Commanders: Abstain from Cartillery!

[WarGimp]

This is a desperate cry to commanders out there.
"Cartillery" is not the most effective use for vehicle drops!

Players should already be well aware of the dangers of large objects falling from the sky and dropping cars on 'em is easily countered by them holding down "E". Also, any commander worth their salt should know that making kills with artillery/supply boxes/falling buggies actually hurts their own command score overall.

On the otherhand, dropping vehicles for people stranded at bases without vehicles or out in the middle of no-where, keeps 'em moving. If they're moving, they're likely to be scoring points/killin people.

Be a good commander... drop the cars for your team instead of on the enemy!

Side note: Grunts, PLEASE don't stand directly under friendly car drops! As with the big red circle, the falling car icon does not mean "Run here and get TKed by the commander"!

[N2K]

Re: Commanders: Obstain from Cartillery!

The other night i was commander for my first time on a 64man server, and i never seen so many people request for cars. What i also do is drop it where the enemy will flock to it for a good camping spot or a place to defend, then just drop arty right after getting alot of kills, hehe.

[bradford99336]

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I know that whenever i hear "Vehicle drop in your sector" I scan the skies, anyone that wants to be hit by a 1500lb falling buggy deserves it. An im sure it will all boil over soon enuf, well except ofcourse for the few annoying commanders that just like to spam stuff... One thing they can do in the upcoming patches would be to lower the percentage needed to "votekick" someone, when you need your whole team and half of your enimies team to kick someone its pathetic...

[WarGimp]

Re: Commanders: Obstain from Cartillery!

Yeah, I done the "bait car" thing too.
I'm just hoping to raise people's awareness about how useful car drops can be for their grunts. Mash is a whole different ballgame when you can get light rapid responce vehicles going at any time.

[bradford99336]

Re: Commanders: Obstain from Cartillery!

What i also do is drop it where the enemy will flock to it for a good camping spot or a place to defend, then just drop arty right after getting alot of kills, hehe.

I do that with supplies when my team isnt spamming for it, you get that Moth feingning for its light fix effect just as the art comes in :)

[imported_Wreck]

Re: Commanders: Obstain from Cartillery!

I will use a car to keep enemy jets down. As soon as you hop in and get half way down the runway... BAM!!!!

I don't care about hurting my commander score, I play for fun, and I have to tell you that sh*t is funny.

Also snipers beware I will drop a car on your a** as well.

Thank you EA for making a mockery of this game.

[Hookey]

Re: Commanders: Obstain from Cartillery!

Be a good commander... drop the cars for your team instead of on the enemy!

How about; no! DICE have seen fit to give me a new toy. I'm well aware that it doesn't help my score directly, but if you think using cars to drop on the humvee that's just pulled up to a spawn, or to kill that attack heli that's going to cause grief for my teammates, or to take out that annoying sniper that no-one can get to because of undestroyable claymores isn't going to help us win (and subsequently double my score), you're out of your mind!

Dice took away one so-called 'exploit' and replaced it with a feature that's far more 'exploitable', which is a lesson DICE seem to be incapable of learning; I've said it before and I'll say it again, there are always unintended consequences from these gameplay changes. In this case it was obvious what was going to happen before the patch even came out! As it happens DICE couldn't have designed 'cartillery' to be any more effective! They made it so drops are deadly accurate, they made it so as soon as a dropped car explodes you get another one! It's like they want you to use them as cartillery. It would have been really simple to set vehicle drops up so they could only be dropped on Squad Leader request, but DICE screwed it up. Again. So as long as you can use them to win matches this way, you'd be stupid not to do it, and you are helping your teammates when you do it.

[White*Feather*67]

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What a stupid feature they have created. It is open to some much abuse.

Wouldn't some more weopons or another soldier type introduced be better? They still haven't boosted assault class yet which they should have done in 1.3.

[Metamartian]

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To be honest I think that the feature is useful. When you chopper gets blown out of the sky due to more effective AA on a map like zatar and you left in the middle of bloody nowhere I can now call for a jeep.

And for those that abuse the functionality then let them get on with it. It just gives means I have to be more aware when I am sniping than I was before. It should be no big issue for those who like the game. Bugs, now that's a different matter. whinge on......

[Cigar_Man]

Re: Commanders: Obstain from Cartillery!

The jeep drops are also good for keeping enemy helos from getting up. See them going for the helo, drop a vehicle...boom, helo down.

LOL

[Metamartian]

Re: Commanders: Obstain from Cartillery!

Can an AT guy shoot the dropping vehicle? if so then this makes it a requirement for any chopper or jet pilot to play the AT class or have an AT base defender?

[baggygreen]

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I thought that someone mentioned pre-patch that there was speculation of the car drops ONLY being available upon a SLs request. how hard would it be to have coded this in??? surely they had room in their 84MB incremental...

[WarGimp]

Re: Commanders: Obstain from Cartillery!

The jeep drops are also good for keeping enemy helos from getting up. See them going for the helo, drop a vehicle...boom, helo down.

LOL

I managed to blance one right on top of an enemy chopper.
Hehe, he kept hovering over his help pad trying to repair, but was taking damage at about the same rate the buggy on his roof was doing...

Then the arty came in.
Good boomb!


In the same round I was able to give rides to people who needed 'em and watched 'em take off to do damage to enemy flags.

It's a matter of balance.
Just ask that chopper pilot.
:p

[venny]

Re: Commanders: Obstain from Cartillery!

omg, cartilery! Watch Out!!!

[Pilo-II]

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Cartilerry can be your enemy too!



This guy dropped a car right in that spot, and it's a very good spot - get into the car and waste any mother****er in the way! Well done enemy commander :laugh:

PS, those dead people, they got killed by a claymorebitchsniper running about like a ****ing headless chicken and droped the claymore into that croud of people - then the car followed.