Prime Tanki Hotpatch 1.1 Notes

Four Kinds of Rooms

You told us too many battles felt like whoever had the most micro-upgrades won. So now every map, mode and rank segment has four kinds of rooms, and you pick the battle you want. Micro-upgrades and augments are on only in the first kind.

Room types

• Everything on: micro-upgrades, augments and supplies
• No supplies: bonus boxes still drop
• Smart cooldowns: supplies with smart cooldowns
• Normal cooldowns: supplies with normal cooldowns

In the last three

• No micro-upgrades and no augments: everybody plays the plain turrets and hulls

XP/BP Rooms

XP/BP is in the battle list now, CTF only: Hornet or Wasp with Railgun, nothing else. There are 20 rooms on Halloween Sandbox, Barda, Silence and Highland, and some of them have bonus boxes and Gold Boxes.

XP/BP CTF

• Ranks: Master Corporal to Warrant Officer 5
• Supplies: off

Welcome Rooms

The very first time you log in, you skip the lobby and land straight in a battle made for new players: Welcome back to Prime Tanki!

Welcome back to Prime Tanki!

• Map: Halloween Sandbox, DM
• Ranks: Recruit to Corporal
• Room: 8 players, 15 minutes, no supplies, Gold Boxes on

Flag Captures

Some players were farming flags: one player alone against a team that never shoots back, taking turns. That is not fair to everybody who plays CTF for real. Now a flag capture only pays in full when the enemy team really defends.

Flag captures

• Enemies who fight for their flag count in full
• Enemies who never fight back count for almost nothing
• A capture nobody defended does not count for missions
• A real CTF battle, where everybody fights, pays the same as before

Bot Kills

Bots are there so you always have a battle, not to farm. A bot kill now gives you half of what it gave before, and in Juggernaut a tenth. Killing players pays the same as always.

Killing a bot

• Score and experience: 100% ⇒ 50%
• Battle fund: 100% ⇒ 50%
• In Juggernaut: 100% ⇒ 10%

Striker

Striker got the most kills per player on every hull since the opening, and it stayed on top after the first cut. Its rockets hit 19% softer now than on opening night.

Damage per rocket

Isida

Isida drained tanks way too fast. It does 40% less damage now, and its energy runs out 20% sooner. Healing your team stays as strong as before.

Damage

Energy

• Energy used while firing: 100% ⇒ 120%

Healing

• Healing per second: unchanged

Ricochet

Ricochet is the turret most of you play, and it can take a bit more punch. Its shots hit 15% harder.

Damage per shot

Vulcan

Almost nobody played Vulcan. It hits 15% harder and fires 10% faster now.

Damage per bullet

Fire rate

• Shots per second: 10 ⇒ 11

Railgun

Railgun fell behind the other turrets. Its shots hit 10% harder now. XP/BP rooms stay exactly as they were.

Damage per shot

Smoky

Smoky reloads 20% faster, so it keeps up better in a fight.

Reload

Shaft

In sniping mode Shaft now reaches full damage 20% sooner.

Sniping mode

• Time to full damage: 4.0 s ⇒ 3.2 s

Freeze

Freeze now freezes its target 20% faster.

Freezing

• Time to freeze a tank fully, up close: about 3.5 s ⇒ about 2.9 s

Firebird

The fire Firebird leaves on a tank burns 50% harder.

Afterburn

• Damage per tick: 25 ⇒ 38

Mammoth

Mammoth is 5% heavier now, so it is harder to push around.

Weight

Juggernaut

The Juggernaut was too hard to bring down, so it has half the health now. It also can't use its own supplies any more, only Overdrive and the boxes on the map.

Health

Supplies

• Own supplies as Juggernaut: yes ⇒ no
• Overdrive and map boxes: unchanged

Vulcan Stun

The Stun augment on Vulcan stunned far too often. Now only one critical hit in five stuns.

Stun augment

• Stuns on: every critical hit ⇒ 1 in 5 critical hits

Stun, Burn and Freeze Augments

On these augments a critical hit used to do less damage than a normal shot. Now it does the same damage as a normal shot, and the stun, burn or freeze is the bonus. Stun augments also land their critical hits a little less often.

Critical hit

• Damage: less than a normal shot ⇒ same as a normal shot

Stun augments, critical chance

Halloween Gold Boxes

On the first night Gold Boxes fell so often that catching one stopped feeling special, so we lowered the Halloween boost. They still drop a lot more often than normal until 6 November.

Falling Gold Boxes

If you join a battle while a Gold Box is falling, you now see it falling like everybody else. Leaving and coming back no longer puts it on the ground just for you.

GO! Kit

The founder kit is called GO! now, and it finally gives what its picture shows.

GO!

• Inside: Striker M2, Hunter M2 and Spark ⇒ Railgun M2, Hornet M2 and Spark
• Ranks: Warrant Officer 5 to Major

Your Best Gear First

In the Turrets and Hulls tabs, the ones you own now come first, from M3 down to M0.

Your Profile

Click your name on the top bar and your profile on the ratings site opens.

No More ? Button

The ? button on the top bar is gone, because its tips pointed at the wrong places. The rank bar got its space.

Clan Flags

Clans can pick the flag of any country now, all 197 of them.

Crystals Earned

The Crystals Earned rating now counts only the crystals you win in battles, not Gold Boxes, containers, missions or rank-up rewards. So the board shows who really earns in battle.

3D Tanks on Profiles

The 3D tank on your ratings profile now sits exactly like in your garage. Some turrets used to sit too far forward or back.

Stronger Servers

When more than a thousand of you played at once, ping went up. We added a second server to carry your connection to the game, made both of them twice as strong, and keep a spare one ready.

Smoother Battles

Battles now use more of the game server's power, so they stay smooth when the game is full.

Catching Up After Lag

When your connection hiccups, the game now catches up right away instead of slowly replaying what it missed.

Maintenance

When the game is down for maintenance, the launcher tells you, and PLAY waits until we are back.

Fixed

Battles

• Leaving a battle with the garage open no longer gets you stuck, unable to join a battle for a few minutes
• Bots no longer stop and think when the tank they were chasing leaves the battle

Interface

• Closing the shop no longer leaves the lobby dark with nothing to click