.

Once you bought the event pass, you will start receiving missions that you need to complete to get the event currency - ice coins. Every day for the duration of the event one new mission will appear in the freezer games section that you need to complete and claim. This way you can earn a maximum of 13 coins. You can also buy additional coins in the shop under the ICE COIN subsection for crystals or rubies.

Lol, there are definitely far more players who have it and who can constantly get top 1 with it practically nonstop, despite protections. And even if it was so super skill capped, that does not mean that those who mastered this "incredible art" of Vacuum spam should be running around and getting 1000-1500 points in every match just because there are noobs who cant play it efficiently. This is completely irrelevant argument. Protections, Defender and Lifeguard together can pretty much counter everything regardless. Equipping these does not really make every augment balanced, otherwise there would literally be no point in having any balance changes whatsoever.

Feel like this will not go far again, no incentive on the first 10 levels just like last time. Tandem on 11th is getting nerfed again, and Bombard on 13th did not really make much of a splash as a new augment either. First really interesting rewards are on 17th and 19th level with Sustainable Isida and Destroyer. The price is also quite discouraging at lowest entry being again 1500 rubies. I wish it would do better than last esports major, but who knows, especially after some pretty good events in last months like Assembly, Trick or treat and the latest Freezer games probs already drained a lot of rubies out of people.

And conveniently at the time when it is about to be massively distributed as well through event. Predictable.

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I think this leaves a lot of wiggle room for people to suggest ideas for additional rewards under the pretence of it being a new feature to try out and only obtainable after some mission is completed.

When was the last time you got 8 augments from 16 Ultra Containers? xD

Arent suggestions asking for any additional rewards suppose to be declined? Besides, these controls are made to give players variety in options with what they can play with, not for them to get more rewards from them.

You look like a familiar face from long ago. Dictator has fallen off massively and it is very sparsely used. Most people these days use either nontrack hulls like Crusader and paladin or Viking or at max Hunter as their ODs tend to be better in medium hull meta than Dictators. If you want to use Dictator, its best to share the OD with teammates to take advantage of the 20 points you get for sharing OD effect, and use the Supercharge effect with turret and augment that can take advantage of those 10 seconds of 100% critical damage. Dont spend crystals on supplies, if you plan to play semiregularly, you will get a bunch of them from containers anyway. Drones are absolutely necessary these days as without a drone your supplies are only giving you 50% power. Since you dont have that much crystals, you should defo save up for Brutus max upgrade during a 50% sale (probs Black Friday or New year sale). This is a basic drone that is fairly cheap and allows you to maximize the power of your supplies. Augments are also important, I am not sure about garage augments for Smoky, since I dont ever play them but you might want to save crystals for Rico Plasma Torch which is pretty good augment for crystals that is flying under the radar. As for equipment a lot of it has been moved to containers. From new turrets and hulls to augments and such.

Buyers will do what they know best to get that Freeze skin and Augment for faction winning.

I never mentioned anything about not being able to deal with it. Its not the point of being unable to deal with Viking OD, you can deal with any type of Overdrive under certain right circumstances, but it is the simple point of certain equipment being overused and frankly quite overpowered. By this same logic you are applying, if I am able to deal with vacuum Striker does that universally make it a balanced augment?

Lol aboslutely not dude, you dont have to play 20 hours daily for an event that lasts 26 days. I played at max 3 contracts a day so a couple of hours, usually at max 3 hours depending on how well I played and what I played with. And then the Firebird event came which honestly helped immensely. If that did not happen I would probably stopped at 5th checkpoint. I was able to finish one Silver Contract every 30-35 minutes without wasting any supplies. So I decided to give it a shot to last checkpoint. Only during the Firebird event I played 5ish hours maybe a bit more, but defo not too much more.

If Viking is the only way for you than that is simply your skill issue, of not being capable of doing anything any other way. And even if Viking was the only way to clear bases, it still does not matter, because that is simply the gameplay flaw of this game. Even if you clear enemy base with Viking people will still camp and do the same thing again, because there is no stimulus to do things any other way, People will still camp because it is profitable to camp, and a lot of people cant play otherwise because they cant face the op augments running around that basically force them to stay in their bases. There is also no motivation for a lot of people to leave the base and play game objectives, because winning or losing makes little difference these days regarding the rewards you receive at the end. It does not matter Crusader OD takes a lot to recharge, it still overperforms in battles heavily, and basically replaced Paladin as the top strifing hull that all the players with OP augments use these days. Strifing is just that overpowered.