Vehicle Drop

[ptegan]

Just a quick question :)

Is it possible for a commander to make it impossible for an enemy team to spawn at an enemy flag by droping a vehicle at every spawn point?

I remember reading about how some teams would park jeeps at all the spawn points of a flag so that the other team got a red spawn icon on theior map and so were blocked from appearing there.

How long before an unused vehicle jeep blows up?

[exho]

Re: Vehicle Drop

Yes, its possible to block spawn points, but I'm not sure how long the buggies last for.

[Gav]

Re: Vehicle Drop

I thought I saw someone here say the air-dropped vehicles lasted about 60 seconds... So many 1.3 threads though, so I have no idea where it was... sorry.

[IndianScout]

Re: Vehicle Drop

I have sent several of the jeep concerns and questions to EA/DICE, and should have an answer sometime later today...

[ptegan]

Re: Vehicle Drop

Ok thanks. I had guessed that a dropped vehicle would last just as long as a 'normal' one. i.e. when you drive one off and get out of it, it'll smoke after 60 seconds and blow up after 3 mins (or thereabouts) but I think the 60secs figure is correct for the dropped ones.

Refresh at 20secs = 3 in 60 seconds means that it wouldn't be possible to fully block all spawn points.

I think my question has been answered :)

[u_got_pwnt]

Re: Vehicle Drop

ive only jsut logged on and seen 1.3 is released.. im curious what vehicle dop is, anyone explain?

[Hookey]

Re: Vehicle Drop

ive only jsut logged on and seen 1.3 is released.. im curious what vehicle dop is, anyone explain?

Commanders can drop vehicles. That's it. The intention is to support squads who need a vehicle, the reality is Commanders have a new toy to drop on people's heads, its already dubbed "cartillery".

[Gav]

Re: Vehicle Drop

Ok thanks. I had guessed that a dropped vehicle would last just as long as a 'normal' one. i.e. when you drive one off and get out of it, it'll smoke after 60 seconds and blow up after 3 mins (or thereabouts) but I think the 60secs figure is correct for the dropped ones.

Refresh at 20secs = 3 in 60 seconds means that it wouldn't be possible to fully block all spawn points.

I think my question has been answered :)

Yes... but. There's always a but. I'm not an expert on where all the spawn points are around the flags (learning the points for each flag on each map is too much like effort for me). Are there always a fixed number? The jeeps don't last long enough to fully block all spawns, but they could be used in conjunction with a squad attacking a flag. For example, a squad of three or four guys makes a move for a flag, and they all stand on a spawn point each. If there are, say, five spawn points per flag, you could drop a vehicle onto one of the remaining two spawns, meaning the entire squad now only has to worry about enemies respawning from one point and so will have their guns all pointed there ready. After 20 secs, you drop the second jeep on this spawn, and now the flag is safe from respawning enemies. The squad finishes off capping the flag and then drives off in one of the vehicles you used...

It does still have it's uses, but not as a solo thing where the commander could block, say, the enemy main base without any of the squads in support.

[warlord2000ad]

Re: Vehicle Drop

I have sent several of the jeep concerns and questions to EA/DICE, and should have an answer sometime later today...

I told IndainScout about a good blocking position on at TV Station on Sharqi, found it in 1.21 test when landing a chopper in the wrong place :P Debating whether you could call it a landing through.

[IndianScout]

Re: Vehicle Drop

ok, I had a chat with EA about the vehicle drop being used as a weapon and to blow artillery just now..

their stance is, if the clan server has a rule about no attacking uncaps and the enemy commander continues to destroy artillery or players who are spawning in the uncaps with the vehicle drops,

If a server admin sees this happening and kicks some one for it I have no issue with that kick

however this will not be added to the ROE...

[Older-OMO]

Re: Vehicle Drop

When I drop vehicles and they are unoccupied, the first one explodes when the next one is dropped, so there is no way you could cover all the spawn points with vehicles.

[Gav]

Re: Vehicle Drop

Do they? I didn't know that... Haven't had chance to play around with the new commander toys yet - I was squadding it last night rather than commanding...

So, unlike supply crates then, you can only have one "bonus" vehicle on the map from an airdrop at any one time?

[ptegan]

Re: Vehicle Drop

Ok Older-OMO. Well that pretty much kills every thread every created about commanders spamming jeeps :)

Hey, imagine you're driving somewhere in a dropped jeep and the commander drops another and you suddenly blew up! :p

[imported_Zach]

Re: Vehicle Drop

When I drop vehicles and they are unoccupied, the first one explodes when the next one is dropped, so there is no way you could cover all the spawn points with vehicles.

I'm not sure that is true. I just saw a screenshot of two humvees sitting on top of a blackhawk, so if you are right, how was that possible?


Edit: Here you go: http://www.totalbf2.com/forums/showp...&postcount=129

So I guess you are saying when the top humvee finishes deploying (i.e., parachute disappears), the one underneath will instantly explode? FWIW, I hope you are right. :)