update Drone and Supply changes

[Tanker-Arthur 2,971]

Just now, MysticBlood said:

but the max drone would revert it back to its original supply stats meaning its still skill based. meaning nothing would be over powered.

it is overpowered.

Not in the Legend Rank probably, because I'm guessing most people there "may" have a drone......

But in the low ranks, where much less people bother to buy drones, have high leveled drones, or have batteries or supplies to power the drones, than it is overpowered.


Basically, the buyers who buy the drones and max them out first will be EXTREMELY overpowered because their supplies would be working at full strength...

Meanwhile, those without drones, have high leveled drones, or don't have batteries or supplies to power the drones will be stuck with a crappy Boosted Armor that only granst 25% protection and Boosted Damage that only increases damage by 33%, not the full 100%. And the buyers or veterans who maxed their drones will have 50% protection and 100% extra damage, which is a HUGE difference.

[Frylock 1,617]

4 minutes ago, Tanker-Arthur said:

it is overpowered.

Not in the Legend Rank probably, because I'm guessing most people there "may" have a drone......

But in the low ranks, where much less people bother to buy drones, have high leveled drones, or have batteries or supplies to power the drones, than it is overpowered.


Basically, the buyers who buy the drones and max them out first will be EXTREMELY overpowered because their supplies would be working at full strength...

Meanwhile, those without drones, have high leveled drones, or don't have batteries or supplies to power the drones will be stuck with a crappy Boosted Armor that only granst 25% protection and Boosted Damage that only increases damage by 33%, not the full 100%. And the buyers or veterans who maxed their drones will have 50% protection and 100% extra damage, which is a HUGE difference.

well think it this way supplies nerf would indirectly balance out booster drone and other drones since you have to max them to get the original effect as before. the damage wouldn't get any higher, its just lowered stats and bringing it back up to base supply stats.

Edited April 29, 2021 by MysticBlood

[LiLBrotato 29]

This update would be making it harder for the new players in the high ranks making this update for low ranks kinda useless, As you're indirectly forcing them to have maxed out drone to compete fairly on highranks especially with this fast-paced ranking system with double exp on events & beginer's pass 50% & premuim 50% experience bonus a low ranker can arrive to highranks quickly and won't be able to have enough crystals to focus on the combo & protections, Let it alone having a drone maxed out.
From my point of view this update will increase the quantity of campers in MM as the new players won't be able to max out a drone unless they spend money, Therefore their MM experience will get significantly harder.
e.g. As in modes that require players to do capturing tasks like on CP or Siege or Assault or CTF or Rugby people with no maxed out drones will isntead focus on camping as it'll be unfair for them to be in the middle of the crossfire as they'll be free kills to feast on by maxed out drone veterans that already been on high ranks for a long time, Thus making it very unpleasant experience for free2play playerbase.
Having in count that with this update brutus the most cheap drone to upgrade "Costs literally 750k cry on 50-50% upgrades discount" no longer depends on batteries to function and decreasing the boosted armor & damage efficiency in lower ranks is not enough as brutus has only one single effect which with this update is available to everybody with a maxed out drone, Which gives an advantage to people with other drones to have an EXTRA feature depending on which drone they're using.

this update be like boosting f2p players pain 

Edited April 29, 2021 by LiLBrotato

[UnknownSinister 233]

@ALEX22THEBEST had fully upgraded brutus.

R.I.P bot

[Modesty 79]

I have 1 question how does this update fix ''Not depending on supplies'' thing?? The damage and armor effects which we used to get for free earlier, now we need to spend crystals on drones, their upgrades, and batteries to get the same effect... The game is now more dependent on supplies, the batteries and drones.... I barely used drones in battles but now equipping drone is a must.... What's worst is that I only used trickster drone and they ruined it too... I don't have so many speed boosts to waste... I need my drone's old mechanics back what I bought it for... If it was a nerf or a buff I would have agreed but changing a drone completely is so pathetic... and I had spent millions of crystals upgrading it... either please return me those crystals back or change it back to the way it was... Of course not many people will like this update of course except the moderators, and buyers...

 

[UnknownSinister 233]

@Spy Will the wiki be updated regarding this new changes?

[Spy 14,687]

Just now, UnknownSinister said:

@Spy Will the wiki be updated regarding this new changes?

Of course, we are working on it! 

[Iron_Man 2,376]

I'd say that we should all go and have some fun with the Double Damage and Double Armor while we still can. You know Final Moments!

[LambSauce 1,884]

Just now, Ironmantonystark said:

I'd say that we should all go and have some fun with the Double Damage and Double Armor while we still can. You know Final Moments!

This is a significant update, DD and DA have been as they are currently since they were introduced. 

[yellowghetto 3,206]

After how happy I was reading May Holidays. I see this.

CRINGE

[YauChiHim 30]

Actually, for the problem of this update, there is a simple solution. Just implement rank limits for drones upgrade. Then the problem is not here anymore and this update will become a great update.

[YauChiHim 30]

Please, tanki, add rank limits for drones' micro-upgrades before it is too late!

[Juodai_Baltas 19]

2 hours ago, brother_of_pro said:

bringing back the alteration Vampire

actually its bringing back the old mechanism in the form of augment.

[liverpoolaum 811]

This is tanki telling me my 10k+ of each supply is useless since I dont have a drone. It was actually difficult to play the game without drones but still being the MVP in my team is not difficult. So now I have to pay 1 million plus crystal and wait for 3 months to upgrade fully just to experience the tanki which I have been playing all these days(and I have to spend for batteries).

Edited April 29, 2021 by liverpoolaum

[Mr.Spark 240]

2 hours ago, Towns said:

I don't really play the game much anymore, but I can say, this is a good update, the new Trickster reduces the paywall behind Crisis by an amount. But still, 30% is less than 70%, so the paywall is still there, but the paywall is a bit smaller now.

 

Vampire Nanobots increases the paywall behind Isida now, but I think this will be one of the worse ultra container only augments, because healing is decreased, which I feel like is needed for Isida. Also the damage crits are gone, which is once again worse than current Isida, since hardly anyone has Armadillo except for those who got lucky on this event, in the special missions, or forked out hundreds to get it. Also if you both have double armor and double damage activated, you will do 0.75 * 1.33 the current common damage amount, which is 0.9975, which makes the enemy survive slightly longer in longer periods of time, although in smaller "chunks" of damage, this will be nearly non-existent.

 

Thank you once again for an interesting update, not just for us free-to-play players but also for the buyers in the game. 

I saw you were playing on Mr.Thunder’s live stream

[hmsrodney 3]

 Good hear this, great changes but I have one wish: Add some more augments on Gauss or HD skin for it. I like Gauss, most kills I have with this turret and it is good ratio between damage and reload, not as Magnum or Smoky Thanks a lot

Edited May 6, 2021 by hmsrodney
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[SporkZilla 1,775]

13 minutes ago, liverpoolaum said:

So now I have to pay 1 million plus crystal

Brutus drone (500K to upgrade) will not need batteries any more with this update, so that is what most players will have to buy and upgrade

But that still sucks; it means I have to postpone upgrading my other drone (which I didn't want to upgrade any more) until I've upgraded Brutus

I've never liked garage supplies (and have only just started using them a lot on only two of my accounts), but this isn't the way to nerf them

[Sabry 1,072]

34 minutes ago, Juodai_Baltas said:

actually its bringing back the old mechanism in the form of augment.

yessir

[Y.H.tanki 15]

This is horrible garbage again helping the buyers who have 20/20 drones

[antillis 138]

4 hours ago, Marcus said:

 

Tankers!

 

With the servers restart on April 30th an update will be released.

In this update, we will change the names and characteristics of supplies and drones as well as adding new augments.

 

Supplies

 

The first types of supplies appeared at the very beginning of the game - in 2009. 

They were very different from the current ones both in the way that they work and how they look. Nowadays, supplies help you to boost your tank, repair it, and allow your drones to work.

 

Just one problem remains - you often complain that the game is too dependent on supplies. We have decided to change the parameters of two types of supplies - "Double Armor" and "Double Damage".

 

Thus, for low ranks "Double Damage" and "Double Armor" will become weaker, which means that personal skills will be more important in a battle. By ranking up and upgrading drones, you gradually return the «Double Armor» and «Double Damage» effect to its previous form. 

 

Drones
 

Nowadays, drones have a passive bonus, increasing your armor and damage parameters.

With this update, instead of the previous passive bonus, drones will give you a bonus to boosted armor and boosted damage supplies.

If your drone is fully upgraded, you get double armor and double damage when boosted armor and boosted damage supplies are activated.

 

As for the «Brutus» drone that is currently giving this bonus, it will stop using batteries.

 

Check out other changes of the parameters of drones here:

 

How the numbers are going to change:

• «Boosted armor» supply: decreasing incoming damage by 25%, common damage * 0.75 (previously it was decreasing damage by 50%).

• «Boosted damage» supply: increasing outcoming damage by 33%, common damage * 1.33 (previously it was increasing damage by 100%).

• In case your drone is 20/20 upgraded, «Boosted armor» is decreasing incoming damage by 50%, common damage * 0.5, and «Boosted damage» is increasing outcoming damage by 100%, common damage * 2.

• In case your opponent activated boosted damage and you activated double armor, you get common damage * 0.75 * 1.33 = common damage. If you both have drones fully upgraded, you get common damage * 0.5 * 2 = common damage

 

As these supplies are not always doubling numbers we have renamed them to «Boosted Armor» and «Boosted Damage».

 

New augment

 

A novelty for Isida — the legendary augment giving you the new-old way of playing with this turret:

• Vampire nanobots:

It will be impossible to effectively heal allies with this augment, but it becomes possible to heal yourself! Healing efficiency is low, but it will be possible to survive a moment longer in a close combat fight and win. Critical damage is removed.

 

You can get the new augment out of Ultra Containers which will be available in the Shop during May Holiday Celebrations.

 

Good luck on the battlefield!

AH, good old ultra containers, what we would we do without them.

[numericable 2,375]

2 hours ago, UnknownSinister said:

@ALEX22THEBEST had fully upgraded brutus.

R.I.P bot

Dude, that isn't kind, my man Alexandru found a girlfriend so he asked  helptanki to block his account so he could move forward in his life along with her without being tempted to come back to the game.

[thunderhunter123 741]

Thanks for this update!

Let's see how the gameplay changes!

I would love to battle players with just skill and less supplies.

[FrozenRailgun 1,771]

3 minutes ago, numericable said:

Dude, that isn't kind, my man Alexandru found a girlfriend so he asked help tanki to block his account so he could move forward in his life along with her without being tempted to come back to the game.

Wait you knew him in real life or what?

[antillis 138]

3 hours ago, MysticBlood said:

I mean nerfing supplies is kinda a good choice but it will force players to get drones. But at the same time itll force players to be more skillful with their combinations than just camping in one spot. So in a way this ideal of a nerf would also affect heavy campers. 

Wrong assumption i think. It forces players to do (re-think) one specific thing one way or the other, do i spend money/do i not spend money.

Very simple deduction really, nothing to do with skill are campers etc, just plain old , from a developer stand point of course.

[Pythor 1,354]

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