Is this the start of SOE ruining Planetside 2?

[Miffy]

@DisrespectingQT next week we have some badass anti vehicle stuff coming.
by John Smedley about 34 minutes ago

To me vehicles are weak enough, AV is strong enough and as more and more people are getting unlocks it is becoming more and more powerful. I mean a tank from behind takes like 2 or 3 rockets and from the front it is only around 5 or 6. When you have so many people fighting your tank goes down so fast, in seconds and you cannot turn around and run away because you get blown up even faster.

I can see one problem only with tanks and that is the standard gun is too powerful. It kills any infantry in one shot and does so much damage to all other vehicle types. You give that to a driver and you can solo a tank where the main gunner should be on the passenger seat. We have Lightnings that are sitting there doing nothing because they should have been the solo tank but are not.

I cannot see any argument for a buff in AV, otherwise it ends up like BF3 where vehicles are way too weak and they ain't fun to use.


Again people moaning about AA, as more and more people unlock I'm noticing it becoming ever so present in the game. Playing last night I could not fly over a base without nearly being killed, luckily I have speed cert unlocks for it but 50/50 of me being killed. I have to contend with everyone on the ground and other pilots and it's so much harder than being in a ground vehicle. I'm constantly being shot at and I do not fight Aircraft OP at all.

There are only two problems I see.

1. The Lib gun has no effects, it can shoot your tank and it looks and sounds like small arms fire. I was sitting there in a Prowler and 3 shots and I was dead in what seemed like someone with a pistol was shooting me. It needs explosive effects so we can tell what it is.

2. Rocket Pods need to be split up like all other vehicle damage types. Right now they do damage to everything, if you split the damage up between AI and AV so you have to choose then they become balanced. They don't need a nerf, they just need changing to match other weapons in the game and how you choose what damage type to do.


I really hope they just make these two changes and not do some massive vehicle nerf, tbh I thought they were weak as it is compared to Planetside, I don't want it to turn out into Battlefield where they die in seconds.