Zia's Review On Some Maps

[ziaayadad 26]

ZiA’s views on maps.

 

Hello guys, I am going to expand on the maps I like best and why, in terms of its size, balance and detail makes it so unique and exquisite. All maps are specifically based on ones style of playing. An obvious example would be that for a sniper, the ‘Stadium’ map is best and for people who prefer small maps go to maps such as ‘Farm’ and ‘Island’. The beautiful thing about Tanki is that there are even more factors of a small, medium or large maps are considered.

What I mean by that is that for example, the ‘Farm and ‘Island’ are both very small maps, but the style and atmospheric emphasis of the map makes it unique. Farm only has one way of getting in or out of the enemy base whereas the in the Island map you can go through both the sides and the middle. In the farm map you have places to some what I would say ‘back-off a little bit.’ So a Thunder user can start shooting without the care of self damage, as the likelihood of the enemy arriving to close proximity will be very low whereas In island it is very hard to Get a thunder, rail gun and maybe even a smoky because the acknowledgment of being in the presence of a small map isn’t taken to account.

 

What I have mentioned above was a bit of a taste on the types of maps you should look out for based on how you enjoy playing the game.  Now Without a doubt I say Bobruisk is the best map in Tanki. I have many reasons for this that I will go in to straight away.

Bobruisk I say would be classed as a medium range map. But the beauty of this map is that every single weapon and hull are useful in the game. If your on the red base, you can go next to the bridge and snipe using your railgun or shaft. If you would like to use smoky, rico, and thunder which is what a lot of people use in the map, then the places to use them are endless. Bouncing shots off the end of side of the maps aren’t possible but you can bounce shots especially towards the red base side which comes very useful. Thunder of course is very advantageous because splashing the shots I would say is  very explicit and easy to handle. Freeze and firebird are also very profound as it helps protect that flag. The best way to get exp is by getting an Isida and playing for the red team. In the red team the spawns are always close to the flag so people will protect it and all players will be in a large sum so you can easily go and heal the users as well as attack those coming to your flag. There are many other things about this map that I cant describe verbally or in writing. I was in love with the Bobruisk map since the beginning of the game when I first joined.  Now I understand now many people would like me to go on and on so I decided to talk next about a map which everyone has played in what most people enjoy; Silence

 

Now just to make this clear, I do not like Silence as well as Silence 2. Although there are disadvantages and advantages for every map, the ones for red team and blue team for silence are way too large. The red team gets all the crystal boxes and the gold boxes where as the blue team only rely on the fund they get, which will most likely be thiers as attacking upwards towards the red base is very easy and as soon as you have the flag you can just jump down from the 4 gaps that are available and just expect to cap the flag without any effort or much effort at all. There are only 2 ways to get up to the enemy flag and still its just so easy to grab and cap.

 

Now silence 2 is much more fair than the first silence. There are no ways of jumping down once you have got the flag and extra spaces there make it very useful for snipers to snipe off enemies. Takeovers on this map isn’t as easy as said because its made much more fair. However you still only have 2 places to go to get the flag and again its just something that isn’t easy to take control over and its just about the drugs you have. There are many battles I have been in silence and then only 3 solid druggers arrive to mess up the game and take all the fund. I guess I see more of a reason to join battles with friends or a clan/team so that I have people willing and prepared to fight for themselves and not mult for the fund of whatever is left once the team has won.

 

Of course that’s what happens in silence. I can assure you the new silence that is being created right now is much better and has much more availability in terms of options of how to attack and the various methodologies to adapt to when attacking and defending. You will see what I mean when that maps comes out.

Now obviously my capabilities are not as such to give briefings of every map but I am trying to do the main ones/ the ones I think are popular.

Now in terms of death matches, it’s time to talk about polygon. Every server you go to, whether its server 1 or the latest server 40, you will expect a polygon death match to be occurring. Now what can I say, the map is popular beyond comprehension. I love this map whenever I am in the mood to go solo;

The map is not too big if you consider it thoughtfully yet you can use all sorts of hulls and turrets to get an advantage of this map. I can use Rico to finish off a consumed enemy, I can use rail gun to turn in to a ultra kill stealer and snipe from afar, I can use shaft even after its new physics model to snipe off enemies, I can use thunder for its splash damage effect to handle those who are there but beyond visibility, I can use smoky to constantly be on the go at enemies and use small or large hulls and still make the weapon really effective. Twins of course everyone knows why but I do not prefer using it as its too easy to get kills and is very boring. When it comes to hulls; the map can be good for my wasp because I hide and avoid shots while being on the go with my smoky or rail gun. Hornet I love using it to slide/ drift while going around enemy hulls freezing them to death. Hunter I don’t use, Viking is perfect for that immaculate balance of Health, size and Stability and well, ‘on-goingness’. Love using weapons on this hull as I have enough hp to kill one or two enemies and still have enough to take cover. Dictator I have at m2 and I don’t see why it wont be as good as Viking. Now titan and mammoth are roughly the same but I use titan more than mammoth because I want that tiny bit extra speed to go in and out when im using the titan with railgun.

I honestly would love to have this map to have a capture the flag feature to be held in such a map like this. I wouldn’t mind having such a map with being able to capture flags as it would be incredibly awesome.

[ziaayadad 26]

Took me some time to write this so appreciations would be awesome

[r_BlackBandit0 76]

you write so much!  :o

You would do a good reporter 

[ChuckNorris2090 102]

Nice! 

[MeTrIKSS78 272]

Nice  :rolleyes:

[ziaayadad 26]

Thanks for your comments guys

you write so much!  :o

You would do a good reporter 

And becoming a consultant is more to what I look forward to. And I am kind of a reporter anyway because I give reviews to Raphael2

[r_BlackBandit0 76]

Thanks for your comments guys

And becoming a consultant is more to what I look forward to. And I am kind of a reporter anyway because I give reviews to Raphael2

do you get a reward? 

[ziaayadad 26]

do you get a reward? 

for what?

[Jayjey419 41]

Dude, you write a full essay on this, to much reading man, some people don't like to read hhhh, Cut down some next time :P 

[Xenophobia 457]

Nice. Bobruisk is one of my favorites too. :)

[doduobird 315]

Zia, actually you are wrong :D

With the new physics, there are now a 3 ways into the enemy base, in Farm. If you have wasp, you can go behind the walls. I'm guessing no one understands, though...

Edited January 1, 2014 by doduobird

[Jayjey419 41]

Zia, actually you are wrong :D

With the new physics, there are now a 3 ways into the enemy base, in Farm. If you have wasp, you can go behind the walls. I'm guessing no one understands, though...

Exactly! +1 Or you can drug and kill them all with freeeze hhhh

[Raphael2 3,263]

for what?

He is talking about Ask the Community; which you answered too. He didn't get any rewards and he was just interviewed.

 

On topic: Great!

[r_DidYouKnowThat0 1,662]

@Doduobird: Hehe, you are correct. However, the other two entrances are only accessible to Light Hulls. It's very nice to sneak. :D

 

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Anyways, I personally like Silence better. It's much more free in my opinion.

 

In order to play on the Blue Team, you need to have brains. That's why Red Team can beat the Blue Team so easily. The Blue Team is so . . stupid at times. First of all, you can put Mines on the ramps, and at the 4 spots where people can jump off. Furthermore, the cliff is not only used for sniping. When the coast is clear, jump down and infiltrate the red team. You'll be able to run the flag, or carry out a pretty devastating sneak attack.

 

In addition to that, I'd say the Blue Team has a better time going after the Crystal boxes. All they have to do is take control of the Red Pipe, and that whole area is theirs really. They can advance and pick up a few crystal boxes before getting destroyed, but still, they got Crystals. And don't even talk about the Ramp. All  the Blue Team has to do is Jump. And sadly, that is one of the Goldbox drop spots.

 

Yep. .I like Bobruisk too. :D

[doduobird 315]

Exactly! +1 Or you can drug and kill them all with freeeze hhhh

LOL?

Lemme upload this vid...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjZ10q46Amc

[ziaayadad 26]

Dude, you write a full essay on this, to much reading man, some people don't like to read hhhh, Cut down some next time :P 

So u want me to write 15 words and expect to get good comments by doing that?

 

 

Nice. Bobruisk is one of my favorites too. :)

 

YOU THE MAN!

Zia, actually you are wrong :D

With the new physics, there are now a 3 ways into the enemy base, in Farm. If you have wasp, you can go behind the walls. I'm guessing no one understands, though...

I KNOW But ur not supposed to tell that to anyone, only wasp and honet can do it

 

He is talking about Ask the Community; which you answered too. He didn't get any rewards and he was just interviewed.

 

On topic: Great!

I don't need rewards anyway and that's raph

[Jayjey419 41]

Saw a 15 word post earlier, it had a lot of feedback to it. But back to topic! +1 on some of the things you said, Don't agree with the jump down part you said about silence, Just stick a freeze + drugs in there with isida and thunder defending :) and the rest do thier capping job 

[Piety 70]

Saw a 15 word post earlier, it had a lot of feedback to it. But back to topic! +1 on some of the things you said, Don't agree with the jump down part you said about silence, Just stick a freeze + drugs in there with isida and thunder defending :) and the rest do thier capping job

Show me

[Jayjey419 41]

Show me

Catch me, when i'm on the servers about to battle :) Sleep time over here now 

[Piety 70]

Catch me, when i'm on the servers about to battle :) Sleep time over here now

I've seen u play hit shot...

[Jayjey419 41]

hit shot?

Edited January 5, 2014 by Jayjey419

[Reeco9 1,567]

I agree, CTF on Polygon would be pretty fun.

[Raphael2 3,263]

It existed for a week or so before it got removed, flags were too easy to capture.

[ziaayadad 26]

I wouldn't understand how they would it would be easy to capture a flag?

[Farhan55 82]

 The red team gets all the crystal boxes and the gold boxes where as the blue team only rely on the fund they get, 

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