The game before 2013 Re-Balance

[alkyng 3,080]

Hi guys.. a lot of balance updates comes from time to time, but there is a one huge Re-balance happened in 2013 (last days in 2012 precisely)changed the game completely

Reach the game to be named as Tanki 2.0 after Re-balance. IMO, this is the biggest change happened in Tanki ever, #second is the graphics update (you can see my topic) and if I want to write the third one I will consider the HTML5..

ok guys the topic is just for discussing and information, I don't want to write it in Amateur Writing cuz I don't want it as an officially topic, I think it's better for discussions and sharing memories with each other...

In the past we just have a 9 turrets Smoky Firebird Twins Isida Railgun Thunder Freeze Ricochet Shaft --- Wasp Hunter Titan Dictator Hornet Viking Mammoth. Arranged in a row, and every turret/hull is weaker than the front of him

In the beginning you start with Wasp - Smoky M0.. You can upgrade them to M1 after a few ranks and you can get them M3 even before WO1.. some turrets and hulls be available on higher ranks like Shaft probably WO2.. Thunder open in WO1 with 500 crystals.. you can upgrade smoky into M3 with 500 crystals, so as the Smoky is very weak turret and is for newbies so M3 Smoky maybe weaker than M0 Thunder in that time... Oh guys maybe I have to bring some pictures to not make the topic more boring

In the past Hornet M0 was more better than M3 Wasp... Hornet maybe was available from  for M0 (don't give the picture care)

In the past I was play with Wasp M3 - Smoky M3 in WO2 

Important note: one update came after the rebalance have multiply all crystals in the game by X10, so everything you have to multiply it by 10 (Battle funds, item prices, crystals drops, Goldboxes etc...)

In the past Titan + Twins in low ranks was dominating. most players play with it.. In polygon DM (and for sure I was one of them)

In the past there wasn't a notification before the gold dropped.. but most times the gold drop when battle fund comes to 700 and its multiplies like 1400 - 2100 etc..

so maybe you notice if you watch some old videos, the players waitin the gold when battle fund is on 700 multiplies

before the rebalance last rank was Marshal with exactly 1,000,000 experience (I think it should to be like this until now)

When the Re-balance comes.. for the first (and last) time everyone get his crystals restored and the Garage back to 0 .. some guys were too hurry and spent their crystals without wise thinking (I was a one of them) I remember I got 10K crystals (100,000 now) when I was on WO4 and I hurried to upgrade Rico M1, without knowing anything about the changes..

As every turret is stronger than the one before.   in high ranks (Thunder - Rico - Freeze - Shaft --- Viking - Mammoth) are dominated.. playing with Twins in example in these ranks means you're noob

In the past was the highest rank.. so if you reach this rank you can buy anything or upgrade anything you want... so any rank after this is just a number

In the past WO3s was able to play with Marshals (oh I remember when I joint in match with marshals) and after I killed one I thought ooh I did a great job, I said I killed highest rank OMG

The numbers was very basic in the past Like M3 Mammoth hp was 200 Viking 150 Titan-Dict 120 Hornet 100 Hunter 90 Wasp 65 -- I think it's clear how the imbalance was here, M3 Mammoth was faster than Titan and higher hp.. but the difference in prices and ranks were a lot.. we all in the past was accustomed with this without didn't think about that ever

My favorite turret was Thunder --- meaningless info

I think if you read this topic and that you will know exactly how tanki were in 2012

There wasn't a thing named as XP/BP

Upgrades didn't change your tank look... but wait this was just in 2009, not 2012

Rank ups didn't give you a crystals or a cool notification like now

the shop was very basic. you couldn't buy anything from Shop than crystals, so you just have to select the amount of crystals you want and the price will appear and you pay (spent much time just to find this picture)

No product kits in that time

In that time the game was very simple you just have to choose your tank and turret/paint and play with supplies.. No MU's No Drones No Augments nothing

In the past you can use all of your supplies in once, so everyone after he start just spamming 2,3,4 and goo, the cooldown is just for the supply itself, didn't affect on the others

Note guys not every update I talk about is must to be related with the 2013 Re-balance some of them come after that maybe with more than a year.. and for sure here I wont talk about the very new things like MM or drones or augments -- as they haven't cross the old days .. also we already are discussing about them now in every topic so it's meaningless to put my opinion in this topic

One day Viking were the strongest tank in pushing (not very old maybe 2014) but this is just a normal thing and from time to time it changed, like one day it transferred to Titan (so I used this tank a lot on my old account) and nowadays I think this place is for Dictator

Viking was the most popular tank, and Viking-Rico or Mammoth-Rico was very popular in high rank (WO5 or more)

MU's update in its beta concept was depend on luck.. how? In every time you click to upgrade you have a percentage of the upgrade to come or not, and everytime you go in higher upgrade it will be harder to win the upgrade .. In test server I tried to upgrade my turrets.. I failed to upgrade even a one turret, as everytime I go further it comes harder (maybe spent more than 15 minutes trying to reach last upgrade but couldn't) luckily when they put it to the normal server they left their first horrible concept

Okay guys I spent a lot of time writing - I have a lot to write but don't want to make the topic longer also not make you get bored... there are a lot of things to talk and whatever I try to cover everything I can't 

Hacks was very popular in 2012, they were extremely OP, the game was a vulnerable against them... there was infinity shoot hack, fly hack, invisibility hack, cross into buildings hack (that hack can shoot the players but they can't hit him cuz he is immune with the building

For sure glitches were more common and strange glitches happens in that days

Freeze was very cold

Firebird didn't heat the enemies

Firebird was a weak turret even Freeze M0 was stronger than M3 Firebird... But Firebird M3 design was extremely awesome you can back to Graphics topic

but after that in the big re-balance Freeze get a real nerf and Firebird get a real buff... but tbh this didn't consider as buffs or nerfs, cuz the game converted completely into another game not just a small balance nerfs and buffs

Edited November 22, 2020 by asem.harbi
horrible grammarly mistakes

[alkyng 3,080]

This post will be just for new information and updates, to not make you read the topic again to see where the new point.

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Hornet was the fastest hull, after that Dictator, Hornet =10 speed, Dict=8. it was very nice and hot, even M0 were Awesome _{(click in picture to wide)}

First one I knew in Tanki was approximately Kasim, when I was watching Russian vlogs with awkwardly auto translate

Before re-balance, Twins-Titan M0, was very common in newbie ranks in Polygon DM.. and I didn't hide for you that I was one of them

Warrant Officers weren't newbie ranks, but in contradicta they was the highest ranks, common thing to see M3 garages in that ranks

WO3 were able to fight Marshals (highest rank in the past)

In 2009 there wasn't any graphical updates when you upgrade the turret, so M0 and M3 looks the same. I don't know when this have changed (as I wasn't play in that time) but I think before the game get stable and more popular

Edited January 16, 2021 by asem.harbi
this reply is just for future edits and new points

[Son_Goku 514]

On 11/17/2020 at 8:29 PM, asem.harbi said:

There wasn't a thing named as XP/BP

Of course there was! You couldn't choose it as a mode when creating battles, but I remember players calling their battles XP-K or something similar (the K meant without protection), so people who thought about joining knew that it's for XP/BP. I started playing XP/BP before the Re-Balance and it sure was less toxic than nowadays

Edited November 21, 2020 by Son_Goku

[E_polypterus 2,374]

On 11/18/2020 at 12:59 AM, asem.harbi said:

but after that in the big re-balance Freeze get a real nerf and Firebird get a real buff

Mhm, I’m still sad about that, the buff for Firebird, that’s way too much afterburn time... doubled

Freeze got its real nerf last year though, not from the rebalance.

 

But nice topic anyway  : D 

Edited November 21, 2020 by E_polypterus

[LONDON.ENGLAND 302]

Nice post. My first account @Hungry.Hungry.Hippo Was pre-rebalance. Like all new players I had spent all my crystals buying anything and everything so I actually welcomed the garage reset and Crystal refund 

[alkyng 3,080]

2 hours ago, E_polypterus said:

Mhm, I’m still sad about that, the buff for Firebird, that’s way too much afterburn time... doubled

Freeze got its real nerf last year though, not from the rebalance.

But nice topic anyway  : D 

Yes, that was horrible.. Freeze was one of the top 3 turret in the game.. was very strong very popular and funny

but tbh, there was no comparison between them two before re-balance

I will design two pictures to comparison now

https://prnt.sc/vn9ysr

tbh, I thought the difference would be way more wider.. but still Freeze have an advantage in Freezing (and it was very cold) slowing your tank way more than now.. but it get a big nerf with the Re-balance

Edited November 21, 2020 by asem.harbi
there was problem in picture

[alkyng 3,080]

8 hours ago, Son_Goku said:

Of course there was! You couldn't choose it as a mode when creating battles, but I remember players calling their battles XP-K or something similar (the K meant without protection), so people who thought about joining knew that it's for XP/BP. I started playing XP/BP before the Re-Balance and it sure was less toxic than nowadays

Oh I thought it came in 2015

1 hour ago, LONDON.ENGLAND said:

Nice post. My first account @Hungry.Hungry.Hippo Was pre-rebalance. Like all new players I had spent all my crystals buying anything and everything so I actually welcomed the garage reset and Crystal refund 

exactly what happened with me.. I remember I bought some tanks and rico m1, and Storm... without any thinking or cares, also with my old thoughts that in example Hornet m0 was better than Wasp m3, so I bought randomly lol

Btw, guys, don't forget to check my second reply for updates

Edited November 21, 2020 by asem.harbi