What about the rail needs to be changed?

Also, do you know if there is anything that prevents me from running multiple damage amps at the same time? If I activate 2 or 3 at the same time, is there a stacking penalty for the damage bonus? I haven't had enough time to test the glass cannon fits.

The cost itself doesn't really matter.

However there should be an actual consequence to losing HAVs, similar to how there is a consequence to losing a PRO dropsuit.

This super low price currently does nothing but encourage vehicle spam.

And MLT vehicles shouldn't be good or nearly as good as the other variants in the same sense that a MLT or [Starter] fit isn't nearly as good as a STD/ADV/PRO dropsuit fitting.

Also, this current build gives literally no incentive to use AV. Tell me, why would people use AV when a MLT tank is better than PRO AV in every condition way shape or form.

Also, AV is supposed to be Anti-Vehicle. Meaning "Anti". Not tickle the target so that the other vehicle can take it down. Being the best counter to yourselves is OP.

There's no risk vs reward to tanking, and you can hop into it with basically no SP investment on your part to speak of. It's stupid right now because there isn't even a point to killing the tank other than to stop him getting free kills. I can't tell you how many times I zero in on a soma or sica that's been terrorizing all match, and once it gets even close to popping, the pilot just hops out and runs away.

Why? Because it costs him next to nothing and he's already raked in a ton of kills off of players far more skilled than him.

Tanks are stupid right now because there's no risk to run them vs the reward of running them, exactly opposite of the risk required to take them down, vs the lack of reward for doing so.

Rails are good at taking out other vehicles and instillations.

Blasters are good a taking out infantry.

You sound butt hurt about rails.

I'm sure Bob was in another thread; stating how OP his tank hardeners were. That may be the opinion of anyone who sits in a tank, and absorbs a few volleys of militia swarms.

Then you get hit by ProtoSwarms/Forge, Railgun Tanks/Installations, Sticky explosives/Kamikaze LAVs, and you start to realize that you aren't an invincible powerhouse as everyone makes you out to be.

In 1.7 a well fitted Soma could still take out a Maddie or Gunnlogi if the guy in the Soma knew what they were doing or if the Madrugar or Gunnlogi Pilot didn't know what they were doing.

And what about AV? Why shouldn't new players be encouraged to use AV as opposed to just spamming risk and skill free HAVs?

Heavy AV should not have higher damage outputs. The Forge Gun and Swarm Launcher already had it's strengths and weaknesses in comparison to each other. A Forge Gun had super fast travel time, more rounds per clip, more base ammo (even though other suits could use nanohives), the ability to kill infantry, and was pretty much the only way to kill a good DS pilot.

The Forge Gun and Swarm Launcher needs to have it's strengths and weaknesses against each-other of course, but they should by no means be 100% better than Swarm Launchers. That creates a FoTM, and guarantees that nobody will ever use the Swarm Launcher (not that anyone would already). Why would anyone use anything when the alternative is 100% better?

Also, please don't pull a Char and say that FG users spend more SP or ISK than SL users. They don't. The costs of both ISK, SP, and even LP is identical. Please don't pull a Char.

Also, does it look like people play nothing but PC? You can't balance something around a game-mode that less than 5% of the playerbase participates in, or could participate in if they truly desired. If you are going to allow something to be balanced for one thing yet broken for another; then it would only be fair to remove it from the place that it is broken in.

But hey. Since it's perfectly okay to balance things around one game-mode, let's have all of the content in this game become balanced around Ambush. Why not? It's highly competitive as well.

This is DUST 514. Not Tank 514. Not COD 514. Not TryHard 514. Try AGAIN.

Rails are AV. They should win against blasters and missiles when it comes to AV. I'm even inclined to say that blasters should do reduced damage to vehicles, to emphasize the fact that they are anti-infantry, and rails have a splash radius of .5m to emphasize that they are anti-vehicle.

the rail is the armor rupturing, specialized anti-tank turret. it is very logical to me that its current strength is how it is. it seems like the unskilled turret traverse is exceedingly slower than last patch, so it is very hard to efficiently use as an anti-infantry weapon, not that a skilled driver can't do it.

Missiles will screw anyone's day over if they get that salvo off during cooldown.

blasters are the best anti-infantry weapon. I like it being good at that at the expense of armor-defeating potential. Its DPS isnt quite there to be king of vehicle warfare like before, which i thought wasnt quite right.