Tank drivers acting as gunners in PS2

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This is where drivers come in, with a driver its far easier to maneuver properly and find tactical hull-down turret-down positions. In BF:BC2 I *NEVER* see tanks being used properly, they are used either as BFR's are and sit on a hill miles away and act as Ghetto-artillery firing shells down on far away targets (A very bad way to use armor, but made possible due to not having a driver to get bored out of his skull) or they are just rushed into the battle because your secondary gunner jumps out if you aren't in the middle of a street with eighteen infantry for him to pop shots at.

The problem with gunning and driving is that people do dumb stuff, tanks drive into stupid areas because they get target fixation and just drive after one enemy into obvious traps or they panic in extreme situations and are too busy deciding what to shoot so they can't reverse properly. Having a driver that can look around and see where he wants to head is a huge advantage, the gunner has to keep his aim fixed on a target which means he can be driving into an area that is out of his FOV leading to crashes etc.

Another thing is it's fine having a secondary machine gun or mortar/Spigot AT launcher a-la a BMD-1 but Anti-Air? If it's effective enough to engage the interest of a secondary gunner then it'll have to be pretty powerful, isn't this the sort of role-overlap that caused the BFR's to alienate about 90% of Planetside 1's population. The only other option is to have a secondary gun that's only a deterrent and useful en-masse, with this option we have something like the Prowlers 12mm's which sucked so hard that it was a hindrance to have one, that guy could be being 1000% more useful in a skyguard or pulling another tank.

Another huge advantage of the Planetside 1 system was it made you friends, if you by chance got a good gunner or a good driver you would chat and make sure you teamed up again. I mean, if infantry zerging was bad enough in PS-1 what will armor zerging be like in PS-2, I mean this is the reason the 1 man variant of the BFR was taken out wasn't it?