I always think its funny when Tankers pull the (Hard)core card out...
Quote:Let me put this another way, say you're a sniper, and you are only spawned on 100x100m maps...well, every 20 matches u might get lucky and get a good sized one, but most of the time, you are stuck in CQB and can't change your fitting. Also take into account that your fitting costs 1.6 mil. Does it make sense yet? You don't see good tanks anymore bc theyre too expensive to use now. If they stay the way they are, they need a huge cost reduction OR they can be buffed so that it's actually possible to survive a whole battle against good AV without red-line sniping.
Oh ive actually played cqc sniper in APB-R for most part of my time there (2 years+-), its like playing with a shotgun, except you can't miss a single time because of the 1.5 second bolt action time between shots, witch i don't.
But to get back to your Tank fit, its not because it costs allot of money that it needs to be powerfull & easely replaced, its your choice to get into that tank, you know what it can and cannot do. Some people fly 16 Billion ISK Navy Fitted battleships into high sec, some random guy with a 83m ISK gank fit blows them up for TEARS. They could have flown a 200m isk ****-fit and do the same as the 16 Billion fit and the Tear-man would not have struck them.
Quote:If you think you're hard for killing tanks in Uprising, think again. It wasn't particularly hard in Chromosome if you had good tactics, and even then there were only a select 25 tankers who would be hard to kill. Now, killing a tank is about the same as killing a heavy. Don't say "tanks have thousands of HP", because EVERYBODY has adv av grenades and they do THOUSANDS of damage. A squad of six with them equipped is capeable of doing 27,000 dmg in 3 seconds to a tank. That is impossible to defend against, without not getting up close in the first place- hence the rail snipers.
If all 6 guys get passed your squad and your tank with 3 people inside without anyone noticing....well what can i say...
Either you guys got rolled hard and you diserve to die or you were all blind as bats and diserve to die?
I really never understood the Tank mentality in Dust where you guys seem to want to one shot everything in sight, even across the map, and this all is balanced to ISK & SP spend by the fact 6 guys with AV nades can do 27.000 theoretic damage if they lob 3 grenades each after they reach your tank?
Quote:Oh, and the highest KDRs belong to assault players, NOT tankers. Do your homework
Please name a single guy that has never used a vehicle while playing solo as an Assault Player.
Ill even allow you to name one that quits matches if its not stacked into his favor.