What Is Your Opinion About the Current State of Tanki Online?

[mjmj5558 2,346]

9 hours ago, TheCongoSpider said:

What do you guys think about Smoky in its current state, now that Autocannon has been nerfed and we're 5 months into the balance changes after the critical hit update? 

I think it's balanced as it is. 

[E_polypterus 2,374]

 i knew this topic would be pinned : )

[NooNooHead 121]

23 hours ago, TheCongoSpider said:

What do you guys think about Smoky in its current state, now that Autocannon has been nerfed and we're 5 months into the balance changes after the critical hit update? 

Hi Congo Spider. Do you like to chit chat in a battle? I tried to engage you a few times. Now, back to the topic. I only use adrenaline with smoky and it is alright. Tanki is not balanced in many ways and I don't think changing smoky or critical hits will fix many things. Smoky still lacks the punch to finish off somebody quickly so if you're playing for kills, pick something else. As with all turrets, pick one that has the least resistance on the enemy side and you will move your score up a notch. Use any turret with booster and you can conceal a lot of weaknesses. But I guess you already know that.

[PirateSpider 1,489]

Got another disgusting top 3 in winners team weekly mission on this account. 3rd time in a row now.

[Frylock 1,617]

when Alternativa Games is similar to Activision. 

XD 

Edited August 24, 2021 by MysticBlood

[yellowghetto 3,206]

On 8/22/2021 at 4:29 AM, E_polypterus said:

 i knew this topic would be pinned : )

:-)

 

Edit: Tbh, I was a bit surprised.

Edited August 24, 2021 by yellowghetto

[TheCongoSpider 8,952]

I think it's worth noting that yesterday, the EXP gained from Dictator's Overdrive was 20 (It was 60 for the longest time, as far as I've been aware). After the Ultra Weekend started, it's now back to 60. Why do they keep making these silent changes. 

[Tanker-Arthur 2,971]

On 8/21/2021 at 7:01 PM, TheCongoSpider said:

What do you guys think about Smoky in its current state, now that Autocannon has been nerfed and we're 5 months into the balance changes after the critical hit update? 

I think the game is too messed up now and they should revert everything they did from 2019-2021 with the exception of the Vulcan rework.

[TheCongoSpider 8,952]

On 8/22/2021 at 6:57 PM, NooNooHead said:

Hi Congo Spider. Do you like to chit chat in a battle? I tried to engage you a few times. 

I play on TO Mobile, so I can't see the chat. 

[TheCongoSpider 8,952]

Just over an hour ago, I got my 5th Driver to 20/20. 

 

 

 

I was excited to see what changes they were going to make to drones, dearly hoping it would be a nerf to Defender and Booster. Maybe even a Driver buff. Oh how to my surprise, they attempt to justify this poor excuse of a drone by reducing its price and unlock rank. 

 

The era of Driver is over. 

[DestrotankAI9 1,513]

On 8/27/2021 at 10:22 AM, TheCongoSpider said:

I think it's worth noting that yesterday, the EXP gained from Dictator's Overdrive was 20 (It was 60 for the longest time, as far as I've been aware). After the Ultra Weekend started, it's now back to 60. Why do they keep making these silent changes. 

Dictator's overdrive gives EXP? Or do you mean score? I haven't been playing lately so haven't been around to see any such changes personally.

 

On 8/27/2021 at 2:29 PM, TheCongoSpider said:

Just over an hour ago, I got my 5th Driver to 20/20. 

 

 

 

I was excited to see what changes they were going to make to drones, dearly hoping it would be a nerf to Defender and Booster. Maybe even a Driver buff. Oh how to my surprise, they attempt to justify this poor excuse of a drone by reducing its price and unlock rank. 

 

The era of Driver is over. 

Also and yes, what they have done to Driver is sad :(. Instead of buffing Driver after the unreasonable nerf, they have decided to comfirm it's now trash tier strength by making it a low level and cheap drone.

 

Why they decided to wreck a good and viable drone I don't know - perhaps because they are trying to clamp down on "additional score" and some free players were doing OK with Dictator and Driver perhaps? Also maybe because Driver doesn't consume additional supplies but was a good drone, which they maybe didn't like. But none of those are good reasons to nerf it, it was far from OP and a viable and interesting drone.

[TheCongoSpider 8,952]

17 minutes ago, DestrotankAI9 said:

Dictator's overdrive gives EXP? Or do you mean score? 

I mean EXP. It's believed to have been implemented with the Patch on May 14th. And as you would guess, it was not mentioned in any Patch Note. 

 

Here's a video of me ranking with it. 

 

 

[FrozenRailgun 1,771]

On 8/27/2021 at 9:29 AM, TheCongoSpider said:

a drone by reducing its price and unlock rank. 

W8 what??!! 

[DestrotankAI9 1,513]

22 minutes ago, TheCongoSpider said:

I mean EXP. It's believed to have been implemented with the Patch on May 14th. And as you would guess, it was not mentioned in any Patch Note. 

 

Here's a video of me ranking with it. 

 

 

What ze flip? Okay, another case of very significant stealth changes then...

 

I understand why they might want to give Dictator's overdrive an Exp value to stop Dictator/Mechanic efficiency bots, or players trying to mult with just using free score items and making no contribution to the battle in low ranks - but I think 20 EXP would be enough, no need to increase to 60. Also, no need for such changes to be made by stealth.

[TheCongoSpider 8,952]

I think it's worth noting that once again, the EXP given for Dictator's Overdrive has been decreased to 20.

[wolverine848 13,097]

So played about 10 battles or so the other day - I'll wait for Congo to recover from shock - 

one of the main reasons there might be some players without drones is that I was playing against Majors and Lt. Colonels.  A spread of 10 or even 11 ranks.  LOL.  MatchMaker is just as dumb as it was when I stopped playing 2 months ago.
 

[Tanker-Arthur 2,971]

This game in a nutshell:

Spoiler

 

[PirateSpider 1,489]

1 hour ago, wolverine848 said:

So played about 10 battles or so the other day - I'll wait for Congo to recover from shock - 

one of the main reasons there might be some players without drones is that I was playing against Majors and Lt. Colonels.  A spread of 10 or even 11 ranks.  LOL.  MatchMaker is just as dumb as it was when I stopped playing 2 months ago.
 

Was the lowest GS around 4200 and the highest 9999?

 

I see that quite a bit on my main, so I'm wondering if you have seen that as well.

[wolverine848 13,097]

1 hour ago, PirateSpider said:

Was the lowest GS around 4200 and the highest 9999?

 

I see that quite a bit on my main, so I'm wondering if you have seen that as well.

I think there was even a 3500 GS.  It was ... pathetic.  And this was 4 hours before server re-set.  Not just before or just after.

[PirateSpider 1,489]

2 minutes ago, wolverine848 said:

I think there was even a 3500 GS.  It was ... pathetic.  And this was 4 hours before server re-set.  Not just before or just after.

I'm gonna round 9999 to 10,000 cuz I'm just lazy.

 

Anyway that means the difference between the lowest GS player and the highest GS player is 6500. I also found an even worse battle. I was on my main that had 9.3k GS at general rank and was in a battle that had a WO4 player and a legend rank player in it. The legend had 10,000 GS while the WO4 only had 1400 GS.

That was a 16-17 rank gap and a 8600 GS gap. Mega OOF.

[wolverine848 13,097]

Just now, PirateSpider said:

I'm gonna round 9999 to 10,000 cuz I'm just lazy.

 

Anyway that means the difference between the lowest GS player and the highest GS player is 6500. I also found an even worse battle. I was on my main that had 9.3k GS at general rank and was in a battle that had a WO4 player and a legend rank player in it. The legend had 10,000 GS while the WO4 only had 1400 GS.

That was a 16-17 rank gap and a 8600 GS gap. Mega OOF.

Just finished a TDM and there was a 2900.  It is just stupid.

Playing some battles to get Congo off my back - now the "you need to play the game" card is obsolete.

The game is just as bad as when I stopped playing.  Probably will not play anymore after this.  Really don't miss the game at all.

[PirateSpider 1,489]

7 hours ago, Tanker-Arthur said:

This game in a nutshell:

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Game: deploys money making strategies to benefit as much as they can.

Wallets: suffers and often dies from fatal wounds.

[Russty 368]

I've not played since last summer, and to me, things look so new and different. If I returned to the game, I'm not sure if I could even survive haha.

[TheCongoSpider 8,952]

Feels a bit weird that Thunder is also receiving a nerf. Anyway, here are some interaction changes that will occur after the nerf:

 

Stock

• Will no longer be able to oneshot unprotected medium hulls with Viking OD + DD (-) 

 

Small Calibre Charging Machine

• Will no longer be able to oneshot unprotected medium hulls with Viking's Overdrive (-) 
• The critical hits during Viking's Overdrive will continue to be able to oneshot unprotected medium hulls (+) 
• Will now need 4 shots to kill an unprotected heavy hull instead of 3 (-) 

 

Sledgehammer Rounds

• Will no longer be able to oneshot unprotected medium hulls with Viking's Overdrive (-) 
• Range at which it 2-shots unprotected medium hulls is halved (-) 

 

Adrenaline

• Will no longer be able to oneshot unprotected light hulls (-) 
• Will be able to oneshot unprotected medium hulls with Viking’s Overdrive when significantly injured (+) 

 

Subcalibre Rounds

• Will no longer be able to oneshot unprotected medium hulls with Viking's Overdrive (-) 

[Tanker-Arthur 2,971]

On 8/3/2021 at 6:47 PM, Crossbone said:

@Maf, I think the "1 idea = 1 topic" rule is too strict. It needs to include some exceptions. Like if the ideas are relevant to the topic.

 

YES

Bruh, the reason why topics such as "Nerf Viking's Overdrive" get so much backlash is because we aren't allowed to include other ideas to go along with it, like ideas to nerf other hull overdrives so that the Viking nerf feels more balanced. 

 

So if we just say we want Viking's OD nerfed, people will hate on the idea because we aren't allowed to post the bigger idea for our idea, in which we want multiple different overdrives nerfed. So the haters think we want to ruin their favorite hull but in reality, we just aren't allowed to post a topic saying "We want the following overdrives to have these nerfs" or something like that. They always get declined and we have to make a topic for each nerf, and some people don't bother to read all of our topics.

 

Just using ODs as an example to explain it by the way.