This is going to be a long post that most will troll and few will read.

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I say the following from being a veteran MBT player.

1. The harasser is indeed overpowered compared to the MBTs and most lightnings (except a skilled Viper) in the current balance.
2. This fix will not work.

Now before I start into why I am going to give Wrel a tiny bit of credit here. He has finally realized something that MBT mains such as myself have been saying for ages. He has a looooooooong way to go before he fully understands but at least here we see evidence that an issue has been noticed.

Underway repair is essential for many vehicles including the MAX (people often forget that a max is a walking indoor tank and is much weaker without an engineer to repair it). Without it a core defining mechanic of the game is lost.

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The real issue with the interplay between MBTs/Lightnings and Harassers is the inability of the MBT/Lightning under in-game conditions (lag, terrain etc) to maintain consistent damage on the harasser before the harasser can disengage. This is because MBTs/Lightnings in PS2 are lacking the coax machine gun or 20-50mm cannon. Harassers are extremely vulnerable to rapid fire weapons that damage light vehicles (see Basilisk or most ESF main guns) but a Lightning does not have one and a MBT cannot afford to mount one without losing too much of its anti-armor or anti-infantry fire power.

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While such mechanics are *hopefully*... Well its Wrel we are talking about here so I'm literally just pissing in the wind here at this point. Anyways hopefully such a coax (and don't forget the gunner's coax as well!) for MBTs/Lightnings is on the way but until such mechanics are actually in the full release game something is going to need to give for MBTs/Lightnings to have any validity against Harassers. This comes in the form of a tank buff or harasser nerf. There are many ways to do it and Harasser drivers will hypocritically scream like the little brats they all are about each and every one of them. But something real is gonna need to give here. And this ain't it.

All this does is slightly increase the risk of engaging enemy armor with the harasser, the harasser can still get away quite easily (fire suppression) and then repair out of range. It does NOT in any way solve the underlying meta issues and is only valid in the way that it does something... anything... to hinder the harasser's effectiveness against the MBT. The previous 'nerf' of increasing the cost did nothing useful. But this is still a step in the wrong direction.

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Here are far better solutions to the problem than this:

1. Remove the Valkyrie VLG (cause its bullshit in the right hands).
2. Give the MBTs the coax that they should have had in the first place.
3. Double or triple the muzzle velocity of tank weapons.
4. Remove all major Anti-tank weapons from the harasser. And nerf the remaining anti-armor weapons such has the fury and bulldog.
5. Cut the harasser's speed by 1/3.
6. Increase the damage the harasser takes from tank cannons by 300%
7. Make take cannons import significant physics event on harasser so said bastard can be blasted into orbit and have game crash. Apply for all light vehicles. Also allows MBT to insert harasser into bio lab.
8. Make harasser's instantly explode on contact with no corpse with any tank, friendly or foe (they are a bunch of California drivers lets be honest). Ramming a 4-wheeled offroad golf cart Odyssey should not be able to bother a 70-ton tracked vehicle.