HECATONCHIRES COTTUS wrote:Everyone in this thread who is bitching about vehicles needs to get proto something whether it SWARMS or A FORGE or get some vehicle skills.....please cease the crying.Tanks cost 3.5 million ISK. Please ....you get pissed cuz your running around as a flesh bag and havent even spent a tenth of that......even if you rock all proto assault you wouldnt spend that.
1 side bitches about drop ships but the drop ships take out snipers and bombard tanks....Tanks remove turrets and are area denile weapons Im sorry its called ARMOR for for a reason.Go fuckin play ambush.
people are so 1 dimensional....and egotistical and can believe it when they die .I think whats more sad is there ok kickin the **** out of unorganized newbs while there in a squad of kick ass FPS players and have that crutch...go 25/30 and 0 alot of matches then ***** when they get owned by a tank....Im ok with it....to me its just karma biting me in the ass.Ill end up skilling vehicles at some point and SWARS and FORGE so it really doesnt matter at all.Ill be doing the same **** they are.Give me somthin to shoot for .Those same guys get out of the tank and they get owned there skills are in vehicles...if you want to hide in some Kidnegarten game mode go ahead.
EDIT:oh yeah 1 more thing you ***** about tanks but you dont ***** when someone on your team gets out a tank to kill all the LAV spam ....you know the guys that will be running over you when your running around in your VK01 with your Duvall lol get real.
Not as easy as you'd like to think. A leveled up tank may run 2-3mil isk, but a good driver in it, can go at least a dozen matches before even losing ONE. Pretty cost efficient.
Now you can make the argument "oh, just stop being one-dimensional and use a proto AV weapon" Not that easy. A proto AV along with a complex dmg modifier, will allow you to do 2000-2500 dmg pts, HOWEVER, that leveled up tank we talked about... it can have 8-10,000 HP!!! Even WITH your proto weapon, it can take you 4 shots to drop the tank. Good luck with that! A good driver will have killed you after the first shot. Chances are, the AV trooper will die SEVERAL times, either to the tank, while trying to destroy it... or two other infantry, since he/she is more vulnerable to them while using AV weapons. Realistically, you need at least 3 good AVers to take down a good tanker. Let's compare apples to apples, instead of giving abstract examples of "oh I took down a tank by myself the other day, you just need a proto forge" Chances are, this guys was using a proto forge, against a low-level tank.
BF series may have free vehicles, but it's balanced. Vehicles act as support to what the main game is...an FPS. They can play an important role in a battle, and in the right hands, be a HUGE factor, but if the opponents have one or two good AVers, they can keep them at bay. In Dust, you need 3 AV, just to stand a chance.
I'm not sure what the best way to balance the vehicles with infantry is, but I know right now, it's NOT where it should be. (IMO)