Testing of Matchmaking System on EU servers

[willyintino 0]

I bought a few kits in this game, and if this game stays with matchmaking update, can i get my money back? if this stays, i quit this game. but steel... can i get my money back?

[Captin_XLAB 276]

We players have written on and on about how stupid this update is for SIXTY FOUR FORUM PAGES. Let's hope these developers REVERT IT.

[jwclittlebuddy 0]

Tried this out. At first, I thought, "What a cool thing this could be!". Then it causes my flash player to crash, every time. Can't even play. Hmm...

[3es 5]

so bad upgrade 
you forced us to play with game and team and team and dont like it
today i join to complete the mission , i joined CTF , the first try you enter me in lose team , lose 4-0 
the second try you enter me in week team and the enemy is so strong 
i have 6 account in tanki , if the game will remains like this i will retire

retire

[denvalfc 0]

Gutted about the new update, it makes me not want to play because I don't like the way you cant even choose what room you go into.  CHANGE IT BACK PLEASE!

[Fuffyeroo 0]

I like to join losing teams, if the point margin is not too big, and try to help them win - if possible, sometimes I am no help at all! One-sided games are not fun, regardless of which side I am on. Tanki should simply give more crystals to difference-makers, as an incentive for joining losing teams. Unfortunately, that would lead to clans trolling games and massively drugging to turn the tide of games. But if the incentive were small enough to not attract large numbers of tankers, it could work.

I also like to join losing teams, if they're not getting crushed.  Helping make a team turn around is fun.  Due to the missions I (used to) make a lot of choices.  1) if my mission was crystals, I'd join the winning team.  If I needed experience, I'd join full battles, and/or join the losing team to even it up.  3) if it was gather supplies, I'd join mostly empty battles.  If I needed xp in cp, I'd choose a full battle, but if I needed cps in cp I'd go to a big map like highway or kunger.  All those based on completing missions.  Now it's all out the window, no choices -- of maps, participants, teams, or anything else.  Just random mishmash.  And a lot less fun.  :(

[SuzieLouwolf 7]

Oh and I forgot might telling us what the group button is for?Does it work on non pro battles or just pro battles?Im curious as to what its for..I know you can inv friends to it but I  havent been able to see what it does exactly.

 

on a different note I was about to try using giftcards on here to get crystals with..due to this matchmaking thing I might not even waste my time doing so..

Edited August 8, 2017 by SuzieLouwolf

[I-Hate-Druggers 192]

This is terrible update I can't even battle without already being on a team that is greatly winning/losing. I can't even get 1k today.

[Fused 4]

Omg Please Remove this Matchmaking Update from game, It Makes severe Lag + I cant play a Non Pro Battle in which i want to , It Just sends me to a random battlle which i dont like ... #RemoveThisUpdate  :angry: 

[Smoking175 0]

i don't like this . I play shaft, i need big maps. It just auto assigns to a random match and map. i hate it.

Edited August 8, 2017 by Smoking175

[Hatty1994 819]

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. 

You can't find a building and hide, coz higher rankers will hunt you down. So, best way to hide is "Pause" button or go to Garage & watch in ghost mode. When you get an option to leave the battle, then you come up alive, died & back to ghost mode. Repeat till battle ends ... 

[Viking4s 10,791]

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.

 

Maybe, but it is linked as it is part of the whole change. Mission will be changed to reflect the MM specificity, according to previous com from the dev. I think it could be like participate to x battles, so like this no boxes hunting and instead you play. I do not know. One things is sure they will be still made on the std battle in order to encourage player to play over there and maintain a pool of Player big enough for the MM to deliver on its objective. If the pool is too small then battles will be filled with a wider range of ranks (not good). Also some will still be more challenging than others. It is true I do not always do the 3 missions like before, I mean doing the flag one on island that was not right. I used to finish them in 5 minutes tops and log out. Now I spend a bit more time and log out. Now solikams is smaller, arg, less boxes available...

[pep65 0]

Overall i like the new set up & new game screens. Only slight hiccup is that my tank takes about 5 mins to settle down (lag wise) after which alls well. This means that the 1st time i'm on i have to wait until the 2nd game which i can't appear to do on the new set up.

 

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[nikolas1_super 9]

a BAAAAAAAD update. where goes my choice to which map i play? we should have premium accounts and pass all of the time? moooore money Tanki? is this the goal? probably is time to fix the lag, the error happening in every battle, and that s it. the map changes are a good idea. Maybe you want the older players in the game to leave? Neew account coming more money to create the accounts.... Yes?

Edited August 8, 2017 by nikolas1_super

[huntstank_returns 0]

for me i think its a bad idea because now it is a lot more harder to do missions than it was before

its also bad because to do the missions you cant go to that create one which would make it a lot harder for people

-_- please consider this as so many people might just end up giving up on the game

:) but the good thing is that you made the create battle thing for free again

in my opinion this update would be making the game a lot worse

 

to make the game a lot better, its best if you don't update because then people could have a choice on what map to play on

I hope you think through this very carefully before updating but I'm sure you would make the right decision ^_^ ​

​many thanks from (huntstank) and (huntstank_returns)

Edited August 8, 2017 by huntstank_returns

[check_12 9]

And one other thing, when Hazel-Rah introduced this concept he said it takes 20 minutes to find a suitable battle (or something like that), hence the match-making system will "make it better".  Seriously, did the developers pilot test this?  They are crazy if they think anyone in the tanker player community wanted and was looking forward to this update.

 

Did anyone ask the users?  Or, is this one of those innovations purely driven by Engineering without any input from Marketing/Sales?

 

Please ditch this update.  This release was a solution looking for a problem, and that problem did not exist.  Like I said, I'm sure it was an astounding feat of flash programming mastery.  Yay, you did it, you completely broke the game.  Now, take it back.  You failed the test, bzzzz try again, or not.  What was the rationale again?  Because it took too long to find a battle?  That is simply not my experience.  Now, it is impossible to find a suitable battle.  Thanks a lot Tanki!

[elyasaflil 0]

this update is so bad! i want to choose the map i want to play in!

and i dont want to wait for the battle more than i have to (with that loading screen)

why you doing this things? it WONT give you more players or make players buy anything..

if you think we want it and you doing it for us, so please bring back the abillity to do missions in pro battles

and if its hard for you to see players cheating with "cap flags" or "cap points" or "take boxes" just delete those missions! and in return, give us back the option to do missions in pro battles.

i used to play xp and doing the missions as i play xp but now i cant and i think no one like those updates

 

[akrsco_ra 0]

 

sorry but... this new system

 

Matchmaking System is very bad

[BlackWasp777 4,498]

Good things:

- battles are pretty well filled. Leaving players get replaced.

- load balancing - finallly :D:D:D (the match making distributes it's battles over all servers, the load of each single server is way below the load of the servers I usually play at).

- Ranks are ok in most of the cases; but it seems the battle group feature can lead to crazy rank ranges..

- I played about 8 battles today, and even in the "inbalanced" ones, the loosing team did not run out of members.

 

 

Bad things

- Can't chose the map

- I can not choose the map

- Sends you to the same map (but other battle) even if you left within a few seconds.

- Seems not to take players battle efficiency (or alike) into account (yet) (this one team was filled with 80% low skilled players while the other performed great all together (but no friends).. but at least we never ran out of players..)

- German transcriptions are very poor and do not sound professional at all.

 

 

Proposals:

- Make the system learn the maps that players dislike (where they run away from withing the first 30sec in 80% of all times you send them there). Make those "more unlikely" for this player

- get someone else to make the transcriptions (as well as the vLog transcriptions)

- match players by battle efficiency (you know my proposal.. if not, ask).

[apollo1570 0]

i do not like this matchmaking thing

[Captin_XLAB 276]

@BlackWasp come on. You were with the losing team, it wasn't out of members but it's members sucked, low rank/noobs/m2's etc... 

 

One and only proposal from most players who replied to this discussion: REMOVE THE UPDATE

[huntstank_returns 0]

Gutted about the new update, it makes me not want to play because I don't like the way you cant even choose what room you go into.  CHANGE IT BACK PLEASE!

I sertinly agree with you

[ProNightFury 0]

Worst Idea ever.  Totally lame and it takes forever to get in to battles. Plus can't do my favorite battle maps. LAME!!!!!

[SecretGhost 1]

Move the daily missions button back to the top next to the friend icon!!! I like checking my progress in a daily mission while in battle, but now I can't do that anymore because it isn't in the menu when you're battling.. :(

[sugar-and-spice 59]

This is an appalling update. Biggest load of **** ever. Whoever thought this crazy system up needs sacking. Bring back normality and get rid of this loopy foolishness