Still seeing a lot of use of the word "car" as if this isn't a high-velocity armoured vehicle we're talking about but some standard Honda Civic or something. Let's get one thing clear - LAV's are more comparable to a Humvee, not a "car". And that armour and shield you have? It's nothing like the half-tonne suit that Master Chief wears in Halo.

Now, let's talk some physics. I'll keep it simple. There are a number of forces to consider when taking a hit from a high velocity armoured vehicle, including concussive force, energy transfer, and mass. For those in the know, mass is directly transferably to energy. In fact, for those that know something about how mass works at the subatomic level inside a muon for example, mass is made of energy. So, the energy from the speed of the "car" is not the only energy to consider, but it's mass as well. Now, you are not a heavy guy, and while the shields and armour of your suit may protect you against small arms kinetic impacts and directed energy attacks (to a degree), the LAVs are somewhat more massive than you, and larger than a bullet, so a vehicle of this type is going to be transferring a lot of that energy across a much larger area than a small round travelling at higher speeds might do, which will create a concussive force in your armour that has the potential to not just crush you if the wheels happen to roll over you (which, if the armour's any good, it may actually protect you from direct wheel-crushing, unless it was damaged in the impact, which is probable), but the most likely cause of damage from vehicular impact is going to be that concussive force from the energy transfer that scrambles your internal organs into pulp. In fact, it is not uncommon for victims of vehicular impacts to suffer from ruptured spleens and the like with little to no external visible injury.

So, what have we learned today? That's right. LAVs are not Honda Civics. But in the right circumstances, a Honda Civic could probably kill you too. Like if it was dropped on you by a crane. But that's another physics lesson entirely....

lol.. so many butthurt CoD fan bois that it is just LOL I hate LAVs because it forces me to play better and pay more attention then what im shooting. well adopt or die it not like LAVs are new.

I don't know why you guys are crying about LAVs, they still pop like zits if you hit em' with a swarm launcher. Everyone is practically making the same mistake we did at the beginning of chrome and neglecting AV.

lol, go ahead and get rid of the free LAVs, you'll just QQ once people start buying the BPOs

Translation: I pledge allegiance to CCP and everything they do no matter what. I can't shoot so I will ride around in a car and ignore what the game is supposed to be. Without my easy mode game mechanic I would not get any kills. Therefore I shall dismiss a problem as it makes me look leet.


There *fixed.

I personally think there should be no infinite militia LAV. I think there should be at least SOME ISK penalty for spamming LAV, even if it wouldn't drastically impact people with major banks, OR some sort of limit as to how many LAV can even be called per match/at one time. The need for LAV on a battlefield is not so high that there should be an infinite model and it definitely encourages DeathRace 2000 for people on the field. This combined with the higher HP for LAV, making them harder to deal with in a pinch if you dont have at LEAST AV grenades on you (the new model takes 2). Hear hear to the OP

You people are just mad, that no matter how much armor your wearing... No matter how better your guns are.. You're not invincible, die like everyone else & accept your death. Don't spend countless hours whining about how a noob took you out because he had no other way to kill a proto suite. Accept death or die morbid.
They have to take it every time you proto armor/weapon guys over powers them.
You don't see anyone posting on forums saying we need a complete skill RESET, because it is unfair that people got to take everything from beta & carry it over to the final release of this game!!
Which would make the universe a lot more fair in my opinion.
You know what I'm going to mention this in my next forum post.
Say goodbye to everything you own & a full scale game reset!
Like most games do when a new game is fully released! x)

You're dumb

I think the damage the vehicles do to Mercs on foot should be drastically reduced.

Seems like since the aiming is broken people have resorted to spamming free LAVs and driving round running people over like its Carmageddon(For the oldies) or GTA(For the younger crowd)..

Please just make it so you can survive a single hit from an LAV (tanks I can understand a OHK but they are not as fast so if you get run over its your own fault).

At least then it would give you a chance to run away or fight back cos theres nothing to stop an LAV driver driving through the middle of a gunfight and killing the enemy but teammates survive.

I would say require the LAV to be moving at far higher speed to achieve a one-hit-kill, and make the LAV take a large fraction of the damage they cause to the suit they hit.

If you think about it, smacking your vehicle repeatedly into heavily armored and shielded infantry should start tearing it up.