DUST Search - Why bother driving a Tank? How they need to be Fixed.

Landari Zeta wrote:

I love tanks. I really do. I have one problem about them though.

They aren't OP.

You are all probably thinking, "Wow what a tard, wanting OP tanks!"
Everything else is OP, why not have the tanks scale up with the rest of everything?

Lets think about it for a minute. A tank should be an Infantry Support vehicle. It should make a presence on the battlefield, forcing infantry to take cover and call in their own tanks to kill you.

During WWII the Sherman tank was meant to keep infantry huddled up in a corner until they can call in some air support or have a Tiger take it out. That is how tanks should be handled, like they were originally designed. Every German soldier didn't have an Anti-Tank rocket, why should everyone in DUST? I felt like this was the same problem in Battlefield. There is just no incentive to get into a tank knowing everybody and their grandmother have access to a powerful Anti-Tank solution immediately upon respawning.

The tanks in DUST have two problems: they have no splash damage and they die WAY too quickly by infantry, the one thing they are supposed to suppress. Even a well tanked Soma can die to a single newbie with a Militia Swarm Launcher or Militia AV Grenades.

"Well try to not get in a bad position to get hit with AV Grenades," some of you may say. That isn't the point. People should be saying, "Oh my God they have a tank," instead of ,"Sweet Jesus a full tank! Free Points!"

Now onto tank damage. Its big, but only against other vehicles. Sure, you can just keep popping jeeps with a 80GJ Railgun but I feel that is NOT what a tank should be meant for. Just killing Jeeps. So I would like to see splash damage. Not necessarily from the Railgun, but from the Blaster too.

The Railguns I can see having low splash damage. Its a solid chunk of non explosive metal streaking to its target.

Blasters on the other hand need to change. Having to hit someone square in the chest 4-6 times with a Large tank mounted weapon seems completely idiotic. It's a Large Blaster, not a machine gun. Blasters in the EVE universe fire "globs" of superheated plasma at a target. It should at least have some splash damage.

But that is just my two cents. I understand half of you will disagree with me, but as a Tank driver I just want to express my ideas.


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Mobius Wyvern BetaMax. 1216	Posted - 2013.02.03 02:15:00 - [1] - Quote Landari Zeta wrote: I love tanks. I really do. I have one problem about them though. They aren't OP. You are all probably thinking, "Wow what a tard, wanting OP tanks!" Everything else is OP, why not have the tanks scale up with the rest of everything? Lets think about it for a minute. A tank should be an Infantry Support vehicle. It should make a presence on the battlefield, forcing infantry to take cover and call in their own tanks to kill you. During WWII the Sherman tank was meant to keep infantry huddled up in a corner until they can call in some air support or have a Tiger take it out. That is how tanks should be handled, like they were originally designed. Every German soldier didn't have an Anti-Tank rocket, why should everyone in DUST? I felt like this was the same problem in Battlefield. There is just no incentive to get into a tank knowing everybody and their grandmother have access to a powerful Anti-Tank solution immediately upon respawning. The tanks in DUST have two problems: they have no splash damage and they die WAY too quickly by infantry, the one thing they are supposed to suppress. Even a well tanked Soma can die to a single newbie with a Militia Swarm Launcher or Militia AV Grenades. "Well try to not get in a bad position to get hit with AV Grenades," some of you may say. That isn't the point. People should be saying, "Oh my God they have a tank," instead of ,"Sweet Jesus a full tank! Free Points!" Now onto tank damage. Its big, but only against other vehicles. Sure, you can just keep popping jeeps with a 80GJ Railgun but I feel that is NOT what a tank should be meant for. Just killing Jeeps. So I would like to see splash damage. Not necessarily from the Railgun, but from the Blaster too. The Railguns I can see having low splash damage. Its a solid chunk of non explosive metal streaking to its target. Blasters on the other hand need to change. Having to hit someone square in the chest 4-6 times with a Large tank mounted weapon seems completely idiotic. It's a Large Blaster, not a machine gun. Blasters in the EVE universe fire "globs" of superheated plasma at a target. It should at least have some splash damage. But that is just my two cents. I understand half of you will disagree with me, but as a Tank driver I just want to express my ideas. I put forward a suggestion in a thread I made a few weeks back to redo our current HAVs to be Tank Destroyers, and release the MAV as a "tank", since you used WWII as an example.