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[Issue 46] In Review: Assault Mode


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Assault mode is one of the best ideas to hit Tanki for a couple years, but it flabbergasted me to see that almost NOBODY understood the "assault" team angle.

The most basic, fundamental game principle was similar to any given moment during an American Football game.  One team is OFFENSE and one team is DEFENSE.  The offensive RED team should have been the ASSAULTERS.

 

I was in so many matches where the whole red team was up on the flag base, camping with the Shaft lasers at full blaze, hiding behind the walls, or fighting over who carries the flag next.  No assaulting going on there.  Dumb.  There was a good reason that most of the DD's and speeds were on the red side of the map and most of the DA's and first aid kits were on the blue side.

 

Also to consider was if red isn't assaulting, the blue team can just sit around accumulating points without doing anything.  Pretty hard to win with one tank at a time blundering into the morass of blue tanks over and over, all alone.

 

I hope they open up assault mode in several Tanki maps.  I can think of a few prime examples ... like Noise with the blue team up top for instance.  Or in a big map like Berlin it would be swell.

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ps. it isn't CTF and it isn't CP.  The CP never is anything but blue.  Blue team gets no points for returning a flag, and as a matter of fact it''s not a good idea, because red can immediately launch a new assault ... better to make them come get it if they drop it near the blue base.

 

Would be cool to have a different pair of pixies for this mode, perhaps a red glowing ball instead of the flag and a blue glowing ball instead of the CP.  Just so noobs dont get more confused than they already are.

 

One more thing:  anybody else besides me notice that there was only ONE, easily defended, NARROW RAMP that allowed ANY ACCESS AT ALL for the blue team to get into the red base?  And that there were, on the other hand, a million routes for the red team?  That right there should be a clue as to the nature of the game.

 

So it amazed me even more to be in several matches where the blue team were all parked in the red base, operating a spawnkill squad.

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Loved the format.

 

Constantly had to change tanks and tactics to keep up.  Extremely frustrating when team was clueless :angry: , absolutely exhilarating when everyone was clicking together as a team :D .

 

Would love to see the format come back.  Think having 5 formats would spread things thin so absence makes the heart grow fonder.  Can't wait to see it return. ^_^

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i liked the mode and i especially liked being in the blue team, as i really like Isida.

i didnt see much sabotage on red team either at my rank.

when i was red, i was helping the flag carrier to the best of my ability, and helping anyone else who could help.

on blue, i was helping the defenders and anyone else i could find.

 

the mode is fun and i hope they keep it

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I have to say that the Assault battles I attended had well-behaved players. I do not recall seeing any sabotage. I once or twice saw lazy Red side players shooting from the base instead of accompanying the flag carrier, but usually it was good.

 

Tanki tries to give out the least amount of crystals it can get away with. They figured everybody would want to play this mode, especially those who got holiday missions. I did not because two of my missions were tied up in super missions. I think I only got one holiday mission. So, there was no reason for Tanki to give out more crystals.

 

Unfortunately, Tanki will not add this mode permanently because it would improve the game, and Tanki is acting like the red team mentioned in this article.

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Assault. To capture another's territory/possessions etc.

Defense. To protect one's own territory/possessions etc.

 

I really,really liked it!

It was something different! And most of the time, exciting!

 

I did see the complaints that other players have voiced.

Still, It was fun.

You could play as a loner as well as a team.

 

As other players have said. In the best games the teams came together.

As a team!

Blue was big tanks, Isidas supporting, teamwork.

Red was fast tanks, just enough to get through before dying. Individuals.

Snipers on both sides. 

Skill, Luck, Drugs, Teamwork, Fun!

 

I personally loved sneaking into Blue base on either side and sniping the crap out of them.

Mines were my friend!  My secret!

In Defense I placed at least 20 mines per game!

Most players/teams/matches, didn't seem to understand the value of mining!

I can't count the number of times I watched a player with the flag, get close to capping & blow up with a carefully placed mine!

 

In multiple games I had a 10+ KD ratio.  And that was either Rico/Hornet or Railgun/Hornet.

 

 

I hope Tanki keeps it as a map as well as a mode.

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Unfortunately, Tanki will not add this mode permanently because it would improve the game.

I'm sorry for laughing so hard, but this is just too funny. I always respect a good comedian. The thought that Tanki will not do something because it is a good thing is said with such dry wit, I almost thought you were being serious.

 

But I know that you can't be, because I'm sure you know that, if they only do something after they have made sure that it will be bad for the game, then they would have made the game available only to paying users, they'd remove all the maps but Stadium, remove daily missions completely and not bring back daily gifts, remove personal discounts, remove smart cooldowns, make equipment cost ten times what it does, and make crystals impossible to earn in-game so that you must buy to get even one.

 

You are a comic genius.

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There wasn't very much fighting over the flag at high ranks. Most guys found that that was a waste of time, and sometimes you didn't even get the flag. The played support and racked up there score rather then attempting to do parkour the entire time. This however was Playing with Gissmos. Unfortunately at lower ranks it was a different story. Anyway I loved the new mode I hope they keep it.

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i liked the mode and i especially liked being in the blue team, as i really like Isida.

i didnt see much sabotage on red team either at my rank.

when i was red, i was helping the flag carrier to the best of my ability, and helping anyone else who could help.

on blue, i was helping the defenders and anyone else i could find.

 

the mode is fun and i hope they keep it

Yes, you are a very courteous player. I loved isidas who did that for me.

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I'm sorry for laughing so hard, but this is just too funny. I always respect a good comedian. The thought that Tanki will not do something because it is a good thing is said with such dry wit, I almost thought you were being serious.

 

But I know that you can't be, because I'm sure you know that, if they only do something after they have made sure that it will be bad for the game, then they would have made the game available only to paying users, they'd remove all the maps but Stadium, remove daily missions completely and not bring back daily gifts, remove personal discounts, remove smart cooldowns, make equipment cost ten times what it does, and make crystals impossible to earn in-game so that you must buy to get even one.

 

You are a comic genius.

I am actually serious, but you need to understand where I come from (thought-wise) first. You can only do that if you read most of my posts, and I don't want you to do that. :P

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Well said ^_^ , but one more point. Coming of assault mode made the less popular hulls ( heavy hulls ) a bit popular. As you cant defend with a mosquito kit. You need a heavy hull to play better in blue team. Which gave popularity to many hulls. No offence against any tankers game style. Its just a compliment.

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Well said ^_^ , but one more point. Coming of assault mode made the less popular hulls ( heavy hulls ) a bit popular. As you cant defend with a mosquito kit. You need a heavy hull to play better in blue team. Which gave popularity to many hulls. No offence against any tankers game style. Its just a compliment.

You might be surprised at the effectiveness of Hornet-Railgun. I did really well with that combo on defense and offense.

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You might be surprised at the effectiveness of Hornet-Railgun. I did really well with that combo on defense and offense.

Nice ! I personally think Vulcan and mammoth is best at the blue side. This map was just for enjoyment and is so not for earning experience points. A 100 cp battle ended with the highest score 235 some where. It took 11 mints hardly for it to end. And in 11 minutes, u can earn alot of xp on other modes.

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That's why i never play madness CTF lol. Sabotage are annoying and everytime i play on the red team, uhh my god i won't even talk about and i feel sometimes that the sniping spots for the blue team are too good in Happy New Year map every skilled railgunner or shaft just kills all the flag carriers on the red team when the blue teams win

I found that Firebird on Wasp or Hornet, on RED team, was the perfect solution to Blue team snipers. I killed a lot of them up on their pallisaid. Unfortunately, many players never figured this out, resulting in lots of points for Blue snipers.

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oh yeah assault was great. Goldbox was in a bad position mostly, but other than that I liked it

GOLD BOX???? What Gold Box?? I played well over 100 hours in assault mode and saw maybe 5 gold boxes, with maybe 6 or 8 more of them announced that I never saw. I dumped every gold box mission I was given after day two, as a waste of time. 

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