Unified Battle List and Chat channels

[CooperO 7,956]

I clicked on a game that had three players on each team.  It wouldn't let me into either team.  I have a gig speed internet connection, the whole thing is lagging.  Whoever thought this was a good idea needs to be kicked in the nuts!

These battle joining problems were definitely not part of the plan. Programmers are working on fixing those problems.

[ammazzafurbi 5]

Everything seems fine with this update , ..............................

If this update is great for you, I would like you to be in my condition not to be able to even enter a battle and you would see that you would change your mind.

[Prepare-To-DIE 0]

The biggest problem with Tanki is they never consider the unintended consequences of changes to the software.  For example, the addition of crystal missions means that a player is no longer dependent on his OWN performance in a battle but the performance of his entire team.  That sounds good except for two things - people are free to choose which side to join and when to leave a battle.  Consider a TDM battle where the teams are numerically even and red leads blue 30 to 20.  In the past, you might have joined the blue team to make the battle more competitive.  Close battles are a good thing, and more fun for everyone.  Sure, you might not get the same crystals, but it could be worth it.  

 

With crystal missions, not being on the winning team probably means you have to play multiple games to complete your mission.  If you see the game above, you join the red team, not just because you get more crystals, but because you get to finish your mission in half the time.  Of course, this is less fun for everyone because the battle becomes even more lop-sided.  People on the losing team will see this and they will quit the game, making the battle even MORE uneven and even less fun.  So the unintended consequence of crystal missions is that they result in a lot of games that become "unstable", prone to one side quitting and a lot less fun for all players.

 

Any thought given to the matter would have made this immediately obvious - but Tanki does not think through the consequences of changes.  Their attitude is "READY - FIRE!...  AIM!"  It's as if they make random changes to the game and just wait to see how many people quit.

 

The unified battle list is a similar problem.  Instead of having lots of games with varying numbers of players, they are trying to cram as many people as possible into every game.  This makes even simple missions like "collect 5 speed boxes" difficult to accomplish.  It also means that noobs get stuffed into games with much higher ranking players - who simply use them for target practice.  Every game will have players who join or leave.  The idea for a successful company is to have more players joining than leaving.  But if you make it impossible for new players to compete, they will leave and Tanki won't have any growth.  It doesn't matter if you have a "noob" exception.  The fact that at some level players will be forced into battles full of much higher ranked players as a routine matter means that at some point they will encounter the same problem - and probably quit.

 

Personally, I'm only sticking around long enough to see if Tanki comes to its senses and REVERSES this code change, as happened before with that steaming pile of excrement of automatic battle matching.  When that happened, I quit playing for a few days... the first time I'd missed playing since they introduced weekly missions.  If they don't fix this mess, I will quit again.  And I won't look back.

Wow, very well spoken!! Hear hear Tanki devs......!

[jaanus7777 29]

it cant be worse than this game. 

[Mr.71 123]

Collecting boxes for missions has now become silly you have to do after dd or nitro like its a gold box. Isida for exp in missions just camp and give health to people.

 

I think missions need to go if you're going to keep this update, maybe back to the daily gift?.

 

Chat system is just all over the shop and just moves to fast to read at times now its all in one place. 

[Viking4s 10,791]

Hello,

 

At the moment I can't actually join any battles.

 

Please can you fix this as soon as possible or my mission chain streak will die.

 

Thank you!

 

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Also, fix the chats. It's a huge mess right now.

Unlucky, i can :)

but level of battle is low. seems like only noobs can join. so good news for you - you are no noob :D

Edited October 12, 2017 by Viking4s

[mrvomit 0]

Is it not loading at all, or doesn't let to join battles? Any specifics would be very helpful.

Not loading battles .Sometime i see my nick listed , but it stays like that .

[v956 0]

At the moment I click "play" to join a battle, and sometimes I join, sometimes nothing happens even after clicking several times...

[NXS_Neta_King 654]

New update na na ba ba ba xd

[Later 76]

Not bad update I personnaly like it... We will see in future.... I still didnt test it (RIP)

[That.One.S.L.4.Y.3.R 3]

Ok listen up  the likes and dislikes of this update and a lil advice : 

 "LIKES" 1. I really liked that now i dont have to move to different servers to find a good battle which suits my rank.

               2. And i m completely satisfied that all the battles are in the same place 

               3. The chat channels are fine , i really liked the Friend's chat channel .

 

"DISLIKES / IMPROVEMENTS"

1.All the battles in one server if i am not wrong.. you guys forgot the consequences we'd be having

2. Its been almost 9 years when tanki launched and you guys updated the game so much but it can be seen that you guys didnt really learned            something about the updates you released , you guys have 9 years of "game developing" experience but you "forgot" about the impact it would      leave on the in-game players.

3.This update makes the game lags so much , and its not ordinary lag its horrible tbh .

4. Its fine to put the work load of 24 servers on only one server (talking about battles) but you guys forgot to give enough strength it requires to work like the last 24 servers did , give it a boost or something , if u get what i m trynna say

5. its been 9 years , and you guys cant even take down simple lags? what kind of game developing experience was that ? and if i go comparing TO with other trending game,,, you dont want me to do that , do you ?

 

 

 

and Nives this is not for , its for the game devs :D

[LittleWillie 3,199]

Hi,

 

I'm not going to moan about the lags or the glitches which are no doubt, high priority for the devs right now. I'd rather moan about the fact that now we have players coming to regular battles just to complete missions - collect 10 double damage boxes for example.  Players used to disappear to the back and beyond to complete these, eu17 for example where they wouldn't stifle or impair anyone's efforts in trying to win a battle.

 

It's about time we do away with these box collection missions. It would be much better to just stick to earning crystals or acquring experience. By keeping such missions, tanki encourage this undesirable behaviour.

 

 

Removing collect box missions would be a mistake IMO. There are days you want to do a mission then that's it. Make all missions long missions and lose players.

[kaisdf 3,320]

I have problems joining games like everyone else. Come on people! The devs tried to make your lives quicker and easier, and so what if there are a few bugs in the system...

 

My suggestion is to add some kind of qualification to the chat channels, so for example, you can only talk in the eSports chat if you are in a clan - which would stop inane spam. I like the idea of a lot of the chats, but they seem a tad unnecessary... Why have a game reports chat section (that is mostly unmoderated), when a better system exists on the forum? Why not just a link to the violations page?

 

Just suggestions, listen or don't listen. Its a free country after all :)

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Also, as for tech having an issue, even that appears to be random. A few pages ago there was someone saying that their game was now laggy and unplayable on a gaming pc, but on my vaguely crumby laptop it seems to be running fine...

Edited October 12, 2017 by kaisdf

[r_Tunc7 0]

Lag all day & only completed two missions, outgunned, outranked in most battles, no or little choice,  overcrowded battles which need fewer players and smaller maps for older computers in poorer countries apart from that it sucks and has ruined something I was beginning to enjoy.....wouldn't take three hours of premium because it was too frustrating.

[caiosilvac 567]

I had reported problems earlier today but now everything is back to normal here. Can play with no problems, only complaint is I'm outranked in most battles.

Edited October 12, 2017 by caiosilvac

[AbsoluteZero 3,729]

There are days you want to do a mission then that's it.

Well don't come to my battles then. Don't need you in there running around, selfishly taking drops.

[I_AM_BEST_FOR_1V1 21]

REMOVE ITITITITI

Edited October 12, 2017 by Ninja
Do NOT quote the entire announcement.

[check_12 9]

Wow!  So, the Play button in Battles now does not just sit there doing nothing ... it's much better!!!  As it is loading the game, now it gives me "Server connection closed", very repeatable.  How did this version get through QA?

 

There's a joke from Weird Al, not approved by Putin:  An auditor goes to the factory and asks a random worker, "Could you do your job if you had one shot of vodka before work"?  The answer was "I suppose so ...".  Then he asked "How about if you had two shots of vodka"?  The worker said "I'm pretty sure, yes".  So, the auditor asked:  "Three shots?  Could you still do your job"?  The worker said "Well, I'm here aren't I"?

 

Tanki Testers, please explain how this got through without testing.  But, if it's just because you were drunk, I suppose that's OK.

[Druggers_suck_ass 1]

Combining battle lists causes great lag. Extremely difficult to join battles now.

[check_12 9]

And, I would like to reiterate an earlier post:  How about making small maps available to non-Pro battles?

[Guest Maserati]

First Thoughts

 

Initially, it looked like it would be chaos and just be a spammed chat - totally useless. And that it would also contain a lot of unnecessary comments in the sections, for example talking about XPBP in the Parkour Section.

 

Actual appearance

 

I don't know how the chat is during peak times for most players online at the same time, but I can clearly see the purpose of the chats tab is being used ineffectively and that even chat moderators cannot clean this mess - to be honest we all have lives, and the chat moderators shouldn't be forced to work excessively due to an update which in my eyes could've been played out better.

 

As you can see below, are chats of the tabs which are being used incorrectly and has no real benefit at all:

 

 

 

 

 

That is just my opinions on the merging of the chats and creating tabs. A real big downside of this update is the merging of servers, wouldn't this just cause more lags than there already are? (Not completely sure, but logically I guess it would). Nor, would I even like to see a huge battle list since, mainly I just play pro battles and would rather have non-pro battles out of my sight.

 

Back onto the chat again, you will see more spammers such as these: https://i.imgur.com/9x9WG8A.png (looks like the public dislike the update).

This isn't benefiting the game that much, but then again the update has only been around less than 24 hours. No one really can see if it is good or bad, in it's early stages.

 

In conclusion, it doesn't really look that beneficial, but then I am holding a subjective opinion against this update - being used to the old and comfortable version, it just doesn't feel right to me or many players. (Will be back after a week to give my full opinion on this update).

[i5-6500 26]

sometimes when i click Play i get server connetion closed 

 

edit: FIX IT I CANT DO MISSIONS  :(  :(  :angry:  :angry:

 

edit 2 : https://gyazo.com/bad640114dfb398fad5b8fdcbbc56866 u see  :angry:  :angry:  :angry:  :angry:

Edited October 12, 2017 by i5-6500

[r_Issimo2 1,495]

I have I think an average connection and i can tell you I had issues when clicking the Play button, sometimes work, sometimes it doesn't. Apart from that, no problems inside battles, I just played in Polygon and Deathtrack.

[GuidoFawkes 2,361]

instead of banning thepeople complaining about this update why not just direct them to the news section of the chat? That's what that section was made for, right?? no need to ban people for using the wrong section

[Domminion 25]

TO I get it! All those efforts to bring everyone together in unification bla bla bla, bollocks, etc.. Everything was done just to remove SMALL maps so that players that use Firebird/Wasp (Hornet) stop making easy points, missions, experience and supper missions.

 

Yes we bragged about it and we chatted out on the open how many super missions we have and how many crystals we will get right and then TO decided to end all that!!!!

 

FINE!!

 

Can you now make sure that missions rewards match the difficulty of achieving them.

 

Do you realise how long it will take now to make 9999 kills?! perhaps it will be 6 months LOL ...

 

After all there is a saying "When the fun stops - STOP!