Talk about how to include the tanks gameplay

[David Hayward]

Originally Posted by Feathered_IV

Once driveable tanks are introduced, I can imagine several scenarios that people might want to consider avoiding.

-Tanks are introduced. Players complain that protecting airfields is boring, why can't they have tank vs tank battles.

-Missions are then created with opposing tanks 5 minutes away from each other. "Epic" tank battles degenerate into a mad dash to engage then turn circles around each other at point blank range, firing continuously.

-Missions are created where tanks are supposed to overrun opposing airfields. They start 5 minutes away again. Tank players instead stand off under cover and shell aircraft at long range as they spawn. Easy points. Everybody gets mad at the Tank-sniping. Cold starts are removed from full switch servers to try to stop it. Core gameplay suffers.

-Tanks hide in trees instead of rushing into the open to get destroyed. Players who fly complain about dot visibility of ground vehicles. Tank players complain when aircraft players switch off trees and reduce building numbers in their graphics settings to deprive them of cover.

-Mission builders complain because tank players are not being funelled into the channels that they want them to go in. They want minefields or other deterrents, and end up making miles of some invulnerable FMB objects, all daisy chained together to stop tank players going where they like. Everybody complains because it looks silly...

I fully expect that you'll be complaining that your tank doesn't have the correct ammo load-out or use the correct fuel, so add that to the list of terrible stuff that is headed our way.