Prime Tanki Patch 1.2 Notes

HF/WF Format

A new battle format for the Halloween maps: Hornet or Wasp with a Firebird, and nothing else. You pick it yourself when you create a DM battle.

HF/WF

• Hulls: Hornet or Wasp
• Turret: Firebird
• Mode: DM
• Maps: Halloween maps

How to play it

• In Create battle, choose DM on a Halloween map and pick HF/WF in the format list
• There are no ready-made HF/WF rooms in the battle list, you make the battle yourself
• Anyone who joins with another tank is turned away at the door
• CTF, TDM, CP and Juggernaut battles do not offer HF/WF

Isida

You missed the old Isida that healed itself, so the standard Isida heals its owner again while its beam damages an enemy. The Vampire nanobots augment doubles its self-heal, so it stays the best way to heal yourself.

Healing yourself

• Standard Isida: none ⇒ a third of the damage dealt
• Vampire nanobots: 35% of base damage ⇒ 70% of base damage

Thunder

Thunder shells fly 10% faster now, so they reach far targets sooner.

Shell

• Shell speed: 350 ⇒ 385

Juggernaut

After the health cut the Juggernaut fell too fast: half of them lasted less than 50 seconds. It has 25% more health now, and its Impulse Generator pushes 15% harder.

Health

Impulse Generator

• Push strength: +15%

Overdrive

Overdrive reaches your teammates only half as far as before, so a teammate has to be twice as close to get the buffs.

Reach

• Distance to teammates: 100% ⇒ 50%

Striker Splash

Striker splash was not always fair. Rockets that struck a wall or the floor sometimes lost their splash on a tank right beside them, and splash could reach through walls. Both are fixed.

Fixed

• A tank beside the spot where a rocket struck always takes the splash
• Splash no longer damages or pushes tanks behind cover
• Damage and push numbers are unchanged

Premium in Containers

Containers can give you Premium now. The chances for each rarity are the same as before.

What you can get

• Container: 1 day of Premium (Rare)
• Ultra Container: 3 days of Premium (Epic)
• Chances: unchanged for every rarity

Halloween Gold Box Siren

The siren that announces a Halloween Gold Box has a new sound.

Only on the Ground

A Gold Box can be taken only once it has landed.

Boombox Maps

Every Boombox map holds 8 players at most now, 4 a side in CTF. Halloween Boombox used to hold 20.

Halloween Boombox

• Players: 20 ⇒ 8
• CTF rooms: 8 a side ⇒ 4 a side
• DM rooms: 16 ⇒ 8

Fewer Empty Rooms

The battle list was full of empty rooms. Now each kind of room keeps one empty room in the list, and only when the rooms of that kind that have players are full. Rooms you create and the duel rooms are always listed.

Bots Stay

Bots no longer leave a room just because a player joined. A bot steps out only to keep a free seat for a player who wants in, and they all leave when the last player does.

No Supplies at the Start

The rooms for the lowest ranks now have supplies off.

Low-rank rooms

• Ranks: up to Staff Sergeant
• Supplies: off
• Overdrive: off with them
• Bonus boxes, Gold Boxes, micro-upgrades and augments: as before

Drop Gold Box Key

You can set your own key for Drop Gold Box now. Open Settings, then Controls, and set it there.

Turning in Reverse

The setting "Inverse turn controls when going backwards" works now, and it shows its tick. Turn it on and the turning keys swap while you drive backwards.

Copy and Paste

Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C, Ctrl+X and Ctrl+V work in the chat and in every text box in the game.

Lobby Chat

The lobby chat follows the classic chat now: names, rank badges and text line up like they did in the old game.

Chat lines

• Every name is followed by a colon, and the text starts right after it
• Rank badges sit in the same place on every line, so the names line up
• A message to one player shows a white arrow between the names
• Lines kept when you come back: 50 ⇒ 100

Typing too fast

• Send greys out and counts down
• The letters you typed too early turn red

CTF Messages

The CTF flag messages are clearer in English now: "took our flag", "dropped the flag" and "delivered our flag".

Loading Bar

The loading bar now follows the real work. Before, it crept to 98% on a timer and stopped, so a first install with a big download sat under a bar that did not move. The game window also no longer freezes while it loads.

Faster Start

Tank pictures, paints, skies and map pictures now load when you first need them, not all at the start. The game is ready sooner.

On our test PC

• From connecting to the login screen: 4.3 - 5.2 s ⇒ 1.8 s
• Pictures checked at the start: 372 MB ⇒ 111 MB

Esports Login

You log in to the esports website with your nickname and your password. That is all. There is no code to wait for by email any more.

Mac Ping

Mac players still see a higher ping than Windows players on the same connection. We found where the time goes, and the next update will try a new fix for it.

Friends Count From Master Sergeant

A friend you invite now counts toward your container rewards from Master Sergeant. Before, they had to reach Warrant Officer 1.

Friend counts from

• Rank: Warrant Officer 1 ⇒ Master Sergeant

Fixed

Battles

• If a player who hit you left the battle before you died, you are no longer stuck dead until the round ends, a flag no longer stays on your wreck, and the Juggernaut role is handed over
• Overdrive no longer causes errors when a tank leaves in the middle of its burst
• Leaving a battle before its map has finished loading now works

Lobby

• Clicking a battle that has just ended, with a mode filter on, no longer crashes the lobby
• With a mode filter on in the battle list, the player counts now update live. Before, the rows kept the numbers they had when you turned the filter on.
• Closing a message window in the shop no longer crashes the shop
• Double-clicking when you close Settings no longer opens two windows
• Pressing Esc on a player menu before ever opening Clans no longer causes an error
• Typing in the friends search when no list is shown no longer causes an error
• Resizing the window while the garage is hidden no longer causes an error
• Clearing a key in the Controls tab of Settings no longer causes an error

Graphics

• Very large windows no longer cause graphics errors in the garage preview and in battle
• If your graphics card briefly runs out of memory, the game now asks again instead of leaving things invisible for the rest of the battle

Ukrainian

• The Recruit rank has the same name on every screen now

Accounts

• If the game is closed for maintenance when you finish signing up, your account waits and is created when we open. Before, it could fail