How is 30 seconds, or even 5 seconds as you aptly put it, neutralising a tank? No the tank continued to drive around and gun down blues left and right.

I will admit he obviously had a nice fit and he did somewhat try to avoid our fire, but he did nothing at all special. While at this same time, for me to even begin to damage the tank I had to dodge 5 other tanks, 3 up close gunning everyone down with blasters and 2 sniper tanks, while on top of that fighting through enemy infantry with only a sidearm / odd forge snipe.

My point is that currently tanks are too easily recovered after heavy engagements. Granted I am fine with not being able to kill every tank I see, even If I do have damage mods and officer forges out. However that fact that he is bearly slowed down, or just has to hide for 10 seconds behind cover to be back to full fighting strength is just absurd.

We all know it, the buff to passive armour reps was just too much. Any shield tank that dares stray into range does not have that same benefit as if he survived in a gunloggis say, its a lot longer before he returns.

So to recap, if the enemy has 6 good tankers, or even just a few good tanks with scrub tank support, it takes a lot more infantry on our side to deal with both the enemy tanks that slaughter any NON AV AND we still have to deal with the enemy infantry somehow.

I have been a tanker a long time and I too am guilty of running crazy rep tanks in the past but enough is enough. We need actual balance and good engaging gameplay. Not blaster turrets that hit hard at 120-200 meters out on tanks that go as fast as an LAV with the ability to recover full health in seconds.

Was in a match yesterday....

Many many enemy tanks in this Domination match we joined. I was in a squad with my corp so many of us pulled out AV of all types.

Suffice to say we killed a few tanks (What must have been militia or badly fit), yet some remained. Specifically sniper gunlogis and uber tanked Madrugars, speeding everywhere.

I pulled out an officer forge - (You know because I thought the reward would be worth the risk... HA) and one of my squad mates next to me pulled out his proto swarms.

All 6 of my Gastuns rounds hit the Madrugar, and at least 2 volleys of the proto swarms also hit during the engagement. The tank casually speed boosted away with a small amount of HP left. When he came back, about 30 seconds later.... fully healed, fully ready to **** on us all again.

My question is - Is it right that a STD level tank doesn't even have to be too afraid of a proto swarmer and OFFICER LEVEL FORGES?

The answer has got to be no...... You pull out any other officer weapon and its power is felt by the enemy straight away. Thales, Balac's etc....

I ended up using the proto breach forge as it seemed that while it did less DPS, the increased volley damage was way more effective than the Gastuns forge.

On a side note I also see that nothing is being done to the speed / acceleration of tanks.... the acceleration needs to be lower for sure.

Right now considering its an officer weapon , its GREAT vs infantry, the BEST really. However it needs more direct damage for it to really be a threat against vehicles as right now, the Breach or the Assault forge are both just as good if not better than the Gastuns in my humble opinion.

Our new tanker overlords say no. AV is fine, you are just bad at Dust.

You need moar teamwork and preferably to git gud and/or HTFU as well.

Pfft lol, one time myself and two proto forgers with 4-5 level proficiency in forge guns with Ishikone Assault and Gastun's forge guns couldn't even scare off a Madrugar because his passive armor regen and active armor regen were repairing faster than our damage output... Three excellent forge gunners couldn't even scare off a Madrugar... Until he ran out of his active armor regen obviously, but still that is a load of ****...

I dunno if it was our forge guns glitching, the tank glitching or if the guy found out how to overstack on repair mods, but three forgers hitting with every shot on a single tank and we couldn't get him to back off until his repair mods ran out of charge to stack with his heavy repair...

Proto forges -

Kallakiota - Medium charge time, 4 in a clip, can hold charge, lowest dmg out of proto forges.

Wyrikomi Breach forge - slowest charge time, 4 shots in clip, can hold charge, highest dmg per hit.

Ishukone assault forge - Fast (possibly fastest charge time?), 4 shots in clip, can NOT hold charge, 2nd highest damage out of proto forges.

Gastuns Forge - Fast / fastest charge time, 6 shots in clip, can hold charge, lowest / joint lowest damage.

Over all yes, the assault forge has better burst dps, the gastuns has a little better sustained dps with the 2 extra rounds in the magazine.

Right now considering its an officer weapon , its GREAT vs infantry, the BEST really. However it needs more direct damage for it to really be a threat against vehicles as right now, the Breach or the Assault forge are both just as good if not better than the Gastuns in my humble opinion.

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Nothing in the game can feasibly kill it except damage modded rail tanks with direct line of site.