RailGuns are electric based and require no real ammo, its an electric charge that sends out the shot. the blaster... I have to give you a point on that, its the same thing as an assault riffle only 5x bigger, missiles idgaf about

Railguns have projectiles- you could use a foil-wrapped potato as a projectile, but it would still need to be something to fire.

And as far as supply depots, they're actually useful to vehicles right now- park next to them and they'll repair your armor.

Another horrible idea from people who clearly don't have any idea what its like driving a tank, leave the ammo alone. We are supposed to drive halfway across the map then run out of ammo? If your supply depot has been taken out then you are being shut down deal with it. Don't let it happen in the first place, have a counter tank use nano hives whatever, just stop trying to restructure the game around your performance. Restructure your performance around the game. I have seen very little in regards to broken gameplay, broken players however seem frequent.

As for supply depots I always leave the home one and destroy enemy controlled ones, What? It's not like any of the fools on my team are hacking it and it neutralizes the enemies defences so my teams infantry can move in. You heard of nanohives right?

I sure hope the ccp people reading this website don't take all these knee jerk reactions seriously.

Like the title says...

Little bit of info for you all, if tanks had ammo they would have to decide to keep the ammo depot or destroy them.

Yea because you want a easy ride in pub matches.

It's a great idea and i would love to see it done. If you want to see players kill a class just look at heavies... But i'm not killing a class i'm making the game flow and giving tankers more things to think about.

I would love to see tanks been controlled by a spotter, gunner for the main canon and a driver.

If you give tanks ammo then logi drop ships could resupply the HAV and a logi LAV could also... I'm not here to nerf, i'm here to make the game flow but also giving players more skill to drive a HAV.

again if you separate the driver seat from the main cannon, youl eliminate the want to skill into actually driving the damn thing and end up with absolutely no tanks being called out again. and yes your suggestion would nerf us, I know you cant see this because your an assault player and assault players no nothing about driving tanks yet your able to dictate what we get and what gets taken away from us.

Like the title says...

Little bit of info for you all, if tanks had ammo they would have to decide to keep the ammo depot or destroy them.

you have to have a carrot and we know it's all about the WP.

So what every tanker is trying to say, is they don't have to have team work to be a tanker. The AV guys do?

no not exactly, we don't need teamwork to be effective but we do need teamwork to dominate. fact. at least for those of us that know what were doing...

I would love to spec into tanking if it was more of a thinking mans games.

I would be a tanker if...

Ammo
Weaker armour at the back of the tank, Stronger at the front.
Tanks need logistics, LAVs repairing me.
better map lay out so tanks could do what the are built for and push lines.

Yes you could even draw particulate matter out of the air, condense then shoot it, or how about electrons? Plenty of those about.

Ammo: Nerf to effectiveness and eliminates more than half of their usefulness in all truth.


Weaker armour at the back of the tank, Stronger at the front: this is a present day earth feature, this is a galaxy on the other side of the universe 20000 years from now


Tanks need logistics, LAVs repairing me: they can already do this, its called remote shield transporter and remote armor repair


better map lay out so tanks could do what the are built for and push lines: they can barely do this now, but yeah it would be good to get better maps, this one I agree with.



I apologize for the sarcasm in the other post.

Ammo: Nerf to effectiveness and eliminates more than half of their usefulness in all truth.


Weaker armour at the back of the tank, Stronger at the front: this is a present day earth feature, this is a galaxy on the other side of the universe 20000 years from now


Tanks need logistics, LAVs repairing me: they can already do this, its called remote shield transporter and remote armor repair


better map lay out so tanks could do what the are built for and push lines: they can barely do this now, but yeah it would be good to get better maps, this one I agree with.



I apologize for the sarcasm in the other post.

first statement, 20000 years from now tanks will have no use on the battle of the future. If you read up about tanks now they are coming to the end of their life cycle.

An unfortunate truth :( Tanks are rumored to be phased out and in the next 10-20 years the British Army won't even HAVE tanks.

But then again this debate comes up every 10 years or so apparently and every time tanks have prooven they have a place. Just the idea of a massive armored box and huge cannon being called a tank may not exist, the class of 'heavy support' most certainly will. (Stryker with 120m for example)

An unfortunate truth :( Tanks are rumored to be phased out and in the next 10-20 years the British Army won't even HAVE tanks.

But then again this debate comes up every 10 years or so apparently and every time tanks have prooven they have a place. Just the idea of a massive armored box and huge cannon being called a tank may not exist, the class of 'heavy support' most certainly will. (Stryker with 120m for example)

Like the title says...

Little bit of info for you all, if tanks had ammo they would have to decide to keep the ammo depot or destroy them.

tanks are not meant for support

HAHAHAHA, ah, good one mate... wait you're serious?! Oi...

A tank is a large vehicle and a staple of supporting a group of infantry, but it is only support. Without infantry it will rapidly cave under the fire of AV if that AV does not have to worry about enemy troops. What do you do if some AV spec scout gets too close to your tank and you can't turn fast enough? You die like a lamb to slaughter because you fought alone. Furthermore with the one-man tank crews in DUST, you can't make the argument that tanks are meant to be major frontline weapons, as these are far simpler than a standard tank. In games like Red Orchestra and Planetside One, tanks can be forces of immense power because they need multiple people to run. In games like Halo and DUST, the one-man tank cannot multiply your strength too much or else it becomes endgame tech and outmodes the lighter weapons.

hehehe, thought that would make someone laugh, your argument is a little weak though, iv proven time and time again that solo tanks are effective on the battle field and that random blues that you say will help teamwork are worthless in my turrets. once again, this is a mercenary game not call of duty, call of duty works with teamwork, dust 514 specifically say "mercenary"

In all seriousness there are two kinds of tank. To simplify, there is the Main Battle Tank which is what you see in most media, and the Support Tank, a smaller, flimsier creature designer more for hit-and-run and fighting MBTs. DUST HAVs are STs, not MBTs. WOOO ACRONYMS!

Ammo: this would only be effective if there was a module that gave us more ammo that we can equipped onto the vehicles so that we are not screwed when the enemy has control or im in the middle of a fire fight. plus this is not eve, its an extension of eve for console. while some things from eve would benefit dust 514, other things would not

Armour: we already have tons of **** to worry about in battles and this will just add to them, it wont make things better, itl add to the stress of tanking and make in more undesirable, plus there is already a soft spot on the tanks, I don't know where it is so youl have to look it up

Logistics: that a player issue, not a mechanic issue, plus I don't care about lavs, there just another moving target for me.

Map design: tanks are not meant for support, if youl read they are for plowing through infantry opening a way for your team to take control.

hehehe, thought that would make someone laugh, your argument is a little weak though, iv proven time and time again that solo tanks are effective on the battle field and that random blues that you say will help teamwork are worthless in my turrets. once again, this is a mercenary game not call of duty, call of duty works with teamwork, dust 514 specifically say "mercenary"