v-log Episode 294 of the V-LOG is live!

[Eithern 412]

Guys, I'm the first to dislike most of the updates, but you must consider that ALL new players will have 0 protection modules at the beginning, so it seems balanced to me.

[RIDDLER_8 5,552]

[DestrotankAI9 1,513]

These plans for module changes are highly disappointing - this just demonstrates how badly this game is becoming more and more pay-to-win will widen the ever-growing gap between F2P and buyers further still. Very soon it will be impossible for F2P (free to play) players to compete in battle with changes like this, and more to come with the attitude the developers are now showing.

If you guys feel there is a need for 4 modules then fine, ADD a fourth module slot for everyone for free - but even a "balance" issue is now taken as an opportunity to try and cash in and attempt to monetise even something as fundamental as modules - and with these ideas no balance issues about needing more modules with more turrets in the game will be sorted, it will simply create new and greater imbalance to add to the already bad situation between F2P and buyers. A few years ago this 4th module slot may have been added for free, but not so now - this just goes to show how much the attitude of developers has changed, and why players dread every update and are losing all trust in them.

Buyers already have access to an ever increasing range of more powerful augments, you just recently created a new damage type (critical damage) for all turrets which standard protection modules don't protect against - and gave only buyers a module to deal with this, and not content with all that you are now going to give them more module slots. Not only that but for new players, they will have to pay tankoins just to get what we already have (3 module slots), trying to dress this up as "progression" is an insult to players. There should be no cost introduced at the every least, for the first 3 module slots that we have already had for free for years - there is no need to do that to new accounts.

If you are going to add a fourth module slot, it should be available to everyone for free as buyers do not need yet another advantage. But if it must have a cost, it should not be more than 250-500 tankoins to make it achievable for everyone at the very least. Paying even that will be very frustrating for many players, as that would be half of or an entire battle pass - and many players do not have the time to complete the Silver tier of the challenges to get the 100 Tankoins rewards, or to complete events similar to the current one which require you to play a lot ever day - many players will take a long time to obtain even 500 Tankoins. If the price is as high as 1000 or more, that will bring yet another huge imbalance between F2P and buyers - this will be impossible to buy for players who don't play regularly, and will take a long time even for those that do.

Another point is that many players in Tanki have a lot of alt accounts, paying for an extra module slot on every alt account may be unreasonable even for many buyers, and very unlikely to be possible for free-to-play players. So this will make the game a lot more unfriendly to players who like to play on alternate accounts.

When up against Blunderbuss, EMP Gauss and increasingly common Armadillo modules - plus all the new augments that will be added over the next year, you guys certainly do not need to start making the imbalance worse still - but that seems to be precisely what you intend to do. If these kind of changes continue, Tanki can expect to lose many more players - you can make money to support the game by giving buyers options, you do not need to monetise every single part of the game and hand buyers so many advantages it becomes totally impossible for other players to compete against them.

Edited April 13, 2021 by DestrotankAI9

[fghjkl54 1,517]

 

[Tanker-Arthur 2,971]

Just now, fghjkl54 said:

 

OMG


BRUH


Out of all the turrets, I always thought the turret least likely to get an Ultra skin would be Striker XD

Letssss gooooooooooooooooooooooo






Oh wait, I don't have any real money.

 

[SporkZilla 1,775]

Striker getting a new skin is nice, but now I'm worried about any new augments and special events etc. that will arrive with it

I don't want Striker to be the next turret that gets ruined by becoming the center of attention, was bad enough with Smoky

[E_polypterus 2,374]

1 hour ago, fghjkl54 said:

 

Changes to PRO battles??? That does NOT sound good 

[alkyng 3,080]

This is Spoiler for their next Vlog.. No surprises

[E_polypterus 2,374]

1 minute ago, asem.harbi said:

This is Spoiler for their next Vlog.. No surprises

They always show a small video or something the day before telling what they’ll be mentioning in the upcoming vlog.

 

[Tanker-Arthur 2,971]

Just now, E_polypterus said:

Changes to PRO battles??? That does NOT sound good 

The following are changes:

• Pro Battles will only reward 1 crystal per battle, no matter how much your score or how long the battle was.
• You no longer earn experience points in Pro Battles.
• You need to have MK7 equipment to participate in Pro Battles.
• The Pro Pass is returned and it costs 10,000 crystals for all players to buy it - no matter your rank.

 

Spoiler

Just a joke by the way

 

Edited April 15, 2021 by Tanker-Arthur

[E_polypterus 2,374]

2 hours ago, Tanker-Arthur said:

The following are changes:

• Pro Battles will only reward 1 crystal per battle, no matter how much your score or how long the battle was.
• You no longer earn experience points in Pro Battles.
• You need to have MK7 equipment to participate in Pro Battles.
• The Pro Pass is returned and it costs 10,000 crystals for all players to buy it - no matter your rank.

 

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Just a joke by the way

 

That joke is not funny ;-;

[ThirdOnion 4,898]

Striker Ultra looks to be the best-looking skin released all year so far.

Drone changes(?) seem interesting.

Changes to PRO battles will most likely only affect XP/BP. I predict that everyone will be given Round Stabilization automatically.

Edited April 15, 2021 by ThirdOnion

[RIDDLER_8 5,552]

I really miss the V-Log. I hope that tomorrow's V-Log 295 is going to discuss hot news about the release of Tesla and a brand new HD skin.

[Tanker-Arthur 2,971]

Just now, RIDDLER_8 said:

I really miss the V-Log. I hope that tomorrow's V-Log 295 is going to discuss hot news about the release of Tesla and a brand new HD skin.

Plot Twist: There is no mention of Tesla and the new skin is not an HD skin, but rather it's an Ultra skin for Striker that costs 50 dollars to obtain.

[Mr.Threatz 61]

i wouldent make a big issue on *winning on 2 accts* with your baby acct being higher KD than your higher acct lol so in short...sit down, speak up when your big acct is worthy... @GrayWolf8733

Edited April 16, 2021 by Mr.Threatz

[RIDDLER_8 5,552]

@Tanker-Arthur

I know that there is no news on the Tesla turret yet. I seen the pre-V-Log 295 preview. Striker Ultra is a great skin to have. Have developers given up on HD skins?

[Tanker-Arthur 2,971]

Just now, RIDDLER_8 said:

Striker Ultra is a great skin to have.

Yeah, it's probably the best looking Ultra Skin so far.


Striker HD will probably look better though.

Just now, RIDDLER_8 said:

Have developers given up on HD skins?

Yeah, cause they went bankrupt after not releasing a 100 dollar Ultra Skin for so long.

[RIDDLER_8 5,552]

@Tanker-Arthur

That's kind of a shame because developers must finish completing all the HD skins.

[RIDDLER_8 5,552]

I hope this year we are going to have all HD skins released.

[erppi 91]

On 4/10/2021 at 4:30 AM, yellowghetto said:

Regarding the 4th Module slot, I hope it will be 1000 Tankoins at least.

Should be around 5k. In my opinion.