Update 254 — Balancing of Turrets and Hulls

[semyonkirov 29,038]

Hello, tankers!

Update 254 is finally ready.

It brought numerous changes in parameters of all turrets and hulls in order to make the game more balanced.

Many of you may have heard from our latest video about the fact that the balancing of turrets and hulls was a challenging and time-consuming task.

Several days ago we held an open testing during which we were carefully studying your feedback on specific items.

Our goal was to make sure that every player could achieve good results in battles, regardless of the turret and the hull being used.

An important thing about microupgrades!

None of them is gone, they are still installed on your turrets and hulls.

Of course, if the maximum number of MU steps has changed, the number of MUs installed on your turret or hull will also change. Quite often in your favor.
For example, if you upgraded 8 out of 10 steps, while the total number of steps available in now 5 instead of 10, you will now have 4 MUs out of 5.

If the total number of steps is increased to 20, you will have 16 installed.
Finally, if you completed 19 steps out of 20, while the total number has been decreased to 10, you now have not 9.5 but full 10 MUs.

Also, if some of your MUs were in progress when we were changing the number of steps, they have been automatically completed!

To conclude, these changes are not final.

We will be constantly altering parameters of turrets and hulls to make sure that all the equipment is equally popular, playable and effective.
 
Below the spoiler you can find a list of all alterations made to parameters of turrets and hulls in the game.

More detailed information will soon be added to the Tanki Online Wiki.

 
Wasp — increased acceleration and turn acceleration.
Hornet — slightly lowered maximum speed and armor.
Hunter — significant increase in armor and weight, slight increase of acceleration. Tank is now more comfortable in control.
Viking — decreased armor and weight, increased max speed, acceleration and maneuverability. Viking is now the lightest of all medium tanks but with highest acceleration.
Dictator — increased weight and armor, decreased max speed and acceleration. Dictator turned into the heaviest tank of all medium tanks.
Titan — increased armor, decreased acceleration.
Mammoth — slight increase in maneuverability.
Firebird — different burning mechanism. Enemy tanks receive tiny damage (5hp/sec) over longer time. Burning damage is now a part of basic damage. Amount of energy has been increased. Recharging takes less time.
Freeze — both freezing and unfreezing now takes less time. Effective range has been decreased. Amount of energy and damage have been slightly boosted.
Isida — decreased healing and self-healing. Damage and range have been slightly boosted. Increased amount of energy. Reloading takes more time.
Twins — decreased damage. Increased rate of fire. Projectiles travel a bit faster.
Ricochet — less shots before fully uncharging. Damage is significantly higher. Projectile speed, projectile radius and fire range have been slightly increased.
Smoky — changes in critical hit mechanics. You can no longer experience several crits in a row or a long chain of shots without critical hits. Overall critical chance is higher. Critical damage is now lower. Single average shot deals more damage. Fire rate is now slightly higher. Effective fire range has been decreased from 103 to 60 meters (1 prop = 5 meters). Damage decreased with range faster.
Thunder — single shots deal less damage. Fire rate is slightly higher. Effective fire range has been significantly increased from 10 to 80 meters. Damage decreases with range much slower.
Railgun — when fully microupgraded, Railgun can pierce an indefinite number of enemy tanks without damage drop at all. Other changes are purely technical and insignificant.
Shaft — fast arcade shots do not use all the turret's energy. Arcade fire rate is now basically similar to Shaft's fire rate before the New Physics. Arcade shot can be performed at anytime if there is enough energy and enough time has passed since the last arcade shot. Partly charged sniper shot does not use all of Shaft's energy. Maximum sniper shot damage is now lower, penetrating power has also been decreased. Turret rotation speed in normal mode is higher. Turret rotation speed in sniping mode is lower but does not decrease when a charge is being accumulated.

 

 

[a7x_Pedro48 13,999]

It is cool that we keep our Microupgrades.

 

Hahaha 1st :D

Edited April 23, 2014 by a7x_Pedro48

[gazatron30 513]

Nice! Great work!

[r_PERS0N0 12]

Nice :D

[Gawlorte 50]

Bye Thunder :(

[BILDIREV 459]

Nice,

Edited April 23, 2014 by BILDIREV

[killera_qada 15]

nice :D it's cool

[a7x_Pedro48 13,999]

Bye Thunder :(

No, read this : Fire rate is slightly higher. Effective fire range has been significantly increased from 10 to 80 meters. Damage decreases with range much slower.

[Pastropolit 88]

yeeaah :)

[Xxemo_dinoxX 934]

Oh man, I thought it was the end of railgun :o

[Mithrandir1 17]

I predicted this.

Edited April 23, 2014 by Mithrandir1

[r_royalraj0 1,810]

good impact force in thunder :) :) :) great

[r_royalraj0 1,810]

shaft reload time also reduced superb :) :) :)

[HirunMeepage 763]

Although, some people hate it, I love it!

[r_Accuracy5 94]

Good job.

[r_royalraj0 1,810]

good speed for viking compare to dictator :D :D :D

[mgrm5 28]

noooo idon't like this update  :(

[fast900 5]

Yes, these are great updates!!!

[vanshajwore 324]

aww i think i wont be able to play XP battles with forester on hornet m2 anymore.... :(

[KingLeonidus 5]

dude !! ! Is tanki out of thier minds ? why would you decrease damage to the weapons !! I dont want fast speed for viking i want good armor ! thats what makes viking good. it has equal armor but is still durable in battle. you messed everything up

[The.lukey0 24]

Wow its finally here! Awesome. :)

[HaloScorpion 79]

Sale...?

[BILDIREV 459]

The canges are only for m0 and m3

[r_Accuracy5 94]

Hunter is the only one with all positive outcomes..

[metalcrusher 514]

Smoky got better and I ranked to Colonel

watch out  :ph34r: