Testing of Matchmaking System on EU servers

[Viking4s 10,791]

Courage, Deathtrack, Monte Carlo, Subways, etc aren't in the matchmaking system. So what are you talking about? You have two, maybe three maps you like in the matchmaking system. How does that INCREASE the chance you have of finding a good match in a map you like? What about all those people who like the old Rio and the old polygon? Those were good maps, and now they're only in pro battles.

 

Also, how many maps are actually in the matchmaking system anyway?

 

you asked me which map I liked, well death track was on the battle button. Being a big map it will be probably removed or reworked. The battle button had 41 out of 73 maps, so 41 was better than 2.

Now, for the MM (dispite my personal red line with my dear friend hazel) I do not know how many maps left. You could take all the map which already host 20 players. It's still the early stage to tell wich one we will have, if we end up with 10 maps, then we loose a big chunk of TO legacy.

Things is, you're not the only one with preferred maps, so we have at the end it is not to please me or you, but the global list of players. Saying that, still you can't let player decide as for sure we will end up with 2 maps (boring).

Edited August 8, 2017 by Viking4s

[ChippeRock 0]

This update sucks! It might of been a great idea if we had people playing at the rate we had in 2014 but with more than 3x less people playing now then in 2014 there just simply isn't enough people for this to work properly.

 

1. I've gotten stuck with a group of Major Generals, Brigadiers, Colonels & Lieutenant Colonels and on the other hand I've gotten stuck with a bunch of Corporals... Please at least make a maximum of roughly 5 ranks difference between the highest and lowest ranks. Or at least make it available in the settings for us to decide the number of ranks higher and lower than us that can play in the same battle with us.

 

2. I hate the stupid changes they made to the matchmaking system maps, it's resulted in Medium sized maps being much more heavily favored towards long range turrets and is a serious disadvantage to short range turrets with all these long range turrets sniping at you from spots that never existed before.

 

3. We should be able to at least create and join non-Pro battles using the list. I don't mind if we can't join battles created by the matchmaking system but I want the option to join battles that I want to join. Or alternatively you could just let us complete missions in Pro battles again...

 

4. I'm getting the matchmaking system assigning me to Highway battles when I'm using Fire + Hornet. I would much rather join a Polygon or Sandbox battle. I mean if the user has short range turrets this should essentially outrule that user getting matched to any Large maps.

 

5. It takes 1.5 minutes for me to get assigned to a battle! Now again if we had 3x the people the wait time would probably significantly decrease wait time. But again, we don't have as many people playing this game as we used to have.

 

6. Missions are a pain in the ass to complete. I have to wait 1.5 minutes to join a battle and this might be a map that makes it more difficult to complete the mission. So it would take several battles just to complete all my missions. When it might only take 30 minutes before it takes more like an hour to complete them now.

 

7. There does appear to be some extra lag in the game as well. I mean I can play one battle where I'm good but then the next 2 battles I'm lagging like hell. I used to rarely lag and now it happens relatively often.

 

8. I can't even view missions while in the battle! So I don't know whether I completed the mission or not. I literally have to do it on memory alone.

 

9. When I do take a look at the battle list and I switch servers it takes me back to the home screen with all the matchmaking options are! This is such a pain in the ass! Not to mention the location of the battle list on the home page is at the very bottom so I have to scroll to the bottom every single time I switch the servers to look for a good battle to join!

Edited August 9, 2017 by ChippeRock

[FuddleKiller 44]

I was looking forward to this in the hopes that it would once again give us the option to create meaningful battles.  

 

Boy am I disappointed in this update.  

 

Though now we can theoretically create battles, when you do 1) you can't do missions, and 2) no one ever comes because the auto-battle mode doesn't include them.   So that "benefit" is rendered null and void.  The "group" feature has some possibilities; I just don't know how to work it yet. 

 

Then there are the other issues many have already noted: 

 

I did not like the earlier update that took away our ability to create battles where we can do  missions.

Now another update takes away our ability even to CHOOSE battles. 

Random maps, random ranks, random players, no choices.  

Cannot see mission progress anymore. 

Cannot stay for a "rematch" anymore. 

 

 

Maybe you can fix the lag.  Maybe you can fix the wait times.  Maybe you can fix the horrific rank disparities in some of the battles.  But you can't fix the main problem, because the lack of both information and choices the player gets IS the problem, and that is the essence of this update. 

 

I can summarize for you here the updates the community wants: 

 

 

1) let us all create battles that count for missions.

2) let us all choose battles we want to be in.

3) set the conditions of battles for narrower ranks spans, legends with corporals is ridiculous.  Battles should span 5 ranks, tops.  

4) New maps, more maps are always good.  I RARELY see some fun maps anymore, like the old spacey "madness," scope, and Monte Carlo.   If people get to choose maps, more maps aren't a problem for people who only like certain ones, and I personally like to play LOTS of different maps, because there is only so much interest in the same ones over and over.  We want more (meaningful) choices of maps and battles. 

 

Know what some other GOOD updates would be?  More information, not less: for instance, Let us see what weapons players have in the "battle info" screen; then we might be able to choose our defense modules with more information with an overall view and not have to leave the battle to make adjustments. 

 

I have played up to 15 accounts every day for several months, and a few accounts almost daily now for 2 years.  I don't mind at all you trying to get buyers.  Know how to do that?  Make the game FUN.  It's getting less fun with some of these updates.  Kudos for the good things you do -- holiday maps and special battles and themes,  3x summer mission chains, discount specials.  Give us more choices to have fun in the games, not less autonomy and fewer options.

 

Thanks for listening.

 

A concerned tanker.

[REST_IN_PIECES 4]

This update is the worst thing I have ever had to endure on this game! Please get rid of it..... 

[its_jarion 0]

One it takes to long to find a match 2 when i join a sever i want to stay there not end up all over 3 its not balance why am i only getting battle with legends 

[xXx_PRO_MAN_xXx4 4]

Remove it ASAP!!!

[Junior.Pablo585 5]

I hope, when I wake up tomorrow morning, this ****² will not be

[euphonium 40]

"Tanki should simply give more crystals to difference-makers, as an incentive for joining losing teams."

 

That right there is the best idea I have heard in this topic so far.

[BooM_Shakalaka_BooM 2]

Hey you Lame update!!!

 

Yeah i'am talk'n to you!

 

Go kill yourself!!!

[war_girlxxx 4]

omg seriously?

 

this is a horrible update

there's like no choice

now I can't play in maps I like nd wanna play in without buying a pro pass

I can't play with friends unless they have pro passes

I can't stay in the same map after a battle finishes

also I'm not gonna wait like forever to play missions in a battle in a map I don't know or like against legends with m4 stuff lol

 

....and I'm nearly at the end of a 4 week chain

 

so uknow

 

ditch it plzzzzzzz

Edited August 8, 2017 by war_girlxxx

[SSGTSmith 5]

What is wrong with you people (developers)?

 

First you take away our ability to play with English speaking players and now you have screwed us out of being able to even enter the game easily!

 

I have spent hard earned money to play this game and what you have done is akin to robbery. 

 

Fix your screw up and do it fast while you still have people wanting to play the game.

[GuidoFawkes 2,361]

omg seriously?

 

this is a horrible update

now I can't play in maps I like nd wanna play in without buying a pro pass

I can't play with friends unless they have pro passes

I can't stay in the same map after a battle finishes

I'm not gonna wait like forever to play missions in a battle in a map I don't know or like against legends with m4 stuff lol

 

....and i'm nearly at the end of a 4 week chain :P

 

so uknow

 

ditch it plzzzzzzz :)

what do you mean without a pro pass;; you don't need a pro pass because of this update. No one needs pro passes anymore now

Edited August 8, 2017 by GuidoFawkes

[Captin_XLAB 276]

This update completely SUCKS.

I mean FOR ONCE ""WHY CANT YOU LEAVE THE GAME ALONE"" ????

 

R-E-V-E-R-T this crap as soon as you can because this is totally crap

 

Now we cant even pick out our own normal battles where we can do missions

No. of mults are insanely increased as the system itself sucks, pairing legends with low ranks

Cant play properly with all our friends, Cant even exactly see where our friends are

Cant directly see on which server we are

Cant start the battle instantly, waited 45 seconds for a simple CP Battle

Players who have a lower rank and don't wana be in legend battles (cos lets face it they're overpowered) dont have an option.

 

Daily missions take 3x longer time to complete because the matchmaking system dumps players into unsuitable battles.
Ex: my mission was to capture 10 points in a CP, it threw me on a full map Tribute battle with losers in the enemy team and all 3 points captured, 15 minutes wasted.

 

And so many more problems. YOU DONT GIVE MEDICINE TO SOMEONE WHO'S NOT SICK!

 

WHY DO YOU DO THIS? >>WHY<< ??????

 

Is you motto "Ruin Tanki Flash until they run off to Tanki X" or something, please do tell.

 

Open challenge. Add an open-for-all poll, weather people like this update or want the game to be as it was without this system. "DO NOT" implement this into the game if no. of votes favor for not implementing it.

 

And for one last time,

STOP. UPDATING. THIS GAME. IT WAS "PERFECTLY FINE".

REVERT. THIS. UPDATE.

 

Condition of battles...

 

This is the 2nd Battle I played today. Entire enemy team full of high ranked losers who can just drug. Result? Two players took over the entire battle in 5 minutes. Here's the result on your face.

 

Another update. Apparently this game is "Lagging" now. In FPS. I get 210FPS on GTA 5 with this system. On Tanki im getting 45-50 FPS with frameskipping. 3rd battle of the day. Enemies were mega noobs. Half of them didnt know how to use overdrive. Three of them were M2's and we were full M4's. Spent 1 hour of my sleeping time trying to capture 10 CP. 9/10 so far. Here's 2nd battle results:

Edited August 8, 2017 by Captin_XLAB

[model205 7]

Bye tanki, good job  ;) 

[anuclearbomb 220]

you asked me which map I liked, well death track was on the battle button. Being a big map it will be probably removed or reworked. The battle button had 41 out of 73 maps, so 41 was better than 2.

Now, for the MM (dispite my personal red line with my dear friend hazel) I do not know how many maps left. You could take all the map which already host 20 players. It's still the early stage to tell wich one we will have, if we end up with 10 maps, then we loose a big chunk of TO legacy.

Things is, you're not the only one with preferred maps, so we have at the end it is not to please me or you, but the global list of players. Saying that, still you can't let player decide as for sure we will end up with 2 maps (boring).

Now I may be steering a bit off course with this, however...

Before they made missions only completable in non-pro battles, there was massive diversity in maps. I remember playing several amazing matches in Monte Carlo, (A map that we both seem to like) and they were always fun and challenging. Now I understand why they made that change, but it was really what killed the map variety. Battles became tedious and more like chores as apposed to fun and light hearted. This lead to people just doing their missions and logging off. Which killed any fun pro battles too. This matchmaking system is just going to increase the feel that this game is more like a chore than like a fun game that can be challenging. 

[war_girlxxx 4]

lol no-one told me

 

I still can't complete missions in pro maps tho

(.....or whatever they're called)

 

so uknow

 

shuushhhh

[euphonium 40]

 

there.  I'm done, for now

[ImAtWork 141]

i really hate not being able to continue in the same map but instead being forced to "re-que"

[GuidoFawkes 2,361]

lol no-one told me

 

I still can't complete missions in pro maps tho you never could

(.....or whatever they're called)

 

so uknow

 

shuushhhh

[IsrvGod2 12]

Well day 2 of Matchmaking for me went a little better. That is not to say that I approve in any way, shape or form of it's format. I don't. Yet I found how to prepare myself to play against players several ranks higher than my own. Any of you guys know how? HIDE!! Find a building and HIDE. 

[GuidoFawkes 2,361]

lol no-one told me

 

I still can't complete missions in pro maps tho

(.....or whatever they're called)

 

so uknow

 

shuushhhh

or maybe, since you like creating new accounts so much, you could just create one on the spanish servers! they're not having this test so everything there is just like how it was here yesterday,(sadly for me, i love this update i wish i could enjoy it on my spanish account as well)

[amsterdamn 242]

@all of you complainers:

 

Yes, I agree in part, not all of this system test is good or well-thought out:

(1) some of the daily missions, like capture 3 flags, or get XP on this-and-this map, are hardly realistic in the new mode

(2) yes, I have been in noob battles today, with teams of 1 Legend (me) and all much lower ranks against teams of +6 legends

(3) yes, I want to choose my own maps instead of being directed without choice

(4) yes, I want daily missions back for pro battles

(5) yes, I evenb want the old days crystal drops back in the game

 

But waiting times are not that bad at all...I have done about 20 games today, and none of the waitint times was more than 1 minute

[wolverine848 13,097]

1. Most people take more time, they are just involved with cursing Tanki's mother to notice how long it takes.

2. Agree that sux

3. No lag for me. And I am not by any stretch of the imagination on a gaming rig. I am on a decade old laptop.

4. Well, to a certain degree you never could. Even back before the PP update when anyone could create a battle, there was no guarantee anybody would come and join your map.

5. You never could.

5.  Only partially true. When battle list was available you could view the players and choose to join that battle, or not.

 

Yes its different, wait times are no different though, I don't care about the battle, that's just an identity, and the map really doesn't faze me, I have to adapt to what maps exist anyway for missions. I get to choose my format, and that to me is more important than map or specific battle id.

So choosing a map is not very important to you. That's swell.

 

However, as you may have read in the many posts so far, choosing the map is quite important to players.

 

Discounting their opinions because they do not coincide with yours is somewhat... arrogant.

Edited August 8, 2017 by wolverine848

[Fuffyeroo 0]

Well day 2 of Matchmaking for me went a little better. That is not to say that I approve in any way, shape or form of it's format. I don't. Yet I found how to prepare myself to play against players several ranks higher than my own. Any of you guys know how? HIDE!! Find a building and HIDE. 

LMAO!!!  Good advice.

 

I saw one poor corporal in a battle that had about six legends on each side.  Poor guy didn't know what hit him.  I think he was 0-15 at the end.  Just a punching bag. 

[ImAtWork 141]

@all of you complainers:

 

Yes, I agree in part, not all of this system test is good or well-thought out:

(1) some of the daily missions, like capture 3 flags, or get XP on this-and-this map, are hardly realistic in the new mode

(2) yes, I have been in noob battles today, with teams of 1 Legend (me) and all much lower ranks against teams of +6 legends

(3) yes, I want to choose my own maps instead of being directed without choice

(4) yes, I want daily missions back for pro battles

(5) yes, I evenb want the old days crystal drops back in the game

 

But waiting times are not that bad at all...I have done about 20 games today, and none of the waitint times was more than 1 minute

but waiting times should be zero, as before!  what the hell benefit do we get for this waiting???

 

(6) yes, I want to be able to continue in the same map after game ends rather than having to go back to lobby and wait in the back of the line again.