So killing tanks should be a challenge, but using a tank effectively shouldn't have to be?

Tankers were telling everybody else to use teamwork to take out tanks, yet when the tides are turned and they get a taste of their own medicine, they think it is unfair or unjustified? Sorry, but if I have to use teamwork to do well as a ground troop, then tankers should too.

Well i tried out my tanks after the fix and they are all crap. Die way to quickly. But meh i can go 20-0 with a assault type 2 suit and a assault rifle. Cant wait till n00bs will cry about the type 2 suits to be nerfed or even be removed. Well good players will allways go with the stuff that works out the best. Before it where tanks now we will see a increase of people with type 2 suits (heavys and assault) cause they are the best avaible. advanced or proto suits are crap cause you only get a additional module slot while you still keep shields/armor like a type 1 suit.

Even if a tank is using teamwork you can kill it from across the map with swarms and forge guns, out of range of your infantry support. The ONLY defense a tank has against that is shelling the area it came from, using the splash to remove the threat, but they took that away. Even after the AV nerf and before the tank one it was easy to kill tanks, you just had to lure them into ambushes.

Sadly, CCP listened to the wtfsolopwndropsuit crowd.

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Personally I think that players should not be asked to buy a mic to get the best out of a F2P; in a FPS MMO on PS3 we should have had tools to communicate in ways that are intuitive, quick and appropriate to the limitation of the standard controls we have.

if you are getting killed from across the map by a forge gun then either a) you were really weak already and he got a lucky hit, b) you are doing something wrong (no offense). i am mainly a forge user, only thing im specd for. Hitting a tank across a map with a forge is a total crap shoot. Cant zoom in at all, plus screen shakes ridiculously (should be a skill to decrease this a little), so even if you are 'aiming' at the tank there is no guarentee you are going to hit it. I have hit tanks at a good distance, but usually its about a 1 in 3 hit ratio. Then add in if the tank is moving and it becomes impossible.

Def do agree with you about it being easy to take out tanks before the buff/nerf, just needed teamwork (lol that teamwork word again). Me and a 2 corp mates took out a surya, sagaris, and unlucky sica, all within a few seconds of each other. Bated them in to our 2 standard tanks, with me on the other side of the road with my forge.

The way they should have updated tanks imo is to have just nerfed the tanks, then see what they get from that. The splash damage removed from the railgun i still dont understand, made it slower and took away splash damage.

The sniping forgegun is usually on more open maps like the one with the 5 control points. Its also pretty hard to tell where the forgegunner is much of the time. I agree with the rest though, ambushing tanks was fun because it was challenging. The overnerf on the railgun reminds me of the overnerf on the HMG. :( Less explosions = less fun .

See this is the smug **** I am talking about. Tankers NEVER came in here and rubbed the AV nerf in your face. All we ever told you to do was to try to work together and ambush tanks, which DID work. Now we got solo swarmin' BS. They dont even require a lockon, just spawn behind the tank, spam missiles at close range, win. Thats an I win button more than any of the tanks ever were. Atleast with the railgunnlogi I have to track you to hit you, which does take skill. A majority of the kills I had with it were ******** snipers or heavies standing still.

guess ive never tried to snipe on the open map. still wouldnt leaves heavy as sniper prey.
wont say how ive been usin my forge for tank battles, but i like to try and find a good ambush site where the tank might stop for a little. since it takes a bit to get goin again i can always get in that extra shot.

hmg nerf...to many ppl tryin to run straight at a heavy...NERF THIS THING

Same thing with the tank. I've processed a ton of assualt dropsuits who run at the tank firing an assault riffle, saying "Here I am!!!!!!" Back the tank up, drop a rail at their feet. Then they come here and complain.

I'm not one of you Tanker Gods or anything, but would you mind if I joined this channel while I continue to experiment on the new tank changes?