#tankpit

Good activity in the map today! Just wanted to take the opportunity to share some of the action. Everyone seemed to want to call a raid on themselves, which is what this game is all about! These are some of the best screenshots I managed to capture:

ENDURANCE really lives up to the name- he takes forever to go down.

Did everything I could not to take any fuel from Falling Star during this awesome raid-take, just had to get a SS of him at work.

Just as the holiday season is kicking into full-swing, TankPit is seeing strong activity in-game. Tanks battles are raging all over the map!

So far I’ve shown screenshots of some of the game’s best players taking raids, and as I try to improve my own ability to fight respectably against lopsided odds I listen and learn to their advice on how to become a more formidable opponent. Spoiler alert: I still don’t last long.

This is a screenshot of me taking on a purple raid. The Space Spices team and a few other purple tanks were on the hunt and I saw it as an opportunity to not only improve my reputation in the veteran community, but to improve my skills. The challenge is returning fire, while maintaining enough fuel to continue. The more you make the other team work for the kill, the better your raid-take was.

There are 9 available awards in the game of TankPit. Some of these awards decorate the tanks of players who have achieved in-game milestones, and there are also “special” awards that are given to players who contribute game improvement ideas, reports glitches, etc. 

Today, November 1st, 2016,  I was lucky enough to be a witness to something special in-game. This screenshot depicts Twisted Metal II earning the Shining Sword, an award given to players who have logged 100 hours on one tank. 

This moment was significant; it is an example of how the players of TankPit come together to honor those who have earned the respect of the community. Twisted Metal II is known for regularly taking on large raids and lasting a ridiculously long time before going down. Despite being on different teams, all of these tanks congregated for a few minutes of peaceful interaction to honor TM2 as he received his award. 

The players of TankPit strive to earn awards for their tank through game-play (you can see many highly decorated tanks below), and through helpful submissions that work to improve the game and the website. 

The experienced players, mainly those who have achieved the rank of general and have also earned many of the available awards, spend their time attempting to climb the world leaderboard. This is done by collecting promotion points. When your tank and another tank are at the same rank (general, colonel, major, etc.), the player with the most promotion points collected will have a lower tank #. As with golf, the lower your number, the better.

When you’ve climbed high enough in the world rankings, your name will be enshrined among the game’s greats!

I’ve only been around a little while, but I’m quickly learning that the best players aren’t as concerned with deactivating enemy tanks as they are with taking on lopsided battles and going down in a blaze of glory. Recognition and respect are earned by facing raiding parties by yourself and making them earn their deactivation shot by shot. That being said, here are some of the players who have been showing me how it’s done so far:

Twisted Metal II- Raiding this guy guarantees you a long battle, and even then your odds of deactivating him are slim to none.

Limited Edition- The fact that this tank had a Gold Tank (500+ kills), and a Battered Sword (200+ hours played) before getting the Combat Honor Medal (for being deactivated 25 times) tells you how hard it is to take him down. 

QualityQuandries- Pretty sure this raid took 20 minutes. As far as raiding is concerned, that’s a seriously long time. To put it in perspective, he tagged me back the next day in less than 5 minutes with a raiding party of his own. 

The Space Spice team has some players that can take raids all day long. gravitational garlic had us running all over the map. These guys call raids on themselves more than most and will be fun to learn from as I go forward.

Started my account, Brian the Lion, this week and achieved the rank of General today! Took 12 hours and 37 seconds, 60 kills and 6 deactivations.