What was the Peacekeeper, Cobra and why was it removed?

[Will]

I know there was also another tank that was removed from the game but I can't remember its name. If I were to remove a tank from the game though, it would have to be the Valk or the Spectre. Both serve no purpose imo.
EDIT: The Pegasus and the Cobra were the other tanks

What was wrong with them?

[renenutet]

ah, the peacekeeper. how i loved thee so

it was a primarily healing tank, with a greater heal rate than pally. it had virtually no offense that i can recall and all the healing cannons were on the right(?) side of the tank. it was super fun and a great team member. it was removed bc it had no place in such an early closed alpha with 2-4 people on at a time. plus, it needed a redesign REALLY BADLY. rip peacekeeper in the great tank reset 2013 (seeing david driving around a silver was a once-in-a-lifetime experience)

i played cobra like twice, i barely remember it. it was pretty fun i think. rip cobra, great tank reset 2013

also rip old scorpion, great tank reset 2013. also there was one more? it was white and red i think or maybe that was peacekeeper

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Feb 24, 2014 3:54:51 GMT -5 renenutet said:

ah, the peacekeeper. how i loved thee so

it was a primarily healing tank, with a greater heal rate than pally. it had virtually no offense that i can recall and all the healing cannons were on the right(?) side of the tank. it was super fun and a great team member. it was removed bc it had no place in such an early closed alpha with 2-4 people on at a time. plus, it needed a redesign REALLY BADLY. rip peacekeeper in the great tank reset 2013 (seeing david driving around a silver was a once-in-a-lifetime experience)

i played cobra like twice, i barely remember it. it was pretty fun i think. rip cobra, great tank reset 2013

also rip old scorpion, great tank reset 2013. also there was one more? it was white and red i think or maybe that was peacekeeper

rip, great tank reset 2013

[tarbomb]

I think the reason they were removed was that Rob couldn't design good triggers for them. If you look at the trigger spreadsheet, the theme and trigger layout for those tanks were the weakest and/or undecided.

Peacekeeper was a tank that nobody wanted to play. It had two healguns and one (absurdly weak) offensive gun, making it the weakest tank DPS-wise in the game, and would get shredded if you came too close to enemies. Without the ability to heal itself, nobody really wanted to play it at all.

Pegasus (that's the white and red tank you were talking about) was actually a pretty good tank - two relatively powerful guns fore and aft, and two heal guns shooting out either side. I suspect the lack of good trigger ideas doomed it, but frankly, I'd be happy if it were re-introduced in the same form. It was pretty fun to play.

Cobra then was essentially what Dragon is now - the main difference is that Cobra lacked rear shields, and its scattergun was a standard auto-firing gun rather than an ability. I'm not sure why Rob decided to change the name.