My prediction (and so far every time I've made a similar one, it's been spot-on) is that there is more content coming down the pipeline. 2042 literally just had it's best season to date, the game is in the best state it's ever been in, and the player count has been reflecting that. The EA earnings call from last week indicated that they're very pleased with the reception 2042 is getting right now and they've essentially doubled-down on support for it and the franchise as a whole. I think seasons seven and eight are quite likely, although I'm not sure about after that. If I had to make a guess right here and now, I think 9-12 could be coming because I don't anticipate another main entry in the franchise to come any earlier than holiday 2025; and even that might be premature. As for the TOR, I can't speak from personal experience as I haven't played too much on non-Redacted maps this season. What I'll say is that I think there need to be clear advantages and justifications for why any given vehicle exists in the game. One of the advantages for the TOR is that it can brush APS aside and continue to be effective against armor, but at the cost of having a main weapon that is utterly useless against anything but vehicles. Like you said, the MBTs are both kind of jack-of-all-trades, but this flexibility is one of their main advantages. If you remove the APS from the TOR and/or allow opposing APS to counter its railgun shots, where's the motivation to take the TOR at that point? It just becomes a worse version of the normal MBTs in most ways. It's been about a day since these changes have been implemented, right? How about we pump the brakes and give them some time to breathe before we start tossing out the hyperbolic "this needs to be changed/removed" reactions.
The only argument I can see for the Railgun keeping the ability to bypass the APS would be to make the Tor’s armor weaker like the Ram. Let the MBT annihilate it in a close quarters brawl or a surprise attack, but from range the Tor is a tank destroyer. Idk, I’ve mostly been on Redacted this season
if they aren't gonna remove that ability, the least they could do is remove the Tor's APS. being able to both bypass APS, while also being immune to shells is just insane you can drive up to a tank, and they'll be literally helpless against you
@@CrispyMuffin2I think the point of it having APS was it was supposed to be the glass cannon; the APS lets it survive an encounter it can’t just win in one or two shots or if it gets ambushed. I’m fine with it having the APS it’s the armor I would like to see weakened. Make it really easy to kill without it so if it gets swarmed or focused it can get away if the enemy isn’t too close, but in a knife fight an MBT can take it if it gets the first shot off, and a single engineer can destroy it if they get the timing right. I suppose that would only work if the APS could stop the railgun.
They still need to completely redo the way that the armour piercing rounds work on the main battle tanks, they should reward accuracy of weak spots on other vehicles and it shouldn't be stopped by the Active protection. That's the issue to me is that the MBTs should be better anti armour at mid range versus the tors long range.
What do you think about making the charge-up require a commitment such that you can't spam the button to get it close to cummin- I mean firing, but instead you can't cancel or back out of firing?
I'm not great with the canister shot yet because it has a different projectile velocity than I'm used to (I don't really use the MAV or brawler much) but it does seem effective I don't really want it to be nerfed because I want more people to feel safe enough to stop camping. The railgun going through APS does need to change though, it's too easy for me to kill another tanks before they can even land damage on me
Dice should give the coaxial canister weapon to the ELBC-Ram. It would be a trade off of burst damage for versatility and is used differently from the TOR (Ram uses it to drive by and burst infantry, TOR uses it to clear its advance)
Camper tank has APS and thermal smoke so if the tank player is any good it will take quite a while unless you have an attack heli with gunner and the tank APS is down.
@@bzerklybyou don't really need much to destroy a camping TOR. All you need is someone who is good at flying a gunship,and someone who is able to land on the tor from the gunship with C5. That's what most players do because it's the easiest way. It'd be better for a Sundance main to do it because you're easier to see with a parachute unless you time it perfectly when pulling the chute
@PToastman problem is players bought skins for it. Also, it was part of and advertised for season 3. It's like advertising the RM68 for season 4 and then removing it because it was too OP
@@dc3747 oh I don’t think they should remove it, just limit their space, the same way that air vehicles can use a broad space, just make the tanks playable space valid from the flags and not from the base. You can’t destroy a tank whichever it is if you can’t reach em…
I think the canister shot is balanced considering you can do nothing to infantry with the primary cannon. The MBTs having the canister shot would be overpowered IMO but on the TOR it feels fair and helps TOR actually play the objective.
Also. On the topic of going through APS. I don’t think it should block the rail shot. MBTs and other vehicles simple only need to close the distance with the rail gun tank and then its next to impossible for the TOR to get a shot off if you keep its turret moving. I wouldn’t be opposed to reducing the ammo it has in reserve to help make sure the battles the TOR gets into must have well placed shots to increase skill.
Been using this thing recently, it's pretty insane but not in the way I thought it would be, it's tough to climb the scoreboard until the shotgun and decent gunner. Ignoring APS definitely needs some adjusting because it puts the OG tank to shame. Interestingly, the TOR is actually harder to use (good thing), for example the cannon mobility is really small, you can't look up or down nearly as much as the OG tank can, which puts you in really weird disadvantage spots against infantry/vehicles a lot. Shooting aircraft can be easier than the OG tank, but it's its own difficulty having to compensate turret lag/siege mode, etc. You have to play more carefully and differently to succeed, and all the infantry/everything on the map can kill you instantly due to the absolute terrible balancing/explosive/hack spam from 360 degrees - but this goes for all vehicles.
I don’t know why dice don’t just do the same thing they did with TOR the canister shell and 40mm grenade launcher to the other vehicles or just tank or heavy armored vehicles 2042 is also a futuristic design or idea for this game
I think with like 16 weeks of missions, they’re maybe either planning something big… or… just trying to keep people hanging on till they end it. With MW3 coming… could be either. I love Battlefield. Hope it’s the former.
It’s rail gun? It shoots faster and is supposed to be thinner then a normal HE, STAFF, MPAT, or launcher shells. It’s like arguing that EMPs should be stopped by Irish sentinels. Everything needs a counter. Though I do agree that it is slightly excessive. Maybe the APS should minimize the damage slightly.
"Railgun shouldn't be realistic and should be stopped by APS"......"Shotguns should 1-shot infantry because that's realistic". Can't have it both ways just because it suits you as a vehicle player.... :/
Ghost you seem like a nice guy but thank god you are not a dice dev. The tor tank is not OP it just that people have a skill issue in game and do not use the weapons and gadgets implemented in game to eliminate an opposing vehicle. So that being said the answer is no the tor tank is not op have a great day cheers mate.
The range of canister shot is way to far. Even if it was halved it would still be good. Canister shot on railgun tank should do no damage to choppers. They already have an op way of taking out air vehicles. There is no way any weapon should go through APS besides C5. Overall the Railgun Camper tank is busted and should be nerfed.
