What?

Missile Turret is best at destroying armor tanks.

Putting it on a crappy shield tank was your problem.

Missiles do not need a buff.

Also, what is wrong with you that you allowed the fight to happen at point blank range?

You have 6x the effective engagement range, and yet you decided to get in a brawl?

Money mainly but if you in FA i do it for free.... I mean my tanker alt can easily handle an armour tank. Using a basic tank.. You probably don't know how to fit one or even fight in a tank. Baby steps

No one cares about what your particle cannon says.

You whelp proto tanks to blaster maddies and cry on the forums afterwards.

Feel free to come at me with your rail tank, just don't bother with a shield tank, it won't help you.

One, you shiptoasted the title, its misleading. There is nothing wrong with missile turrets that doesn't extend to the rest of the game. They might benefit from a very slight splash buff to move them to a better middle ground between blasters and rails, but that is a very fine line to walk. I don't think they need it.

Second, your anecdote has nothing to do with balance problems. You were a muppet and lost a tank.

Third, the problem with shield tanks is unlikely to get really fixed, because without a model rework, the gun depression will always be broken. A simple buff isn't the solution, especially until the shield booster actually works. Fix the shield booster, give them a higher absolute speed than maddies, and then see how they sort out.

It isn't that you aren't allowed to post, but badposting gets mocked. Badposting about being a scrub in a tank fight needs to be mocked for the good of all.

The story doesn't matter, it was just you being bad. If you came out of that fight blaming the tank, you need to reevaluate your post fight thought process. You took a shield boosting missile tank into a brawl with a blaster tank. It was only going to end one way, the turret has nothing to do with it and you picked the wrong type of tank for going into a range fight.



XTs are amazing at killing tanks.

Stop confusing the turret with the tank. You can run missiles on an armor hull.

Does anyone have any guides for a shield/missile tank in the current meta. Is it even viable at all? Fits? Strategies? Engagement ranges?

XT's are nasty to face down in an armour HAV.... particularly if you yourself are employing a Blaster HAV. The issue I find with them is that they require you to make every shot count and if you do not or are facing an enemy with a canny sense for movement and positioning your fight becomes significantly harder.

I've recently seen a great deal many more Armour-Missile fits basically operating as "Bugspray for Armour Tanks". Just spray and walk away. I might alongside returning to Shield HAV pick up Missiles once more.

You blamed the vehicle and the turret when your tactics were deeply flawed.

If you had to brawl with the tank, you should have gone with an armor tank. Given the tank meta, no shield tank is hanging around up close with a blaster, so you taking one into that situation and expecting it to do anything other than die suggests you are bad.

Only a poor mechanic blames his tools.

In this case, you died only because of all the foolish decisions you made, from tank type, to fit, to where to engage with what you had on field.

You went down the decision tree of tanking and made the wrong choices the whole way and then blame the tank and turret. That is what a scrub does.

I've seen you tank, you are bad. When I see you next, you will eat missiles and see that they are very nasty to die to.

You being bad doesn't mean shield tanks don't suck hard, but really, missiles are fine.

I was thinking about how the Heavy Missile turret could be tweaked. What if it received a blast radius buff to something in neighborhood of a mass driver (4m - 4.4m) but got a large splash damage nerf maybe something like 50-60 splash damage? This would allow it to be more effective against infantry/equipment without completely wrecking them?