Ta-Ta-Tanks Support
Help with Ta-Ta-Tanks on iPhone, iPad and Android, answers to common questions, and how to reach us.
Common questions
Does it need an internet connection or an account?
No. Ta-Ta-Tanks plays offline and needs no account, Daily Run included: your best of the day is kept on your device. Game Center on iPhone and iPad, and Google Play Games on Android, are optional; signing in adds achievements, leaderboards and a backup of your progress.
How do the stars work?
Every Story level has five stars: CLEARED, DEFENDED, ON PAR, NO TANKS LOST and ACE TIME. Losing tanks and hitting yourself with your own shells take stars off, and playing with the CPU wingman costs two. A clear always earns at least one star. Earn all five for a level’s medal; medals on every level of a chapter turn its grid gold.
How do I play with friends or a CPU wingman?
Choose STORY, ASSAULT or VERSUS, set PLAYERS on the setup page and press START. Each player then picks a tank in the hangar. Controllers take the seats in order, from player 1 up; on a touchscreen, the on-screen controls play player 1. In an Assault run, a player without a seat can hold FIRE for about a second to join from the next sector.
With fewer than four players, turn on CPU WINGMAN on the setup page. Double-tap ACTION to give it orders: follow you, defend the Core, or attack the foundries.
General Byte is too hard, or I want him to stop learning
General Byte watches how you play and deploys a counter to your habits. To turn that off, set OPTIONS → ADAPTIVE AI (BYTE LEARNS FROM YOU) to off (it’s also in the pause menu). Enemies then stay at the same level and Byte deploys nothing. OPTIONS → GAME SPEED can slow the game to 90% or 80%, and AIM ASSIST can help with a gamepad or with every control.
My controller doesn’t work as expected
- Gamepad buttons can’t be remapped; the layout is in OPTIONS → CONTROLS / KEY BINDINGS, where you can rebind the keyboard.
- The on-screen prompts follow the controller you used last, with Xbox, PlayStation or Nintendo buttons.
- If a controller disconnects during a match, the game pauses until you reconnect it.
I keep dashing by accident
Turn off OPTIONS → DOUBLE-TAP DASH. The DASH button still works.
How do I change the language?
Ta-Ta-Tanks starts in English. Choose English, Español or Français in OPTIONS → LANGUAGE, or in the pause menu.
Your progress
Moving to a new device
Sign in on both devices, and your records, achievements and story progress follow you:
- iPhone and iPad: Game Center signs you in when you open the game, or you can sign in in your device’s Settings app. Keep iCloud Drive on, with the same Apple Account on both devices; your progress is saved to your iCloud account.
- Android: sign in to Google Play Games. If you closed the sign-in when the game opened, use HALL OF FAME → ACHIEVEMENTS → SIGN IN TO GOOGLE PLAY GAMES. Your progress is saved to your Google account.
Progress from both devices is combined, keeping the best of each: your highest scores and stars, every level you unlocked and every achievement. Your settings, the maps you built and an Assault run in progress stay on the device where you had them. Your device’s own backup (Android backup or iCloud Backup) brings everything back when you restore it.
Starting over
Ta-Ta-Tanks has no reset button. To delete everything the game has stored on your device, uninstall it (on Android you can also clear its storage in your device’s Settings). If you use Game Center or Google Play Games, delete the saved copy there too, or your progress comes back the next time you sign in.
Privacy
How Ta-Ta-Tanks handles your data is described in its privacy policy.