Notifications are messages that show up in the middle-top of the screen when something special happens in the game. There are three types of notifications: those which are shown to the whole server as an announcement, those which are visible for a certain team and those which are only shown to a single player.
When the Dominator is being contested or a team takes control over it, there are 12 possible notifications.
Once there were 4 teams in the Domination mode, so the number of possible notifications was up to 20.
(Tag only) There used to be a Dominator at the center of the map, making the number of possible notifications 17 (This was after the removal of 4 teams in Domination).
“The (location) Dominator is now controlled by (team)”
Tag only:
“The Dominator is being contested"
“The Dominator is now controlled by (team)"
When a Dominator is being controlled by some Mysterious Group (only available in the oldest version of Domination)
“The (location) Dominator is now controlled by some Mysterious Group”
When the arena is about to close (typically after 5 minutes).
"Something interesting has appeared at the center of the map..."
Trivia[]
There are currently 59 possible notifications in the game.
There were formerly 83 notifications in total, but 31 of them were removed due to the removed content/features.
The notification “The game crashed, refreshing page to recover from error” was found buried inside the game's source code before it was seen in-game.[10]
If you kill a tank, then they are immediately killed, then they respawn immediately, the “you’ve killed” notification is present on your next round for a few seconds.
Different notifications have different colored backgrounds.
The "Arena Closed" and "Full team" messages are colored deep red.
Mode notifications are colored deep blue (except for Sandbox's God mode).
Any team-related messages are colored in the team's color. (The neutral color, which is shown when Dominators are being contested, is yellow.)
All other messages are grey.
For the 8th anniversary event, a new pink notification was added. The bosses spawn notifications were also changed to pink.
Gallery (oldest to newest)[]
The notification that comes up when the arena is being closed
The notification that comes up when Blue controls a Dominator
The Notification that comes up when Red controls a Dominator
The Notification that comes up when you turn on Auto Fire
The Notification that comes up when you turn off Auto Fire
The Notification that comes up when you kill someone
The notification that comes up when you tried to join a team that has reached its player limit (You'll be sent to another team that hasn't full as well).
Footnotes[]
↑The Brown team was replaced by Green, & no longer exists in-game.
↑These kinds of notifications only take place in Domination.
↑The message is the same for both teams, and only differs in the background color of the notification (which corresponds to the team color of the player), thus there are two possible notifications.
↑These kinds of notifications only effect a single person.
↑Doesn’t appear in FFA / Maze if the victim is twenty or more Levels below the player’s own.
↑These notifications existed before the March 9th, 2017 update, where auto maximizing of stats was replaced with the introduction of stat upgrade queuing.
↑These kinds of notifications only occur after becoming a certain kind of tank.
↑These notifications only occur if an out-of-game condition has been met.
↑The U key was later used for another function, so it was changed to "I".