Rails stay behind terrain and play pop-up sniper firing into open areas from secure positions.

Blasters fight on the front lines, controlling the open areas more directly.

BOTH are about controlling the open areas of the map, and BOTH are vulnerable in enclosed areas without infantry support.

Blaster does not control open areas

Normally a tank in open ground even if ther is milita AV around is waiting to get hit, open ground no cover nice line of sight for AV to hit you, its generally not tank friendly

Seriously suggests the OP to go play AV for a bit.

You're doing it wrong.

You funny guy

Oh, I'm sorry, I thought you were smart enough to figure out your own mistake. My bad.

Exposed positions occur within open areas, but not all open areas are exposed positions. An exposed position is something which you let Railguns watch over. An open area that ISN'T an exposed position is an ideal patrol route for a Blaster tank. Most open spaces in DUST have at least some measure of cover that a Blaster tank can use. The ones that don't are dominated by Railgun tanks.

So... non-open open areas?

So... non-open open areas?

Open enough to move a tank through easily, with minimal risk of infantry hiding in well-defended corners that you can't see them in until it's too late.

Not exposed so that you have not cover.

There are areas like this in every current map for both Skirmish and Ambush.

Still waiting for an answer, OP...

Haha did you drive off a cliff? a glitch is a glitch, file a report and move on. Thats what we're here for.

A properly fit Madrugar would feel the tickle, turn round and welp whoever did it. Of course if your out in the open with no support then its your own damn fault and deserve to get you rivets handed to you

Trying to wriggle away from an answer just cause it wasn't one you liked?

How do you die in a tank? lmfao

coming from the guy called spkr4thedead...

So I am probably one of those most vocal about how tanks are NOT UP and AV is NOT OP. So I decided to try tanks for the first time. Got a Madgruder with some tier 1 or 2 armor plates and reps. Like 1K shields, 8K armor.

Right now I SUCK at aiming. Up close the tank has some strange properties where i cant hit stuff that I feel like I can, Im not even sure where my bullets are going.

That being said, even though I am terrible in my tank and have only just started using it, and can barely drive or aim, I still killed like 5 or so folks before going down (i was super agressive, working by myself) and took like a whole team chasing me down and easily caused us to cap 2 NULL cannons both times.

The tank costs me like 300-400K.

And I have no idea what im doing.

This seems 100% fair to me. I suck at it right now, and I was able to pay 300-400k to just pretty much buy a 5.0 K/D and two NULL captures for my team. If anything my ****** perfomance tells just how powerful tanks are. I was terrible, and I still changed the battle completely.

As someone who has been gaming for longer than most of you have been born I have seen what the input of Randoms has done to Competitive Play. DCUO went from OK to Epc Fail b/c it shared your ideology. FPS/TPS (3PS) have done nothing but decrease in Quality over time (IE Socom 4 & MGO2). Why is Balancing so much better in Fighters??? B/C Seth Killian faps to watching Justin Wong & Daigo under a Microscope??? B/C DUSTloop Forums have people w/ more braincells than the CoDCloners who hop on here???

If I cared about Stat Padding I wouldn't run amok in a Free BPO Dropsuit still going Posotive in PUBS (w/ 90% of 10.3KK SP in Tanks) for teh LULZ. If anything the Cannon Fodder Blues & Corpmates soaking in FREE WP for OBs would be considered "Stat Padders"....... But no, b/c I still maintain a Positive KdR & ISK Efficiency while messing around, getting TKed by Scrubs, watching my RDV Driver soak up 250KK ISK (Actual ISK lost to Drunk Pilots), & LOLing as it all happens I am labeled as a Stat Padding .1%er. Compliment Accepted, get good brah :P

Yeah im not sure how else to take a .1% comment other than a compliment. Imperfects are good, I dont know your stats in particular, but I do assume you are probably better than me. Awesome for you.

I love the assumption of my skills by you guys though, classy, and im sure very well informed and based on tons of facts.

Look, I play tons of FPS, I play them pretty competitively. I know there is a balance between balancing things for top tier play, and everyone else. But all tankers arguments seem to ignore top tier squad support around them. Ive yet to have a tanker explain to me what his squad is doing when packed AV naders get in range?

Cause seems to me that takes pretty low level skills to let occur. It doesnt take rocket science to have some precise scanning around a tank, watching for red dots and then jumping on them with ARs that have kill times of half a second...

Seriously suggests the OP to go play AV for a bit.

Ok, dedicated tanker but played with my infantry alt account for the first time in months...

And yes, tanks in ambush is stupid. So CCP, remove HAVs from ambush and un-nerf them for those of us who play skirmish.

i'll bring my tank where i want it like infantry will bring their dvoulves when they want it. so no.

Too bad, I'm still going to be pushing my pro-skirmish-tank agenda.

Advanced suit, dropsuit command 5, profile dampening 3, dampener module, and guess what? You have to react to the first 2 grenades thrown, rather than kill the guy before he can throw one.

Ok, dedicated tanker but played with my infantry alt account for the first time in months...

And yes, tanks in ambush is stupid. So CCP, remove HAVs from ambush and un-nerf them for those of us who play skirmish.

Why because him being off radar suddenly makes it impossible for a good supporting squad to spot him with their own eyes? Plus, counter him by using the percision enhancing skills/modules. Though Im not sure, it may be possible to become invisible on radar compared to even the best scanning, havent ran the numbers.