So I have returned after a VERY long absence from the game and well... overall quite disappointed, honestly. The bots are disgusting. Id rather wait 10 minutes for a full lobby than having to play with them. If you drive in circles around them, they will never hit you. Theyre just in the way. In one game, a bot picked up the gold box. At least that got a good laugh out of me. Some augments are completely gamebreaking (while others are absolutely worthless). In one game, a railgun shot doesnt even take 1/5th of my hp. Next game, I get one-hit-killed, consistently. Critical hits are annoying and nothing else. Playing with / against Railgun feels like gambling now. Even worse, some genius had the idea to have crits bypass protection so they can sell that overprized crit protection. Not being able to select the battle is so awful. You wanna play a round with Firebird/Freeze/Isida? Well, get put into Stadium / Massacre etc with 20 Gauss/Scorpion/Shaft/Rail on the enemy team and have fun. The matchmaking itself is terrible, too. A third of the games isnt even worth playing cause one team just stomps the other. Im used to 20-30 minute battles being normal. Now 12 minutes feel so long sometimes. I cant believe its still a thing. This was the main reason I quit. Now its come to the point where I just quit battles after a minute, when I see things are going bad. Why is it that supplies are now effectively always active? Whats even the point? Might as well double every stat and remove them. I also believe this is one major reason why some games are such ****stomps - the team getting stomped doesnt even get to activate their supplies before getting blasted into outer orbit. The containers are ridiculous. Dont know why gamechanging (or gamebreaking?) augments are locked behind nothing but RNG. You want to play healing focussed Isida? Heres your short range Thunder. Oh you upgraded Freeze? Why not try this EMP M0 Rail? Is that a M7 Hornet in your garage? Then you surely need that Fire Immunity for Titan. Stop it with the gambling ffs. I keep checking the "pro battles" section, but its rare to see battles with more players than Island 2v2s. Lower rank battles dont exist at all. Only had a single full Noise CTF in 3 weeks. The game is so different without the augments, supplies, drones, overdrives. Ive just seen theyre trying to make "Tanki Classic". Apparently, the player base of this game must be so vast that you can split it up and send players over into another game. Reading back through all of this, it looks really bad, but honestly, they wouldnt have to do much. Remove the bots, reintroduce player-made ("PRO") battles as standard (you can keep quick battle and just match people into these games). Tune down the augments. No need to remove them, just nerf the outliers. Reduce critical hit volatility (mainly looking at the crit rail augments), dont have crits bypass protection. Make supplies scarcer (especially repair kit) and increase the downtime (as by increasing the cooldowns or/and decreasing the duration). Drones can be kept as a small passive effect that increases a certain stat (so players get to choose: do I want to do a bit more damage? A bit tankier? Faster?). Lastly, dont have the containers be the main source of income / acquisition source of everything. No, I dont think they will do any of this. Greed always wins. Sorry for the long post. I initially only wanted to check if a forum even existed anymore and it immediately turned into a rant.