Ideas: Recovery Vehicles

This is an idea for a new type of tank in Steel Titans. There are currently 5 tank types in Steel Titans. The fast Light Tanks, versatile Medium Tanks, well- armoured Heavy Tanks, powerful Tank Destroyers and heavily armed but mobile SPGs. This suggestion brings that number to six by adding Recovery Tanks.

Why add this new type?
When hit by enemy fire severely, most good players simply hold R to reset and respawn with full health. This can allow people to get massive killstreaks simply by resetting whenever their health gets low. To remove this quite annoying and unrealistic exploit, the R key instead of destroying your tank, could be made to slowly pull your tank towards your camera and flip it upright when you are in third person. This would still allow people to get out of most places if they get stuck. Also, a box around the map would allow players to use the Roblox "reset character" if they were flung out of it due to a glitch

There is one role missing in the game's meta. A tank type which supports all the others by repairing them, and if limited ammo capacity is added, refilling ammunition. Some may say that Recovery Vehicles might be boring to play. I don't think so! In many other competitive games "medics" are loved by their team, loved by devoted players of the class, and a single good one can turn the tables in an otherwise lost match. Simply transferring the medic/healer role to a tank game won't be too hard.

Gameplay
Recovery Vehicles would be mobile, have fairly good armour and light weapons. In order to make the vehicles at least slightly able to defend themselves, most would be armed with machine guns with armour piercing ammunition, able to penetrate armour if they hit the right spot but do low damage. The main gameplay factor would be the repair and rearming of friendly vehicles.

There could be three possible systems for this. Firstly, Recovery Tanks would slowly repair any friendly vehicle in a certain radius around itself. Secondly, by pressing the spacebar while "looking" at a friendly tank would repair them quickly, and then the repair ability would recharge for a while. Thirdly, pressing and holding the spacebar while looking nearby/at a friendly tank would repair them at a moderate speed.