Tormentor sucks?

[Simon Moon]

Never saw the walker of the strogg fall over yet, thats a new one. But dont you think the Titan tank drives like a cardboard box wrapped with tinfoil? You dont really get a "tank" feeling with it.

The Armadillo and the Trojan APC are pretty similar, the steering is dodgy at best.

The Icarus hover pack is neat for the Strogg to move around, but it is almost impossible to shoot someone down in those things, even in very close quarters. You either have a shotgun or you have an anti vehicle turret behind you, otherwise you are unlikely to kill one of those guys.

[painmaker]

Those Icarusses are pretty easy, get them close to a wall and shoot the wall with a tank, even if they are at 3m away from the wall theyre dead. But the Strogg tank is so retarded... It has the same armor as a Trojan, and even in Siege mode(C button) it should have more armor/defence whatever= NOT TRUE... All it does is increase bullet resistance, not nearly enough for it to be used. And the Titan is just... Well its gay its like a fortress with a rocket on it...

[Simon Moon]

Yeah true, you can kill the icarus easy with a titan shell, same goes for the tormentor, while you need like 8 to kill a walker (cyclops) but the problem with the icarus is that you cant kill them really good in the close quarter situations, or simply when you are not sitting in the titan. You run out of bullets in most cases (the shotgun seems to have a better survival rate there) before you kill it as infantry. As soldier you could lock on with the rocket launcher, but it is extremely hard to do so. Managed it twice only so far.

[painmaker]

Thats true yes, and the Tormentor with a Titan? NOTRLY! I found a way to protect it against tank shells, it even allows me to hover inside the GDF mainbase.(NO GLITCH, LEGIT TACTIC!)good way to kill the Icarus tho, take a grenade, hold right mouse and run towards it, just bunnyhop after him and stay as close as possible.(Yes jihad but it works very good!)

[GoatStar]

The vehicles dont respond as well as BF2142 ones,but they also dont seem to influence the battle that much I think.Out of all of them,I think I like the Tormentor and the Titan the most.Tormentor is pretty original and you can do a lot of things with it.The only problem with it is if you go too low,youre toast.Titan feels like a light armored hummer with a Cannon but its fun shelling the EMP disruptor or the areas near it that have Strogg deployables from the hill across.The other night I cleared the whole area by myself and then the engies had an easy time swarming in.Someone with a Tormentor kept bugging me but the Machine gun on the Titan takes care of anything in the air fairly easy.Actually this guy was floating so easy in the air towards me that I hit him with a tank shell from almost across the river.

[Simon Moon]

How do you protect it against tank shells? I hit them even if they move "quickly". Shooting down gunships in BF2142 with tanks was one of my favorit past time, so i had some training

[Sydney]

One tip, if you want to lock on more easily hold down caps lock, that way you can free look, and weapon systems will follow your aim, including lock on (to a certain extent)

[painmaker]

Originally Posted by Simon Moon

How do you protect it against tank shells? I hit them even if they move "quickly". Shooting down gunships in BF2142 with tanks was one of my favorit past time, so i had some training

You can put tacitcal shields on it, it puts a wall between you and the object, so you can even get inside the GDF spawn! Put them on the back, and you can still have a gunner and shoot rockets, but they cant hit you!

[Simon Moon]

Hmm, that sounds sick and wrong, but kinda funny. I think i am going to try this out

[painmaker]

Hehe its not sick at all, because it gives you just enough time to shoot those artillery installations down, but its gone by the time you killed one, so its only good for taking out artilleries.

[Simon Moon]

Well then land and put a new shield on there. I was thinking about going constructor and repairing the thing, but with the shield this might be a whole new alternative. Wonder if it works for other vehicles too...

[painmaker]

Yes it does, I put it on the Hog when I go out for tank ramming, They will put me down to half, but ill hit them harder. And on the Cyclops aswell, if you put it on right you have a round thing on its torso. (Good trick to disable enemy AV/and artillery installations aswel, put it on the front so it blows itself up!)

[Evil Lemon]

Jesus I've been playing the BETA ages and didn't know about half of the tips in this thread, thanks keep them coming!