It is time to take a break

[Tanker-Arthur 2,971]

So once the birthday celebrations and the current challenge is over, it is time for me to take my inevitable break from this game.

 

Personally, I have more urgent things to do in recent days. Everyone on the internet says 2020 is the worst year, but honestly for me, unfortunately, it is 2021. I actually liked 2020 cause my life-long dream of school shutting down actually happened lol. But yeah, certain....things have happened this year and the amount of spare time I have is greatly reduced.

 

But yes, I still have free time occasionally. However, Tanki Online isn’t enjoyable and “fun” anymore. I don’t know why I should still be wasting my life with it. I will briefly rant about all the stuff on Tanki that annoys me:

• Game balance of the turrets, hulls, drones, and augments are thrown out the window. 
  • R.I.P. Alterations. They were fun, interesting, and most importantly, balanced.
  • Half the turrets overpower the others (Gauss being king).
  • Hull overdrives are hugely unbalanced. Just look at the division between Hornet’s measly 50 meter ranged AP effect and Hopper’s versatile jump-stun-burn ability.
  • New Augments such as Isida’s Vampire and Shaft’s Heal Emitters give you no reason at all to use their respective defaut versions, or any other augment belonging to those turrets. They’re simply too strong.
• Most of the augments that guarantee you will win are stuck behind the wall of luck and the classic paywall (Ultra Containers). 
  • Examples: Stunning Railgun, Gauss EMP, Vampire Isida, etc.
• Micro-Upgrades are rip-offs now, especially for the lower modifications where you rank up faster. 
  • I feel horrible for those who upgrade their Mk6 equipment to 9/10, only to rank up to Marshal and get the 10th upgrade locked away and forced to buy the Mk7 at full price.
• Protection Module slots are behind a paywall of premium currency.
  • The slots were free for 3 years! There was no need to change it. Plus, our tankcoin rewards are barely increased! At the most, we only got 12 free tankcoins for the birthday gifts. R.I.P. new players.
• The drones that actually work well end up consuming your supplies like crazy. 
  • Example: Defender
• Unless I’m fully decked out with a Defender Drone, a Hull Augment, and four protection Modules, I’d get one-shot instantly at least 50-70% of the time. 
  • But like I said above, I don’t like it when my supplies are drained and the fourth slot is too expensive. 
• The new augments are boring and have no originality with them.
  • Most of them just tack-on a random status effect and the devs call it a day. 
  • Rather than make every turret do critical damage for no reason at all, the devs could’ve just, I don’t know, directly nerf the overpowered status effect augments?
• Unnecessary balance changes such as the Striker buff that made the turret way too strong. Why use Thunder now?
  • And no, I don’t want Thunder to be buffed. We die too fast nowadays (unless we have Defender Drone and Titan plus stuff like AP immunity). I do not want our offensive, damage-dealing abilities to be buffed anymore.
• Challenges are horrible now.
  • Bare bones, they "look" better...but lets be honest, unless the developers increase the star rewards/earnings or increase the duration of each challenge, there is no way we can earn 1000 extra stars (equaling 4000) in the same time frame it took for us to earn 3000 stars with 1 or two days left before the challenge ends. This means all players who have less then 1,500 tankcoins will be denied the tankcoins they need to buy the battle pass and farm the tankcoins in the gold tiers.
  • And 1,500 tankcoins is, in itself, a rip-off. A better price would be 1000 tankcoins or just revert it back to 500 tankcoins.

 

If you guys saw my account, you’d know I only use the weak, F2P equipment. 

Yes, stuff like my Mechanic Drone is great for farming battle score but it doesn’t do anything against players with drones like Defender, Booster, and Blaster. I used it because it was a drone that only consumed batteries. Nothing more. 

Same with my other accounts, which use the Driver, Supplier, and Brutus drones, respectively. 

 

And some of my turrets (such as Freeze) still use the default version, even though I have Augments for it. Why, you ask? Because augments are inconsistent. On turrets like Gauss, they act as pure upgrades. No reason to use default Gauss if you have EMP Gauss. While on turrets like Freeze and Firebird, they’re still “Alterations” and the default version is still balanced with the Augments. And I enjoy using the default Freeze, so I use it. I nown Shock Freeze and Toxic Mix. Shock Freeze does too little damage for me and Toxic Mix’s lack of a good freezing effect isn’t my type of Freeze playstyle. I’m not saying they’re underpowered, I’m saying Default Freeze’s playstyle fits me the most, so I prefer it over it’s augments. This is what all augments should be, “Alterations” that change the style of the turret up. Not purely upgrade it. 

 

Only once every several months do I manage to get something “strong” from a battle pass or from an ultra container, such as AP Ricochet which I need to always use cause it’s a 100% upgrade compared to the default Ricochet. But even if I earn stuff like Crisis Drone, why would I wanna use it? I don’t have the budget to upgrade it and I don’t have the supplies to fuel it.

 

With all those aforementioned problems and annoyances, I’d honestly rather play something like Roblox with my BFF. At least that game isn't a "chore" like Tanki is (as one forumer once said) and we actually can have fun.

• I say "chore" because you're basically forced to log in every day and "work" on your missions and "work" on your challenges in order to earn progress and compete against other players, specifically the veterans and buyers.

 

Still, I won’t be completely gone. I will still visit the forum a bit and I’ll keep in check with the game’s news and updates. Also when the Tesla or any other new turret or free-to-play item gets released, my interest in the game will be restored, somewhat. But otherwise, I’m going to be relatively inactive on the forum for the foreseeable future. 

Honestly, the best part about Tanki nowadays is the forum. Most of the playerbase on the forum I've met is far better than those of other games I've played, at least those I know on the English forum (cause I only speak English haha).

If luck is on our side, you guys will still find me on ^_better  games like Brawl Stars and the aforementioned Roblox. 

But yeah, once Birthday celebrations are over, no more Tanki for now. At the very most, I’ll be claiming my free shard container each day. That was honestly the best update the developers ever did this year and I commend them for that. 

I've been with this game since 2014. I left once in 2019 and came back a year later. The same will be done again. Whether or not I come back as a full-fledged player and enjoyer of the game is uncertain.

 

Okay, see ya.

Edited June 9, 2021 by Tanker-Arthur

[Spy 14,687]

[LambSauce 1,884]

Devs to F2P players: "I'm sorry... it's time for you to leave."

F2P players: "And so it is."

Edited June 9, 2021 by LambSauce
Anyone get the reference?

[LambSauce 1,884]

By the way, I was randomly looking at some of TeamPointer's members' streams and I came across you in this battle against @Immortal_HeRo_DoW

 

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On another note, I don't wanna hijack this thread (it may look like that lol), so I just want to say best wishes for the future @Tanker-Arthur and I hope you check back on the forum from time to time, even if you don't play the game during your break 

Edited June 9, 2021 by LambSauce

[Tanker-Arthur 2,971]

3 hours ago, LambSauce said:

By the way, I was randomly looking at some of TeamPointer's members' streams and I came across you in this battle against @Immortal_HeRo_DoW

Ohhhhh I remember that battle.

 

Yeah the Smoky-Hornet was extremely annoying.

3 hours ago, LambSauce said:

so I just want to say best wishes for the future @Tanker-Arthur and I hope you check back on the forum from time to time, even if you don't play the game during your break 

Thanks ☺

 

And yes I wont be 100% gone from the forum. I just wont have the time to look at and reply to everything or to people's replies to my comments but I'll hang around for the time being.

[E_polypterus 2,374]

7 hours ago, Tanker-Arthur said:

So once the birthday celebrations and the current challenge is over, it is time for me to take my inevitable break from this game.

 

Personally, I have more urgent things to do in recent days. Everyone on the internet says 2020 is the worst year, but honestly for me, unfortunately, it is 2021. I actually liked 2020 cause my life-long dream of school shutting down actually happened lol. But yeah, certain....things have happened this year and the amount of spare time I have is greatly reduced.

 

But yes, I still have free time occasionally. However, Tanki Online isn’t enjoyable and “fun” anymore. I don’t know why I should still be wasting my life with it. I will briefly rant about all the stuff on Tanki that annoys me:

• Game balance of the turrets, hulls, drones, and augments are thrown out the window. 
  • R.I.P. Alterations. They were fun, interesting, and most importantly, balanced.
  • Half the turrets overpower the others (Gauss being king).
  • Hull overdrives are hugely unbalanced. Just look at the division between Hornet’s measly 50 meter ranged AP effect and Hopper’s versatile jump-stun-burn ability.
  • New Augments such as Isida’s Vampire and Shaft’s Heal Emitters give you no reason at all to use their respective defaut versions, or any other augment belonging to those turrets. They’re simply too strong.
• Most of the augments that guarantee you will win are stuck behind the wall of luck and the classic paywall (Ultra Containers). 
  • Examples: Stunning Railgun, Gauss EMP, Vampire Isida, etc.
• Micro-Upgrades are rip-offs now, especially for the lower modifications where you rank up faster. 
  • I feel horrible for those who upgrade their Mk6 equipment to 9/10, only to rank up to Marshal and get the 10th upgrade locked away and forced to buy the Mk7 at full price.
• Protection Module slots are behind a paywall of premium currency.
  • The slots were free for 3 years! There was no need to change it. Plus, our tankcoin rewards are barely increased! At the most, we only got 12 free tankcoins for the birthday gifts. R.I.P. new players.
• The drones that actually work well end up consuming your supplies like crazy. 
  • Example: Defender
• Unless I’m fully decked out with a Defender Drone, a Hull Augment, and four protection Modules, I’d get one-shot instantly at least 50-70% of the time. 
  • But like I said above, I don’t like it when my supplies are drained and the fourth slot is too expensive. 
• The new augments are boring and have no originality with them.
  • Most of them just tack-on a random status effect and the devs call it a day. 
  • Rather than make every turret do critical damage for no reason at all, the devs could’ve just, I don’t know, directly nerf the overpowered status effect augments?
• Unnecessary balance changes such as the Striker buff that made the turret way too strong. Why use Thunder now?
  • And no, I don’t want Thunder to be buffed. We die too fast nowadays (unless we have Defender Drone and Titan plus stuff like AP immunity). I do not want our offensive, damage-dealing abilities to be buffed anymore.
• Challenges are horrible now.
  • Bare bones, they "look" better...but lets be honest, unless the developers increase the star rewards/earnings or increase the duration of each challenge, there is no way we can earn 1000 extra stars (equaling 4000) in the same time frame it took for us to earn 3000 stars with 1 or two days left before the challenge ends. This means all players who have less then 1,500 tankcoins will be denied the tankcoins they need to buy the battle pass and farm the tankcoins in the gold tiers.
  • And 1,500 tankcoins is, in itself, a rip-off. A better price would be 1000 tankcoins or just revert it back to 500 tankcoins.

 

If you guys saw my account, you’d know I only use the weak, F2P equipment. 

Yes, stuff like my Mechanic Drone is great for farming battle score but it doesn’t do anything against players with drones like Defender, Booster, and Blaster. I used it because it was a drone that only consumed batteries. Nothing more. 

Same with my other accounts, which use the Driver, Supplier, and Brutus drones, respectively. 

 

And some of my turrets (such as Freeze) still use the default version, even though I have Augments for it. Why, you ask? Because augments are inconsistent. On turrets like Gauss, they act as pure upgrades. No reason to use default Gauss if you have EMP Gauss. While on turrets like Freeze and Firebird, they’re still “Alterations” and the default version is still balanced with the Augments. And I enjoy using the default Freeze, so I use it. I nown Shock Freeze and Toxic Mix. Shock Freeze does too little damage for me and Toxic Mix’s lack of a good freezing effect isn’t my type of Freeze playstyle. I’m not saying they’re underpowered, I’m saying Default Freeze’s playstyle fits me the most, so I prefer it over it’s augments. This is what all augments should be, “Alterations” that change the style of the turret up. Not purely upgrade it. 

 

Only once every several months do I manage to get something “strong” from a battle pass or from an ultra container, such as AP Ricochet which I need to always use cause it’s a 100% upgrade compared to the default Ricochet. But even if I earn stuff like Crisis Drone, why would I wanna use it? I don’t have the budget to upgrade it and I don’t have the supplies to fuel it.

 

With all those aforementioned problems and annoyances, I’d honestly rather play something like Roblox with my BFF. At least that game isn't a "chore" like Tanki is (as one forumer once said) and we actually can have fun.

• I say "chore" because you're basically forced to log in every day and "work" on your missions and "work" on your challenges in order to earn progress and compete against other players, specifically the veterans and buyers.

 

Still, I won’t be completely gone. I will still visit the forum a bit and I’ll keep in check with the game’s news and updates. Also when the Tesla or any other new turret or free-to-play item gets released, my interest in the game will be restored, somewhat. But otherwise, I’m going to be relatively inactive on the forum for the foreseeable future. 

Honestly, the best part about Tanki nowadays is the forum. Most of the playerbase on the forum I've met is far better than those of other games I've played, at least those I know on the English forum (cause I only speak English haha).

If luck is on our side, you guys will still find me on ^_better  games like Brawl Stars and the aforementioned Roblox. 

But yeah, once Birthday celebrations are over, no more Tanki for now. At the very most, I’ll be claiming my free shard container each day. That was honestly the best update the developers ever did this year and I commend them for that. 

I've been with this game since 2014. I left once in 2019 and came back a year later. The same will be done again. Whether or not I come back as a full-fledged player and enjoyer of the game is uncertain.

 

Okay, see ya.

damn, sad to see this, wont' forget you bro :)

I dont think we ever played ingame too though, how about one battle.

 

[Tanker-Arthur 2,971]

3 hours ago, E_polypterus said:

damn, sad to see this, wont' forget you bro :)

Thanks :)

3 hours ago, E_polypterus said:

I dont think we ever played ingame too though, how about one battle.

Sure. I'm not sure if our schedules will line up though, but here's when I'm usually online:

I usually play in the early morning in my time (which I believe is around 10 AM - 2 or 3 PM UTC)

If I'm not busy in the evening, I'll be on around 12 AM - 3 AM UTC

[Bydo 20,121]

all the best on your journey

[E_polypterus 2,374]

1 hour ago, Tanker-Arthur said:

I usually play in the early morning in my time (which I believe is around 10 AM - 2 or 3 PM UTC)

If I'm not busy in the evening, I'll be on around 12 AM - 3 AM UTC

hm, maybe I can get on around tht time too, lets see though 

[alkyng 3,080]

Sad to see you go

And as this is the last meet, I have to say my true opinion about you. Honestly you're approximately the best one in the forum for me, you entered the forum in late 2020 and gained a lot of respectance from players quickly. I saw alot of logic with your posts

18 hours ago, Tanker-Arthur said:

At the very most, I’ll be claiming my free shard container each day.

LOL, if you did this.. You actually haven't left!!!!  This is what Tanki intended by shards update, making you enter the game everyday

Honestly there are some players who left the game, but just doing their daily missions and quickly closing the game

18 hours ago, Tanker-Arthur said:

Honestly, the best part about Tanki nowadays is the forum.

Honestly I agree with you in this.. I played the game for many years (from 2012), have left the game for a whiles. Entered the forum in 2020/5, and it been now the only reason for me to continue playing. The game now is completely sux, but the discussing and hanging out with members in the forum is more interesting. And made me don't leave the game even for a week, from the time I entered the forum.

[Tanker-Arthur 2,971]

On 6/10/2021 at 10:06 AM, E_polypterus said:

hm, maybe I can get on around tht time too, lets see though 

Okay :D

I will friend request you the next time I log on.

On 6/10/2021 at 11:17 AM, asem.harbi said:

And as this is the last meet

I'm 100% sure we will meet again :)

On 6/10/2021 at 11:17 AM, asem.harbi said:

Honestly you're approximately the best one in the forum for me

That means a lot. Thanks so much. You're honestly one of my favorite forumers as well!

On 6/10/2021 at 11:17 AM, asem.harbi said:

you entered the forum in late 2020

I actually entered in late 2017 :D. I wasn't posting a lot at the time then hehe. My internet was horrible during these times, so I focused most of its power to waiting for Tanki battles to load :(

But yeah, I understand, we haven't met till I became active again on here in 2020 hehe.

On 6/10/2021 at 11:17 AM, asem.harbi said:

gained a lot of respectance from players quickly

I mainly posted memes several months ago hehehehehehehehehe

On 6/10/2021 at 11:17 AM, asem.harbi said:

I saw alot of logic with your posts

Its nice to hear that :D

Yours are just as logical to be honest.

On 6/10/2021 at 11:17 AM, asem.harbi said:

LOL, if you did this.. You actually haven't left!!!!  This is what Tanki intended by shards update, making you enter the game everyday

True hehe.

But I'm basically saying I'm gonna be pretty inactive on Tanki, and on the forum cause I don't have the time to type essays worth of posts each day hehe.

On 6/10/2021 at 11:17 AM, asem.harbi said:

The game now is completely sux, but the discussing and hanging out with members in the forum is more interesting.

Very true.

To be honest, most of the time, forumers on here have way better and more sane ideas than what the developers give us hehehe.

And I'd rather look at people's pictures of the day than join a battle only to be constantly one-shot by some guy using Gauss and Booster Drone.

On 6/10/2021 at 8:44 AM, Bydo said:

all the best on your journey

Thanks :D

 

 

Also, @At_Shin has somewhat renewed my interest in the game with Tesla, so I'll be sticking around a bit longer to try it out on the test server.

[Tanker-Arthur 2,971]

 

It's battles like these that make me wanna rage-quit.

Yes, I know both teams both managed to get a decent amount of kills, but as for my personal score, I didn't do...much at all.

Just FYI, the equipment I used was Mk7 9/20 Dragon Breath Hammer, Mk7 20/20 Hunter, and Level 12 Mechanic Drone.

 

And not gonna lie, the post-critical-hit Dragon Breath is very powerful and too strong, compared to Default Hammer that is. However, it isn't OP at all when compared against the equipment my enemies were using, which were EMP Smoky and a number of Booster and Defender Drones.

Legit, the only thing I used that counts as an "exclusive and/or OP" item is my Hunter's Heat Immunity. But then again, almost every Legend player has some sort of hull augment anyway.

And the few chances I actually had to destroy an enemy were taken away by my teammates. I know teammates stealing other teammate's kills isn't a problem for game balance, but it just adds to my increasing frustration on this game.

Edited June 12, 2021 by Tanker-Arthur

[Crossbone 516]

On 6/9/2021 at 1:32 PM, Tanker-Arthur said:

I say "chore" because you're basically forced to log in every day and "work" on your missions and "work" on your challenges in order to earn progress and compete against other players, specifically the veterans and buyers.

This is exactly the same mindset I had before I originally left back in mid December. I didn't admit it in my original farewell post but I think the main reason that I left was because I treated tanki as a chore that had to be done rather than just a game.

3 hours ago, Tanker-Arthur said:

And the few chances I actually had to destroy an enemy were taken away by my teammates. I know teammates stealing other teammate's kills isn't a problem for game balance, but it just adds to my increasing frustration on this game.

Oh yeah, I know how that feels. 

[Tanker-Arthur 2,971]

1 hour ago, Crossbone said:

This is exactly the same mindset I had before I originally left back in mid December. I didn't admit it in my original farewell post but I think the main reason that I left was because I treated tanki as a chore that had to be done rather than just a game.

The game really is a chore.

For one, me and my friend both play Tanki. Idk about him, I never directly asked, but I never have fun playing Tanki because (1) we never play with each other on enjoyable pro battles (like Polygon CP); all our free time is used for doing the daily/weekly missions and trying to get to tier 50 in order to keep up with the rest of the grinder/veteran/buyer players. And we can't even play in groups cause the matchmaking is significantly longer if we play in a group and we choose any other option besides quick battle in order to do our missions. So really, it's a single-player game for us now, not a co-op with friends game like it used to be 3-5 years ago. And yeah, single-player games can be fun but like...the frustration I get from constantly dying while trying to complete some grindy missions that only have a deadline of 24 hours is pretty high. And lets not forget the weekly mission that forces you to get top 3 in the winning team 15 times O_O.

 

[Bydo 20,121]

sir I understand - try changing  your  turret and hull - then add  protection - use    Augments .

if you keep your gear score low you will be in better battles . if you have it high then you will be send into battles with stronger tanks. also a huge secret is to battle when you have weaker players on line. for me in Canada I find earlier morning or later in the afternoon . not sure why but it works for me.

good luck ..

[Tanker-Arthur 2,971]

Just now, Bydo said:

try changing  your  turret and hull

I was just demonstrating how unbalanced the game is with certain equipment compared to others hehe.

Just now, Bydo said:

then add  protection

I only have three Mk7 modules (Striker, Shaft, Railgun), 1 Mk6 module (Thunder), and 1 Mk5 Module (Ricochet). Everything else is Mk3 or lower :(

Just now, Bydo said:

use    Augments

Most of the turret Augments I own aren't even "Augments/Upgrades"; they're more so "Alterations" from back in 2018 when Tanki devs tried keeping everything in check lol.

Just now, Bydo said:

if you keep your gear score low you will be in better battles

Oh...

I have an account that is Marshall ranked and has a high-7000 GS, yet like 90% of the battles they put me in are against Legends with red-numbered (9000+) Gear Scores.

Thanks for the tips anyway, maybe it works better on other accounts.

Just now, Bydo said:

also a huge secret is to battle when you have weaker players on line. for me in Canada I find earlier morning or later in the afternoon . not sure why but it works for me.

Actually same for me hehe. I usually find hours before the server resets to be the easiest...

Still, even the F2P equipment that's less annoying is unbalanced with each other (such as Default Striker vs Default Thunder )

[Crossbone 516]

2 hours ago, Tanker-Arthur said:

And lets not forget the weekly mission that forces you to get top 3 in the winning team 15 times O_O.

Yeah that's one of the few things that I still really want the devs to change.

[Tanker-Arthur 2,971]

Well I just opened my last set of Containers, Ultra Containers, and Coinboxes today.

I decided to purge all my tankcoins into coinboxes lol. The end result was a bit disappointing.

 

[Frylock 1,617]

1 hour ago, Tanker-Arthur said:

Well I just opened my last set of Containers, Ultra Containers, and Coinboxes today.

I decided to purge all my tankcoins into coinboxes lol. The end result was a bit disappointing. 

 

Man those were the most worst rewards ive ever seen. From regular containers and ultra containers. Well as for coin boxes, you should have saw that comming lol

Edited June 13, 2021 by MysticBlood

[Tanker-Arthur 2,971]

Just now, MysticBlood said:

Man those were the most worst rewards ive ever seen. From regular containers and ultra containers.

I know :(

 

Also, wanted to point out, that Jammer Immunity for Titan could very well have been one of the Legendary Turret Augments had the developers not constantly keep making new status effects.

Just now, MysticBlood said:

Well as for coin boxes, you should have saw that comming lol

I did hehe.

But honestly, with battle passes costing 1,500 tankcoins and challenges needing 4,000 stars to reach tier 50, I thought it was better just to try my luck with the lottery lol.

[Frylock 1,617]

16 minutes ago, Tanker-Arthur said:

But honestly, with battle passes costing 1,500 tankcoins and challenges needing 4,000 stars to reach tier 50, I thought it was better just to try my luck with the lottery lol.

Btw i just finished the challenge ive spent 8 hrs streight finishing it. And i got lucky with the coinboxes and bought the bp. Finally i got e salvo.....REVENGE TIME!!! LOL 

[Tokamak 1,021]

[Tanker-Arthur 2,971]

On 6/13/2021 at 1:52 AM, MysticBlood said:

Btw i just finished the challenge ive spent 8 hrs streight finishing it. And i got lucky with the coinboxes and bought the bp. Finally i got e salvo.....REVENGE TIME!!! LOL 

NICE!!!

I honestly have one of the lowest luck of all Tanki players hehe.

 

Also I was busy today and I didn't manage to log on to do today's missions. And since I have no time to grind tomorrow, I guess it's time to quit.

[Tanker-Arthur 2,971]

On 6/13/2021 at 11:16 AM, Tokamak said:

yeee

[Tanker-Arthur 2,971]

Okay bye everyone!

 

I will return when Tesla is in the main game. I'll stay if it satisfies me.

Otherwise, it was nice meeting you all: 

Spoiler

@Spy

@LambSauce

@E_polypterus

@Bydo

@asem.harbi

@Crossbone

@MysticBlood

@Tokamak

@Abellia

@Emil

@TheCongoSpider

@At_Shin

And others who i know but didn't reply on this topic.