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Hello tankers, long time no see!

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The V-LOG is back from its well-deserved winter
holiday.

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Thanks for your patience, we’ve been missing
you too!

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In today’s episode, we’ll be telling you
about the future of New Year gifts.

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We’ll also be talking about the upcoming
improvements to in-game chats, and recalling

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the brightest moments from last year.

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Let’s go!

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During the New Year celebrations we all sent
each other a lot of in-game gifts.

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Now that the holiday is over, we won’t be
able to do so anymore…

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But not for long.

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All the details — right now.

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During the new year celebrations in TO, tankers
exchanged hundreds of thousands of gifts.

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The feature turned out to be extremely popular, so we decided to bring it back as soon as possible.

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This time, forever.

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Soon, the game will be featuring 10 gifts
that can be used for congratulating other

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tankers for a rank up or an achievement, wishing them happy birthday, cheering them up after a battle...

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Or even confessing your love to someone!

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We’ll also be adding themed gifts for various
holidays, so tankers will be able to exchange

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their best wishes on Valentine’s Day, Halloween
and other important dates.

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We’re already working on the new gifts, and they will appear in the game within the next month.

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Follow the news!

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Now, about another upcoming change to Tanki…

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This one will add some long-awaited functionality
to in-game chats — private messages.

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In the coming weeks, we’ll be making a major
change in the way in-game chats work — messages

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addressed to specific tankers will become
private.

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In other words, they will only be visible
to the person to whom they are addressed,

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and to the person who sent the message.

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By default, you’ll be able to send a private
message to any tanker in the game, assuming

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he is online.

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By the way, if you don’t want to be bothered
by players you don’t know, there will be

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an option in settings to only accept personal
messages from your friends.

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Also, you’ll still be able to add any player
to your blacklist.

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In this case the game will not display any
of the messages by the blacklisted player

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— neither private nor public.

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And yes, private messages will be working
across servers.

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So, if you are on the 5th server, and the
other tanker is somewhere else, you’ll be

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able to communicate as if you were on the
same server.

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Your messages will be displayed in his chat
and vice versa.

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All in all, chats will become more convenient.

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Personal communication will become private,
while public chats will mostly consist of

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info interesting for all the tankers on the
server.

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Tankers, it’s time to end our series of
videos on TO’s history.

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Today will be all about the year we’ve just
left behind… 2015, and the things we’ll

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remember it for, for a long time.

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The year 2015 in Tanki Online will be remembered
for a number of improvements on various features

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of the game, some of which were completely
rethought.

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Of course, there were brand new additions
as well.

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Today, we’ll recall the brightest of those
moments.

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Let’s start!

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The entire first half of the year was about
changes in the game’s balance.

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In January, the impact force of Smoky and
Railgun was decreased, while in March, medium

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and heavy hulls were given extra protection.

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April saw a full-scale update that changed
the parameters of practically all the turrets

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and hulls.

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The last set of changes was introduced in
June, which is when turrets and hulls were

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given their final setups.

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On February 7, the long-awaited Vulcan was
introduced, as well as 13 new paints!

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The turret was given its well-deserved place
in TO’s arsenal of weapons, becoming the

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gun of choice for many tankers.

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2015 also saw two serious reworkings of the
micro-upgrades system.

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In May, players were given the ability to
upgrade the parameters of their items to the

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level of their next modification, as well as enter battles with items that were undergoing upgrades.

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A few months later, close to the end of the
year, all upgradable parameters were joined

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into one, making the system simpler and more
intuitive.

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The main event in June was the Tanki Road
Show. Community managers Maksim and Nikolai

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visited 5 Russian cities, meeting local tankers,
giving out presents, answering questions,

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and of course, taking lots of photos.

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In July developers introduced Daily Missions,
which replaced daily Gifts.

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From that point onwards, getting a daily bunch
of crystals or supplies required playing,

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but the rewards became several times bigger!

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In September the arsenal of XT items was grown
to include unique versions of Viking, Wasp,

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Firebird and Thunder.

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And about a month later, Premium Accounts
were introduced, giving tankers a boost to

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experience and crystals earned.

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The most intense period of 2015 was autumn.

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On September 17 tankers were given the ability
to buy the highest modifications of turrets

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and hulls available at their rank directly,
saving themselves lots of crystals.

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In addition to that, wholesaling discounts
were introduced — the more items of a category

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you own, the cheaper the remaining ones will
be.

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Just 3 weeks later, personal discounts were
launched, giving players random discounts

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on individual items.

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But probably, the greatest highlight for tankers
was October, as this is when personal statistics,

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achievements and ratings were launched.

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All this was followed by the launch of the
Polish Tanki Online, the organization of garage

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items into categories, and of course, the
new year event with the unique map and temporary

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battle mode called Assault.

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The year turned out to be really intense,
and 2016 will be at least as good!

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Time for some epic footage!

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Let’s check out the best clip we got since
the last episode of the V-LOG, which hit you

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3 weeks ago…

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So, will today’s video be 3 times as awesome
as the usual ones?

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Let’s see!

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That’s it tankers!

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Follow us on social media, hang out in the
Tanki forum, and of course don’t forget

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to hit the like button if you loved being
with us.

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See you next Friday![]