The servers are in a sadly tragic state

[Son_Goku 529]

Honestly, the state the servers are in is so crazy, that to me it feels impossible to do the job as a battle moderator. Have a look at this.

My ping is 26 and I have enough evidence for that, since I run a YouTube channel. Guess that could also count as evidence that I'm not hacking. Regardless, in the POV of other people, I end up hitting shots like this:

(In my POV my shot was completely normal, it didn't do this bending in any way)

As you may know, I have made COUNTLESS topics about the usage of scripts, what it can look like if you're facing such a player and yes, at the time I made them they were pretty accurate and with that knowledge, I would have called hacks on myself here as well, 10 out of 10 times.

And yeah, I guess that's what my opponents were thinking as well, since they reported me and a battle moderator came to this conclusion:

Nowadays however, there is such an INSANE desync going on that literally everyone is hitting those shots. That even 26 Ping, which is the lowest you can get, ends up making shots look like that in someone else's perspective, is nothing but crazy. Their Ping was 51.

I've had this account for almost 15 years and besides giving my account away at the age of 12, 14 years ago, there have been no incidents with it whatsoever. I have reported people hacking a lot of times, tried clearing stuff up in the forum, even argued with the developers about aimbot, I'm running a YouTube channel about Tanki and I'm getting blocked just like that, due to the consequences of a server desync that is borderline illegal. Who knows how many innocent people are getting blocked because of this. Of course I have messaged the Tanki support, we'll see how that goes.

As long as shots appearing like that are not fixed, the job as a battle moderator, to judge hacks, is redundant. Like this, it's impossible to say whether someone is hacking or not.

[Maf 32,348]

Seems suboptimal

[NikmanGT 4,503]

What about people who have 200+ ping

[Son_Goku 529]

I'm not saying that that shot is why I got blocked, but I wouldn't know for what else? I played some 2v2s against a player who was streaming, and in his stream I was hitting a lot of those weird ones in his POV. Soon after, in the next battle, my account got randomly blocked while playing. It's weird...

  

On 3/27/2026 at 8:35 PM, NikmanGT said:

What about people who have 200+ ping

I don't know what to tell you 

Edited March 27 by Son_Goku

[Wry 127]

So my guess of the cause of these issues would be the server's tick rate. Tanki has 20Hz tick rate (50ms) according to the last patch that mentioned the tick rate. Poor tick rate can cause severe desync between player position and server reality, which does explain the first image you sent.



A famous game with a 20Hz tick rate is Apex legends, you can google "Apex legends tick rate issues" and you will find many videos and players complaining about the servers.



Now it can be optimization issue of the servers rather than "server issue" if the tick rate is unstable due to poor optimizations.

Edited March 27 by Wry

[DRAG0 5]

Goku did your account got unblocked ? man same thing happened to me we played together if u remember i am Valdrago i was saying the same thing how they banned me saying i was using third party software and cheats 

What makes this more concerning is that I am not the only one facing this issue. I have personally spoken to other players who were also banned under similar circumstances.

I have already contacted support multiple times, but only received automated responses with no real investigation or clarification. This lack of transparency is extremely frustrating.

It is unfair for legitimate players to lose their accounts without proper verification or evidence.

 

Edited March 29 by DRAG0

[Son_Goku 529]

On 3/29/2026 at 9:55 AM, DRAG0 said:

Goku did your account got unblocked ? 

No response yet, but this topic is more about raising awareness that battle moderation for such cases seems pretty impossible right now. I'd also like seeing why I got blocked tho. Honestly, just like many other things in Tanki, the process of blocking accounts also seems completely outdated. Why can't I already see what lead to my block? Feels like someone just went rogue, lmao.

[Jeers4U 714]

so.... yes?

the servers are in a tragic state...?

[Son_Goku 529]

Well, I just received an answer, and apparently my account is blocked forever. This is kind of insane.

[Wry 127]

On 3/31/2026 at 4:15 PM, Son_Goku said:

Well, I just received an answer, and apparently my account is blocked forever. This is kind of insane.

Considering how common cheats are these days even among esport players and how suspicious your gameplay looked, I don't see this as a surprising outcome. 

[Son_Goku 529]

On 3/31/2026 at 7:39 PM, Wry said:

Considering how common cheats are these days even among esport players and how suspicious your gameplay looked, I don't see this as a surprising outcome. 

That just shows how messed up the servers are, as well as battle moderation. Permanently blocking a 15 years old account that had no previous history is nothing but messed up. Like, I have around 200 GB of footage that show I'm not hacking, but apparently I can't use any of that to prove anything lol.

This is a serious problem with the game, no one seems to realize.

Edited Tuesday at 05:59 PM by Son_Goku