I came back to the game after not playing for like 4 years The battles are CHAOTIC I get destroyed by these strange new turrets everytime, that can kill you even far away and behind cover Every one using supplies, everything is buyable, everything for the money I hate the augments, overdrives, drones, f*cking flying hulls ,new weapons etc (yes I’m maybe doing too much) When there’s a whole game created to match the old version of their game, they should question themselves
Same here😢 I love your comment, as sad that it is... you're not wrong. (PS. Do you remember the YTber Claudiu?? 13:23 OMG!!!) I used to play it a lot, and when I tried again it showed all those strange things... and the great memories that had me mesmerized back in the day were all gone😢😢
Protanki is a community of players that made the entire old game, 2014-2017 edition before all the p2w aspects. I agree the state of the original tanki is sad, I loved custom parkour games and the like.
For me it died in 2016-17, especially when they removed the ability to complete missions in pro battles, I only used to play xp/bp and I hated going against druggers and this killed it
Tanki in 2022 - Rigged containers - Turret that can aim behind obstacles - Flying hulls - Exclusive P2W augments for buyers - Skins that get uglier over time - Double battle funds/experience every week to support the dead game economy
This game is my childhood and it hurts seeing what they have turned the game into but i can't seem to leave it as well, every now and then, I just open it with excitement and nostalgia, 5 mins into the battle and i instantly see myself quitting it lol. There was a time when I used to play it for 6-8 hours everyday when the pace of every battle was way slower than it is as of now, yet it had all of us hooked up.
It was a great game. Started playing when the "blue sphere" was there in 2011. Premium account was the nail in the coffin and it went downhill from there
Recently I thought of coming back to tanki but after I've seen what it has become I felt disgusted. Luckily the fan made project Protanki was made and I'm back playing the game we all loved
When I searched for "Protanki" and watched some videos I had goosebumps. I always imagined that the problem was with me because I didn't get used to the new system but when I saw how many people are playing and how everything looked smooth and easy I had tears bro.
Imagine my reaction after hearing my thoughts on the game for the past 5-6 years in a Yt video and from a fellow tanker. Just wish this kind of content was actually pushed more both before all of this happened (flying hulls, p2w augments, critical hits, etc.) and during the implementation of certain things that, as you very well pointed out, were absolutely unnecessary. I just feel like the devs couldn't figure out a better way to make us understand something obvious to older, more mature people but not so much to younger players: it might be a game for you to enjoy, but it needs investment (aka money) to keep functioning and so we need people to pay for stuff. I feel like in a couple things they pressed the right button and, for example, made something available only for Tankoins (aka real money) that did NOT significantly affect the overall experience and playability mid and towards endgame. But in more than half the things they implemented, they definitely showed both greediness and honestly lack of business making, not just in the sense of positive/negative effect on the game and playerbase's reception, but in leveraging this game's potential. And by that I mean this: Tanki could have been an excellent eSports game played and known by many more people than it is now and much earlier, even switching over to other consoles like PlayStation, but... Does anyone remember the devs saying they had plans for that? Well, let's just say those plans had the same success that Tanki X... Very bad way to waste such potential in a game that, within its genre, was destined to be the greatest for many years to come and, as I mentioned, potentially played competitively like other videogames nowadays, only to be poisoned by greed and mainstream money-drainig ideas (skins, premium pass, p2w items/mechanics...)
I’ve played this game since it first started…and was even part of the “team” as a Consultant Tanker (we were the first to use the orange Microchip paint!) and it really is a shame what’s happened to it…
Man i grinded TO for hours straight since 2011 every summer i went to visit my relatives in Georgia and every summer i made a new acc because i forgot the password of the previous one. Had sooooo much fun. I remember playing moon silence 24/7 and being overwhelmed not knowing what those lightning turrets were that could heal themselves by shooting the air and sucking me off and still having a blast. Those "tower" type maps where u had to drive up to enemies, future, year 2042(?), industrial zone, this other industrial zone type map with a buiöfing witj a destroyed slanted roof and shit, madness, rio 24/7. In 2015 i finally had an account and enough brain to remember my password and i dtill habe this acc to this day. In 2015 ot was still fun and so many people played, how excited i was bc i got m1 isida for free when they merged the old micro upgrades into singular ones that upped everything, bc i had maxed out ranged before with crystals i grinded endless for. How i grinded halloween event to get this free 7 days premium i never used. But then then every summer it got worse, with overdrives, no individual country servers, no lobbies, shitty ass garbage hover and flying turrets, stuns, augments, lootboxes and holy shit druggers/drugging got out of hand. I just started playing again cuz im in Georgia rn for the first time in like 5 years and im bored+ no Pc so i play the mobile version. But man the game is so fucking mid, new shitty auto aim turrets andnother shit and now they wanna ad grenades. Wtf??? They absolutely destroyed it. Worst, greedy devs ever and thats coming from someone who played Overwatch bruh. But the most depressing part is seeing my FL full of people i used to play (custom games/parkour) with, that are all offline for YEARS. 2 years ago when i checked previously for the last timei could see it all, but now it seems they even remove that and deleted everyone whos been offline for more than a year. Probably gonna give it a shot when im on my pc again, bc mobile sucks giga ass and u cant even do customs, but thats probably not gonna make it the slightest better. And i aint even got someone to play with for fun. RIP TO, almost a full decade ago u were the goat game. Thank u for this amazing vid
There is still old version of tanki, like revive tanki or something it's called. new html design is for toddlers who can't comprehend texture and prefer hollow colors with bulky 3d animations that nobody asked for. If you see the new design of turrets/hulls, smoky and dictator look way less intimidating, they look like toys. And removing m1/2/3 upgrade styles makes 0 sense... it was so fun to see my turrets visually progress as I upgraded to m2/3. Good times.
I still play Tanki Online in its current state. I ONLY still play because I have a maxed out legend 50 account. I would NOT recommend anyone to play this game from the beginning ranks. It is NOT worth it. I have moved on and play games like Overwatch 2, etc. I recommend TO players do the same. Great video LineNine.
Lowkey sometimes think of railgun in regards to Soujourne, Moira as old Isida, Pharah/Junk as Thunder and Shaft as Widowmaker. Played way too much tanki back in the days when it was the only game my mums crappy ass old Laptop cold run 🙃
I used to play with jumping "hacks" in the past. then, devs managed and removed all hacks from the game and noooowwww they added hopper that can jump?!!!!!
3:40 if u play close attention to these details on the tanks you can see that the tanks are already HD Which means that they designed HD skins a long time ago!
I had a clan and never paid Tanki for it. I didn't pay for most things in Tanki. We had 20 members from all over the world had to have practices but we did have a successful tournament that the players were rewarded by gold boxes supplied by me the clan leader.
18:46 LOL! get rid of all of those. Get rid of tank coins, make skins useful again, why do we have drones, there's no use to XT skins??? I came back after about four years of not playing, and I was so disappointed in the developers, we deserve an apology. Oh yeah, and exclusive augments that cost money. "p2w augments" Remember when your turret looked better after you upgraded it.. When I came back to my account and all my turrets and halls looked like they were maxed, I was so excited and then I looked And they were not, I was so confused and disappointed. I remember having that bloody white skin and thinking it was so cool Also, if I remember correctly, mines didn't dspawn. "I could go on" GGs Boys!!!
I thought i was going crazy! I knew that mines didnt go away (at least im pretty sure), but they were expensive af and rarely used. I always mined this tunnel below on the desert town map (dont remember the name)
I am general rank and we will be destroying in ctf until a legend joins with max hopper and trickster using nukes every spawn and lose in the last three minutes
I am a modern day TANKER if you will :'D here is my take on the current issues: - the development timeline slowed down a LOT over the last year or 2 they introduce features in vlogs (like new HD maps, grenades, pro battle update ect) but it feels like it takes half a year or much longer to see said features.. -money hungry/nerfing f2p.. most events/minigames (good that they exist at least) are usually paywalled (700 tankoins- around $7) and they are still pay to progress games. -they removed 80% of drones, so they could reintroduce the exact same mechanics as hull augments for $$$ -every turret has 'status effect augments' so rail could freeze you or remove supplies or set you on fire... very annoying -the servers are offline more than online this past week.. (tanki offline am i right ;))) the good things: minigames can be fun if you are willing to pay D: slow updates are better than no updates eh? the skins/ new maps are very well designed + each new event has a cool loading screen (amazing artists) tank go brr haha. TLDR: P2W bad, developers slow + greedy, art team good!
Habe es von 2011 bis 2015 sehr gerne gespielt Aber heute ist kein Leben mehr in diesem Spiel Wir haben uns täglich mit Freunden aus der ganzen Welt zu einem unterhaltsamen Spiel getroffen Ich hatte viele Freunde im Spiel Das ist leider vorbei RIP old tanki Ich war panther77
Nonestly, overdrives (except for dictator's which was there before), augments, protection modules and the greed was what ruined the game. Cant forget drones aswell.
I played it for several years, the day they separated protection modules from colors I understood the death has started . . . Now, after all the ridiculous changes and updatings they have done, I have stoped playing, They kill the best war game . . .
Imo, the game died much earlier than you say just from the inaccessiblity of free to play content and competetiveness. I played since close to the beginning and it was really fun despite having at least one drugger pay to win sweat in every match who was just unkillable. before the premium accounts showed up the community was dying and more and more pay to win sweats filled lobbies making the game just unfun and borderline unplayable for free to play casuals. this is where new players were lost and where the death spiral started.
My experience with old tanki was on a lan house on 2013, i was trying my best with smoky and wasp. As poverty became a issue i only got to play again on the mobile release. Resume: I was a noob back then, and now i am a... _sweaty_ smoky/shaft mobile *GAMER* 🤢 [ magnum is also my jam ]
I can remember those days me and my brother will grind this gane together back in 2014 2015 But now all i see is flying tanks, dead lobbies and a fucking turret that shoots heat guided missiles at your tank 😤😤😤
really really great video, but i'd like to point out one thing, why didn't you or anyone that has made a video on new tanki talked about protanki ?? its just basically a set back to 2013 tanki and imo its really great! I've been playing it since a couple months and ngl been enjoying it ever since :0
its not exactly relevant to the main game, this video is strictly about tanki itself. Also, I didnt even know about it at the time of making this video
@@linenineI do see your point but it could've been presented as a "solution" to what tanki has become for many players, Thank you for your insanely fast response for such a late comment ! that's remarquable
@@doyouknowwhatimean5452 Yeah I get where you’re coming from, but im hesitant to use the word “solution.” as fun and well done as protanki is, its just not the same. Thats not the fault of protanki obviously, but that just comes with having something as significant (to me at least) as tanki just being rebranded and repackaged. Then again, that could just be my nostalgia and rose tinted glasses, because really what it probably is is just that I wont be able to get my old memories back and that sucks. But you make a good point.
@@linenine You're 100% right and I think it wont work for a lot of people, but for the slight amount of people that could enjoy it like i do since the past 3months or so, I think giving this game a little advertisement really wouldn't hurt, also could potentially make for a great lets play or some time of video who knows? 👀
I started playing in 2011, Was really disappointed with the 2012 rebalance, but I picked it up again in the end of 2013, Vulcan and hammer were pretty good additions but magnum was just really not fun to play against. I tried logging in last time only to find out my country (Holland) has blocked the game in the country because laws against online gambling (lootboxes) so tanki just shut it off in those countries. I can still enter from VPN but holy shit everything went to hell. (drones, flying hulls) After that I started playing other games but I will never forget this game, and I'll never forget the fun times I've had. Rip Tanki
Tanki will probably one day shut down due to lack of players, even if this game is no longer popular anymore, I still used to play this only a little just for fun
this is like world of tanks blitz lol. it used to be fun and they gave out good tanks for events that were easy and actually doable. no events make it so you can only get the first stages but gets incredibly harder to get making it harder to get the main reward. they still give free tanks for easy events as well but not good ones.
I acc got deleted but thanks to me and my brothers big brain i guess we had made 3 accounts😅 who were all st good ranks 2 died inc mine but the kinda opiest acc survived
i know it’s been over a year since this was posted but frankly i’m kinda bugged by the pacing of this video. aside from playing out entire trailers (which you definitely could’ve cut shorter or simply removed), i really wish you spent more time talking about the downfall and going more into depth, because it deserved equal if not more discussion than the history of the game leading up to the start of the fall (which imo was intro of premium). personally i really feel like you could’ve talked more about tanki x and its gameplay/features/differences/similarities from TO, since it definitely played a huge part in tanki’s descent to hell even after it was discontinued (mostly because it was likely a huge loss for the company -> more corporate greed that players would suffer thru). i think it would’ve definitely been worth discussing the container system and its changes over time as well, because i’d argue the reduction of f2p rewards is another huge factor of the game dying. the devolution of the shop over time, such as the introduction of gold box supplies, tankoins, and removal of crystal kits should have been mentioned a LOT more too. core features to the game like overdrives and augments weren’t mentioned at all either, and other important changes like drones and the death of flash had such a large impact on the popularity and gameplay quality that you definitely could’ve discussed them more. maybe it was because of the false advertising of the video, but i was generally disappointed that this was hardly a “full” discussion of the history/fall of the game. though i strongly agree that this game really has gone to shit for the better part of a decade now.
I honestly should remake this video, this was my first time making a informative thing/vid essay ever and I have gotten much better at how i pace things I make even outside of videos so you may have just inspired me to remake this
I got back and they gave me 31 days of premium, and with Ultra Weekend I racked up 1 000 000 Crystals from ultra containers, and extended the premium time to 41 days because I did daily missions and all the missions in the list. I have never paid in this game and I think now it's alot easier to earn crystals than before in eras like 2010-2019, this is due to the fact that back then you needed to grind the life out of every battle to get as much crystals as possible. I don't know what made them giveaway free premium and make ultra containers easy to get, but now basically everybody is rich ingame so it's equalized for me.
August 2023 Bot only battles until you reach like sergeant or something, and you can’t play as teams until then either… I still play with a friend from back in the glory days when Isda healed yourself😂 But boy I really miss being able to buy the guns you wanted instead of having to wait to unlock them in boxes…🙄
Tanki is not as bad as it seems, yes, its still a pay to win place, but not many people are buying premium, as you can get ot for free in events, and as recent devlogs said, they'll remove drones completely. And as for the containers, you get many from just playing everyday, and nobody buys containers anyway. They have been doing some cool HD remastered maps, and they are multiplying the rewards when the new key update drops. You(the reader) could give it a try, but obviously most features are locked behind ranks, so you can't speedrun, only newbs do so.
Honestly really miss the old tanki simple and fun 🥺🥺🥺🥺.... Left playing tanki years ago.... After the stupid updates.... And they made things to complicated... ... .. It's pay to win now... Honestly sad 🥲🥲🥲🥲
A game which was great at its pinnacle, which eventually turned to dogshit. I enjoy playing another version of Tanki called "Protank." This game is based around tanki when it was in it's 2013-2014 period. I recommend people try it out.
@@linenine listen, I came back to this game as a 2013-year player, and I managed to understand every single mechanic (except Tesla) from the second I touched it. The gameplay is now more dynamic than ever, with all these players swooping around the map with drones and Hoppers. I bet my left testicle that I can take down a bunch of current Legend players, since some of them don't even know how to turn a turret (lmao). And I even came back to my old second account which was created back in 2015 I think, and even there I swooped some asses easily thanks to return rewards. I don't know what is hard here for y'all to have fun and fair and original games, I got used to this after like years of not playing. Must be huge skill issue I think
@@ambassadorofbadtaste maybe it is a huge skill issue but the game is so so much different than it was and I miss the actual visually evolving upgrades a lot. I dont like the hull-based overcharges or whatever theyre called and I just dont enjoy it. Great that you enjoy it. I dont, along with many others. At that point, it has to be a little more than a skill issue.
@@linenine yeah, must be the fact that y'all are stuck in the past. It's not my fault that you and many others can't keep up with the fast evolution. What now, you gonna throw your phone? It is a product of fast human evolution, just like new hulls, turrets and game mechanics. I was getting scared when people were mentioning very scary players on flying hulls on like Warrant Officer 5 rank with a bunch of newbies, but when I decided to play it, suddenly, I became the same god damn Warrant Officer 5 playing with a bunch of newbies. And guess what, this was the first time I genuinely got enjoyment out of this game. If I were to play this game in like the times when you had to grind 3000 stars just to complete a battle pass or when containers were a P2W feature, I would've agreed with everything you all are saying about this game. But nowadays? This just feels like y'all are just mourning over the past things when your Third Lieutenant account was demolishing lower-rank players on your only M2 tank with paints that defended against most OP turrets in the game back in the 2013-2014 or whatever
@@ambassadorofbadtaste clearly you arent a fan of the original in the first place then. Thats why you enjoy the new version. Thats fine, thats just your taste but we do not have that same taste
Most disgusting game every existed. Developers openly saying that their purpose is to suck most money from players, and a bunch of brainless kids saying OK!
i played old tanki when i was kid epic game now this is pay to win t.r.a.s.h game and admins or creators do nothing just care about money no care about players
I came back to the game after not playing for like 4 years
The battles are CHAOTIC
I get destroyed by these strange new turrets everytime, that can kill you even far away and behind cover
Every one using supplies, everything is buyable, everything for the money
I hate the augments, overdrives, drones, f*cking flying hulls ,new weapons etc (yes I’m maybe doing too much)
When there’s a whole game created to match the old version of their game, they should question themselves
real bro love you for this comment
Same here😢 I love your comment, as sad that it is... you're not wrong. (PS. Do you remember the YTber Claudiu?? 13:23 OMG!!!) I used to play it a lot, and when I tried again it showed all those strange things... and the great memories that had me mesmerized back in the day were all gone😢😢
@@dalilahfr9678i had a video of me killing claudiu with my firebird m2 alteration once🤣
Protanki is a community of players that made the entire old game, 2014-2017 edition before all the p2w aspects. I agree the state of the original tanki is sad, I loved custom parkour games and the like.
November 26, 2022: Tanki was shut down for a week. Hackers everywhere. Pay to win joke. Turret called scorpion.
Hahaha game deserves to die anyway has it's not the same stuff we played 10+ years ago
You can get around it if you focus on one combo alone. Don't use supplies until you learn the game.
@@loonowolf2160 truee so fking truee
@@loonowolf2160 I agree. It started dying around 2018, and for me completely died in 2020 when they removed flash.
For me it died in 2016-17, especially when they removed the ability to complete missions in pro battles, I only used to play xp/bp and I hated going against druggers and this killed it
Tanki in 2022
- Rigged containers
- Turret that can aim behind obstacles
- Flying hulls
- Exclusive P2W augments for buyers
- Skins that get uglier over time
- Double battle funds/experience every week to support the dead game economy
@Avatar hihi haha shut up it takes years to earn in pro tanki
@@SaifieAlex Aint that the truth
This game is my childhood and it hurts seeing what they have turned the game into but i can't seem to leave it as well, every now and then, I just open it with excitement and nostalgia, 5 mins into the battle and i instantly see myself quitting it lol.
There was a time when I used to play it for 6-8 hours everyday when the pace of every battle was way slower than it is as of now, yet it had all of us hooked up.
SO MUCH 2015 NOSTALGIA BACK WHEN IT WAS STILL FUN 😭😭😭
It was a great game. Started playing when the "blue sphere" was there in 2011. Premium account was the nail in the coffin and it went downhill from there
This is the only well documented video I could find. Thanks for the memories
Thank you so much for making this. I had a wave of nostalgia. So sad how the game is fucked up now
Recently I thought of coming back to tanki but after I've seen what it has become I felt disgusted. Luckily the fan made project Protanki was made and I'm back playing the game we all loved
@Avatar hihi haha yup I've been doing it already, I'm 2 diamonds rank
Wait what’s protanki?
@@vain5805 search for it, it's a fan made project, basically it's 2016 tanki, just search on Google It should be the first result
When I searched for "Protanki" and watched some videos I had goosebumps. I always imagined that the problem was with me because I didn't get used to the new system but when I saw how many people are playing and how everything looked smooth and easy I had tears bro.
@@Dopamine-.- Yes in protanki, skill matters but in nowadays tanki it doesnt matter.
just give back m0 m1 m2 m3.
literally
@@linenine yeah
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Yeah
Imagine my reaction after hearing my thoughts on the game for the past 5-6 years in a Yt video and from a fellow tanker. Just wish this kind of content was actually pushed more both before all of this happened (flying hulls, p2w augments, critical hits, etc.) and during the implementation of certain things that, as you very well pointed out, were absolutely unnecessary. I just feel like the devs couldn't figure out a better way to make us understand something obvious to older, more mature people but not so much to younger players: it might be a game for you to enjoy, but it needs investment (aka money) to keep functioning and so we need people to pay for stuff. I feel like in a couple things they pressed the right button and, for example, made something available only for Tankoins (aka real money) that did NOT significantly affect the overall experience and playability mid and towards endgame. But in more than half the things they implemented, they definitely showed both greediness and honestly lack of business making, not just in the sense of positive/negative effect on the game and playerbase's reception, but in leveraging this game's potential. And by that I mean this: Tanki could have been an excellent eSports game played and known by many more people than it is now and much earlier, even switching over to other consoles like PlayStation, but... Does anyone remember the devs saying they had plans for that? Well, let's just say those plans had the same success that Tanki X... Very bad way to waste such potential in a game that, within its genre, was destined to be the greatest for many years to come and, as I mentioned, potentially played competitively like other videogames nowadays, only to be poisoned by greed and mainstream money-drainig ideas (skins, premium pass, p2w items/mechanics...)
For anyone that wants to play the old tanki, search for protanki, it's a fan made project where fans managed to bring back og tanki!
Thanks for letting me know. I'll check it out, bring back nostalgia and then continue trashing on what it has come to today
You can relive the hay day of tanki by playing ProTanki, a copy of the gamr from 2015. Amazing
I’ve played this game since it first started…and was even part of the “team” as a Consultant Tanker (we were the first to use the orange Microchip paint!) and it really is a shame what’s happened to it…
I appreciate you making a video on this! Nostalgia (and sadness) hits hard
Man i grinded TO for hours straight since 2011 every summer i went to visit my relatives in Georgia and every summer i made a new acc because i forgot the password of the previous one. Had sooooo much fun. I remember playing moon silence 24/7 and being overwhelmed not knowing what those lightning turrets were that could heal themselves by shooting the air and sucking me off and still having a blast. Those "tower" type maps where u had to drive up to enemies, future, year 2042(?), industrial zone, this other industrial zone type map with a buiöfing witj a destroyed slanted roof and shit, madness, rio 24/7. In 2015 i finally had an account and enough brain to remember my password and i dtill habe this acc to this day. In 2015 ot was still fun and so many people played, how excited i was bc i got m1 isida for free when they merged the old micro upgrades into singular ones that upped everything, bc i had maxed out ranged before with crystals i grinded endless for. How i grinded halloween event to get this free 7 days premium i never used. But then then every summer it got worse, with overdrives, no individual country servers, no lobbies, shitty ass garbage hover and flying turrets, stuns, augments, lootboxes and holy shit druggers/drugging got out of hand. I just started playing again cuz im in Georgia rn for the first time in like 5 years and im bored+ no Pc so i play the mobile version. But man the game is so fucking mid, new shitty auto aim turrets andnother shit and now they wanna ad grenades. Wtf??? They absolutely destroyed it. Worst, greedy devs ever and thats coming from someone who played Overwatch bruh. But the most depressing part is seeing my FL full of people i used to play (custom games/parkour) with, that are all offline for YEARS. 2 years ago when i checked previously for the last timei could see it all, but now it seems they even remove that and deleted everyone whos been offline for more than a year. Probably gonna give it a shot when im on my pc again, bc mobile sucks giga ass and u cant even do customs, but thats probably not gonna make it the slightest better. And i aint even got someone to play with for fun. RIP TO, almost a full decade ago u were the goat game. Thank u for this amazing vid
There is still old version of tanki, like revive tanki or something it's called. new html design is for toddlers who can't comprehend texture and prefer hollow colors with bulky 3d animations that nobody asked for. If you see the new design of turrets/hulls, smoky and dictator look way less intimidating, they look like toys. And removing m1/2/3 upgrade styles makes 0 sense... it was so fun to see my turrets visually progress as I upgraded to m2/3. Good times.
@@jawyor-k3thello fellow old timer 😂
Bro you just axplaned me when i was playing since 2012😢😢😢
Would have been nice if you added maps pictures for context of changes
I still play Tanki Online in its current state. I ONLY still play because I have a maxed out legend 50 account. I would NOT recommend anyone to play this game from the beginning ranks. It is NOT worth it. I have moved on and play games like Overwatch 2, etc. I recommend TO players do the same. Great video LineNine.
thank you!
Lowkey sometimes think of railgun in regards to Soujourne, Moira as old Isida, Pharah/Junk as Thunder and Shaft as Widowmaker. Played way too much tanki back in the days when it was the only game my mums crappy ass old Laptop cold run 🙃
Oh yeah I made a new account and holy they absolutely ruined the matchmaking now you can match with people that are like 10 ranks ahead of you
I used to play with jumping "hacks" in the past. then, devs managed and removed all hacks from the game and noooowwww they added hopper that can jump?!!!!!
@Avatar hihi haha Sure
@Avatar hihi haha what is pro tanki?
So you were one of those hackers. For shame dude. Glad you guys can't do that now for the most part.
I hated you in the past😂😂😂 you toke my gold boxes😂. But now there is a common enemy, Hopers...@@Noah-lc6ou
3:40 if u play close attention to these details on the tanks you can see that the tanks are already HD Which means that they designed HD skins a long time ago!
Tanki X & Tanki 2.0 would like to speak to you
@@linenine Wonder if the intro i was speaking about was created before Tanki x and Tanki 2.0 were initially released.....
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@@TOMMY-lf9is nah that ad was made after tanki 2.0 was a thing
For me the change from flash to html5 was the last stroke that made me stop playing
Miss the old tanki, miss my friends, Xyzdog, roseblade, Lazer, chopper, Benz313_pro will always miss you and the old tanki.
I had a clan and never paid Tanki for it. I didn't pay for most things in Tanki. We had 20 members from all over the world had to have practices but we did have a successful tournament that the players were rewarded by gold boxes supplied by me the clan leader.
18:46 LOL! get rid of all of those. Get rid of tank coins, make skins useful again, why do we have drones, there's no use to XT skins???
I came back after about four years of not playing, and I was so disappointed in the developers, we deserve an apology.
Oh yeah, and exclusive augments that cost money. "p2w augments"
Remember when your turret looked better after you upgraded it.. When I came back to my account and all my turrets and halls looked like they were maxed, I was so excited and then I looked And they were not, I was so confused and disappointed. I remember having that bloody white skin and thinking it was so cool Also, if I remember correctly, mines didn't dspawn. "I could go on" GGs Boys!!!
I thought i was going crazy! I knew that mines didnt go away (at least im pretty sure), but they were expensive af and rarely used. I always mined this tunnel below on the desert town map (dont remember the name)
this video is so true, but if u didnt know there is a game called pro tanki which has 2014 things and a little bit of 2017 I reccomend you play it.
I am general rank and we will be destroying in ctf until a legend joins with max hopper and trickster using nukes every spawn and lose in the last three minutes
aaahh the 100 goldbox at the beginning :(((
I could cry when i see it.. 2011-2015 have been the best time for playing tanki online in my opinion
everyone should try protanki. its like old tanki
I started playing back in 2017 and give up on the game around 2022 and never returned to it
Sport mode is very fun today
sure but its not what the game is about
I am a modern day TANKER if you will :'D
here is my take on the current issues:
- the development timeline slowed down a LOT over the last year or 2
they introduce features in vlogs (like new HD maps, grenades, pro battle update ect) but it feels like it takes half a year or much longer to see said features..
-money hungry/nerfing f2p.. most events/minigames (good that they exist at least) are usually paywalled (700 tankoins- around $7) and they are still pay to progress games.
-they removed 80% of drones, so they could reintroduce the exact same mechanics as hull augments for $$$
-every turret has 'status effect augments' so rail could freeze you or remove supplies or set you on fire... very annoying
-the servers are offline more than online this past week.. (tanki offline am i right ;)))
the good things:
minigames can be fun if you are willing to pay D:
slow updates are better than no updates eh?
the skins/ new maps are very well designed + each new event has a cool loading screen (amazing artists)
tank go brr haha.
TLDR: P2W bad, developers slow + greedy, art team good!
I played when tanki online came out ...we played on library computers just for 30min a day😃
btw now even if you have it max when you rank up it you still have to pay full price to get next rank
theres a game called ProTanki now, its tanki online from 2014-2015
Habe es von 2011 bis 2015 sehr gerne gespielt
Aber heute ist kein Leben mehr in diesem Spiel
Wir haben uns täglich mit Freunden aus der ganzen Welt zu einem unterhaltsamen Spiel getroffen
Ich hatte viele Freunde im Spiel
Das ist leider vorbei
RIP old tanki
Ich war panther77
I miss Brazil so much man, god-tier map.
You mean rio? Since thats still there, just sucks you cant get into it by choice, only with luck
@@Bumblebeast_TO yeah that one, i played the game in 2014 or around that time, i dont remember too much about the game.
@@reineOdelshwank yeah that was the best time fr
Couldn’t play anymore after 2020 because it got banned in my country for gambling. Really miss the 2015-2020 era tho
Im remaking that era of tanki in roblox, if that interests you
09:58 Nah, that took me so far back bro, insane!
Its up to tanki x end it has a chance to get bether end popiler the tanki online (btw tanki x is alive its revivedtanki x)
Nonestly, overdrives (except for dictator's which was there before), augments, protection modules and the greed was what ruined the game. Cant forget drones aswell.
I played it for several years, the day they separated protection modules from colors I understood the death has started . . . Now, after all the ridiculous changes and updatings they have done, I have stoped playing,
They kill the best war game . . .
bro i logged in after 4 years and suddenly i had all mk3 appearances and i remember having only mk1 hulls and turrets
yeah upgrades dont change the tank look anymore…
Great video - I loved this game, its such a shame what its became. If only i could see how many hours ive put into it ...
This video brings back so many great memories playing this game 🥲
tanki x trailer is so fucking badass
Back then it was fun, but was way too hard to grind crystals.
THE FREDDY FAZBEAR MUSIC IS SO RELATABLE
The Hopper ruined gold boxes for everyone.
man i miss this game
Imo, the game died much earlier than you say just from the inaccessiblity of free to play content and competetiveness. I played since close to the beginning and it was really fun despite having at least one drugger pay to win sweat in every match who was just unkillable. before the premium accounts showed up the community was dying and more and more pay to win sweats filled lobbies making the game just unfun and borderline unplayable for free to play casuals. this is where new players were lost and where the death spiral started.
My experience with old tanki was on a lan house on 2013, i was trying my best with smoky and wasp.
As poverty became a issue i only got to play again on the mobile release.
Resume: I was a noob back then, and now i am a... _sweaty_ smoky/shaft mobile *GAMER* 🤢 [ magnum is also my jam ]
play protanki
Play ProTanki, is the tanki old version
Underrated video
You and I are both the same person when it comes to this game. I started around lat 2009 early 2010. Now its just a straight up ass game due to p2w.
This game right here was a simple tank shooting game that turned into a Overwatch clone except its only tanks and drones.
What it could go wrong?
When they added mouse that was the cherry on top … now why tf they get 360 vision and a lock aim effect … much different aiming mechanism
i started playing in 2010
Very nostalgic game. Too bad it died. Oh well.
I can remember those days me and my brother will grind this gane together back in 2014 2015
But now all i see is flying tanks, dead lobbies and a fucking turret that shoots heat guided missiles at your tank 😤😤😤
really really great video, but i'd like to point out one thing, why didn't you or anyone that has made a video on new tanki talked about protanki ??
its just basically a set back to 2013 tanki and imo its really great! I've been playing it since a couple months and ngl been enjoying it ever since :0
its not exactly relevant to the main game, this video is strictly about tanki itself. Also, I didnt even know about it at the time of making this video
@@linenineI do see your point but it could've been presented as a "solution" to what tanki has become for many players,
Thank you for your insanely fast response for such a late comment ! that's remarquable
@@doyouknowwhatimean5452 Yeah I get where you’re coming from, but im hesitant to use the word “solution.” as fun and well done as protanki is, its just not the same. Thats not the fault of protanki obviously, but that just comes with having something as significant (to me at least) as tanki just being rebranded and repackaged. Then again, that could just be my nostalgia and rose tinted glasses, because really what it probably is is just that I wont be able to get my old memories back and that sucks. But you make a good point.
@@linenine You're 100% right and I think it wont work for a lot of people, but for the slight amount of people that could enjoy it like i do since the past 3months or so, I think giving this game a little advertisement really wouldn't hurt, also could potentially make for a great lets play or some time of video who knows? 👀
@@doyouknowwhatimean5452 yeah true, just again I didnt know about protanki when making this video
10:10 the hours i spent alone here...
I started playing in 2011, Was really disappointed with the 2012 rebalance, but I picked it up again in the end of 2013, Vulcan and hammer were pretty good additions but magnum was just really not fun to play against. I tried logging in last time only to find out my country (Holland) has blocked the game in the country because laws against online gambling (lootboxes) so tanki just shut it off in those countries. I can still enter from VPN but holy shit everything went to hell. (drones, flying hulls) After that I started playing other games but I will never forget this game, and I'll never forget the fun times I've had. Rip Tanki
Tanki will probably one day shut down due to lack of players, even if this game is no longer popular anymore, I still used to play this only a little just for fun
"shut down" Yeah, you're probably right
great video thanks
this is like world of tanks blitz lol. it used to be fun and they gave out good tanks for events that were easy and actually doable. no events make it so you can only get the first stages but gets incredibly harder to get making it harder to get the main reward. they still give free tanks for easy events as well but not good ones.
Welcome to F2P hell, mobile gaming revolves around that TOO much.
I was still playing this game in hopes of it will become good but eventually I quit this game in 14 birthday 6 june 2023
Nice Work
I acc got deleted but thanks to me and my brothers big brain i guess we had made 3 accounts😅 who were all st good ranks 2 died inc mine but the kinda opiest acc survived
If you wanna feel this game look at O.U.F.A montages.
Tanki creators when they see much more hate:
i know it’s been over a year since this was posted but frankly i’m kinda bugged by the pacing of this video. aside from playing out entire trailers (which you definitely could’ve cut shorter or simply removed), i really wish you spent more time talking about the downfall and going more into depth, because it deserved equal if not more discussion than the history of the game leading up to the start of the fall (which imo was intro of premium). personally i really feel like you could’ve talked more about tanki x and its gameplay/features/differences/similarities from TO, since it definitely played a huge part in tanki’s descent to hell even after it was discontinued (mostly because it was likely a huge loss for the company -> more corporate greed that players would suffer thru). i think it would’ve definitely been worth discussing the container system and its changes over time as well, because i’d argue the reduction of f2p rewards is another huge factor of the game dying. the devolution of the shop over time, such as the introduction of gold box supplies, tankoins, and removal of crystal kits should have been mentioned a LOT more too. core features to the game like overdrives and augments weren’t mentioned at all either, and other important changes like drones and the death of flash had such a large impact on the popularity and gameplay quality that you definitely could’ve discussed them more.
maybe it was because of the false advertising of the video, but i was generally disappointed that this was hardly a “full” discussion of the history/fall of the game. though i strongly agree that this game really has gone to shit for the better part of a decade now.
I honestly should remake this video, this was my first time making a informative thing/vid essay ever and I have gotten much better at how i pace things I make even outside of videos so you may have just inspired me to remake this
@@linenine would love to see a remake, especially with all of the changes that have happened since this video was made!!
@@ngobodymusic you may just get your wish :)
I like new Tanki Online 😊
I got back and they gave me 31 days of premium, and with Ultra Weekend I racked up 1 000 000 Crystals from ultra containers, and extended the premium time to 41 days because I did daily missions and all the missions in the list. I have never paid in this game and I think now it's alot easier to earn crystals than before in eras like 2010-2019, this is due to the fact that back then you needed to grind the life out of every battle to get as much crystals as possible.
I don't know what made them giveaway free premium and make ultra containers easy to get, but now basically everybody is rich ingame so it's equalized for me.
i wish someone made another game like the old tanki
i want to play tanki online soo bad but its not at all playable
@@smithkt4412 im working with some people to try to recreate old tanki in roblox
@@smithkt4412protanki...
@@linenineit is already recreated as protanki
Play pro tanki
The rebalance was what killed tanki for me
August 2023
Bot only battles until you reach like sergeant or something, and you can’t play as teams until then either… I still play with a friend from back in the glory days when Isda healed yourself😂 But boy I really miss being able to buy the guns you wanted instead of having to wait to unlock them in boxes…🙄
Tanki is not as bad as it seems, yes, its still a pay to win place, but not many people are buying premium, as you can get ot for free in events, and as recent devlogs said, they'll remove drones completely. And as for the containers, you get many from just playing everyday, and nobody buys containers anyway. They have been doing some cool HD remastered maps, and they are multiplying the rewards when the new key update drops. You(the reader) could give it a try, but obviously most features are locked behind ranks, so you can't speedrun, only newbs do so.
Thank god theyre removing drones but I wont play until the feature that upgrades changing turret/hull aesthetics come back
Welp, it's been 8 months since you posted this comment, logged onto the game just to check and drones are still here for some reason...
loved it
frrr te title could not be more true
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forgot the magnum update
Pay-to-fast + pay-to-win
Honestly really miss the old tanki simple and fun 🥺🥺🥺🥺.... Left playing tanki years ago.... After the stupid updates.... And they made things to complicated... ... .. It's pay to win now... Honestly sad 🥲🥲🥲🥲
Tanki went from "the shit" to "a shit" all because of the greed of the devs,
tanki online did screw itself, but there was Xtanki too right? is that one still going good or did it go down the same path?
i think when they released vulcan and hammer the game peaked, after that only useless updates
When game was alive now is dead now if u wanna relive the game as it was play protanki
A game which was great at its pinnacle, which eventually turned to dogshit. I enjoy playing another version of Tanki called "Protank." This game is based around tanki when it was in it's 2013-2014 period. I recommend people try it out.
0:25 music name pls ❤😢
fnaf 2 music box lol
REAL
I just cringe at tanki online now 💀
nc
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Old Tanki Online players when they realize that everything can evolve in their own way: 😱😱😱😱😱
yes but it needs to evolve in a way that actually keeps the game fun and fair and original
@@linenine listen, I came back to this game as a 2013-year player, and I managed to understand every single mechanic (except Tesla) from the second I touched it. The gameplay is now more dynamic than ever, with all these players swooping around the map with drones and Hoppers. I bet my left testicle that I can take down a bunch of current Legend players, since some of them don't even know how to turn a turret (lmao). And I even came back to my old second account which was created back in 2015 I think, and even there I swooped some asses easily thanks to return rewards. I don't know what is hard here for y'all to have fun and fair and original games, I got used to this after like years of not playing. Must be huge skill issue I think
@@ambassadorofbadtaste maybe it is a huge skill issue but the game is so so much different than it was and I miss the actual visually evolving upgrades a lot. I dont like the hull-based overcharges or whatever theyre called and I just dont enjoy it. Great that you enjoy it. I dont, along with many others. At that point, it has to be a little more than a skill issue.
@@linenine yeah, must be the fact that y'all are stuck in the past. It's not my fault that you and many others can't keep up with the fast evolution. What now, you gonna throw your phone? It is a product of fast human evolution, just like new hulls, turrets and game mechanics. I was getting scared when people were mentioning very scary players on flying hulls on like Warrant Officer 5 rank with a bunch of newbies, but when I decided to play it, suddenly, I became the same god damn Warrant Officer 5 playing with a bunch of newbies. And guess what, this was the first time I genuinely got enjoyment out of this game. If I were to play this game in like the times when you had to grind 3000 stars just to complete a battle pass or when containers were a P2W feature, I would've agreed with everything you all are saying about this game. But nowadays? This just feels like y'all are just mourning over the past things when your Third Lieutenant account was demolishing lower-rank players on your only M2 tank with paints that defended against most OP turrets in the game back in the 2013-2014 or whatever
@@ambassadorofbadtaste clearly you arent a fan of the original in the first place then. Thats why you enjoy the new version. Thats fine, thats just your taste but we do not have that same taste
"look how fun it was"
[ inserts the most boring example of old tanki ]
felt it fit for that part of the video rather than a fast paced vid
Dead game, they ruined it, they never listened to the community!
I want to sell my account in the game Tanki Online 🌚
play protanki, get your okd tanki memories back
@@user-tj3gd8lf5i I can't play Pro Tanki on phone
Mamut not memet 😂
Most disgusting game every existed. Developers openly saying that their purpose is to suck most money from players, and a bunch of brainless kids saying OK!
i played old tanki when i was kid epic game now this is pay to win t.r.a.s.h game and admins or creators do nothing just care about money no care about players
atleast we got protanki but its not as good as the real og game