Out of curiosity what vehicle or suit were you using when you were killed by the tank?
For vehicles it is important to either stay away from their redline point when the rest of the map is controlled or have a friendly rail or forge engage him.
Rail tankers didn't like the fact that they got their range reduced even though it was a justifiedroblem. Needing it more would be unnecessary.

if they nerfed the rail more there would be no way to shoot down assault dropships. if you are getting killed by redline rail tanks it might mean you are to close to the redline.

lol. The guy who sent me hatemail on my alt for killing them 5 times in a match with a railgun.

Because from one end of most maps to the other is usually between 600/1500 meters. Railguns are meant to engage their targets from range. Just be happy railguns no longer have 600 meter range like they did.

Read the Bravo changes. And why are you engaging a redline tank? Is it affecting game play? Seems to me it is just another player not impacting the game results. Or do you want the kill, and get frustrated? Cause that happens to me, too. Then again, I am sometimes in the redline. Checking my best approach. Or when I am severely outnumbered.

once rail guns recive their over due reduction to base damage and re-fire rate reduction they will be effectively balanced. they will

have the range to kill dropships as well as the damage.

railguns will have to think twice about moveing to point blank ranges.

damage mods will suffer from stacking penalty and are having damge value % reduced.

1. Damage mods are the problem, not the actual rail guns. A basic Sica with two damage mods and a militia rail gun can pop most anything if you get in the first shot. Either reduce the damage bonus/disable stacking mods or have a direct link between damage mods and reduced rate-of-fire (i.e. damage mod that increases damage by 30% results in a 30% slower RoF.)

2. Now that I'm actually messing around with tanks, I wouldn't be so quick to label rail gunners in the redline as "campers." If I bring in a rail tank it's due to the fact that I've either seen an enemy tank on the field or in the killfeed; obviously, the safest place to call it in is your redline. HOWEVER, that doesn't mean I'm just hanging back there to snipe at the enemy--I'm actually using the map (leaving me defenseless) to try and locate where the enemy tank is so that I can try and get the drop on him/her.

3. Railguns need MORE range, not LESS! I would gladly give up damage/rate of fire in return for the ability to actually destroy dropships that can now run unimpeded throughout the skies.

I've advocated for drop-off damage at a rate of 1% for every 10 meters your shot goes; a railgun hitting a target at 500 meters would lose 50% of damage. If damage mods were reworked/replaced/removed, this could make railguns more of a defensive harassment weapon meant to keep enemy tanks at bay, while still making them dangerous in close-range combat.