Vehicles are getting native armor reps like infantry, so repair tools are no longer needed.

Additionally if you want to be supportive of your team as a vehicle pilot by spawning players, should you not be using a mCRU that's on your vehicle?

I'd take it as is, with nothing on it... The bonus being that you can actually use the vehicles...

But if we want to be fair, it should have a non-replaceable rep-tool, for tankers who can't rep or recall because low hp and no accessible supply depos.


On a separate thought, leaving out the LAV is a bad idea, as those are stolen more than anything and have the highest rate of excreting HMGs.

Which is why, instead of pilot suits being light frame and not for LAV's. I suggest a heavy frame (faat and slow, harder to run away if you escape the explosion) with the rep-tool, side arm combo. Stops the LAV driver from being insta-gibbed, while also allowing us to balance the hp of solo fat suit LAV gunners, such as myself.

I do think the suit should have bonuses, but it would be nice if there was bonuses that would not directly effect combat balance. Like Ammo capacity, or something that would benefit but not have a direct impact on short term combat.

I just don't see the need to make pilot suits *required* to pilot a vehicle. Pilot suits should provide enough of a benefit that a pilot is going to be at a disadvantage if they're not using the suit, but they're still not required to.

It just feels like poor design when you have to impose arbitrary limitations (or exceptions) such as "Oh well this is always true, except LAVs, because reasons."

Well some will insist I don't, but I assure you that I do.

For one, HAVs are gaining 2 additional slots, LAVs will likely receive a similar pass, so fitting is a little more flexible now. Not to mention I don't really consider HAVs as a platform that should really be a spawn point anyways, but since we lack proper MAVs I suppose I can't complain.

Additionally I don't have an issue with non-pilot suits hopping out and dropping uplinks. What I do have an issue with is a pilot suit gaining bonuses for piloting, but still maintaining that capability. The Pilot suit should be specialized completely around being inside a vehicle at all time. It should serve zero purpose whatsoever outside of a vehicle, even if its just to hop out for a second.

Bonuses for mCRUs and the sort? Awesome. But hopping out to drop uplinks? No, that's not the Pilot suits role. If you want to maintain the ability to use equipment but drop the bonuses that the pilot suit would offer, that's your call. But dropping uplinks is not an integral part of piloting the vehicle, even if you use the vehicle to drop uplinks.

I agree. Pilot suits should add a bonus to vehicle use. Be it Turret Rotation speed for Tanks, or...whatever, for Dropships (couldn't think of one for DS, apologies)
But it shouldn't be basic suits that "only" allow you to drive a vehicle. Which I don't think anyone here wants, nor is it likely that that's what'll happen. Every suit type out there get's certain bonuses, so why should Pilot suits be any different? I don't know for sure, but I highly doubt that Pilot suits would NOT get any bonuses.

LOL

What an elitist Vehicle bullcrap...

If AV can't kill vehicles, it has no use. If (shield) vehicles play it smart, they can survive even a Proto Swarm on a Minmando with two complex damage mods. That swarms anihilate armor is only a problem of not enough anti shield AV, since that would make it possible to tone down the SL damage a bit. Right now, I wouldn't mind if Armor hardeners would be buffed a little, to give the Armor tanks the possibillity to escape more often.

If infantry has no possibility to fight of vehicles with ease, we'll have Tank514 back again, and since only a small part of the player base is vehicle focused, that would be a bad idea.