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

[Xsader 37]

Tanki best moves are sideways like a crab, always sidestepping the real issues and complaints that their game playing community bring up.

How can they develop a game for the people if they ignore the people?

Devs know that this game is dying a quick death. It has surpassed its saturation point long ago and they are doing all these changes to extract as much money as they can in what little time they have left before nobody can be bothered with them anymore and leaves for pastures new. Shame, seeing as they had a good base 'gaming' model but their development inexperience has now left them and their investors greedy.

I appreciate that any game like this takes investment to build, maintain and improve it but whats the point in flogging a dead horse?

Devs have long ago killed the very essence of Tanki because of unchecked greed and/or incompetence and this death of tanki is blood on their own hands!

[paul16135 120]

Sometimes I log on and feel like half of my team need to be flushed more than once.

[Dumbledore6969 243]

@POWER-OF-ONE If you have any concerns about the warning, feel free to contact @Spy directly.

[POWER-OF-ONE 163]

I'm done.

As for the devs and you mods-------have a guess.

[paul16135 120]

I guessed and I agreed with it.

[paul16135 120]

One thing I've noticed is that players at epically high rank in the game seem to play like someone who has just signed up to it and doesn't know how it works yet due to inexperience.  

Why is this?
 

[Jeers4U 665]

On 9/24/2025 at 6:58 AM, paul16135 said:

Why is this?

Tanki's rapid progression 2025 reward system

All the advancement without any of the playing time.

Edited September 24 by Jeers4U

[Jeers4U 665]

But you know it's designed that way on purpose.  

Somehow money is involved but I can't connect the two behaviorally.

 

Edited September 29 by Jeers4U
seems like tanki makes everyone sad...

[paul16135 120]

Haven't been able to log in for a few days. Config error.

 

Logged in now, and it's so laggy that it's like I'm playing against people from 2021.

[Jeers4U 665]

On 10/6/2025 at 12:34 PM, paul16135 said:

Logged in now, and it's so laggy that it's like I'm playing against people from 2021.

Just wait until you start getting kicked out of almost every match around the 9 minute mark...

Or when you get that 'damage lag' that used to be exclusively a bot phenomenon--if it even registers as a hit at all...

Edited October 6 by Jeers4U

[paul16135 120]

On 10/6/2025 at 7:35 PM, Jeers4U said:

Just wait until you...

It's so bad at the moment I might just wait and return on black friday to refil on mines.  Because when I get booted I lose all the mines, the game at the moment just eats supplies if you get booted as it goes down as a massive waste.

[Jeers4U 665]

and again today.

9 minute mark and kicked out.

SO glad i don't spend money on this junk.

 

And what's with the spontaneous self-destruct of the magnums?

Is that a new programming gem or a happy little accident?

Edited October 7 by Jeers4U

[W4R 169]

Floating hulls and keyboard players.

 

It is impossible for me to play with any of the flying hulls since the update a while back on the controls. Previous to that, you could just about use them.   

My question is this :- Can you refund and take away those hulls from my garage, and I can not play mouse, or any touch screen malarkey.   I can never use them, and feel its a waste for the keyboard player, and we should be given the option to remove and compensate.

Thanks for you time.

PS Floating hulls are dominating the game now, and have totally changed the game, and not in a good way. 

[NikmanGT 4,362]

On 10/8/2025 at 9:48 PM, W4R said:

 

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There is a guaranteed 0% chance that Developers will ever revert the Hovers update, as they said, they only wish to progress further and removing a now-core component of the Game would be not possible.

Only Tanki Classic will give the pre-hover experience.

[Maf 32,300]

On 10/8/2025 at 8:46 PM, NikmanGT said:

There is a guaranteed 0% chance that Developers will ever revert the Hovers update

#re-old-hopper

[NikmanGT 4,362]

On 10/8/2025 at 11:26 PM, Maf said:

#re-old-hopper

Re-old hornet overdrive and hammer range

[Xsader 37]

On 10/8/2025 at 7:46 PM, NikmanGT said:

Post Moved

There is a guaranteed 0% chance that Developers will ever revert the Hovers update ....

There is a guaranteed 0% chance that Players will linger around for any substantial amount of time, should the Hovers remain in the game ...

[POWER-OF-ONE 163]

On 9/17/2025 at 7:53 AM, Xsader said:

How can they develop a game for the people if they ignore the people?

They are not developing a game for "the people", that is only an illusion.

 

On 9/17/2025 at 7:53 AM, Xsader said:

and this death of tanki is blood on their own hands!

Rather dramatic but I take your point. Only TO does not seem to be dying anytime soon, conditioned buyers with tunnel vision are keeping it alive.

 

On 10/9/2025 at 7:14 AM, Xsader said:

There is a guaranteed 0% chance that Players will linger around for any substantial amount of time, should the Hovers remain in the game

I really wish this were true-

BUT there are just to many conditioned players for this to happen.

How many crappy updates have they brought into the game with players complaining big time. How many of these players remain in the game, give them cash and just accept whatever crap the devs throw at them, I'd say it's about 90% of them, at the very least.   

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TO has been around for 16 years and with each passing year they have brought changes into the game that most players do not like.

They constantly introduce new OP gear into the game, usually with a price tag attached to it, then they nerf it and start over with another OP item. Do players leave, nope, why not, because TO is a part of their life/routine and to leave seems unbearable to them. 

This is called "conditioning" and the devs prey on these weak willed players who are only too willing to give them their cash.

Do I still play on a regular basis-yes, but I no longer play for 3/4 hrs a day, and back in the day it was considerably longer. I would say my actual "game time" is about 1 or2 hrs on a couple of chosen accounts that are still viable enough to count in battles. Why do I still play-because I'm good and enjoy what I do-camping nightmare right here. 

Am I conditioned to the point I spend (WASTE) cash on the game-no.

Do I participate in events-no. Except for the last war event (because I had spare tankoins/rubies and I felt it was worth it, surprisingly) I refuse to buy into their con. I won the war paint, which I will never use.

Do I buy battle passes-very rare occasions if I feel the account I am using is still worth it, and only if that account already has the required funds to do so.

Do I buy into the 1000 star challenge-only ever done it on two occasions. This challenge is way overpriced for what you get. Legendary key for level 20- whatever. Pile of useless, unwanted garbage. 10 rare keys, 10 energy and 5 epic instead of 3 and 100tk instead of the useless legendary, and reduce the price to 1,500 and I would probably buy into it more often.

TCSOTO=Glitchy, overpriced, same old, same old.

     

[paul16135 120]

Booted out of the game often.  Waste of supplies (mines) as they dont stay where I put them.

If I were to rate the game out of 10.  1 being the worst and 10 being the best.  I would avoid the rating system and present you with a bag of old turds.

[TrestleRider02 21]

I am likely going to curtail my play time with tanki.  I have been playing perhaps 15 years.  I usually play about 3 hours per week.

Just finished about 8 games, kd ratio about 10-60.  It never used to be this bad, ever.

I am tired of having fully upgraded turrets, double damage supply, fully upgraded booster drone, then score like 220 damage per shot using Shaft.

Meanwhile, half the tanks one shot me regularly.  Does not matter that I have all modules fully upgraded, double armor supply, fully upgraded defender drone.

I am tired of playing teams with unlimited over drives, where my shots cause little damage, and everyone of their tanks is easily lethal.

Its not a challenge because half the time the winning team is crushing us.

For the last year or so, on half the games, I give up on the goal and instead just try to kill a few tanks away from the main battle.

I do not know what the problem is, but I am tired of trying to figure it out.

[paul16135 120]

 

 

Edited Tuesday at 03:21 PM by paul16135

[Jeers4U 665]

On 10/14/2025 at 9:41 AM, TrestleRider02 said:

For the last year or so, on half the games, I give up on the goal and instead just try to kill a few tanks away from the main battle.

My ratio is leaving about 5-6 games vs playing one until the end.

 

*Note: This isn't including games that I get booted out of or else the ratio would be much, much higher.

Edited Tuesday at 09:15 PM by Jeers4U

[POWER-OF-ONE 163]

On 10/14/2025 at 2:41 PM, TrestleRider02 said:

I do not know what the problem is, but I am tired of trying to figure it out

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