Predictable Drops are now live!

[semyonkirov 29,038]

Tankers!

After a long wait, the much-anticipated Predictable Drops are finally live! If you already know all the details, head over to the game and check them out now!

Or read on to find out more about the update.


Supply drop zones are now marked with special symbols

Now you’ll know exactly which supply is about to drop and where. Also, drop boxes will no longer disappear. They will stay in place until picked up, and then get replaced with new ones shortly after that.

All of this makes supply boxes an even more important element of the game. Tactically combining drop boxes and garage supplies, will give you a significant advantage and allow you to fight in the arena with all your supplies activated.
 
Crystal box mechanics improved

A growing battle fund now causes boxes to contain more crystals, rather than drop more often. A box can now contain 1, 5, 10, 20, 50 or 100 crystals. The bigger the increase in the fund since the last crystal box drop, the bigger the number of crystals in the next drop. As a result, crystal boxes for high ranks will be less frequent, but contain more. This will make them more of a benefit and less of a distraction. Crystal boxes will also remain in place until collected. This means that you'll be collecting more crystals overall.

Gold boxes — You’ll know where they’re going to drop… but not when

Gold box drop zones are normally invisible. With this update, whenever a gold box is about to be dropped, its drop zone will become highlighted right after the gold notification. If you’re close enough, you’ll be able to see the symbol on the ground.

Of course, we didn’t want to take the fun out of gold box hunting. So from now on, the time between the gold notification and the actual drop will be random, between 30 and 90 seconds.

What to do when you spot the mark? Start fighting for control over the area? Wait for your opponents to fight each other and then be the only one alive at the zone for the gold? There are numerous options, it’s up to you! It’s definitely going to be a different experience every time and you’ll need to be smart and think on your feet!


The new mechanics have been implemented on all the existing maps. By the way, you may have noticed updated Sandbox and Stadium on the test server. Well, they are in the game too now!

This update is the final piece of the puzzle, making drop boxes a crucial element in your tactics. Now, your skill and strategy are more important than ever!

Check out Predictable Drops now and share your thoughts in comments below.

[trombone_ftw 734]

*Note - 35 downvotes came before this edit :P
 
Don't you get it Tanki?? NO ONE was complaining about drop boxes - absolutely NOBODY. Everyone is complaining about MULTS and SABOTEURS. So what do you do? You release an update that ENCOURAGES mults and saboteurs! LISTEN TO YOUR PLAYERS!

You attempt to "balance" this game - how? By nerfing some things and making other things ridiculously OP, instead of trying to actually BALANCE the gameplay! Even if you do balance the stats, you have completely neglected to attempt to balance the gameplay itself. This game is full of unfair gameplay. Why? Mults, saboteurs, generally unskilled or under-equipped players who bring down the team. These are the people you seem to care about most. You completely ignore two raging topics about them, and instead waste your time on honestly useless and sometimes hurtful updates. People with no skill will now have better garages than those with skill, because all they will do is collecting crystal boxes at the sake of their team. The skilled players, the people who actually care about this game, are the ones suffering. They will constantly lose to "noobs" because of their OP equipment, possibly gained by multing, and this damages self-esteem, which makes them not want to spend any more time on this game. Fix this problem - gross unbalance - and you will finally have a happy fan base. Bring an END to unskilled players defeated skilled players. Once you do that, you will have succeeded. My rant is done.

[r_royalraj0 1,810]

great work, more interest when gold box drops , i will really enjoy with this updates :) :) :)

Edited November 19, 2014 by r_royalraj0

[jazz20 1,181]

Is gold going to be a lot more rare now that there are less crystal boxes falling (the 1/7000 chance)???

[ASSAF00 36]

Great work!

Edited November 18, 2014 by ASSAF00

[SicTransitGloria 76]

Oh, I'm facepalming so hard right now. This is not a good update. Not good at all.

 

Look, I understand that you're trying to make Tanki more tactical what with smart cooldowns, more balanced weapons, and now, predictable drops. But the real fun of Tanki isn't about tactics. It's more about fun, faced paced free-for-all gameplay. If I wanted tactics and strategy, I would play World of Tanks.

[duck100101 965]

Even more crys mults now :( -_-

 

And mammouth's puting the parking breaks on gold!

Edited November 18, 2014 by duck100101

[lukey0 27,543]

Good at least the Gold has been improved a bit by not taking a ridiculous 3min to drop.

 

I'm sorry Tanki, you have finished this game. I've been playing for 3 years now and never had an update released as bad as this.

 100 Crystal boxes sound cool but really everyone just waits for then to fall and just drug to get them. Before in DF I would of made over 1K since I posted this but I've only made 400. Crystals hardly drop and when they do the whole battle stops and runs towards them! I remember you saying the 10 crystal drops were a distraction but these 100 ones well...they are a even bigger distraction!

 

I thought smart cooldowns was bad well this topped it off, Tanki where is your head! I thought you could make this work but you couldn't. Did you even take you consideration into account? Well releasing an update the day after you tested it on the test server it really doesn't seem like it.

 

Tanki Gold is impossible to get. All the maps I've played in have had 1 drop zone for Gold. You said getting Golds now requires more skill, well unless you consider just trying to get on top of everyone more skill I don't know what you're talking about.  Gold was fine before why would you change it?

 

Also it looks like mults got there way there's only like 1 or 2 people on a team trying to win! Everyone else is just getting 100 crystal boxes!

Edited November 18, 2014 by lukey0

[r_DidYouKnowThat0 1,662]

Yes! Been waiting for this!

I felt so stupid for the last week. When Gold warning arrived, I kept trying to look for the Gold Mark in the real servers before it actually released. . .

./FACEPALM

[Nimtiz 7]

I really like it, I have already got one gold box from the new drop which I rode over another dude to get it. The 100 cry boxes are like a mini gold box battle. It is interesting from what i have noticed in that it can cause a change in the battle in that a team might get complacent and start collecting boxes then lose the lead and even the game. I think it is an interesting tangent on the drop box and crystal box drops. Overall great work Tanki online, I am certainly very happy. :)

[r_royalraj0 1,810]

gold hunters will need some more skills to get gold box with this update.

[TheChang 28]

This update actually made me very nervous. I really like the idea of more crystals, and being able to plan where supplies drop, but I remember when gold boxes would fall in the same place every time the battle fund reached 700. The battle would pretty much completely pause with everyone fighting for where the gold box drops. I actually like this though because the time is not exact. It used to fall right when the fund hit 700, now you know where it drops, but you don't know the exact time. If you get too anxious and cover up the square, the people around you will simply destroy your tank and you'll have to hope that you can get back in time. Great update imo, thank you Tankionline!

[Timetoplaythegame_2 24]

This update is ridiculous, people sit at the crystall drop zones and push each other to get them, I was in a game just now, my entire team was sitting at the drop zone pushing each other, and the other team were getting easy flags, noone was even shooting, people try to push you off the map, I had to battle like it was gold box to pick up 2 crystall boxes, the replace time is too long, so those who have garage supplies will have an extreme advantage, I would prefer it if went like it was before, or least make the wait time shorter

[kskli 325]

Tankionline Box Wars :D

[Flappy1233 66]

Um, about this Predictable Drops feature. I was playing in Monte Carlo, but the symbols are Red and Green squares. Why is that?

[greyat 2,972]

This update is ridiculous. First battle I was in, Noise CTF, on team red there were 3 mults that were not doing a single thing - simply camping in high areas and jumping on the 50, 100 crystal boxes that fell occasionally. Make special note that two completely ignored the enemy Isida that zipped right by them - with the flag! Mults win!

 

+1 if you have a similar experience.

 

EDIT: Paraphrasing Semyon, the purpose of the crystal update is so that crystal boxes do not prove to be a disturbing factor in battles. Unfortunately, the update has not accomplished this... so get rid of it! If proof is needed, join any battle. QED.

Edited November 20, 2014 by greyat

[Nimtiz 7]

I really like it, I have already got one gold box from the new drop which I rode over another dude to get it. The 100 cry boxes are like a mini gold box battle. It is interesting from what i have noticed in that it can cause a change in the battle in that a team might get complacent and start collecting boxes then lose the lead and even the game. I think it is an interesting tangent on the drop box and crystal box drops. Overall great work Tanki online, I am certainly very happy. :)

[jazz20 1,181]

This update is ridiculous. First battle I was in, Noise CTF, on team red there were 3 mults that were not doing a single thing - simply camping in high areas and jumping on the 50, 100 crystal boxes that fell occasionally. Make special note that two completely ignored the enemy Isida that zipped right by them - with the flag!

+1 if you have a similar experience.

 

 

On an unrelated note, the Gold siren sounded just as the last flag was captured :/

lol that was one unlucky gold. But hey, it really isn't that bad. I experienced the same thing you went through with the mults and everything, but eventually, after some time, gameplay slowly resumed. You have to expect mults in the game especially 5 minutes after the update is implemented with new 100 crystal boxes. Mults have been with us since the beginning of time and probably will never disappear. Also, one gold drop zone location for NOISE is the small ramp in the middle of the large platform.

[hhgb 2,655]

I like this! I know where to hunt noobs waiting for 100 box in my firebird/freeze. Usually 5 of them fight over it, so I get 5 kills at once!

[delnina2 1,570]

Great job.

[fluctuation123 3,435]

My thoughts:

 

1) Almost impossible to earn anything for the lower ranks like me in Polygon. I played one DM with gens, people simply took a mammoth and sat one the crys dropping zones. Also a 50 kill DM took 15 minutes to complete, everyone was busy collecting crystals!

 

2) In Serpuhov, the RED team has seriously low chance of getting normal crys boxes as the drop zone in the middle is no more. But the blue has easy access to at least 3 zones compared to red's 1 on the bridge.

 

3) Catching gold box is a mayhem in Polygon, for sure. But my experience in Serpuhov is different. I caught one :) . The drop zone was on the rightmost ramp of the blue team! So one can not be really sure where it will drop in bigger maps, but for smaller maps it will create problem.

 

4) So many crystal collectors roaming in the games, it is ruinging the gameplay in CTF, at least!

 

Overall cannot tell for sure whether it is good or bad update, but surely it will take some time to get a better understanding of the present game.

[Daslec 82]

Congratulations, DEVs. Now nobody is playing. They just sit and wait the boxes crystals. No more fun. The mults collectors are happy now. Well done!

[Uliuliu 637]

The gold thing is just ******ed.

[sifo32 7]

Noobs will love it

[rounoun 871]

good update :)