TYCHUS MAXWELL
Sebiestor Field Sappers
Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2014.03.23 21:20:00 -
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Alena Ventrallis wrote:Mainly to the infantry folks. Let's say we removed large blasters from the game. Hypothetical. Take them out completely. Only railguns and missiles are left.
Would y'all still have a problem with tanks? Or would their removal be enough that you wouldn't call for a nerf bat? My personal opinion is that most of the frustration comes from blasters wrecking infantry with little reprisals available, but I don't want to make assumptions.
This is to find out if it's tanks in general people are annoyed with, or the blaster tank. I know dropships have their things with railguns, but this is mainly directed to the infantry side of things.
Incoming copy paste:
It should be 1 to 1 if you are in a tank and the other guy is using an anti tank the footing should be relatively even.
Russian Tanks were getting wrecked by German children at the end of world war 2, we have portable weaponry that will wreck tanks in modern warfare let alone in a space age universe like eve.
I don't mind tanks taking team work to kill if they would quit being hypocrites and require teamwork to operate.
My Suggestion, make Large turrets pretty ineffective against infantry forcing the use of small turrets as anti infantry and here's how it can be done.
Large Missle Turret: Lower splash damage to 1 meter making near direct hits mandatory, that combined with a slow rotation it already has means it can direct hit other vehicles but be rough at taking out infantry.
Rail Turret: Lower splash to 1 meter as well making direct hits where it's useful for taking out vehicles.
Blaster Turrets: Give them a massive spread on their shots while upping their damage so that they can compete for damage on large targets like vehicles but again be fairly ineffective when trying to mow down infantry.
I'll call your av needs teamwork and raise you a tanks should require teamwork too.
I literally have a notepad doc saved as tank QQ for how often you guys completely ignore the hypocrisy and claim some bullshit realism that is in fact false. The only time tanks are deployed now is when the enemy can only throw spit wads. If Russia and the US went to war right now, tanks are going to be useless, they would only grow to be more obsolete in an era of Space Warfare, but in that respect this whole game is pointless just like EVE is using WW2 era naval tactics when warfare would have evolved far beyond such crude methods as blowing your opponents to pieces. You are in a hostile environment called space where your opponents are dependant on life support derp, you don't need to blow them apart conventionally.
So yeah, for myself at least, If blaster turrets were removed entirely I wouldn't mind if missle and rails and everything else was left the same, hell you can even keep your permahardeners as long as you aren't good vs. infantry like tanks are with a large blaster.
Edit: Keep in mind tanks will still be good at killing infantry if they get one or two guys on their small turrets, yes those do exist, and no they aren't useless, you're turret operators in the past have just been bad. |