Everything kills infantry mate. That's rule of thumb when you are talking about weapons that fire shells 5-10x the size of your assault rifle......

H'mmmm fair suggestions.

I prefer nerfing and buffing hardeners at the same time.

Either

- Both to 40% will less duration.

or

- Both to 30 and remains the same.

AS for turrets I've been having a chat with Thaddeus Reynolds. His suggestions are that there are 3 kinds of turrets representing different kinds of ammunition in the same gun.

For example

200mm Titanium HE Shell - A standard kind of HEAT round with moderate AoE and fair direct damage Values.
200mm Quake AP Sabot - A High Explosive Armour Piercing round with the least splash and highest direct damage.
200mm Tremor Cannister - A High Explosive Fragmentation round with the highest splash and lowest direct damage.

The more I think about it the less we need tank main gun tiers. Especially since in an idealised model with single shot main battle cannon the SP benefits of better tracking, faster reloads, more ammo capacity, higher and lower elevations combined with the different ammo types is more that enough of a benefit over other tanks.

Here is a better question... Who are you to tell CCP what to do? I don't see other games out there like Dust 514. If you want Battlefield tanks in Dust. How about you go play Battlefield of what ever the hell you wanna play.

Large rails has turned into a hard mode sniper rifle a little AOE is due.

I wonder how many kills rail turrets AOE have caused after the first nerf to come to the decision of completely eliminating splash damage.
With the lack of mobility of large rails a little AOE is needed, more to destroy equipments than to kill infantry.
If CCP care about people camping nodes from safe spots, they should protect nodes with barrages like they did on manus peak map, not eliminate a vital feature of a turret.

I definitely agree on having some splash for eliminating equipment. How can equipment survive a hypersonic slug impacting the ground just millimeters away from it? If CCP is so concerned about splash damage wrecking infantry, at least give rails a 1 meter splash radius.

Indeed. And Large are for vehicles am I right?

Thus if changes are made like this the appropriate destructive force should be applied on the main gun of a tank. Thus AoE is somewhat necessary.