Assault Chileanme
Molon Labe.
RISE of LEGION
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Posted - 2013.10.21 20:51:00 -
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I just have a quick question here about the whole tank vs AV debate, and let me preface it by saying that I would love for it to be balanced completely. I have also never messed with driving a tank and have my swarm skill up to level 3. My perspective for this is coming from playing pub matches as well, so don't apply it to PC since that is quite different.
In my experience, running around with adv swarms with two adv damage mods is still relatively useless against most tanks that I would come across on the battlefield. They either just don't care that I'm there or they scurry away and I can't do anything about it. Again I have not used tanks and perhaps it does take an immense amount of skill to drive a tank at high speeds back into the hills. I rarely even pull out my swarms since they are so ineffective at destroying tanks, the best that I can usually hope for is just to bother the tanker enough that he just runs away and recalls out of fear that he MIGHT lose his tank.
The problems in my experience from an infantry perspective are as follows:
-Tanks are just too fast to be able to destroy. I can get their health down but they can always get away before I can kill them.
-Tanks are too expensive for what they provide. Tank drivers are too worried about losing their precious tanks and therefore behave quite cautiously/selfishly rather than helping their team. On the flip side using price as an argument is pretty ridiculous as well since just because a proto AV fit only costs 200k they are still a lot more likely to get killed trying to kill a tank since they are giving up their anti-personnel capabilities. Despite all of the whining, AV isn't necessarily a bargain compared to tanking.
-Recalling a vehicle is a ridiculous mechanic. I don't think that it should be removed completely, but it should be a much more high risk proposition than it currently is. It should involve and RDV coming down to slowly pick it up or something. As it is now every time a tank gets low they just hurry away and recall and don't have to worry about a thing (other than random teammates sitting in a turret and not getting out).
-If tankers get their way and say that it should require an army to take them down, then AV weapons should be equally effective against infantry. It's not fair to make yourself completely vulnerable to infantry in an effort to take down a tank if you still don't have a chance at killing it alone.
-Once you get more than one tank in a match it is pretty much unbearable to play against as they can't really be stopped without coordination, which you aren't going to get in a pub match.
-Rail sniping is a joke. There is no way to destroy a rail tank in the redline before they just reverse down the hill and out of sight. Again I haven't tried it, but I guess it's just a way for people that aren't good enough to play as infantry or a real tanker to still get some WP. |