Dude... You just probably caused more harm to come to tankers.

Lol yea ccp buff the guy who wants to fight men withrifles with a tank with 2k a peice in sheilds and armor with dual machine guns that almost instakill.

Please.......give this guy more.

Meh... I'm a proto swarmer as well... But I main tanks.

with the current state of play:
railgun snipe from hilltops to re-coup isk from lost tanks. I use a 4900 shield 30% active resist and light shield booster sica. My suit is a militia assault with a sniper rifle and remote repper.

Tank is tough nuff to survive orbitals (by themselves), other tanks and AV are the main issue and by sitting on top of a hill in the red line they either come to me or i drop back and rep. Only lost 3 tanks in last 2 weeks


When you have enough isk to play:
you can go have fun amongst the infantry, but you probably will lose your toy if you aren't constantly mobile, AV is that nasty. Monitor your movements and be highly self critical when you lose a tank. 90% of the time, a tank is killed because the pilot, was driving along a predictable route or sat in one place too long or didnt micro-manage their active modules correctly.

The other 10% i like to chock up to superior enemy tactics : /.. like tower camping without you seeing them go up there.

Which is why I try to never ever ever call in something valuable, if the match was already under way when i joined :P


also...watch the kill feed...

Tanks arent supposed to be sustainable and since when are 6 matches a full day?

Obviously the freindly blue you watched go down was a pretty bad tanker. All he had to do was flip on a few modules that give tanks an extra 15k health.

If only all vehicles had face-value HP like our suits do...

180k.
And I am likely to lose 5 of those in a match against other proto players.

To fit that proto FG he needed a proto suit.
He also needed proto damage mods to do that kind of damage.
He also needed to invest heavily into core skills so he would have enough CPU/PG and other benefits.
And lastly he needed to bring his tank up (Shield/armor).

It's not cheaper SP wise to be infantry, stop fooling yourself.

Try finding a half good HAV without some sort of PG mod. Maybe railguns...

I'm a forge gunner and I would support making tanks cheaper. If CCP does buff tanks, they should make it so hitting the tanks weak spot kills the tank in the same amount of shots it takes now.

Like it or not, infantry need a viable option to take down tanks. With out this option, you tank guys go over board and abuse your power.

On a side note, the main reason I speced into Forge Guns is because I was tired of getting run over by LAVs. HAV players just got caught in the crossfire.

How about squading up with infantry players and working together? I play with the tankers in my corp all the time and their tanks last multiple matches for a few reasons. We communicate and call out AV players and other tanks so that our tanker doesn't fall into a trap. When he see a forge gunner or swarms he calls him out and us on the ground take care of it. Also they watch the kill feed and if they see proto AV they are smart enough to recall it.

Buffing tanks is a bad idea, I remember when tanks could 100+ kills a match on a regular basis. CCP just needs to bring back the marauder tanks. Also tanks should be expensive they should be a luxury afforded by corps for PC matches. That way the corps who have the cash to spend on them will do better and it would make the people who are skilled into tanks more valuable.

Sounds like you're in the wrong corp.

Tanks don't need a buff, I have incountered tankers who actually know how to fit their tanks where it has taken a coordinated effort by 3 proto AV players to take them down. Stop fitting your tanks to be glass cannons.

Making tanks cheaper is a terrible idea, just imagine all the LAV's right now, and replace them with tanks. Infantry would be forced to run AV all the damn time, which is BS. I want to shoot people in this first-person-shooter, not be gimped against other infantry players and waste an entire match chasing vehicles around.

We need vehicle-free modes.

My duvolle is 47k, do you really think a prototype turret should cost the same as a prototype AR?

It already does take 3-4 players to take out a "good" tanker. If you're getting blown up, maybe you're not as "good" as you think you are.

Fun Fact: If you keep your tank moving, forge gunners can keep up due to our heavy suits.(Which means you don't get blown up) Also if you use cover effectively your render forge guns useless.