The whole "I cost more ISK" argument is BS. You spent your ISK becomming a massive, very nasty target. Now sure, public games you'll lose tanks. Because you'll drive around like an arse looking for kills. Archon is the only tanker I have never seen leave his redline. I've also seen 4447 with forge. So tbh, that scrub tanker should gtfo.

Here's the REAL problem. Minimum forge setup is 36k. You'll die to any good infantry, you'll still die to tanks, and snipers truly love shooting fat people. Sure I have 900hp. But that's still less than a second for any large turret to kill me.
How many forge gunners survive a game? Especially with good stuff. A top end forgegunner can easily cost 500k ISK. They'll still get 1 shot by missiles, and owned by snipers / infantry.

Tanks pay for immunity to all weapons except AV nades, swarms and forges. Everyone realises that AV is a suicide role. Tanks are quite the opposite, but their overall damage output in excessive.

Tanks OP

My god so many ppl talking out of ther arses today

The majority of you dont drive a tank and barely skill up AV past level 2 if you can be arsed and let be honest here you all want to be able to solo that 2mil sagris which required 4.5+ SP to fully fit it up with an AV fir of less than 30k ISH and 200k SP, some of you are that ******* stupid that you would prob want an assault rifle to put it into half shield with a clip

The only viable tank that is left is shield and missiles because the community cried that ******* much CCP made it so

https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=43920&p=1 have a read its true its all that is left shield and missiles because its so unbalanced atm yet the majority want them nerfed to they are no longer used and eventually turn this game into infantry only

The game at it's basic is a FPS not a vehicle game, Am i right?

whats ur point? BF3 is a FPS with heavy vehicles, Starhawk as well
The point is ppl wanna solo **** and dont wanna use teamwork
wanna know why even when im using **** armor tanks and blasters/rails my tank is hard for publords to take out?

bcause
1. im not ********
2. I actually have infantry support

Small and large missiles are the ONLY problem with vehicles atm

and English i disagree Blasters and Rails are still pretty good

i disagree Blasters and Rails are still pretty good

At the end of the day 16 vs 16 can't have tanks that are nearly immortal on the field. Now i'm not saying make tanks easy to kill on your own, but at least give me a try maybe 4 shots with a forge?

This is what's really the problem.

If you have a full squad of people using standard swarms,you aren't going to be able to take out a tank with good shield reps.

So taking that into account,1/4 of your whole team is basically sitting ducks with swarm launchers,while the enemy just sweeps in on foot to take those guys out.

I think that the vehicle combat really doesn't work either with smaller team sizes.It takes away too much of a percentage of your team to actually kill tanks and dropships.

Bolded part is ur problem sir.
why are u using swarms (standard to boot) on a SHIELD TANK? get some forge guns

Bolded part is ur problem sir.
why are u using swarms (standard to boot) on a SHIELD TANK? get some forge guns

Oh,I totally agree,but when there's no other option and that's all you have...

Point is,three for guys with the weakest swarm launchers should have no problem taking down any tank.

So you want 3ppl with militia swarms which are the weakest by the way to be able to take down a Sagris which is a 2mil tank fully fitted and at least 4.5mil SP invested into it

Have i got that right? if so then no you are the worst kind of player why dont you ask for assault rifle to be able to kill a tank because its basically the same thing

You want players with no skills invested at all to take out the top tank in the game, this is the road we are going down atm and tanks are already weak as it is and you want it easier because soloing a tank on your own isnt enough you want to do it with militia stuff

Milita swarms should scratch the paintwork tbh and yes it should take well more than 3ppl tbh and fair few volleys, its basic AV which is free

But it's 3 people using teamwork? Isn't that what you want?

Its teamwork, but with milita swarms

Barely a step up from the guy who wants to solo a tank by himself with basic AV stuff

I'm not soloing a tank with basic tho, Get it right, Redline huger.

So what you're saying is, that if you had a Swarm Launcher guy backing you up, the tank would have been an easy target?

I don't see the problem...

No but you are still trying to solo, no teamwork needed because tanks are that weak now

because depleted uranium is extremely dense, and the radiation that would come off of it would kill you, and even if yu could shoot them it would be out of a tank gun, for the reason that none is crazy enough to shoot uranium out of an assault rifle/ AV weapon

All the people who say you should use teamwork, What i say to you is STFU.
Tanks snipe across the map, This isn't like a forge when you snipe and may take 2,3,4,5 shots to kill a tango across the map, it's one shot with a tank.

But you should use team work? Teamwork ok so, how do you kill a tank when the maps are designed to corridor me down ever path i take, and my team mates take?

Then get up high? how can i get up high, when my forge only works so far, and the tanks range is infinite?

At the end of the day 16 vs 16 can't have tanks that are nearly immortal on the field. Now i'm not saying make tanks easy to kill on your own, but at least give me a try maybe 4 shots with a forge?

CCP at least maybe take tanks and drop ships out of the game for maybe a week, let me enjoy the game?

The problem with getting killed by a tank in DUST 514, isn't that i've been killed by someone, it's that the person i've got killed by hasn't any skill.