So tanks and infantry are using teamwork? Use your own teamwork to counter; have some other players take out the infantry while you take out the tank.
To be able to destroy an expensive tank is not a power that should come without a great scarifice, it is a good thing that you can't both handle tanks and infantry, or else it would be imbalanced in favor of AV.

You should know there will be big changed to fanction warfare (currently "corp battles"), there will be 32 player planetary conquest battles for corps. https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=63760

Planetary Conquest isn't replacing FW; they will coexist.

Also for those people who run dedicated AV i have a quesiton... what kind of isk reward do you get for Running AV? If you kill the tank most of the isk goes to the guy at the top of the leaderboard whereas the person who spent the game avoiding red dots and trying to get a half decent shot on the tank go 1-4 with 200 WP's and 100k isk for your effors which isn't enough to even pay for the AV suites.

Ok, let's just let SL's lock onto infantry and your infantry problem goes away...

My concern would be the potential for the Assault/AR/Swarm fit as a standard and the Vehicle Apocalypse happening.

A long time ago you could dumbfire SLs but it just made it a ridiculously OP anti-infantry weapon. If you could lock onto infantry, it would be even more ridiculous.



Truest thing said in this thread. Absolutely everyone would rock a SL sidearm and this would make everyone an AV player, allowing no vehicle a chance on the battlefield but also removing AV as a niche.

That was sarcasm to point out that the OP was asking for something absurd.

Giving every assult player AV on top of their AR would negate the role of dedicated AV, but that's the mentality of so many folks coming from other FPS's. Other games have only one role with slight modifications, not the Rock/Paper/Scissors of DUST.

We've seen this type of request before and we will see it many more times.

in staying on the subject of tanks, i feel ccp needs to beef up the orbital strikes, to the extent of no matter the strength of the tanks, an orbital should obliterate it, after all it's not as if we carry o/s in our back pockets, we have to work for it and it's a strike from a galactic cruiser or main battleship

Bad player is bad and wants an i win strike to get rid of that pesky HAV driver who knows what hes doing because he doesnt know how to use AV

Not to feed a troll, and not saying I disagree, but if the "bad player was so bad" how did they manage to accumulate the WP for an OB?

This is New Eden, life isn't always "easy", "balanced", "fair" or "safe".

Swarm Launcher as a Sidearm? No, because a Swarm Launcher is a PRIMARY anti-tank weapon.

An anti-tank Sidearm? Yes, please.

Single-shot plasma burst pistol with REALLY fast damage falloff, or a short-range mini-launcher that works like a single-missile version of the SL, or a high powered short range cutting laser...

But something in the way of sidearms that actually fits as an anti-vehicle weapon would be pretty cool.

I take it you find it hard destroying tanks?

I'm sorry but could you bold the part he stated it was a necessary addition for balance purposes?

It doesnt matter - SL will never be a sidearm

Which is exactly what he stated, did you not read the whole post?

But why does he need an AV sidearm? doesnt he have enough AV weapons at his fingertips to whack a HAV?

Also for those people who run dedicated AV i have a quesiton... what kind of isk reward do you get for Running AV? If you kill the tank most of the isk goes to the guy at the top of the leaderboard whereas the person who spent the game avoiding red dots and trying to get a half decent shot on the tank go 1-4 with 200 WP's and 100k isk for your effors which isn't enough to even pay for the AV suites.