Episode 250 of the V-LOG is live!

[theFiringHand 21,351]

Tankers!

In today’s episode, we’ll be talking about graphics optimization. We’ll also be reviewing the discount event for this weekend, and telling you about Hunter Ultra.

Check out V-LOG 250 right below!

 

Release
NEW Ultra container
Discount Weekend
Lockdown
Wannabe Youtuber Submissions
Question of the Week Submissions

[Viking4s 10,791]

P2W come to me baby.

There is no shred of strategy anymore.

The fun of playing with thunder is gone because it a coconut sling now.

Yeah! A new way to get more ugly paint.

Edited April 24, 2020 by Viking4s

[2shots2kills 2,367]

Alterations no longer for Crystals, but only from containers? Why don't you put MK upgrades in containers too? 

 

No wait I have a better idea, put every Turret and Hull in containers too! Leave only the same paints from 5+ years ago purchasable for crystals.

 

What a joke.

[Azonyx 124]

Instead of taking the time to actually balance Alterations with turrets, hulls, and modules, devs just throw it out the garage altogether and lock it behind a loot box wall.

What a genius and time-efficient solution. If nobody can reliably get LCR / RGC / Sledgehammer / Compact Tanks / etc, then it won't be a balance problem anymore!

[mjmj5558 2,346]

The game is getting worser and worser. The chance to get an alteration THAT YOU WANT from a container is equal to 0. (exept for buyers, their chance is 99,999999%)

Edited April 24, 2020 by mjmj5558

[Power_Mate 5]

Great way to balance the game indeed

[distroeryXXX 33]

What a joke, alterations for turrets availible only from containers? Are you devs dumb? Im gonna sit back and watch how this game dies

[Nicola_M 173]

So PTB (PonyTail Boy) said they noticed modules against Thunder and Rail were unbalancing the game, so they decided to bring in this stupid hull alteration crap and move all alterations out of the garage and made them only available through Ultra containers.....

 

Imagine you're a midrank player with not the best garage.  You're now cannon-fodder to everyone who's got those alts from containers.

Except now you mostly can't get them unless you either buy them, or are lucky enough to catch one in GB drops (good luck with that).

See where I'm going with this, Tanki devs?

 

Many players will just leave.

[ParkourPro_FX 2]

I honestly don’t like what they did with this, but I’m here to answer the question of the week. Where do you do that?

[ParkourPro_FX 2]

Nv about my question

[Nicola_M 173]

25 minutes ago, mjmj5558 said:

The game is getting worser and worser. The chance to get an alteration THAT YOU WANT from a container is equal to 0. (exept for buyers, their chance is 99,999999%)

You'd need to be a RICH buyer.  I bought 12 Ultras this morning and got common rewards.

Someone else bought 75 and got just THREE decent rewards.

[distroeryXXX 33]

I don't see hulls alterations in shop.

[Nicola_M 173]

Just now, distroeryXXX said:

I don't see hulls alterations in shop.

They won't be in the shop.  Watch the v-log.

It states CLEARLY that all alterations will ONLY be in Ultra containers, that you either have to buy, or catch.

[Azonyx 124]

One more thing about removing the ability to directly purchase Alts from garage - THERE IS EVEN LESS OPPORTUNITY TO DIVERSIFY GAMEPLAY.

With only 14 Turrets in the game from Recruit to Legend there are only so many ways to play the game for that long (and with major economic constraints on equipment upgrades). Alterations allow players to occupy niche roles, dominate in them, and subsequently return in search of that battle-high. That is what makes the game so enjoyable and replayable - even for Legends that create more RTL alts.

If you remove Alterations for direct purchase and put them behind pure astronomical luck, YOU ARE GOING TO KILL DIVERSITY - THE VERY THING YOU ARE TRYING TO ENCOURAGE. There is absolutely no logical reason I can think of to put Alterations behind containers other than to artificially raise their value. The Premium Alts for Vulcan and Gauss were already a dangerous step to take by paywalling them, but paywalling ALL current and future alts? That is a bridge too far.

Ok. Let's say even with the current situation there isn't much diversity in alts because everyone uses stuff like LCR railgun or RGC magnum anyway. It doesn't matter what you say, that is the PLAYERS' CHOICE. That is the whole reason behind the conception of Alterations - to enable PLAYER CHOICE to influence their style of gameplay.

If you must still say that there is a problem with players flocking to a particular alteration and ignoring another, that is NOT the players' fault, but an inherent fault with gameplay mechanics that cause said Alteration to be at an advantage a disproportional amount of time. And we know how many factors can affect this such as map cover, team composition, other alts, etc.

What I am ultimately seeing here is a patchwork solution to divide and cull populations of certain Alts over time, while making quick money by taking away and reselling such features. As was always the case. Good job Tanki.

Edited April 24, 2020 by Azonyx

[ParkourPro_FX 2]

Does anyone think the devs are going to change it back after they see all the criticism?

[2shots2kills 2,367]

2 minutes ago, ParkourPro_FX said:

Does anyone think the devs are going to change it back after they see all the criticism?

They won't. I have seen enough to know better.

 

 

[Nicola_M 173]

1 minute ago, ParkourPro_FX said:

Does anyone think the devs are going to change it back after they see all the criticism?

Nope.  Have they ever taken any notice of criticism on here?  MM a prime example.

[distroeryXXX 33]

1 minute ago, ParkourPro_FX said:

Does anyone think the devs are going to change it back after they see all the criticism?

No, they won't

[wolverine848 13,097]

16 minutes ago, Nicola_M said:

So PTB (PonyTail Boy) said they noticed modules against Thunder and Rail were unbalancing the game, so they decided to bring in this stupid hull alteration crap and move all alterations out of the garage and made them only available through Ultra containers....

The irony is... Thunder & Rail have nothing to do with the changes they are making. Absolutely nothing.

[Thomas11239 366]

Wait, do they really think we are dumb enough not to notice this is just a (desperate) try to make us buy and this is in no way beneficial for this game?

[Nicola_M 173]

The only way this has any hope of working is if the odds of winning an alteration from Ultra containers is if the randomness is done away with.

When you buy 12 containers and a quarter of them are Mines and the rest are common rewards, buyers like me won't ever buy them again.

It SHOULD be:  only ONE of each item in however many containers you buy. And INCREASE the chances of getting alterations in them.

 

Of course, free players are still screwed because they won't even be buying, and they'll need to be lucky to catch a container in GB drops.

Congratulations, I think you've just lost whatever player-base you had left after the last major rebalance mega-screwup.

 

 

 

Edited April 24, 2020 by Nicola_M

[The_Pakistani 16,768]

Cedric please Kiss the person who making these decisions from me.

Regards. 

[wolverine848 13,097]

3 minutes ago, Nicola_M said:

Congratulations, I think you've just lost whatever player-base you had left after the last major rebalance mega-screwup.

It does seem like the last gasping breath of the dying.  The desperation is palpable.  I'm retiring one account and may do so with the other.  It's just dumb.

[Nicola_M 173]

"The Pakistani/Hall of Famer has taken the Ultra Container box."

[The_Pakistani 16,768]

1 minute ago, Nicola_M said:

"The Pakistani/Hall of Famer has taken the Ultra Container box."

And got ares XT and gauss ultra from it.