Argo Filch
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Posted - 2013.08.24 23:26:00 -
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Just for clarification, i only read the OPs first post because i got pointed to this thread in IRC.
My thoughts on this matter is... tanks are pointless atm. They have no role in this game that would befit a Heavy Assault Vehicle.
Atm i usually only see tanks brought forth in pub/fw (don't play PC so no clue there) matches to be infantry killing machines. And either if it's cheap, stoopid fit tanks, they die fast or if it's a real tanker behind the wheel with skills and the right tank and fit, he either dominates the landscape and kills everything in sight, or he just vanishes in the redline and recalls his tank if he meets heavy, organized AV resistance. The other thing i see is that the real tankers drive around the map in circles with their speed mods and just pick off infantry that pops up before their sight. Makes it also hard for AV on foot to get them. So you would really need to bring another tank yourself to kill them.
Nevertheless tanks atm are nothing more then infantry killing machines and have no other purpose and are usually a dominating force in pub matches, especially if you encounter 2-3 tanks at once on the enemy side. Which is not that unusual.
Now if tanks had actually something to do that befit their killing power and resistance. Like take out some kind of installations to win the battle. If we had something like the fabled Skirmish 1.0 where you had to take out 2 installations in the first phase as an attacker, then you could use tanks to speed up the getting rid process by killing those installations instead of having them hacked for self destruction. Infantry could also defend these attacking tanks from enemy infantry. And the defender could get out tanks to prevent this from happening. This would give tanks a role.
But as it is right now, i'd rather tanks be banned in pub matches. But the improved matchmaking might get rid of the "tanks stomp everything on the map" problem because those players would be matched against ppl that have a change against tanks.
And i usually find it kinda funny that i always read "one AV infantry guy can take out any tank"... that infantry guy has to have very decent AV skills to pull that off. And not everyone specs into proto nades and other AV weaponry because he needs to get rid of pesky tanks that annoy people in pub matches. At least i didn't for now. And, if i go solo, i also seem to be always thrown into matches where nobody else has either. |