Interview [Issue 2] Interview ~ Contaminated

[cablaz 32]

Contaminated, known quite a lot around the forums, he has a unique sense of humor, loves the off-topic discussions and the leader of Domination clan. Veteran Tankman and has his opinions to express.




Hello Contaminated

Hullo cab driver

Tell us a little about yourself

Okay, I'll start with Tanki:
I am a marshal and I have been playing for one year and 5 months. I am a crazy buyer and I lead a clan. That kind of sums up my Tanki carreer, but I also like to fool around on the forums. I love to post funny picture and even play some jokes or make comics. You know they say a picture is worth a thousand words? That's why most of my posts will contain some sort of picture in them.

I don't play Tanki as much as I did before, but I will come online occasionaly. I love to play both supplies and no supplies battles. I play a wide variety of maps but I normally avoid sandbox and silence -Can't stand those. I play both DM and CTF, usually you'll see me defending the flag with my freeze or thunder. Unless I'm drugging of course.

How did you get into the Tankionline project?

In 2010 a friend of mine told me to join Tanki. At first I didn't believe him that this game even exsisted, I mean how could I believe that if my friend is Chinese saying that he found this cool new Russian game, and he knew I was Russian? It took him quite a while to convince me into playing it, few weeks actually, but I eventually joined it and here I am now. Funny how my friend didn't use the referral link to invite me, knowing that he would get 10% of all my purchased crystals. When I first joined, it took me a while to settle on a username I liked. I made a few accounts, such as TheGodOfNukes with weird names, but eventually I settled with Xam_maX. Sadly, a month later Xam_maX is hacked and I just start over, Contaminated is born! (Dun dun dun)

Did you have an old game that you used to play before tanki?

Not really, before Tanki I wasn't much into online gaming, I used to play some random PS2 or WII games.

What made you stay in Tankionline?

Probably the gameplay. I love to play as a team, the excitement of capturing that last flag and winning. Also the garage! When I first joined and saw all those weapons and tanks I couldn't help but think what it would be like to have them all. I knew it would take time, but I continued. After the loss of Xam_maX I found out that Tanki 2.0 would come out in January of 2011 (Obviously it didn't ) and I still had new years in the next few weeks (Usually this means a gift from my parents) So I quickly made a new account (Again forgetting the referal link for my friend) and tried my best to get the highest rank before new years. To my surprise, Tanki even introduced a 25% sale on January 1st. So I bought crystals and purchased the railgun m3, Isida m3 and hornet m2. In a month I had already caught up to the friend that referred me. We were playing together again. Soon enough, I got an invite from meatman_95 himself to join ShadowStrikers clan. After this it was almost impossible to quit.

Whats your favorite combo in Tankionline?

My shiny m3 viking m3 freeze and zues

Do you still believe that Tanki 2.0 will still come?

At this point I don't really care. I believe it will be a matter of 1-3 years before it comes out. I don't really like the graphics or the new tanks. I believe Tanki is wasting their time with 2.0, it would be much btter if they spent their time fixing the issues with 1.0 and include the handy features such as friend lists, challeneges, and Battle settings into 1.0.

You are the leader of Domination Clan, do you and your clan participate in any clan activites?

We usually have private clan practices but lately things have been going terribly wrong. Alklines, one of the leaders has been blocked unfairly by the anti-cheat and he's considering leaving tanki. af6an4life's laptop has been broken for weeks now. He cannot play Tanki either. I am now leading the clan alone hoping one day the 2 of them will return. Without them our clan practices are usually small, and we find it dificult to even get a 3v3 match going. We haven't considered practice with other clans yet, but sooner or later it will be our best option.

What do you usually write or post on the forums, seeing that you go on the forums often?

I spend most of my time in the off-topic section. I love comedy and humour, and it seems that the off-topic section is where most of it happens. I post many things, I help some people or I make fun of people who seemed to have "Failed". But what I really enjoy are forum games. Forum games are fun little games that usually involve writting something. I myself recently started a forum game called "Caption this" where players put funny captions on funny pictures.

Do you prefer to play with friends or unknowns?

It really depends on my mood. I usually play with clan and friends because it is much fun when you can talk to someone you know and they actually listen in battle!!! But sometimes I like to head out into battle with complete strangers, with my full drugs, and release all my anger on them. It feels good, other druggers will know this feeling

In general, do you think Tanki is going the right way to become a succesfull game?

In the meantime it seems that Tanki is only becoming worse. Hackers are getting smarter, players are getting dumber. The new anti cheat is only doing worse by blocking inoccent players. My friend Alklines who has spent way more time into this game than me has been blocked FOREVER completely unfairly. The administrators don't help the playerbase as much anymore. I used to send emails to help@tankionline.com and recieve a reply in 5 minutes. These days it takes multiple weeks to recieve a reply that doesn't even help. (e.g. "Please specify your nickname" even though I already specified it) Not to mention their plans for 2.0, they are trying to reach for a dream that they cannot reach. Why not just implement the simple and useful features of 2.0 into the current version? Not to mention the playerbase; everyday I see more and more foolish players getting banned, trading their accounts, spamming and other foolishness. Just look at some players blocklists, I myself have over 150 people on my block list.

Do you believe you can do anything to help?

So far I know I just can't. Tanki is mostly a Russian community, and I have no experiance there even though I speak fluent Russian. The small part that is English is only getting worse for sure. The least I can do is educate new players and to let my voice and opinions be heard by the forum. I know I have no chance of being a moderator, but if I were... I would do my best to help players. For now I can do almost nothing...

Do you have any final opinions on Tanki? Any suggestion on how TankiOnline project can improve?

As I said before, fix the anti cheat program first. An anti cheat program should not "Block" players. It should be able to detect ANY sort of cheat and simply boot the player from the server for 5 minutes. I seen this method used in many other games and it has never had any problems. If someone is falsely accused of cheating by the porgram, he wont lose his account!!! Once that is all fixed, the only thing that needs to be done is to include a better user interface in the garage and battles, friends list, in game clan chat and logos, challenges, ranks and any other useful things.

This is a bit off topic but I think they should also make less servers and allow servers to be capable of holding more players. That way moderators can be apointed one to each server

Any final words before we go?

Yes
I
Really
Like
Bagels

Thats nice to know.



Note: I do realize that Contaminated spelled "Hello" wrong, and I wish to keep it that way because this further supports my statement of his unique humor.

Edited September 23, 2017 by Hexed

[wertweuri 76]

lmao!!!! hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....

 

Very nice interview, good job :P

 

Ps, how much it will cost me a cab back home...? :roll:

[Contaminated 129]

Lol you spelled Bagel wrong :PPP

 

Anyways thanks for the interview, a little outdated, Alklines actually got unblocked and Domination Clan is back up and running :)

[P.E.R.F.E.C.T.l.O.N 325]

Lol you spelled Bagel wrong :PPP

 

Anyways thanks for the interview, a little outdated, Alklines actually got unblocked and Domination Clan is back up and running :)

 

yea thats right val fixed his computer and alk got unblocked :thumbup:

and btw nice intreview i was rofl when i saw the bagel thing :P

[The_Ice_Dragon 22]

Haha Nice Interview ;P

[chriswu 25]

This interview is depressing. :P

[hogree 4,179]

Yes. I like beigel too. :mrgreen:

[datie9 72]

haha hogree...

BTW nice interview cablaz ;), really like it 8)

[Contaminated 129]

Guys, it's bagel :cry:

[cablaz 32]

Biegel o_O

innocent Honest mistake :mrgreen:

[Contaminated 129]

Fix it cab QQ :cry:

[wertweuri 76]

Lmfao :!: :!: :!:

[Alklines 1,751]

amusing to read lol :twisted:

[wertweuri 76]

Hell yea :lol:

[SilentShadow 104]

Lol you spelled Bagel wrong :PPP

 

Anyways thanks for the interview, a little outdated, Alklines actually got unblocked and Domination Clan is back up and running :)

 

Yes I was going to say...the 2.0 you mentioned in the interview has been cancelled))

 

Anyways, this was a great interview, and I do agree that good English players are so hard to come across these days!

 

I also agree that the anti-cheat is broken as of now, some of my friends have been blocked, and surely it can be improved.

[cablaz 32]

Fix it cab QQ :cry:

Happy now? :roll:

[Contaminated 129]

Fix it cab QQ :cry:

Happy now? :roll:

 

Yush :mrgreen:

[Pabloblue 21]

That was cool reading. I agree with him about the anti-cheat thing, they should get his mate back into the game. I know I wouldn't be happy if after investing many hours into a game, and money, that I get blocked forever. Not cool. I think a block for even a month would be enough to put off most hackers if they got caught

[jazz20 1,181]

*please do not penalize me for necro-posting I'm merely commenting on a nicely written article. Thanks*

 

 

I don't really like the graphics or the new tanks. 

A big reason why so many players left after re-balance. Nicely written if I do say so myself. If there was one person I had to say that came close to Contaminated today, I'd probably be Damn_Slow and jokersus.cava :P