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[Bowser448 321]

Thunder is weak because everyone uses 50% protection. Worst 400000 crystals spent getting mk7.

[Annihilation 128]

1 hour ago, Bowser448 said:

Thunder is weak because everyone uses 50% protection.

Nah, thunder is weak because the only good augment for it got nerfed into the ground, leaving you with two options. Less damage, or no splash. I want good augments for thunder, but none of the stupid copy/paste status ones which we're bound to get eventually...

[BruhBruhThingThing 413]

4 hours ago, sarim2345_the_master said:

Now that I think of it, 99% of this games problems could be solved by removing matchmaking and bringing back the old battle list system

Eh, more like 50% of this games problems, with the other 50% consisting of overdrives, status effects, and drones.

[Generalissimo 40]

1 hour ago, Annihilation said:

Nah, thunder is weak because the only good augment for it got nerfed into the ground, leaving you with two options. Less damage, or no splash. I want good augments for thunder, but none of the stupid copy/paste status ones which we're bound to get eventually...

Thunder isn't necessarily "weak" its just obsolete, which is probably worse; because it's essentially gotten replaced by Gauss. Same as Thunder, except its sniping mode does tremendous damage regardless of distances (super helpful to get long range campers) and great splash damage (high damage and wide area; great for enemies clumped around base or control points). So why would you chose Thundy? 

[wolverine848 13,097]

5 hours ago, Bowser448 said:

Thunder is weak because everyone uses 50% protection. Worst 400000 crystals spent getting mk7.

Thought everyone used Gauss... no... Shaft... no... Smoky ... no Rail ... no Vulcan ... no Tesla protections.

Wait... how many slots we get?

[Dopamine 2,161]

7 hours ago, Generalissimo said:

Thunder isn't necessarily "weak" its just obsolete, which is probably worse; because it's essentially gotten replaced by Gauss. Same as Thunder, except its sniping mode does tremendous damage regardless of distances (super helpful to get long range campers) and great splash damage (high damage and wide area; great for enemies clumped around base or control points). So why would you chose Thundy? 

Very good point. Thunder absolutely needs a rework to get competetive. Currently it is much better to use Striker or Gauss for most scenarios Thunder would excell in before.

[Inkling_Boy 124]

@Bowser448

On 1/1/2022 at 6:59 PM, Bowser448 said:

As many of you on the complaint book probably know, tanki has really been going downhill over the past few years due to the developers. So I have decided to make a long list of complaints about this game. This list is an assortment of big picture complaints and minor issues. I have decided to make a table of contents and divided up my complaints based off of specific topics. There are a total of 217 complaints so I made a table of contents and divided them by section and credited some other players for their work in helping me create this long list as 217 is a lot for one player alone to make.

Table of Contents

1. Matchmaking (1-28)
2. Pro Battles (29-43)
3. Shop and Financial Issues (44-51)
4. Rigged Features of the Game (52-59)
5. Lobby Chat (60-66)
6. Moderation (67-82)
7. Bugs, Glitches, and Exploits (83-92)
8. Abusive Players and Violators [Hackers and Saboteurs] (93-109)
9. Corruption by the Developers [Hypocrisy and Lies] (110-128)
10. Game Mechanics that make the Game Unbalanced (129-175)
11. Developers Wasting Time (176-187)
12. Other (188-217)

Complaints

 

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1. (1) MM is too unbalanced
2.  The MM system is full of battles with battle results, in terms of winning and losing, determined before the battle even begins
3.  MM is rigged
4.  MM hacking and multing is ignore by ALL moderators
5.  15 minute battles are too long. Many players enjoyed 10 minute battles
6.  MM lags a lot
7.  When you join MM, you are always put on a team that is getting their rear ends beaten about 5 minutes in the battle
8.  Dusseldorf and Berlin are unusable. They are too big for MM and usually cause the most lag
9.  Highways and Stadium are unplayable for MM. Only shafts and railguns win
10.  Magistral is unplayable because it is boring and I am always put on this map
11.  Chernobyl and Yorkshire and unusable. There are too many obstacles and navigating those maps can be very annoying
12.  Tanki programs mult-bots in to battles when the team that is suppose to lose is actually winning
13.  The game still freezes (occasionally crashes) after the battle ends
14.  The vote option doesn't work in MM
15.  Players like to break chat rules in MM because they know the moderators won't check it
16. Player like to target one player who is the lowest rank outside of TDM and ASL
17. Players care too much about troll and bullying
18. The goldbox drop rate is too low
19. Drones make the game very unbalanced
20. Crisis drone is an automatic win
21. Miner drone is an automatic win
22. Most players don't like half of the MM maps. Maybe a monthly poll would resolve this?
23. Only vikings and dictators win in TJR mode
24. A team of tesla players is an automatic win also
25. Getting first place on the winning team 15 times is impossible if you are a free to play player
26. If you score a goal in rugby, you don't always get the point
27. You sometimes drop a flag right in front of the target and don't get the point
28. The defending team has an unfair advantage in assault
29. (2) Xp/bp battles don't give you crystals anymore
30. There are too many self destruction zones in parkour
31. When I play silence parkour, there are a ton of 9999 GS players that fight and kill everyone and some for no reason
32. Not to mention that most of those from the previous complaint are hacking
33. Mines in those battles create too much lag
34. Most of those players from the past few complaints also get a sick thrill out of bullying and trolling
35. Same players from previous complaint encourage multing/sabotage
36. Most people only play on the same three maps. I like most of the other pro-battle maps but no one joins.
37. Make the max score and time lower. Capturing 1000 flags is almost impossible and battle that last over 16 hours are not great either
38.  There players that show in battles and are not actually there. This glitch still exists
39. The game freezes or crashes after pro-battles too
40. Maps sometimes crash and you lose all your points
41. Polygon is the only map CP is played on
42. There are never any battles for rugby, seige, assault, or TJR in pro battles
43. Seldom do gold boxes drop in pro-battles
44. (3) Tanki is pay to win
45. Tanki encourages terrible buying habits. Kids try to steal their mom's credit card just to buy.
46. The shop prices are too expensive. Who is willing to spend 300 dollars on a skin container?
47. Tanki won't stop the inflation.
48. Kits can almost never be bought with crystals
49. The shop sometimes doesn't make your purchase go through properly and you don't receive what you bought. This didn't happen to me but rather one of my friends experienced this. He emailed tanki and they refused to do what was right. My friend quit the game and protested the game.
50. Buying mk7 kits at the Lieutenant Colonel rank just allows players to have a 9999 GS at Lieutenant Colonel
51. Tanki offers kits with equipment you already have
52. (4) Tanki lies about the ultra container chances. It is the same as the standard container
53. Tanki only gives exotic drops to buyers
54. Crisis drone is only awarded to buyers
55. Containers caught in battle award exotic drops to youtubers and common to free to play users
56. MM puts the buyers on one team and the non buyers and mult bots on the other
57. Buyers are allowed to break chat rules
58. Buyers are allowed to hack
59. Buyers are allowed to sabotage
60. (5) Moderators only accept hacking and multing reports from buyers
61. Moderators ban free to play players for no reason occasionally. I know this is a fact because this has happened to me before and I seriously said nothing and I was banned for a month for provocation
62. Tanki hired mometasone and Legendary_Bandit just to sit on game reports and harass anyone who posts a complaint or makes a report. They never make any reports and they also never get banned for doing this. They commonly flood the chat with "muahahaha!" and call everyone one of my alternate accounts.
63. I make reports on the game reports channel and the moderators never forward them to battle moderators
64. The chat moderators allow players to bully me without getting banned
65. The chat moderators themselves bully me
66. I got banned for discussing drugs and alcohol because it isn't "kid-friendly" yet they cannot ban a player who was calling my friends homosexual and told my girlfriend to cheat on me
67. (6) The moderators on Q&A never provide useful answers
68. The moderators never forward reports on the game reports channel
69. The answer to everything from the moderators is to hide their messages
70. The moderators themselves break the game's rules
71. The moderators are slackers, especially the ones who are supposed to check game reports and forward violator reports
72. Moderators refuse to accept trolling reports
73. They refuse to accept phishing reports
74. They also refuse toxicity reports
75. They also refuse to accept reports about player who are trying to trade and sell accounts
76. The esports chat is useless
77. The announcements chat is also useless
78. Too many players post fake battle links to events on the events channel
79. Only players that use auto clickers get into the events
80. Too many players flood the general chat in Hebrew. I am not trying to be racist, but tanki should make their own community for them. I mean we don't see any Russians on the English general chat.
81. There are too many players that use General and Game Reports to bully other players
82. Same players from the previous complaint never get banned either
83. (7) The bug that causes players to lose their containers hasn't been patched yet
84. The shaft bug that forces you to move in a direction after sniping with shaft still exists
85. On mobile, you sometimes fall through the floor
86. Mashing tab too much can crash the game
87. Leaving battles sometimes crashes the game
88. Opening weekly containers can soft lock the game
89. If you open a weekly container opening screen and try to open a different container, you will be unable to open it
90. If you press a key 20 times, you will be banned for flooding and all your previous messages will be erased.
91. Players use the exploit mentioned above to break rules and get themselves banned for flooding so the moderators don't ban them longer than an hour
92. You can still scale-climb walls with hopper in space mode
93. (8) Players are very rude, toxic, and provocative in battle. Moderators won't ban them.
94. The solution to these types of players is hide their messages while they still publicly humiliate you
95. The vote option never works
96. Players make accounts with inappropriate usernames and send them to other users as friend requests. An example of one I have received before can be found here -----------> Profile — Bowser448_KillUrself (tankionline.com)
97. Players use the Duel map to not only 1v1 players rather the also use it to do account business (buying, selling, trading, etc)
98. Players always tell other users to "cry" and call them a baby
99. Players go out of their way to target players over doing the objective of the battle
100. Players play with the emotions of other players by hacking then telling them to cry
101. Players make bait battles to lure a player out of battle just to take their spot
102. Reports of abusive player in battle are not accepted by the chat moderators on game reports
103. Screen shots of abusive players through badges and private messages are rejected too
104. Whenever and ignore user chats, you see "This message is hidden" as we would rather not see anything from this user
105. The players on General are toxic and seldom do the moderators ban them
106. There are hackers everywhere and you always encounter them. They are inevitable.
107. It is near impossible to get a hacker banned
108. Players use lag as an excuse
109. People like to use hacks to deal critical damage every shot and say that it is luck
110. (9) Moderators on game reports almost never forward reports to battle moderators
111. Tanki says they "improved" the anti-cheat system and I have been encountering more hackers than ever recently
112. There is no anti-mult system
113. The is also no anti-sabotage system
114. Players track down users in pro-battles then hack just to bother a disliked user or join and sabotage on the team of the disliked user
115. Silence Parkour legends hack 24/7 nonstop and tanki makes no effort to ban them
116. Tanki puts hackers on the same team as the buyers
117. Tanki knows what players hack and the don't ban most of them
118. Tanki pays players to hack just to give the non-buyers an unenjoyable gaming experience
119. Tanki says they listen to the players yet they frequently release updates that the players didn't even ask for or showing no signs of interest
120. Tanki says their reason for HD skins is to make the game look more advanced yet they remove the skins that represented whay modification level the turret was because they didn't want to deal with every skin for every update
121. Tanki says they try their hardest to make the game balanced. Try playing one battle in the matchmaking system to see my point
122. Tanki says they want buyers and non-buyers to have the same experience
123. Tanki created tankoins to give the non-buyers and buyers a fair chance. That's a lie
124. Tanki says the ultra container chances are better. That's a lie intended for more people to buy ultra containers
125. Tanki says the care about the developers yet they usually release random updates no one wants
126. Tanki says their stuff is reasonably priced. That's a lie! Who is spending 300 dollars on a skin container?
127. Tanki says all players are treated equally. That's a lie! Buyers are obviously treated better and tanki is doing a terrible job covering it
128. Chat moderators say all hacking reports are forwarded to battle moderators. That's a lie! Almost none actually are
129. (10) Heat and gold resistance are useless other than the make your GS 300 points higher
130. Armor piercing equipment is too OP
131. Stunning augments make wasp and hornets near impossible to kill
132. Jammer is just pointless
133. EMP augments are too OP also
134. Tesla is too OP and ruined Noise CTF
135. Compact fuel tanks is bad at legend rank and the same can be said for shock freeze
136. Missle launcher cyclone for striker is too OP
137. Armor piercing augment for shaft is too OP
138. Jammer causing augment for hammer is just garbage
139. Blunderbuss for hammer is too OP
140. Incendiary bands for vulcan is too OP
141. Incendiary rounds for railgun is too OP
142. Cryo rounds for railgun is trash
143. Stunning rounds for railgun is too OP
144. Armor piercing rounds for railgun is too OP
145. Round destabilization is trash
146. Stunning missiles for striker is too OP
147. Tesla and all of its augments are too OP
148. EMP rounds for smoky is too OP
149. Stunning rounds for smoky is too OP
150. Cyclone launcher for striker is too OP
151. Uranium launcher for striker is too OP
152. Armor piercing striker is too OP
153. All the adrenaline augments are too OP
154. EMP freeze is too OP
155. Armor piercing ricochet is too OP
156. Plasma torch for ricochet is too OP
157. Mortar for magnum doesn't work
158. EMP salvo for gauss is too OP
159. Armor piercing gauss is too OP
160. Vaporizer for twins is too OP
161. Magnetron for twins is too OP
162. Healing emitters for shaft is too OP
163. Vampire nanobots for isida is WAY too OP
164. Thunder is just plain trash because everyone uses protection from it
165. Hornet overdrive (especially when paired with freeze) is too OP
166. Paladin's overdrive is too OP
167. Hopper's overdrive ruined all the gold box events
168. Viking overdrive is too unfair in TJR mode
169. Gauss, striker, and magnum are too unfair in seige
170. Freeze is too unfair in assault
171. Booster drone is too OP
172. Defender drone is too OP
173. Lifeguard drone is too OP
174. Hyperion drone is too OP
175. Blaster drone is too OP
176. (11) Tanki is wasting time by releasing new HD skins
177. Tanki is spending too much time on remastering every map in the game
178. Tanki spent too much time with their bush models back in late 2019
179. Tanki spends too much time releasing new augments that are too OP
180. Critical damage is just a pointless feature
181. Tanki wastes their time with tacky music for the lobby and shop
182. Tanki spends too much time on their festive decorations
183. The lobby music sounds like entering a horror game
184. Tanki wastes too much time with their rigged contests that are near impossible to enter
185. Tanki wastes too much time on their stupid new interface. The current one is fine
186. Tanki wastes too much time improving the graphics. The current graphics are just fine
187. Tanki spends too much time on their loading screen
188. (12) The mk conversion made the game even more unbalanced
189. Tanki should have kits like the old product kits
190. Tanki needs better forum service in all the other languages than just Russian
191. Tanki has horrible customer serivce
192. Tanki answers the worst and dumbest questions to developers in their v-logs
193. Tanki removed discount weekend just so the free to play players wouldn't prosper
194. Moderation in this game censors the truth
195. Most of the HD skins are very ugly and make me not want to use that turret/hull
196. Shaft takes too long to reload
197. The wall hitbox is deceptive. Most annoying for shaft, gauss, and striker players
198. Containers almost never drop in battle
199. Batteries are too expensive
200. Repair kits are too expensive
201. Containers give too much supplies
202. Weekly containers don't give enough tankoins
203. BattlePass is too expensive
204. The time between when you can refresh product kits is too long
205. Alterations and augments are too expensive
206. There are too many players with mk8 equipment at major rank or lower
207. There are too many players that sit with 9k GS at warrant officer tank and steal every gold box in event mode
208. Lightweight and heavy weight augments should be rare drops, not epic
209. Round stabilization for twins should be epic, not rare
210. Entering the game takes too long
211. The garage can cause the game to crash
212. Rubberized rounds for vulcan should also not work with heat immunity
213. The number of online players is gone because tanki doesn't want to know the game is dying
214. The tank in the garage spins too fast and can cause a seizure if the wrong person tries it
215. The new player chat channel is pointless
216. People do account business from sources other than through feature of tanki online. This includes Discord, Snap Chat, Tik Tok
217. Tanki needs to start listening to what the players have to say and what they are currently doing is not working. If tanki continues to mess around and not listen to the other player, tanki will be dead in 2022 and the tanki employees will need to look for new jobs. Tanki instead assumes they are always right and they are perfect which is the tragic flaw of the developers and their greed doesn't help either

 

 

Crediting other users

Tanki has a lot of issues and my list of complaints needed assistance from some of my personal friends and other users of this game. I asked everyone who helped me if they wanted to have their account name credited and all the users mention were okay with it. 

This list of complaints would not have been possible without ELECTR0_DRAG0N, Inkling_Boy, Brandorrrr, and 2 other concealed users.

Are you going to update the list? I would say tanki has a good another 100+ things to complain about over the past 3 months. But thanks for giving credit and not hogging all of

Edited April 2, 2022 by frederik123456
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[Bowser448 321]

18 minutes ago, Inkling_Boy said:

@Bowser448

Are you going to update the list? I would say tanki has a good another 100+ things to complain about over the past 3 months. But thanks for giving credit and not hogging all of

That list took me nearly 3 hours to create, but I could add to it and there are a few I can remove that they managed to fix/improve. I could come up with close to 200 more to be honest.

Edited March 31, 2022 by Bowser448

[YANUKFIN 493]

The core problem with TO is the fact that it is based on P2W, with no thought given to balance.

I came up with a solution to help new players out, which was to extend the XP needed to rank by a factor of X3 all the way to marshal, after that the normal XP needed for the subsequent ranks would remain the same. This 1 easy to implement solution would give players a lot more time to strengthen their garage before encountering the inevitable onslaught of all the augments, status effects, etc that plague the higher ranks. 

The developers should also reverse their worst update ever, the upgrading update that has made a lot of accounts useless because they are stuck on MK6, MK5, etc with the solution to advance any further based on the ability to buy your way out of this unfair update.  (never gonna happen)

These are 2 changes the developers could make that would help a lot of players have a better gaming experience in this P2W only game. 

It's not a lot to ask for and would not imo be detrimental to game economy.

How about it hazel, give the F2P, low rankers something for committing their time to TO. 

[Bydo 20,118]

not a fan of the new gold boxes , seeing the dissolve faster then before . if taking a photo of your tank with a gold box all you get now is a blurry image. would like to see the box stay longer to be able to get it in the photo.

also been seeing a second drop off drone when a player goes over the drop locations. ) will try to get a video of what I'm referring about..

[LambSauce 1,883]

5 hours ago, Bydo said:

not a fan of the new gold boxes , seeing the dissolve faster then before . if taking a photo of your tank with a gold box all you get now is a blurry image. would like to see the box stay longer to be able to get it in the photo.

also been seeing a second drop off drone when a player goes over the drop locations. ) will try to get a video of what I'm referring about..

Still playing with Hunter + Ricochet and no drone, eh?

[Bydo 20,118]

1 hour ago, LambSauce said:

Still playing with Hunter + Ricochet and no drone, eh?

sir this was my first battle in this mode. so yea no drones , later on I did have them in play. I wasn't sure if tanki had it a none drone set up or what. will be using them for this weekend missions for the special modes.

[LambSauce 1,883]

37 minutes ago, Bydo said:

I wasn't sure if tanki had it a none drone set up or what.

Drones are on for the special mode.

37 minutes ago, Bydo said:

will be using them for this weekend missions for the special modes.

We discussed this already, if you don’t want your supplies to be less effective then Brutus is a must, at the very minimum.

[Dridrien 157]

I love the event, it jumps around like frogs (hopper) so those who can't jump are at a huge disadvantage.
I can't wait for them to release the "invincible for 10 minutes" overdrive.

[Bydo 20,118]

2 hours ago, LambSauce said:

Drones are on for the special mode.

We discussed this already, if you don’t want your supplies to be less effective then Brutus is a must, at the very minimum.

yupe ...yupe... yupe

Been using your advise more these days , also I wasn't sure if drones could be used this is why I did not turn them on. They are on now..

[ghost-guns 1,486]

I used to like the noise map, it used to be one of the most popular maps back in the day. I would rather see magnum and tesla removed from the game so we could play on that again and other classic maps. Tesla is such an annoying turret.

The new one-sided chat is also rubbish because no one communites tactics anymore so there's no use for it. At least on the old chat you could call someone a noob or something at least...

[sunhawk 99]

I'd like to complain about the players who don't have a profile page. I've encountered three different ones in the last month or so. Each time, I thought the player was ridiculously powerful--not invincible, just very OP--so I clicked on their profile/ratings page, to see if they were a kit buyer or something. There was actually no page for each of these three. Something seems wrong about that.

[wolverine848 13,097]

On 4/2/2022 at 1:26 PM, ghost-guns said:

I used to like the noise map, it used to be one of the most popular maps back in the day. I would rather see magnum and tesla removed from the game so we could play on that again and other classic maps. Tesla is such an annoying turret.

The new one-sided chat is also rubbish because no one communites tactics anymore so there's no use for it. At least on the old chat you could call someone a noob or something at least...

Noise map was unbalanced long before Magnum or Tesla were introduced.

Top side (Red?) always had the advantage because it was easier for them to access mid-level.  Control mid-level and you win the battle.

Thunder, Ricco and Striker (after it was introduced) also helped top get more of an advantage. Missed shots still got kills or did damage because they could hit the floor of blue base.  Not so much for blue firing upward - most misses did nothing.

Edited April 11, 2022 by wolverine848

[BruhBruhThingThing 413]

On 4/2/2022 at 10:26 AM, ghost-guns said:

At least on the old chat you could call someone a noob

I'm not sure what purpose that would really serve. Seems like all it'll do is waste your time and the intended recipients time. And make you appear as a salty player who takes this game way too seriously.

[Bydo 20,118]

can someone look into Premium pass accounts, just noticed on all three of my accounts that it expires all at the same time? which they should be different dates / time lines..

 just noticed it today

[xXx_ALPHA-BEAST_xXx 291]

my request is to make a gold drop map in no dm mode this is so boring many byer clan make group and take all gold together for example clan- boss,sankt and many more who ruin other game 

[BruhBruhThingThing 413]

2 hours ago, Bydo said:

can someone look into Premium pass accounts, just noticed on all three of my accounts that it expires all at the same time? which they should be different dates / time lines..

 just noticed it today

Maybe there's a secret feature where they get randomly disabled?

[Dopamine 2,161]

20 hours ago, sunhawk said:

There was actually no page for each of these three. Something seems wrong about that.

You can hide your Ratings page in the game settings, if you don't want others to see it.

[Legendarni 30]

 

On 3/29/2022 at 6:32 PM, ghost-guns said:

It's difficult to navigate the pro battle list because the map names are in Russian.

 

Just click on "maps" in the second column above and the map names will appear in English.

 

[ghost-guns 1,486]

Umm, I've decided to stop playing for a while, given current affairs. If the developers released a statement, that would clarify things but currently it just feels wrong to come here.