September Challenge I
Details:
- Event: September 2020 Challenge Part I
- Starts: Tuesday, September 1st at 02:00 UTC
- Ends: Tuesday, September 15th at 02:00 UTC
- Duration: 14 days
Tankers!
The new Challenge starts tomorrow (Tuesday, Sep 1st).
In addition to the Crystals, Supplies, Batteries and other goodies that you’ve come to expect, this month’s Challenge features the following special rewards:
«Campfire» animated paint
There are also two new regular paints to snatch up:
«Sonar» paint
And of course, don’t forget the grand prizes in the final stage: 100 Tankoins (Silver Tier) and a Skin Container (Gold Tier — requires Battle Pass).
Open a Skin Container and get a cool skin! Each one may drop a random skin from the following:
- Any XT Skin (except Gauss)
- Ricochet LC
- Vulcan PR
- Thunder LC
- Thunder PR
- Railgun LC
- Railgun PR
- Hornet LC
- Viking LC
- Viking PR
- Hunter PR
- Titan PR
- Mammoth LC.
It’s a great way to finally complete your collection!
How to complete the challenge faster
You can always snatch a Stars Bundle from the Shop and give yourself a nice boost. Don’t let those cool top tier rewards slip through your fingers!
- 1 star — 40 tankoins
- 10 stars — 376 tankoins
- 50 stars — 1800 tankoins
- 100 stars — 3120 tankoins
- 300 stars — 8960 tankoins
- 1000 stars — 28400 tankoins
And with Premium Pass you will receive twice more stars for each battle!
And as requested, we have returned the Premium Pass + Battle Pass bundle which will be available in the Showcase within 5 days after the start of the challenge.
So, log into the game on Tuesday (September 1st) and start collecting those Stars!
Ultra Weekend August
Hello, tankers!
Shall we heat up the final weekend of summer?
We are happy to announce that the upcoming Friday, Saturday and Sunday will be ULTRA!
There will be special missions, increased funds and experience, coinboxes and Ultra Containers, a valuable special offer, and a themed design.
This Ultra Weekend will start on Friday, August 28th, at 2:00 UTC, and will last until Monday, August 31st, at 2:00 UTC.
Double funds and experience
Enjoy the summer farm on maximum! You will get double the experience and crystals for every matchmaking battle on top of the experience and crystal bonuses that we announced on June 15th.
Coinboxes and Ultra Containers
Do you like opening containers? Well, luckily, for this Ultra Weekend, we are bringing back two of our signature special containers! You will be able to buy your favorite coinboxes and Ultra Containers, which will replace regular containers for three days.
We remind you that you can get a cool Gauss Ultra skin, all Ultra skins except Hornet Ultra, Crisis drone, Gauss XT, Ares XT, the EMP Salvo Augment, and the only Gauss shot effect “VioleNt”. You can also find these drops in coinboxes:
- 1 tankoin
- 10 tankoins
- 30 tankoins
- 40 tankoins
- 50 tankoins
- 100 tankoins
- 200 tankoins
- 300 tankoins
- 500 tankoins
- 1 000 tankoins
- 2 000 tankoins
- 3 000 tankoins
- 100 000 tankoins
- 1 000 crystals
- 2 000 crystals
- 3 000 crystals
- 5 000 crystals
- 15 000 crystals
- 30 000 crystals
- 30 speed boosts
- 30 mines
- 30 double damages
- 30 double armors
- 30 repair kits
- 15 batteries
By the way, if you managed to get 100 000 tankoins, be sure to share the screenshot on the forum!
Special offer in the Shop
Want more bang for your buck? We’ve got your back! There will be an exclusive offer in the Shop this weekend, which includes 5 containers, 300 supplies (excluding goldboxes and batteries), and 100 000 crystals.
Don’t miss it!
Special missions
Play in matchmaking, complete special missions, and get cool rewards! And do not forget about the “Erudite” contest!
- Mission: Super Ultra
- Task: Complete the “Ultra Fighter”, “Ultra Soldier”, “Ultra Terminator”, “Ultra God” and “Ultra Helper”.
- Prize: 6 Ultra Containers
- Mission: Ultra Fighter
- Task: Earn 10 000 points in matchmaking battles
- Prize: 200 batteries
- Mission: Ultra Soldier
- Task: Earn 20 000 points in matchmaking battles
- Prize: 300 batteries
- Mission: Ultra Terminator
- Task: Earn 30 000 points in matchmaking battles
- Prize: 2 Ultra Containers
- Mission: Ultra God
- Task: Destroy 500 tanks in any matchmaking battles using Ares
- Prize: 1 Ultra Container
- Mission: Ultra Helper
- Task: Destroy 500 tanks in any matchmaking battles, using passive drones (Hyperion, Brutus, Crisis)
- Prize: 1 Ultra Container
Attention: Points earned in matchmaking stack up. For example, if you earn 30 000 points, you will complete 3 missions at once – “Ultra fighter”, “Ultra soldier”, and “Ultra terminator”
Themed decorations
There will be themed decorations in the battles during the weekend:
- a special holiday paint;
- themed billboards on every map;
- holiday parachutes;
- Themed goldboxes and dropzones.
Play the game tomorrow and enjoy your weekend!
Erudite
Attention, tankers!
The next week is going to be a mass test of your knowledge. Everyone, pull up the Tanki Wiki and stock up on all the important information. We are launching a new contest, code named “Erudite”.
For seven days, from August 24th until August 31st, from 13:00 UTC until 18:00 UTC, you just have to… play in Matchmaking battles. Is that all? Of course not!
A spectator can join your battle at any moment and ask a question related to the game. Your task will be to answer the question correctly within a short amount of time.
Spectators love very erudite tankers, so:
- If a question is answered during the first 30 seconds, the player who answered correctly first will get 1 container* and 10 gold boxes will be dropped in the game.
- However, if no one answers correctly or if someone answers after the 30 seconds are up, only one goldbox will be dropped.
*A container will be added to the account during the first 24 hours after the right answer.
Are you ready to become real erudites? Play in the Matchmaking battles every day from 13:00 UTC until 18:00 UTC, catch the spectators, and show us what you’ve got!
Puzzle Game August 2020 II
Hello, tankers!
Please welcome back the second edition of the old but gold Puzzles contest.
Do you read the announcements on the main page? In the next few days you will need to check all of them.
The idea is simple. We have an image – a screenshot taken in a Tanki battle. We have split it into 36 parts and hidden each part in the announcements on the main page.
The first 12 parts will appear on Friday, August 21st, right after the V-LOG, at 13:00 UTC. The next 12 parts will appear on Saturday, August 22nd, at 9:00 UTC, and the last parts will appear on Sunday, August 23rd, at 9:00 UTC. Be aware that this time puzzle parts of 1st day will disappear on 2nd day and so on.
Before you start looking for these parts, you will need to enter the special contest page, log in, and get your personal code. When you find a part of the puzzle, there will be a form for you to enter your code and an OK button to click on. Once you have done these steps, your progress is counted and you will be able to see how many parts you have already found. You can also track your progress on the contest page.
On Monday, August 24th at 9 UTC we will stop accepting entries and will start proceeding with the results. The fastest tankers will get following prizes:
- 1 place: 300 tankoins, 30 containers and 3 days of Premium Pass
- 2-10 place: 150 tankoins, 15 containers and 1 day of Premium Pass
- 11-50 place: 50 tankoins and 5 containers
- 51-100 place: 1 container
The first puzzle will appear in this article on Friday, August 21st, right after the V-LOG at 13:00 UTC. We wish you good luck and hope that you will like the new version of the contest.
How I spent the summer 2020
Hello, tankers!
It’s August right now – the last month of the summer. In just a little while, the majority of you will go back to school to discover new knowledge and the mood will change drastically. But if you want to rock those summer vibes just a bit longer, we encourage you to participate in our most recent contest, “How I spent the summer.”
Your task is to take a photo depicting how you spent your summer with Tanki Online.
Feel free to be as creative as you can with the picture. For example, you can write something in the sand, with rocks or fruits, make a sculpture out of sand, and much, much more. Your creativity is the only limit!
To participate you have to:
- Make sure your nickname, the contest name, and the year (2020) are visible on your entry (the easiest way will be to do it on the paper near your work, though creative methods can help you win).
- Take a photo of your work.
- Upload the photo on an image hosting site (for example, imgur.com) and send it via the special form: https://forms.gle/hKKmwiAJPLjsE7EN8
Prizes for the best entries are:
- 1st place: 100 000 crystals, 100 containers and 1000 tankoins
- 2nd place: 80 000 crystals, 80 containers and 800 tankoins
- 3rd place: 50 000 crystals, 50 containers and 500 tankoins
Honourable mentions that do not make it into the Top 3 will receive a consolation prize of 15,000 crystals, 10 containers and 200 tankoins.
- Deadline for submissions is 16:00 UTC on September 5th.
- Results will be published on September 7th during the day.
Fantasize, go on, and create masterpieces! We can’t wait to see what you guys come up with!
August Challenge II
Details:
- Event: August 2020 Challenge Part II
- Starts: Sunday, August 16th at 02:00 UTC
- Ends: Sunday, August 30th at 02:00 UTC
- Duration: 14 days
Tankers!
The new Challenge starts tomorrow (Sunday, Aug 16th).
In addition to the Crystals, Supplies, Batteries and other goodies that you’ve come to expect, this month’s Challenge features the following special rewards:
«Light organ» animated paint
There is also a new regular paint to snatch up:
«Ecofriendly» paint
And of course, don’t forget the grand prizes in the final stage: 100 Tankoins (Silver Tier) and a Skin Container (Gold Tier — requires Battle Pass).
Open a Skin Container and get a cool skin! Each one may drop a random skin from the following: Any XT Skin (except Gauss), Ricochet LC, Vulcan PR, Thunder LC, Thunder PR, Railgun LC, Railgun PR, Hornet LC, Viking LC, Viking PR, Hunter PR, Titan PR, Mammoth LC. It’s a great way to finally complete your collection!
How to complete the challenge faster
You can always snatch a Stars Bundle from the Shop and give yourself a nice boost. Don’t let those cool top tier rewards slip through your fingers!
- 1 star — 40 tankoins
- 10 stars — 376 tankoins
- 50 stars — 1800 tankoins
- 100 stars — 3120 tankoins
- 300 stars — 8960 tankoins
- 1000 stars — 28400 tankoins
And with Premium Pass you will receive twice more stars for each battle!
And as requested, we have returned the Premium Pass + Battle Pass bundle which will be available in the Showcase within 5 days after the start of the challenge.
So, log into the game on Sunday (August 16th) and start collecting those Stars!
A token of apology 14/08
Hey!
Thanks for your patience.
We had some issues in the game after releasing the Ares hull. Major bugs are fixed now and while we will be fixing the test you may enjoy a one day of Premium Pass for free!
Just enter the game (HTML5 version) during next 3 hours (till 15:15UTC), open “Missions > Special” and take your reward.
Ares
He promised to arrive, he arrived.
We are witnessing a historical Tanki Online event.
Please welcome! The «Ares» hull is in the game!
Our developers did an insane job. Hundreds of blueprints, calculations and unconventional decisions were made.
In the end we got the heavy, multi-tone machine to hover. Yes-yes, Ares is a heavy hull.
Hovering
Thanks to the never-ending work of its engines the Ares hull can hover over the ground with a small altitude.
When Ares is placed under enemy fire, it tries to return itself to a stable position. If the roll limit exceeds a certain maximum, the engines will fail and Ares will flip.
Movement mechanics
The uniquity of the hull movement is that it does not turn, but “strafes” in the given direction.
The hull will perfectly fit mobile gameplay. It is stable, has a lot of armour, and controlling it on the touch-screen is a pleasure.
There are two different possibilities to control the hull on the PC: keyboard + mouse and only keyboard.
- Keyboard + Mouse:
- Hull moves forwards, backwards and to the side;
- Strafing instead of turning the hull;
- Strafe direction depends on the current camera position;
- Forwards, backwards, left and right are always controlled by the camera position;
- The hull turns with the camera.
- Keyboard only:
- The hull is controlled like a usual tank.
Important: to switch to keyboard control, you need to disable mouse controls in the game settings.
Without disabling mouse controls, you cannot rotate the hull.
For those of you who don’t have a mouse — now is the perfect time to buy one!
BFG
BFG is the name of Ares’s unique Overdrive.
Remember the gun integrated into the hull? Here it is!
This overdrive shoots a plasma ball that looks just like a ball of lightning. It flies slowly and finally explodes when it hits a static obstacle, dealing splash damage.
The lightning ball strikes tanks that are within a certain distance of the ball. It heals allied tanks and deals damage to enemy tanks, ignoring their modules.
Ares’s Overdrive’s interactions with other Overdrives
The ball of plasma:
- might be shot down by Hunter’s electromagnetic pulse;
- explodes when contacting an enemy plasma ball;
- neutralizes itself when the protective shield generator is activated;
- can not be deactivated with Wasp’s N2-bomb.
Answer to the main question
Ares floats. What about mines? What about supply drops?
It’s simple. Ares’s hull is just like a magnet – it detonates mines and picks up supply drops just like any other hull.
Are you interested? Come into the Garage and get this masterpiece of technology!
By the way, especially for this occasion we have launched some interesting events. You can check them out here.
Ares ХТ + ultra containers = Happy tanker
Great news! The elite-XT skin for Ares will be in the updated ultra containers.
In the creation of this elite XT skin for Ares, the latest technology, an unknown alloy with classified chemical composition, and a lot of pure gold were used in order to make this skin even more exclusive and elegant.
Wanna get it? Don’t miss the special missions available in the game to get ultracontainers or you can also get them in the Shop.
The Battle for Olympus
Hello tankers!
Summer is a great time for huge feats!
«Lockdown» is over and it’s time to get to Mount Olympus!
But to conquer it you will need to make an effort. Whoever manages to do all the missions will be generously rewarded!
From 02:00 UTC August 14th until 02:00 UTC August 24th the game will host an event called «The Battle of Olympus».
Your task is to complete these missions:
- Supermission: God of War
- Task: Complete the missions «Turret in the hull — blade in the sleeve», «War Chariot», «Guile», «The Siege of Troy» and «Titans’ Killer»
- Prize: 5 new fancy ultra containers
- Mission: Turret in the hull — blade in the sleeve
- Task: Use Ares’s overdrive 300 times in matchmaking battles.
- Prize: 1000 «Double Damages»
- Mission: War Chariot
- Task: Be in the winning team of 100 matchmaking battles.
- Prize: 1000 «Speed Boosts»
- Mission: Guile
- Task: Destroy 150 tanks with mines in any matchmaking battles
- Prize: 2 ultra containers
- Mission: The Siege of Troy
- Task: Be in the winning team of 120 battles in the «Siege» matchmaking mode
- Prize: 2 ultra containers
- Mission: Titans’ Killer
- Task: Destroy 1 000 heavy hulls (Ares, Titan, Mammoth) in any matchmaking battles
- Prize: 2 ultra containers
- Mission: Crown of Swords
- Task: Earn 70 000 battle points in any matchmaking battles
- Prize: 5 days of premium
IMPORTANT: before going to the party, visit the «Missions > Special» section in the HTML5 or Mobile version of the game to activate your mission, or your progress won’t be tracked, and you won’t get your prize.
There is other interesting stuff:
Increased funds and experience
Throughout the whole duration of the event we will have doubled funds and experience points. Funds and experience multipliers add up with the current summer increase and with bonuses from the premium account.
Ultra Containers
Ultra Containers are back in the Showcase, temporarily replacing standard containers.
Reminder: from ultra containers you can get crystals, supplies, gold boxes, days of premium account, ordinary and rare paints, augments, XT and PR skins, coinboxes, unique augments and the new exceptional Ares XT skin, augments for Ares, as well as the «Crisis» drone.
Special Bundles
The Battle of Olympus calls for brave tankers!
And so that you have enough resources to complete all the tasks, we will add not one, not two, not three but as many as 4 special bundles!
Special Bundle «King of the Universe»:
- Ares Mk2
- 150 ultracontainers
- «Heat Resistance» augment for Ares
- «Cold Resistance» augment for Ares
Special Bundle «Level: Supergod»:
- 50 ultra containers
- 50 containers
- 50 coin boxes
- 50 pit stop boxes
- 50 weekly containers
Special Bundle «Level: God»:
- 10 ultra containers
- 10 containers
- 10 coin boxes
- 10 weekly containers
Special Bundle «Level: Novice God»:
- 5 ultra containers
- 5 containers
- 5 weekly containers
We wish everyone good luck with containers and a successful conquest of Olympus!
[14/08 4 AM] Delayed servers restart
Hello, tankers!
Please be advised that daily servers restart will happen at 4 AM UTC (not 2 UTC as usual) tomorrow, on August 14th.
Marcus Koffleart
EN Community Manager