v-log Tanki Online V-LOG: Episode 531

[Marcus 17,292]

In today’s episode, we will be launching Summer Sport Games. We’ll also be reminding you about the Referral event and explaining Tanki Classic augments.

 

 

• Summer Sport Games 2025
• Invite a friend #3
• «Tanki Classic»: Early Access
• Spy Contest Form

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[RIDDLER_8 5,552]

Will there be augments in Classic Tanki Online?

[tepvel 40]

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Edited July 17 by tepvel

[RIDDLER_8 5,552]

Good. Now make the very most of your day of premium time.

[Biome 166]

Thank you so much tanki online developers for the great episode and well designed event !!!! )

[RIDDLER_8 5,552]

Will Tanki Classic be exactly like Tanki Online from 2009 to 2015?

[Pea 17]

Why’s it called Classic if it has Augments? 

[2shots2kills 2,364]

On 7/18/2025 at 1:39 PM, Pea said:

Why’s it called Classic if it has Augments? 

Not gonna lie, the more I hear about Classic, the less interested I am to try it out. It just seems like a watered version of the current game.

I thought the idea behind the whole thing was to relive the original experience and feel of the game, but ODs, augments, even new mechanics? LC Isida tied to vampire nanobots? 

[JustBlackWolf 874]

Bro I didn't ask for a temu version of tanki online 2009

[RIDDLER_8 5,552]

Tanki Classic is not supposed to have augments or upgrades if it were to be the Tanki Online nostalgia of 2009 to 2015. That does not make sense whatsoever because when I first played the game in April 2015, there were no augments. The separation of paint upgrades did not even exist yet, so please roll back to how Tanki Online looked, worked and felt like within those years of 2009 to 2015.

[Hypersomnia 1,695]

Augments? Sure (only the actual OG ones). And not tied to a skin but 125k/250k crystals with renting for a day option. Just like... CLASSIC

what if i want LC isida but i dont want the vampire augment? instead i want support nanobots tied to XT isida. WHAT IF I DONT LIKE XT ISIDA buts its the augment i want to use? WHY IS THERE XT ISIDA IN THE FIRST PLACE? Last time i checked its only XT Railgun Firebird yap yap... no XT isida or Striker or LCs PRs. 500k crystals and premium is all you needed after brigadier to get them. Literally whats the point to turn it into Temu Tanki like other person said?

Literally just recreate 2015 tanki or something in HTML5. No need for any other add ons. No need to redraw some assets like battle list board to make them "HD" too. Use old ones... dare i say... CLASSIC ones. 

This "Tanki Classic"  you can absolutely argue is not "Classic" but "Alternative". Hell lets file a class action lawsuit against Alternativa and Hazel for false advertising with "Classic".  Players in this forum have nothing to do anyways.

(Forum crashed as I was writing this... Crash of guilt I fear.)

[Opex-Rah 5,375]

I'll address this here, why not.

 

The Augments/Alterations. First let's start with the Uranium missiles as the most aggravating one. When you hear Uranium playing the game these days you have a strong picture in front of your eyes of OP aug killing everything left and right. How come the devs talking of this at the same time when they say these alterations are not going to be OP in the Classic?

Short memory indeed. Just recently Uranium was one of the useless augments for the Striker. For many years it wasn't even a Legendary one. Saying that in the Classic these augments will have a different philosophy behind them we mean it. Of all the versions of Uranium we had we'll use the one that fits this philosophy. We can do that, we have the data.

Or lets take the other one for example. The «Death Herald» compulsator for the Railgun. For the majority of time in Tanki this augment wasn't even an augment. It was an alteration. And it had a significant downside when you don't kill you target you reload/charge slower then normal turret. This is kind of DH we are planning to use in Classic.

There is a huge difference in 'how the game feels' when you have the same mechanic tunned differently. Augments are not Alterations. Alterations got downsides and sometimes significant. What we are going to do in the Classic is a minor differences between skins to have just enough spice when the feel a bit different. That's it.

 

In the end, you always can vote against this decision. It will be a bad decision in the long run, you will ruin the project, but I am not going to die on this hill in an epic fight of opinions. Tanki Classic and Tanki Online are two very different projects. At least in my eyes.

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Oh yeah. The Isida situation. It is absolutely going to have a vampiric effect in the base version as it fits its classic style. The skin going to have a slightly better vampiric effect having a slightly worse healing effect. I can only hope you'll be able to tell the difference between the two.

 

[DMR 674]

On 7/18/2025 at 4:16 PM, Opex-Rah said:

I'll address this here, why not.

 

The Augments/Alterations. First let's start with the Uranium missiles as the most aggravating one. When you hear Uranium playing the game these days you have a strong picture in front of your eyes of OP aug killing everything left and right. How come the devs talking of this at the same time when they say these alterations are not going to be OP in the Classic?

Short memory indeed. Just recently Uranium was one of the useless augments for the Striker. For many years it wasn't even a Legendary one. Saying that in the Classic these augments will have a different philosophy behind them we mean it. Of all the versions of Uranium we had we'll use the one that fits this philosophy. We can do that, we have the data.

Or lets take the other one for example. The «Death Herald» compulsator for the Railgun. For the majority of time in Tanki this augment wasn't event an augment. It was an alteration. And it had a significant downside when you don't kill you target you reload/charge slower then normal turret. This is kind of DH we are planning to use in Classic.

There is a huge difference in 'how the game feels' when you have the same mechanic tunned differently. Augments are not Alterations. Alterations got downsides and sometimes significant. What we are going to do in the Classic is a minor differences between skins to have just enough spice when the feel a bit different. That's it.

 

In the end, you always can vote against this decision. It will be a bad decision in the long run, you will ruin the project, but I am not going to die on this hill in an epic fight of opinions. Tanki Classic and Tanki Online are two very different projects. At least in my eyes.

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Oh yeah. The Isida situation. It is absolutely going to have a vampiric effect in the base version as it fits its classic style. The skin going to have a slightly better vampiric effect having a slightly worse healing effect. I can only hope you'll be able to tell the difference between the two.

 

Let's talk overdrives. No one asked for overdrives, unless if every hulls would have the old star overdrive from the year 2017 where it gave you all supplies at once back and gave your tank full repair kit effect

[Opex-Rah 5,375]

On 7/19/2025 at 3:11 AM, DMR said:

Let's talk overdrives. No one asked for overdrives, unless if every hulls would have the old star overdrive from the year 2017 where it gave you all supplies at once back and gave your tank full repair kit effect

Every hull will have the old star overdrive from the year 2017 where it gave you all supplies at once back and gave your tank full repair kit effect. Yes.

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And the EMP overdrive will not have the damage effect, only the supply removal effect, naturally.

Why, anybody had other ideas? How else would EMP be balanced against the Repulsor

 

[DMR 674]

On 7/18/2025 at 6:47 PM, Opex-Rah said:

Every hull will have the old star overdrive from the year 2017 where it gave you all supplies at once back and gave your tank full repair kit effect. Yes.

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And the EMP overdrive will not have the damage effect, only the supply removal effect, naturally.

Why, anybody had other ideas? How else would EMP be balanced against the Repulsor

 

Oh okay, cool to know, thanks for your answer! Also, since some small part of the current tanki is added to the classic tanki such as overdrives, augments, etc, will there be critical damage for every turret? In my opinion, critical hit should only belong to smoky, since OG tanki was like that

Edited July 19 by DMR

[Opex-Rah 5,375]

On 7/19/2025 at 4:57 AM, DMR said:

Oh okay, cool to know, thanks for your answer! Also, since some small part of the current tanki is added to the classic tanki such as overdrives, augments, etc, will there be critical damage for every turret? In my opinion, critical hit should only belong to smoky, since OG tanki was like that

C'mon. You don't trust me that much? Of course you don't, that's how I got you with the voting part

Critical damage will be reserved only for Smoky, as it should be.

IMO we are not adding some small parts of Tanki to the Classic. Most of the mentioned system were in the version of 'Classic' we always aimed for. As I believe I said in the interview we are making 'the best version of the old game we could have'. I also believe that there is no point to argue over details until this version of the game exists only in my head.

In my experience, players have limited imagination. They need to try things first.

[The-Operator219 88]

So Augments are in classic? Not having a battle list would complete the bingo...

Why even put forth the effort if you're going to be this tone deaf? Just keep milking cash from oil sheikh kids and ipad toddlers.

[TheRealHZFJ 707]

On 7/19/2025 at 2:43 AM, Opex-Rah said:

C'mon. You don't trust me that much? Of course you don't, that's how I got you with the voting part

Critical damage will be reserved only for Smoky, as it should be.

IMO we are not adding some small parts of Tanki to the Classic. Most of the mentioned system were in the version of 'Classic' we always aimed for. As I believe I said in the interview we are making 'the best version of the old game we could have'. I also believe that there is no point to argue over details until this version of the game exists only in my head.

In my experience, players have limited imagination. They need to try things first.

The people who don't trust you from what i can see also don't understand how games actually work. Basically almost all of them are like that . "Oh Game lost 90% of the players because of greedy devs"  -  Okay so Marvel Rivals added an update which killed the game by that logic? Not to mention, for example Clash Royale, adding most garbage updates in last two years and It's now dominating player count wise. Alternativa could do better when it comes to building trust again, but at least you are trying with Interviews ( pls do more of them lol ).

As for imagination, this too. I mean, only now are people complaining about "augments in Classic" now? They could not have guessed ahead that systems like this would exist? If i recall correctly, You did mention augments will be in Classic in the Interview but done differently. Did people just forget? I have no idea.

I do have to say y'all made a blunder with the topic being named "augments in Classic". I understand that's how the feature is called nowadays but knowing this Community, I personally would NEVER put Augments and Classic in a same sentence. Its asking for people who don't listen carefully to complain. 

Also why complain even if Augments will be ON by default, when you can just ask a premium user to make some battles where that is turned OFF?

Edited July 19 by TheRealHZFJ

[ChromeBookmarks 7]

do you all realize that theres no mm to force you to play with features you dont want? im all for augments that just change how a turret works and doesnt buff or nerf it. they also said they will be hard af to get, i really dont see the problem of augments

[Hypersomnia 1,695]

On 7/19/2025 at 11:52 AM, ChromeBookmarks said:

do you all realize that theres no mm to force you to play with features you dont want? im all for augments that just change how a turret works and doesnt buff or nerf it. they also said they will be hard af to get, i really dont see the problem of augments

augments are just a part of the problem. you dont hype it up as "old 201x Tanki" then turn around and go yeah we'll add these modern features lol cya. It factually becomes not the 'classic' tanki people we're waiting for. it just becomes old tanki official rip off with extra non sense. all they had to do is just copy paste the 2009-2015 game. that's it. no extra non sense. 

Considering the OG players that are left here have nostalgia glasses so big it's insane so they'd probably rage if the starting combo was Smoky Dictator M0 instead of Smoky Hunter M0. Now imagine what would happen if a major modern core feature is added? Oh you dont need to imagine, just look around.

 

now voting part might aswell be complete RNG due to the fact that you have to PLAY MODERN TANKI and spend like 50$ for a bundle to even have early access and vote. And OGs that are eagerly waiting for classic don't exactly scream 'buyer' from my interactions with them. I can guarantee you many modern players who didn't touch classic bought it. Like it or not modern tanki is like 15% OG players left. The 'voters' could just decide let's add GAUSS cuz i like it. Hell WHY GAUSS IS EVEN A VOTING OPTION FOR CLASSIC? 

Edited July 19 by Hypersomnia

[ChromeBookmarks 7]

On 7/19/2025 at 11:08 AM, Hypersomnia said:

augments are just a part of the problem. you dont hype it up as "old 201x Tanki" then turn around and go yeah we'll add these modern features lol cya. It factually becomes not the 'classic' tanki people we're waiting for. it just becomes old tanki official rip off with extra non sense. all they had to do is just copy paste the 2009-2015 game. that's it. no extra non sense. 

Considering the OG players that are left here have nostalgia glasses so big it's insane so they'd probably rage if the starting combo was Smoky Dictator M0 instead of Smoky Hunter M0. Now imagine what would happen if a major modern core feature is added? Oh you dont need to imagine, just look around.

 

now voting part might aswell be complete RNG due to the fact that you have to PLAY MODERN TANKI and spend like 50$ for a bundle to even have early access and vote. And OGs that are eagerly waiting for classic don't exactly scream 'buyer' from my interactions with them. I can guarantee you many modern players who didn't touch classic bought it. Like it or not modern tanki is like 15% OG players left. The 'voters' could just decide let's add GAUSS cuz i like it. Hell WHY GAUSS IS EVEN A VOTING OPTION FOR CLASSIC? 

they have never advertised or marketed tanki classic like that, hazel himself said that its a version of all the good things from old versions of the game combined. a copy paste of old tanki would die out in a couple months, you would have no reason to play it other than nostalgia.

anyone can make an account and buy the bundle, it doesnt matter how long you played the game. and im sure 99% of the votes will vote for striker not gauss

[Hypersomnia 1,695]

On 7/19/2025 at 12:31 PM, ChromeBookmarks said:

they have never advertised or marketed tanki classic like that, hazel himself said that its a version of all the good things from old versions of the game combined.

must be very good at advertising considering everyone in these comments think its 2015 or whatever copy paste version.

another tanki L. who saw that one coming...

On 7/19/2025 at 12:31 PM, ChromeBookmarks said:

a copy paste of old tanki would die out in a couple months, you would have no reason to play it other than nostalgia.

dont worry the 'perfect' tanki classic will die in months if not from day 1 too.  I got kinda exited with my friends but with the development process of a snail neither I or my friends talk or are interested at all anymore. Now what makes you believe its not a universal experience across the board besides the 1% that are left still excited? and if we're going with hazel statements he himself has 0 hope lol so when the lead dev has 0 hope in the project surviving it must be a very good sign.

 

On 7/19/2025 at 12:31 PM, ChromeBookmarks said:

anyone can make an account and buy the bundle, it doesnt matter how long you played the game.

completely missed the point. 

 

On 7/19/2025 at 12:31 PM, ChromeBookmarks said:

and im sure 99% of the votes will vote for striker not gauss

i just took one of the most absurd votes that is known. take it as every vote.

[Wry 93]

Shouldn't you gave us all the important details about classic before the early access? since I am sure there are players who bought the bundles and felt scammed after these kind of details you announce. They thought it will be the TRUE classic experience of tanki so they bought it. To me I see the early access as a gamble since you don't know all the details about classic so you gamble it. Unless this is a SMART move by the tanki team since they knew if they talked about the details a decent percentage of these players won't buy the early access anymore. I wonder.

[The-Operator219 88]

After sleeping on it a bit, sure whatever. As long as the Augments stay as endgame bonuses I'm fine with it. 

I'd still rather just pay a monthly subscription for a version of the Tanki I grew up with since I think most of the people nostalgic for the old game are nostalgic for playing it as kids when they had infinite free time to grind XP and level up.

 

That's the thing I remember the most, you could spend years of your life playing and earning Crystals with enough effort, whereas now you rank up so fast they had to add five more levels to every piece of equipment just to keep up.

[POWER-OF-ONE 163]

On 7/19/2025 at 10:08 AM, Hypersomnia said:

that you have to PLAY MODERN TANKI and spend like 50$ for a bundle to even have early access and vote.

And there you have it.

On 7/19/2025 at 9:40 AM, TheRealHZFJ said:

The people who don't trust you from what i can see also don't understand how games actually work.

I trust hazel, to maximise profit, brush off any and all attempts from players to improve the shambles that is TO, and to turn classic into just another "you lot are so predictable now give me your cash like good little sheep".

 

On 7/19/2025 at 9:40 AM, TheRealHZFJ said:

but knowing this Community

You mean those that don't boot lick, get a grip.

 

On 7/19/2025 at 9:40 AM, TheRealHZFJ said:

Alternativa could do better when it comes to building trust again, but at least you are trying with Interviews

 Really. 

The "interview" is answering hand picked questions from players and explaining from their viewpoint what benefits the game, basically more cash.

Again, get a grip on reality.

On 7/19/2025 at 11:23 AM, Wry said:

They thought it will be the TRUE classic experience of tanki so they bought it.

Have I ever mentioned the word "MISLEADING" before, I might have, not sure. Let me check my 10 gazillion posts were I might have said it.  

They give and tell you what they know you want, then change things when you have parted with your cash----that is a "CLASSIC TANKI" gotcha strategy.

Works every time, which is why they keep doing it. 

On 7/19/2025 at 1:32 PM, The-Operator219 said:

I'd still rather just pay a monthly subscription

You think they are not already working on that to coincide with the cash they already scammed.

Remember who you are dealing with and what/who they represent.

Edited July 19 by POWER-OF-ONE