Facts that you don't know about Tanki Online

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Hello there!

We play Tanki Online every day, but we don't know what happening behind the scenes.

Have you ever wondered if Twins shoots infinity or if there is a limit for Railgun range?

Today, in this topic, I will answer some of these questions and provide some cool facts as well. Some of them maybe look silly, while others are so complex that you might not have thought of them before.

 

You wont get a score every time you heal with Isida!

Have you ever wondered why you didn’t get a score while you healing your teammate though you healed him very well? Yes, if your teammate have a Thunder and probably damaged himself, you won't get any score. Maybe you ask why? Basically this is in sake of prohibiting the exploiting of score mechanics, and yes, that happened in the past. But you have to heal him anyway to be a perfect Isida that everyone want to play with.

 

Dictator isn't a triangle

If you’re a good mathematician and you know that triangle + triangle = square, and for this rule you want to flip a Dictator above another Dictator to create a perfect square. I’m sorry to tell you that’s wrong, because Dictator in real isn’t in a triangle shape, but in contrast, Dictator and every other shape in the game is a perfect square. So yes, we’re playing in a game where everything (hitbox) is a square/box but with textures that makes it pleasant to our eyes.

 

You don't have to fight always to get a score

Ok, you will think I will tell you to capture the flag and yeaa.. No no, there’s another way to get the score even without fighting or capturing the flag. If an enemy with Thunder fights you, you have to be a very close to him to be assure that he will be damaged also to benefit your team, and with that, you will get a score as you contributed in the kill without firing a single shot

 

Twins isn’t infinity

Well maybe this is a common info.. Yes, Twins doesn’t shoot infinity or a single shoot every second, but it has a reload time that makes it seem like infinite shooting. The reload time is very quick, and that makes it looks like infinity with 4 shots per second.

 

Turrets doesn’t have a weight

Maybe you have thought one day that Shaft is a very heavy on the hull and make it slower while in opposite there are light turrets like Freeze or Isida. Well, one day, I thought Isida is the lightest turret and I was using it when I want to have fun or test the speed as I thought it was the lightest weight turret in the game. But in reality, turrets don't have a weight and every turret is equal to another, though Shaft gives you the feeling of its heaviness as it’s a very slow.

 

Your Aim is ruined by your teammates more than enemies

Sounds weird? Am I a liar? Maybe it’s something hard to believe, but in real it’s true. The random shots by your teammates that fail to hit the enemy, or a slight touches that is a pretty enough to turn your Shaft aim 180 degree. Or a Viking OD that’s no-stop wrecking your aim especially if combined with Magnum. While the lovely enemies are just fighting you when you meet in their base while the most of the time you’re in your teammates base when your aim is going up and down.

 

Railgun shots aren’t infinity

Maybe you think that Railgun shots have no limits and can touch the edge of the universe, but in real it isn’t. Railgun shots are limited by the mapbox limits in the game, and couldn’t pass it. Well, it still gives you the feeling of infinite range and it’s better to consider this when you play, but in real it’s not.

 

Wasp’s Bomb timer isn’t 3 seconds

When you play and you see a Wasp put a bomb in your teambase and you’re terrified to escape before it explodes in 3 seconds. But in reality, it’s 4 seconds, not 3. Maybe you wonder that I have been fooling you earlier, but not anymore. This is because the "zero" is counted so it’s, Three two one zero. A 4 seconds, so it’s somehow balanced.

 

Green paint is a one pixel.!

Most paints in Tanki are complicated with details and colors, there’s an exception. In real if you don’t know, Green, Yellow, blue etc.. are just one pixel paints. Though it gives you the feeling of complexity and some details, but in real in programming side it’s just a one pixel and even the Paint icon in the Garage is more complexed than the paint in real.

 

Striker rockets with Remote aren’t always explodable

Ok well, with Remote Augment you can explode your rockets by double-click on Space-bar. But if the second rocket is ready and you haven’t exploded your rocket yet, you can't explode it anymore. As the Space-bar will launch a new rocket, if a care appeared in your mind one day suddenly!

 

Thanks for reading, hope you finish your reading with a good amount of knowledge!

Edited March 13, 2021 by asem.harbi

[Person_Random 4,991]

Approved.

Interesting new release - there were definitely a few factoids I didn't quite know myself, so thanks for educating me on the secret easter eggs of Tanki. (Cue reporter discussion about turret masses shortly before we saw this article...). However, some don't really seem to belong on the list, such as "Developers are nerds in physics", which I felt did not really need to be added. However, the rest of the information was certainly exciting and novel, a pretty entertaining read. Keep it up and continue your writing journey!

Edits: a few rephrases, comma/grammar changes.

Spoiler

 

One of the issues I noticed that happened a lot was the addition of an unnecessary article. (For example, "Wasp's Bomb Timer isn't a 3 seconds"). This is pretty difficult to fix on the spot, but here are a couple of general rules I thought of:

A good place to add "a": The wait in line took a long time. - Here, "long time" is a very general terms, so there needs to be an "a" to compensate.

A bad place to add "a": The wait in line took (a) 30 minutes. - "30 minutes" is concrete, something that is more specific, so the "a" is not required.

Another thing to consider is to check if something is singular or plural before putting "a". For example, I can say "I bought a box of eggs." (singular, "a" required), which requires the "a", but for another sentence, like "I bought apples" (plural, "a" not necessary), the "a" is not needed.

 

 

[2shots2kills 2,364]

Nice idea, if you want, I can provide some stuff and easter eggs myself... since I am a Tanki Boomer.

 

For example; Ricochet was initially called Vulcan and was a Machine Gun. Did you ever wonder why rico has such a strange shape?

Well now you know why ->  

Later in development: 

 

 

Another interesting fact: Railgun at first (when it was called Fear Machine, I believe most of you know that) was actually almost twice the size it is now.

 

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9 hours ago, Person_Random said:

Thank you for reading and approving my article, but about "Developers are nerd in physics" to be honest in the first version of my article I wrote behind it (moderator you can remove it if it's silly or inappropriate) then I remove it, and I was in a baffle to add it or not. By the way, I have delete it as I have much other points than this.

9 hours ago, Person_Random said:

One of the issues I noticed that happened a lot was the addition of an unnecessary article. (For example, "Wasp's Bomb Timer isn't a 3 seconds"). This is pretty difficult to fix on the spot, but here are a couple of general rules I thought of:

A good place to add "a": The wait in line took a long time. - Here, "long time" is a very general terms, so there needs to be an "a" to compensate.

A bad place to add "a": The wait in line took (a) 30 minutes. - "30 minutes" is concrete, something that is more specific, so the "a" is not required.

Another thing to consider is to check if something is singular or plural before putting "a". For example, I can say "I bought a box of eggs." (singular, "a" required), which requires the "a", but for another sentence, like "I bought apples" (plural, "a" not necessary), the "a" is not needed.

Thank you for your edits, I'm happy for that. I spend a big amount of time checking my grammars in every post with many ways and I'm happy as there is someone who fixed my article.

About "a" I have understood, but I think maybe I wrote it as like if you said aaa while you talk so unintentionally I write it.

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8 hours ago, 2shots2kills said:

 

Oh nice, to be honest it's my first time to know this and I haven't knew that Railgun was called as "Fear Machine". And it's interesting to see a map like Barda is here with us from 2010 without a radical changes.

 But this kind of information wasn't away from my mind and I was have a bunch of them, like: Thunder and Freeze are the second version of Smoky and Firebird. And yes it's true info as I have read it from Maf's post. But I felt this kind of info isn't a good compatible with my topic and I wanted to talk about things happens in the game right now not an old info.

Edited March 13, 2021 by asem.harbi

[Tanker-Arthur 2,971]

On 3/7/2021 at 3:35 AM, asem.harbi said:

Railgun shots aren’t infinity

I'm not sure if I'm right, but the mapbox limits are 1,000 meters in length and width.

 

So, Railgun, along with Shaft, Gauss, Vulcan, Thunder, Striker, and Smoky all have a maximum range of 1,000 meters.