...several fully kitted out Madrugars and Gunnlogis on the enemy side of every other battle I join. I found tanking before to often be frustrating, but at least I could drop the tank and put my boots on the ground when things got frustrating. Now, you need to run HAVs 24/7 if you can just to halt the enemy HAVs, at least at the time of day I play.

HAVs popping HAVs doesn't even work when there's 5 enemy HAVs on the enemy side of every other match. When you saw 6 names from one big corp or a qynch in the feed before, you knew things would be tough. Now, when you see that, you know they'll be deploying their whole quota in HAVs against your one HAV, one squaddies HAV and 14 assorted berries.

Every match depends almost solely on how many HAVs, with what guns and what modules, are deployed at the start, and if you're willing to throw ISK at the screen replacing them. HAVs are the main attraction and infantry are a sideshow, except when in installations that usually get 3HKO'd by a rail tank or forge gun anyway. Once one side wins the tank wars at the beginning of the match, they keep it that way. Good luck deploying one HAV without it getting popped on deployment by a 2-3HKO amped particle accelerator 350m away, let alone 5 to match the enemy's force.

This is Tank 514 and it is far worse than AR 514 ever was. I used to like tanking, now I see several HAVs on every battlefield all soaking up AV like sponges, running in packs, cheap as dirt and I want to puke. I don't want a GêP.0 K/D against infantry. I want a balanced game that is more complex than deploying more/better HAVs than the opponent. When you know the outcome of the battle with 95% accuracy 60 seconds in by the map, there's a problem.

I swear, playing pubs not in a tank squad is like pulling teeth most of the time.

I would rarther have no infantry than several fully kitted out protobears on the enemy side of every other battle I join

Oh wait that was happening for months and the only way you could counter was in your own protobear gear or just go BPO anyways, i bet you didnt complain about that when you protostomped

A 0SP/ISK BPO suit is also impossible to go negative in and kicker is it can kill protosuits aslong as i get the drop on them and not scanned for 100m away before hand

A gamebreaking scale? protobears redlined the enemy instantly without even trying causing mass snipers and even tanks back in the day got protostomped on, now if tanks are stomping bring out your own tank since even milita can fight back quite well

Tanks are quite easy to kill and hella easy to avoid as infantry, but like any protobear stomping squad if its an organized proto tank stomping squad you will find it hard

Protobear stomping = tank stomping

Its the same thing, except you dont like it because the shoe is on the other foot and kicking your arse