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Hello, tankers!

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We hope that your week was as productive and intense as ours.

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Do not hesitate to press the thumbs-up button for this new episode right now!

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So, are you ready? Let’s start!

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YouTubers’ Battle

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Today at exactly 5 PM UTC, the 24-hour race between twelve of our YouTubers will start:

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Miss.Xaos, Mr.BaHbKa123, Waider,

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Immortal_HeRo_DoW, KILLJET, Kalyamba,

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BigTanks, Kisunya, Pixel,

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and of course, our English-speaking YouTubers:

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Jumper, Taspens, and Potent.

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The winner, as you know, will be the YouTuber who earns the most experience points by 5 PM UTC Saturday evening,

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and they will take home 10 000 Tankoins!

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We wish our participants a friendly atmosphere, even in the most intense battles!

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You can follow their fight for 1st place on the special website,

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where information will be updated every 30 minutes.

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You can also watch the action in real time

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as our YouTubers will be streaming their progress on their channels!

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Don’t forget to show your support to your favorite YouTubers!

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Time to set a timer! After the release of the V-LOG, there will be about 4 hours left until the start of the event.

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Grab some snacks, subscribe to your favorite YouTubers’ channels, and keep an eye out for notifications!

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As a wise man once said, this battle will be legendary!

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Continuing the work on bots

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Our development team has been teaching Tanki bots, testing their behavior in battles,

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and assessing their understanding of game mechanics for quite some time now.

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We have already improved their shooting skills.

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They scan the map multiple times per minute

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and know how to evaluate the movement points of their teammates and enemies.

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They can find you anywhere on a map.

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As soon as you enter their radius of destruction, they will start attacking you.

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It all started with making them masters of any turret!

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However, we haven’t managed to teach them how to use alternative shooting modes yet,

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such as Shaft’s sniper mode and Striker’s rocket salvo.

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Remember this fact and use it against them!

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The next step was showing them how to move on a battlefield.

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It is just a primitive logic of plotting a path from point A to point B.

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They start moving once they see another tank.

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Bots can also maneuver in a short radius while shooting

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and jump from small heights to avoid creating heavy traffic congestion.

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For example, they can do so on the Sandbox map.

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A bot determines the height and jumps to get a better position.

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Together with the announced ability to maneuver,

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it makes bots move when there are players and other bots in the battle.

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There is one important rule that bots follow: movement equals life.

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Some of our testers even say that bots are comparable to real passive players now.

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Right now, we are about to finish another stage of this training:

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teaching bots how to interact with flags, balls, and important map positions.

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Before this, bots just ignored flags because they didn’t know what a flag was,

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and they only cared about shooting.

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Now, if you give a flag to bots, it will be their top priority to deliver it to the right base.

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Bots are SO smart that they can even troll you!

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They are not professional Rugby players, but you can pass a ball to them for sure.

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Bots even know what to do in the Control Points mode:

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they can come to points and try to capture them!

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Just imagine how much work has been done!

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We have plans to add bots to real battles with low-ranked players.

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They will help newcomers learn the basics of the game.

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Once a player masters their skills, PvP battles with only real players will become available.

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After adding bots, we will keep track of some important numbers and your feedback,

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and we will make needed changes before we proceed to the next stage.

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Welcome-back bonus

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We are continuously working on improving the game.

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After reading your comments, we are glad to see such a large amount of feedback!

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And we are ready to introduce a new change —

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every player who has not entered the game for a year or more,

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will receive bonuses for coming back, for free!

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WHAT?! Yes!

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We’ve decided to offer a bonus to returning players.

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There will be around 5 items in this bonus:

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1st – Premium account for 30 days,

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2nd – Fully upgraded Brutus drone,

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3rd – 300 units of each supply,

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4th – Tankoin Pass for 10 days,

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5th – Battle Pass for the whole duration of the current challenge.

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This offer will soon become available in the HTML5 version of the game and will not last long!

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The largest amount of rewards will be available at the moment of publishing the announcement.

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Now you have the chance to share the news among your good old friends.

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And once they get Brutus, you won’t need to explain to them which drone to equip for using supplies!

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We will share more information about the bonuses very soon,

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but we suggest you keep an eye on our homepage for the latest news!

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YouTubers

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Best drones, best developers, and best parkourists.

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The YouTuber digest is here!

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Not sure what drone to use?

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Watch Taspens as he ranks the 5 best drones in Tanki Online!

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In his video, TheDetective999Two covers a special encounter

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a player had with our beloved developer, Hazel,

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who used one of the new exclusive Phoenix augments!

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Have you already submitted your entry to the Masters of Parkour contest?

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Many YouTubers have also taken part.

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Watch Jumper's entry to find out which is better: yours or his?

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Question of the Week

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Last time, you had to guess

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which Wasp would get destroyed first after receiving a single burning-shot.

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The correct answer is: D.

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Congratulations to the winners!

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And here is the next question:

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How many flags will be captured in 2 minutes?

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That’s all for this week!

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We’ll see you next on the 19th of May since our V-LOG team will be on holiday on the 12th.

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Spend your holidays in a good mood and to the best of your abilities!

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Stay cheerful and confident.

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