The biggest problem with murder taxis right now, is that in an open area, there's no way to defend yourself from them unless you're carrying AV. Even if you can dodge them three to four times, all they have to do, is curve around and try again. I've dodged a taxi for three to four minutes, but sooner or later, they'll get you by dumb luck.

The problem, is there's no way for standard infantry to really combat a murder taxis' repeat advances. I propose that rather than just doing "more damage", shooting the tires of an LAV has an effect on it's speed. LAVs could have some sort of run flat tire system that would allow them to keep moving, but shooting the tires should at least cripple their movement until they can be repaired by someone with an armor repper or something.

It wouldn't even take away the murder taxi, just ensure that they only really get one pass to make their move on someone.

I like this idea, but maybe make the tire auto-repair after 5-10 seconds due to advanced tech. This would give them a temporary speed debuff and let you make your escape while not crippling the LAV until he finds some cover to recall the LAV for a new one.

Auto-repair would work for my idea, but my inclination towards requiring a logi repper is to continue to promote logistics having reasons for doing things.

Not bad, but it doesn't exactly solve the problem. I can just as easily run you over with a lower top speed.

The biggest problem with murder taxis right now, is that in an open area,

By "Open Area" do you mean in the middle of the road? That there be LAV land! stick to the area's of the map designed for infantry combat and you should be fine.

I've liked and supported every single proposed solution for this LAV crap. Doubt any of them of will be implemented.

With some intelligence, it's not hard to dodge an LAV.

I dunno about the solution to murder taxi problem, but IMHO something has to be done. I was just in a fight playing HMG heavy. Got killed 6 times, 4 of those run over by a LAV, and of those 4, 3 times just after respawn, trying to join up with the rest of the team. This is really frustrating and totally ridiculous. As a heavy, you really cannot dodge incoming LAVs, and even if there's a hill just a few meters away you just don't have enough time to climb to safety. I didn't want to switch to forge gun just to go hunt that guy in a LAV because I thought I would be much more useful to my team with HMG.

To be able to provide that kind of denial to enemy movements just by calling in a militia LAV and playing some GTA in DUST is stupendously wrong and hurts this game.

Just my 2 cents...

Dosent want to use his forge gun when lavs are running rampent because he thinks his hmg would be more usefull .....massive f@@#king face palm. Ps your a heavy use the FREE lav to cross the vat the battlefield.

It dosent matter if your going 20m or 200m your still quicker and safer in your lav .

Actually, it takes you longer to call in your LAV than it does to run 20m.

Lavs arnt broken their the only vehicle that acctually stands up to av. I havent ran heavy in this build but up untill the start of uprising I went every where in my saga. Most heavys I know go every where in their lav alongside their logibros. Lavs are a heavys second best friend to logis as they move you round quickly as well as provide cover for when you do get out. Put some sp into either a methana or a saga and give it a go . It dosent matter if your going 20m or 200m your still quicker and safer in your lav .

The biggest problem with murder taxis right now, is that in an open area, there's no way to defend yourself from them unless you're carrying AV.

The biggest problem with murder taxis right now, is that in an open area, there's no way to defend yourself from them unless you're carrying AV. Even if you can dodge them three to four times, all they have to do, is curve around and try again. I've dodged a taxi for three to four minutes, but sooner or later, they'll get you by dumb luck.

The problem, is there's no way for standard infantry to really combat a murder taxis' repeat advances. I propose that rather than just doing "more damage", shooting the tires of an LAV has an effect on it's speed. LAVs could have some sort of run flat tire system that would allow them to keep moving, but shooting the tires should at least cripple their movement until they can be repaired by someone with an armor repper or something.

It wouldn't even take away the murder taxi, just ensure that they only really get one pass to make their move on someone.