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[Tanker-Arthur 2,971]

Just now, Bydo said:

what happened to the .. Game event .. normally we have it every Jan earlier part.. will we be even getting one this round ?

The GAME already happened last year, in October.

I have no idea why the developers decided to make it take place extremely early.
2020 ended up having two GAMEs; one in February and one in October lol.

[ghost-guns 1,486]

Always quit the game if these things happen:

1. It is 6 vs 8 (or worse)

2. There are two or even THREE 9999 players on one team.

Both are evidence of a broken matchmaking system...

[Sacrifice 2,278]

10 minutes ago, ghost-guns said:

Always quit the game if these things happen:

1. It is 6 vs 8 (or worse)

2. There are two or even THREE 9999 players on one team.

Both are evidence of a broken matchmaking system...

Has been reported multiple times and I can understand your frustration. I have a GS of 7.5k and whenever I try to play, I get ridiculed around by players with a higher GS. Hopefully something is under development to deal with this.

[Bydo 20,130]

22 hours ago, Tanker-Arthur said:

The GAME already happened last year, in October.

I have no idea why the developers decided to make it take place extremely early.
2020 ended up having two GAMEs; one in February and one in October lol.

we normally have it twice a year.when I started. and it was in Jan and I think July or Aug .. not sure why we don't have it yet

[Tanker-Arthur 2,971]

Just now, Bydo said:

we normally have it twice a year.when I started. and it was in Jan and I think July or Aug .. not sure why we don't have it yet

Ohhhhhh, gotcha.

Lol, I only paid attention to the 2018-2020 games XD

[OUTAMYWAY 48]

On 1/19/2021 at 11:17 AM, Spy said:

I do agree that this is a very annoying situation to deal with, but I am sure your team could kill this guy using shaft or railgun from far away.

Unfortunately no, not realistically.

I have tested this out using my shaft here is a diagram of the map. the red spot is where the hopper was, in our spawning half. the green spots are at roughly about the minimum distances where the elevation angle is great enough to hit the roofs. This is not guaranteed however as Tanki still has a big issue with roof hitboxes/roof textures (see my Jan 9 post).

 It would be practically impossible to get into position, wind up and take him out in this Juggernaut match, given I have 7 enemy players and a tank that can one-shot 2/3 of all hulls at my back. Changing hulls and going after him isn't really viable as I would need 4 minutes for the 2 overdrives needed to get up there, all while I hope I am not noticed and destroyed. Neither is reinforced gun carriage particularly helpful as  the hopper now has better visibility and manoeuvrability.

Do you have any other suggestions? 

Edited January 20, 2021 by OUTAMYWAY

[OUTAMYWAY 48]

On 1/19/2021 at 6:52 AM, Emil said:

Feel free to share your suggestions in the Ideas & Suggestions Section.

Do you have any suggestions which sub section is appropriate? I have 2 separate issues about terrain features (buildings in both cases), that i want to suggest fixes for but none of the topics seem appropriate.

[Risk 1,249]

5 hours ago, OUTAMYWAY said:

Do you have any suggestions which sub section is appropriate? I have 2 separate issues about terrain features (buildings in both cases), that i want to suggest fixes for but none of the topics seem appropriate.

Your suggestion is appropirate in Ideas for Matchmaking (regarding the suggestion I quoted you about it), anyway, If you have any question related to Ideas and Suggestions topic so feel free to contact one of the Section Curators.

[SONIC-BOOM 326]

2 hours ago, OUTAMYWAY said:

Do you have any suggestions which sub section is appropriate? I have 2 separate issues about terrain features (buildings in both cases), that i want to suggest fixes for but none of the topics seem appropriate.

The devs will fix the buildings....1 map at a time.....for cash of course.

This is MM, were a flying hack can dominate without anyone being able to take him out.

The devs will do nothing about either of your problems, because there is no cash incentive for them to do so.

Look at the complete mess of TO, how many fixes have to be made in order for it to have a semblance of balance.

The list is just to great to mention them all, and will never happen for a multitude of reasons, the main one as always is the CASH involved.

The devs have no scruples, only very, very deep pockets.  

[yasgfgfffgf 282]

On 1/9/2021 at 11:42 AM, asem.harbi said:

This boosted xp ruined the game in balance and in everything, first it's x3 on xp, x2 on crystals, so you rank faster. 

First it ruined the concept of the game, so maybe new players understand the game wrongly, it's a long story not just a rush ranking, we all get tired while ranking to General-Simmo.

Second it's directly against free players, slow ranking is strongly benefit the non-buyers. First you play more events while in the same rank, Finishing more mission and challenges, collecting more gold boxes. But while you ranking really fast you didn't play much events, maybe even you rank two new ranks without an event. It should to be x3 xp and x6 crystals not the opposite, because you play less event and finishing less missions, but what they did, not even at least equaled the xp with crystals, but they reduced the crystals more. So it's directly against the benefit for non-buyers in two sides.

Also for the game in general either buyers- or non-buyers, everyone should rank up slowly, this is what the game used to be, and this experience will give the new players a miss-concept of the game.

also it isnt realy fair to al those players of who it took years to get the high rank. now you can get easy 500xp in one MM battle. in my old days even before isida lost it vampire effect it would take at least  30 min or an hour. also x3 on XP and x2 on CRY while we now have to invest in drones (wich didn't exist), modules (who were first togehter with paints), augments (wich didnt exist) doesnt make sense. it should be the way around 

[Noslide 9]

It sucks that you only have 2 options: Wait 5 minutes to get into fair match or be cannon fodder to legends with 4k more cp and 700k more xp then you. But yeah, from full servers to 9k players online now online in 2021 it's just sad.

Hoppers ruined the game in the old days, now they ruin the game because they exist. Might aswell just add a teleporting hull to the garage.

You can't expect everyone just hand out money to you, you need more players and the gap between buyers and xp players is too big. Why would anyone throw money to a bottomless pit just to keep tanki entertaining? No one. Especially new players.

Trying to milk money through nostalgia;  Most who played pre-rebalance is not going to pay 50 euros for a legacy skin, because it was free.

Changing silence, and adding new turrets like magnum that ruined community favorite maps won't bring you new players nor bring the old ones back.

Removing chat from lobby is boring.

Making immunities for guns is stupid. Why play firebird when you can set everyone on fire with that minigun idc even what's it called. No-one buys fire immunity because of firebird, and just handing everyone freeze immunity makes playing freeze stupid. Freeze used to be the thing everyone wanted, that you unlocked at warrant officer 2 or something. I rarely see anyone play with freeze anymore. You used to play this game for fun, now you grind this game to unlock immunities so that you can maybe have fun in the future.

 

Just some general reasons why i think tanki died over the years. No-one played for max rank, you got there as you had fun playing the game A LOT. Why even bother with custom battles when you can score 4k crystals and that doen't count as crystals earned in CTF when doing challenges? For fun? When you wanna play noise but everyone spams magnum? The game is more imbalanced now then it was back in 2011.

[Bydo 20,130]

not sure what is happening with the battles now.

been in this one and it seemed to be only a few players playing on red the rest were hiding in garage or on pause. even some of the blue were not on.. when i took photo it was at the end of the battle so most were gone by the time it was photoed ..

its either were having low gear scores battling with higher ones. or players in battles but not playing..

[alkyng 3,080]

I hate and wonder why V and R keys didn't work anymore, what's the sucks less information we play in. GS isn't a viable thing, it's such a trash and useless. When I'm about to fight someone, will I go to Scoreboard then check their GS? or Hulls/Turrets Augments? it's very not a practical and wasting of time and just make you exhausted while searching.

And even after that you wont get a correct info about their strength, it's just a number, you wont know what the drones they use. Some times you see someone with low GS, but you don't realize that their turret is a very strong but the problem he use a weak tank. Or someone who have 20/20 Turret/Hull but didn't use any protections. So I think it's just an intentional suspicious acts from Tanki to make knowing the player's strength such a useless

Why why why you didn't make V/R Keys work again to see everyone's Turret/Protection and MU's and even the drones, knowing someone's drones is such a hard thing, I couldn't distinguish by the drone icon, I just know by the supplies they use.

I wonder what make you mind to make V&R keys works again?

Ok ok we know it's a incentive thing for players to pay to get 9999GS, ok know I know how GS is a cool thing and a very nice. I hope my GS to reach 9999GS it's a cool, and we all knew that. But now return the V/R keys, what's the problem you have to don't do that, make GS and V/R keys both works! No problem in that!!

It's a very important thing to estimate the one front of you strength, Tanki is dependent in this. Playing like in an indiscernible battle, don't know anyone strength!

I don't know why there aren't a lot of players talking about this, I think it's such a one of my right to know at least the strength of buyers in a game that is hardly P2W.

[Picassoo 191]

How is it that despite playing on a gaming PC, I often get 55 — 60 FPS instead of constant 60? Even after turning down all graphics, AFiltering and even resolution to the lowest possible setting, it doesn't change. I need to keep restarting the game to get back to 59 — 60 and the next battle I play it may be like that again. Reinstalled the game twice — nothing changed. The FPS drops are sudden and cause great jitter — when the counter shows 55, it may have been way less for a brief moment.

Another problem is getting hit by invisible shots. Too often I can't see my opponent's shot hit me or it seems to have hit an obstacle in front of my tank. At the same time, my shots often deal no damage (not because of PING) when I clearly hit my opponent. Lately a lot more players I played with have been complaining about 0 damage shots — why is that?

As an XP player I find this extremely annoying because precise aiming at moving targets is made impossible — sometimes I even miss enemies on an open field due to the game suddenly stuttering. When it causes me and my team to get spawnkilled on Zone or allows my opponents to cap in Garder, it is even worse.

This needs to be looked into — it is ridiculous that a game like this runs at anything lower than 60 FPS on a PC that runs WoT at 120+(full graphics).

[Sacrifice 2,278]

16 minutes ago, Picassoo said:

 

Thread Merged

Can you please provide a video denxe for the invisible shots? 

Its possible that the other players are lagging or hacking. Also, I myself have this problem. Just bought a Core i5 with a good graphics card and still face laggs in MM and constabt fps drops. 

[Picassoo 191]

5 minutes ago, Sacrifice said:

Thread Merged

Can you please provide a video denxe for the invisible shots? 

Its possible that the other players are lagging or hacking. Also, I myself have this problem. Just bought a Core i5 with a good graphics card and still face laggs in MM and constabt fps drops. 

I could and probably will, but I know for a fact it only happens on HTML5, so lag or hacks don't seem to be the issue.

[wolverine848 13,097]

On 1/21/2021 at 9:55 AM, Bydo said:

not sure what is happening with the battles now.

been in this one and it seemed to be only a few players playing on red the rest were hiding in garage or on pause. even some of the blue were not on.. when i took photo it was at the end of the battle so most were gone by the time it was photoed ..

its either were having low gear scores battling with higher ones. or players in battles but not playing..

Yeah - had a player named skulldozerPrime sitting in our battle and doing nothing but chatting. Players asked him/her to either play or leave and only response was for us to shut up.

Even short a player we thankfully managed a tie.  But players like that just ruin the game.

[ThirdOnion 4,898]

On 1/23/2021 at 8:25 AM, Picassoo said:

How is it that despite playing on a gaming PC, I often get 55 — 60 FPS instead of constant 60?

I get this all the time as well. HTML5 is just overall plagued with all sorts of performance-related problems and to me seems very clearly to be bottlenecked by network connection speed (performance in an empty match is several times better than performance in a match with players, despite hardware usage being almost the same). There's a thread on the RU forum that goes into detail regarding the issues with HTML5, which I recommend reading.

Edited January 25, 2021 by ThirdOnion

[alkyng 3,080]

My Laptop run HTML5 smoother and better than Flash, I don't see any problem with HTML5.

But as you guys seeing a problems in HTML5 though Flash were working with you properly, Yes it's a problem and Flash is superior in this point. And HTML5 need to be fixed at this point, to make it a real alternative for Flash. 

1 hour ago, ThirdOnion said:

I get this all the time as well. HTML5 is just overall plagued with all sorts of performance-related problems and to me seems very clearly to be bottlenecked by network connection speed (performance in an empty match is magnitudes better than performance in a match with players, despite hardware usage being almost the same). There's a thread on the RU forum that goes into detail regarding the issues with HTML5, which I highly recommend reading.

I bookmarked it and not sure if I will read it one day or will just delay it till I delete it

Edited January 24, 2021 by asem.harbi

[Moisthero 254]

On 1/21/2021 at 8:40 AM, Noslide said:

It sucks that you only have 2 options: Wait 5 minutes to get into fair match or be cannon fodder to legends with 4k more cp and 700k more xp then you. But yeah, from full servers to 9k players online now online in 2021 it's just sad.

Hoppers ruined the game in the old days, now they ruin the game because they exist. Might aswell just add a teleporting hull to the garage.

You can't expect everyone just hand out money to you, you need more players and the gap between buyers and xp players is too big. Why would anyone throw money to a bottomless pit just to keep tanki entertaining? No one. Especially new players.

Trying to milk money through nostalgia;  Most who played pre-rebalance is not going to pay 50 euros for a legacy skin, because it was free.

Changing silence, and adding new turrets like magnum that ruined community favorite maps won't bring you new players nor bring the old ones back.

Removing chat from lobby is boring.

Making immunities for guns is stupid. Why play firebird when you can set everyone on fire with that minigun idc even what's it called. No-one buys fire immunity because of firebird, and just handing everyone freeze immunity makes playing freeze stupid. Freeze used to be the thing everyone wanted, that you unlocked at warrant officer 2 or something. I rarely see anyone play with freeze anymore. You used to play this game for fun, now you grind this game to unlock immunities so that you can maybe have fun in the future.

 

Just some general reasons why i think tanki died over the years. No-one played for max rank, you got there as you had fun playing the game A LOT. Why even bother with custom battles when you can score 4k crystals and that doen't count as crystals earned in CTF when doing challenges? For fun? When you wanna play noise but everyone spams magnum? The game is more imbalanced now then it was back in 2011.

Don't give them any big ideas, such as "teleportation tanks" - they'd think it is a good idea. The Devs have no brakes on, all restraint is gone. They have hungry mouths to feed, or if not than their mouths.

[alkyng 3,080]

2 hours ago, Moisthero said:

Don't give them any big ideas, such as "teleportation tanks" - they'd think it is a good idea. The Devs have no brakes on, all restraint is gone. They have hungry mouths to feed, or if not than their mouths.

Lol, I don't have any problems if they implemented this idea

Because I wont play even one day more

[wolverine848 13,097]

And yet more Rugby battles where team with most hoppers win.  It's just stupid how hard it is to stop them from capping.

[Picassoo 191]

On 1/24/2021 at 7:04 AM, ThirdOnion said:

I get this all the time as well. HTML5 is just overall plagued with all sorts of performance-related problems and to me seems very clearly to be bottlenecked by network connection speed (performance in an empty match is magnitudes better than performance in a match with players, despite hardware usage being almost the same). There's a thread on the RU forum that goes into detail regarding the issues with HTML5, which I highly recommend reading.

While most of this is still an issue I found that playing via browser fixes most of the FPS issues

[Picassoo 191]

On 1/21/2021 at 2:40 PM, Noslide said:

It sucks that you only have 2 options: Wait 5 minutes to get into fair match or be cannon fodder to legends with 4k more cp and 700k more xp then you. But yeah, from full servers to 9k players online now online in 2021 it's just sad.

You're right except for one thing — these aren't options because you don't even get to choose :T

[sunhawk 99]

You devs were so eager to have us abandon the flash version for battles, how about you find a new way of displaying the 'current tank' on the ratings pages? I've uninstalled flash as adobe recommends, and now I can't see the current tank. A couple other things on your website use it as well.  Not the most important thing, but maybe you could get to it someday soon.