Aythadis Smith
The Generals
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Posted - 2013.04.20 09:47:00 -
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Crap, I'd take Zero on his challenge but I personally know the out come. I'd shed QQ tears for a few and learn from it.
Though I do agree FG shots hurt and can be down right brutal. Given a high enough out cropping and me not paying attention sure enough, my tank transforms into scrap metal.
Now lets give this squad tank into account. He just got a 4 kill. SWEET. Maybe I should become a FG gunner next build.
The idea has it's hit and misses. Biggest miss, you are messing with what we have already. If you brought this "new tank" out. It is yet again, iffy. I mean, on the logical side, in essence, 4 tankers are in one tank. 4 people. When you take the "rock paper scissors " approach of this game where AV gets smoked by AI, and AI vehicles are smoked by AV and AV vehicles. Maybe I am wrong, but, this super tank with a squad of tankers inside could just as easily be replaced by ...*gasp* 4 tanks. Which does fall into tank spam. This is where YOUR...repeat.... YOUR squad needs some AV fits. So in a way the games pushes specialization & cross specing. How would this tank idea play in the game when the MCC follows its name. Mobile ....Command...Center.
Meaning our eyes in the sky. A fraggo dude. Target painter. Showing us open routes and stuff. So, now two guys are out there doing the same roll. Negative Ghost rider. Pattern is full.
Also... you taking the big gun away from the driver is kinda painful. Most tanks can be 1v1, and my only defense is offence. Or....a better squad. Crap, infantry should be doing its job. Or better yet, I shouldn't out run my squad for extended periods of time. Which I might add, is WHERE I LOSE MOST OF MY TANKS.
So tl;dr. I don't feel this is much of an addition. It is an idea, but I feel its place isn't here. |
Aythadis Smith
The Generals
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Posted - 2013.04.20 15:02:00 -
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Real talk. my tank. My MAIN tank is a Gunn and it only has ...get this.... Just over 5k shields. Yes it is an azi...I wont even try to spell it. You know what, I have no problem keeping it alive. I've taking out multiply tanks with it. Ranging from training wheels to professional. Some times though, I get a little froggy and rush, and usually get popped or at least reminded my place in life.
As for your tank, honestly, it should be its own class. Don't mess with what we like. Besides, outside of Proto, killing other tanks isn't all that hard. That is Skirmish. On OMS, by now, if you don't have dual spec'd into human targets and armored, I don't know what to say. I personally have pushed other tanks back to red line in tier 2 crap. Sure I've popped a few as ambush/ guerrilla warfare on them. Find a route most traveled ( like roads behind C on the ABC Skirm, or the OMS equal, with the city. He passes by there once in a while, just set up camp. Oh, and personal opinion, with how advanced and cheap AV tech really is, with a small map that OMS is, you are either confident or an idiot if you drop artillery there. Kids are running in there ( I my self am no child, just mentally)
Ehem. Kids are running in there to play this like a team death match. And look, you are the douche dropping artillery in there. And in all honestly, you kinda are. Unless you are hunting vehicles or giving your team a line to push, you really are just asking your tank to get popped.
For me, my Gunn. I don't over push my team, I work as an asset, not some murdering fortress. Maybe it is my game play, but I do get some decent kills. What I really do get is the assists and am a taxi, and something to push enemies out of the wood work. I try not to be this murdering fortress because I know, there is always a better AV then I am as a pilot. A driver. Sure I got 2 months as one, but, AV needs about 2 weeks to a month. For Proto and officer, I guess I can safely say the same time.
The debate isn't how awesome your tank is, how good/bad of a driver I am, point is the topics rewrite of a tank. If all tanks are going that route, no. Negative. I feel glassy as is. I am not a guerrilla fighter. I actually feel my tank is much like a scout suit. Engage and disengage at will. And if things get too froggy, run for that redline with boosters and hardeners on full.
If you made said new class of tank. Say, a side step. I got this Gunnlogi. I could go Marauder class or...say this Spec ops tank. More passengers, the stronger it gets, 2 turrets but, say each passenger can donate a ...I dont know, a module or something to add to it. But then, we heard it before. Nerf that, buff that, and internal spinning wheel. Best bet, leave crap alone.
Is the game fun? Is it entertaining? Do you play this then other game? If so, you enjoy it and let the DEVs do their vision, cuz if they try to make us all happy, we will just get another games clone and no one will be happy. What do you want, another Battlefield, CoD? Hell, how about MAG. Hey, lets play with the lighting and add demons and get Doom 3.....
Overal, your idea isn't bad if it where a new class. |
Aythadis Smith
The Generals
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Posted - 2013.04.20 15:10:00 -
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As for tanks being total crap, you never faced a strong team with that tank. It isnt the tank that is the menace, it is the people around it and in it willing to give your life hell. For armor, awesome. For shield tanks, it is the snipers that pin Forge gunners, the tank pinning the ground, while the guys running on top to drop them and hopping off to get in the tank and book it. You havent seen people as you circular strafe a missile tank and they have AV's while you are popping it, taking it out on its first volley.
Don't call a tank a one man army, because it isn't just me that is keeping that tank alive, it is my whole squad and extending to blueberries.
As for your 10k shield Sag, try a hardener. How about play hit and run. Think of it as a scout suit. Hit and run. Play outside the objective. Look in the hills. Camp red line for a sec, go on the map and look for the little salt and pepper shakes on it. Always have an entrance and multiple exit. Be prepared for LAV hit and run, and ambushes set up for you. Also, you ...YOU as the driver are the biggest threat to your equipment.
Ps, the Gatsun FG hurts like hell. You need ointment after. Maybe a shower.... |