I just came out of a Domination with 2 Blaster Maddies, alternating constantly with each other, like clockwork. We had 3-5 swarmers who could not take one tank down in a go, before the other came back 100% healed and the other simply hardened, backed at full speed, maybe even injected speed, while killing one or two of us in every attack. Effective, yes, silly, yes.

I would be ok if the tank needed to turn and expose his weaker armor, or if the backwards speed was a little slower, or that you can't switch from top speed to top speed back, instantly.

I just came out of a Domination with 2 Blaster Maddies, alternating constantly with each other, like clockwork. We had 3-5 swarmers who could not take one tank down in a go, before the other came back 100% healed and the other simply hardened, backed at full speed, maybe even injected speed, while killing one or two of us in every attack. Effective, yes, silly, yes.

I would be ok if the tank needed to turn and expose his weaker armor, or if the backwards speed was a little slower, or that you can't switch from top speed to top speed back, instantly.

My spider senses are detecting that if they wern't blaster tanks you would have no problem with not killing them. -_-

I just came out of a Domination with 2 Blaster Maddies, alternating constantly with each other, like clockwork. We had 3-5 swarmers who could not take one tank down in a go, before the other came back 100% healed and the other simply hardened, backed at full speed, maybe even injected speed, while killing one or two of us in every attack. Effective, yes, silly, yes.

I would be ok if the tank needed to turn and expose his weaker armor, or if the backwards speed was a little slower, or that you can't switch from top speed to top speed back, instantly.

I just came out of a Domination with 2 Blaster Maddies, alternating constantly with each other, like clockwork. We had 3-5 swarmers who could not take one tank down in a go, before the other came back 100% healed and the other simply hardened, backed at full speed, maybe even injected speed, while killing one or two of us in every attack. Effective, yes, silly, yes.

I would be ok if the tank needed to turn and expose his weaker armor, or if the backwards speed was a little slower, or that you can't switch from top speed to top speed back, instantly.

I just came out of a Domination with 2 Blaster Maddies, alternating constantly with each other, like clockwork. We had 3-5 swarmers who could not take one tank down in a go, before the other came back 100% healed and the other simply hardened, backed at full speed, maybe even injected speed, while killing one or two of us in every attack. Effective, yes, silly, yes.

I would be ok if the tank needed to turn and expose his weaker armor, or if the backwards speed was a little slower, or that you can't switch from top speed to top speed back, instantly.

What's upsetting is that this is a problem with drop suits yet nothing is said about it

If there's one thing I want in my Sci-Fi game, it's rock solid realism.

"" Indeed. Seriously, it's a problem all around.

I just came out of a Domination with 2 Blaster Maddies, alternating constantly with each other, like clockwork. We had 3-5 swarmers who could not take one tank down in a go, before the other came back 100% healed and the other simply hardened, backed at full speed, maybe even injected speed, while killing one or two of us in every attack. Effective, yes, silly, yes.

I would be ok if the tank needed to turn and expose his weaker armor, or if the backwards speed was a little slower, or that you can't switch from top speed to top speed back, instantly.

So blasters & armour rep would appear to be the problem... If vehicles didn't have armour rep you'd actually have to go back to a supply depo instead of just backing off for a few seconds... The Madruga is already worse than the Gunlogi with turn speed, now you want to nerf the reverse speed of all tanks because a few swarmers didn't think to move to a better location?

This would also nullify my comments on why tanks are fine vs dropships as reversing is infact the only real way to stop a tank getting boned by a dropship... Any 'turning' to evade them is just a delay in your death... So this will lead to another vehicle nerf and then another until LAV's are best vehicle in the game, which will then get nerfed.

My point being, you should think about fixing the right problem to avoid making more problems.

Edit- I'm also forgetting you're thinking about buffing shield tanks hp? so not only will it handle better, it will also out tank the armour based tanks... Seems like a terrible idea.

But I like the logic of buffing shield tanks.

Blaster maddy (which is meant to be anti shield) is already outperformed by rail gunnlogi (which is meant to be a long distance anti armor) at close range, mid range and long range.
Blaster maddy has only one thing that it can use as an advantage against this rail gunny: "strafing", which is going to be removed, rightfully so.
Also tank battles only last a few seconds already anyway so it's good to be killed before you can even get moving if you are not moving already.
I mean, vehicle vs vehicle battles are already insanely dull, pointless and boring, require no strategy, no thinking, no teamwork, no coordination.

It's all about the first shot as long as both of you are using rails, if you are in armor tank and your opponent happens to use missiles then you are destroyed before you know what hit you and if you use blaster you can only beat that missile tank and only if you happen to be using gunnlogi.
This of course assumes equal piloting skills.

Maddies already can't fit anything, especially if you want gunners, so justice will be served in the form that shield tanking will now be even more the king of tank fights, armor had it for way too long before 1.7.

I'm really happy that CCP is killing off vehicles because let's be honest, they deserved to die ever since the first day of 1.7.

I'm willing to fight for vehicles again if CCP ever reverts vehicles and AV back to pre-1.7 state. And then do tweaks and fixes from there. But we all know that wont happen.

Also tank battles only last a few seconds already anyway so it's good to be killed before you can even get moving if you are not moving already.
I mean, vehicle vs vehicle battles are already insanely dull, pointless and boring, require no strategy, no thinking, no teamwork, no coordination.

That's true for the most part, but I've had several fun and (somewhat) long tank battles, mostly involving Delboy... Shield Missile tank vs shield missile tank is probably the most entertaining thing in the game right now (providing both people are able to aim and maneuver...
Sure most tank battles are just "oh look tank in the distance, camp out and wait for it to come into range of mah rails!! PEW PEW" or "Missiles pointed at that guys arse while he farms infantry, Bluuurrrrrrghh, dead!"

As it stands though I bring out armour tanks to combat rails, because it seems to do less damage than it does to shields, while blasters also bone shields... Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems to work.

The changes I'd make to tanks, would be stopping the turrets turning while the tank is turning, to make positioning count more than pirouetting to keep someone permanently in view of your blatantly stronger turret.

Also make small blasters the 'go to' turret for defending against infantry, currently the worse all round turret even after buffs.

I just came out of a Domination with 2 Blaster Maddies, alternating constantly with each other, like clockwork. We had 3-5 swarmers who could not take one tank down in a go, before the other came back 100% healed and the other simply hardened, backed at full speed, maybe even injected speed, while killing one or two of us in every attack. Effective, yes, silly, yes.

I would be ok if the tank needed to turn and expose his weaker armor, or if the backwards speed was a little slower, or that you can't switch from top speed to top speed back, instantly.

If there's one thing I want in my Sci-Fi game, it's rock solid realism.