I wouldn't call militia tank scrubs tankers but yea. Militia tanks need a price raise and/or a nerf. They are just too effective for their price right now...

New Player Experience

All balance issues aside, this one thing is the problem with tanks as they are right now. As it stands, a new player is forced to do one of two things to handle massive tank spam, which they will assume is normal given that they're new players. They can either call down their own militia tank, ignoring all aspects of infantry play, and learn the game from the perspective of tank driving only. Or, they can get mercilessly curb stomped over and over by garbage tanks because they have no way to fight it.

When 0 SP militia tanks require 3-4 synchronized advanced or prototype AV to take down, how exactly do you expect new players to progress in this game as infantry?

The message of 1.7 is become a tanker or die trying, because your efforts are meaningless otherwise.

I'm getting tired of 20+ million SP players sitting there saying how easy it is to kill tanks, when the vast majority of players probably don't even have 5 million SP yet, and any new players who are unfortunate enough to join right now have under 1 million SP.

If that's what you need to take down a militia tank - you are doing it very, very wrong.

I have an Ishukone assault forge gun, REs with LAVs, and an AV Incubus.

I'm speaking strictly from what I watch others do, frantically chasing garbage tanks in the hopes to lay enough DPS on it before it disappears around the bend.

And as stated in my OP, this is about new players, who lack any of the tools required to hurt even the weakest of tanks, aside from calling in their own tank.

Very well said. All of your opinions seems to be smart and very thoughtful. Go for CPM. You will get my vote .

Not sure if sarcasm or not given my history of knee jerk raging on the forums

New Player Experience

All balance issues aside, this one thing is the problem with tanks as they are right now. As it stands, a new player is forced to do one of two things to handle massive tank spam, which they will assume is normal given that they're new players. They can either call down their own militia tank, ignoring all aspects of infantry play, and learn the game from the perspective of tank driving only. Or, they can get mercilessly curb stomped over and over by garbage tanks because they have no way to fight it.

When 0 SP militia tanks require 3-4 synchronized advanced or prototype AV to take down, how exactly do you expect new players to progress in this game as infantry?

The message of 1.7 is become a tanker or die trying, because your efforts are meaningless otherwise.

I'm getting tired of 20+ million SP players sitting there saying how easy it is to kill tanks, when the vast majority of players probably don't even have 5 million SP yet, and any new players who are unfortunate enough to join right now have under 1 million SP.

New Player Experience

All balance issues aside, this one thing is the problem with tanks as they are right now. As it stands, a new player is forced to do one of two things to handle massive tank spam, which they will assume is normal given that they're new players. They can either call down their own militia tank, ignoring all aspects of infantry play, and learn the game from the perspective of tank driving only. Or, they can get mercilessly curb stomped over and over by garbage tanks because they have no way to fight it.

When 0 SP militia tanks require 3-4 synchronized advanced or prototype AV to take down, how exactly do you expect new players to progress in this game as infantry?

The message of 1.7 is become a tanker or die trying, because your efforts are meaningless otherwise.

I'm getting tired of 20+ million SP players sitting there saying how easy it is to kill tanks, when the vast majority of players probably don't even have 5 million SP yet, and any new players who are unfortunate enough to join right now have under 1 million SP.

oh cry me a river poor random blue dots...i have all my ALL my sp into infantry yet i can pull a 24/0 30/0 ina mlt tank and kill gunlogi's and madrugars alike so can they they items are available if they're own personal skills do not warrant them such high scores it is they're own fault as gear hardly even matters

...i run a dua forge with toxin smg on mlt heavy ina full mlt tank and easily break 2 k wp...they can go push they're sob story somewhere else at best not having allot of sp means you cannot be as versatile but all suits and weapons have very relevant ehp and dmg..personal fps skills can account for lack of proto gear...

personally i just assume most of the blue dots in dust have never played any video game before as the average 12 year old can do much better hell my lil cousin is 9 and he can pull non neg scores 75% of the time