Secondly, Natty doesn't really care for extending the life of FH2 - He doesn't believe there 'extension' exists for the mod.
wow...way to publicly lie to make me look bad
not the best move there...
we're looking in to the tank stuff, but we're a small team and have other things to do also. Just because 20 people writes enthusiatically in a thread doesnt mean we need to "revert" to anything (which FYI isnt technically possible anyway).
We'll update the tank system a bit for sure, but for 7 years our tank system has relied primarily on tables and math, and not experience. That's the cause for all the weird stuff happening. The system has too many variables basically. Which disallows us to experience-tune it easily. Anyone who ever worked with a software system knows that there is a threshold where too many variables just makes the system uncontrollable - if you havent then you shouldnt pretend to know about it just because you watched some ww2 documentaries and claim to "know" how tank battles should be like.
I dont like tanking either in 2.45, I didnt in 2.4 either but it was a bit better, yes. 2.3 and older patches were horrible, it wasnt designed for the current gaming generation, it was 5 years too late.
It's 2012 now, gamers - not you 20 guys here, but all the rest, we do have a few thousand active playernames in fh2 - want different things now. We cant make all you 20 guys happy and screw the others, at the same time we cant make all them happy and screw you either.
So: before we go legacy with FH2 there will be a revamp of armor battle, indeed, and it will be as "realistic" as possible but without sacrificing fundmental game play functionality. That means, consistency, communication (as in; the game telling the player what he should do, what tank hurts which tank etc) and balance.
the "allies get more tank" is not happening. That's a poor balance solution. Fail to make balanced tank battles and you just spawn 4 more tanks for one team? no no.... the PvP fight need to be balanced. rock-paper-scissor is the core, we arent changing the core of battlefield, it would be a death sentence.
so thx for the enthusiastic tank feedback, we'll see what happens with the system, and hope you'll like whatever we do with it.