Oh my god, why are you so bad at typing.
so it can duck, weave, crouch, jump, shift it's mass and roll? thats one flexable tank
The goal of those actions is simply to move quickly in another direction. It can't perform those exact actions, but giant who cares because it can perform actions that fulfill the same role and are more effective at that role anyway.
Because all that armor is around one person as opposed to surrounding an enitre chasise and seats.
If you want a snug power armor fit, then you can't actually make this thing very large. Too big and the "sleeves" will be too big for the operator's limbs.
You just saw a 100 of your buddies wasted by a guy in a suit of armor then this suit of armor shows up Biger badder more guns and even harder to kill ... i dont know about you but that would demoralize me. and one more thing eventaily our opponents are going to get a hold of /design their own suits. have a suit thats capable of defeating multiple lesser suits is a major advantage in comeing conflicts
Y'see, in that very example the actual demoralizing factor was taking heavy casualties. Y'know what's good at inflicting casualties?
Tanks.
1.Pick up cover/debris and move it
2. improvise weapons
3. Giant Omni blades ( anti tank/ whatever else the QM trows at us)
4. Omni tool acessabality
5. med gel dispersal to allies
6. and more
1. You stop to do that, you get shot. A faster unit, like a tank, could simply speed between the existing cover.
2. Why the fuck is your tank replacement going to be using some random piece of scrap metal.
It's a tank. It has very large guns. It's fighting things meant to withstand shots from those very large guns. You have other, better weapons than a large piece of metal, and you are fighting things which will not be affected by a large piece of metal.
3. Ignoring how terrible an idea it is to send a tank into melee combat, if you really needed omni blades you could just strap a few to the front of a conventional tank.
4. ...Why not just use, like, a regular omni tool? The one that the dude driving the tank in wearing?
5. ...A giant mech is not going to have the dexterity to act as a goddamn field medic.
6. For only $19.99!
Hmm so picking up the objective ( THE PURPOSE OF THE BATTLE) is not worth the time? Opening doors, manipulating the enviorment, and outher such things are not worth time?
If your objective is to obtain some object from an enemy, that thing is basically never not going to be indoors. And, as previously noted, this Hulkbuster would not fit indoors.
what? it's the size of the atlas/ymir suit/mech those fit in almost any building. exspeacaily as it can maniuver like a human
Okay, see, this is mutually exclusive to being as well armored as a tank. You want to fit indoors, you're gonna have to strip off a lot of that armor. You want to have stupid amounts of armor, you're gonna have to make yourself too big too fit indoors.
1. a ymir mech would fit inside the Normandy quite easily and its a frigate
2. it can maniuver like a human so it can make it's self smaller
3. and why cant we make it viable? mod a fighter to carry a Hulkbuster payload and there you go you can land on the ship and from there cause chaos.
4. we make it possible and not a single fleet has an answer for us
1. See above.
2. Sooo, what, it would be crawling the entire time or something? That's, like, you're not going to be able to fight effectively that way. You could repel the boarding action by just giving one of your engineers a blowtorch and a pistol and telling them to go slice the idiot out of the power armor they got stuck in a doorway.
3. This is idiotic. Fighter tactics involve firing massive swarms of missiles all at once to overwhelm GUARDIAN point defense. There is no sane reason to expect that a massive, relatively slow moving mech is going to reach an enemy ship in any form other than scrap and vapor, and we are not going to waste time developing a way to change that instead of developing things that have some basis in practicality, sanity, and basic intelligence.
4. You're not going to make it possible.
Revey: I'm in sign me up!!!
Wrex: I'll take ten
on a more serious note think of it more like a panic room that can kill things
"A panic room that can kill people" is not the worst idea I've ever heard, but it'd be better to use an actually practical system as opposed to a Hulkbuster. Probably a moot point anyhow seeing as keeping armed tanks around for personal use is probably illegal.
because the tank cant react as fast as someone hooked into a suit via Neural linking ( link to the brain) and it's far more obviouse as to what the tank is gonna do. if we put a tank verus the biotic guy the tank's shots we be diverted and thrown off balence, as the biotic gets in CIC range the tank literaly has nothing it can do as the biotic tears it apart. in the same situation a Mech is harder to perdict, it can react faster, and has CIC options
What? A: we don't have neural linking I don't think, B: even if we did you could just implement it into a useful tank.
Why is it more obvious what a tank is going to do. If anything it'd be harder to tell what it's going to do seeing as it won't have all the subtle tells that a biped would. With the Hulkbuster, if you want to quickly move to the side you'll be shifting your feet, leaning towards the side, that sort of thing. With one of our tanks, you just key up the space magic drive, and apply delta v in the desired direction.
Lastly... okay first off, no, a biotic cannot do that, if a biotic tried to deflect a tank shot they'd turn into red mist. As well, if they could do that to a tank, there's no reason they couldn't do it to a Hulkbuster. Hell, it'd be easier to stagger a Hulkbuster with its less stable bipedal frame.
Becuase you can hit a 7~10 foot target that can fly and duck into buldings with that much fire power accurately. and if that air strike fails their thoughts go " well shit now we're screwed"
A: it still can't duck into buildings, B: our tanks can already fly and would be faster than the Hulkbuster on the ground, C: you underestimate how fast both missiles and bullets are.
dosent have to be we have Modification for a reason
So, like, removing the weapons needed to fulfill its role as a tank
