The FULL HISTORY (and fall) of Tanki Online 

November 26, 2022: Tanki was shut down for a week. Hackers everywhere. Pay to win joke. Turret called scorpion.

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

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.

SO MUCH 2015 NOSTALGIA BACK WHEN IT WAS STILL FUN 😭😭😭

just give back m0 m1 m2 m3.

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

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

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!

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...)

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 appreciate you making a video on this! Nostalgia (and sadness) hits hard

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…

Thank you so much for making this. I had a wave of nostalgia. So sad how the game is fucked up now

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?!!!!!

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.

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.

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

Couldn’t play anymore after 2020 because it got banned in my country for gambling. Really miss the 2015-2020 era tho

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!

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.

Would have been nice if you added maps pictures for context of changes

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 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

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.

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.

I started playing back in 2017 and give up on the game around 2022 and never returned to it

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.

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

Sport mode is very fun today

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

btw now even if you have it max when you rank up it you still have to pay full price to get next rank

I miss Brazil so much man, god-tier map.

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 . . .

Back then it was fun, but was way too hard to grind crystals.

tanki x trailer is so fucking badass

I played when tanki online came out ...we played on library computers just for 30min a day😃

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.

The Hopper ruined gold boxes for everyone.

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)

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

09:58 Nah, that took me so far back bro, insane!

THE FREDDY FAZBEAR MUSIC IS SO RELATABLE

theres a game called ProTanki now, its tanki online from 2014-2015

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.

Underrated video

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 ]

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 ...

bro i logged in after 4 years and suddenly i had all mk3 appearances and i remember having only mk1 hulls and turrets

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 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 started playing in 2010

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.

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?

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

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

Very nostalgic game. Too bad it died. Oh well.

i wish someone made another game like the old tanki

The rebalance was what killed tanki for me

Nice Work

great video thanks

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 😤😤😤

Play ProTanki, is the tanki old version

everyone should try protanki. its like old tanki

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.

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…🙄

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.

man i miss this game

This video brings back so many great memories playing this game 🥲

Tanki went from "the shit" to "a shit" all because of the greed of the devs,

10:10 the hours i spent alone here...

loved it

If you wanna feel this game look at O.U.F.A montages.

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 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

play protanki

Tanki creators when they see much more hate:

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!

forgot the magnum update

REAL I just cringe at tanki online now 💀

I like new Tanki Online 😊

When game was alive now is dead now if u wanna relive the game as it was play protanki

I want to sell my account in the game Tanki Online 🌚

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

Mamut not memet 😂

"look how fun it was" [ inserts the most boring example of old tanki ]

atleast we got protanki but its not as good as the real og game

0:25 music name pls ❤😢

Dead game, they ruined it, they never listened to the community!

nc

😢😢

Old Tanki Online players when they realize that everything can evolve in their own way: 😱😱😱😱😱

Some advice. Talk slower and with more emotion. I couldn't really understand anything you said in the video because it was too fast and sounded too much, like just reading a script

So is this a new trend ? Making videos about why tanki fallen ? Well we all know why and don't need explanations , just quit it already and move to ProTanki

Stop crying guy's and don't play it like fr.