Ryme Intrinseca
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Posted - 2013.12.11 21:18:00 -
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Knight Soiaire wrote:Ryme Intrinseca wrote:Obviously not, a well-fitted tank is virtually impossible to kill with swarms or AV nades even if it's stationary. Have you tried it with a squad? If you want to kill HAVs solo, use your own HAV, dont expect to do it through AV, unless you're using REs.
I don't need to, my squad usually take enemy tanks down, with their own tanks. Much more effective than any amount of 'AV'. And there's the rub. |
Ryme Intrinseca
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Posted - 2013.12.12 17:02:00 -
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Knight Soiaire wrote:Ryme Intrinseca wrote:Knight Soiaire wrote:Ryme Intrinseca wrote:Obviously not, a well-fitted tank is virtually impossible to kill with swarms or AV nades even if it's stationary. Have you tried it with a squad? If you want to kill HAVs solo, use your own HAV, dont expect to do it through AV, unless you're using REs. I don't need to, my squad usually take enemy tanks down, with their own tanks. Much more effective than any amount of 'AV'. And there's the rub. Thats sort of the point, y'know.... That a a giant HAV, fitted with a large Railgun, that can only be carried by said HAV, that fires rounds at an incredibly high speed, or that a Missile turret, that fires a volley of missiles doing incredible amounts of damage, are more effective means of countering a HAV than some ground troop with a box that fires small missiles, and nades that can be carried on a belt. 
I wouldn't mind tanks being the main form of AV if they were ineffective versus infantry. After all, in the real world, tanks carry a main gun with a very slow rate of fire (6RPM on an Abrams, for instance), that is primarily an anti-vehicle and anti-installation weapon. In Dust terms, this could be approximated by radically reducing the rate of fire of all large turrets (large rail and missile would be at a quarter of current RPM, large blasters at one-seventieth of current RPM  ), with damage increased significantly (especially for blasters).
In other words, there are two ways to balance tanks:
1. Make them highly vulnerable to AV infantry, but also a major threat to infantry (the pre-1.7 situation)
2. Make them virtually immune to all infantry, but also little threat to infantry (the unexplored option).
Instead CCP decided to:
3. Make them virtually immune to all infantry, but also a major threat to infantry (the 1.7 situation). |