Buff the Magrider 2014.

Doesn't look like it's underperforming from where I'm standing.

I see you have never drove a magrider before. Slowest speed, lowest damage, most drop, Takes the most damage. All of this is for the useless ability to strafe (besides for hill climbing) which becomes useless if you aim center mass.

Now you are just ************ exaggerating.

Not overexaggerating. The Magriders main cannons do less damage than the prowlers while having a lower projectile speed which turns into the most bullet drop. Go look at the stats ingame. Nobody can deny that fact.

I think it could use a buff in mobility, like omnidirection magburn, or increase magburn duration

I would take that and leave everything else the same and It would be fine.

The Magrider is fine as is. Very fine, and surprisingly balanced compared to the other tanks considering past situations where it wasn't one way or the other.

Is it useless? Only the incompetent claim so. Is it outstandingly good? It is not meant to be. Like any other tank it demands to be used on its own merits and not be merely used around on anyone's presumptions. it rewards those who play to its strengths, and punishes those who don't. So I am hardly surprised that people making direct comparisons to the Vanguard/Prowler are dissatisfied with it.

At least half of what you've posted in your first reply is not true. You think I don't have a VS alt to enjoy the silky smooth glide every once in a while? Even if I didn't, simply browsing this forum I'd know that Magrider 'taking more damage', for example, is a myth.

Yeah it is a myth. It takes the same amount of damage as the Prowler so they are both tied for 2/3rd while the vanguard being first. And are you goinh to say the Magrider does less damage than a prowler is a myth too?

??? If you know it's a myth why did you post that?

Yes it is. Try getting on the business end of the Saron some time. Then compare how Prowler's own secondaries stand up to that.

The only thing the main guns on the Mag need are less projectile drop, you can keep the lower velocity, but make it seem as if it were gliding along the same trajectory as a Vanguard primary cannon but at a slower speed, currently it feels like I'm manning a floating trebuchet.

The only good thing about the trebuchet is the feeling of accomplishment you get after leading an ESF that was 100m away and actually hitting it.

Can't buff the magrider without first dealing with its mobility and ability to get into absurd camping spots and easily surround bases relative to other tanks. It cannot have comparable firepower or durability to TR or NC while retaining those advantages without becoming imbalanced.

The magrider does not turn at slow rate, if you all weren't so clueless and actually bind your turn left/right, you'd realize that you turn at the same rate as third person point of view while in first person.

You can magburn at any direction you want but if you're facing a vanguard head to head, then you're doing it wrong.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...RreGhzai1tUThlZWhJMjdRbVE&usp=drive_web#gid=0

Using these numbers, one can conclude that, at least in terms of MBT vs MBT, the Magrider and Vanguard perform almost identically.

Prowler numbers are distorted:

Took the words right out of my mouth. The magrider is a high skill cap vehicle just like the reaver is to the nc. I actually enjoy sniping esfs, and libs with my fpc because I know it's something only a few can do, I like the challenge.

Yea, give it the strength of the vanguard and let it keep its magburn thing. Take away the strafing which is apparently useless anyways and badabing. You now have a floating tank with the strength of the vanguard and almost no maneuverability which will absolutely get destroyed by a competent prowler // vanguard driver.

If you have a sauron gunner his platform is stabilized too with no bullet drop. Use those strafes to flank the rear armor if its a one on one situation. More than one then kick out your gunner and have fun sniping other tanks or infantry. Also the sauron out dps's the vulcan at all ranges, there was a video showcasing the three secondaries and the vulcan is just garbage right now. Albeit it was by only one second if I remember correctly.

Play a tanks strengths and succeed or try to man fight a lock down prowler or vanguard head on and fail miserably.

A prowler and a halberd do more damage than a magrider with the halberd and a magrider with the saron. Go do the math dude. And if you think the magriders cannon damage is even close to the damage of the prowlers...we aren't playing the same game.

Ever played halo? You might imagine where they got the idea from. Or maybe it's the other way around. Does anybody which one came out first? PS1 or Halo 1?