No.

Changing the number of vehicles a team can call in doesn't solve the real problems with vehicle balance, it just makes them less noticeable. As for the railguns, no to range reduction. They're railguns, for Christ's sake. They're supposed to be the long-range turrets. Their maximum range is the highest range you will ever see on a turret.

Reduced tank cap would certainly make a huge difference.

About the range of the rail, Im not saying it should be nerfed to blaster range, just by 10-20% so dropships will suffer less

Congratulations, you fail at reading, because I never said it wouldn't.


No. Range doesn't need a nerf at all. If it needs to be nerfed at all, it should be nerfed in other ways.

I want to see less of OP militia tanks, to do that the price must be increased! maybe 250k-300k for militia and 400k-600k for STD tanks. I think we would see less of them and there for less of one side dominating because they have 7 militia tanks harrassing the enemy infantry. Also players wouldn't be so eager and careless to call in their second tank.

Dropship cap, tank cap and LAV cap should be separate.

The tank cap should be reduced to 3 per match so its not about which team is the quickest to call in 7 tanks. If there would only be three tanks on each side it would count for skill and maybe for better fitted tanks who wins the tank war, not numbers only.

The dropship cap should be the same, at 3 and should stay at this price. We would probably see more dropships in the air. (because of tank cap redused, there for less of B*TCHY, OP, BROKEN, REDLINING, militia rail tanks) Dropships could now work together to take out tanks and could be more fun taking out infantry with less tanks on the field focusing on them.

LAV cap should be about 4-5 because that should be enough to transport almost the whole team.




RAILGUN NERF: (what everyone is waiting for)

You could keep the railguns as they are but reduce range and (take out railgun damage modifiers or slow down rate of fire)

REASONS: reduce range because that would stop redline railing and give dropship pilots some chance of survivability.
get rid of railgun damage modifiers because the are way to overpowered! I stock 2 damage mods and I take out every tank in 2-3shots=(3-5 seconds) because rate of fire is way to quick, this should never be possible .

I like your post but one thing to keep in mind tanks don't win matches, drop up links do.

Railguns need to overheat fast (I say three shots, same as compressed before 1.7), slightly reduced rate of fire, and decrease damage by 100-200.

Railguns should be long ranged support, and not anti-vehicle blasters at close range. That's the missile launcher's job. If they overheat fast, that alone would discourage bringing them in for close range combat.

Vehicles in 1.7... well, obviously there is a balance problem, unless Dust 514 is to be a "world of tanks" clone. Shall we? Ahem:
The biggest problem in Dust 514 is getting new players faster than players quit. The new tanks of 1.7 are making people play less and recommend the game less. This needs attention at once if Dust is to grow - or even survive another year.

Tanks have become a problem; in a game about hacking, more than a tank (or maybe 2) on each side is a big issue. The fast running hacker rarely survives and a methodical squad has little chance of a hack.

This game is also about clone destruction, but losing a vehicle doesn't count against the "clone count".

So Dust needs repeat players and new players. Most importantly, it needs new-to-medium level players to bring in new players. This is unlikely at the moment because nobody wants to put $25 into a "free" to play game to buy tanks and lose those tanks. Right now, that's the only way a new player can feel like he's making a difference on the Dust battlefield. How long before he calls it quits? Do we want him to tell potential players to not even bother downloading the game?

Dropships are less of a problem. Frankly, it's because nobody can fly those things, the controls are worthless, a team has no more than 1 good dropship pilot in a match (outside of planetary conquest). Jeeps are handled. I see no issues there anymore.

There's the problems. What are the answers?

A player cannot deploy a tank if his team already has 2 active on the battlefield? Maybe for dropships, too?

A tank loss costs a team 3 clones?

...or, if this is too be a game of vehicle dominance, add MAVs? Light and medium aircraft?

Railguns should have a damage buff, but a ROF nerf to compensate. IT should hurt when it hits you, but you should have time to get away before the next sheads your way.

Eve has a precedent. Railguns in Eve have the longest optimal, but smallest ROF of all the turrets.