DUST Search - Self-hating tankers

GRIM GEAR wrote:

Ryme Intrinseca wrote:

Yesterday I sent my first hatemail in 6 months or so. I'd been killed by the same blaster tanker twice, and had just had enough of cheap deaths to the invincible tanks rolling around padding their stats.

So I sent some really mediocre hatemail, something like 'no skill tank scrub', expecting either nothing in return or a few insults. I did receive insults, but also something interesting.

The tanker told me that he too was an infantryman at heart, and that he too was sick of getting farmed by OP tanks. So sick, in fact, that he stopped ground pounding and started tanking, and had put millions of SP into it.

This got me thinking. How many players are self-hating tankers?

Most of those tanks weren't there in 1.6, and they must have come from somewhere. Are they infantry trapped in tankers' bodies? Players who would sooner feel the adrenalin rush of assaulting a well-defended point, but who've been forced into a playstyle they detest by the insane logic of CCP's Godmode lottery?

Honestly if what he said were true you would think he would be using Rail gun turrets to destroy other tanks.


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Ryme Intrinseca Villore Sec Ops Gallente Federation 563	Posted - 2014.02.04 23:03:00 - [1] - Quote Yesterday I sent my first hatemail in 6 months or so. I'd been killed by the same blaster tanker twice, and had just had enough of cheap deaths to the invincible tanks rolling around padding their stats. So I sent some really mediocre hatemail, something like 'no skill tank scrub', expecting either nothing in return or a few insults. I did receive insults, but also something interesting. The tanker told me that he too was an infantryman at heart, and that he too was sick of getting farmed by OP tanks. So sick, in fact, that he stopped ground pounding and started tanking, and had put millions of SP into it. This got me thinking. How many players are self-hating tankers? Most of those tanks weren't there in 1.6, and they must have come from somewhere. Are they infantry trapped in tankers' bodies? Players who would sooner feel the adrenalin rush of assaulting a well-defended point, but who've been forced into a playstyle they detest by the insane logic of CCP's Godmode lottery?
Ryme Intrinseca Villore Sec Ops Gallente Federation 563	Posted - 2014.02.04 23:20:00 - [2] - Quote GRIM GEAR wrote: Ryme Intrinseca wrote: Yesterday I sent my first hatemail in 6 months or so. I'd been killed by the same blaster tanker twice, and had just had enough of cheap deaths to the invincible tanks rolling around padding their stats. So I sent some really mediocre hatemail, something like 'no skill tank scrub', expecting either nothing in return or a few insults. I did receive insults, but also something interesting. The tanker told me that he too was an infantryman at heart, and that he too was sick of getting farmed by OP tanks. So sick, in fact, that he stopped ground pounding and started tanking, and had put millions of SP into it. This got me thinking. How many players are self-hating tankers? Most of those tanks weren't there in 1.6, and they must have come from somewhere. Are they infantry trapped in tankers' bodies? Players who would sooner feel the adrenalin rush of assaulting a well-defended point, but who've been forced into a playstyle they detest by the insane logic of CCP's Godmode lottery? Honestly if what he said were true you would think he would be using Rail gun turrets to destroy other tanks. Yeah, I thought that. Maybe militia rail gun tanks are like a gateway drug? They kill enemy tanks but then notice they can kill infantry risk-free. So why not do that, but more efficiently? Before they know it they're hooked on the hard stuff, CRU camping in a blaster tank like a boss. The stats go up, but inside they're dying.