Practice range for testing purposes and trying out different Augments and combos will be so useful. instead of having to bring a friend or another account to test stuff out. I think having bots ready now will make implementing a Practice Range similar to Overwatch's Practice Range much easier.

As a Wasp-Smoky player myself, I can tell you the following: - Smoky is a control-type turret, so keep that Mid-range distance and avoid 1v1s!! (play smart and run away). Smoky shines in controlling and securing areas for your team. - Defender is a must have. Tanki has a survivability problem with that many OP augments. You would die so quickly without Defender, especially since Viking has wide hitbox. - Avoid open space!! and always play around covers. - Try to play around Supplies boxes to keep Speed Boost up-time and Damage Boost up-time. - You need a good setup for your Viking's OD, so don't use your OD in close-range with the enemy. Ideally You want to use it in a safe space while having clear vision of the enemy. the Activation delay of all ODs went from 1.3 second to 2 seconds recently so using your OD in a close range is BAD since you need time. The duration of Viking's OD is 8 seconds which is more than enough to get kills so don't rush and calm down. - Awareness is key. The Radar shows 90 meters Radius from you so train yourself to look at it naturally, specially in crowded maps.

Many Augments are unfair and some can be unfair in certain situations. So if I want to mention every augment for every situation it will be a long paragraph. But in general, it depends on the map and the mode for me. for example, in ASL, CTF and RGB, Shock freeze with hopper Excelsior/Hammer's fast reload augments with hopper Excelsior. Due to freeze stunning you for seconds, the fast enemy hopper just need to tick you once and leave you hanging while he is capping the flag/ball. As for hammer, the impact force buffs are huge, so pairing that with fast reload augments, a wasp player like me will be flying dead without a chance to fight, after that the enemy hopper can easily continue his way to capping the flag/ball.

Who said anything about being perfect? This is a common misunderstanding which is being used to defend poor balance. No one is asking for perfection. Balance can be achieved without being perfect. It depends on how you define the word "balance". Based on how you worded your argument, you think that being balanced means that every team in every single match has 50% win rate which is "perfection" and since we can't achieve perfection, you players should not complain about how unfair MM is. But this is a stupid argument. An example to compare is League of legends which has 170+ champions, millions of players, so many different builds and items, so many different mechanics, so many different interactions and thus, so many factors that play a role in deciding which team wins the game. Despite all that, if you look at the win rates across all champions in different ranks, you will see that the highest win rate is close to 54% and the lowest is 45%. Now compare that to Tanki which in every single game you can tell by looking at tab that a certain team will 100% win the game in at least 90% of the time.

Years of Hovering hulls dominating every game. But I did mean "can't" as in unwilling to, not unable to.

Since we have an inflation of hovering hulls in MM and you are clearly unable to balance it. Limit how many hovering hulls can exist in a MM game . So it should not exceed 40% of the players for each team for example. If you can't solve a problem, manage it.

What waiting for the 3 sec timer feels like:

Waiting 300 sec for the OD just to do 1000 damage

Calm down buddy. I have not tried the game yet because I'm not interested in playing an unfinished game. I'm sure Classic won't release in this state, they released Tanki with the old lobby, garage and skins which all of them feels junky implementation wise. That is why they called it a "mass test" to tell the players: we know that we gave you a junky game but we did it just to escape the refund plan before the next year. They for sure know what is wrong with the game. Opex once described classic as the "director's cut". I don't think the experienced Devs need to be notified about how junky the game feels.

No matter how bad Classic will be, the fact that it has no hovering hulls makes it playable.

Crazy stall

For the past two weeks now, my ping went from 60-50 to 250-230. I tried using VPN but Tanki keeps kicking me and i can't login. So i wonder why the sudden high ping and why i can't login while using VPN?

Can you elaborate why is it a bad idea?

So in other competitive games the parameter to MM is a rank system. A player in gold won't be matched against or with a player in masters. But this does not mean that it is a 100% Balanced system, you can always play against or with players who got carried by others or simply not on the same level as the rank they are in. For Tanki there is no such parameter so how to balance MM teams? GS is a way but not a good one, since GS tells you how good of a garage an account has but not the actual skill rating of the player as the rank system does. Also you can cheat the system by removing protections and grenades and selecting a low MK turret and hull before you search for a match and then you can change to your real combo after you join a match. A way that could work for Tanki to balance MM is to distribute players based on win rate in MM. So the average win rate between the two teams should be close in order to have a balanced match. Now similar to the rank system you can always play with or against players who have high win rate because they got carried by others. But regardless it is still better than nothing. Just to note that MM for players below the legend rank are in a better state than legend rank players, since you can't play with legend rank players if you are below legend.