Charlotte O'Dell
0uter.Heaven
EoN.
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Posted - 2013.08.09 20:46:00 -
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I started ranking in January. I could run sic as all day and pull 10/0 almost every game. The golden age was around April when everyone had marauders. Then we truly ruled the battlefield in 10000HP suryas and sagaris that hit with a 5000 round cannon ball. Then the last month was hell for us with proto av hiding in the mountains. Still, tanks were pretty well balanced. Forge guns had insane range and kept the sagaris in check, and those kept the suryas in check, and those raped everything that wasn't a Ds or sagaris. I want that back so bad.
Tank battles were so fun. It was like the wild West with 2 tanks watching eachother very carefully, knowing that it was a OHK, and I had a draw speed only bested by a couple imperfect a and bunnies. 6 v 6 tank battles on mqnus peak were commonplace and once me and zitro brought 2 proto tanks into an ambush and literally destroyed the entire enemy team by ourselves. Seriously almost every kill that game was a scattered ion cannon. Of course, that was before anyone had proto av except hard cores like DS and Cubs. Stupid Gaston FG....
My tank was ridiculously fast too. I could travel across the biggest maps in under 20 seconds (redline to redline) and still level anything I saw without damage mods.
We were far from invincible and most tankers still got blown up in 2-8 minutes, but those of us who knew our weapons were gods. Still...there were only about 20 of us that could do that and I don't think many are around anymore. Most of my tanking buddies are gone and it makes me sad.
MOL...I got so good that by the end of the beta, I was running 7500 HP missile tanks and going 16/0 in pubs just to prove a point.
Uprising was q hard bite to swallow and adapting qaa difficult. Ultimately, CCP blam forced a lot of us into the seats of our murder taxis.
The armor tankers from chrome have stuck around longer than the shield tankers did and luckily we won't be nerfing reppers anytime soon. I have q shred of hope for 1.5 but just a shred.
If pilot suits are added and the passive skills come back, there will be a return of the hardcore tankers of old, but guys at me will be left at q disadvantage BC I saw nerfa coming g q mile away and went callogi slayer, MD, gunnie, chary, and Maddie just to be safe. Tanks will be my true passion forever, but if it returns to anything like it was in Chromosome I will have to stay out of my tank in PC for a few months as I spec back into it, proper. |