vehicle drops take out artillery?

[chewbacca63]

Was playing on a ranked sever with karkand as the map. Spawned as USMC engineer hoping to scatter some mines around. started hearing "artillery under attack/artillery condition red " etc. As I run over to repair it I noticed the vehicle drop taking it out [ a few times with me fixing it ] So the next round I played as commander to see how that worked. I couldn't destroy the other side's artillery with the vehicle no matter how many tries and different positions including "straight on top" Also seemed that other commander had an extremely short reload time for the vehicle drop (2 to my 1??) This got to the point were all I did for a round was drop a vehicle on his artillery and then zoom on mine to see how long it took him to reload his to drop on mine and try to see his positioning of the drop!!
So I was a worthless commander that round!


I'm usually the last to cry hacker so I will waste a round to investigate before accusing anyone,But this sure looked like a hack or glitch to me. If it is indeed a part of the vehicle drop it is BS

PLease tell me that this will be fixed in this next patch as mentioned.

Anybody seen this before? I mean, I'm all for dropping on an unsuspecting camper in the open with the drops extremely overdone accuracy :) but to destroy artillery over and over ???

[mr12es]

Re: vehicle drops take out artillery?

yep it is possible, i hav dun it a few times (through the odd fluke or 2 :P), tricky tho so i understand what ur sayin,

i havent got a clue as to how its gonna b fixed tho,

[[GFF]Pavan]

Re: vehicle drops take out artillery?

its is very possible, you just need to get the drop to land directly on the cannon. i just end up going as enginner and get the repair points. more counting towards my expert one i guess :p

[Combined]

Re: vehicle drops take out artillery?

It's much easier to destroy USMC, SAS artillery because their canons are thicker. On some SF maps it's impossible though, when the vehicles dropped are atvs or pickup trucks.

[chewbacca63]

Re: vehicle drops take out artillery?

Well I guess it's possible as you guys state but still BS!!

A little tweak of the un-natural accuracy of the drops would help alot I think!

Whoever is designing these little parts of this game should find another job. If I made such stupid mistakes in my job, I'd be in trouble.
Anybody even test this stuff and even remotely think about the insane accuracy of a "floating vehicle" and not compare that to an existing floating drop like the supply crate ???

YEAH I know, it's just a stupid video game But, quality control, ON ANY PRODUCT is important.

[mr12es]

Re: vehicle drops take out artillery?

go chewy lol, but yea, EA really need to TEST the patch before the 5H17 hits the fan

[zone36]

Re: vehicle drops take out artillery?

1.3 sucks..

[Fakesound]

Re: vehicle drops take out artillery?

I think the accuracy point was for it's original use so the commander wouldn't accidently crush any soldiers waiting for a vechile

[imported_jjgrant]

Re: vehicle drops take out artillery?

also works well on apc's and tanks

[Eddy01741]

Re: vehicle drops take out artillery?

also works well on apc's and tanks

Yea, i do that to destract tanks and APCs. Also, on Karkand, i kill roof campers with vehicle drops with EASE. So funny, i crack up at how easy and funny it is to kill em.

[Fakesound]

Re: vehicle drops take out artillery?

So funny, i crack up at how easy and funny it is to kill em.

If they are smart they'll see a shadow and spam 'E' to get in it. Then jump onto the gun and mow down your troops.

[Eddy01741]

Re: vehicle drops take out artillery?

If they are smart they'll see a shadow and spam 'E' to get in it. Then jump onto the gun and mow down your troops.

lmao, the turret of the humvee can't pitch down that much though... anyways, most times they are sniper or the commander, so they never see. Also, i confirmed the vehicle drop destroying arty, just did it 10 times to a MEC commander, kinda hard to pinpoint, as most times it will tip and fall off of the barrel, if you get it, it's a 1 hit ko.

[imported_Dingdong]

Re: vehicle drops take out artillery?

lol it doesnt only destroy arty iv also goten a UAV trailer before and a few planes helis ppl getting in takes snipers commanders yea...losts of stuff

[Eddy01741]

Re: vehicle drops take out artillery?

lol it doesnt only destroy arty iv also goten a UAV trailer before and a few planes helis ppl getting in takes snipers commanders yea...losts of stuff

Yea, there is now a reason to use the vehicle drop, to kill arty, kill snipers, and kill some vehicles, as well as destract vehicles lol. It's a great allround weapon imo.

[zipp0r]

Re: vehicle drops take out artillery?

i drop it on arty, snipers, choppers, on large groups of people and on flag poles great way to defend a flag btw it explodes and kills everyone near it.
my best is probably 5 kills (or 5 "no mores") dropping it on a group of people trying to cap a flag.