Pico Tanks 9+

great idea but few things... (updated review after developers response)

PROS:
- fun quick matches, tactics and team play really matters
- great idea, nice maps and design
- can keep you addicted for long
- developers are working on it constantly

CONS:
- Division levelling strange (often gives me only 2-3 points for a win bit takes more for losing...why is that???) - read developers response on this
- Levels matchmaking wrong (playing against much higher level opponent is really hard) - read developers response on this
- Bots ruin the game A LOT - eventually BOTs should be taken away when real players number rises, i hope they will...
- pay to win but it can still be fun nevertheless
- overtime in games not necessary but developer has good idea why there is overtime still (on the other side we held the flag whole match and lost it at the last few seconds and with the overtime the opposite team won at the end...)
- reward crates are not so rewarding

OVERALL:
- had fun in first week but it got bit harder later and less fun, but still worth a try
- i still believe we should pay for cosmetics stuff only, and not for weapons etc., still it is pay to win but yes, developers should be rewarded for developing this game....
- give us chance to report a player (at the end of the game show scores of all 6 players where we can also do that)
- great game overall

Developer Response ,

Hi there,

I'm sorry to hear that. 😕

There shouldn't be matches where Division 1-3 are against Division 12. We've put caps in place to ensure that this doesn't happen. If it has, please contact me in support and let me know.
However, player levels can be quite far apart. After we moved from our old system to this one, we didn't realise some people would go up quite a lot of levels, but not move out of the lower Divisions at the same pace. We're working through this issue.

Division points are awarded based on the Elo matchmaking system. Division is just a representation of your Elo rating and functions more or less only as a tool we use to create results based pairings.

The overtime mechanic is setup so that if your team has control of the objective there is always a chance to win no matter how far behind you may be. If we didn’t have overtime players would quit mid game when they realized they could no longer win.

We do our best to balance the game. We don't want to be another P2W mobile game. We do want some small incentive for purchases to be made because the game was in development for 3 years prior to launch, but we want those purchases to be optional. If they are feeling like a necessity, then we have changes that need to be made.

I hope you'll give us another shot in future. 🙂

If you have any other questions or feedback you can always reach me here:
https://pandaarcade.atlassian.net/servicedesk

Amazing game! 😄

This is an amazing, original game and I recommend this to anyone who wants a fun game that has quick rounds. The rounds are very good because they are really quick to end and they are really quick. The matchmaking system is very fair and levelling up is easy to do and because the rounds are quick and don’t last like ten minutes because they are quick you don’t get bored and because of the weapons and tank combos you can do each game is different one thing I think they should add is that you should be able to sell all upgrades on a weapon/tank and reset that weapon/tank to level 1 and getting all your coins back for it because I have just got enough blueprints to buy both tractor and mini gun but I just don’t have the money to build and upgrade them so either time for grinding or you could add what I suggested. Also the rounds are really quick and the devs are nice so that’s really good as well. 😄

Small bot flaw

Honestly tried a few tank games and never was really bothered by them, this seems to be different in a way I can’t quite put my finger on but it’s a lot of fun.
My main gripe at the moment, is I don’t know if the bots come if someone disconnects mid game or what but they also don’t appear in the recently played, is that they don’t adhere to any real tactics. I’ll throw a medpack to one holding the flag and it’ll just get ignored and charge head on at an enemy losing the flag. I don’t know if it’s programmed to not pinch medpacks, and or just attack, but the AI could do with a major overhaul. The few games where I have had a good team and been passing commands and asking for health etc have been great, so I’m going to keep playing in hope that this will soon be fixed. Thanks 🙏