I'd rather lose without hopper than win on a team where someone uses hopper in Rugby/CTF.

[r_Fish.tank980 47]

CTF and rugby is just ridiculous with hopper. The problem is the speed and the added agility it has. Just one minute ago our team won thanks to a hopper than went 3x faster than almost fully upgraded wasp. Yes they had speed boost, but that isn't even double speed anymore. So what's with the other factor? Why are they going a minimum of 3x faster than the games "fastest" hull? 

 

Basically I wanted to complain, as I would rather lose than win with so little skill. What's everyone elses thoughts? 

[Maf 32,300]

Hoppers or not, I want to have battles where both sides are well matched and have equal chances of winning, resulting in a very close game. A quick 5-0 is never fun, unless you're just grinding stars/missions I guess (but even then I wouldn't call it "fun"). Being one of those fast hoppers, I usually leave the battle if I manage to score 2 or 3 flags/goals with little to no resistance.

[Spy 14,687]

Hopper is not as strong as it used to be, so I don't mind playing with or against Hoppers. Personally I stopped using Hopper a while ago.

[Maf 32,300]

2 hours ago, r_Fish.tank980 said:

Why are they going a minimum of 3x faster than the games "fastest" hull? 

This is the Crisis drone, which allows you to use only one supply at a time, but the supply power is boosted and you can rapidly switch between them. The DD is weaker than Blaster, DA is the same as Defender, but Speed boost is better than Trickster, increasing the hull's speed by 70% on top of the standard Speed Boost. The drone can be used with any hull, but people found that it's most effective when combined with Hopper.

Here's a video, for reference. Shows a normal tank vs Speed Boost, vs Trickster, vs Crisis.

1 hour ago, Unleash said:

I hate hopper but after time i realise that its waste of time complain on forum. Anything we say here mean absolutely nothing so, im i right mods?

Your feedback is valuable, and it's particularly important when you're commenting in official news threads regarding recent updates. However, there is an important distinction between your feedback being taken into account, versus your feedback directly dictating changes in the game. The latter does not happen for a multitude of reasons, but that doesn't mean it's pointless to comment on and criticise these things.

[Tanker-Arthur 2,971]

The only time I'll ever accept Hopper as being part of Tanki is when the developers add tank tracks onto it and remove it's ability to hover entirely.

[r_Fish.tank980 47]

1 hour ago, Tanker-Arthur said:

The only time I'll ever accept Hopper as being part of Tanki is when the developers add tank tracks onto it and remove it's ability to hover entirely.

 

[r_Fish.tank980 47]

2 hours ago, Maf said:

This is the Crisis drone, which allows you to use only one supply at a time, but the supply power is boosted and you can rapidly switch between them. The DD is weaker than Blaster, DA is the same as Defender, but Speed boost is better than Trickster, increasing the hull's speed by 70% on top of the standard Speed Boost. The drone can be used with any hull, but people found that it's most effective when combined with Hopper.

Here's a video, for reference. Shows a normal tank vs Speed Boost, vs Trickster, vs Crisis.

Your feedback is valuable, and it's particularly important when you're commenting in official news threads regarding recent updates. However, there is an important distinction between your feedback being taken into account, versus your feedback directly dictating changes in the game. The latter does not happen for a multitude of reasons, but that doesn't mean it's pointless to comment on and criticise these things.

Ahh okay, understood... I have wondered this for ages (I do not know all the drones). I don't know if you hear this 10000 times a day, but it doesn't make for fair gameplay when combined with hopper's ability to jump (however, I would say with the speed you get that even with other hulls like wasp it would be unfair) that you are able to use it with speed. I mean who needs 70% extra speed + double speed + one of light hulls = insane speed? Nobody really needs that to win a game. 

[r_Fish.tank980 47]

Just now, r_Fish.tank980 said:

Nobody really needs that to win a game. 

...... Ideally

[alkyng 3,080]

Honestly my problem isn't with Hopper.. My problem is with Hovering hulls completely. I always criticizing them even before Ares release. But now all of my concentration is personally on Hopper because it's more OP than them, but when they balance Hopper, I will back to criticize all of the Hovering hulls.

[LambSauce 1,884]

On 5/17/2021 at 12:27 PM, Maf said:

Your feedback is valuable, and it's particularly important when you're commenting in official news threads regarding recent updates. However, there is an important distinction between your feedback being taken into account, versus your feedback directly dictating changes in the game. The latter does not happen for a multitude of reasons, but that doesn't mean it's pointless to comment on and criticise these things.

I politely disagree with this one. The devs do listen to the players occasionally - the problem is that when they do, it's the Russian playerbase that gets listened and catered to, and everyone else is like a second class citizen when it comes to giving feedback. Remember when that one Russian player had an issue with Crusader's sound effects and the devs immediately changed the sounds.

[wolverine848 13,097]

On 5/17/2021 at 9:33 AM, r_Fish.tank980 said:

Ahh okay, understood... I have wondered this for ages (I do not know all the drones). I don't know if you hear this 10000 times a day, but it doesn't make for fair gameplay when combined with hopper's ability to jump (however, I would say with the speed you get that even with other hulls like wasp it would be unfair) that you are able to use it with speed. I mean who needs 70% extra speed + double speed + one of light hulls = insane speed? Nobody really needs that to win a game. 

Here's some perspective...

Wasp is faster than hopper and hornet has similar speed.  Both would be ridiculously fast with Crisis as well.

But Hopper is responsible for more caps than the other two hulls combined.  So a large part of it's success is the hovering mechanics that allow it to bypass many defenses and hardly (if ever?) flip.

[wolverine848 13,097]

On 5/17/2021 at 7:27 AM, Maf said:

This is the Crisis drone, which allows you to use only one supply at a time, but the supply power is boosted and you can rapidly switch between them. The DD is weaker than Blaster, DA is the same as Defender, but Speed boost is better than Trickster, increasing the hull's speed by 70% on top of the standard Speed Boost. The drone can be used with any hull, but people found that it's most effective when combined with Hopper.

They really need to lower the %.  70 is just way too high - they should try 50%