The concept of whether the gun is fixed has nothing to do with the damage it deals because the damage it deals is simply a balance tweak. BF2142's main guns on all tanks was equivalent so the only difference was the fixed gun strafe handling.
It boils down to a simple truth - the concept of the fixed main gun has been shown to be effective in another game. Talking about all the other balance issues with the magrider are irrelevant to whether the concept of the fixed gun is flawed or bad design.
They can always change damage numbers. They can always tweak strafing rates. That is something trivial to change that will likely change many times throughout alpha and beta. Judging the fixed frontal main gun in the context of other flaws of the magrider is just dumb. It doesn't make sense and shows your logic to be poor.
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