Since the last major vehicle update tank gameplay is just byond (heh, get it? Comedy) stupid, the 5 times I got to play VC took the tank 2 times, and I wish I didnt take it at all, jesus christ.
Its slow, its cranky as hell and doesnt have a single strategical use more than sitting on a corridor for the whole op and firing once or twice when a retarded ravager comes arround, but OP Thats really fucking good to hold points, its practically CBT, not gonna lie, it is, but I would find more joy spending the day watching funerals from afar all day.
The OP goes like this: You make the stupid error to ask command for an opinion on the vehicle, unless its a player that knows the situation of tank right now, they will either ORDER you to take the tank beacouse 'uuuuuh, me want gun brrr, apart from that ocasional command whose name I dont want to recall, that wants you to take the CIC apc, beacouse aparently, having an OW console planetside is any good. Anyways, you took tank, and now you are stuck with this piece of shit, but its OUR piece of shit, so maybe we can give it some use, 3 weapons, the spray, the FF bonanza or the flamer. Want to take the spray? You better get that weapons array cause if not you are gonna be shooting stray bullets in a 360 angle, oh yeah, angles, the fucking minigun has a almost non existant firing angles and you WILL have blind spots that can be abused by your local Crusher main or just a plain drone, anything really, also also, you didnt take Overdrive you fool, even a legless boiler can outrun you now, and god save you from trying to turn.
But lets say you took the autocannon, cool weapon, nice range, damn, the artillery module doesnt work (NOTE: I DID NOT TRY THIS MORE THAN ONCE, IT MAY WORK NOW, IF SO, PROCEED TO IGNORE), so basically you are like a spec sniper with both broken legs and without an actual scope, free hits by basically any single xeno in the caste tree.
Im not gonna talk about the flamer cause honestly, I didnt try it, people say it useful-ish and can actually be well used to help retreats or covering flanks, that is, if you get there before their bones have decomposed.
Secondaries are actually divided, meh, never had the secondary flamer cause I heard its still the same as the pre-turret tank rework, so basically utter trash, nade launcher is still the only thing why tank its not instantly deleted by a crusher or a praetorian, and some gunners seem to like the cupola a lot, I do not know if its beacouse they dont trust themselves to use real amunition or if its actually good for anything, it does have some decent damage if you hit something that isnt more than t2.
The turret itself is also slow, something like a turret support slot would hurt, like a override for the turret only or something like a reinforced turret side, I dont know, but the thing is, turret is a great idea but the absoulte huge nerf to the other parts of the tank make it non viable from my point of view.
One thing I know for sure is that Im only taking APCs from now on, unless its prison and you can actually do something else with the turret than playing sitting ducks.