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Hello tankers!

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Today in our Developer’s Diary,
we’ll be sharing with you some cool developer’s news.

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We’ll also be telling you about the technical details
of our new server technology,

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and showing you some video material from
the tanker’s meeting we held in Moscow last weekend.

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The long awaited West Prime map,
designed on the basis of the well-known

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Barda map from Tanki Online, has been released.

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This new arena is the first step
in uncovering the Tanki X storyline.

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Very soon we’ll be adding a new section
to our website, called “About the Game”.

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In it, you’ll find a brief description of
the Tanki X world.

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You will also learn about the reasons
behind the war between Antaeus and Frontier,

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the technology behind all the turrets and hulls,
and also the importance of all the in-game arenas

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and the setting behind them.

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We’ll also be adding more pieces of backstory
with every implementation of major updates.

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If you missed our Battle for West Prime video,

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you’ll be able to watch it by following the link at
the end of this episode.

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The battle of the corporations is in full
swing

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— it’s time to pick a side!

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Now for some news on the new cluster
and server side of the game.

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But before we do that, we strongly recommend

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you go back and watch the fifth episode of our
Developer’s Diary,

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in order to get familiar with these terms
and how they work.

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There’s a link in the description.

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It’s been almost two months since
the launch of the Open Beta Testing,

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and we’ve had enough time to evaluate the
performance of the game and the cluster issues.

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As a result of our analysis,
we realized that the current in-game lags issue

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is not so much a game optimization problem.

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It is caused by the cluster technology
we decided to use in the beginning.

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Until recently, one server could hold
a maximum of 200 players in battles.

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According to the initial plan we had for the OBT,

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we were expecting a better performance.

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To give you some context as to whether
200 players is a good number or not,

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such a server can hold up to five thousand
players in Tanki Online.

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In order to keep a stable performance, we 
were constantly forced to add more physical servers.

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We realized that a change was inevitable.

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On the 8th of October, our server programmers
started working on a new build,

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and by the 25th of October,

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the build had been successfully tested internally
and released for open testing right after that.

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We conducted debug sessions for several days
straight, fixing issues on the Live environment.

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The results of the newly developed
technology were immediately noticeable,

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as one server started to handle up to 600
players in multiple battles.

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Thanks to our team of server programmers, Tanki X 
is now more stable and working much more smoothly.

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For more details about our next steps towards game

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optimization, watch the upcoming episodes
of Developer’s Diary.

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Last Sunday in Moscow we organized the very
first tankers meeting with our developers team.

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There was a great atmosphere.

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Darya Stal and Vladimir Beletsky 
discussed with our players

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the development process of the game,
 and future plans.

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This is the first such event in Moscow.

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We expect to have a lot of fun and a get huge boost

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for us to continue developing the game with
better a understanding of who our players are.

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We want to understand our players better,
to find out what they like the most.

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Such events are very valuable because we can
dedicate time

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to every tanker, and we believe that it is
very important for them.

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Vladimir talked about the creation
of the Tanki X cinematic trailer,

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starting with one studio’s idea
for a tank ballet choreography,

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and finishing with the concept arts
and final version of the cinematic trailer.

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Players who attended the meeting also got an

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exclusive look at the Battle for West Prime video.

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Tankers participated in the Tanki X quiz,
and were proposing their ideas for future

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development.

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Of course, they also asked lots of questions.

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Some of them were related to the technical
part —

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the Unity engine, servers performance,
and also the future of the project.

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Vladimir and Darya shared lots of inside information
and explained the difficulties that might come up

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with the implementation of certain proposed ideas.

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I believe that our game will grow to a good
level of cybersport,

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with big tournaments and offline lan-finals.

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I think every player of Tanki X has this dream.

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Besides having a great time, our tankers also
took home some awesome souvenirs

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such as t-shirts and cool stickers.

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Additionally, “Find the base” quest participants 
were rewarded with X crystals.

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I’m one of the helpers on Tanki X social
networks.

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I’m happy to work with it because
I think it’s a good experience for me.

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I wish all the players more X-crystals and
good luck in battles.

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I’ve been playing Tanki Online for a very
long time... from 2009.

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One day I heard about the new game Tanki X,
and I was

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very impressed with it’s cool graphics and
amazing explosions.

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I think these are the top features of the game.

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I like this event very much.
It’s a very positive meeting.

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I wish for Tanki X to have less cheaters and
rule breakers.

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I wish for Tanki X to successfully get
through Open Beta and reach release day.

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We believe in a great future for Tanki X
and want to share it with our players.

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We believe that the meeting in Moscow was
a success

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and all the attendees enjoyed it as much as we did.

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We hope to meet the rest of our
tankers in other cities at a different event.

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With this, we’re wrapping up today’s episode.

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Did you enjoy it?

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Don’t forget to like the video
and stay tuned for the next episode.

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