The pumpkins are back! Our Halloween celebrations have started today: the garage has put on its scariest look, gold boxes have turned into pumpkins, and there is a brand-new railgun shell that you will only get around Halloween. And there is more: the battle list is ready for you to test.

A haunted garage

Your garage has changed for the season. Fog creeps across the floor of the hall, two pumpkins keep an eye on you wherever you go, a lamp flickers over your tank and sparks rain down onto it. Even the music is new: the garage plays its own Halloween soundtrack until the celebrations are over.

The sound is off at first. Turn it on to hear the new garage music.

Pumpkin gold boxes šŸŽƒ

During Halloween every gold box drops as a pumpkin, with a pumpkin marking where it is about to land. What you get from it stays the same. It just looks a lot more festive.

New railgun shell: Blood

Meet Blood, a new railgun shell made for Halloween. Its shot leaves a dark red trail that lingers in the air a little longer than usual, and every hit splatters the target with blood.

Blood is only available around Halloween. You will find it in the Deals of the shop while the celebrations last.

A free Halloween container

The "Halloween 2018" container is back, and this year it is on us: after a battle you have a 20% chance to get one for free. It contains:

  • Epic graffiti Halloween, Halloween 2017 and Monster
  • Epic ammunition Orange for Railgun and Twins
  • Epic paints Autumn Leaves and Spider Web
  • The glowing epic paint Depth
  • Legendary skins Inferno for Firebird and Dictator, with fiery effects and smouldering track marks

Good to know

  • You have the chance after a battle you played to the end (without leaving) in which you earned at least 100 battle points and at least one of your opponents was a real player.
  • Once you own everything in the container, it no longer drops for you.
  • Every duplicate from a container you got after a battle is compensated with 500 crystals.
  • The legendary Inferno skins for Firebird and Dictator only come from the "Halloween 2018" container.

The battle list: ready for testing

Many of you have asked for it, and now you can try it: the battle list. Next to the usual matchmaking you can now pick a battle yourself. Open "Battles" on the play screen, choose a room, and decide which team you want to join.

The new battle list

  • Pick your battle: every room shows its map, mode, players and how much time is left. The rooms with the most players are listed first, so you will find the action quickly.
  • Choose your team: join red or blue, as long as the team has room and does not already have more players than the other one.
  • No reputation in the battle list: battles from the list neither raise nor lower your reputation, and leaving early is not punished. All other rewards are the same as in matchmaking.
  • Rooms for beginners: players up to rank 20 have rooms of their own, so new players can find their feet without meeting the highest ranks right away.
  • Always something to join: there is always at least one open room per mode, and bots fill up the rooms while not enough players are around.

Matchmaking stays as it is, with reputation and leagues. The battle list simply gives you a second way to play.

We want your feedback

The battle list is brand-new, and we want to shape it together with you. What do you like? What is missing? Which rooms would you like to see? Tell us on our Discord. Every piece of feedback helps us make it better.

Fixed and improved since the last update

Since our last update article we have kept working through your reports. Thank you for every one of them!

New

  • The game is now available in Polish
  • You can now connect your Discord account in your profile through Discord's own login (OAuth2), instead of having to use a chat command
  • Confirmation and password e-mails now arrive in your language
  • Online friends are listed first in your friends list
  • Rank icons in the battle and lobby chat are no longer squeezed

Crashes and errors

  • Error screen for new players at the end of their first training battle
  • Players being disconnected when the server failed to handle a single action
  • Players being disconnected when they sent a chat message just as someone left
  • Error screen when clicking in the language list while moving the mouse
  • An empty play screen after watching or leaving a battle

Battle

  • Respawning at the same spawn point twice in a row, and the last spawn point of each team never being used
  • Tanks appearing at the place where they died after respawning
  • Drones and spider mines staying in the middle of the map for other players
  • Turrets of other tanks pointing in the wrong direction or jumping around
  • Other tanks moving in uneven steps
  • Wrecks lying in different places for different players
  • Your own tank blocking the blast of your own mines, ice traps and Impulse Generator
  • Emergency Protection removing the freeze of an ice trap
  • Adrenaline activating on destroyed tanks
  • Radar and other modules ending too early when used again while still active
  • Team Deathmatch: destroying yourself costing your team a point even without a kill
  • The result screen showing the battle series from the start of the battle instead of the end
  • Shots going through a wall on Kungur and through small gaps in the platform walls of Sandbox and Acid Lake
  • Two kill zones on Rio adjusted
  • Tanks visible through the pieces of a broken supply box
  • The Accelerated Gears effect showing on tanks waiting to respawn
  • The glass of Spooky Madness drawn incorrectly
  • Rough metal floors (for example on Repin) reflecting too sharply

Bots

  • Bots carrying the flag not knowing it, and chasing enemies instead of bringing it home
  • Bot turrets shown in the wrong direction after they stopped shooting
  • Bots handling invisible enemies more sensibly
  • The menu of a bot in the score table

Interface

  • Chat messages disappearing when two arrived quickly after each other
  • The lobby chat losing its background and buttons after many battles on some graphics cards
  • The garage camera getting stuck when going to the shop and back quickly
  • Avatars not being sorted in the avatar window
  • Old entries showing up again in some lists
  • The free camera of spectators not looking around after closing the exit window
  • Friend requests to offline players that could not be withdrawn
  • The "premium has expired" message appearing at every login
  • New quests only showing after the result screen, and two quests in the same slot
  • Line breaks showing as backslashes in some German and Hungarian texts

Found a bug that is not on this list? Please report it to us together with your crash log. The guide on finding your crash logs shows where the game keeps them.

We are cooking for you!

Halloween is not all we have been working on. Behind the scenes, new things are already on their way to you. We can't reveal more just yet, but we can't wait to release them as soon as they are ready. Trust us: it will be worth the wait.

Happy Halloween, and see you on the battlefield!