Are you kidding me?

First everyone complains and nerfs missiles into the ground and now you want to make blaster the only effective turrent?

Seriously some of the guy on this forum need to HTFU, not get caught up in this mysterious component of games called "fairness" or "honour" and understand that even if a gun can three shot a tank it comes with significan weaknesses....

Like slow rotation speed and poor CQC targeting.....
Oh and did I mention tanks are so flimsy its ridiculous?

Sounds like a scrub tank driver got owned, UA ready to CB us yet or do you still have your dodging skills maxed???????????

Some of us specd into AV tanks, so keep driving your pubstomper

But railgun is the closest thing we have that looks like a true main cannon for a tank!!!! It's awesome!!!!!

But railguns are an anti-vehicle weapon, of course they're going to dominate in tank vs tank.
as robert said this is a case of scissors complaining about rock

Problem isnt the railgun its the broken dmg mods giving out insane dmg bonuses
2 shottin and 3 shottin a well fitted tank is just boring

before CCP broke dmg mods rail fights were the best thing for a tanker now its not really that exciting at least for me hence my swap to blasters

The rail turret itself is fine its more the dmg mods and all the passive dmg skills stackin up on the turret that makes tank fights end too fast or end up in a stalemate

Icy Tiger I suggest you spec in av grenades or forge guns and destroy the tank problem solved. The more you complain the more ccp drastically will change railgun turrets. And we shield tank users invested in strong rail guns. HTFU!!!!!!!!!

so what you're saying is that it's not balanced when it happens to you, but totally balanced when you use it?

"Oh I hate it because it unbalances tank v tank fights, but I know when I should be using it instead of a normal tank build"

that's basically what you, and/or this entire topic's tankers have said, paraphrased.

and guess what, that glass cannon tank is just that, glass. get to some cover and tell your team where it was shooting from to get a guy with a forge gun, or a railgun emplacement after it. 2-3 shots and bam, no more glass cannon problem.

I swear, sometimes people think they're the only ones on the team.

I have driven tanks, I have gunned for tankers, I've flown dropships, i've gunned in them, and even just hitched a ride to drop into the fight faster.

I prefer running around because it's easier, I'm a smaller target, and I prefer quietly moving around the field, taking gun emplacements from the enemy, and causing problems away from the objective unless I can find a couple teammates to work with(I'm no one man wrecking crew, my aim is generally crap unless I'm using something with really big bullets)

This whole thread boils down to an Anti Infantry tank driver QQ, about how a Tank Destroyer (Shield Glass Cannon Fits) did its job and killed them.

Rails are the hard counter to blaster tanks

If the rail gets nerfed again, all that you will see on the field is armor blasters, Shields

UA how bout a corp battle?

I won't even participate we will let 0tryharder wreck you some more.

P.S. how do I not have a hate thread about me yet? I've been railgun tanking for months now

Edit: everyone QQing about the militia glass cannon, they sacrificed all of its tank to gank you, AV infantry should be able to kill them easily "Teamwork Yo"

Oi now listen up you armor tanking scrub: railguns are fine, you have 2 times more HP then my shield tank so stop complaining about it and get good. You choosed the wrong path and now you want to nerf the main reason to spec into shield tanks? Not my fault that armor tanks have crappy DPS. Get good scrub and you better hide your tank from me.

Oi now listen up you armor tanking scrub: railguns are fine, you have 2 times more HP then my shield tank so stop complaining about it and get good. You choosed the wrong path and now you want to nerf the main reason to spec into shield tanks? Not my fault that armor tanks have crappy DPS. Get good scrub and you better hide your tank from me.

What part of forge gun and/or rail gun installation do you not understand?

So that's a NO on the CB then???????

QQ about getting killed some more...........

I'll 1 v 1 you, say 1,000,000 isk first to 10

and if my scrubby tank driving ass beats you UA has to corp battle us

1. If an 80GJ Railgun can three shot most enemy tanks, then call me a pirate and roast me over a grill. Unless the enemy tank is completely unarmored (2200-2600 EHP) and you have damage modifications, this isn't going to happen.

2. Railguns fire too slowly and the splash damage is too pitiful. Campers are better off using blasters which still have decent range and a much higher rate of fire.

3. I don't know, +300,000 ISK is pretty expensive, and that's the on the lower end of the scale. Further more, no place is safe from swarm launchers. In the open? They can target you very easily. In the dense underbrush? They can outmaneuver you easily.

Wait...What????

A QQ thread about rails? First off that they trump Anti-Infantry tanks...Ummm yeah, working as intended.

and QQ about redline tanking?? Are you new to Dust? Wait....No, IcyTiger, you've been here a while . Did you miss all the snipers and tanks hiding behind the redline for the last few months popping infantry with little to no risk to loss?


The redline, in general, has some bad mechanics tied to it....but don't blame the tank weapon.

I've seen blaster tanks sneak up on rail tanks and pop them....rare but it happens.

Not to mention you can deal stupid amounts of damage with a high level forge guns fitted with damage mods and that gun is carried in someone's hands, not fitted on the top of a tank, and much cheaper than an actual A/V tank.


IMO, tanks need a bit more tank (generally speaking) but they also need to be restricted from pubbies at certain levels and removed from Non OMS Ambush all together.

I find it funny that a tanker who've I've seen several times call his tank on top of sniper hill on manus peak and railcamp the whole game up there started this thread. QQ some more please, my tear jar isn't full yet.

Aircraft - Problem solved.

Just made a TD soma fit to figure out the cost, it's 806,000 ISK or so. Seems balanced to me, it has absolutely no tank so its easy to kill.

Actualy it just sound's like every other nerf cry " it's not my build nerf it so I can have an advantage".

it's supposed to be infantry killed by blaster tanks killed by railgun tanks killed by infantry. blaster tanks should be killed by railguns EVERY TIME. also, railguns should do more dmg than puny little forge guns but they dont- WHY!?

You should return to the beta forums when you have an original thought, parroting the cat calls of people with vested interests is a misuse of your towering intellect.



That sounds like a wonderful tactic, kinda resembles "screw you guys im going home" or "gee this MCC is comfortable I think i'll just sit here for 15 mins"



Yes by far the more honourable thing to do is abuse the broken mechanics and oppose any calls for the problem to be fixed "get gud" outweighs game balance in any thread.

PS Icy Tiger I still think you and your corp are the dregs of my homebrew kit, don't mistake my agreement with you in this thread as any form of fondness.

I am happy that I got an 8 page thread about this. ^.^ I thought you were going to bring up something I might have done that wasn't nice (like killing blue dot gunners )


edit: also, shield railgun tanks can get solod by ONE good AV. I'm not going to tell everyone on forums how, but there are a few people who know how to do it (and devs can check logs :P)

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH NERF TANKS WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!

Seriously, I'm waiting for the brave person to start a thread calling for tanks to be removed from the game. This is how incrementalism works in politics. Your end-game is to have them removed completely, just like you're doing with the heavy.