Beacon Pods in 1.40

[DrDanielsson]

Yeah - the transport pilot cannot bail out without the whole bird landing on top of him. There is a way though - just before bail push the nose of the transport right up and when you land it should crash behind you.

which isnt much help if you're just about to get shot down by a gunship, but this is better than having pod surfing from beacons i suppose.

[Fingulfin]

Back on topic though, it is named "Beacon Pods" :p Anyone else had any experiences with someone pod surfing post 1.4? I am still extremely curious...

[Namakan]

no moveable pods D:

This screws up stunt mod

[Minmaster]

i suppose pilots can work around it by switching seats then ejecting?

[GrossKopf]

Iam glad Dice fixed this because no longer in matches we gotta worry about some noob deciding to pod surf all the way to the last flag and cap it... :salute:

If they could pod surf they probably weren't noobs. I've been playing BF2142 since it came out last year and I still couldn't pod surf.. :)

[Quemical]

It was easy to surf. You just had to raise your land vehicle sensetivity and while podding donw you just turned your mouse from side to side. With time you would know how to go in what direction. It came in handy so you wouldn't land in the out of bounds areas in gibraltar

[dontsh000t]

It was easy to surf. You just had to raise your land vehicle sensetivity and while podding donw you just turned your mouse from side to side. With time you would know how to go in what direction. It came in handy so you wouldn't land in the out of bounds areas in gibraltar

i've left my sensitivity as it is and simply moved my mouse frantically around, and surfed from harbour to toll.
in my defence, that was on a noob Aussie (no offence) Camp G roffcamp fest server, which i left after a round.

[Merlin]

i havent tried it yet, but if this is true, dang its great news! Does this mean we dont have to worry about roof campers on berlin now?

Personally this is the worst news yet about this game, Where has the fun gone? One dimentional gun battles :yay: /sarcasm

The biggest problem now is that the SL beacon is almost useless, unless you place it miles away to the enemy cant see it. I liked putting the beacon close and getting my squad to move away from it as they pod down. This way you could conseal the location of the beacon. Now it will be advertised by the squad constantly podding down

[BandoIruka]

can't control the damned thing whatsoever. So much for trying to get on top of roofs. They might as well had said all pod movement controls disabled rather than lie about allowing us being able to control.

That also means squadleaders need to be careful where he places his beacon, otherwise it will get camped and squadmates need to actually secure the area around the beacon to keep the spawners safe.

[=T.K.C= Vanchen]

I actually moved my pod about 10 meters by mistake. Need to figure out how to do it. Tell you guys later.

[Wizrdwarts]

New transport pods = FAIL.

[Skates]

I actually moved my pod about 10 meters by mistake. Need to figure out how to do it. Tell you guys later.

I will anxioulsy await your word.:yay:

[US_WarHero]

Iv seen some dude after the 1.40 patch in a ATU high way tampa map and he was fly flying all across the map not landing at all and also while flying without landing he was taking out all of our transports and gunships. It took a while for the admins to see him because he was just so fast. I like some kind of pod flying back because I could move about 10 meters or so away from the beacon and avoid getting camped. Now I never really use the thing.

[Fingulfin]

Thats not Pod Surfing, thats APC Surfing. We all know that that still works, and we don't care...

[dontsh000t]

APC surfing is fine cos APCs can be taken down relatively easily for their purpose. and let's face it, people APC surf out to avoid dying by a tank shell. if there was no surfing they'd land right beside their APC and get killed anyway =D

I actually moved my pod about 10 meters by mistake. Need to figure out how to do it. Tell you guys later.

*drool*