"Car-tillary" fix suggestion

[imported_Wasp]

Re: "Car-tillary" fix suggestion

I sometimes feel like I'm part of an experiment as a BF2 gamer. Hey let's drop this feature on the grunts and see what happens.. In a clanmatch yesterday our pilot was taken out by a vodnik during takeoff and Yihad jeeps was rampant. I have more or less given up on the idea that the most important issues will be fixed. Like the chinese UFO. On Gulf of Oman we still have 4 or 5 people spawning at the MEC airport to get the planes airborne before the F35's come raping. If they get shot down during the round it's all out rape..

[SwissArmyShoe]

Re: "Car-tillary" fix suggestion

I think this is a minor issue at best. At the start of the round it can be annoying but as the battle rages forth, there are far more important things to concentrate on than watching a base for people jumping into a chopper so you can drop a car on it.

At the absolute most, this is in the same category as 'spawn raping' It's just frowned on and nothing more.

I haven't seen anyone drop a jeep on a chopper yet.

Like I said before, once the novelty wears off.....

[Strega]

Re: "Car-tillary" fix suggestion

I think this is a minor issue at best. At the start of the round it can be annoying but as the battle rages forth, there are far more important things to concentrate on than watching a base for people jumping into a chopper so you can drop a car on it.

At the absolute most, this is in the same category as 'spawn raping' It's just frowned on and nothing more.

I haven't seen anyone drop a jeep on a chopper yet.

Like I said before, once the novelty wears off.....

"Minor Issue?"

Bro, you can kill the ENTIRE enemy artillery with Vodniks...in 60 seconds. You think that's MINOR???

[imported_xRandoMx]

Re: "Car-tillary" fix suggestion

You really gotta wonder who betatests this stuff? the bots?

Lol, we just ran a test with 20 bots for 5 hours, none of the bots filed any bug reports, so I guess the code is fine.

[7eregrine]

Re: "Car-tillary" fix suggestion

I don't like the idea of SL ones being able to request. Yes I always squad up but I am rarely with my SL for 100% of the time. Many times I get seperated and need some wheels.
I would be willing to compromise with you "vehicel drop whiners" and make it so that they can be dropped ONLY when called... but by ANYONE, Not just SL's.

[Sir. Blackhawk 5]

Re: "Car-tillary" fix suggestion

But think on the other hand, yes the commander may possibly misuse the car drops, but what if the squad leader is not so smart? Sometimes when im a squadleader and i dont use the map, ingame i press T, sometimes the request can go all the way on the other side of the map.

[Harmor]

Re: "Car-tillary" fix suggestion

If all commander toys were available at SL request only, it would also increase the role of the SL and help to separate that role from the role of the grunts in his squad...

Why have a human commander then?

[ProphetSiix]

Re: "Car-tillary" fix suggestion

Eveyone seems to be focusing on car drops onto artillary. Try getting a car dropped on you when you're capping a flag!

Or better yet, you go to get in an APC, only to find it at half-health because there's a freakign CAR on it! Or you just capped a flag, and are defending it, in a vehicle, and get another vehicle dropped on you!

I just got off this really "great" server, where the opposing commander had what I would consider "questionable tactics" with this damned vehicle request feature. Every time I was capping a flag, my commander would give me UAV support, so I KNOW there wasn't an enemy squad leader arround requesting vehicles, just an enemy commander zommed all the way in, dropping cars left and right. Ever been on the balcony of the TV station of Warlord, and get killed from a CAR? It sucks!

I agree with the above suggestions for a fix:
Make them less accurate
Make them only availible when requested
Give them the same cool-down period as an artillary strike

It's already being abused out there in the wild, and on a much grander scale than is being discussed.

[SwissArmyShoe]

Re: "Car-tillary" fix suggestion

"Minor Issue?"

Bro, you can kill the ENTIRE enemy artillery with Vodniks...in 60 seconds. You think that's MINOR???

Wow, I didn't think it was that bad...

I still haven't noticed this happening though :hmm: