The Tragic History of Tanki Online

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  • čas přidán 30. 05. 2024
  • Tanki Online´s is dead. This is how Tanki Online died / Why is Tanki Online Dying. The Downfall of Tanki Online. Tanki Online 2022 vs 2013. Before After. How the game lost it´s popularity (2008- 2021).
    This Tanki Online video will bring back memories and make you nostalgic / nostalgia
    Tanki Online today vs back then
    tanki online in 2022 a flash gamers perspective
    tanki online is this game still good after SIX years
    0:00 When Tanki was still great!
    3:49 First Problems
    6:04 Pain.
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Komentáře • 5K

  • @ianNotShort
    @ianNotShort  Před rokem +6888

    hahahahaher tank game go extinct

    • @schweigefuchs4658
      @schweigefuchs4658 Před rokem +180

      extinction go brrr

    • @BabiTankiOnline
      @BabiTankiOnline Před rokem +94

      You should credit the other people's videos you used

    • @eirr18
      @eirr18 Před rokem +15

      brrr

    • @AlexNV75
      @AlexNV75 Před rokem +65

      Just remembered it a few months ago and hopped back on. I got shit on by all the people still paying to win 😂. There still isn’t a game that is similar to tanki, so it’s hay day will be sorely missed 🫡.

    • @ianNotShort
      @ianNotShort  Před rokem +70

      @@AlexNV75 well some do be skillfull as well

  • @davidmoore1253
    @davidmoore1253 Před rokem +6145

    As a former World of Tanks player, the idea of premium currency falling out of the sky during a match is just wild. RIP Tanki Online.

    • @GauravKumar-tq1kw
      @GauravKumar-tq1kw Před rokem +492

      It's not really a premium currency though. It was the ONLY currency back then. Obviously now they've actually added a premium currency

    • @davidmoore1253
      @davidmoore1253 Před rokem +62

      @@GauravKumar-tq1kw Yes but in such quantity...

    • @47-marcus95
      @47-marcus95 Před rokem +162

      imagine wot had gold boxes with 1k gold in them 💀

    • @veoa416
      @veoa416 Před rokem +118

      I feel like 1k a box for your ONLY currency when upgrades cost 90k is rather lackluster.

    • @veoa416
      @veoa416 Před rokem +50

      On another note tho, sadly I feel like WoT has been going in the same direction as Tanki for a long time already. Already quit playing but losing the possibilty to return would still be painful

  • @heysamuelhere2733
    @heysamuelhere2733 Před rokem +1418

    The siren for the goldbox. My dude. That made my blood freeze. We used to play this in school during our computer lessons. The class went quiet. Those memories are golden and won't ever leave me.

    • @arietrouwborst3304
      @arietrouwborst3304 Před rokem +74

      Oh man, the adrenalin rushing through my body. It was insane

    • @dyceman
      @dyceman Před rokem +19

      The heart pumping

    • @manfreddanvers3213
      @manfreddanvers3213 Před rokem +4

      bruhhh those were the daysss! lmao as I rained Thunder shells upon the masses xD

    • @x_thewinn3r666
      @x_thewinn3r666 Před rokem +9

      PLAY PROTANKI
      ITS THE 2014 VERSION
      ITS BLOWING UP

    • @Nickerarx
      @Nickerarx Před rokem +3

      @@x_thewinn3r666 there are lot of remade ones. Which one do U recommend?

  • @rishavgautam9649
    @rishavgautam9649 Před rokem +959

    This game is full of memories. But in 2014 I had to take a break, cuz I went abroad. Then when I returned to the game around 2018, the game had changed greatly and just didn't seem to be as fun as it was before. First I just thought that I had grown older and lost my joy of the game, but it turns out the entire community started to dislike the game. Really sad to see such a great game completely die over. But alas, thank you tanki for making my childhood so much better. :)

    • @BestStylee
      @BestStylee Před rokem +20

      They have a 2014 version now called ProTanki

    • @sardarasif1858
      @sardarasif1858 Před rokem +6

      @@BestStylee I was about to say that.

    • @nikhilflautist
      @nikhilflautist Před rokem +3

      Same story but I had a dream of buying thunder M2, but didnt have enough crystals, i started when I was in class 8th in 2014 and now I am graduated, quitted tanki back in 2017 🥲🥲🥲

    • @DOPESMOKERSB
      @DOPESMOKERSB Před rokem +1

      @@BestStylee I really want a 2017 one ngl, but I do play protanki

    • @BestStylee
      @BestStylee Před rokem +1

      @@DOPESMOKERSB Same... Theres a newer version (around 2016-2017) coming out called RTanks. They plan on releasing it soon.

  • @archangelnoir
    @archangelnoir Před rokem +482

    I found Tanki in late 2015 and it was the first game I actually got seriously addicted to. I remember staying up for most of the night on special events such as Halloween, where they had maps with increased gold box drop rates, and even tentatively participating in some of their organised esports competitions. I was even a staff member for a short time. Met some really cool people, though sadly (like everyone else) fell into the trap of paying "$5" just to skip the grind. I revisited Tanki last year and it was sad to see what had happened to it. It had become a game where you needed to basically pay to stay ahead of everyone else.

    • @narrativeless404
      @narrativeless404 Před rokem +6

      Special events still get me too tho
      And sometimes i go in just for daily missions xd

    • @Suryansh252
      @Suryansh252 Před rokem +6

      Hey, I remember you! You were pretty active on the forums and everything. Damn did they mess up big time with the game though :/

    • @yvanbenjamin1657
      @yvanbenjamin1657 Před rokem +2

      I fondly recall your comments on the tanki forum, I went by the name of yvano

    • @antiaaitna2177
      @antiaaitna2177 Před rokem +1

      You the guy that made your own sort of tanki blog didn't you? I helped you out a little on that haha

    • @thinkitmakeit
      @thinkitmakeit Před rokem +1

      Hey Archangel. Didn't you have an entire wedding in the game lol? Anyways, you helped me make my intro as a kid, and tanki kinda established my career as a video editor since I now do it full fledged. The devs suck.

  • @Moss_Dude
    @Moss_Dude Před rokem +590

    God I miss the golden age of this game, back in middle school
    Running around random maps shooting people with the classic weapons
    Getting destroyed by the Isida m2
    Dogpiling the living hell out of the entire server when a gold crate is dropped
    Such fond memories...

    • @fatitankeris6327
      @fatitankeris6327 Před rokem +8

      I often had a bug where I couldn't damage tanks or pick up drop. You get what that means? I stood on the gold box, and it just phased through me, and I couldn't pick it up... Then someone who couldn't rotate their turret pushed me out and picked it up... Bruh

    • @user-mp5xe8mm6g
      @user-mp5xe8mm6g Před rokem

      Still remember my one and only gold box from long years ago. Crazy nostalgia dude

    • @Moss_Dude
      @Moss_Dude Před rokem

      @@fatitankeris6327 that happens every time you respawn, was that just lasting extra long for you?

    • @monkaeyes3417
      @monkaeyes3417 Před rokem

      Nice “End” key kid 😈.

    • @maruftim
      @maruftim Před rokem

      @@fatitankeris6327 damn I can still remember that shit lol

  • @ex0dus248
    @ex0dus248 Před rokem +1241

    Nostalgia is unreal. As a little kid, i played this game for at least hundreds of hours. I'd spend whole days on my mom's computer waiting for a gold box. I was completely f2p so even as a 7yo i would be extremely dedicated to the game, i even tracked my effort and progress in simple charts at some point. All of the public library computers were always occupied by my peers playing Tanki Online. Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.

  • @ExodiumTM
    @ExodiumTM Před rokem +97

    I completely forgot about Tanki Online. I remember an old friend introduced me to the game and we played it like crazy, around 2011-2012. I remember going to his house to do something for school, but we just ended up playing it nonstop on his brother's laptop in incognito with a load of Russians in the lobbies. And also gold boxes videos and stunts were so popular... Never realized I had so many fun memories of that game until now
    Good times, might even check it out for nostalgia, but it's sad seeing a childhood game decline

    • @emerald4318
      @emerald4318 Před rokem

      check out protanki its a client of the little older version of tankionline, im sure you will enjoy it

    • @Sovietboi
      @Sovietboi Před 11 měsíci

      if u didnt know theres a 2014(most played) version of tanki online. it is very nostalgic,u should check it out

    • @johanneshartman4618
      @johanneshartman4618 Před 7 měsíci

      hey man, relax voice u have! also did you know that you are condemned because of all your sins and need the sacrifice GOD send HIS SON for to fulfill to be cleaned and washed with the blood of JESUS! ?

  • @hubson1443
    @hubson1443 Před rokem +29

    bro the peak of this game was insane, being able to pick a match, name it, the great UI, fun gameplay and the thrill when the goldbox fell... I used to play it for years, put hundreds of hours into it and I tried it yesterday. It only improved in terms of graphics. I had fun, but it was really mostly based on my nostalgia for the prime Tanki.

  • @fourlionnn
    @fourlionnn Před rokem +947

    As someone, who played as a little kid in the Golden Ages of Tanki Online, I find this video VERY nostalgic. This is sad how almost all of the web games slowly died because of "I love money" moment

    • @Glados1080
      @Glados1080 Před rokem +13

      Aint just the golden ages of tanki, it was the golden age of the internet imo.

    • @fourlionnn
      @fourlionnn Před rokem

      @@Glados1080 I don't think the Golden Age had ended, it has less soul in it rather than then. Again, in my opinion)

    • @SweetSniper5197
      @SweetSniper5197 Před rokem

      watching this video (nearly) made me tearful and I agree completely with you.

    • @Glados1080
      @Glados1080 Před rokem

      @@fourlionnn if the soul is dying, doesn't that mean the golden age dies too?

    • @fourlionnn
      @fourlionnn Před rokem

      @@Glados1080 I don't think so because Internet is getting more advanced

  • @myron0866
    @myron0866 Před rokem +1463

    this is so insane to me. as a russian kid, i played this game with my friend every evening after school but i never thought it was that popular. i thought it was just a nieche flash game that only a russians heard about but to see that so many foreigners also experienced my childhood is so wild to me

    • @aymericarnaud3437
      @aymericarnaud3437 Před rokem +73

      Yup from all around the world we were there

    • @deltaorez4593
      @deltaorez4593 Před rokem +48

      Philippines here, the Vulcan turret was my baby, no matter how good or bad it was

    • @manfreddanvers3213
      @manfreddanvers3213 Před rokem +23

      I loved meeting players from around the world! I tried learning 5 languages (including russian) so I could talk to them haha

    • @elstan690
      @elstan690 Před rokem +1

      It's pretty good

    • @13ased_American
      @13ased_American Před rokem +2

      The game used to be great...

  • @viktorsemenkov364
    @viktorsemenkov364 Před rokem +185

    Я похоронил свою игру детства в тот момент когда в игру добавили возможность прокачки корпусов и пушек... вернуть бы те времена когда падали ящики с 1 уристаликом внутри, а мы с пацанами играли дни на пролёт чтобы открыть наконец новую пушку!

    • @_Matter_1
      @_Matter_1 Před rokem +14

      Как раз-таки мпк внесло разнообразия в игру , я сам играю с 2011 года , и одно из малых новшеств которое мне понравилось ,это и есть мпк , а вот насчет нерфа аптеки , до сих пор злость берет на разрабов .
      Я участвовал в бунте под началом Жеки Микса , из-за изменения аптеки, тогда игру положили .
      Еще раз повторюсь , мпк - это лучшее что они сделали .

    • @dailk.
      @dailk. Před rokem +3

      "про танки" есть. Наткнулся недавно, копия старых танков, ток онлайн не такой большой

    • @phoenix-tt
      @phoenix-tt Před rokem +2

      Играл в игру ещё до первого ребаланса, после него было очень тяжело адаптироваться и в итоге бросил.
      Насколько помню, тогда сделали все пушки равноценными и открываемыми на низких уровнях. До этого в игре было чувство прогрессии, а после оказалось, что весь грайнд был впустую...

    • @YaM8Kraken
      @YaM8Kraken Před rokem +3

      I always hated upgrades in video games...imagine having a railgun and a slightly stronger railgun but you can barely tell the difference cuz they're both the same...the only thing you have to do is just make sure the upgrade amount is too much and BOOM! You find a p2w player crying for his mother for credit cards just to dominate others who WORKED for those items...I hate it...I hate being different and still being forced to copy from someone else...

    • @_Matter_1
      @_Matter_1 Před rokem +3

      @@YaM8Kraken Bro, m1, m2, m3 are also upgrades, but micro-upgrades made it possible to get the next modification a little earlier, since earlier the ranks were swinging for a very long time, it was very cool. As for the donation, you could quite easily pump in your favorite gun without investing money in the game.

  • @beowulf1663
    @beowulf1663 Před rokem +9

    Bro when I heard the gold box sound I literally shed a tear. This game was my entire childhood, I played it every day..

  • @jimmy79889
    @jimmy79889 Před rokem +669

    I remember when free for all was a gamemode. That was my favorite since, as you stated, teammates were unreliable

    • @ianNotShort
      @ianNotShort  Před rokem +57

      facts

    • @roeital5504
      @roeital5504 Před rokem +25

      Free for all is just deathmatch

    • @Flacto-vs6np
      @Flacto-vs6np Před rokem +6

      Wel at least u can mvp each match with 40 kills like i did(after spending 300h on the game during the holidays)

    • @relturtle
      @relturtle Před rokem

      i think it still exists, but only in the custom lobbies or event gamemodes

    • @mischievouspenguin9412
      @mischievouspenguin9412 Před rokem +9

      FFA was terrible, there was so many high ranked and whales in the lobby. Thus making it unplayable for f2p’s.

  • @AA_idkhaha
    @AA_idkhaha Před rokem +503

    You just unlocked a memory that was on the back of my mind for a long time.
    I remember playing this game when I was younger, back when I played the trial version before signing up.
    It was the good old days.

    • @David-qw5vr
      @David-qw5vr Před rokem +15

      Same man. Also never realized how p2w this game was though xD

    • @itzbeans6575
      @itzbeans6575 Před rokem

      same

    • @tamasszekely7834
      @tamasszekely7834 Před rokem +6

      Yeah man, I am nostalgic af too... I enjoyed the game at its peak in 2010-2014, I even got to play it on my mom's office computer while she had a break... I was addicted but it was worth it, no money spent but got 100% the experience and fun. A pity I didn't have social media and didn't join a community back then!

    • @x_thewinn3r666
      @x_thewinn3r666 Před rokem

      PLAY PROTANKI
      ITS THE 2014 VERSION
      ITS BLOWING UP

    • @x_thewinn3r666
      @x_thewinn3r666 Před rokem

      @@itzbeans6575 PLAY PROTANKI
      ITS THE 2014 VERSION
      ITS BLOWING UP

  • @CrazyWS
    @CrazyWS Před rokem +52

    I remember playing this so much with the boys in middle school. During recess or computer lab time we'd all immediately get into a match together, doing sniper trickshots and battles. It was awesome.

    • @jonathanpaoli3647
      @jonathanpaoli3647 Před 10 měsíci +1

      Bro that’s when I played it but unfortunately our school banned the game because all our classmates where stealing each others accounts but still such a nostalgic game

    • @johanneshartman4618
      @johanneshartman4618 Před 7 měsíci +1

      hey man, relax voice u have! also did you know that you are condemned because of all your sins and need the sacrifice GOD send HIS SON for to fulfill to be cleaned and washed with the blood of JESUS! ?

    • @brianpannen
      @brianpannen Před 5 měsíci

      same g!!!

  • @acephalice
    @acephalice Před rokem +22

    I played this game from 2016-2018 after some boy in my class introduced it to me. As an 8-10 year old girl, its surprising how good and into the game I was. I had a group of buddies and we parkoured frequently. But then I left right when drones were introduced. I think it was during the drone period where the game really took a turn for the worst.

    • @BlyaCyka
      @BlyaCyka Před rokem +1

      Will never go back to the way it was but it's still kinda decent for nostalgia

    • @22tfortnitevevo
      @22tfortnitevevo Před 11 měsíci +1

      drones? wtf lol

  • @TheREALSaver
    @TheREALSaver Před rokem +4228

    Probably the best video that sums up the story of Tanki Online, thanks for making this.
    I've played this game myself for a solid 5 years, but I quit in 2020, somehow I kept playing (maybe because I used to be a buyer kinda), and I had a ton of great experiences with it, but it's just saddening how much they ruined it throughout the years.
    Nontheless, Tanki will always have a special place in my heart, atleast the old Tanki.

    • @ianNotShort
      @ianNotShort  Před rokem +178

      same
      i wont forget it

    • @AdrianoMelo1141
      @AdrianoMelo1141 Před rokem +7

      Mano a única coisa q me anima de jogar Tanki hoje em dia são os eventos, tipo halloween, natal, dia das mentiras, e batalhas XP/BP, Perdi meu PC faz 4 anos agora jogo no mobile as vezes 🇧🇷

    • @Fafr
      @Fafr Před rokem +52

      Hey, there's a project called ProTanki, it's basically just Tanki Online of 2014-2017 brought back to life

    • @user-rq4tb2jk4u
      @user-rq4tb2jk4u Před rokem +2

      Yah im too

    • @Flacto-vs6np
      @Flacto-vs6np Před rokem +3

      I feel u bro

  • @alone.i.conquerto8187
    @alone.i.conquerto8187 Před rokem +667

    This is so nostalgic 🥲 I started playing in 2011. I quit tanki in 2016, and started playing again since 2020. Never felt the same anymore as in the good ol' days. 😭

  • @josenpai27
    @josenpai27 Před rokem +19

    As a old player of this game, a lot of things have changed because i used to love the idea of simple controls, multiple hulls and turrets with different advantages, and also the Gold Boxes that randomly drop occasionally. i then went on a break, and came back years later to a game that was completely different. at one point i saw tanks that were jumping around the place, and confusing maps that made no sense. and from there the game just lost its popularity, because the "magic" wasn't there anymore, instead it was replaced with things that the devs thought that the players would like because they wanted to go with the trend i guess. seeing a game that you know and loved for months and come back a few years later to see how chaotic it has been when you were gone is just sad. when i took a break for a few years i really expected this game to be successful, but now i think theres no more hope of bringing it back on the map. it will remain a hidden gem, lost forever buried with the year that it was popular. RIP Tanki Online -Player Jake986442

    • @johanneshartman4618
      @johanneshartman4618 Před 7 měsíci +1

      hey man, relax voice u have! also did you know that you are condemned because of all your sins and need the sacrifice GOD send HIS SON for to fulfill to be cleaned and washed with the blood of JESUS! ?

  • @shark7698
    @shark7698 Před rokem +10

    so many memories came rushing back, I'd do anything to go back in time to when this game was my life

  • @user-wv4ms4qs4j
    @user-wv4ms4qs4j Před rokem +59

    I can’t believe someone actually played this game outside Russia and the CIS. I read your comments and it blows my mind. I would never have thought that this piece of browser gaming would take over not only in my childhood, but also in the childhood of everyone around the world.

    • @Yurasaurus
      @Yurasaurus Před rokem +10

      Тоже в шоке.

    • @lilugly6876
      @lilugly6876 Před rokem

      Am from pakistan lmao and used to play this like crazy

  • @4channinjadagoat14
    @4channinjadagoat14 Před 11 měsíci +3

    I remember when a gold box would spawn in and my heart would literally skip a beat

  • @herrwunderwaffle
    @herrwunderwaffle Před rokem +9

    I remember very old version of it. Don't know the year exactly.
    So, there were only 4 tiers of turret/hull upgrades: M0 (stock), M1, M2 and M3
    You had to grind for several ranks to get another weapon. But it was enjoyable grind. Every new gun I was unlocking was very exciting because I spent time grinding it and after unlocking it I could get unique experience using this gun.
    You played matches against players whose ranks were slightly higher than yours, they had turrets you hadn't and you wanted to grind more to unlock and try them.
    Also upgrading turrets and hulls wasn't hard. While grinding for new guns and upgrades you were collecting decent amount of crystals, so when you got new rank, you could either upgrade turret/hull or buy a new one without any problems.
    And then "rebalance" happened.
    Devs moved all turrets and all hulls to the beginning of the game. Now to get and play with any gun in the game you needed only about 15 ranks.
    But they made upgrade cost VERY high.
    For me, if was first game fall. I didn't want to grind for a slightly better versions of guns I already had and dropped the game for a long period.

  • @TC7-Thecomplex7
    @TC7-Thecomplex7 Před rokem +439

    As someone who was a hardcore tankionline player many years ago, this was the hardest game downfall I've had to take in ever.

    • @m.v.a.l7669
      @m.v.a.l7669 Před rokem +14

      Same here man. It's a shame actually...

    • @oom_boudewijns6920
      @oom_boudewijns6920 Před rokem

      its still alive

    • @jout738
      @jout738 Před rokem +9

      Its that money talks for many companies, when they see their game has become succesful, so why they become so greedy to make the game less fun and not more fun with updates, so the player base literally vanishes and lose intrest in the game and move on in life to play other games instead.

    • @user-fl2og8wy3j
      @user-fl2og8wy3j Před rokem +1

      This was my childhood game, i stopped playing it only at the real end of the line, it's so hard to listen to my childhoods' games' downfall

    • @acon1048
      @acon1048 Před rokem +2

      Yeah, its just sad.
      Another dead game that i can't seem to forget is parallel kingdom. Both games played for hours as a kid.

  • @FreSch_Dude
    @FreSch_Dude Před rokem +378

    This game was my childhood. I was actually a beta tester for tanki X as well.
    This video popped up and I decided to try it again, but after watching....
    Man it's painful to see this part of my childhood be destroyed by greed.

    • @ceh957
      @ceh957 Před rokem +1

      SO SAD

    • @comedygold12421
      @comedygold12421 Před rokem +1

      you wanna talk on discord bro

    • @rakunjerkov5942
      @rakunjerkov5942 Před rokem +5

      Tanki X was such a great game why was it abandoned?

    • @user-2qgp9gbvez
      @user-2qgp9gbvez Před rokem +5

      I was a beta tester too. Too bad the game went nowhere....

    • @infinitewisdom9619
      @infinitewisdom9619 Před rokem

      Check out ProTanki! Its Tanki in 2014-2017 with 1,5k - 3k players online and growing. I enjoy it a lot.

  • @AlreadyTakenTag
    @AlreadyTakenTag Před 10 měsíci +5

    I can't believe I had already forgotten the blast I had with this game. Really wish some other game company (even if it's small) would try to recreate the game similar to the 2012-2014 golden days. Whilst also keeping in mind how greed has ruined countless free to play games over the years.
    Thx for the video, it really brought back some nice nostalgia.

    • @tomasfekiac3872
      @tomasfekiac3872 Před 9 měsíci

      Have you heard about protanki online? Its an old version of tanki online and it has pretty good community and it even has events and all this stuff, try it

    • @matiwierzbicki1607
      @matiwierzbicki1607 Před 7 měsíci

      Bro , Pro Tanki are old tanki online not many hear of it go dowland it and play old tanki thank me later

    • @mr.brokkoli5725
      @mr.brokkoli5725 Před 3 měsíci

      Protanki online, thank me later

  • @NeaLopezProductions
    @NeaLopezProductions Před 9 měsíci +3

    Love to randomly search up tanki online in youtube about once a year to see whats up, i played from around 2014 to 2020 ish, its sad to see what happened

  • @vardaruus5243
    @vardaruus5243 Před rokem +184

    a nostalgic memory has been unlocked in my mind while watching this video... I'm glad that as a kid we discovered this game still in it's prime

  • @DrIsida
    @DrIsida Před rokem +3463

    Let's take a moment to appreciate how good the editing in this video is

    • @fv4202x
      @fv4202x Před rokem +31

      okay im going to take a moment to appreciate how good the editing in this video is

    • @mangekyo_sharingan_
      @mangekyo_sharingan_ Před rokem +13

      okay im going to take a moment to appreciate how good the editing in this video is

    • @ImPasta766
      @ImPasta766 Před rokem +9

      okay im going to take a moment to appreciate how good the editing in this video is

    • @iLysYo
      @iLysYo Před rokem +7

      okay im going to take a moment to appreciate how good the editing in this video is

    • @BasicBrick
      @BasicBrick Před rokem +2

      thats why i subed

  • @apeman8985
    @apeman8985 Před rokem +5

    I remember being obsessed with this game as a kid and always going over to my friend to play it. You just brought back so many memories man

  • @faang29488
    @faang29488 Před rokem +12

    I recognized myself there and not just shed a tear, but wept a whole pool of male longing. I was inaccessible at that moment: my eyelids did not close for a second when watching this video, but tears helped me. My mind was sinking into such distant corners of memories that I inadvertently thought: "Did it really happen? Maybe it wasn't with me?" A painfully familiar feeling pierced my heart; I remembered every centimeter, every pixel of this game seemed to me dear, truly friendly.
    I remembered the old store at the bus stop and the ATM machine I carried money into to feel cool again. I was inaccessible at that moment: all natural feelings were alien to me, only the desire to enter the game and destroy all opponents dominated me. I thanked God for every minute spent there. In it, I experienced all spectrums of emotions, life and death, and also saw worse things. Intoxicated by the thirst for competition, I can not stop playing, I shredded the opponents one by one. But damn, how sweet was that golden box....

    • @joriankell1983
      @joriankell1983 Před rokem +1

      Imagine crying over a video game

    • @faang29488
      @faang29488 Před rokem +1

      @@joriankell1983 it was not about only a game, there was a galaxy

    • @_wayward_494
      @_wayward_494 Před rokem +2

      "A whole pool of male longing"
      ...

    • @joriankell1983
      @joriankell1983 Před rokem

      @@_wayward_494 so THAT'S where all the male hormones went to!

  • @jumpertanki
    @jumpertanki Před rokem +277

    Nostalgic video❤
    we all miss the old tanki 😔

    • @khaledraafat4662
      @khaledraafat4662 Před rokem +4

      we all miss flash client as well

    • @flyme4814
      @flyme4814 Před rokem +2

      U can play on old tanki in new project pro-tanki

    • @Flacto-vs6np
      @Flacto-vs6np Před rokem

      We all miss old tanki

    • @dusteerq
      @dusteerq Před rokem

      @@flyme4814 where

    • @Primus420
      @Primus420 Před rokem

      @@khaledraafat4662 well if it isnt omegaloblastic🤣🤣

  • @wongcayven9893
    @wongcayven9893 Před rokem +391

    Damn this brings back so much nostalgia. I remember starting to play it on y8 back in 2016, I was completely f2p and always had a bad win/loss ratio but I still enjoyed it because of how you could customize your tanks for different maps, strats, gamemodes, or even adapt according to enemy loadouts. I would always talk with my mom about cool things that happened in game. Then my old computer started to not be able to handle it in 2018 and it was lagging so much I had to eventually quit. I still loved it but when I finally played again in 2021 on a better pc the game just disappointed me. It would take very long for me to find a lobby I wanted to play in and most of the time everyone was playing with op loadouts and I just got destroyed. Now I just hope a similar game comes out someday that I can relive my childhood in

    • @goodmood3374
      @goodmood3374 Před rokem +2

      same... so many memories of staying up way to late with my brother to play in the gold box events haven't played it in a couple years and always wondered what happened too it. Its sad to see another game i enjoyed so much be ruined by greedy devs.

    • @hcolt360
      @hcolt360 Před rokem +3

      SAME I played it with an old pc with no sound in my basement

    • @kitsune_gt
      @kitsune_gt Před rokem +2

      Same here man...

    • @atharvjoshi2162
      @atharvjoshi2162 Před rokem

      Truly said my friend... This game was my childhood favourite...
      It had been quite a time since I played it, but now I was planning to play but these reports just made me feel bad🥲

    • @bluecross963
      @bluecross963 Před rokem

      Same🥲

  • @DefaultDanielS
    @DefaultDanielS Před 2 měsíci +4

    The game had at peak 200k players and had official matches in esports (starladder)
    The thing is, most clans were made on Forums either way so that option to buy a clan wasn't a necessity
    The matchmaking system was added way after 2016.
    Some reasons why they lost so many players up until 2016 was the removal of the crystal boxes which dropped from the sky (besides the gold box), and also the events having less sales dropping from 50% on every sale to 35% or something like this
    In 2016 they added daily missions, before that you could get rewards for logging in, sometimes crystals sometimes supplies + the leveling rewards and packs for crystals, so you didn't have to necessarily buy them with real cash
    Druggers were a thing but in most battles there were at most 2 3 people heavy drugging the rest were casuals + if they were noobs the supplies wouldn't help anyways, even that depended on the settings of the map
    There was a first iteration of supplies where you could activate all 3 at the same time but this was nerfed to a version where you could activate supplies only after waiting an amount of time

  • @TheAndreyCraft
    @TheAndreyCraft Před rokem +2

    I remember using cool gear because of the rebalances, where they would return all your diamonds that you ever spent on your account, but kept the ability to buy previously unlocked things in the store.

  • @Epic_Droid
    @Epic_Droid Před rokem +185

    Thank you for this, I remember playing this in 2012 or thereabouts, and recently (this year) when I realized it still existed and logged in, I nearly cried. A decade between logins... and it was all different. More premium, oberdrives, drones, augments, drugs everywhere...
    And I just watched this video, and what broke me is the menu. The home screen.
    It's been so long, I had forgotten it, but as soon as I saw that, it hit way too hard... seeing the gameplay, the textures, the UI...
    I want my old tanki back. There's a "classic" setting, but it only does a little bit. The UI and tanks, as well as the overall graphics quality, is just not the same.
    Sorry, but thank you. Seeing that selection screen, and the old control points... That's emotional in a special way to me. Cheers.

    • @dr.menyac6499
      @dr.menyac6499 Před rokem +6

      nice to see otherss appreciate old games like such. seeing that reminded me alot of mobile games to and how wonderful they were in the beggining. alot of em were rly nice, and older games in general just seemed to have alot more passion as a creation. i know devs these days now are forced to make extra unpoppular steps to survive but wow we need a different age of gaming

    • @zanwrightmfwr756
      @zanwrightmfwr756 Před rokem

      Hey, I'm here with you buddy. It feels like an entire different game altogether. I still miss the rather simple user friendly experience back in the day.

    • @ondrej_7508
      @ondrej_7508 Před rokem +1

      Both Tanki Online and World of Tanks were such great games in 2012. Many people (including me) wish to experience the simple mechanics, design and gameplay these two games had in 2012. Great times.

  • @Aquifilia
    @Aquifilia Před rokem +485

    I remember playing with legends like Claudius, Prince_of_railgun, and others in XP/BP. It used to be so fun, especially with all the different laser beam colors for M1,M2,M3,XT rail guns. Back then, seeing an XT rail gun or white beam was so rare it was like a treat when you saw it
    Edit: you guys also remember when rank-up lobbies were a thing? Tbh I think my best memory was ranking up to major in a lobby where like 20-30 people would join in to watch it happen, and then the moment I ranked up someone would start dropping gold boxes 😭

    • @Flacto-vs6np
      @Flacto-vs6np Před rokem +9

      Ah yes, XT was soooo rarre yet so gd.
      Wasnt a railgun main tho, but sure as hell loved it

    • @fatitankeris6327
      @fatitankeris6327 Před rokem +1

      And now people just buy things, not earn it or anything...

    • @thearcheovistofsolkeeperof6326
      @thearcheovistofsolkeeperof6326 Před rokem +4

      So THATS what that was... I got obliterated a couple times by XTs when i played a while ago without realizing there were different railguns

    • @Aquifilia
      @Aquifilia Před rokem +4

      @@thearcheovistofsolkeeperof6326 ahaha yesh the XT railguns had the white beams

    • @catalyzt7162
      @catalyzt7162 Před rokem

      Yeah I remember that as well. It was so fun.

  • @georgertheexplorer4114
    @georgertheexplorer4114 Před 11 měsíci +2

    I have such specific memories of this game from when I was a little kid and could only play browser games. It’s so crazy to me to see it now

  • @thenostalgicguy46
    @thenostalgicguy46 Před 11 měsíci +1

    I never would have thought Tanki Online was such a big part of the childhoods of so many others.

  • @IMuradI
    @IMuradI Před rokem +349

    I'll never forget the moment I found out about Tanki Online in 2012. The concept of this game was absolutely amazing and I knew it from my very first match. I spent hours upon hours playing Tanki with my siblings and even made new friends along the way. Really sad to see the game die but at least we had some good memories with it!

  • @Lvkka_
    @Lvkka_ Před rokem +196

    I won't go into an emotional drawn out story, but I will say I played for about a decade and this summarizes it pretty well. A lot of nostalgia hits throughout, and it's quite funny that I just started reminiscing about old Tanki at the time you posted this because I've been playing CS:GO since I quit and it really hasn't crossed my mind at all. Thanks for making this, the community that remembers how things used to be appreciates it.

    • @Flacto-vs6np
      @Flacto-vs6np Před rokem +4

      Ye bro tanki pretty much sums up our childhoods

    • @fatitankeris6327
      @fatitankeris6327 Před rokem +1

      I still remember the characteristics of the turrets and hulls and some paints and drugs better than anything I learned in school😂

    • @thenostalgicguy46
      @thenostalgicguy46 Před 11 měsíci

      @@Flacto-vs6np 😭😭😭

  • @alienp2523
    @alienp2523 Před měsícem +1

    the outro music made me cry, i found it in 2014 when i saw someone playing it at my hotel and decided to give it a try, my first shooter. i got so into the game i regularly had dreams about it. i also watched the videos and montages of my time and earlier. i liked easter egg videos. that music brought so many memories of trying and failing to do what the youtubers did not knowing if it was real or fake

  • @avgpiece
    @avgpiece Před 10 měsíci +2

    remember playing this game 24/7 back in the day and randomly tried searching for it now but didnt know its dead now. RIP to the GOAT game.

  • @illuminator7709
    @illuminator7709 Před rokem +179

    thanks for someone finally bringing this game up. i remember playing it non-stop in like 2014, i wanted to test out all of the cool guns and possible combinations you could have. the community was great, almost no toxic kids, everyone was nice to talk to. i will miss it.

    • @Ch33secakeGaming
      @Ch33secakeGaming Před rokem +1

      2014, those were the days my friend, went to the local library after class with my friends everyday to play tanki online

    • @awnymenla3465
      @awnymenla3465 Před rokem +1

      @@Ch33secakeGaming i used to play it at school computers xd

  • @batoryz797
    @batoryz797 Před rokem +189

    This game is my childhood, I remember all the cool actions of the old times of the game. When we played for many hours with my friend, each event was our skill, no one could match it at the local level, now the Marshal I have not played regularly for 3 years now. For 4-5 years, each New Year's Eve was played all night, the only break was for fireworks. Heart breaks like gods once, destroyers spoiled this game I loved it more than life ... [*]

    • @Flacto-vs6np
      @Flacto-vs6np Před rokem +3

      I feel u, same thing here

    • @AlexVainionpaa
      @AlexVainionpaa Před rokem +3

      The events were the BEST. Played with my brother for hours on all halloween, christmas and new years events

    • @thomasthenoobengine2882
      @thomasthenoobengine2882 Před rokem

      The game was amazing, I played it for 3 years until google removed flash, when I found out they made an app version I downloaded it, until I got in a match, pure trash. Sure it used the same sounds, but it is too p2w rn.

    • @batoryz797
      @batoryz797 Před rokem

      @@AlexVainionpaa
      Yes, the parties were the best

    • @fatitankeris6327
      @fatitankeris6327 Před rokem

      It's so sad what it became...

  • @alessioromanazzi1479
    @alessioromanazzi1479 Před 3 měsíci +2

    tanking online was simply a part of my childhood…. the hours spent in front of my old PC destroying tanks and trying to level up to the M6 ​​if I remember correctly? the various cannons and armor within the game my favorite was the flamethrower which when I did it for my very first time in M1 and the flame changed color at that moment I was a really happy child

  • @MrXaniss
    @MrXaniss Před rokem +2

    I've spent most of my life on the Internet, and I've NEVER even heard if this game, and now I kinda regret it.

  • @jordanlazarus7345
    @jordanlazarus7345 Před rokem +164

    Kinda surprised you didn't mention how at one point they purged all of our inventories and gave us the money back + made all of the guns cheaper. Back then it was really, really hard to unlock the rail gun, but the M1, m2, m3 upgrades were really cheap. Right after I unlocked that rail gun, which took forever, I was suddenly just able to rebuy everything for cheaper.

    • @v.k5587
      @v.k5587 Před rokem +17

      And for some reason the devs thought it was a good idea to offer xt kits for even the lower ranks..

    • @jayanimations494
      @jayanimations494 Před rokem +10

      YESSS THIS WAS BIG
      not sure if he played during that time since he claims 2011 was the best era, nah son 2010 before the currency change was just unmatchable, gold boxes were rare sightings so it just wasn’t gold diamond simulator every match

    • @Wufflezz2
      @Wufflezz2 Před rokem +7

      Bro this is so true. I spent so much time collecting diamonds to bought Ricochet (cause I think its cool). But then literally the next week they lowered all the price. It went from thousands to literal 300 diamonds. I was dying inside mann 💀
      Though it doesn't matter cuz I haven't played this game for 3 years now.

    • @johanneshartman4618
      @johanneshartman4618 Před 7 měsíci

      hey man, relax voice u have! also did you know that you are condemned because of all your sins and need the sacrifice GOD send HIS SON for to fulfill to be cleaned and washed with the blood of JESUS! ?

    • @Supreme_King23
      @Supreme_King23 Před 6 měsíci +1

      I grinded so hard for railgun, the best hull to pair it with was the Hornet but the game became so much of a p2w that i just quit

  • @thedemolitionmuniciple
    @thedemolitionmuniciple Před rokem +5

    I wasn't there in the earliest of days, but I have a wealth of memories from this game. Brest was my favorite map with Chernobyl as a runner-up, along with two others I can't recall the names of. One had an open plain with a towering wall to one side that tanks would climb ramps either side and could fight across the wall, and the other was the platforms in the sky that had an upper and a lower route and a jump at either flag. My first few ranks I got good with the Hornet and Thunder or Twins, later on trading them for the Isida and eventually becoming a crackshot with the Shaft and the Mammoth. I had fun on every map, every once and a while trying out probably every combination of turret and hull. Left around when they got rid of lobbies, and because most of the friends I had made in the game had already gone last online 2 years ago. Kills me that they killed it but boy did I have days of fun in Tanki Online.

    • @thedemolitionmuniciple
      @thedemolitionmuniciple Před 5 měsíci +1

      hey I'm back still miss the hell out of the game
      keep trying to go back to play a few rounds, keep realizing I need to accept its death
      also there was a desert town map with a tunnel going straight from one flag to the other that most players forgot about
      also every other map man WHY DID THEY HAVE TO TAKE THIS FROM US

  • @HRS_KING
    @HRS_KING Před rokem

    Best video on CZcams...
    I appreciate your work!

  • @GhostAnimatorTO
    @GhostAnimatorTO Před rokem +96

    was checking if I made it into the video...
    5:39 I made it into the video xD
    I remember that match, it was during April Fools event 2016. There was a special gold box that I caught which gave me full supplies for 5 mins in that battle 😂 watching this clip again brings back so many memories❤
    5:45 money was not used in that clip :x

    • @ianNotShort
      @ianNotShort  Před rokem +24

      my maaaan congrats

    • @Car_thick
      @Car_thick Před rokem +13

      Bro is just pissed because his fav game Is dying but mark my words it's gonna grow like elons rocket one day

    • @GhostAnimatorTO
      @GhostAnimatorTO Před rokem +9

      @@Car_thick I too believe that tanki will become famous again in future ^^

    • @Lvkka_
      @Lvkka_ Před rokem +11

      @@GhostAnimatorTO I wish. I would do anything to have 2014-2016 tanki back.

    • @GoldAnxnymous
      @GoldAnxnymous Před rokem +3

      @@Lvkka_ fr my killy

  • @Turist-22
    @Turist-22 Před rokem +79

    I remember playing this game a decade ago, what a awesome experience. This was the first game I ever downloaded on my Dad's old Laptop that could barely run a PowerPoint presentation. What a time to be alive...

  • @subcero701mike4
    @subcero701mike4 Před rokem +2

    As a spanish boy, loved the community and all, but the things i really miss, were the hidden parts os some maps, were u need to climb or do parKour with help to reach a secret room, some maps that were killed by the game, so many things, also the menu display, it changes a lot now, they should have wait for the community to say that they wanted a new theme for all the game, but as u said they really love the money. I WILL REMEMBER THE SECRET ROOMS THEY WERE FUNNY TO REACH.

  • @monke6157
    @monke6157 Před rokem +3

    I still remember being 10 year old and playing it with my friends 😭 (fun fact: played it for 5 years and never spent money :D)

  • @doonecarguy
    @doonecarguy Před rokem +77

    I remember playing for 12 hours a day with my neighborhood friends. My first gun I got to M1 was the Firebird, but I was more of a Smokey person. This game (along with minecraft) formed my childhood, and I wouldn't change a single thing.

    • @arietrouwborst3304
      @arietrouwborst3304 Před rokem +1

      Firebird M1, 7500 crystals.😃

    • @x_thewinn3r666
      @x_thewinn3r666 Před rokem

      PLAY PROTANKI
      ITS THE 2014 VERSION
      ITS BLOWING UP

    • @Kazandro
      @Kazandro Před rokem

      @@x_thewinn3r666 yeah i can't believe that there is so much player in protanki now actually

    • @x_thewinn3r666
      @x_thewinn3r666 Před rokem

      @@Kazandro Hopefully i made your day bro. 🤙

  • @Gawain_SP
    @Gawain_SP Před rokem +157

    I remember going over to my neighbor's house every day to play this game. I think its actually what first got me into tanks and other military vehicles. Eventually I did stop playing just because I had discovered WoT and war thunder, but it was still pretty fun. I really liked how you could completely customize your vehicle to suit your playstyle. I personally loved the titian hull with the thunder turret, the sniper turret was also fun too.

    • @Kenthrex
      @Kenthrex Před rokem

      For me, it was the hornet with either thunder or ricochet

    • @filipbitala2624
      @filipbitala2624 Před rokem

      Remember playing mamoth and shaft during IT at school with friends, too bad it went from being funny to ridiculous

  • @esztimajoros1751
    @esztimajoros1751 Před rokem +1

    Best vid of tanki out there, i miss the old one sm, i wish they could bring it back... This game will have a special place in my heart

  • @oralemu2318
    @oralemu2318 Před 10 měsíci +2

    Nostalgia the amount of hours I spent as a kid playing this kid is unbelievable and since 2020 they completely ruined the game, I won’t forget the fun and nostalgia I had in that game.

  • @fbientertainment3275
    @fbientertainment3275 Před rokem +70

    Started playing in 2010. It was so much fun. Then in mid 2013 played a match that is still stuck in my memory as it was with my oldest and best friends and we had a lot of fun that night. And then haven't touched the game in years. You probably can imagine how I felt when in 2020 i logged into the game again and saw what happened to it. My heart, and hearts of the friends we had that last match in 2013 were broken. Back then we were kids having fun, now we are all around 20, some finishing studies, some working their jobs. It's sad to see a game like that die like this. I miss those days. I really do

    • @Vivek-kl7ub
      @Vivek-kl7ub Před rokem +4

      The nostalgia man, it hits like a train. Things seemed simpler then, as kids

    • @dazai6861
      @dazai6861 Před rokem

      i even tried to email the tanki dev once to bring back the original game 🥲. cant do shit about it its just gone and thats heart breaking.

    • @fbientertainment3275
      @fbientertainment3275 Před rokem

      @@dazai6861 there is a snapshot or something of the game saved. Probably by fans. Gtanks i think it's called. Everything is just like from golden days just with some bugs with the text in few places

  • @sandervandeneynden253
    @sandervandeneynden253 Před rokem +86

    Played this game as a kid, and loved it. Recently I opened it again out of nostalgia, and boy was it a train wreck. Guess this will be added to the pile of little pearls of nostalgia, living in my head but being lost in time forever.

    • @x_thewinn3r666
      @x_thewinn3r666 Před rokem

      PLAY PROTANKI
      ITS THE 2014 VERSION
      ITS BLOWING UP

    • @terrsus7676
      @terrsus7676 Před rokem +3

      @@x_thewinn3r666 yeah it was mentioned in one of the other comments, gave it a shot and its cool

  • @connergoldsborough4093
    @connergoldsborough4093 Před 7 měsíci +1

    I watch this game fall in real time. When I was a kid I used to play and it’s golden days, and I loved it more than anything. All the friends I made all the fun experience as I had were countless. I watch does it slowly became monetized and fell, and I had to leave it forever. Just today I remember that it existed and I looked it up and it’s in shambles now and it’s so sad because I’d give anything to go back to the old days when it was so amazing that I’d rather do nothing else then play it. The nostalgia hits so hard. I’ll always remember you tanki online.

  • @laszlo_kovacs
    @laszlo_kovacs Před rokem +1

    I played around the peek time for like two years or so, and than occasionally got back to it, but it was never the same.
    Good old days, simpler days.

  • @ItsRelo
    @ItsRelo Před rokem +87

    Rip Tank Online. I'll always remember the afternoons and evenings spent grinding out exp and gems, trying to get the new M2 versions of the weapons or the Tanks themselves. The moments of Rage, happiness, enjoyment, satisfaction, disappointment, randomness and just funny moments I lived in this game as a kid. The satisfaction of getting a gold box, the feeling of infinite power when winning a game of Capture the flag. All of the different map secrets, the moments spent studying every map trying to find new places that weren't meant to be reached. The moments spent finding the best possible way to be as annoying as a human could possibly be for the enemies, and the white nights spent, y'know, playing with friends instead of sleeping. I'll keep all these memories in my heart, safe from the erosion of time. So sad the game died. We'll miss it

    • @karthik7282
      @karthik7282 Před rokem +4

      Fuck it's so nostalgic. I always wanted to get M3 weapons but never made it past M2

    • @SultanxD
      @SultanxD Před rokem +1

      "the best possible way to be as annoying as a human could possibly be for the enemies" lmaaaaaao

    • @SultanxD
      @SultanxD Před rokem

      @@karthik7282 I have never got m2 weapon my whole life in 2013 version and below :"( but it was the best times in my life

    • @balthsazar
      @balthsazar Před rokem +1

      When I quit the game in 2018, I had a m2 rail gun and hornet, I came back to the game In 2022 and was confused by the tank hull/turret system "revamp"

    • @aabdullayev6513
      @aabdullayev6513 Před rokem

      (((

  • @MrRomanow7
    @MrRomanow7 Před rokem +122

    Oh boy, i enjoyed every second of that trip down memory lane.
    I used to play with my 2 brothers and my best friend every day, CTF was hands down the best mode and we had so many epic games.
    Loved playing that wasp + railgun to be a speedy boy with huge dmg. Also the tricks to adjust your position while shooting in the air was rad. Definitely some of the best memories of my childhood. ❤️

    • @SweetSniper5197
      @SweetSniper5197 Před rokem +1

      I guess this sums up what I wanted to say as well. Me just reading this knew exactly what tank combination you were using because I used that tank so much. I just wish the devs left it as it was.

    • @icetea8946
      @icetea8946 Před rokem

      The good memories of rushing an enemy base with hornet + twins, getting the enemy flag and using nitro drug to hull ass back to your cap and the friendly isida coming clutch to make sure you're alive, and if u die with the flag, the good chaps would of drop the flag for u to make the cap

  • @JustCaIlMeDevon
    @JustCaIlMeDevon Před rokem

    bro this video brought back so much nostalgia thank you

  • @King_Pepper
    @King_Pepper Před rokem

    bro you reached into my brain and pulled a memory so forgotten i couldn't find it per now

  • @bruhmoment8674
    @bruhmoment8674 Před rokem +89

    I remember how good this game used to be, and to be completely honest I forgot about it until now. I remember dominating in XP/BP, panicking whenever there was a gold box, and everything else about this game. I never thought that people today would remember it

    • @nikolajjankov4779
      @nikolajjankov4779 Před rokem

      Lots of us nostalgic people here , i tried the game today and got heartbroken , its soo misserable now

  • @AkGamerRo
    @AkGamerRo Před rokem +53

    I played Tanki X since open beta launch to closing. I liked the idea of gaining xp with the gear you wanted to upgrade before being able to upgrade it. The card sloting upgrade system was a neat idea.

    • @jasonxd9880
      @jasonxd9880 Před rokem +5

      tanki X could've gone north

    • @SaintVitalya13
      @SaintVitalya13 Před rokem +1

      Tanki X is kind of back (see Revive Tanki X). But even despite being a better game with bigger reliance on skill, better graphics and everything, it has so little content it gets boring fast. You can clearly tell they couldn't milk a skill-based game without turning it into Tanki Online, so they closed it for good. And the fact that it wasn't casual (only ratings and leagues) also makes it boring when you have to give your best or get screamed at by your teammates. A real shame TX died in this poor state.

  • @leoderdeo5554
    @leoderdeo5554 Před 7 měsíci

    I remember very early there used to be 10 crystal box, then they got removed for a long time, and then added back to newer version. Thank you for the video seeing those maps and old sprites gave in some memories.

  • @pal1531
    @pal1531 Před rokem

    great vid i miss this game so much 😢 i remember when gold boxes drop my heart starts going crazy and also railgun 1v1 was so fun. rip tanki

  • @RQuit-vj5xe
    @RQuit-vj5xe Před rokem +35

    This video perfectly summarizes the problems this game had as well as it's strong points. I would like to add that one major issue with the game was having product kits that cost ridiculous amounts of crystals. This alongside micro-upgrades led to major power imbalance between buyers and non-buyers. An example would be the Tornado kit which had M2 Railgun and M2 Hornet unlocked at WO5 which is 2-3 ranks below the normal rank needed to unlock the M2 Rail and Hornet respectively (through normal means e.g. reaching Second and First lieutenant).
    What made matters worse was the fact that you could spend an absurd amount of crystals to fully upgrade it to M3 meaning you basically had M3 gear where everyone mostly had M1's. (This happened with lots of product kits btw)
    This alongside the game's atrocious team balancing made f2p players at a major disadvantage, never mind how little crystals you would earn. The time to reward ratio was so bad where if you weren't winning you got basically nothing for your efforts and if you WERE winning and you didn't get to the top of the scoreboard, you got fucked with the amount of crystals you earned.
    I will say though that playing this game in it's very early years around 2016 and before then was some of the best years this game ever had and it's quite sad to see how much this game has fallen when it had so much potential. Additionally, playing this game with your mates and shit-talking was some of the best experiences ever had as well as just chatting to random people across the world made the gameplay feel so much better.
    Also it took them a really fucking long time for them to add the update where you could use any paint you wanted in your garage without worrying about protections. This good update lasted for awhile until -> (Came at the cost of needing to buy protection module slots with tankoins later on, because we can't be letting our players get free prot module slots now can we) (This was one hell of a double-edged sword update tbh)
    Despite all the positive updates in this game, the negatives outweigh the positives too much to really put more time and effort into this dead game.
    For the few people which I believe is approximately (0.01% of the population of players) who managed to get maxed gear without buying I truly commend you as that is a difficult feat in the world of buyers, druggers and (multers? aka teammates who sabotaged basically). All in all this was a great game but fell off.
    TL:DR Micro-Upgrades caused power imbalance as well as the gameplay having shit time:reward ratio. 2012-16 was GOAT years of this game then it fell off. Only really fun with friends tbh. If you managed to get maxed gear without buying you are epic gamer. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

  • @wingjaigaming8240
    @wingjaigaming8240 Před rokem +33

    Tanki online was one of my most memorable childhood video games, I used to play it day and night with my brother. We even created an alt account for farming kills and crystals. Thanks for making this video and bringing back childhood memories! I'm sending this to my brother. Even though I haven't played it for at least 10 years, it's still saddening to hear the developers abandoned it

    • @fatitankeris6327
      @fatitankeris6327 Před rokem +1

      I hope the community would force Alternative to take it back, at least a couple years...

    • @Primus420
      @Primus420 Před rokem

      @@fatitankeris6327 tried. wont work

  • @kevindejeu
    @kevindejeu Před rokem +1

    THIS is exactly my experience. The play to win completely wrecked the experience for me

  • @Jflat_
    @Jflat_ Před 10 měsíci +3

    My heart would sink every time I heard the gold box siren

  • @kazukinakoshima
    @kazukinakoshima Před rokem +29

    You unlocked a core memory I forgot I had.
    We didn't realize it at the time, but we were making some beautiful memories playing that game (,:

  • @FatheredPuma81
    @FatheredPuma81 Před rokem +47

    This game was super popular in my class in like 2013 for a year. Then everyone just forgot about it. Was one of the very few 3D games that the school didn't block for some reason. I even knew some people that played it in there free time after they went home.

    • @monkaeyes3417
      @monkaeyes3417 Před rokem

      You better keep my hands away from your “End” key >:D

    • @shortcat
      @shortcat Před rokem

      they couldn't block it because it was a flash game. software 3d engine on flash, quite a technological achievement by alternativa, they tried to sell it too (like unity or unreal by epic games) but no company seemed to be interested as flash was already dying.

    • @FatheredPuma81
      @FatheredPuma81 Před rokem +6

      @@shortcat You... don't understand how website blocking works do you...?

    • @shortcat
      @shortcat Před rokem

      @@FatheredPuma81 never experienced them tbh, but there's solid logic behind my explanation. most 3d web games at the time required unity or shockwave or java plugins which most likely weren't installed in a school computer but flash was rather necessary. you implied that 2d games weren't blocked, well, technically tanki online were indistinguishable from a random 2d flash game.

    • @FatheredPuma81
      @FatheredPuma81 Před rokem

      @@shortcat Well what I said was what I meant. The only 3D games that weren't blocked was Minecraft and Tanki. The vast majority of game websites were blocked even if Flash itself wasn't. Now that I think about it they did eventually block it like a year or 2 later after no one played it.
      Funnily enough that's actually why Minecraft was _never_ blocked. Some classes had some programs written in Java and some Adobe programs needed it to render projects.

  • @cloud_diver4280
    @cloud_diver4280 Před rokem

    Thanks a lot for a video. I also used to play it in 2012-2013. It was unbelievable that you can play online 3d game just in your browser. What a great time was back then

  • @KazuNEET
    @KazuNEET Před 10 měsíci +2

    I miss tanki online.
    I loved playing it with my brother.
    Lost a couple accounts that were pretty high level but i still loved playing it.
    So sad to see it go extinct.

  • @stuffedheart4001
    @stuffedheart4001 Před rokem +22

    I was a little girl playing that game every single day, it was my first multiplayer game and honestly I'm glad it was. Fun as hell while it lasted and I made a LOT of friends on there :) (was playing on the russian servers, I didn't even know english people played it lol..)

  • @zacharywald
    @zacharywald Před rokem +2

    Man this really takes me back. I've never heard Tanki described more accurately.

  • @Seacat17
    @Seacat17 Před rokem +4

    I was a freaking death dealer in this game. I played it 24/7 and felt every tick, every tank's physics, predicting them and using gun's abilities wisely.
    What a shame they had to ruin everything...

    • @ave4997
      @ave4997 Před rokem +2

      Same. I was the grim reaper with the magnum even before they added the tool that let's you see where your projectile will land. But now the splash damage does barely and they nerfed the damage overall so now you can't one shot as much anymore. Sucks

    • @Seacat17
      @Seacat17 Před rokem

      @@ave4997 huh... Sad thing.

  • @ravioli3644
    @ravioli3644 Před rokem +224

    Хотелось бы на денек вернуться в те золотые времена танков, испытать то самое непередаваемое ощущение, когда ты ловишь голд, ммммм. Провёл в ней очень много времени и получил столько же приятных воспоминаний, которые можно перечислять бесконечно: Паркур, Лунная Тишина, легенды про GodmodeON, всякие нычки и пасхалки на картах... Жаль конечно, что разработчики угробили донатом такой прекрасный проект, но те самые танчики навсегда останутся в моём сердечке. R.I.P.

    • @user-mi1lp5wo2o
      @user-mi1lp5wo2o Před rokem +16

      Для меня золотым временем было до появления голды. Диктатор+рельса или хорнет, это было офигенно. Или первые уровни с обычной пушкой. Даже поиграл немного в команде, но было проблемно играть с голосом, поэтому пришлось прекратить. После работы регулярно на полчаса-час зарубался. Я бы купил подписку, но донатить на расходники, нет уж, спасибо.

    • @sharpy9201
      @sharpy9201 Před rokem +3

      portes_s, oufa, st. railgun, mohammed95s, abo0di...and many more i cant remember right now cuz it was 6 7 8 years ago....damnn time flies. i used to come from school and played for hours and hours until my parenta locked away my keyboard in closets but i overcame that issue too... it was golden...youtubers, generalissimo players, myths, Godmode_ON, playing with friends, playing when there were holidays like haloween or new year or 9th may (victory day)...truly it shaped my early years back then and it faded away slowly but so fast and now its like 6 7 8 years after its golden age and its.dead...the developers clearly went too greedy about it with money i think and.ruined it all. for me it was the best game for years and its quite sad what happened to it.

    • @user-yj9zr9lm1y
      @user-yj9zr9lm1y Před rokem

      Есть пиратский клиент старых доребаланснутых танков
      Год назад играл. Народу мало, но есть боты. На вечер понастольгировать пойдёт

    • @vvaliora
      @vvaliora Před rokem +1

      В моём сердечке остались те самые Танки онлайн из 2010-2011, когда ещё не были полностью изменены вообще все карты и не были добавлены новые пушки и корпуса. Славные времена

    • @sinmiyagi450
      @sinmiyagi450 Před rokem

      Protanki клон игры 2016 годов, онлайн хороший, недавно ввели молот

  • @Falkoni_on_Blitz
    @Falkoni_on_Blitz Před rokem +149

    I love how you concisely and funnily recounted the history of Tanki Online (maybe even causing some nostalgia). Moreover, the things what you talk about are matching what you show in your video. Great job! Perhaps you are already aware of the *Revive Tanki X* project. What are your thoughts about that project?

    • @ianNotShort
      @ianNotShort  Před rokem +30

      no havent heard of it
      im not into tanki anymore and i dont think i ever will be
      and tbh i never even played tx…

    • @Dr.Koki4
      @Dr.Koki4 Před rokem +12

      I played 3 months for every day. Don't feel so great, hah. Actually, there are many shit reworks that somehow breaks the balance. Not still enough for newbies.

    • @Falkoni_on_Blitz
      @Falkoni_on_Blitz Před rokem +5

      @@Dr.Koki4 Could you elaborate on the breaking the balance?

    • @Dr.Koki4
      @Dr.Koki4 Před rokem +9

      @@Falkoni_on_Blitz Like: We nerfed the railgun, but we will add extra damage, so with DD at backhit = hornet death. Then, we realised, and we delete 0.1 sec of cooldown and 80 dmg..

    • @TASTEGROUND
      @TASTEGROUND Před rokem +3

      tanki x will bee back?

  • @saucedispenser
    @saucedispenser Před 6 měsíci +2

    Just booted the game up after maybe 6 years and it's completely unrecognizable. Tragic, I loved this game.

  • @khadath1682
    @khadath1682 Před rokem +1

    Thank you for making this video. Tanki Online deserves to be at least acknowledged before it's gone..

  • @fanta4897
    @fanta4897 Před rokem +16

    Oh god, this brought me back. I spent probably hundreds of hours on that game in around 2011-15. I'll never forget how satisfying it was to charge into the enemy ranks with the weakest hull and knocking out their aim by twin guns or ricochet. They got so mad when their perfectly aimed and charged railgun shot missed me, a tank they could easily kill in one shot, just because I had decent aim with ricochet and always switched which side of their tank I was aiming at. And the sight of pursuing isidas blowing up because I jumped into some ditch and placed a mine there. Those were the days...

  • @fyfyfyfarssw
    @fyfyfyfarssw Před rokem +87

    Помним, скорбим.

  • @pandabearnapalm
    @pandabearnapalm Před rokem +1

    This randomly popped up and got instant nostalgia. I remember this game, never payed to win, but definitely grinded to get Crystals, and made fake emails to get the referral crystals. enough that I did get the mammoth hull and railgun. Sad to see it die, but definitely had good memories

  • @SnakeOfficial
    @SnakeOfficial Před měsícem

    Very good video my man keep it up 🔥🔥

  • @Yeeter000
    @Yeeter000 Před rokem +30

    I have had thousands of hours on that game.
    Some of my favourite memories were 2 hour long matches, 2v2 railguns, and battling over gold boxes.
    It's so sad that part of my childhood is gone.

  • @XentriaNova
    @XentriaNova Před rokem +18

    Damn, I remember I put in hundreds to thousands of hours in this game just to be on the same level as people who paid and after so many years I just stopped because the devs were clearly focusing on the buyers. I remember when I saved up enough crystals to buy an xt skin only for tanki to make it come out of containers which were only allowed to buyers.

    • @Flacto-vs6np
      @Flacto-vs6np Před rokem +2

      Tbh i didnt have much issues with p2w ppl as they arnt rly familier with controls so they dont know what to do against wasp+firebird or actually almost anything

  • @xenius6182
    @xenius6182 Před rokem +2

    As a former Tanki Online player, it's so sad to see it die like this. I was in love with this game, and now i'm playing it a little bit, just to bring back memories

  • @clement6999
    @clement6999 Před 5 měsíci +1

    I miss the game :( I played 2011-2015 when I was a kid and what you said it was incredible, playing with friends, the community was active and the devs KILLED their own game, what a shame.

  • @masahirodio8771
    @masahirodio8771 Před rokem +24

    You have dragged a long drowned memory, inducing immense nostalgia in my mind and reminder me of those rare evenings that I played tanki with my brother on my uncle's computer.

  • @ItsModdish
    @ItsModdish Před rokem +18

    woah, one of these for Tanki
    This is new ground for the game :000
    Someone actually going in-depth with audio and knowledge!! genuinely brings me back soooo much...
    Great watch! hope the algorithm picks this up! :D

    • @ianNotShort
      @ianNotShort  Před rokem +8

      no one did smth like this before? bruh this game is my childhood… i had to

    • @ItsModdish
      @ItsModdish Před rokem +5

      @@ianNotShort yeah the tanki youtube community is kinda... lacking, at least the EN one, there are some decent sized RU youtubers who do sometimes talk about the game more seriously, but no one has done anything similar to your video on the game yet, and it definitely stands out

    • @K-kof2000
      @K-kof2000 Před rokem +4

      @@ianNotShort Basically there are two types of Tanki youtubers; those who ignore the game situation and go along with false optimism, and those who simply play with electronic music in the background. Your content is very good, it's honest and fun.

  • @DeluxeSlayer
    @DeluxeSlayer Před rokem +3

    It was such a good game. I remember having a ton of fun playing this game around 2012. The isida and the fast hull was my go to. The ricochet and freeze gun were hella fun as well. The maps were also really creative and enjoyable. I also remember there being a soccer map/event to celebrate the world cup. Good memories

  • @Electrify_
    @Electrify_ Před 8 měsíci +1

    I used to play tanki online from 2011 to 2015. Pure nostalgia. I never spent anything on the game. Always at a disadvantage😭

  • @dme3y690
    @dme3y690 Před rokem +21

    Used to play it a lot as a kid. It was also probaly the first online game experience for me. What that game has turned into is just devastating. Also wtf didn't know TO was so popular outside the post-soviet countries

    • @CptLang97
      @CptLang97 Před rokem +5

      Definitely. I remember playing it with classmates on the school computers

    • @davidty2006
      @davidty2006 Před rokem

      It was one of few games that you could play on school computers.
      God good times they were.

    • @DonutsIceCreamAndCottenCandy
      @DonutsIceCreamAndCottenCandy Před rokem

      I played it in Canada and half the kids I knew here played it at the time

  • @OmegaStarIsGoofy
    @OmegaStarIsGoofy Před měsícem

    I like it how you sneak the Toreador March into your videos