Aythadis Smith
The Generals
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Posted - 2013.04.12 23:35:00 -
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I agree and disagree. I kinda ran into tanking due at the time a lack of them ( no, they were just making them selves total B.A.'s before they brought them out)..ehem, due to the lack of them, I ran heavy, waist deep. Now I know, New Eden isn't exactly safe, kinda like freshman year of college, simple mistakes can brand you for a life time. Same is true with tanks. Some rounds, wow, I do amazing, even if I didn't kill half the clones, I felt useful. Removed all installations and kept them out of our objective. Then some matches, the most simple of mistake can be catastrophic. For instance, I was doing a circular strafe on a red missile tank, but due to my speed, he couldn't keep said turrets on me. In turn I won. BUT he did hit me, hard, upon trying to retreat I left my rear exposed and the finishing touch was a mix of forge and swarm.
I guess his point is that mistakes are very unforgiving. It takes millions of points to get even into a seat of tank ( not really, 300k plus 75k ? JUST to sit in one). I guess the part I do agree with him is the expense of a tank does not counter well to how cheap AV tech is. I mean one can easily dual spec AV and AI. Armor is kinda feeling lack luster. If I lose a tank, about 5-8 games it takes to rebuilt one tank.
So one part driver skill, a part character (toon) skill, and your squad. If they can't take out a swarm kid with a sniper, or keep him pinned or you can't put some form of (shield/armor) hardener on and learn to "book it" or not get trapped. But again, what point is a tank if it can't suppress and take a few blows? What usefulness if it is redlined?
For me, tanker needs to learn he is NOT god. He is a tool, jsut like a logi, or the stealth hacker, or the sniper. A sniper doesn't over camp, learns to move, take new position. The Logi isn't going to run out into a gun fight ( unless he is a douche) and pick you up just to drop again. The stealth kiddo isn't going to rush into a fire fight.
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Aythadis Smith
The Generals
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Posted - 2013.04.12 23:41:00 -
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Kazio De Vihura wrote:Spkr4theDead wrote:That's what everybody else on the forum wants, anyway, to be able to solo Suryas and Sagaris' with militia swarm launchers, so just give them what they want and get rid of tanks completely. I can't make one circuit around a map without half the enemy team magically becoming AV professionals without a prior need (none of my team has LAVs).
Why CCP? Why do you listen to people that want things done their way, which results in the useless of an entire class? Just get rid of tanks already, it'll give you guys less of a headache as well.
Next up on the chopping block, all things heavy-related. Just get 10k fit with Packed AV, call free LAV take 3 friend and gang tank 2 times 4 mil gone in fire, he will not call tank again
Ok, why are you in said tank if you can't say blow up said AV, or friends saying "Hey, we got some kids that might be rushing you off your six, we got some shots on them, but you have to leave or make them see if there is a god"
But as a AV team, your job, blow me up. My team, get free kills from blowing you up. So.. when I die, who gets the credit/ blame? Me, the AV squad, or my team, for being idiots? |