Because then you aren't watching for incoming infantry. Unable to respond to threats. No legit tanker does that man. You stay in communication with the squad. Ask for a visual.

Unless you're hiding in the red line when you do it? Then i can almost see usefulness in it but youre still being useless tp your team every second you waste in the overhead. Get squad mates. Communicate with them.

Then sir, i'll agree with you when putting on a forge gun gives me 7k HP, as fast of movement speed as a tank, with a rocket attached to the back of the gun to propel me even faster in a tight spot, the ability to move in and out of cover while firing effectively in any direction, and no charge time on it.

but i see how your isk increase isn't well justified... /sigh

You can't rely on your sqaud every second of every match, this is absurd. I don't like loosing tanks to someone how went to a secure location out on mine and my entire teams line of sight just to call in a tank to specifically to come up behind me from the rear me while I am other wise engauged. I use the over map because I'm not a stupid tanker. And I do quite well in my tank Thankyou. And while I do rail snipe on occasion it is by far the minority of the time.

Can't rely on squad. Lol.
Goes into overhead during battle. Lol.
Doesn't have enough situational awareness to not get snuck up on. Lol.

You would get annihilated in a competitive match man. Your strategy simply isn't viable in a real setting. I run with one other guy when i play mostly and we can see just about the entire map between the two of us. In a pc match you have 15 other eyeballs.


To harpyja (who i normally agree with) I could easily ruin the game for a lot of uncoordinated people and new people in pubs if I had something just a little bit stronger than a sagaris. I'm sure you could too. There's a ton of proto av on the field but they're almost all bad. We would need something to stop us ruining the lives of baddies/newbs. Just let high sec be an option for instant battles and no one can field gear further than adv. Low sec for everyone else.

I've been in competitive play before. Killed five pro hick tanks in a PC before, only lost one. What do you got under your belt?

If you havent seen my name in any tank threads on the forums you must not come here often :0

I have never done anything but tank.

NO tanker spends any amount of time in the over map. Jesus christ how bad are you?

I agree with most of everything you said but if we got anything stronger than a sagaris it would absolutely ruin instant matchmaking unless it was imrpoved.

Proto tank = three people with proto AV to take down. It very well coordinated two people, but it should be very difficult.

If you want a tank that requires 3 people with proto AV to bring down, then it needs to be banned from public matches. Some teams might not even HAVE that much AV available, and if it takes 1/4th of a teams strength to counter 1 person, you have a SERIOUS balance issue.

I think it's a bad way to look at it, reduce price of vehicles/increase price of AV

5:2 - 1 Standard AVer, 2 if players are bad or Pilot is good
5:3 - 1 Advanced AVer, 2 if players are bad or Pilot is good
6:3 - 1 Prototype AVer, 2 if players are bad or Pilot is good

Make AV cost similar prices to Turrets

Fixed.

If you want a tank that requires 3 people with proto AV to bring down, then it needs to be banned from public matches. Some teams might not even HAVE that much AV available, and if it takes 1/4th of a teams strength to counter 1 person, you have a SERIOUS balance issue.

If you want a tank that requires 3 people with proto AV to bring down, then it needs to be banned from public matches. Some teams might not even HAVE that much AV available, and if it takes 1/4th of a teams strength to counter 1 person, you have a SERIOUS balance issue.

If you want a tank that requires 3 people with proto AV to bring down, then it needs to be banned from public matches. Some teams might not even HAVE that much AV available, and if it takes 1/4th of a teams strength to counter 1 person, you have a SERIOUS balance issue.

Anyways why should infantry be allowed to pubstomp in proto gear?

lol goonfeet being carebear looking after the noobs

Pretty rich coming from a corp that blows up miners for a good month

Anyways why should infantry be allowed to pubstomp in proto gear?

.34? what?

Nah its easy to track mods the problem for me is wheel where it ends up turning the wrong stuff on or off

If i could assign keys/face buttons to the mods or a few mods i would do

We already have a balance issue with AV grenades, that affects other AV weapons. Why use a weapon when you can do the job with grenades without having to change fittings?

Proto AV shoudnt be much of a threat to proto tanks. Proto tanks take out proto tanks. Av should be a good suppressor but manly tank vs tank is how they should be destroyed. Also they should be stronger then the advanced tanks last build :)

I am a tanker,i I can say wow this would be sick owerpowerd! but thumbs up for idea

I mean, if that is the way we're going to go about things, how much? I'm interested in the specifics. I've been thinking about this for a while and kept forgetting to ask, but reading that forge nerf thread made me remember and i'll just forget if I don't do it now.

Any super tankers around to give me an estimate? Before the vehicle balance patch rolls in and makes it irrelevant?

Honestly this is a FPS and not world of Tanks, I want Tanks to be in this game but your suggestion makes no sense for a FPS. Every weapon that is only countered by itself is a source of imbalance. So honestly no.

Honestly this is a FPS and not world of Tanks, I want Tanks to be in this game but your suggestion makes no sense for a FPS. Every weapon that is only countered by itself is a source of imbalance. So honestly no.

I'd happily pay 10mil a tank