v-log Tanki Online V-LOG: Episode 375

[CocoleVG_tanki 40]

Ah yes, remove the simple and straightforward drones that (used to) cost crystals (were in regular containers for a time) for luck-based augments that they will probably make very rare, effectively removing the fun of some drone effects from F2P (forcing to use brutus which is not very fun, reliable is not equal to fun).

Turret augments are the confusing aspect of the game as you have to know what symbol is what augment when pressing TAB (or take the very long time to go to your garage). And also, there are a lot of them for every turrets, unlike drones, which are per tank.

In addition to the turret augments already being confusing as hell, hull augments will probably be the one factor that, ironically enough, will complicate the understanding of the game.

[belege 21]

Make shore you tell Taspens what you think about the compensation model and how much you spent on upgreding and speed ups. 

He was presented as the youtuber to came up with this numbers. Not the devs.

[PirateSpider 1,489]

So since the batteries will also be removed apparently, I have some questions:

 

1) Will that mean that we can use any drone without consuming batteries?

 

2) What will happen to the special missions that required us to consume batteries?

 

3) What does this mean for Brutus now?

[JustBlackWolf 875]

On 3/10/2023 at 5:22 PM, PirateSpider said:

So since the batteries will also be removed apparently, I have some questions:

 

1) Will that mean that we can use any drone without consuming batteries?

 

2) What will happen to the special missions that required us to consume batteries?

 

3) What does this mean for Brutus now?

the silence comes always before the storm, me and my friend have been wondering about this too, and we both know there MUST BE a catch somewhere, no way they're going to let us get away with something so "good" for this game standards that is.

[wild004 23]

Max garage player like thosr above legend 100 ranks alreayd have 10m crystal that has nothing to buy.

Crystal at end game is useless, remove drone give useless end game players are useless

 

It is already damn hard to full tankicoin based hull immu, withbmany year of lucky

 

Most likely drone augment will be ultra containr only tire or legend level reward.

 

Free player at end game will be seperated more from buyers

[dont_you 54]

On 3/10/2023 at 1:22 PM, PirateSpider said:

1) Will that mean that we can use any drone without consuming batteries?

Drones will not consume batteries anymore.

On 3/10/2023 at 1:22 PM, PirateSpider said:

2) What will happen to the special missions that required us to consume batteries?

There will not be such missions anymore.

On 3/10/2023 at 1:22 PM, PirateSpider said:

3) What does this mean for Brutus now?

Brutus does not consume extra supplies like other drones. It still will be weaker but cheaper to use than other drones.

[yuvraj007 302]

 players are praising developers for removing batteries.

In other words, they are thanking them for having introduced a completely unnecessary item in the game, which had as only objective to empty your money/crystals every minute.

Prove me otherwise. 

[Maf 32,300]

[sphdz_3153371 41]

my clan boss and I were discussing how tanki online would find new money grifting techniques.

Safe to say that the new "drone augment" scheme is a perfect way to rip off players.

Remove their existing drones, compensate too low of an amount, and then make them buy what they already had in the form of augments.

Perfection.

[Noob_001 63]

as i heard from recent vlog devs planning to add miner drone ability as hull augment so players can make saboteur + miner combo which will allow players to spam mines all over the map. i think this will affect gameplay too much when flags are surrounded with hundreds of mines it will be impossible to take them so i have 2 ways of solution to make it bit balanced. 1. add another hull augment that gives mine immunity (100% mine protection) or at least 90%. so players will be able to run over these mines 2. increase mine protection defense. 20% at mk1 and 90 - 80% at mk8 this will also make this module more useful and popular since nobody use this for now this change will give him some worth.

 

Edited March 10, 2023 by Noob_001

[TargetXAcquired 277]

LOL same old, same old.

I was going to do a well thought out lengthy post quoting lots of players, then thought nah no point.

All I will say is the devs get away with fleecing the players "EVERY TIME" because they know the players soooooo well.

 

[Occultus 59]

I understand that there will be a 100% refund for the purchase of a drone, it is not mentioned anywhere

[0179432 146]

I bought Brutus back in the day when upgrades weren't as cheap on it, and now it's useless after batteries no longer exist.  RIP crystals.  :(

[Coriolano 78]

You remove my maxed out drone. You give me crystals back. I want to pretend everything is OK. But then I am without an update drone. So damage dealt by enemies is reduced only by 33%. and damage dealt by my tank is increased only by 50% Therefore I have to waste months in maxing out another drone again. Meanwhile my tank is weaker than before. To sum up, you should give another maxed out drone -not crystals-  in return for drones which you remove. On the contrary your decision harms me. Everything else is just idle chitchat

[RIDDLER_8 5,552]

I like the merging of drones to augments. If drones are removed, why not remove all drones, give players full payback of crystals and replace all the drones in the game with hull augments. That would be a much better decision than to have remaining drones, which would be useless since more hull augments will be added. In other terms, why have both hull augments and drones.

[TESL4 426]

They really said removing drones was to "simplify the game process"
Tanki > English translation; they are removing a feature from the game, and re-introducing the same features as paid augments. While giving a pathetic compensation from already owned items. This is just sad.

[Eithern 412]

Add features to the game -> make players spend crystals and time on them -> remove them

Niiiiice, so I've fully upgraded my miner drone for nothing. And its cool feature will be lost, because obviously if you choose that as hull's augment you can't have jammer immunity equipped, and we all know what it means... after carefully placing mines all over the base some random player with jammer effect kills you and you loose everything.

Drones are not the problem. Rebalance all the status effects, the OP combinations, the matchmaking system, or add an option to battle like the old tanki with only the supplies. In the last years they tried to transform tanki in an MMORPG like game with hundred of combinations, I like it (even if the old tanki will remain the best), but they failed to keep it balanced, because there are always OP players and unbalanced teams that ruins the day.

And I don't know if I'm the only one thinking this, but with battles that last ten minutes or less all this variety is useless, you don't have time to make a strategy with your team or even make friends, what's the point to play anymore?

[Jeers4U 665]

On 3/10/2023 at 5:16 PM, TESL4 said:

They really said removing drones was to "simplify the game process"
Tanki > English translation; they are removing a feature from the game, and re-introducing the same features as paid augments. While giving a pathetic compensation from already owned items. This is just sad.

This isn't even the 300th time they've done this.

[cybernite 93]

I guess our tanks generate power and then use microwave power transmissions (wireless  power) to our drones. They actually have this technology in real life, and have

drone flying for days. I spent like 800k crystals last 30% sale just on batteries, and sort of worries me. But it sort of gets a point how much I play to deplete my battery stockpile. I just played with brutus alot and was able to save alot of batteries then got into the more advance drones.

But it made me happy that they will remove them, atleast 1 good thing.

 

[RIDDLER_8 5,552]

Tanki Online augments history repeats itself.

[0179432 146]

On 3/10/2023 at 5:14 AM, tank7 said:

How tanki got 60% - Sales have either 50% or 30% discount so the average is 40% completely ignoring that:

(1) The number of 50% sales is far lower than the number of 30% sales.

(2) Many players upgrade drones on normal days to save up on speed-up costs. 

I'd honestly like them to answer this question

[Jack 417]

On 3/10/2023 at 6:19 PM, Noob_001 said:

 

 

Topic merged.

[aBiglongfatNICK 68]

strange, i dont see any anouncement about fixing MM

and how we gona get new arguments its a easy answer, trust me

Edited March 11, 2023 by aBiglongfatNICK

[Okami 3,041]

I was mostly on board with the whole thing (my garage is almost completely maxed out and the drone I use almost exclusively isn’t getting the axe) but I’m not sure about the hull augment thing. I’m not looking forward to facing Blasters or Lifeguards with no way to disable that effect. Fingers crossed that people will prefer to use immunities? 

[Okami 3,041]

@ all endgame players who aren’t sure how to use the crystals: there’ll inevitably be new turrets/hulls/modules coming soon.