Top of the GTA:O food chain - Jets or Tanks?

[scubadave]

This should clear things up:

 

[livejoker]

This should clear things up:

 

-gif of modded tank shooting a jet-

You and Giantsgiants should team up to make the ugliest modded tank there is.

[k33g]

With the proper pilot, jets reign supreme.

 

However, factoring in the average GTA players skill level, I'm going to give it to the tank since it's much easier to obtain/ use correctly and harder to crash.

 

Also, scubadave's GIF makes an excellent point.

[Texas_Tanner]

Having taken out;

Jets, tanks, buzzards with Tanks

Jets, buzzards with Jets and Heavy Sniper

tanks with RPG

I feel safe in saying the Buzzard is not the OP choice, as it is far too easy to take down with a Rifle.

Tanks are easy too, Get up high. Tanks struggle with aiming that high, they either have to use a ramp or go a fair way away. This gives you time to send an RPG or 3 their way and still get back into cover.

But seriously, Jets are OP. Their Death Cannons are just too much. And the fact that a good pilot will run like a girl for another jet once you start making theirs smoke, thus robbing you of their kill.

[Aether]

People bitched in GTAlV about us killing everyone in the buzzard/annihilator. What changed? Nothing.

 

 

 

Obviously the Jet as would be the case in Real Life also.

 

There is really nothing to debate.

 

 

 

Obvious answer is obviously obvious. Obviously.

[gbrown100]

I wish the Lazer cannons were nerfed, and NexGen adds something similar to an A-10 that has the mega-OP cannons but is slow as sh*te and...

 

Ya know, nevermind. This is the 6776543256230456793342469th thread about jets/tanks being OP, and not are darn thing has been done to change it. G'night folks.

[CrysisAverted]

They need to buff Zancudo, have more npc's, and helicopters patrolling. Tanks need to be already patrolling too and Lester's sh*t shouldn't work at Zancudo because "cops turn a blind eye" does not mean "military turns a blind eye"

Edited September 17, 2014 by Sh4d0wX32111

[livejoker]

I wish the Lazer cannons were nerfed, and NexGen adds something similar to an A-10 that has the mega-OP cannons but is slow as sh*te and...

I would f*cking pay for an A-10! Used to love it in the Battlefield 1942 mods. Wow, can't believe I still remember that stuff. Thanks for the memory! A-10 is a must have to make fights fair. Let's be honest: this topic isn't worth debating in as the jet is in its own class. To rival the jet you'd need something that can keep up with it. You can't put a jet versus a tank when a guy on foot with an RPG can take out a tank. Yes, he can take out a jet as well but the chances are much slimmer, you know what I mean? The battle is unfair when someone is stationary, an easy target while his enemy can swoop in directly from above and fly away at 6 times the speed of the vehicle that's on the ground.

[DarkSavageDeathlyCloud]

 

A jet of course

I can barely kill things without almost crashing but people dont stand a chance against it

Unless you're an incredibly impressive pilot or have the drop on them in the open they stand a damned good chance.

Simply go uder the radar

That being said a jet is so fast that you are generaly already shooting at a tank before they realy even see you even without that

[maybeanotherone]

so far the lazer jet is the only vehicle which can shoot at any angle in a full 360° radius

 

the tank like every other vehicle or player has blind spots directly above and below from where it's not possible to aim or shoot from

 

this speaks to the irrelevancy of adding a suposed vtol aircraft like the hydra which in hover mode would get blind spots aswell

 

another irrelevant addition would be the hunter helicopter, as helicopters are so dumbed down that you are not able to tilt them as much as you should be able to, and the hunter's effectiveness relies on that maneuvering power.

 

the hunter is only worth it if handling helis would be more like SA or better yet Vice City

Edited September 17, 2014 by maybeanotherone

[PoisoNinja140_48]

Buzzard>Jet>Tank

/S

[1DrfL]

I would give the edge to the tank actually. It takes a decent pilot with a griefers disposition to do any damage with a jet, in other words 95% of jets are just reckless sky filler waiting to be shot down. Whereas any monkey in tank can rack up kills even after the nerf and radar changes. It's been a while from I've dusted off the Rhino but I used to take out jets with it all the time and can't recall being killed by them whilst in a tank.

[skyjumper303]

The ignorance in this thread! Please lock it already....

[Don Maximus Meridius]

Heavy Sniper > Jet > Tank > Heavy Sniper. Its a cicle.

Edited September 17, 2014 by Don Maximus Meridius

[UP9390]

Neither Tanks or Jets:

The AI Law Enforcement is at the top of the Food Chain.

[CrysisAverted]

Even with that modded tank gif you can see the Jet only lost cause the pilot is too silly to stay above the tanks angle of fire

[Nomad0202]

GTAO has a food chain? I've not seen it.

[xTrillmatic35]

Ive learned to adapt. As soon as I see a jet around me I just pull out my rpg, stand in the middle of the street and wait for the jet to swoop down above me and I shoot a perfectly timed rpg and blow his ass up. Sure ill probably die but im an adult and dont give a sh*t about my kdr lol and besides at most itll only take about 4 tries before he gets taken down, I like to consider myself a master in training at shooting down jets with rpgs.

[huckmonkey]

Jets-no skill noobs. Tanks-worse than no skill noobs. Buzzard's and the pilots that know how to fly in them are still on top of the chain.

buzzard is no contest to a good jet pilot. It is quit e easy to defeat. Same tecnique as mini gunners, snipers, rocket launchers, and tanks. Climb high directly above the target and do a steep angled attack. Buzzard simply can't or fire high enough. All the other mentioned weapons can't fire steep enough. A good pilot will stay directly above the target until high enough to safely set up for a steep attack.

[LL Cool L]

quick question:

who would win in a fight between a skilled jet player and a skilled tanksman?

 

in both an open space and populated area (buildings)

[ninjaontour]

Scissors beats Paper,

Paper beats Rock,

Rock beats Scissors,

Lazer beats Rhino.

[LordVukodlak]

After the armor nerf on tanks, jets reign supreme. Before the number of passes necessary to destroy an undamaged or nearly undamaged tank gave the driver plenty of time to blow you out of the sky. And he'd have that opportunity when you pulled away to avoid slamming into the ground, especially if he keeps his tank mobile. Now you can destroy a tank easily in a single pass so you need not worry about your exit trajectory because the tank is already dead.

[ninjaontour]

I would give the edge to the tank actually. It takes a decent pilot with a griefers disposition to do any damage with a jet, in other words 95% of jets are just reckless sky filler waiting to be shot down. Whereas any monkey in tank can rack up kills even after the nerf and radar changes. It's been a while from I've dusted off the Rhino but I used to take out jets with it all the time and can't recall being killed by them whilst in a tank.

 

It used to take several strafes to get in and kill a tank. Now it doesn't.

 

Tanks are made of paper.

[MOA WINGS]

 

 

I would give the edge to the tank actually. It takes a decent pilot with a griefers disposition to do any damage with a jet, in other words 95% of jets are just reckless sky filler waiting to be shot down. Whereas any monkey in tank can rack up kills even after the nerf and radar changes. It's been a while from I've dusted off the Rhino but I used to take out jets with it all the time and can't recall being killed by them whilst in a tank.

It used to take several strafes to get in and kill a tank. Now it doesn't.

 

Tanks are made of paper.

it takes a solid 1 second of sustained jet cannon fire to decimate tanks now, they don't stand a chance, just slow moving giant targets.

[1DrfL]

 

I would give the edge to the tank actually. It takes a decent pilot with a griefers disposition to do any damage with a jet, in other words 95% of jets are just reckless sky filler waiting to be shot down. Whereas any monkey in tank can rack up kills even after the nerf and radar changes. It's been a while from I've dusted off the Rhino but I used to take out jets with it all the time and can't recall being killed by them whilst in a tank.

 

It used to take several strafes to get in and kill a tank. Now it doesn't.

 

Tanks are made of paper.

 

 

That paper still has the potential to be more of a spanwkilling menace to the average Joes on the ground though.The Jet can't be much of an apex predator if only a small number of them actually do any real hunting. Even more so for the buzzard.

[lilmoonpie]

GTAO has a food chain? I've not seen it.

Meteorite Bar>Egochaser>P's & Q's.

 

I hate, hate, hate, hate, hate jets, but I've got nothing to complain about if the person flying the jet isn't using some sort of aimbot or lag switch. If they're not cheating and blowing me up, good for them for being good at flying those f*cking things. I'm not.

 

Tanks are thankfully not much of a problem these days. They need to bring the jets down a few notches next. They need to make it much harder to get out of Zancudo with them - can you still call Lester to keep the military police off you while you invade the base?