The title says it all. This includes all suits that are in the heavy frame catergory. That means Sentinels, Commandos and the basic Heavy Frame. There are some issues with these kinds of suits being able to drive vehicles. here they are:

1) A heavy can be a formidable opponent both in and out their vehicle. all a heavy frame has to do is jump out of their vehicle right next to an AV player and mow them down with their Heavy Machine Gun.

2) Vehicles increase mobility. an LAV can get a heavy from one end of the battlefield to the other extremely fast. while this does not seem like a problem, look at problem one. i cannot even count the amount of times i have been killed by a heavy who just drives their LAV up to me, jumps out, fills my body that is occasionally wearing an expensive prototype suit with lead, and drives away. Heavy frames are supposed to be point defenders. not hit-and-runners. Even if i do manage to almost kill a sentinel/heavy frame when they jump out of their LAV, they just jump back in and drive away once their hp hits double-digits, making them impossible to kill. ruining the risk vs reward element of the game.

3) Their suits provide defense from getting shot out of vehicles (this is why i included commandos in the equation). this makes it so that they can camp in a LAV turret or fly in a dropship turret. in an LAV, if they hit low HP, they just swap seats and drive off. in a dropship, they are moving around so much that the few shots you may land on them will only scratch up shields, and thus, be recovered quickly.


doing this would not only stop heavy suits from doing what i mentioned above, but it would also help make sure that heavy suits do what they are meant to do: guard areas of the map. or flank enemy troops with the rest of the other troops on foot (yes, i mean you minmatar sentinels)