I think ppl who drive murder LAV's dont' really care about LAVs or LAV skills. They just use free ones. On a different note, what's the purpose of an LAV except for taking ppl from point A to B? Their gun is too weak to be useful. And I cant believe that they were invented to be murder taxis - or am i wrong?

Completely right. LAVs are just for moving people around, that's why they never bothered to put a turret onto it. That's why the advanced LAVs are Scout LAVs (For surveying & moving around the batleflied) & Logistics LAVs (For helping support troops and other vehicles). They're clearly meant to be destroyed by a single AV grenade, regardless of how you decide to outfit them.

It's impossible to kill an LAV with an assault rifle, shotgun, etc... because you can't attack any of the passengers of the vehicle, the gunner or driver, etc.. They're called murder taxis because all they do is murder people. No one can be bothered to lay down Proximity Mines in clever locations to blow them up, or shoot them with swarm launchers. They're clearly what the survival drone mode will be based on. Nothing but murder taxis running helpless players down.

no one can be bothered to kill them? weird ive been splatting them all night. logi lav's are tougher but i reckon a good sp investment into improving my swarm launcher will take care of that.

balance HAVs so that more HAVs come back to that role and all of your LAVs will fade away back into balance. the problem isn't LAVs its HAVs.

It's like you're playing rock, paper, scissors -- vehicles are rock, anti-vehicle are paper, and anti-infantry are scissors, and everyone keeps throwing scissors against rock and kittening about losing.

"But my two AV nades fit on my tac-ar/smg assault fitting don't kill murder taxies".

Tell me more about how you can't coordinate with a squad to kill an LAV.

Look at the name of LAVs-
Light Attack Vehicle

They aren't transports- that's why we have dropships, and are getting ground transports later.
From my recent experience in a new LAV tactic triggered by a blueberry driver (that actually went well), I've learned something-

LAVs are an infantry support vehicle; good at laying down suppressing fire and keeping infantry in cover with repeated high-speed drive-bys. Logistics LAVs also support infantry well because of their super-rep

However, there needs to be a way to reward WP for LAV drivers, since it's far more common for the gunners to get assists than kills.

Going to throw it out there.

You get hit by a car. You going to take damage.

You wear armor, you take a bit less... but still likely die.

You have shields, you'll take less, but shields still absorb fatal damage, armour crushes... end result... you die.

The LAV is not the issue. It's a vehicle, it weighs about a tonne. If you tend to think a tonne of metal driven at speed wont kill you, go step into the street and test for yourself.

The issue is people who DON'T look both ways. You going to cross open ground, look around. The train before it hits you on the railroad tracks isn't heard until it's too late. The same applies to LAVs.

Add TedNugent_ on psn and ask if you can be his gunner in his LAV and you'll get 20 kills a game.

Actually its because he uses a prototype blaster and 2 damage mods and puts his gunner in good positions to kill enemies. People think that LAV turrets are terrible but they've never used a properly fitted one.