[Vehicle] Anti-Tank Harasser?

Why dance around the issue? The TR Harasser is a great GateKeeper mobile platform. It can get to top of mountains and rain death across the continent with pinpoint accuracy.

I actually disagree with that - harassers caught with their swag-pants down are surprisingly easy to kill already (and insta-kills are ******* **** for the victims). The issue lies more with how much damage they do (incidentally a trait shared with the ESFs).

In no way do I want to relegate Harassers to long range plinking, that's just boring and overly restrictive.

Edit: Your suggestion basically makes a harasser free certs to any tank within 150 meters. That's just an awful idea.

Ahh but I wanted to be subtle (and maybe a little bit sarcastic) - it just made me smile that a TR Prowler driver isn't seeing any Harasser issues, and in fairness when I play TR they are a bit of a non-event even though both Saron and Enforcer Harassers are far from ineffective.

So I think it's far to say - TR see no Harasser issues whatsoever, NC and VS tend to disagree

I am TR and I see Harasser issues.

I guess I'm weird.

Find cover?

Pull something to counter it?

How to deal with harassers in a tank ?

Shoot them, really man...it works.

I eat harassers all day with my ap lightning, absolutely not afraid of them...sometimes they win ofc when they have the jump on my back...but that's to be expected.

^This!

The only time I die to a Harasser when piloting a tank ( regardless of faction ) is if I get careless. If you get ganked close range, or blown up from a far ways off it's your fault. Harassers are made of tissue paper and 2 to 3 AP shots and it's done for.

The bigger issue at hand is that most players don't want to deal with improving their situational awareness and/or their skill. If something simply seems too hard to deal with they come here to Whinerside to cry and moan about it.

Everything in the game has a counter, learn it, use it, and prosper!

Gatekeeper rain death ? lol, find cover man, it's a sustained damage weapon....not a DPS monster like the vulcan.

Everyone says to use AP but I will forever be a HEAT user. I don't like picking a specific role.

So my options is to either not play against it, or pull air?

Great...

Although in a broad sense i'm in agreement with the sentiment when you're playing TR, it's a different story for VS or NC.

(I've noticed you haven't played your VS or NC alts for a while, suggest you give them a try and maybe you'll understand why the forum is 'whinerside' right now...)

I will try them as soon as possible
Only I think I will die allot cause I haven't upgraded my NC tank

Great ! Always good to see the other side, things become much clearer. Don't believe I was specifically addressing yourself but the more the merrier

(PS - Uncerted Vanguard isn't hopeless but shield-1 is a must-have, it gives a nice chunk of additional survivability to either finish off a foe or get to cover and repair).

THen they aren't much threat to you either...

A GK one is.

4-5 GK's might be

a single GK is just an annoyance like 1-2 Lancers.

Oh, and you could always just Lancer them.

I'm actually playing on other characters/factions that aren't in my sig on another server ( Connery ) with some friends atm. Kinda hush hush......lol.

Anyhow, I have been on the receiving end of a Vulcan to the butt of my NC/VS Tank. Not going to say I haven't been ganked like that, I have indeed. But the same crew never catches me off guard more than once. If I have a top gunner, it's no competition at all, we always win that type of encounter. Then again, I never allow someone to be my top gunner unless we're both in TS calling out targets to each other.

If anything, I may agree that maybe Harassers should have the ability to use stealth. Just a thought though. I honestly believe the Harassers are in a good spot atm, and don't agree that they need any kind of nerf.

tried VS tonight and yes it was harder, i needed to run away faster from the harassers
and you better don't miss with the one shot canon, switching to top gun made me a sitting duck
but only one harasser could kill me and he sneaked up to me when i was repairing my tank
tomorrow i test NC

i got this little burn of joy in my stomach when playing with the tank
warning to everybody who reeds this, you can already start running i will be driving a tank more often