The Chimera MBT: First Impressions | Planetside 2 Gameplay 

By the way, yes... I know I pronounced satyr wrong through the whole video. Live and learn for next time I guess. The Chimera Battle Tank is one of the new toys the NS Operatives are bringing to the battlefield as a part of their arsenal overhaul... there's a lot to talk about with this tank. So let's get into it! If you enjoyed the video backhand that like button! Feedback is always appreciated! If you enjoyed the video backhand that like button! Feedback is always appreciated! ►Become a member on the channel today : ru-vid.com/show-UCAEmJlcQb3Gq6jMELVksCOgjoin OR ►Support the channel via a one-off pledge via Paypal : paypal.me/CAMIKAZE78 Connect with me! ►Twitter: twitter.com/CAMIKAZE78 ►Discord: discord.gg/3z5uKVp ►Twitch: twitch.tv/camikaze78

I love how you can just drive over other tanks with this thing.

my guess is they'll give it a shield bubble like the NSmax. but that will only increasing its hit size like the rampart shield on the prowler which is also useless

Can we just give an award to the rep sunderer player who made an amazing stunt and survived it starting at 1:30 and using his chimera as a pillow for landing

They should have designed it more like the "Merkava" tank with a closed troop area in the back, nobody uses the rumble seats because everybody knows that they are easy target for infiltrators. Also an interesting design choice to model coaxial MGs on the turret. Would be a cool ability for the Chimera to have them as useable weapon

Regardless of stats, it might be the coolest looking tank in any game I've played. The assets team did a really good job in this one!

As a vanguard tanker, every time I see these on the field it’s basically free certs because 90% of people who use it try to duke it out head on. It definitely needs some type of skill because at this point, unless the tanker using it plays hit and run and sneak attacks, vanguards and prowlers can roll right through it. Hell, AP lightnings can curb stomp it in 1v1s.

THE WORST ASPECT OF THIS TANK is not its size: A lightning or any other MBT ramming the vehicle will end up underneath it, where they can shoot to their hearts content, while the chimera can do nothing but try to run. It surprisingly often makes it out though, because good luck keeping up with this thing, especially with the speed chassis. Only the maggies are likely to make it. Mags however have a weird tendency to get flipped upside down when I ram them-- just a fun fact. The Chimera also one of the best hillclimbers in the game, surpassed only by harassers, javelins and magburners. Yes. If it wasn't for the magburn it would be the best hillclimbing MBT in the game, and with the burst potential of the Satyr you know what to do. The mobility allow you to control engagements in a way that other MBT cannot, and yet I can reliably outplay (and get reliably outplayed) by a single lightning or harasser if they are smart. I personally had more luck with the speed chassis than the reverse-chassis, but that's probably just down to personal playstyles. Due to its squishy feel, I don't like to fight face to face or trade as I normally would in other MBTs, so the reverse speed is a bit redundant to me. Its height does however allow you to shoot *over* friendly vehicles for what its worth. Another issue is the projectile-drops, which have to be the worst of any MBT across all weapons. This makes it remarkably hard to hit anything on range compared with when I drive any other MBT. ESF, harassers or low-profile Lightnings driving back and forth side facing me which I'd shred in a Vanguard, I cannot seem to hit at all in a chimera. During squadplay, a logistics implant makes sunderers redundant save from summoning randoms. When it comes to launchers, I have tried with phoenix-heavies which was fun, but something as crude as a gunner with C4 who knows how to use it is probably more efficient. To balance this vehicle, getting underneath it with lightnings etc. is the most pressing matter to address. Reducing the damage the vehicle take from below by as much as 90% excluding mines? Or perhaps removing the rear damage-bonus altogether would be a lazy alternative of doing so- which might also fix some of the issues regarding its massive hitbox? At least *one* of its weapon choices (maybe the standard gun?) should have the same projectile drop as other MBT's to make it useful for sniping. Or they could just give the vehicle better gun-depression altogether, which would empathize its role as a flanking ridgeline fighter, rather than this weird in-between thing it is right now. Abilitywise, a turbo function or enhanced fire-extinguishers can go as lazy options, but a "sniper mode" toggle-function or something like a nimitz-reactor could also be interesting.

We took the thing out with two of us NC heavies using Phoenix missiles out of the rumble seats. We were doing pretty well.

I use it as an APC - you get full squad of infantry, you charge in and you cover infantry while they do their thing.

Its very thicc hitbox makes it very easy to blow up with a good ol' C4 flash X) As for the missing ability... I kinda hope it gets a jump/tempoary flight ability ;D

I'm gonna take a wild guess and say it's getting a bubble shield like the defector and colossus

a bit too big. Although I like its uniqueness. It also looks like it could stand on back wheels like some kind of transformer, would be nice special :D

As an Idea for the MBT ability: change suspension. Lower suspension increases speed but impacts handling. Higher suspension increases handling and enables "strafing" but cuts down max speed and acceleration. Of course the suspension position also impacts hitbox and effective gun range/position. The seats are a neat idea though personally I would just prefer a small crew compartment, 2 -4 troopers max.

Pretty sure its super power is going to be peeking over hills like you press the ability and its tires come together and it turns into a giraffe with a gun for a head. Or what if it was Hold ability down for 5 seconds to detach the tank into 4 speeder bikes for your faction to use. Like sacrifice the tank to take it apart and make 2 or 4 bikes.

I main NC and the part at 5.15 is way too familiar. Vanguard drives in front of you while you're shooting, takes a tank shell up the arse and then turns around as if to say "who the hell is shooting me?" That would be your teammate that you just got in the way of because you're not paying attention dude. The only thing that surprised me was that they didn't start shooting back. Lost count of the number of times I've been teamkilled by some fool who literally ran into my bullets and then got upset that it actually hurt. I've never been weapon locked once in this game (not the proper NC approach, I know) but it's getting to the point now where I've decided to simply keep shooting through people who do that. Oh, also... nice video man! Surprisingly in-depth and informative considering that the tank had only been out for a week and you need to eat and sleep and stuff.

How about try something crazy as this for being able to ride and heal the Chimera tank and the new NS ASF. Both have seats and you can't use the repair tool but Electrotech does still work as if its a repair grenade. If the pilot or driver has the squad spawn implant then death doesn't mean walking or driving to a spawn point. Electrotech + Jockey with the Archer Rife Heavies with Jockey and any type launcher

Engies with archers equals to: pinging poor enemy vehicles at range.

So it's a hit an run tank.. literally use it for quick raids. Move hit hard and move out to regroup

It's well known that the devs favors TR, hence why the prowler has been able to put out 2800dps in max anchor and it's never nerfed. 2800dps melts a fully shielded Vanguard in 3 seconds, it takes a Vanguard 4+ seconds to fire AP rounds twice and it takes 3-4 rounds to kill a prowler. Also. TR has several hitscan secondary weapons, like the vulcan, which is known to melt pretty much ANY vehicles when mounted on an harasser. You can't dodge a vulcan.. NC doesn't have a single hitscan secondary for tanks or Harasser. VS has their lazors pew pew melt things.

Thank you!! I've been looking forward to this!

the Chimera definitely needs a buff one-v-one a lightning and lose

That Dom Toretto joke was fire 🔥

Thanks for this!!! Will be waiting for the full guide, and hopefully they do add an ability to this tank because it does seem unfinished

I think people have been misusing it outside of its intended purpose, which is a support MBT but instead people use it like a mainline MBT. The entire faction is a support faction, so it would only make sense that its vehicles are more support vehicles. The height of the vehicle can actually be used as a strength in the support role. You can park it behind an allied Vanguard or Prowler and still be able to fire your main gun and (if at a slight downward slope) your secondary. This can be important for choke points such as valleys or bridges where real estate for vehicles sitting side by side determines the engagement. If a Chimera is sitting behind another MBT and still be able to fire its guns in a bridge fight, it will win out against an enemy with regular tanks that can't shoot over each other. The rumble seats are also high enough to shoot over allied tanks as well.

The rumble seats are a nice quality of life feature personally think all MBTs should have them

I don't think the Chimera needs an ability. It has legitimately insane TTK against all other armor when engaging from behind, even without the rumble seats. The ambush loadout: Satyr + XP Stealth Armor Rival Combat Chassis Fire Suppression Optional: your choice of LA/HA/Engie in rumble seat to support the slaughter however they wish Even without any rumble seat assistance, without any reload upgrades, and ignoring the 1 second spool up on the first XP shot (which is fine, since we're ambushing people and getting the first shot off), back armor TTKs are as follows: Vanguard: 3.5 seconds - 1 Satyr volley, 2 XP shots Other MBTs: 1.8 seconds - 1 Satyr volley, 1 XP shot Lightning: 1.35 seconds - 4/5 Satyr shots, 1 XP shot Those TTKs are quick enough that there is virtually no time to make any meaningful reaction if the enemy doesn't realize the Chimera is behind them before it gets first shot off (and if they aren't a cracked out Magrider pilot). Once again, this is without any rumble seat support. You could easily get even better secured kills with an HA helping with a Decimator/Masamune, LA with rocklet/C4, and/or Engineer with Archer/AV Turret/Punisher with Repair Grenades to help sustain the Chimera in case you somehow fail to kill the enemy armor, and it turns around to engage you. I understand why a lot of people seem to think the Chimera is weak. Most tank engagements in Planetside 2 are either really boring poke fights where tanks are shelling each other from across the hex from safe positions, or the much rarer type of engagement where tanks are slamming into each other and brawling, and the Chimera, as it is, isn't good at those. I don't think it NEEDS to be good at those, either, since it was meant to be a hybrid MBT/IFV, which it does well. If Daybreak gives it an ability, it should build off of its role. My two suggestions would be an ability that lets friendlies within the same hex spawn on it, even without Logistics Specialist and even if they aren't in a squad with it, and an active ability that lets friendlies in the rumble seats do ~50% more damage temporarily.

the rumble seats are freaking incredible and people need to start using em more

If you combine a logistics implant (or whatver it is that lets people spawn in your free seats) this thing could deliver a TON of firepower to ongoing armor battles. Four heavies spawn in on its rumble seats, quickly dismount, and engage whatever is closest with rockets, or four light assaults with ambusher jump jets come in for absolute mayhem.

I think the main idea of Chimera is to be a heavy apc. Getting a support power would be rather nice. One could just be a passive that gives inf ammo, heals and shielding. Another could be a Tight bubble shield that slows the Chimera down, gives a 10% resistance buff and protects the people in the rumble seats. Yes I know the shield idea is really close to what the shield on the prowler wished it was but that skill slot needs to be reworked anyways.

Honestly, the whole reason I chose Vanu in 2012 was the Magrider. I just loved the idea of a hovertank that had 2 axis movement. I didn't care who had the best stats or guns or even tanks. I just wanted to drive a hovertank. I played for about a thousand hours and quit for a long time, then came back twice for about 3-400 hours apiece. And still I just keep playing Vanu for the hovertank. So whether they're up or they're down in recent patches, I don't wanna hear it. I just like my hovertank. That said.. This tank also looks like a fun venture, though I'm sure the lack of turn in place will be one hell of an adjustment for a lazy tank pilot like myself who has been spoiled by sideways movement.

Was not ready for that "yeet"

Id love a coaxial machinegun

I like the rumble seats. If nothing else, it has helped keep me from hoofing it from point A to point B or redeploying a time or four, especially if sundys don't want to stop and there aren't vehicle terminals close. I also imagine a couple of engineers tossing tank mines off the back and a couple of heavies with Decimators might make for a lively party. lol

I think it should be the only tank with the choice to have a gauss-type cannon making it the perfect sniper tank able to engage from afar, while it can overcome rough hills, I think there could be an anchor like the prowler to cement on steep surfaces as an active ability with a cooldown of 90 seconds as the max. upgrade whenever it's deactivated. Gauss-type cannnon would need to sacrifice all but the front open-seat in order to pinpoint targets with a 360° view

I think a great ability for this tank could be an Adaptible Suspension one that allows the tank to really tool itself to its engagements. When not active, the tank acts as it does now. When activated, the wheel pontoons slide a bit outwards and the chassis of the Chimera sinks lower to the ground. Doing this could act a bit like the Vanguard shields, making it less mobile in exchange for higher effective health, though not extreme levels. Doing this also lets the chimera make itself less of a target in armour battles or keep a high viewpoint when acting as artillery as the battle flows and changes.

My last play is when all 3 races spawn the huge flying weapon that could obliterate spawn point. Such a huge war. And then come the queue full where you can't play unless member of some premium subscription.

a main battle tank ability idea is to make ppl you hit unable to get repaired , if its unbalanced they could make it a utilitary that u have to activate and it will stay active for like 10 seconds max or smth , like the esf rockets in black market

I play the Chimera more like an armoured scout car, than a tank. It's not great at armoured 1v1s, but for quickly prowling around enemy lines, picking off one or two, and scouting them out, is where it shines. It's like a magrider and a harasser had a child. The armament selection is pretty decent though, if it did have more armour, it could easily end up becoming OP instead, so I can understand why it's weaker than the others. It's for a different type of utility to other tanks, play it as a scout/sniper, not like a Vanguard. I find the hotseats are great at dropping a few infiltrators off in the hills too, saves them having to spend 15 minutes just trying to climb, getting them on sniper duty sooner. It should really be re-classified as a light tank though, not an MBT. Maybe make it a NS product so all factions can use it, and instead give NSO a better, actual MBT.

I like the fact that the rapid fire gun does not have awful bloom versus the vipers lightning.

i hope the ability is a forward facing deployable shield that you can shoot through, or bubble shield. would fit the ns theme pretty well. be cool for supporting infantry too to give them something to fire through while under heavy fire.

That car getting slung by the Orbital Cannon though

Personally I’d love to see this thing take on the role of a glass cannon. Using its mobility to flank the enemy, it’s height to peek over cover, and it’s larger frame to house more powerful weapons, but lacking the brawling capabilities of its peers. A neat idea for the ability I had would be that it could break apart it’s wheels and shove itself into the ground to become a stationary turret with more armor to compensate. The cost being that you can no longer move after using it, or perhaps after a long cooldown.

This one definitely had some moment from the Connery server

The tank is definitely unique. It just need special ability like other MBT.

LOL when you drove that guy over, must of had his headset muted.

Thank you so damn much for this overview, it turns out a wasted a bunch of certs on suboptimal things like racer and maxing out reload speed on the default primary weapon.

I have been running striker/lock-on Heavies in rumble seats it's not great but it works

It's massive, can't climb anything, if it doesn't have Satyr it gets out dps'd by everything, even with it, it will only JUST win a 1v1 against an AP Lightning, has gun depression so bad it can't hit a Prowler parked next to it and it costs 450 resources. As a MBT, it's appalling. As a vehicle to use in the game? It's a lot of fun. For it's ability, I think a time based cloak would be a really nice addition and would help somewhat with survivability.

Also, satyr. Those mythical half deer people.

Dude wait till we get montages /w 4 decimators and the gunner shooting TTK 0.5 seconds and u will regret what u've said

It is the most accurate long distance tank out of them all with little to no round drop and it has the best reticle as when it does start to drop off you can use the reticle perfectly and remember as well where to aim and shoot

VS still has mobility and convenience advantage then by the looks of it, it offers inferior survivability to my Magrider because of mobility and size

1:45 How in the hekk did that Sundy survive?

5:12 even when you're playing nso, you cant help but friendly fire as an nc lmao

loved ur approach in the review

Imagine if they get turbo as their special ability, oh my god

When you spot yourself for a split second at 11:17

The 4 seats could be used by engineers with all amr's... it's honestly terrifying

I'm wondering if you can strap on MAXes in the Rumble Seats - would make this tank insane with its firepower. But I guess it works only for normal toons.

I miss carpet bombing in a Liberator in original Planetside, and artillery flails where you use a laser designator to point somewhere and it puts a target in the sky for the artillery. BFRs, so many cool ideas Sony already came up with.

"Family power" 😂😂😂💪

Youre like TheTacticalBrit only for planetside 2 instead of warzone 😄 subscribed

I see nerfs coming, at least the AA turret on the Chimera is 'too good'. Its the only G2A weapon currently in the game that is actually deadly effective as it pretty much 2 clips ESFs and the missiles lock on range seem to be larger than flak detonation, its even accurate at long ranges... The only thing holding it back from causing a Airpocalypse is that not a lot of people might be aware of it yet as well as the not too great velocity. As a bonus its even a good AI/AV weapon as well. I can definitely see how 3-4 Chimeras rocking the Sirens would be completely untouchable by air while still shredding ground vehicles. Other than that I pretty much 100% agree with everything said in the video, fits my own experience with the tank but I want to stress even more how stupidly vulnerable the Chimera is to being attacked from behind. A single Harasser can pretty much just ram itself against your rear armor and lay into you and you can not reverse(not even with Combat chassi), your 2nd turret can NOT fire backwards and your main turret is so high up it can not aim down enough to hit the Harasser, beware!

Okay, that is NOT an MBT. That is an IFV. A wheeled infantry fighting vehicle.

they buffed this things health by 500 and increased its AP guns damage by 100 recently also they upgraded the projectile speed and max damage range of its machine gun secondary.

Was the chimera footage at howling pass, roughly seen at 1:20 recorded on the Miller server on a Monday? It looks 90% identical to a defence I did with my platoon, even the orbital is on point

special ability should be a mode/transform ability. the current configuration would be the travel/cross country mode. that would give it improved speed/off road/climbing ability and yes it can still use an upgrade here, ive seen way too many of these things flipping over. and then have a combat mode. this would greatly lower the tank, improve acceleration both forward and reverse, and allow the tank to rotate. with that chimera would have overall the best mobility in the game will maintaining a pretty hard punch. dervish? that thing is hopeless.

3:20 to me its more the ant big bro since the ant have the same abilities to turn and stay in high angle terrain

Satyr + XP + Stealth = Good fun Best TTK on flank when compared to any other tank - except a barrage Prowler flanking a Vanguard (0.25 second difference) Absolutely smoking on MBT flank kills at 2.3 seconds with the next closest being Prowler in at 2.95 seconds using barrage. Lightnings suffering at a zesty 1.8 seconds which nothing even gets close to. Course it needs favorable terrain for this but eh. Sadly unlike Viper Lightning it can't make use of Ransack to aid with 2v1 flanks because the gunner will confirm the vast majority of kills.

I’m a bit late but rumble seat engine an the nano Granada’s an SMG launcher works just a FYI

Seems like it's closer to a battle ant then a tank.

Can’t wait to fight the chimeras in my barrelroll-rider

Half yaer are spend and still Chimera are not reworked or uped somehow I think 2 gunner places above second pare wheels instead or 1 gunner place will be better, and need to do something about large profile or survivebility of this tank (easy target for vanguard and provler) 4 more seatplaces dosen't help on most situations

Use it's mobility the whole point of nso is mobility use it don't sit on a spot. The tank has legs and can run. So run. Keep moving use the spead and high turn rate to dodge tank shells out flank and raid like u would a harraser.

Here we are coming up to a year since release and no ability yet and this tank is now considered a meme or easy certs for other MBT to gain.

I wonder if we can expect this thing to have a turbo on it? I also think if that's the case it should be an automatic add and then it's size could be good and hp good for a permanent turbo ability. The 2nd gunner seat MUST be change though, as a 2nd gunner this thing is terrible to gun for. I would say make the body a lower profile and add the 2nd gunner ontop of the main cannon like all the rest of the tanks.

Make the rumble seats closed and boom, perfect IFV.

Sometimes when I kill a Chimera, I'll briefly see Prowler debris in the explosion.

Oh, they got rid of ruble seat repairing? So no more sitting in the back of a harasser with an archer and rep tool?

Love the content but can we get a magrider video for the VS?

Mmmm, I'll still take Vanguard with HEAT, though, bc it still has extremely high DPS but it can also stick in the fight long enough to utilize that DPS. Other tank cannot do that.

my issue with this thing is lightning tanks who can drive right under you and kill you from below.

The unique ability is the rumble seats. And if they are not, may I have rumble seats for my magrider? 😆

As soon as Camikaze uploads the thumbs up button is hit. Quality content always

sometimes this new tank designs reminds me of the Tank from Gears Of War 2 , Star Hawk and the Cobra from Halo Wars idk y just sorta looks like it. if this new tank has the ability to ... welp let's say go siege artillery where the tank switches a mode to shoot across to 50 to 120m . Not like a prowler or Colossus but more like the Siege Tank from Star Craft. But still it's just a "what if thing " or have the ability to shoot Hook Anchors to idk climb up rocks or pull vehicles towards u .

Wait? its MainTank feature isn't the 6 seater teamplay? Wouldn't its combative ability be rooted in how many people are actually working onboard this tank? You have 4 seats, all be it, open chassis seats, that could easily support 4 extra Heavy Assault players with rocket launchers, turning this into an anti-armor nightmare. though of course, the exposed seats also mean the people sitting in them can be sniped off or gunned off with ease just the same, which could also make this tanks feature far less valued. But then, can MAX units ride those exposed seats? And if so, does it leand well to allowing NSO MAX's to use the MAX shield in an effective manner, leading to increased survivability in open seating?

I can't wait for the ps4 update

Am on PS4 and am trying to find one how do I get one of the new vehicles I see other players have one but I can't seem to find one myself they're not on the vehicle console so how do I find one and get one???????

This tank is basically free Certs for a Vanguard. Killing them is so easy...

4:31 ROADKILL!!!!!

Its a shame i don't got a pc because rival chassis on this tank sound fun as fuck

does the "pilot" implant work on the rumble seat? becaus emaybe it coudl be used as a super mobile tank APC?

racer Chassis doesnt give this big of a benefit over Rival, with Racer you get to 74kph if i saw it correctly, the benefit from Rival is just way more helpfull in most situations. Even poking backwards around corners might be viable.

My glorious charge into battle is immortalized at @2:20

Seems more like a guerilla fighter tank focusing on hit and run attacks and pursuit.

it is too big. its ability could be that it rises up both turrets higher and its normal height would be lower

This looks like the scorpion from halo but with wheels

I think there was choice to be so weak cause nso were designed to support not as own fiction that will do everything for themselves they are helping supporting thats why they are fast you see your faction broling you will flank and help from other angles or you draw agro and your race will have more breathing space when they choosing tou to fight I think its made to support not too be armour shield in front I even used the tank as artrilery behing my lighnings friends they took damage and I soft up the freats for them so idk what to think but I feel like its support hit and run in armour fight

"Right now the tank really lacks as far as its combat utility is concerned" You mean just like VS MBT's? Which can only face forwards at any one time, slowest backwards travel speed, has the weakest armor and slowest projectile? Hmmmm.