I started back in early 2020 to have fun with my close friends during the pandemic. Short: Strongly do not recommend Tanki Online!!This game has potential but completely misusing it. There are lots of hackers in all game modes, but the tanki team openly acknowledged that hacking is now tolerated in parkour mode in one of their v-logs. Moderators show lots of hate towards players from North America which includes my friends and I. The gameplay itself is flawed in nearly every way imaginable to the point it is more frustrating than enjoyable. Long: I used to have so much fun with them until later in 2020. There is a player who has been bullying my friends and I since I have been playing. Moderation teams ignored all complaints regarding this player's demeanor. Many players are convinced this player bribes moderation teams to not only grant this player immunity, but also ban his enemies for chat messages that do not breach any chat rules. I also had my forum account indefinitely banned despite I had never violated any of the forum's rules. The administrator is convinced that my friends and I are on person using many accounts to post illegitimate complaints. Several of my friends asked them to prove that they are the same person but he never did. Back to the bullying, more players have been siding with the original bully know they won't get banned. We have brought up our issues to the community manager and even he showed no signs of caring about major fights within the community. Even three of my friends were exposed and humiliated on YouTube for sharing their honest opinions about the game. The game itself is severely flawed. Matchmaking is full of bots, hackers/exploiters, and unbalanced augments. This makes the game completely unplayable! There are also many unwanted glitches and bugs in the game. For the record, if you ask around about the various glitches and bugs in the game, you will hear of many glitches and bugs that have been around for FIVE OR MORE YEARS. Hacking is also a huge problem. They now permit hacking in Parkour because they thought disabling the anti cheat system in parkour was a good idea. Not sure what they were thinking but probably a decision driven by greed. Many players spend over 10,000 US dollars just to have the strongest equipment possible, all the skins in the game, and hack like crazy in parkour mode. Tanki can't ban buyers despite how many rules they violate.

This game was perfect back in the day, I started playing it in 2015 (in this website it says that it was released in 2017, but it was already playable in browser in 2009) and it was a breeze, lots of weapons and maps to chosse. Nowadays I still play it, although less frequently because now unfortunately the game is just mid.

This game was amazing back in the day. The skill ceiling was decently high and there were plenty of ways for players to express that skill. P2W still existed but there was less stuff to buy so f2p people could catch up. At some point they decided it was a good idea to completely overhaul the graphics and add random things like Overdrives, Drones, protection modules, augments and turrets that make taking cover behind anything pointless. They didn't bother balancing them or at least it doesn't seem like they did. A lot of people stopped playing around the time they added overdrives. Now they're planning to add grenades that further disincentivize using cover, lower the skill ceiling and make you spend more. Not to mention they kept inflating the game's economy every year and even added a new currency to get around spending real money for items (now you spend money on the currency to buy items, same thing really). They also added containers as a way to gamble for equipment and further waste your time (they are just like any other lootbox except the odds are worse than any other game I've seen). The future of this game doesn't look bright.