Patch Update #469 - Released 12th July 2017

[ThirdOnion 4,898]

I don't understand the complaints about repair kit. Apparently having ALL your health restored and being practically invincible for another two seconds is perfectly balanced? I'm glad that was changed.

[OKDad70 862]

Crap! Total crap!

 

What is this game? It isn't Tanki Online; it is something I've never played before.

 

I have no idea how to play now.

 

Magnums are still extraordinary when present, but now the overpowered isidas seem to be the only player needed. With the green boxes taken from the game, it is almost impossible to spend time playing. One mostly spends time respawning.

 

The quick respawn is a pain in the butt too. Is the point to force the self-destruct with any and all equipment changes?

 

Crap! Total crap!

 

I'm going to give it a bit more time, but I got tired of hoping with Tanki-X. Now I'm tired of Tanki-O. 

 

There is just no fun in the game in most matches.

 

Good grief. I cannot tell what might be the plan, but right now, it is nothing but tedious. The changes are total crap.

 

Seriously, I used to like Tanki. I used to defend most of the changes, but since the great leveling, and with dam near every update since, the game has gotten more and more tedious and less and less fun.

 

I had gotten used to the sluggish capabilities of my twins-viking, and I was sometimes finding battles fun, but then you changed things again. Now you have changed them to the point where it seems most matches are totally pointless.

 

The overdrive is as least as bad for team matches as I expected. In a couple matches, it hasn't seemed to matter much, but in others, getting behind simply means the battle is over. Nothing can turn the tide once a team that uses overdrive effectively gets ahead. The losing team simply cannot catch up. Their overdrive will not charge fast enough to help.

 

When is HTML5?

 

I don't think I can stand playing more than a few more days like this.

 

Please publicize HTML5 widely so I can maybe come try again.

 

Not having so many bugs and sorry ass hackers just might be enough to figure it out again.

Edited July 13, 2017 by OKDad70

[KILL_BILL_CHAUHAN 2,505]

the repair kit update is awesome lol druggers :P

[CuT_TheRe_HeaRTs_OuT 640]

 

 

 

I take back my objections to this update regarding the rk, however i am using almost twice as much rk now than before.

 

Also something feels not normal regarding the cooldown between using dd twice or da. i don't remember the old

Cool down for them

 

 

[SeIf.Destructed 236]

Before the Update




After the Update 





 

[hishamyas 364]

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you think the game exists only cuz of 'Arab buyers', why wont all you 'Arab buyers' quit the game and we shall see? You're being judgemental and completely disregarding other buyers too.

Actually, Arab buyers are the strongest guys in EN community when it comes to 'drugging' battles if they quit, the game shall fall down and everything will be done simply because they waste the x20 of payments u waste yearly. So there is no point of spreading the hate toward them.

[N3tralRE 282]

"What's that?!!11 You touched muh Venom Repair Kit!!1!!!??!??"

 

 

 

 

 

Edited July 13, 2017 by N3tralRE

[OKDad70 862]

I played this game nearly 7 years .. its the worst update ever and it will affect on tanki first and on buyers second .. anyway why this update the worst one?

I will give you a hand

1- repair kit .. usually my position mamoth on flag so freeze attack or fire or whatever from these guns with unstoppable shooting for a while they can kill me and take the flag easy due to this unhelpful repair kit

2- new system for respawn take long time .. skills of the most players will be nothing .. I will explain .. we are in farm 4 vs 4 or noise 8 vs 8 or even silence 10 vs 10 usually isida lost his drugs in def or whatever who lost drugs he will do self to back with full drugs but this update make it harder!

3- about when someone die also is bad .. lets imagine I am in my base with enemy flag and no one here from my team usually players use the wall to die there so my dead tank will block him for a while to let my team back and take the flag again

 

anyway I write this by voice all the arabs buyers 

we will stop buy we will stop play until the old system back

Delete this update!

I think it interesting that a Legend-21 would say this. I think his words should be strongly considered, strongly weighted regarding future plans.

 

I also think it silly all the comments about buyers.

 

I'm only Legend-1. I just made it. I moved into the top-1000 when I did, and I'm holding my own. I'm also not a buyer. I am old (over 50). I work hard. I make good money. So, yes, I spend a bit on the game, but not for supplies. I use what I earn. Until I made Commander, I had never bought any supplies in the garage. I've still never bought any with cash.

 

Why do so many players rag on the buyers? I'm not a buyer, but I use my supplies, and I use them effectively.

 

I have always found it nearly impossible to capture flags without armor and and speed, and usually a repair kit. Until I made Gizmo, though, I was often out of repair kits, and I just made do. At Gizmo, no. I could never capture flags without armor and a repair kit. Now, rarely, I spend my hard-earned crystals in the garage on the 100-supplies kit. I do well in DM without repair kits, but flags are hopeless without repair kits.

 

The only money I've spent on the game in over a year is the 90-day premium account. That is about as good deal as Tanki has ever made.

 

So, rag on the "buyers" if it makes you feel better about your sad skills, but know that not all "druggers" are buyers.

 

Also, don't forget that there is no game without those players willing to part with some cash for their entertainment.

 

Through my Tanki-years, I have always tended to save my crystals, and then buy kits or use the crystals on sales. At Christmas and my birthday in the summer, I splurged and payed cash for crystals on double and, hopefully, sale. It worked out well, and it always seemed worth it. However, with The Great Leveling (the October 2016 update that altered the balance of everything and eliminated all the high-acceleration parameters), I found the game unworthy of my cash. I didn't spend any on the game at Christmas, and I haven't spent any this summer. With this update, I won't be spending my money on a premium account either.

 

I suspect I won't be able to stand playing the game much longer. Before The Great Leveling, I loved the game. My sons got me playing, and my eldest and I were an impressive team. But since the leveling, everything seems designed to minimize how hard it is for poor-skill players on the one end, and minimize how effective highly-skilled players can be on the other end.

 

I made a lot of friends in Tanki, most of them over 30, like me. None of those friends still play significantly. I never see them online. I am the only player of my Tanki friends that still plays daily. It got hard, and I redeveloped and learned how to push my sluggish equipment to effectiveness again. Sometimes, it was fun again. Then these recent updates. It was sucking the life from me in the game. Now this one. Crap. Total crap.

 

I cannot express the disappointment.

 

It really seems that Tanki is only considering the youngest and newest players.

 

It really seems that Tanki is penalizing skill and experience.

 

Sure, too long, too many words. But, if Tanki cares, someone will read. If Tanki cares, well, I no longer hope they do.

 

Crap.

 

I feel like Charlie Brown running at that football one more time...

[Zinner 0]

I don't understand the complaints about repair kit. Apparently having ALL your health restored and being practically invincible for another two seconds is perfectly balanced? I'm glad that was changed.

Since everyone had the option to use it, how is listing the details of the RK somehow prove it was imbalanced from one player to another? 

[OKDad70 862]

I recall hearing Hazel-Rah say something about the new repair kit parameters being intended to "level the playing" field, as it were, between the haves and the have-nots, but why did they take the repair kit out of the game?

 

I mean, the most obvious result of this update it much higher total kill counts in matches. The repair kit as-is, really is no more effective than not having it in most circumstances. It tends to amount to a one-second extra fight.

 

Overall, it seems most match time is spent respawning rather than playing. It seems to apply to everyone, less so to the fat tanks, but speed is most of the fun. I loved playing BP while wasp was distinctive and rail was the true fear-machine.

 

Oh well.

[OKDad70 862]

I played this game for 6 years and have experienced most of the stages of development first hand. I've been here when battles included ranks from sergeant to marshal and lieutenants had M3s. I've been in drug wars where you try your best to take the lead for hours only to be dominated by some clan in the end. being left with nothing. I experienced it all first-hand, so I'm pretty sure I know enough to be able to tell good updates from bad ones.

 

The reason you don't see me blindly hating this update like a lot of people here is because I consider all parties when judging an update: the developers, the players, the newbies, the pros, the buyers, the free players, etc. I know that every update is made to benefit some of those parties while inevitably being a disadvantage for others. But that's just how game development works - you can't make everybody happy at once.

 

I get why players hate the missions update - devs took away the ability to easily farm crystals and supplies without wasting your own supplies and, in some cases, with minimal time spent (e.g. 1 kill battles to get first place). Sure, the update wasn't perfect because it also made missions inconvenient for honest players who play exclusively "real" PRO battles (like the ones on Serpuhov, or formats), but nevertheless it was a necessary change because players were getting rewards far too easily, and the idea of missions as challenging side quests was obsolete. So yes, that update was bad for a lot of players, but it was a benefit to developers, as well as honest players who didn't know about the mission exploits and struggled to complete their missions in normal battles.

 

This is the last thing I will say here about the missions update. This topic is not about that. When it comes to this particular update, I see absolutely no reason to complain about anything, other than for hardcore druggers to complain about their beloved repair kit no longer making them indestructible and powerful compared to free players.

 

And FYI, I don't always support the updates. I know it's hard to look through 13k posts, but on numerous occasions I (and some other helpers) publicly expressed criticism regarding certain changes. And no, we don't get paid to praise developers. That's what I'm telling you. Whether you want to believe it or not is none of my concern.

Yeah, Maf, I get it. I mostly agree with you, but the changes over this last year have nearly all taken from what I liked about the game. The variety was great. I was playing three or four accounts daily, rotating a total of six. It was fun. Each specialized account I had required different skills and tactics. I was getting good at all of them. Then The Great Leveling (October 2016). It killed everything for me. I switched my main from twins-viking to the already sluggish titan-vulcan and stopped playing my other accounts except the Boar kit. (Dic-rico wasn't affected much either.) I gradually relearned the skills needed to make the most of the sluggish version of twins-viking effective again, but switching back to it at first was simply painful. Nothing worked. None of the skills I had developed were useful. Gradually, as the MUs added up, and as I figured out how to make that sluggish combination work within its limits, it started being fun again, at least some of the time. The recent changes were screwing that up.

 

This change has killed it for me. I'll hold out a few days to try to see, but I won't be renewing my premium account, and I just might give up.

 

Overdrive is bad for team matches. Eliminating the repair kits can't actually be good for anyone. Not even anyone in the groups you define. It is simply bad.

 

I'm a brawler. The game isn't fun when more time is spent in the respawn cycle than in combat.

[Hatty1994 819]

I get why players hate the missions update - devs took away the ability to easily farm crystals and supplies without wasting your own supplies and, in some cases, with minimal time spent (e.g. 1 kill battles to get first place). Sure, the update wasn't perfect because it also made missions inconvenient for honest players who play exclusively "real" PRO battles (like the ones on Serpuhov, or formats), but nevertheless it was a necessary change because players were getting rewards far too easily, and the idea of missions as challenging side quests was obsolete. So yes, that update was bad for a lot of players, but it was a benefit to developers, as well as honest players who didn't know about the mission exploits and struggled to complete their missions in normal battles.

OK this system is abused, & developers changed. Can they cure this disease ?? No. Players still abusing the system by playing Wasp/Fire to complete their super missions to escape from the drug world. Now the matchmaking system coming, you gonna see many players will leave this game, and those cheaters & You-tubers that will continue, they will find out new method of cheating. Whether you admit it or not, cheaters are always there and developers cannot stop them. For few bad elements, changing the entire system affects the good elements & day-by-day, those good elements like me getting spoiled due to constant stupid lame brainless changes & made bad elements. How long they keep changing ?? At one point of time, they have to say "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. LET'S CLOSE THIS GAME".

 

And no, we don't get paid to praise developers. That's what I'm telling you. Whether you want to believe it or not is none of my concern.

Wow, you do your Moderator's job for FREE ?? You get something right? Say that ... Don't lie like this  :ph34r: #HonestyOverloaded 

[ndj-2003-tank-junior 0]

YOU MAKING THIS GAME BIGGER AND BIGGER .... ! I CANT EVEN REPAIR MY SELF THIS ....... UPDATE IS ........ ABOUT REPAIRS, I LIKE OVERDRIVE BUT THIS .... ABOUT REPAIRS IS BIGGEST .... IN THIS GAME FROM THE TIME U MADE IT ! WHO EVER GET THIS IDEA ABOUT REPAIRS HE IS ....... FOOL, GIVE ME BAN, I DONT CARE, WHO EVER GETs THOSE IDEAs, HE SHOULD THINK ABOUT IT FOR A LITTLEBIT.... HOW U CAN STEAL FLAG WITH OUT GETTING THOSE 4K HEALTS. THE WORST UPDATE EVER ! ! ! U MADE THIS GAME A .... LONG TIME AGO ! 

THOSE POINTS MEANS ON Foulness ! ! ! Thanks on reading this message, this message was writted to the developers of the game ! GIVE ME BACK OLD REPAIRS THIS IS ....

I totally agree with him.

[FTW 240]

-My honest opinion about this update-

|no hate, if you are disagreeing about something feel free to notify me in the posts below|.

 

1. Overdrive: useless supply, a supply which triggers all the supplies at once expect gold box with a blue glowing net consists of glowing blue balls too and this glowing thing may potentially trigger seizures for people with photosensitive epilepsy. Player discretion is advised Let's trigger player's discretion! -and that's it for overdrive.

 

2. Repair Kit: repair kit is literally nerfed now, sadly mammoth and titan users will not be capable of healing themselves with full health instead of waiting for isidas to heal them (i'm pretty sure they have no isidas to save them too) as the repair kit used to be 'Tankers Life Saver' but this tag won't belong to repair kit anymore due to the huge nerf for it we're going back to 2011-2010 then when repair kit used to be useless also because it wasn't repairing the full tanker's health and they updated it in Tanki Online 2.0 I guess so it *used* to heal the tankers with 4000 life points instead of the 1500 (i don't know the actual life points) until yesterday they made it go downhill from 4000 to 1000 so it can't even save a viking m4 user oh guess what, now even if you are being healed by the repair kit and someone else (fire, freeze or isida) damages you, you won't be healed sadly the repair will stop healing which makes no sense actually.

3. Supplies cooldown: what's the point of it? why would the supplies cooldown be more than the time it lasts for, i mean why whats the point of it just why?

 

4. Spawn time: you just added +2 seconds to the spawn time instead of making it 2 you made it 4 and the death time is -2 which means 0 seconds just why? the death tank thing was good for blocking some tankers and which helped many times capturing flags, points and so on the spawn time is now annoying and useless too why would i waste 4 seconds of my life spawning and 0 seconds dying, just tell me why did you even added this?

Sorry if there is any typo or grammar mistakes, don't get triggered either read peacefully before being judgemental about what i said. So yeah, Peace.  :ph34r: 

[r_honcho3 0]

Overdrive takes the skill out of the game.  Now it's the individual and the team that's all drugged up who win the battles - and the games.  I prefer Tanki without Overdrive.  I'm not the best at skill.  But prior to Overdrive I had to learn how to beat better players.  And that made me a better player.  Not anymore.  Any noob loaded with drugs can beat the best player.  For the higher ranked players the game will quickly become more frustrating than fun.  Why stay with Tanki and keep getting blown up by noob druggers????

[OKDad70 862]

It sure seems the devs got a hardon over people learning to enter the garage on destruction and avoid a self-destruct. I think the spawn-time change was mostly to ensure everyone self-destructs if they decide to change equipment.

 

I really can't comprehend why they keep changing things to penalize the experienced, skilled players.

[Akame 4,578]

Actually, Arab buyers are the strongest guys in EN community when it comes to 'drugging' battles if they quit, the game shall fall down and everything will be done simply because they waste the x20 of payments u waste yearly. So there is no point of spreading the hate toward them.

I ain't spreading hate towards them, you should maybe read the points made? And did you forget there are many other non arabs? Typical.

[DomsePRO 0]

Repair kit is bad, if fire is shooting me and I use repair kit I just got 1000HP and healing stops, same when isida is killing me.

[Akame 4,578]

Repair kit is bad, if fire is shooting me and I use repair kit I just got 1000HP and healing stops, same when isida is killing me.

What maps do you play? What combo do you use? This feedback is useless without any support...

[02RISKY20 189]

what i find worse the devs just thought yes this is what they want need and like without even asking? i mean was there even an official poll? did they read the feedback?

[erx7777 8]

this update is epic ****

[erx7777 8]

if nothing changes in two weeks, you will loose 6 accounts played on daily basis

[Hatty1994 819]

Are you trying to become Moderator ?? Your words in so many comments in this topic signals to the direction of aspiring Moderator. 

[CuT_TheRe_HeaRTs_OuT 640]

Are you trying to become Moderator ?? Your words in so many comments in this topic signals to the direction of aspiring Moderator. 

i think i spotted that same direction but i didn't want to talk about it in public, that is until u mentioned it : )

[AmonNAmarth 63]

this update is epic ****

why do you say that ??

now the game is more fair cuz the big druggers are weaker now  ^_^