When I first heard that you could spec into tanking that the first thing I wanted to do in DUST. Then I found out that they just steamed rolled every one and to me that so fun, but now with the AV buff and such the tanks are more balanced and need a little more skill to handle them, like actually needing infantry support.

Thank You DUST devs.

This is just an experiment. But I like the changes so far. Rambo tank is rarely happening now.

in my feeling they just testing stuff out. Like going for extremes. Last time it was worthless Av weapons vs insane strong tanks and now we have insane strong AV weapons against very weak vehicles. In my opinion the whiners on this forum are not the reason for this. More like if the devs want to force us to play in a certain way.

I hope you enjoy spending lots of time in militia gear since your SP and ISK needs to be saved up for that tank that will die in 4 swarms or less.

I hope you enjoy spending lots of time in militia gear since your SP and ISK needs to be saved up for that tank that will die in 4 swarms or less.

Vehicles are ok, it still takes me about 4 shots from my assault forge gun to get through shields. But then a again if the tank sits there for that long and lets and lets me unload the whole clip that's a bad tank driver.

Again bad tank driving, I wont be sitting there waiting for all 4 swarms or less

Lol, any brain dead person could get 4 swarms into a tank solo before you could get cover, unless you are hiding behind the redline doing nothing.

When I first heard that you could spec into tanking that the first thing I wanted to do in DUST. Then I found out that they just steamed rolled every one and to me that so fun, but now with the AV buff and such the tanks are more balanced and need a little more skill to handle them, like actually needing infantry support.

Thank You DUST devs.

Between the tanks ridiculous speed, and the fact that a tank has 3 guys in it with OHK weapons, how exactly are you supposed to get 4 swarms to hit a tank solo without being shot or evaded? The guys in the tank would have to be brain dead to let one guy get 4 swarms off without OHKing him.

OTOH, if 4 AV guys can all fire simultaneously on the tank, isn't that the exact sort of teamwork that SHOULD take a tank down?

Sure, I've dropped the occasional tank with my proto level swarm launcher, but it was due to a mixture of tank driver error and my own experience with the AV role. Any halfway decent tank crew will NEVER get beat by a single AV user, neither before the nerf or currently. It's currently still 1 guy needing to hit 4 shots vs 3 guys needing to hit 1 shot between the 3 of them. If the AV guy wins that battle, you deserve to lose your tank as far as I'm concerned.