tanking usually does require team work now unfortunately.

the good news: the enemy tank be trying to kill your team mates thus distracting him while you get behind him stealthily. REs now stick to walls and vehicles (stationary vehicles and slow moving vehicles (just started moving or slowing down to stop, like 2m per sec speed))

Use a militia scout suit, basic REs, plasma cannon, basic packed AV grenades, basic SMG. Tanks are usually stationary when killing infantry. Get behind the tank, plant 3 REs on it, detonate, throw 1 or 2 AV grenades at it. That should always blow it up.

Disclaimer: only works if you surprise the tanker and he has not activated his hardeners.

Luckily tanks rarely activate hardeners against infantry unless they see AV infantry firing at them.

I have tested this and it has worked many times for me.

only costs me 7000 ISK per suit.

Only large risk is being spotted by other infantry.

I'll bring my proto heavy with a FG.

And wreck you all day long.

See this is where you f'd up.

I do play on the ground, I have a heavy alt, and I wreck tanks on the ground all day like it is going out of style.

You guys are just bad at it.

I run the proto heavy frame for extra armor. I fight tanks in the danger zone, so I need every available HP I can get. Also, if you want to run proto grenades and a not STD sidearm, you need to go proto.



Tank eHP went sideways because I can no longer run plates and reppers and a hardener, so I have to make choices. Also, since the 180 plates got taken away, I can't even stack up as high.

That reduction in HP is compensated for by the increased resistances on shield tanks. Armor tanks have actually lost resists as well as HP. Running dual carapace hardeners would put you close to 50% resist if your skills were up. Now a single hardeners gives you 40% for 1/3 the time.

Accuracy getting better is debatable. The turret may be more accurate, but the hit detection is still spotty, especially on rails.

The speed will be the first thing changed.



FG did not get a 33% nerf.

I don't care about swarms, they should be removed from the game. That is how little I care for swarms and their users.




Tanks off cooldown go pop very fast. Much faster than a cooldown 1.6 tank. They just carry so much less HP.
Tanks on actives are very difficult to destroy, this is by design.
Tanks are more difficult to destroy, if you don't find it rewarding to go after the hard targets, playing AV is not for you.

Proposal one is basically a return to 1.6, but with softer tanks. Not fair or reasonable at all.

Tanks on cooldown are already butter soft, there is no need to give them an additional penalty. The speed nerf is coming, but probably not until the next patch.