What happend to Tanki? [READ]

[Nimit444 23]

Hi,

 

For those players playing since 2016, I request you not to post here (no offence, but it's a discussion among old players)

 

Alright, so what happend to Tanki Online? I am a 2012 player who has 5 accounts till date, and I recently came back after a 3 year long break to the game, 2 weeks ago. I noticed there is so many things that has been changed. Containers, Drones, Animated paints, the whole battle page fascia, etc, etc.

 

Next thing that I noticed was I barely had crystals, and upon playing battles for 4 hours straight I couldn't get more than 15k, alright no problem. I get my premium account for 30 days to get crystals quickly, yay problem solved! But I can't imagine the plight of non-buyers. Sure, buyers are exclusively treated but you are literally killing the non-buyers to an extent. I won't moan much about it and let's move on to the next phase.

 

Containers, Drones, Animated paints, the complex new battle page, etc etc. What has this game turned to? Are we soon going to have flying tanks as well? Since you must keep up with the future right?.

You shouldn't fix what is not broken. The good old Tanki was way better with only useful stuff and nothing complex that confuses the players even more who later regret purchasing this and that.

 

Challenges? Acceptable

 

The game is gone for a toss by the developers

 

Server issues:

The server literally lags everytime it's late EU timezone, why is this happening regularly? Why are developers not taking any step to fix it? Tanki makes so much money from us (buyers) and you guys probably have enough to fix such issues and my suggestion regarding teamspeak channel isn't even reviewed till now. I have seen games that doesn't even have offices, taking such server issues very seriously, so why is the case different for Tanki?. Everytime I enter a battle, it gives me "Error occured" message and the game is frozen. I have to restart the application through Steam to play. It happens almost like 8 to 10 times during a day. Now don't advice me about clearing cache or anything like that, because literally nothing works!!!!

 

Teasing us about something that is still work in progress and not released yet, take for an example (overdrives). Why are you so confident about something that is prone to be failed in the future?

 

There may be other major issues that I have forgotten to write about, and since I'm posting this topic on phone kindly spare me from any grammatical error and please be sensible when posting your comment.

 

Thanks

[Retaliate 503]

We have like 10 of these "What happen to tanki" Topics lmao

[banana1_idk 1]

all this stemmed from the 2017 m a t c h m a k i n g update (worst update in most players opinions).

Tanki Online has become more of a free to access, pay to play kind of game.

The devs put out things like these to make more money, but it's really just in the favor of buyers.

ex: you can only get containers from completing missions, or by paying upfront.

after this update (and many others), I've only seen about 2 thousand people playing on the US server.

("Is this the end, or the beginning?") - me

[Nimit444 23]

We have like 10 of these "What happen to tanki" Topics lmao

This actually shows current state of the game. Game was even more popular in its heyday.

[Initiate 1,306]

What has this game turned to? Are we soon going to have flying tanks as well?

Yes, I know I am a new player, but did you watch this weeks V-LOG? They just released an announcement (April Fools day joke) about a flying Mammoth.

[SporkZilla 1,775]

Next thing that I noticed was I barely had crystals, and upon playing battles for 4 hours straight I couldn't get more than 15k, alright no problem. I get my premium account for 30 days to get crystals quickly, yay problem solved! But I can't imagine the plight of non-buyers. Sure, buyers are exclusively treated but you are literally killing the non-buyers to an extent.

I've only been playing for just over a year, but I'm hardly short of crystals. This account has over 600K, my first account has almost 700K, and my WO4 with only 90 hours on it has almost 600K. My newest account is about to rank up to WO2 after 50 hours and has 120K (and Smoky M1/10) and that's a good illustration of how over-generous it used to be for the older accounts, but that account is hardly impoverished. Earned crystals on those accounts (I've only got four) range from just 50K to just under 150K.

 

Containers are the main income source now, and that's where non-buyers have been hurt because people who buy premium and battle passes for every challenge can earn a lot more of them. Buyers can also buy product kits two ranks earlier than non-buyers (three ranks earlier for Keeper), which is awful.

[lukey0 27,543]

all this stemmed from the 2017 m a t c h m a k i n g update (worst update in most players opinions).

Only since smart cooldowns in 2014

[Dliver 436]

What has happened is that Pony Tail Boy and the Devs completely ignored the community and ignore what made the game originally successful. They forgot the K.I.S.S. principle. People loved the simplified combat system (and I emphasize simplified combat system)   combined with rich content ( ie. a diverse number of maps combined with dynamic game play which rewarded skill and intellegence ). Pony Tail Boy and the Devs have over-complicated things to the point that they've taken the fun out of the game. Also they embarked on a greedy search for money by adding unnecessary gimmicks to the game. Lastly they have adhered to the mistaken belief that things that are complicated are innovative. They have, instead, killed the goose that laid the golden eggs.

Edited April 2, 2019 by Dliver

[X_Death.By.Me_X 1,503]

What has happened is that Pony Tail Boy and the Devs completely ignored the community and ignore what made the game originally successful. They forgot the K.I.S.S. principle. People loved the simplified combat system (and I emphasize simplified combat system)   combined with rich content ( ie. a diverse number of maps combined with dynamic game play which rewarded skill and intellegence ). Pony Tail Boy and the Devs have over-complicated things to the point that they've taken the fun out of the game. Also they embarked on a greedy search for money by adding unnecessary gimmicks to the game. Lastly they have adhered to the mistaken belief that things that are complicated are innovative. They have, instead, killed the goose that laid the golden eggs.

That is so true man. I remember the first livestream that was done by cedric and the pony tail boy. The pony tail boy was literally on about the various games that he had played, and the livestream chat didn't want to hear it and neither did I. "nobody cares about the games you have played" was what everyone was saying. And this was around 2016, so the game was still somewhat fine. Fast forward 3 years later, and look at the condition of the game right now.

 

TO has literally COPIED all mainstream games, battle pass, fancy matchmaking, fast paced games, skin bundles, more skins every update, weird new mechanics.

 

Pony tail NEVER actually played the game, he didn't know why it was so special. The custom battles, Noise, rio, polygon ctfs, everything, no he had no idea.

There was huge disconnect between players and developers.

[Michael828 816]

In my opinion it's better now than before in preventing all the hacking and exploits, and it's also considerably easier for non-buyers to earn crystals by completing missions and opening containers.

 

BUT I also find it to be significantly less enjoyable than before, to the point where playing it has often become more stressful than fun. Finding motivation is becoming more difficult for me in general.

 

Still, I'm always hoping for the game to keep improving regardless of any mistakes made in the past.

[Tanker-Arthur 2,971]

On 4/1/2019 at 8:32 PM, Nimit444 said:

Containers, Drones, Animated paints, the complex new battle page, etc etc. What has this game turned to? Are we soon going to have flying tanks as well? Since you must keep up with the future right?.

 

Delete Drones and delete the flying tanks. I hate them.

Actually, delete the flying tanks. If possible, the drones should undergo a major rebalance to achieve the following things:

• Drones should be balanced with one another. No drone should be superior to another drone.
• ALL Drones should be easily obtainable by ALL players. Not just buyers.
• Delete batteries. It's too buyer-friendly.
• Delete the "extra supplies consumed" feature for some drones. It's too buyer-friendly.

Otherwise, I love containers and animated paints.

Containers are by far one of the best things the developers ever added, as it allows free to play players the chance to obtain things that were once buyer only, such as Premium Accounts, Special Skins, as well as paints that were shop-only. Not to mention massive amounts of supplies and crystals.

 

Animated Paints are great as they're flashy and they provide greater variety to the selection of paints. They don't even affect anything much in battles so I have no idea why anyone should be annoyed by these.

On 4/1/2019 at 8:32 PM, Nimit444 said:

Challenges? Acceptable

No they weren't. Challenges nerfed the weekly mission rewards by a ton. Weekly missions were a major source of crystals and supplies for the more casual players.
Challenges however, were super hard to complete.......you had to have no life and grind for hours a day just to complete them.

 

This was the reason why I left in 2019. I had no time to play to earn enough rewards to upgrade my equipment.

Luckily, the developers fixed this issue in October 2020 :D

I'm just disappointed that it took them 20 months to realize their mistake.

 

 

[juodsnukis 54]

He predicted flying tanks, pogchamp 

[thunderhunter123 741]

Tanki went from Flash into HTML5. We got new implementations like the hovering Hulls, new Augments, new Maps, ...

Even though many tankers don't like these updates, they will eventually be changed and updated to everyone's likings.

 

We just need to continue giving our honest feedback so developers can work off of it.

Furthermore, posting your comments and feedback on Tanki V-Logs is also a good way for it to be seen. (The latest v-log today showed developers looking at peoples' comments and giving their responses.)

[Tokamak 1,021]

4 minutes ago, Adriel.RB said:

i still wonder what happened to tanki

Yeah me too, where did the good old frumpy tanki go?

A Hovering Tanker photographed off Cornish coast by walker!

Edited March 5, 2021 by Tokamak

[FrozenRailgun 1,771]

On 2/26/2021 at 1:27 AM, Tanker-Arthur said:

• Drones should be balanced with one another. No drone should be superior to another drone.
• ALL Drones should be easily obtainable by ALL players. Not just buyers.
• Delete batteries. It's too buyer-friendly.
• Delete the "extra supplies consumed" feature for some drones. It's too buyer-friendly.

Yes.

On 2/26/2021 at 1:27 AM, Tanker-Arthur said:

Actually, delete the flying tanks.

I don't mind Hopper's OD except it shouldn't have burn 'n stun when jumping.

[mjmj5558 2,346]

On 4/2/2019 at 2:32 AM, Nimit444 said:

Are we soon going to have flying tanks as well? Since you must keep up with the future right?.

Don't worry, we already have them.

On 4/2/2019 at 2:32 AM, Nimit444 said:

Everytime I enter a battle, it gives me "Error occured" message and the game is frozen. I have to restart the application through Steam to play. It happens almost like 8 to 10 times during a day. Now don't advice me about clearing cache or anything like that, because literally nothing works!!!!

It's because steam still has the flash version. Try to download the client or play via a web browser.

[Tanker-Arthur 2,971]

Just now, FrozenRailgun said:

I don't mind Hopper's OD except it shouldn't have burn 'n stun when jumping.

Yeah they definitely need to remove those effects.


I guess the developers thought that jumping several stories high (while able to maneuver through the air as if you're superman) and easily farming 1000 crystals whenever Golds drop isn't "Godmode" enough XD

[alkyng 3,080]

I think this player left the game again, so close the topic!