lee corwood
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Posted - 2014.01.03 17:29:00 -
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As a proto swarmer, I never take that thing out anymore. Honestly, I agree to only "some" of the ideas.
I'm not a tanker, I run infantry but have driven tanks in the past. Regardless what people are saying about teamwork, while I do agree, YES teamwork can work, you're talking about taking a massive number of people out of an infantry fight to deal with just a single tank. A lot of infantry that has to both focus on one tank and avoid a team of infantry equipped to deal with other infantry. It can work, but as OP has pointed out, if a tanker has 3 hardeners on rotation and can zoom out at the speed of light to come back with full health 2 mins later, then what are AVers really accomplishing.
I think the problem on the forums is most tankers out there have their experience as a pro tanker and/or as experienced players. You have to look at this from a newer player's perspective. As a brand new player that dies to everything that sneezes in their general direction, they're looking at you, one person, in a single tank, that can dominate the field. Instead of learning useful tactics and teamwork, they're fighting to strictly survive and their answer is going to be:
- Militia Tank in response with no desire to deal with any other single feature in the game. no team skills, no squad interaction. basically all those bbs people keep b*tching about in FW who had no experience learning to work as a team.
- Quit the game
As far as what I don't agree with, I don't think longer spawn time will help. As others pointed out on other topics, your range is already incredibly long. I've seen redlined tanks sit and wait for blues to call in their tanks to shoot them out of the sky before an RDV can let it go.
I don't think Swarmers need a range buff. They had the same problem. I could sit anywhere on the map and kill a tank before it was released pre 1.7.
I DO agree that tanks need a speed reduction and Swarmers need a slight damage buff/increased missle speed. I also do think that the turret should have greater scatter.
But like others said, if tanks are really to remain this fast, then i would like the ability to destroy its tracks. I would love to have a similar ability to LAVs where if you have additional turrets, we can then kill those manning them too. They shouldn't be all safe in that brick. The main driver should be most protected but those additional passengers should be just as exposed.
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lee corwood
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Posted - 2014.01.03 17:53:00 -
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Goric Rumis wrote:First and most importantly, the number one balancing factor--period--is map design.
Read this post and I agree with this. As a non tanker, I often find it laughable the times i can get a tanker to try and chase me in circles around a single column of cover trying to kill me. However, in a more serious light, I think certain maps just make it too overly advantageous for HAVs to come in and dominate without infantry having the ability to avoid them much. There are very certain maps where this works out wonderfully and all the tank spam in the world only manages to keep the team 2 objectives to a good ground infantry of 3. I never feel bad about not destroying a tank or DS. Honestly, I love it enough when I have to make them run and that's all it takes to turn the tide in the battle.
I posted elsewhere asking for a revisit to maps but yours covers it much more adequately.
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lee corwood
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Posted - 2014.01.03 18:48:00 -
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Alam Storm wrote:
i would like to see different types of maps like 1 very dusty or foggy raining heavy snow grass maps would be nice maybe some trees i find it hard to believe the only maps CCP can come up with are deserts
Ooooh, one like vietnam. Heavy brush so you can barely see through it and BAM enemy. Well actually more like 'scan' there you are, but still, jungle would be a fun mash up too.
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