Well if you think that the missiles bending around corners/cover, locking on through objects, jumping while locking, firing while locking, not even looking at the target and still maintaining lock and able to fire, insta locking, no contermeasures, invisible swarms are all perfectly fine then you are the idiot

cuz we dont have militia **** attacking us....lol, thats 1 man atacking 1 man. 1 man versus 1 tank shouldn't be the same story.

If a person solos a good tank even with Proto AV, they deserved to die.

At least an armor tank.

If you chose shield tanks, different story. I can solo a shield tank with flux/MD.

If an armor tank gets solo'd they deserved it. But that's harsh considering the crap matchmaking in pubs. You guys still need support dealing with FGers.

I don't envy tankers. They certainly need work.

For the time being I think they should reduce the cost.

just for the record , the only thing i hate about tanks are those that camp in red zone UP in the mountains and who snipe all over the map

i respect those who come and fight

So many topics like this so I'm just going to copy/paste my response from another thread .

T More and more I am coming up against HAVs that take an incredible amount of damage and keep on rolling. Several of them have taken 7 or more volleys of my proto swarm (3xComplex, Prof 3) and 3 or more Lai Dai and just kept on going as if I was a mosquito buzzing around their ears. Tanks may be paper thin as standard, but as with anything, put enough time/SP into them and they can be a beast.

I do not expect to be able to solo a tank by any means, and if I can, I enjoy it when it is a challenge as opposed to a 10 second fire and forget battle. Once we have proto tanks (god help the cries for AV buff/tank nerf when that happens) then the battlefield will be a lot more even, but people still need to realise that the tank isn't meant to be insta-win. You need a fair SP sink and good fitting to be an intimidating presence on the battlefield.

I have seen several people suggest removing proto AV until we have proto vehicles. I for one would be fine with this and feel it is unfair that one side of the equation has more advanced gear than the other.

But despite all this, we have two major updates on the way, so essenstially all arguments on AV balance are moot until after they arrive.

Lying? You do realise tanks can have repair and resists right? Smart tankers with good fits know how to take damage and stay alive. I've taken many a shield down only for them to activate a recharge and resist module allowing them to take a pounding. Yes the example I used is rare, but the point is tanks can be viable with a little work.

this is assuming that the tank took all those attacks directly and used all modules at there most efficient times

an armor tank can not take any damage that exceeds around 23k that's the threshold to immediate destruction regardless of what you do

6753 base health+ 6210 from repairs = 12963 total health from armor and repairs

.62 is the max resist you can get from armor. This is with 2 hardeners passive armor reist maxed and Damage control Unit active

12963*.62 grants an additional 8037 hp which brings your effective hp to 21k

if you leveled up shield skills you can gain an additional 100 effective shields and the .09 from Damage Unit brings your total effecitve shield to 1190

which brings the total damage a tank can take before exploding to 22k

there is no way the tank can just shrug off the attacks that guy said without having an outside source stepping in

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