This is strange considering how tankers used to farm infantry in the past, now they beg for mercy *insert evil laughter here*

I just like pointing out ironies with a bit of cynicism.

I don't care what I've died to or how many times I have died to it. I dust my shoulders off and go at again. Michael Arck is far from a crybaby.

The post was not aimed to be passive aggressive at all.

I call bullshit.
I am a bit skeptical, no, let'smake that very skeptical about your claim of only dying 3 times to tanks, ever. Did you ever play Ambush against Nyain San or Duna in 1.7? And if you have to abandon the objective so tanks don't kill you, then are you just abandoning the objective?

I might feel compassion for vehicals if my calogi was immune to all but a couple weapons, or if I could hit my mod and ignore 40% of all incoming damage for long enuf to get a couple more kills then run away laughing, re's kill everyone don't cry jihad jeeps, installations kill everyone, you can even just run infantry over. Good pilots scoff at swarms.

*points to Domination and Skirmish gamemodes*

See I love how you generalize the Team Deathmatch mode gameplay into "Call of Duty mode". Battlefield 3 has Team Deathmatch and most of the maps are small and have non-existent vehicles (of course, this may not be the case, but from what I remember, they don't). You will only find vehicles in large maps and game modes such as Rush (Dust equivalent: Skirmish 1.0) or Conquest (Dust equivalent: Skirmish). I can't speak for the other Battlefield games so I'll let Battlefield vets back me up or correct me on this.

Other first person shooters I've played were Unreal Tournament and Tribes. Unreal Tournament had great Team Deathmatch gameplay and lightning fast duels. However, it never had vehicles. Tribes on the other hand, had great gameplay (I'm proud to be a vet and wish I still owned copies; got lost due to hard drive failures and computer upgrades). I think they might have had Team Deathmatch, but again, didn't have a way to call in your vehicles (needed a vehicle pad). Objective based gameplay, the biggest in Tribes was CTF, had vehicle pads, generators, and a host of things to do to try and take their flag.

Oh and let's not forget about other games like Quake or Doom, one which I didn't play and the other I only played a demo respectively.

Compare to something I remember in Call of Duty: Black Ops 1. I remember seeing a theater clip of someone going something like 54-3. He got his killstreak, hid behind something and called it out. I then remember his team and specific places that they didn't move from as he would then proceed to get kill after kill as the enemy spawned. His team had spawn trapped the enemy and, having his team using specific positions, meta-gamed the computer into thinking the enemy could only be spawned in a certain small area.

Compare it to a match I had a while back in Dust in Ambush OMS. We deploy close to the enemy, they call in a tank, infantry quickly scan, flank and crush our team. I manage to get a single kill before I die. As my team gets wiped out, we have no uplinks and we spawn looking down the barrel of a tank, HMG, shotgun, or some assault rifle. I lead the team in deaths using my starter fits (so nothing of worth was lost; no, I don't care about KDR), and get my free 100,000 ISK for essentially being a pinata.

(wow. didn't expect to write all this)

Anyways, you argue "Call of Duty mode" is when we remove vehicles from Ambush. My point is that "Call of Duty mode" is what we already have in our Team Deathmatch variant. Removing vehicles from Ambush would put the game mode on par with games like Quake, Doom, Unreal Tournament, Tribes, and Battlefield.

*nods* You and I are of the same mind then pretty much. I'm torn because it does limit tankers (and let's say I want to tank someday and take my fit for a test spin, I can't because Ambush is limited), but on the other hand, with the current implementation of Ambush and design changes being limited (no client-side updates anymore), I can't help but feel that the "best" course of action is to limit vehicles in Ambush. It's not the best decision however, but more of "the lesser of two evils" option.

But now we've hijacked this thread of tangented off too Tangent Land. My view on the topic:

Acceleration of swarms isn't going to make your tank blow up now. They will just hit their max speed sooner. I'll have to ask Judge what the actual stats are but all it means is that it will hit your tank sooner.

Well, I don't know. As a 'Dren' Swarm Launcher... weaponeer?, I see a change happening to Swarms but I don't consider it strictly a buff. We'll see.

Like the bright flashes that hit your ship and your not sure where it came from? As a poorly skilled ADS and a regular DS pilots, I think that's what annoys me the most. Like in one of the recent videos Judge put up, you can't kill what you can't see/know about.

Why?
Anything else you want to exclude from the discussion?

Guess what, if you are in a tank you don't give up any of that because you are wearing a dropsuit and you can pop in and out of your tank. If your tank takes too much damage or you are just getting owned by AV you can pop out and kill them, taking damage in your dropsuit and you just pop back into your tank.

My proto Logi suit is costing more than what some of these pilots are flying, has way more SP investments, while being the easiest thing to kill in the game outside of scouts without cloaks. Don't give me that sacrifice bullshit, you are always outrunning what is suppose to be your secondary counter in the game, and have a high chance to flee from your only counter when in danger.

I don't want ships to be nerfed to the ground, but their has to be balance here.

Logistics: 25Mil SP
HAV: 22Mil SP

BUSTED, AGAIN!

Through terrain? I'm sorry but I've still yet to see that in all my time Swarm Launching/ADSing.
If they appear like they are going through terrain it's most likely a server discrepancy, my swarms will some times randomly explode on terrain that isn't their.

As for invisble, I'd love to see the last of thdm too. But they won't magically improve their tracking.

Pilot gets out of tank/ dropship... Nullifying 90% of yo tears. Immense infantry killing power lol.

Logistics
1 light weapon maxed, Armour Maxed, Shields Maxed, Electronics + Engineering, Hives, Rep Tools, Injectors, Scanners
Not Included: Biotic Upgrades, Scanning Upgrades, Explosives, Sidearm, Cloak Field, Systems Hacking, Weapon Damage Modifiers

HAV
1 Large Turret maxed, ALL Vehicle Upgrades Maxed, Hull Maxed
Not Included: Small Turret

What exactly from the Logistics List is Non essential?

This is the same disingenuous bs pilots always trot out. "This is all *I* see that is needed for a role, therefore your argument about the costs of your fits vs. The costs of my fits are invalid." I have 4 infantry alts and I'm just saying what I've experienced with them, I'm just saying that to max out what is absolutely needed takes more SP for vehicleers than it takes for infantry. And for infantry almost every skill they have to put points into give some sort of bonuses, where as for vehicles most of the absolutely needed skills only unlock stuff and that's it. You can invest alot more heavily into infantry just because they have more "extra" skills than vehicles do. By extra skills I mean skills that are not needed to max out your fit but are still great and helpful to have.

For every goddamn skill a tank driver dumps points into there is a skill equivalency for infantry that is needed for equal viability. Not exactly, infantry gets the same or equivalent bonuses and more with less SP investment. We have to skill into SP sinks first, skills that do absolutely nothing other than unlocking the next thing to get the simple bonuses that infantry get early on. And after that infantry can go ahead and spend even more SP for even more bonuses, because vehicles don't have any skills that are equivalent to those extra bonuses.
And if you want to talk about equality, then keep in mind that you should not go past STD dropsuits as infantry, because HAV pilots get no ADV or PRO hulls.

This argument is no different than a dipwad saying its unfair that an AVer only needs to spend the SP to get an adv. Swarm to fight his dropship. I have no idea what this is about...

25 mil SP tank may not be done with his SP dump, but its enough to have at least one fitting sufficiently fixed and rigged up. Kinda how I have at least 25 milion SP punched into skills directly relevant to killing and surviving vehicles and their infantry escorts. You are right, but vehicles are much more rock-paper-scissors than infantry is, you can pretty much kill any infantry with any infantry weapon, it's just easier or harder depending on what you and your enemy are using. When it comes to vehicles, some fits are made to completely counter other fits, so if I only have one kind of fit, I might be completely negated from the battle unless I have something that can counter that counter. Infantry has nothing that makes something else completely obsolete.

Seriously most of you die because you are pushed out away from your blue dots. Seriously, I mostly die if I try to stick with blueberries because they will completely ignore the enemy AV and just walk away from me. For vehicles movement = life and immobility = death.

Tanks alone means 200 WP for me. For me they mean 300 WP + 50WP for every guy inside the tank, I dunno what game you are playing.

No matter how much I love flying my ADS. I've always felt that it keeps messing with AV vs Vehicles balance.
In my opinioned they should have stayed out from the game when 1.7 arrived.

Tanks only give 150 wp + 50 per person. 200 assumes tank + driver.

If youre getting 300 for the hull you aint playi g DUST.

Unless you are two shotting them. In which case two damaging hits would be another 150.


If you are two shotting all of them youre either a genius for hitting their weakspot every time without fail or you're killing incompetent tankers.

And the sp sinks are utter crap. I have a tank alt so you will never hear me argue in favor of that crap.I want chromo vehicles back. More choices, less useless sinks, marauders were a thing and they were hard to solo but not impossible.


Right now the fitting choices on HAVs are utter crap.

But dont ever use the SP invested in AV suits vs. Tanks with me. You may do so when my weapon for killing.tanks becomes efficient vs infantry, my suit ignores all but three weapons and I have 6000 HP plus.a hardener.