Another mini-game and of course another 5k reputations points contracts... But hey, Golden Contracts cost only 290 Rubies and no longer 990. Literally opportunity of a lifetime. "Thank you so much tanki online developers for this amazing mini-game" Hope you all enjoy this mini-game, disregarding the fact that these particular skins were chosen as prizes.

Where is excalibur nerf? Where is stellerator nerf? Where balance changes?

Good the mass test for Tanki Classic finally appeared, so that all those who bought "Nostalgia" and "Old-school" special offers can take part in those tests. Also good that people can buy such offers again. Big W, especially that many waited with unpatience for some more news about it. I've seen few screenshots from this game and not gonna lie, interface of Lobby and game are really impressive, identical to old, but gold Flash interface. I like it. Many complain that it looks ugly, terrible etc. but like, it's not possible to recreate 1 : 1 Flash interface + fact servers are runned on different technologies. Prove me wrong. I guess it will be further improved to make it more and more similar to old interface which was before HTML5 era. Good there's so many feedback about the current state of TC by now from testers. Hope it will make a huge impact on game. And also I hope people will accept the fact that Tanki Classic will not be 1 : 1 how it used to be in old days of TO and old Tanki can't be fully replaced. Those days are gone, but at least there are memories of it (Old videos, old screenshots). And more thing - don't be suprised your account will reset and complain how "after grinding so many hours it all got removed, nooo" etc., because it was clearly said that progress will get reset, "During the test, we will restart the game several times and even temporarily pause the testing process. We will also wipe the test server database several times, which will reset all your progress." But I guess there will be still complaints about it. Anyway, wish you patience during tests.

Congratulations to the all Helpers Of The Year 2025 and Best Helpers of December 2025!

Merry Christmas! Wish you health, luck, happiness, wealth, peace, and spending some time with family and/or friends.

TNK00-00000-06N74-1JZFC-MYE9T Promocode from V-LOG, contains 1 epic key

Not gonna lie, Hazel got us in the first half hahah Good to finally see some information regarding Tanki Classic. Better tell news than not tell at all. Guess now there's no more spoilers about new things added in TC. Maybe except those who hadn't bought those "Old School" and "Nostalgia" special offers.

Then don't buy any Tanki Fund bundles anymore, because that's how you join such draws. And no, it's not possible to buy one of the bundles to get prizes from TankFund (I mean here that Tsar grenades, Snowball grenade, epic keys etc.) and NOT participate in that draw. Well, not winning happens. I also didn't win. Only won once (bought 1 bundle with saved Tankoins in Summer eSports TankiFund 2024, I always buy just 1, cheapest bundle). That's just bad luck. Imagine that yes, there are. I mean 700 Rubies events like Freezer Games or any other events which may give Excelsior augments or another prize (for example Augment[s]) of own choice. Maybe mini-games which have pretty interesting prizes (not requiring buying some pass to enter, but with contracts you may reach certain prizes). And I guess so many Rubies might be used to participate in another Tanki Fund and even buy more than 1 bundle (if Rubies are saved and fund itself has really good prizes). So yeah, there are many things to do with 8k Rubies won from this fund. It's up to you what would you like to do with them.

Congratulations to the Winners!

Tanki Online V-LOG Episode 539 - finally some news about Tanki Classic I think we can clearly call it an Early Access - in some way On December 26th expect announcement about Tanki Classic server launch All those who purchased "Nostalgia" and "Old School" special offer bundles, will be able to take part into the test server of Tanki Classic via this website https://pages.tankionline.com/tanki-classic/early-access?lang=en and by clicking "Early Access" button. You'll be logged via your in-game account. Haven't purchased it? Offers are available to purchase them again I think in next week you may be able to buy bundles which guarantee access to Early Access A new classic server is launched, runned on different technologies. It might crash, be unstable, but that's normal at that stage. Be patient and understaning! Who bought such offers, participate actively to test mechanics, interface and gameplay, server load and numbers of simultaneous players. Accounts will be periodically reset. That is removing progress, upgrades, earned crystals. In shop there's no possibility to buy Crystals Premium and Battle Passes Bonuses from Early Access special offers will be delivered after releasing final version. Not credited automatically now. The option to test some items like for example containers will be discussed. There will be dedicaded page alongside test launch to see what developers are working on, what is completed, what are in "work-in-progress" mode. Dates appear "post-factum" - after work is in 100% completed and added to game to test. Items on roadmap Juggernaut - only Solo version of this mode (Solo Juggernaut), can create it on any map and play when you want. No restrictions. Battle HUD Tank explosion effects Twins shot effect Legacy map versions Containers Vote: Striker or Gauss Roadmap will be updated, based on feedback. New items are added only when mechanic is fully "formulated and confirmed" (I think when work on 1st item is completed before moving into 2nd one etc.) Check roadmap before reporting issueses. Page can be opened any time to check current state of project. No longer "run ahead of development train" (announcing something before it is shown to early access participants I guess). There will be posted news about items which are already released and what has been done.

I've mentioned similar or few times literally same things regarding compensations for "duplicates" or when getting something you can't get more of it (Augments, Skins, +1 slot for protection modules, mentioned Crisis drone and Armadillo protection module). And not just TankiFunds, but also when it comes to mini-games. Where? For example there: May 18th 2023, Tanki Birthday TankiFund June 15th 2023, Summer eSports TankiFund October 30th 2023, "Trick-or-treat" mini-Game November 17th 2023, Winter eSports TankiFund December 28th 2023, The "Tanki and The Snow Trap" mini-game January 3rd 2025, "Tanki and The Snow Trap" mini-game 2024 July 27th 2025 "Cybertank 2025" mini-game I don't understand at all what's so bad about those compensations. It will be a benefit for literally every player (both Buyers and Non-Buyers) who reaches such level to get those prizes; those who don't have it yet will unlock it, and those who already have it will get compensation prize for "duplicate" or "having it on maximum level upgraded already" in form of Rubies or Crystals or Supplies, like you wrote. That feeling of "waste" really discourages from taking part in those funds or mini-games (not much, but still has an impact). If the problem is "How much should the compensations be?" then it's good to create a discussion about it. For example: Crisis drone - 150k crystals compensation and Armadillo module - 150 rubies compensation. Hope such thing as compensations will finally appear in game.

Fund completed, let's go!

One of the questions asked in blitz Q&A from 4th of December 2025 regarding Tanki Classic. "Q: Will there be holiday events in Classic, and if so, how will they be implemented? (asked by I_King_Of_Skils_I) A: We haven't made a final decision on how and in what form to run events in Classic. At the very least, we are not planning any discounts at the moment."

Another event and of course, another advent calendar hidden behind paywall. R.I.P Old & free advent calendar. You will be missed [*] Not gonna lie, the prizes from that paid one are impressive and good. But still, wouldn't that be a good idea to implement another calendar (free one)? Similar thing to challenges with "free pass" and "battle pass" - create a "free advent calendar" and "advent calendar pass". Ofc that 2nd one available with that "advent calendar pass" to buy for Tankoins (or maybe Rubies one day ). Regarding that "free advent calendar", why not to make it as long as the duration of event and for each day you get like 2000 crystals for each day you log in and claim that prize. And a supermission for logging every day during event with a prize in form of... hmm... 10 or 15-20 epic keys. That's debatable. It's really sad to see another thing turning from free to be hidden behind paywall I thought it would be temporary for like 1-2 events, but it seems like it will be for way longer... Just wonderful, can't wait to check what else from this events will be also available only for Tankoins or thousands of Rubies.

Excitement about that game somehow still exists, because there are some parts of old tanki, even though many things aren't "classic". Many people missed "old tanki" and some of them got hyped because of the name of that project - "Tanki Classic" and that it will be some kind of old tanki(debatable). I even mentioned what Hazel himself has written under the topic of Tanki Classic Early Access + fact they extended it by one more month. I think we can clearly say that thing was a cash-grab action, because then they told about "alterations"/augments matched to skins, voting which another turret to add to Tanki Classic between Striker and Gauss and many things that actually weren't in old Tanki back then. If they announce those things BEFORE they gave offers to gain early access for TC, I'm sure above 70% of that people wouldn't even buy it at all. And it could make TC be cancelled quicker. "Delays are common in the gaming industry..." Yes, but don't you think it should be better to tell players that it will be delayed and reasons like "continue to work out the details to make sure at early access there won't be so much problems." than not tell anything and just "figure it out by yourselves"? For example, the producers of GTA VI officialy announced their game will be delayed. That's a good example of pretty good contact with players. Here? There's barely any contact. No specifics. Just hopeless generalities and some "Figure it out yourselves, if you don't understand, that's your problem!". As I've mentioned above "It's way better to tell us what is happening with Tanki Classic than not tell anything at all ." I guess demand for that Tanki Classic went so low it might not be released at all since "they don't take risks". Let's wait for December's V-LOG.

Oh and BTW, do you even check the V-LOGs before you publish them? Because that 1st Tank from "Spy Tank" Contest in last V-LOG wasn't Wasp Smoky in Rust Paint. It was Hunter Twins in Mary paint. If you'd look closer to that, you'd notice more white paint, which is not visible on Rust paint at all (On Rust paint there's more gray and dark red or something like that). If that actually would be that Wasp Smoky in Rust paint, I wouldn't be there and many other people in that draw (correctly guessed 1st Spy Tank was Twins Hunter Mary). Altough rest of tanks are correctly said, still that 1st one makes no sense and create big confusion. Be more careful next time!

Once again no information regarding Tanki Classic?! You're literally destroying whole hype for that game (even though game was/is overhyped). What was even the point of releasing information about that thing, when you literally avoid answering people's questions, requests about it etc.?! What was the point of even introducing "Tanki Classic Diary" when you haven't done it for 3 V-LOGs?! You think people will wait 10 V-LOGs or X times more for it?! @Opex-RahDid something go wrong when working on that Tanki Classic?! Have you changed your mind about it and decide to secretly cancel it?! Why that's another V-LOG without information about it?! When EXACTLY can we expect next Tanki Classic information?! Is it really that hard to simply tell what went wrong and if it might affect the start date of Tanki Classic Early Access and global launch of it?! I'm pretty sure many would understand situation and wait longer if you tell us what is going on with it, if any problems appeared during coding, if something broke down etc. Do you even read comments under V-LOGs? It's way better to tell us what is happening with Tanki Classic than not tell anything at all . By now I see clearly someone's words didn't age well... If not, then prove it by telling us what is going on, why there's another V-LOG without any information regarding Tanki Classic and about questions above. You actually want to create this game or can we confidently call it Tanki Failassic?! Because that's the direction it's heading in!

Congratulations to the Best Helpers of October 2025

Tankifund will be in like about 3 weeks, according to what it's written in the announcement.

Why there's no Tanki Classic Development Diary? For the whole month you haven't made any progress or something broke?! That's disappointing and worrying. 2:15 moment in V-LOG, that's not Shaft, it's Scorpion. Hope we get more information regarding those new grenades, for example on next V-LOG. But one at the time: Medic grenade - that looks really good, ability to heal players within the radius. Yeah, might be good for Siege mode or when attacking. Hope it doesn't stop healing after getting shot. But what if it make that too OP?! I guess it can be balanced Smoke grenade - that's bad. Making a small field from where you can't see anyone and enemies can't see you. But players will still do "blind shots" or use them to camp and shoot at enemies. But still "Blind shots" again. Also can't wait to see map being whole time covered with smoke with no visibility to see what is happening and shooting at any directions possible. Teleport grenade - That must be a joke. Really? Teleporting to place where it's launched... Can't wait to see h*ppers using it to catch flag, right after teleportation using overdrive and vanishing from attack field and ez captured flags on CTF or ASL/balls in RGB. The fact that Juggernauts can also use it. Yeah, can be very fun to see how some "tough guy" teleports to enemy base with it, fighting with enemy Juggernaut and ending being destroyed. I'm not very optimistic about it. If it's announced, I don't think they'll remove it after 2-3 years or more or even at all (maybe except medic one, it's pretty cool and not really OP) but unless we know more details about them. Now imagine faces of all those people who lost their accounts due to using cheats like 7-8 years ago or earlier and seeing what "mechanics" have been implemented to this game. That must be a big pain for them and regret feeling like "Why I was even using those hacks when I could just wait 5-10 years to use them without any trouble" + fact in parkour mode there's no punishment for using them.

Once again that paid advent calendar and again copied modes from previous Halloween event. Even prizes are copied from the previous event. Similar with missions. Prizes from that advent calendar didn't change at all. There was barely any effort put into this event. Same special modes which were in last Halloween event. Special missions repeat with small changes which are use X/Y/Z supply 150 times, gain 1000 reputation points on O/E/D mode. Why not make something like deal 1 000 000 damage or heal 30 000 health points? Or destroy players with short distance turrets or long distance etc. or something new... Like mentioned above hunting for strong Juggernaut to get prize for killing it, for example for 2 or 3 epic keys. Not just copy and paste each year. Advent calendar - Again paid one with same prizes?! Why there can't be like 2nd advent calendar, a free one with like 1 epic key or 3000 crystals as prize for each day and super mission giving 10 epic keys, 30 000 crystals and like 1 or 10 rubies. If not to claim by just opening game, then to finish 1 battle. Special modes - again those boring ones, literally were last year. Halloween mode had way too many players on there. Plus fact that those self destruct zones were, once it self destructs tanks, once it doesn't. Current one is also medium, DM with no augments and overdrives, but grenades + campers everywhere. Like that Pumpkin Gold Box festive skin tho, looks awesome. But still, appearance isn't everything.

Fully agreed with the critical comments about that last special event mode "Sumo". Reaching 50 kills to earn 500 reputation points there is diabolical. To reach 1 epic Key?! Not worth it at all. At least those self destructs don't deduct kills and reputation points from mission. But still, on probably every other special mode currently known it's way easier to get many reputation points and to keep them till the end of round. Except seeing how literally every tank is flying like some helicopter and land outside the map ("fun"), few ideas for Contect Creators, for example great possibilities to record Gold Box Montages, getting lot of crystals when you somehow get at least 1 kill, what other advantages does it have?! It's nearly impossible to have K/D higher than 0.80 or even stay with few kills, because of getting knock out of the map literally whole time due to huge impact force and especially on those small maps without any big side walls like Farm, Hill or Wave. Mostly kills are from that Salyut grenade, but on flat surface maps like Farm it's almost useless (unless that it will hit the "gate" above the tanks from below and make Salyut bounce off and explode[check spoiler and picture there], or unless you use objects to do some "skill shots" with that grenade or when making "helicopter" in air etc.) I won't even mention the fact that those Hammers deal only 200 damage (except very rare critical damage shots with 1111 damage). And you know why it's better to use Salyuts?! Because they deal way more damage, even 10x more than hammer shot(2000). Plus the fact kills can get easily stolen, imagine hitting enemy 10+ times till some boi came and by 1-2 shots stealing kill you wasted minutes on. Sorry, but that's too slow and many don't enjoy wasting 2-3 minutes or more to get 1 kill and getting self destruct and -1 kill to score like few seconds after getting it. Why there couldn't be some bigger maps with or without big walls to make a "border" of map like Polygon or Rio or Sandal?! Or maybe increase damage from Hammer turret or increase chances of critical shots. Next time when there will be again that Sumo mode, also reduce amount of reputation points required for it to like 10 or 15 in order to get 1 epic key, because it's not only hard to get kills (unless stolen in "calculated" moment), but also to keep that amount of kills till the end of the round. Unless you want to make it 5 or 10 Epic Keys for that 500 RP on Sumo mode.

I really like the fact there's again this type of event, where we can choose prizes. Such events are the best. BUT it depends how it's organised. And here it's really disappointing to see the few aspects of this event. Let's point some of them: Duration of event - Duration of 2 weeks is too short. Why it didn't begin at the same time when Autumn Festival 2025 begin and end at the same time it will end? That would be way better, so players could have time to actually earn point without hurrying up that much. That 3 weeks would be way better than current 2 weeks. Or maybe try 4 weeks when having 4 week theme event (like Black Friday, Halloween, Christmas etc.). Amount of reputation points per contract - Again 5000 reputation points?! Really?! Why it's still that much?! It's really too much, especially when it lasts just 2 weeks. Why would we grind for that much points?! To get few energies to destroy few enemies on field, not every enemy tank there and not even get a single point?! No, I ain't grinding like 10 hours to clean 1 field and get sum 2 points (or 1 when hit a mine) in the end to reach a single rare key or epic key!!! Change it, please!!! Otherwise don't expect people to do it with a smile on their faces. I'd rather get an event where we can choose prizes, lasting longer than 2 weeks (NOT something like 2 weeks + 1/2 days, NO) and where contracts don't require 5k RP, but like 3k or 2k reputation points. Reduce amount of reputation points required to complete contracts in those events, please!! Disproportion between availability of augments from turrets - That might sound really complicated, yes. I mean here the fact there's a lot more augments for few turrets when for some there's like only 1 or even none (zero). For example Firebird doesn't have any augments there, same for Tesla, Ricochet, Shaft. Freeze has just 1, same Twins and Smoky, 2 for Magnum, when Railgun has 7 augments of own choice, 5 for Thunder, 4 for Hammer. There's like 31 Augments there, 16 regular turrets in game. Why not to give like 40 Augments to choose 5 for players and get like for 8 turrets 3 augments to choose (8*3=24), and for rest of them 2 turrets (8*2=16). To make a choice for each regular turret in the game, so that people can choose for their favourite turret. If they don't like augments for favourite turret(s), they can just spend points in epic or rare keys. I'm not suprised when read opinions that after completing those missions it's free 150k crystals from having Silver Contracts and not completing them. Just 2 weeks and deal with 5k reputation points "missions" in contracts to get few "moves" which don't even guarantee any points for destroying a single tank?! No point in wasting hours for a game and get 2-4 points or one less when stepping into mine. Why not to make that for each destroyed tank you get 2 points and after you step into mine you lose 1 point and make that for at least 1 field "cleared" you have a guaranteed epic key or rare key? Yes, point requirements for prizes would be higher, but that's logic. But it would be more fun and encouraging to participate there than grind that much in such short time and get so little. Hope next time that type of event, where we can choose prizes, it will last longer (3-4 weeks, as long as new event appears like Halloween, Autumn Festival etc.), won't require doing 5k reputation points contracts (2k or 3k are better) and also have better choice of augments (not like 5-7 augment for one turret when other have 1,2 or none).

Tanki Classic news regading maps Divided into 3 categories a) Maps from both MM and PRO Battles in current Tanki Online. Theme variations: Summer and Winter as usual. Most of them will get "Legacy version" (still in work to make battles in old graphics with old textures) Manually insert archive textures into every map needed b) Old maps and old version of them of T.O (for example Silence I, Silence II, Silence III, Brest I, Brest II, Brest IV mentioned) Most work with manual placing respawn and drop zones. The task is to save them and make it so HTML5 supports it, some kind of "museum exhibits". c) Exclusive category/Maps which never were released (for example Gallery, Kingdom, "Mountain") One of spoilers in episode 533

Hiding the advent calendar behind the paywall is literally shooting yourself in the foot (Don't think anyone saved that many Tankoins to get it for free). If that calendar is going to stay for years, that's a good reason to not even log into game (after completing special missions or at all, each players decide by themselves). What are even the prizes from it? 5 standard missions that each of them has 12 Epic Keys and 400 Rubies( 12 * 5 + 400 * 5) + 200 Rubies and some Recruit paint = 2200 Rubies + 60 Epic Keys and a Recruit paint. It's way better to get Rubies by exchanging them from Tankoins (1:1 exchange rate) and save keys from Supermissions and events, in which they give such prizes. Also that point costs 390 Tankoins (same amount if converted into Rubies), so techincally 2200 + 390 = 2590 Rubies, and ofc 60 Epic Keys. Nah, I'm out. Too unlucky while opening Epic Containers... Unless you bring back old advent calendar while keeping that "buyer calendar" for them if it's liked by buying players. A win-win idea for those who miss old advent calendar and those who enjoy current one. Or create 2nd FREE advent calendar, which contains standard missions giving 1k crystals each for 10 days and supermission containing 5 Epic Keys, 2000 XP-points and 1 Rare Key. Is it too much?