mobile arty respawns?

[sarb]

does the mobile arty vehicle respawn?

i jumped into it yesterday, and set it up in a nice spot, and got in the other seat to hit some targets. but then some guy jumped in and started driving me around! i kept saying to bail bail bail, but he wouldnt. we eventually got blown up, and after that i couldnt find the mobile arty again. does it come back or move?

[Forest]

Re: mobile arty respawns?

Spawns in the same place

[Bullit_toof]

Re: mobile arty respawns?

Sarb, the same thing keeps happening to me, ie someone else jumps into the artillery thinking its a tank and just drives into battle. I bet 75% players still don't know how to use artillery.

But any way, the artillery spawns less often than other armoured vehicles i think. But always in the same area.

Arty is a fantastic addition to the game i think when used this way, hats off to the POE guys!

[Sanman62]

Re: mobile arty respawns?

Noobs are always jumping into the arty and driving off with you stuck in the gunner seat. I do 2 things:

1. I lace the arty with C4, tell the guy to bail out and/or stop. Then warn him that I'll blow it with my C4. If he doesn't stop, I bail out and blow it. It's his own fault for stealing equipment that was already being used.

2. If I forgot to put C4 on it or coulnd't then I let the person drive into a tank battle and I don't fire a shot, if he bails before we get destoryed then I try to fire an arty round right into his back. Again, their fault for stealing equipment that was already being used.

The Arty is not a jeep, it's not made to get you into the battle faster.

[Heavy552 AWG]

Re: mobile arty respawns?

... also I drive the arty quite some distance away from the default and it will take a noob a long time to get there. I usually have the spin map set medium so I can see this noob coming.

I'll take the driver's seat and leave the computer room for coffee break. When I come back I expect noob to be either gone or the entire tank destroyed and respawned. I know at that point Im done artying in that server for the day.

I dont know what is worse... a nooblet's intense jealousy at the percieved superiority of the artillery in the offensive role or the killing effectiveness of the arty in the hands of skilled players.

The C4 option becomes more and more attractive each week. I usually plaster it all over the driver's view if possible.

[Sanman62]

Re: mobile arty respawns?

I don't like teamkilling. In fact, I apologize a lot when I do it by accident (even if they punish me). I'm all about trying to play as a team member (even on pub servers), I listen to my SL and CO.

But these idiots that take the vehicle that I've spent time getting into position and getting my ranges sorted out just tick me off. I've spent time in offline servers practicing with the arty, I watch and listen to what my team is doing and stop firing arty when the move in for the final assualt.

Please people, let the person in the arty do what they are supposed to be doing. If they keep taking it into a tank battle then so be it, wait for the respawn and take it then but don't steal it with the gunner doing their thing.

[Heavy552 AWG]

Re: mobile arty respawns?

I don't like teamkilling. In fact, I apologize a lot when I do it by accident (even if they punish me). I'm all about trying to play as a team member (even on pub servers), I listen to my SL and CO.

But these idiots that take the vehicle that I've spent time getting into position and getting my ranges sorted out just tick me off. I've spent time in offline servers practicing with the arty, I watch and listen to what my team is doing and stop firing arty when the move in for the final assualt.

Please people, let the person in the arty do what they are supposed to be doing. If they keep taking it into a tank battle then so be it, wait for the respawn and take it then but don't steal it with the gunner doing their thing.

Hear hear.

Many people dont understand the precision required of the artillery. If you see it firing LEAVE IT ALONE>... look at it this way.. you jump in and drive off you will destroy the fire mission and cause any number of your teammates to die because the enemy has a chance to kill THEM.

Artillery needs ranges, direction and time to execute. One noob can totally destroy the artillery for the team for as long as it takes to respawn, get to it, drive it BACK to the orginal death area, set up, re-acquire targets and start the fire mission all over again. That has taken as long as 5 minutes.

So. STAY OUT OF THE ARTY WHEN IT IS "WORKING" to do that assures your team is on it's way to victory.

[DrunkenPirate]

Re: mobile arty respawns?

unfortunately the system we used in poe1 for bf:v where no one could get in the arty of there was a gunner already, does not work in bf2 currently, we are still trying to come up with something though.

[Cantina_Fly]

Re: mobile arty respawns?

Why not just get rid of one of the seats? Make it a one person vehicle. Slightly less realistic, but look at the way people are using it. If you're the long bomber, you set the thing up then spend the rest of you time lobbing shells, no need to drive anywhere else. If you're the direct fire/tank hunter type, you've practiced hitting F2, Fire, F1 in rapid succession (maybe even, dare I say it, programmed a macro for it...) so it's not hurting you either. In both cases, it solves the smacktard problem. And really, when do you see the Arty ever NEEDING both a driver and gunner?

[spitsfreeman]

Re: mobile arty respawns?

1. I lace the arty with C4, tell the guy to bail out and/or stop. Then warn him that I'll blow it with my C4. If he doesn't stop, I bail out and blow it. It's his own fault for stealing equipment that was already being used.

hear hear it does drive me crazy when I'm sitting there killing away with the arty form like 600m and get that strange view when your shells starts to go squiff mid flight. . . and you relise your now moving
I normaly jump out run back to the arty spawn place and then blow my C4 ):)

[DrunkenPirate]

Re: mobile arty respawns?

Why not just get rid of one of the seats? Make it a one person vehicle. Slightly less realistic, but look at the way people are using it. If you're the long bomber, you set the thing up then spend the rest of you time lobbing shells, no need to drive anywhere else. If you're the direct fire/tank hunter type, you've practiced hitting F2, Fire, F1 in rapid succession (maybe even, dare I say it, programmed a macro for it...) so it's not hurting you either. In both cases, it solves the smacktard problem. And really, when do you see the Arty ever NEEDING both a driver and gunner?

No, making a single seater vehicle will mean people will start using like a tank.
We have found a way to lock seat 1 when someone is in the gunner seat and will include it in the next version.

[Zer0ed-In]

Re: mobile arty respawns?

No, making a single seater vehicle will mean people will start using like a tank.
We have found a way to lock seat 1 when someone is in the gunner seat and will include it in the next version.

Sounds good to me.