Lmao. Read the post and thought it was a sarcastic one, so I thought it was pretty clever and +1'd it. But then I saw all the other comments and saw it was left by Imperfects and don't think it was a joke anymore. Can any of you play w/o your tank easy mode?

I just got on to make this topic.... Forge guns are taking out tanks so easily now that you catn take out heavy's with your tank as fast as you need to...... Either reduce the range so they have to get closer or lower the dps..... Being shot and blew up by people hiding in the mountains... forge guns to me are not sniper weapons they are anti vehicle either the splash radius needs to be increase for tank weapons to have an effective counter or lower the amount of damage those things can do.... it is very ridiculous right now... even the playing field for a tank as one forge gunner can take them out so quick or take all vehicles and anti vehicle weapons out and lets go fps stop letting people train into a certain field and then killing what they have trained into deeming it useless.... when you tweak something do it by smaller increments not to the maximum you have screwed me already on the isk gain this week by making what i have to use useless you could have waited til after this event to squish my dreams of making isk

Holy mother of run-on sentences!

No. I've specialized in forge guns specifically to make tanks think twice before advancing. Noobs with forge gun ops 1 and a shield extender can't do jack to a real tank with an operator who is aware of what is going on. The tank will eat all 4 rounds of his clip and then regen his shields while the forge gunner reloads. I've specialized in them though - if you die in one clip to me its because I'm gimped for doing anything BUT forge gunning, rolling with nothing in the highs but damage mods and nothing in the lows except cpu enhancers, making me incredibly vulnerable to infantry, never mind the tank itself. In that situation damn straight the forge gun should do some damage.

Forge guns as sniper weapons? If the forge gunner "snipes" he's getting VERY lucky with the shot. There's no way to accurately predict where the shot is going to land with any precision, and if the target is moving its much harder.

In conclusion, tanks and their weapons have finally been brought into line with infantry's ability to engage them. A properly spec'd tank will shrug off poorly-spec'd forge gunners or swarm launchers while a properly spec'd tank is now forced to respect a properly spec'd forge gunner. This has to be the second best change CCP have made to Dust - the first being the remote explosive nerf =)

LEVEL 5 Forge/Prof has had its range adjusted back .All I use is the forge Gun and ccp has decreased the range already.
People that only run forge know this.And we are skilling up our sharpshooter to be able to hit anything.I still miss have the shots I shoot.And a Very Heavy Tank takes more than 4 shots with a grim that has max exdam