Test the Night Mode for maps!

[semyonkirov 29,038]

Tankers! It’s time to test the Night Mode for maps. We also need your feedback on the updated gameplay for Shaft, which has received a laser scope for its sniping mode. You can join the test here and here. But before you go, check out the info below!

What’s new on the test server:

• You can choose the Night Mode when creating a battle, along with Summer and Winter themes. We are testing this mode on the Rio map.
• On night maps, the arena itself, the sky and the tanks, are darkened. The visual effects for shots and explosions, flags, control points and drop boxes will be illuminating the surroundings!
• Shaft now has a laser scope. While the turret is in sniping mode, the laser beam is visible to everyone in the arena. This is a new kind of gameplay that we present to you as an experiment.

The test is on till 5pm UTC on November 30. You can try these updates on test servers 7 and 8.

Make sure you provide us with your feedback to help make Tanki Online an even better game. Voice your opinion on the Night Mode and updated Shaft in the special poll!

[Klankill804 753]

This is great! A few things to point out before I go in there:

 

-Please do teach new players about the laser from shaft. If I was a newbie to the game and had no idea what the laser was, I'd be pretty scared to death

 

-Are there going to be any background music? If there is, can you make it something different than Madness' background music?

 

-Night Silence... Will it be somewhat the same as Moon Silence? If Night Mode is activated, will tanks be able to define the laws of gravity?

 

-I suggest an adjuster for the brightness! If it's going to be night, some of us (including me) have trouble seeing things in the dark. Perhaps if you guys add an option to edit the brightness, it would help us.

 

That's it for now! Been waiting for this day...

 

Some things I found while exploring the test server:

 

Night Rio Blue team Base

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Night Rio Red team base

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A few pictures taken in Rio

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

New Firebird visual effect?

 

 

 

 

 

 

And the shaft laser thing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Also, everything looks WAY better with Dynamic Lightning. Although, it will give you some lags.

 

 

 

 

With Dynamic Lightning:

 

 

 

 

Without Dynamic Lightning:

 

 

 

This is for the people who are having trouble or cannot enter the test server.

Edited November 29, 2014 by Klankill804

[MarineMan2 1,164]

Nice, looking forward to it!!!

[r_Willum0 64]

3rd. Awesome! :D

[r_DidYouKnowThat0 1,662]

Awesome! :D

Thanks!

But hey, are you going to let us test the new turrets and/or hulls in the future anytime soon?

Edited November 29, 2014 by r_DidYouKnowThat0

[lukey0 27,543]

Yay testing is on!

 

The skybox needs to be  a bit darker. When the supplies touch the ground they light up which is a nice touch. All looks good and not too much lag for me. Can't wait to see this feature in game.

 

I just want to test the new guns now. :P

Edited November 29, 2014 by lukey0

[Chweet 10]

Test server is not working -_-

Edited November 29, 2014 by Chweet

[GeneralPie 603]

It's good. The skybox needs to be a bit more darker though.

 

Edit: Firebird looks awesome in night mode also. :D

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNPkNZyYZOw

 

Edit #2: Can you also give shaft night vision in scope? Like make it greenish when you enter scope and your teammates will be highlighted in there team color and the enemies will be highlighted in there color.

Edited November 29, 2014 by GeneralPie

[whizclips 232]

Wow, this is seriously cool!

[zainslimshady 474]

you just did no crystal drops. but there are  fund stealer joining a pro battle with wrong equipments and stealing all the fund. do something about that. make some useful update.

 

and with dynamic lightning on my fps drops. if dynamic lightning  is off i cant see anything on the map.

Edited November 29, 2014 by zainslimshady

[r_DidYouKnowThat0 1,662]

I love this! The night mode is pretty nice.

And the glowing drop markers add an even better feel for the environment. It also fits very nicely with the dynamic lighting!

 

And I also like the Shaft even more now with the laser, and at M3, I noticed the Shaft doesn't shake as it used to.

 

Ah, this testing made me really wan to buy M3 Hornet or M3 Shaft. I would actually, depending on which one got a sale first, but now that you guys mentioned new turrets, I must save my crystals! :P

 

And we all know new turrets comes with new paints. Also, new hulls in the future. . . .So many new things to consider buying.

[ThouShallNot 963]

YES! i like nightmode, and please bring back crystal boxes :(

Edited November 29, 2014 by ThouShallNot

[Invincitron 888]

13th :(.

 

Amazing but I see a flaw. People with slow computers that have to turn off dynamic lighting cannot have the advantage of seeing lighted areas...

Edited November 29, 2014 by Invincitron

[Mahin567 256]

It would cos lags for me

[Invincitron 888]

It would cos lags for me

Then you would have a disadvantage :(.

Edited November 29, 2014 by Invincitron

[delnina2 1,570]

Wow nice, I like the night mode not too dark like Halloween ! 

  

I think the shaft became less powerfull and this is my favorite gun  i use it a lot !

 

But ! I think the laser scope is great for shafts because we can see where will we shoot :D

 

Great tanki you thought about the two sides

 

 

 

16 :D

Edited November 29, 2014 by delnina2

[MentallyDeranged 740]

Great testing,Thanks. :)

[Invincitron 888]

I like how the Shaft has a blue laser beam if you're on blue team and a red laser beam if you're on red team. In death match it should have a green laser beam...

[MentallyDeranged 740]

Night mode + Turning Dynamic lighting = Epic!

[I.WalkAlone 548]

It's pretty good, but unless you have dynamic lighting on, it's too dark to see.

[I3loodShot 3,119]

Great, I hope this is actually implemented in the game. :d

Edited November 29, 2014 by I3loodShot

[vanshajwore 324]

finally night modes!

[spaced2013 26]

i like the night mode its good

 

but man hate the shaft update you have ruined it its now just gonna be dead shaft everywhere

it had 2 good things going for it, its power and hide an snipe now its no good for that and its crap for anything else

 

what is it with tanki when there's something good you screw it up but the dumb moron turrets like rico twins are over powered and left like it

and no doubt this stupid new shotgun turret will will be an overpowered moron turret

 

my only m3 is now trash

 

edit

one good thing with shaft is its not moving round all the time in scope

Edited November 29, 2014 by spaced2013

[MentallyDeranged 740]

The only thing that i think goes wrong is shaft's sniping scope,which is visible to enemy tanks too,so this will alert them that shaft is zooming on

 

them,my suggestion is that make it visible only for team members and not visible to any other tanks in DM mode.

 

 

Update: Also for better viewing night battles, players have to enable dynamic lighting,which results in poor performance in slow

 

computers,I remember one of tanki plans was LED lights for tanks which can be used in night maps for better viewing,Also players

 

be ableto disable their LED lights with a key for example L key.

 

Also for more beautiful visual of night sky please add blazing stars that fly away in the sky sometimes.

Edited November 29, 2014 by MentallyDeranged

[Pathfinder 1,690]

Love it :)

 

My concerns with shaft - as a shaft user, one advantage is I can generally remain hidden, compared to say, railgun. Also when I am training my sights on someone, they are completely unaware.

 

I think the laser, though cool, detracts a little from shaft's strengths.