![]() ![]() It also hits a completely random spot on the map. It's a gigantic meteor that causes 200 damage with a direct hit - one of the strongest single hits currently possible in-game. And it also doesn't understand weapons that synergize with dirt attacks: it might bury you on one turn, then shoot a weapon with a large explosion to unbury you on the next turn, even if they have a weapon like the Toaster or Shadow Blast (whose explosions don't get rid of dirt, making them perfect for attacking buried foes without helping them). ![]() It might use a dirt weapon to bury you, but doesn't take into account how many points you have: it might even bury you as an opening move, when you don't have any points to lose while blowing away the dirt.It always tries to aim directly at you, even with weapons that are more effective on indirect hits such as the Hot Potato, Popcorn, and Phase Missile (which can orbit around a target if it passes nearby without hitting, increasing its damage).This often results in it losing loads of points while burying itself in ice, when aiming straight upwards would result in a wasted turn, but at least it'd avoid those consequences. Conversely, it does aim the Freeze Ray right at you.It doesn't know how to use certain weapons that don't follow the normal arc, like the Laser or Bubble Gun, which it ineffectively fires straight into the air 99% of the time.It sometimes saves a non-damaging weapon like the Tracer for the last round, where it's completely useless.Use a Blockade or Plasma Orb and watch it blow itself up. but if it's able to move, it doesn't take ceilings into account. It's smart enough to know to use dirt-clearing weapons such as Dirt Mover and Mountain Mover when it's been buried.Artificial Stupidity: The AI has several flaws, even on the highest setting:.Area of Effect: Most weapons are area of effect in the sense that they're explosions and generally do more damage the closer the target is to the center, but many weapons like the popcorn, hailstorm, and napalm also cover an area, but instead of specifically trying to hit dead-on, the goal is to make them as concentrated as possible, which often requires a near miss instead of a direct hit to maximize their potential.Amazing Technicolor Battlefield: There are weapons that remove dirt, create dirt in various colors, color existing dirt, and apply thin layers of color to existing dirt so 80% of the maps end up being this by the time the fight is over.It also does a guaranteed 20 damage, with the added effect of doing more knockback. Sneak Attack is similar to Cheap Shot, sending a snaking projectile out from under the enemy tank.Cheap Shot, which immediately spawns a bomb right on top of the other tank, dealing a guaranteed 20 damage without needing to aim.Granted there’s enough free packs that it mostly avoids Bribing Your Way to Victory, and buying everything will run you about $20 and not the hundreds or thousands of dollars usually associated with this trope. ![]() Allegedly Free Game: Did this before it was cool: the vast bulk of weapons are sold in expansion packs that sell for a dollar or two.Fleas, submunitions, hailstorms, shots that bury their target, shots that make the terrain bouncy, oddly shaped explosions, slow explosions that hit several times, and much much more. Abnormal Ammo: Pretty much most of the arsenal.The player who has more points when all weapons are fired, wins the game. Instead, each player gets to choose 10 from the 20 randomly chosen weapons at the start of the game. Unlike the most tank artillery clones, the objective of this game is not to destroy the opponent. Currently, with all expansions, the total number of weapons available is 320. It features numerous weapons and expansion packs. It's based on a game called Scorched Tanks (which itself was based on Scorched Earth). Pocket Tanks is a semi-freeware 2-tank Artillery Game. ![]()
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