Likewise, the hard-to-aim weapon of the Firehawke should be in the hands of the person driving the Firehawke. It'd make both the antipersonnel gun and the main weapon a thousand times more effective (the latter would be more effective because the gunner can concentrate 100% on using it as he doesn't also have to keep checking to see where the tank is going so he doesn't run into something), and it'd also be "fair" to the T1-B, which also requires a crew of two, and it'd strongly discourage lone-wolfing as it'd mean that the Firehawke couldn't fire its main gun and move at the same time.

In my view, there's simply no rational reason not to do this. Sure, the other FPS games out there leave the driver in charge of the main gun, but those games don't have tanks with machine guns that are nearly completely ineffective unless controlled by the driver. FS, however, has two tanks and a walker with hard-to-aim weapons, and in every case except the Firehawke, the "problem gun" is controlled by the driver. Give the Firehawke tank commander the secondary gun and the gunner the main gun.

As for letting the guns traverse higher, we tried that in testing, and it just didn't look good at all as it clipped the main gun. As for letting it traverse down, we could do that, I suppose. It's not like the cap ship turrets don't already fire through the hulls of their ships.

I can't believe this is the future.

It's not. It's 'A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away'

The gun is a bit limited though- extending its vertical traverse when the main gun is raised wouldn't be a bad idea at all.

Omen wrote:

So what is your suggestion, completely go out of lore and let the tank go through the tank to aim down?

A stability system to don't be affected by the ground or let the secondary weapon move up if the main gun does it too.

Most likely not possible unless you want the gunners pushing eachothers guns around.

So what is your suggestion, completely go out of lore and let the tank go through the tank to aim down?

A stability system to don't be affected by the ground or let the secondary weapon move up if the main gun does it too.

The firehawke had a pretty good vertical last I checked, it was the T1-B who suffered in that area.

Good vertical for the driver (main gun) but not for the secondary gunner position.  With all the hills & mountains on Rhen Var for example, you usually won't have many chances at a good shot unless someone is up close trying to stick a det pack on the tank.  If during a tank battle a rocketeer fellow starts firing rockets at us from up in the mountains, all I can do is watch the explosions hit our tank and hope my driver gets a chance to break away from the enemy tank and take out the trooper.

Please give the "F2 position" gun a decent degree of inclination to be useful.