Garrett Blacknova
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Posted - 2014.04.19 07:31:00 -
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The problem here isn't tanks so much as coordinated squads.
There's also a problem specifically with Blaster turrets - they need a more defined role.
There have been 2 common claims for the role that Blasters fill on tanks:
1. They're the CQC turret, they're meant to out-perform everything at range. FINE, CUT THEIR RANGE BY 50 - 75%
2. They're the anti-infantry turret, they're meant to slaughter troops. FINE, GIVE THEM 50% EFFICIENCY AGAINST VEHICLES.
If Blasters worked like the first suggestion, only players with coordinated squads would run tanks with Large Blaster turrets, because they'd need support from AV or a non-Blaster tank to survive against enemy armour. If they were like the second, they would become more skill-based because you'd have to get through the gauntlet of enemy fire before you could fight back.
Also, a handful of 20+/0 screenshots doesn't prove tanks are OP in Ambush, because you can do the same for Scouts, Logis and Heavies if you have good teamwork and a random squadless pub group as the enemy. |
Garrett Blacknova
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Posted - 2014.04.20 08:03:00 -
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Nevyn Vherson wrote:It's not a 'handful' of 20/0 screenshots. That's pretty much 95% of ambush games. Occasionally you will get equivalent tanks on both sides that cancel each other out. But that's the exception.
I've frequently seen Ambush matches where both teams have brought tanks and both teams have lost at least one tank each, and also matches where neither side brought tanks, or where one side brought tanks but AV took them down, as well as some where only one tank was brought in, and it survived, but the pilot got less than 10 kills.
I've seen planety of Ambush matches where a well-placed Sniper went 20+/0, and I've seen Heavies and Scouts (both cloaked and not) do the same.
I've gone 18/0 in an uncloaked SMG Scout that I was planning to use for planting a few Uplinks then suicide charging the enemy team to swap suits, but I ended up just running around killing people with my SMG and never getting around to dying. I could have got more kills if I hadn't decided to shift to a defensive role and pulled out my Repair Tool about halfway through the match. |