Tank

Tank in the Freedom City

**Tank** is a AFV (Armored Fighting Vehicle) in Payback 2.

## Description

Even being the slowest vehicle in the entire game, the Tank's top speed is still decent. It also comes with extreme armor and a powerful turret gun. It is mainly used by ACPD.

## Locations

* Random Road Spawns when a player has 6-star wanted level
* In a small parking lot in Freedom City eastern side.
* Two parked near the rotating antenna radar in Freedom City's military base.
* In a fenced-up building at the other side of the river in Allegro City.
* In the rectangle shaped building in the center of Destra City.
* At the rectangular U-shaped building near a small river in D-Town.
* Inside a rocky structure in Desert Outpost.(You can enter using a glitch and get out but it's hard)
* Parked southwest near to the water canal and estuary next to the shore in Desert Outpost.
* At the small concrete place among trees around Isla Nublar.
* Parked near a river among brown buildings in Isla Nublar.

## Tips

### Tanks

* Tanks are very useful is modes such as Capture The Swag, being able to withstand/destroy Auto Turrets placed and killing through other defenses with ease.
* Tanks are generally inadvisable in Multiplayer Mode against swarms of hijackers.
* Tanks are invaluable in Rampage mode, provided that the player is capable of acquiring one, as its immunity to many types of damage sources
* A single direct shot is capable of taking down a medium-health vehicle, even if it's in pristine condition, Buses and Trucks require more shots to take down, though this is rarely even an issue.
* Other Tanks and Helicopters may pose the greatest threat to the player. Caution is advised.
* If you see an unoccupied Tank that someone has left behind, then you should quickly run for it and grab it before anybody else does.
* Tanks are not indestructible, but effectively unlike other vehicles they are too strong to quickly disable.
* Tanks don't tend to spawn in multiplayer unless the players are provided one at the start.
* The Tank can easily run over trees and push any heavy vehicles barely without any problem, due to their immense weight.

### Counter-Tanks

* While the Tank is extremely powerful, it is not without its flaws. A fast vehicle is capable of dodging a tank's shots and approaching, due to its cumbersome body and low fire rate, which may allow the player to hijack and kill the driver of the Tank.
* Previously mentioned, you can use a Helicopter to either drop down and hijack the Tank or blow it up with Explosives and Grenades.
* Engaging a Tank head-on is not recommended, and will most likely result in the attacker's death. But, if you get close enough to the point where the tank's barrel can not shoot directly at you (e.g. under the barrel), you will be able to hijack the vehicle.
* Sharpshooters with lots of rockets can take down a Tank from a long distance as long provided that they keep their distance.
* A Helicopter is an effective way to deal with Tanks, as it can't effectively take them down. However, the heli isn't the optimal choice for aiming so one would have a hard time getting the hang of it.
* Stick a Remote Explosive on the Tank, even if you die, the bomb will still detonate and damage the Tank.
* If hijacked by an Al, simply fly over water with a Helicopter and wait for them to drive into the water or lure them into difficult terrain.
* Use an RC Truck and hide in a safe spot to ambush tanks with terrifying ease.
* A risky way to simply destroy a Tank is using a heavy vehicle like the Truck or the Bus to push them into the water or flip them over if they are on a higher-ground level. Due to the mechanics of the game whenever a vehicle isn't on its wheels, the Tank will promptly catch fire and explodes.
* Build a roadblock with Trucks, Buses and other stuff and then stick an Explosive in the middle, once the Tank makes contact with your roadblock, quickly detonate the Explosive and destroy the Trucks to deal high amounts of damage to the Tank.
* Another but most unlikely way is in Brawl where you could ask everyone to swarm the Tank.
* Weathering it with kamikaze attacks is viable yet risky:
	+ You could forget to bail and get cooked inside the exploding car.
	+ The Tank could blow you up once you bail.
	+ You bailed too early and accidentally blew yourself up.
	+ Someone other than the Tank could catch you off-guard anyway.
	+ You detonated the Explosives too soon or too late and ended up dealing no damage to the Tank at all, while you also wasted a Explosive and a vehicle that was useful.
	+ You forgot to stick an Explosive on your vehicle and when you try to detonate it, it doesn't explode until you realized you messed up.
	+ You could run out of Explosive before you are able to annihilate the Tank, in which you will have to go find more and come back to continue.
	+ You may get intercepted by the Tank before you are even able to get close enough to detonate the explosive.

* If you also have a Tank, then you can use it to destroy the enemy's tank, basically you will have an intense Tank battle against each other.
* Sticking 2 Explosives in the middle of a brand-new Tank is capable of destroying it. But, it is incredibly challenging to do so, since the Tank is moving and turning in random directions at fast speed. You could also get blown up while you are trying to stick an Explosive onto it, unless you are under the barrel.
* You can also use long range weapons such as the Laser, it has a limited range. But, it has infinite fire rate, so you can use the Laser to focus on the Tank from a far distance without being killed.

**X to destroy**
 RC Cars | 3

#### Notes

* Pistol and Auto Turrets cannot be done, as the ammo cannot be counted.
* All tests are done with the Tank from full health.
* Tests may not be fully accurate.
* All explosive weapons are tested by hitting the middle of the vehicle.

## Trivia

* The Tank is based on ‘M1 Abrams’, a famous and powerful American tank widely distributed and used by American troops overseas but with little domestic utility in American territory. The game's city maps is a possible reference to the armor, which slightly resembles the Tank Urban Survival Kit.
* Despite being large enough to cross over bodies of water with small surfaces, the tank will sink like any other vehicle if one side leans into the water.
* Tanks used to appear on roads like normal vehicles due to a bug.
* You can only control the tank and its cannon with two different analogs, this is made so the Tank can turn even if stationary and therefore, camera angle affects tank steering and cannon positioning.
* Despite the Tank having a rear-engine layout, shooting its back will not alter the amount of damage taken.
* The Tank can easily ram most of the land vehicles without taking any damage at all due to its immense weight, even its wreck cannot be pushed by smaller vehicles.
* If a tank is out of hit-points, it will catch fire and start to spin erratically before exploding.
* The tank spawning point in Allegro City has a glitch where players can smash a normal vehicle in, said vehicle will get stuck but the player is free to take the Tank. In order to hit the streets you need the ramp behind and gain some speed on the small roof or else the tank will capsize.
* The Tank possesses increased resistance to vehicle explosion damage.
* The first and last mission of the campaign, "One Man Army" and "Requiem Mass" respectively feature Tanks. "One Man Army" is a brawl that gives only the player a Tank, allowing the player to wreck havoc on the AI opponents. "Requiem Mass" fittingly reverses the roles, as while there is only one opponent, they will always be provided with a Tank, requiring strategies to win the match properly.
* The "Godfather" mission "Tanks a Lot" is a race, where every racer receives a tank and is forced to race on an extremely small track.
* The Tank's health is high enough to withstand ten direct rocket hits, making it the vehicle with the highest health, as trucks can only take two and buses can only survive one.
* Despite the rear-engine layout the turret burns when it is out of health.
* Flamethrowers can damage the Tanks, despite most modern tanks being immune against fire.
* When crashing into other vehicles, the Tank takes no damage.
* It is one of the few vehicles with a fixed color. the others being the RC Car, Police Car, SWAT Van and the Boat.
* The Tank's wheels cannot be broken off and is not animated while the Tank is in movement.
* Despite what it looks like ammunition boxes in the rack on the back of the turret, shooting it does not deals critical damage.
* In the vehicle remodel update, the Tank got a cannon cooldown of 1 rocket per second, this was likely to prevent players from spamming the cannon and spawn-killing.
* The Tank has got a nerf which it can now be damaged by Shotguns and Miniguns.
* Despite real-life tanks being very large and heavy, the Tank cannot actually crush smaller vehicles. However, it is possible to destroy a low-health car by ramming into it at full speed.
* Sometimes, ramming into vehicles that are occupied by pedestrians with a Tank at high speed can alert cops, if they are near police officers.
* When using tanks in Races, Sprints, and Knockouts, the AI will never fire its gun.
* Tanks sinks faster than any other vehicle.
* When it catches fire, it spins in circles instead of steering into a random direction or loosing its wheels, like all other vehicles do.
* The Tank seen in the intro appeared to have a machine gun on top of the turret, which is not seen in-game.
* There is a rare glitch, as you fire rockets from the Tank and you have Grenades. The amount of grenades will decrease as you fire, and when you run out of grenades, the Tank will throw grenades and fire rockets as well.
* If one looks closely at the shell that was fired from a Tank, it appears to be a normal bazooka rocket like the Rocket Launcher.
* Despite it being a slow vehicle, it is possible to jump over the detached bridge in Freedom City at full speed, but very slim chance to master this dangerous stunt.
* In an older version, Tanks were operated by cops when the player has a 6-star wanted level. However, the Tanks tends behave like static sentry guns. Later on, the operators were replaced with soldiers and they will give chase when possible.
* The black smoke that emits from the engine exhaust at the rear of the Tank can block the player's view that is driving behind the Tank if one is driving in first-person, this can create a smokescreen in Races, but only if a player is driving in first-person mode.
* The barrel does not have a hitbox, as otherwise game-breaking issues can occur.
* The tracks and wheels are inanimate due to graphical concerns.
* It is featured in one of the missions in Ready or Not, which you have to go to the military base and nick the tank, and get 60,000 points under a minute.
* Unlike real life tanks, the Tank does not have a sprocket wheel or idler wheel, but a road wheel instead. This is technically impossible for the Tank to move, as they need at least a sprocket wheel to at the front or rear to drive the tracks.
* The kill icon of the Tank resembles an M60 Patton, while the real model itself resembles an M1 Abrams.
* When shooting the Tank with any ballistic (metal bullets) weapons, bullet holes will not appear on it, but still shows broken fragments falling off,.

## Gallery

The Tank's kill icon when a player gets killed by it.Old Version (Top View)The tank as it appears in the Intro.