event Cosmonautics Day 2022

[x_Sorinel_x 552]

So many stupid players in this game... And now, with this crap be in winning team mission, full of noobs. 2 battles in a row, my team got 3 9999 GS players, enemy 3 9999 GS players. In both games, enemy where ahead in first 2 minutes. What where those 3 9999 GS players did in my team ? Just "run"...

So far, only 2 win from 9 games. When I see noob players in my team, just "run".

 

Don't delete my post !

[fjrenke 15]

your post was/is inrelevant for this topic (this post is "relevant" for the topic complaintbook) and full of (cencored) swearwords. its understandable why the mods deleted it.

[TheCongoSpider 8,952]

4 hours ago, LambSauce said:

Well, no one is forcing you to play all the time on so many accounts. You can do what some of us are doing, which is only doing missions or otherwise playing when you feel like it.

It doesn't matter how often I play on the alt accounts. It will get you the same result because the problem is that the progression towards Legend and a comfortable battle experience at endgame is next to impossible with how your crystal earnings have been reduced and how expensive upkeep is when MM starts pitting you against Legend players early. Players that have likely benefitted from the previous economy of Shard Containers, when containers weren't giving you fewer crystals than before, 84% of the time. 

 

Upkeep is expensive. What is wrong is that the barrier for entry for non-Brutus drones is far too high. Why am I paying an entire 1,000,000 crystals and at least 6 months of waiting to upgrade my Sprinter drone which has almost the same limitations as a Brutus drone AND is technically hardlocked to 5 out of 7 modes, but is practically hardlocked to 3 out of those 5. Why am I paying 1,000,000 crystals for a Blaster drone with crappy splash damage distribution and can be countered by Jammer and Freezing. It may produce some proper results in comparison to Brutus in some battles, but GETTING THERE is far more expensive than it is worth. They hailed that drone and supply rework last year as an opportunity to find a drone that works for you. Nothing has changed since then. It's still the same damn drones dominating in every battle with lower tier drones taking the same fortune to upgrade, except now, funnily enough, you get fewer crystals to spend on them. 

 

 

The only drones that I'd say were worth their upgrade costs after the rework were Assault and Supplier, but they killed most of what made Supplier worth its obscene cost 2 weeks after. I payed 1.5 million crystals to compete with meta players and have a more comfortable time overall, and then it got reduced to a Brutus drone offensively 2 weeks later. Does no one see a problem with this?!? Am I overblowing this? Please tell me. I've already been burned once (5 times to be pedantic) with the culling of the Driver drone. I've been burned again with the removal of solo benefits from Supplier. With how many things going on in the game and how hard it is to comfortably progress, why can't they make non-meta drones more accessible? 

 

 

3 hours ago, wild001 said:

I only use trickster or blaster drone for some hard top3 or ultra container mission, I 

There is the problem. You have the OPTION to do this. The players I am referring to do not have this option. They are hardlocked to one because of how arduous progression is in the current game economy. 

 

3 hours ago, wild001 said:

Not all drone are equal powerful, but I mu all to Max, as I had nothing to spend free crystal

I'm sure the players going towards legends have infinite crystals to spend on hulls, turrets, protection modules, augments AND a 1,000,000 drone of their choice, maybe even 2 or 3 of those drones. 

[SporkZilla 1,775]

33 minutes ago, TheCongoSpider said:

I'm sure the players going towards legends have infinite crystals to spend on hulls, turrets, protection modules, augments AND a 1,000,000 drone of their choice, maybe even 2 or 3 of those drones. 

One of my objectives as not-entirely-f2p was to get at least two fully upgraded turrets and hulls (four in total) and decent protections and another drone to 20/20 before I got to Legend (have two Legend accounts with max Trickster, a Generalissimo with max Hyperion, and a Commander with max Blaster), but all four of my accounts were started in 2018 with the oldest having over 700 hours and the youngest having over 400 hours

But I was forced to progress so slowly because the game has little separation between the newest players and the oldest players, putting me in a position where I can usually put up a good fight against mega buyers and their maxed garages, but also a nightmare opponent for all of the low GS Legends / close-to-Legends that are appearing

And now the newest players are facing older players that have feasted on Shard Containers for most of a year, my Brigadier alt that I started when Shard Containers were introduced has only played for 90 hours but has enough crystals saved up to max another drone (and over 8000 batteries)

I don't think I could recommend TO to any completely new players at the moment when I know that they will struggle to compete against the older players and that they will encounter them so soon

Edited April 12, 2022 by SporkZilla

[LambSauce 1,886]

1 hour ago, TheCongoSpider said:

It doesn't matter how often I play on the alt accounts. It will get you the same result because the problem is that the progression towards Legend and a comfortable battle experience at endgame is next to impossible with how your crystal earnings have been reduced and how expensive upkeep is when MM starts pitting you against Legend players early. Players that have likely benefitted from the previous economy of Shard Containers, when containers weren't giving you fewer crystals than before, 84% of the time. 

 

Upkeep is expensive. What is wrong is that the barrier for entry for non-Brutus drones is far too high. Why am I paying an entire 1,000,000 crystals and at least 6 months of waiting to upgrade my Sprinter drone which has almost the same limitations as a Brutus drone AND is technically hardlocked to 5 out of 7 modes, but is practically hardlocked to 3 out of those 5. Why am I paying 1,000,000 crystals for a Blaster drone with crappy splash damage distribution and can be countered by Jammer and Freezing. It may produce some proper results in comparison to Brutus in some battles, but GETTING THERE is far more expensive than it is worth. They hailed that drone and supply rework last year as an opportunity to find a drone that works for you. Nothing has changed since then. It's still the same damn drones dominating in every battle with lower tier drones taking the same fortune to upgrade, except now, funnily enough, you get fewer crystals to spend on them. 

You’ve demonstrated how the developers are incompetent with regards to balancing equipment and progression.

Why you would, despite that, continue to play so much on a plethora of accounts is a mystery to me, especially if you’re not getting any enjoyment out of it.

[BruhBruhThingThing 413]

3 hours ago, TheCongoSpider said:

Does no one see a problem with this?!? Am I overblowing this? Please tell me. I've already been burned once (5 times to be pedantic) with the culling of the Driver drone. I've been burned again with the removal of solo benefits from Supplier. With how many things going on in the game and how hard it is to comfortably progress, why can't they make non-meta drones more accessible?

There are thousands if not millions of things wrong with this game I'm sure. However, they are not the problem. The real problem is that the devs do not care about our opinions or feedback, they just want to use us as their cash cows.

Most of the people who have been on the forum for a long time have pretty much accepted this unfortunate reality. You are simply wasting your time trying to get the devs to fix things. Why waste your time and effort caring about this game when the devs themselves don't even care about it?

Its like what @LambSauce says, playing on many accounts and complaining about things in the game is a surreal addiction.

From your posts lately, it is clear that you are not enjoying this routine you've been doing. I suggest reducing the amount of accounts you play on daily. That way you can play a different game entirely, touch the grass more, hang out with friends and family more, and other things that are actually enjoying.

[DaringDeer 656]

5 hours ago, TheCongoSpider said:

It will get you the same result because the problem is that the progression towards Legend and a comfortable battle experience at endgame is next to impossible with how your crystal earnings have been reduced and how expensive upkeep is when MM starts pitting you against Legend players early.

The quick progression to Legend ranks is purposeful.  They want players to feel weak in comparison to opposition and encourage them to buy to be stronger.  Obviously, it's not a good strategy to grow a game community.  I have been playing on some lower alts recently and it's pretty painful, though at least all my alts have plenty of supplies.

[wolverine848 13,097]

3 hours ago, BruhBruhThingThing said:

Most of the people who have been on the forum for a long time have pretty much accepted this unfortunate reality.

If by "accepted" you mean QUIT - you're bang on!

[Blutchidoo 508]

18 hours ago, TheCongoSpider said:

Far from it. Three of the accounts below use a good enough drone to (as fairly as possiblr) compete with the meta players. The rest are stuck with Brutus-esque drones. 

 

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I listed the reasons. Container rewards have been nuked. Crystal income has been slashed. Turrets and augments are being buffed every month and making it miserable if you don't have a protection module against them. If you don't want to be hardlocked to one turret and hull forever, you need some variety for different situations in MM. Cheap augments are having their prices increased. 

 

Drone upgrade prices are simply stupid. Half or more of the drones are not worth the fortune you have to pay to upgrade them for proper use in comparison to others in endgame battles. The ones that are cheaper at 500k are still too expensive for what they give you during progression towards Legend AND after. It is asanine that 6 months after the drone reworks and 3 months after the reduction of container rewards, they STILL HAVE NOT SORTED OUT DRONE PRICES BEING AS WACK AS THEY ARE. 

I actually use Brutus most of the time. I can still manage to get decent spots on the scoreboard. Used to be top-3 and even 1st place all the time. Not sure if it's cuz I got sucky or if it's cuz new stuff got added and messed up the previous equilibrium.

I have Crisis but can't really use it cuz no skill.

[numericable 2,375]

11 hours ago, SporkZilla said:

I don't think winning a battle should be a requirement of any mission

I do play to win, and winning and / or top 3 is nice, but the biggest source of stress / anxiety in what should be a fun / casual game is having to win

Lol, thats kind of fun because i only play this game to finish in the winning team, so i have earned skills to see in the beggining of the match, which team is going to win, my accuracy might be 90%. Just to let you know, out of 10 battle i have played, i won 10/10 with top 3 also, so these missions are automatically done for me. There are few tricks to know which side would win( noob/ op nickname; gears; combo; known players etc). Also the game mode is important too if you prefer to win rather than having fun, and i also use OP combo which is a f2p one =dictator freeze adrenaline trickster = equal instant win in tdm since battle objective is 150 kills, i do 50-70 on my own with 10-20 deaths, hard for ennemies to counter this, if they switch protection, freeze is still very OP against 50% modules. Also, I dont play in groups so i get matched with bots(noob players) most of the times.

[BruhBruhThingThing 413]

5 hours ago, wolverine848 said:

If by "accepted" you mean QUIT - you're bang on!

I should have used a better word for it like "realized" since the word "accepted" can be seen as supportive. I apologize for my misuse of words.

What I meant was that most of the players have either quit, play less, or realize that the devs simply don't care about its players.

[Russty 368]

I enjoyed the majority of the event but it was definitely frustrating at times. The number of 9999 players I saw was unbelievable. It made me realise how terribly unbalanced this game is. 

This is my 10th year in the game, and after this event, I've decided it'll be my last. I'm tired of fighting so hard to just simply enjoy and have fun in this game. 

[fghjkl54 1,520]

i haven't noticed i finished those missions.  it was hard because it was easy 

[BruhBruhThingThing 413]

4 hours ago, fghjkl54 said:

i haven't noticed i finished those missions.  it was hard because it was easy 

[wild001 1,422]

On 4/14/2022 at 1:19 AM, Russty said:

I enjoyed the majority of the event but it was definitely frustrating at times. The number of 9999 players I saw was unbelievable. It made me realise how terribly unbalanced this game is. 

This is my 10th year in the game, and after this event, I've decided it'll be my last. I'm tired of fighting so hard to just simply enjoy and have fun in this game. 

As a 9999 player, i cant agree more, i hate to see other 9999s, especially in enemy side

[TheCongoSpider 8,952]

On 4/7/2022 at 6:50 AM, Marcus said:

Rules: 

• Weather forecasters again predict meteor showers that will bring a lot of gold boxes and containers

• The game is set to Sport mode with the appropriate equipment. When you enter such battles, your equipment is regulated at Mk7.

• Let's show the alien observers what it is like to compete in Tanki Online!

 

Parameters:

• Mode: DM, Sport Format

• Maps: Barda, Wolfenstein, Solikamsk

• Turrets: any

• Hulls: any

• Bonus boxes: ON

• Upgrades: OFF

• Augments: OFF

• Overdrives: ON

• Supplies: ON

• Drones: OFF

• Modules: OFF

• Equipment change: OFF

• Smart supplies: ON

• MM groups: OFF

Some may have noticed that this event mode is using a past iteration of the game balance, specifically the one after January 28th. All changes that were made to the stock turrets from that time to now have been reverted. 

 

Additionally, it would appear that augments equipped outside of the event will alter your turret's damage and reload coefficients with the Overdrive. So if you plan to use Viking in the event mode and want the maximum value out of its Overdrive, equip these augments on your turret (if you have then):

 

Firebird: Any

 

Freeze: Any

 

Isida: Support Nanobots 

 

Tesla: Any

 

Hammer: Any except Blunderbuss

 

Ricochet: Plasma Torch

 

Twins: Any except Heavy Plasmagun

 

Smoky: Autocannon

 

Thunder: Small Calibre Charging Machine

 

Striker: Any 

 

Vulcan: Any

 

Gauss: Any 

 

Shaft: Any 

 

Railgun: Electromagnetic Accelerator "Scout"

 

Magnum: Any