Engineers & Repair points

[CS-Evolution]

I just wanted to point this out to see if anyone else thinks there's a problem here-

It takes an absurdly long time for an engineer to accumulate a (one) repair point! It's almost as if you must repair a unit's armor completely to earn just one point.

I think a better system for this would be to award a repair point every 5-6 seconds your twisting your wrench. Being an engineer in the field around a bunch of armor elements is dangerous, and the lack of reward for it makes the incentive to play as an engineer very low. I know some will tell me to just hop into a vehicle and proximity-repair vehicles around me, but I'd rather ride shotgun with an APC or tank and hop out to repair during firefights, using the tank as cover from enemy fire.

[excalibur69]

totally agree. Personally, I think it would be a really cool idea if the engineer could throw out a bag of tools, similar to a medic pack or an ammo pack, that friendly vehicles could drive over to heal themselves with.

[imported_Animalmother]

totally agree. Personally, I think it would be a really cool idea if the engineer could throw out a bag of tools, similar to a medic pack or an ammo pack, that friendly vehicles could drive over to heal themselves with.

yes, and the MEC would have dummy tool bags stuffed with explosives, so they are IEDs that kill tanks when they run over it.

[Finalheaven]

actually, it's not so bad at all. You get a full repair point for bringing your commander's equipment back to life. At the moment, spec ops don't get credit for C4ing commander facilities, but when they do, expect it to happen much more often. And then you'll get five repair points lickity split.

I was playing on a 64 man server with only 20+ players on it (but still had the full 300 ticket count), and there was a spec-op running around, bombing out arty, uav, and commander post. So I just followed him around, killed him, and then fixed everything.

One tank fix later and I got my engineering badge. :thumbs:

[BIFF EXPLODER]

totally agree. Personally, I think it would be a really cool idea if the engineer could throw out a bag of tools, similar to a medic pack or an ammo pack, that friendly vehicles could drive over to heal themselves with.

i'm a angy and i think the rapair points take too much to obtain, but droping those woult screw the balance in the game because tanks are alredy quite hard to kill :P

[King_Nothing]

Anyone else think it will be whored in the new patch coming? I.E. 2 MEC, one Spec Ops and one support, and one US engineer will be gathered round the commander stuff, earning, destruction, repair and support points between them?

[Cotizi]

for those of u less civilized, you can get the badge easy by bhawk whoring on mashtuur city. just make sure u get shot at.

[ZapStarfighter]

Yeah...there's a lot of problems with that idea.

If you're hurt and walk over a bag full of first aid stuff, chances are fairly good that as an elite soldier you can fix yourself up somewhat.
You should definitely be able to use an ammo pack that you scoop up.
If you're sitting inside of a tank/vehicle, why the heck should running over a bag of tools fix it up for you?
Even if you got out of the tank and picked up the tools, most soldiers don't know how to fix ground and air vehicles.

Also, as someone already posted, this would make tanks impossible to destroy.

[Sapper]

for those of u less civilized, you can get the badge easy by bhawk whoring on mashtuur city. just make sure u get shot at.

That's not a problem... see you in the city Punk, lol. j/k

[Thelron]

Repair-packs would be a little much, IMO... imagine being on the other side of it, where you've shot the enemy tank up and are expecting the driver to bail out and jump behind a wall (or if you're lucky, he'll be slow and you'll actually blow him up in the tank!) and then all of a sudden they drive over a pack and are at 100% health. It isn't so bad with infantry because it is pretty rare for people to be able to pick up a health pack in the middle of a firefight (and even if they do, if you 'killed' them once chances are you'll be able to kill 'em for real after they grab the pack because of how quick infantry death is), but with vehicles, that's a LOT of work to just instantly go down the crapper. At least when there's an engie around, recovery is gradual and you can kill the guy.

The trick to getting repair points from friendly vehicles is to get on voip with a tank driver, hop in his turret, keep your head down, and when he starts shooting you hop out, hide yourself on the far side of the tank and crank away. Just make SURE you let the guy know where you are, and hope he lets you know before he starts moving (if you can repair and hold 'e' at the same time, do so... I've never thought to try that until now but it'd help with the 'he shot the tank and pushed it into the engineer' surprises).

[WrAth2110]

Sounds good. 5 seconds. No more than that.

[imported_HorrorBusiness]

for those of u less civilized, you can get the badge easy by bhawk whoring on mashtuur city. just make sure u get shot at.

Any transport helo works fine as long as it's stocked and taking some damage, you should have no problems.

[JAPIO]

I also have the feeling that it will take forever too get a repair point. You need to repair something for almost 80% before you will get any.

Now.. where did the blackhawk go :)

[gunner.b0b]

Nah ive had situations (last on i remember) in Operation cleansweep where arty/uav/command center have been bombed/c4'd to crap and ive got 2 repair points per asset!!!!?????.., i do agree tho does take one helluva long time for one point :P

Seems to me, usually, its a repair point for every 55% of damage per item repaired.

I dont like the idea of dropping "fixup" bags ala support with an engies twist..., i like the, in the heat of battle "roadside repairs" its a buzz fixing up the only bit of armour around, hes hopefully protecting himself and team mates and me while i fix the rig. Had many a time where its taken nrly 3 mins to fix one tank whilst surrounded by enemies, bullets bouncing offa the tank hull.

Jus gotta watch they dont run yah over lol

[=HzC=Heinz]

yeah, like some of the guys said, once nOOb ops gets points for blowing up commander assets, they will be coming out of the wood work. lol, there will probably be TK fights amongst people as to whose turn it is to blow up the UAV antenna!