Supply Crates / Player Kit (Another Idea)

[Slayter_Maximus]

Idea: Ability to walk up to a supply crate and select a new kit, at a set time limit. Or the ability to “DROP” your kit, and only have a Knife. The Dropping of a kit is probably the most effective and less controversial.

Function: Swapping kit between player/supply crate would require a “reload/swap” time
And if you were to “move” away from the area/person it would break and have to start over.

Pro: Lots of happy infantry players you should not have to die to change weapons, and you shouldn’t have to only pick up somones
Con: Lots of mad vehicle only players

Real life situation: Yes.

Example, Just recently I wont disclose the military unit but, an airborne unit was hit by an RPG while they were being transported/patrolling. The Transport gunner had his gun knocked off his mount, so he was gunless, dropped back into the transport and got an M4 and took out the attacker.

Thank you for your time!

[(BG)Patton]

Re: Supply Crates / Player Kit (Another Idea)

sounds cool. kind of like delta force

[Hollister360]

Re: Supply Crates / Player Kit (Another Idea)

alight not bad

[hrpuffnstuff02]

Re: Supply Crates / Player Kit (Another Idea)

I think this is a good idea as well, simply because it can get quite frustrating if your facing armor by yourself and you need explosive power your kit doesn't have. This way you could call in a supply drop at your location, change kits, and have at it with the armor. This would be fair, due to the time duration between supply drops and the fact that there would also be a changing time when aquiring a new kit (therefore putting the player at a disadvantage in order to aquire an advantage).

Good creative ideas man. Keep them coming and ignore the spiteful few who post just to cut someones creativity down.

[Catch28]

Re: Supply Crates / Player Kit (Another Idea)

sounds like a pretty good idea but it probably wont happen

[Slayter_Maximus]

Re: Supply Crates / Player Kit (Another Idea)

Come on, those of you voting no, post your thoughts, on why.

It could happen, If EA feels its a good idea, and there is good cause and a huge want for it, and its not "out of the world" its a very easy "coding mod" to make. A lot of people dont understand how easy some changes are to make, and how hard others are.

Example: Bunny hoping is an easy one to fix, depending on the coding you just limit height based on stamina bar.

*Researching* Can I have this moved to Polls, sorry.

[NoB33r4u]

Re: Supply Crates / Player Kit (Another Idea)

whats the point of swapping kits in your squad...?
it wouldn't happen in real life and seems kinda pointless. Especially on servers with no VOIP or when no-ones talkin.
Its just a waste of time coding it for the amount it would be used.

In fact even if it was coded, the maps are so big that you're more likely to run out of ammo before you'd even see someone who wants to swap weapons with you.
Do you like the sound of being given an empty primary gun or a kit with all the good stuff missing (like mines or nades)?

Swapping weapons with supply crates? OK but there'd need to be a restricted number of weapons and a short supply also.
That would ensure you don't get one rambo who just sits next to a crate taking out one kit to snipe, then another to destroy a vehicle, then another to heal himself and so on........

Sorry its a NO from me. If it was just swapping weapons with a supply crate which has a limited amount of kits or weapons then i'd say MAYBE.

[Slayter_Maximus]

Re: Supply Crates / Player Kit (Another Idea)

Sorry its a NO from me. If it was just swapping weapons with a supply crate which has a limited amount of kits or weapons then i'd say MAYBE.

Then vote yes, the idea pertains more then just group switching.
I play with A team/ and a lot of people voip or not having a kit swapping thing would be a plus, and the reason I suggested Squad only, is so that peopel outside squads cant be 1 Harassed, and 2 teamwork

And in RL sometimes people do swap weapons I could tell you hundreds of real life stories as well as provide you with thousands of links to RL stories about military units swapping weapons etc.

If you want to play super mario 1 your whole life be my guest, im all about super mario on N64 playing a game in the 2D version is non-interactive, playing 3D is. Playing a game thats basis is Arcade/FPS/Modern combat needs to be more interactive and Diverse then, Heres your Gun, with no options, you cant change it any way besides dying or someoen else dying. If you can pick kits up when someone dies, you should be able to do it at supply crates and via a Squad, simple.

[NoB33r4u]

Re: Supply Crates / Player Kit (Another Idea)

Hey if you wanna do it then go do it.
Don't ask why ppl are saying no and then try and flame me

If you want to play super mario 1 your whole life be my guest

I really don't care either way, if you do it and it is used by a mod then it can be just another useless feature i don't use.....
But heres a newsflash for you: If lots of ppl suggested this idea to EA then maybe they'd listen but if one person suggests it on a non-EA forum they're not gonna listen.

Anyway just go do whatever it is you wanna do cos I don't care and I'll be surprised if EA does either.

[A$$a$$ination]

Re: Supply Crates / Player Kit (Another Idea)

First off i would stop reffering to real life cause if you wanted to do that then you could pick apart half the game. I think it is a pretty good idea myself and voted yes. MAINLY because of the supply crate swap. that makes supply crates even more useful and the com's job even more important, which i'm all for.

I don't think that swapping weapons between a squad would be used enough to warant it. if someone in your squad already has that kit then why don't they just use it.

The ability to just drop your kit would solve your squad swapping prob so i think that would be the way to go if you were to implement it. At the moment that is half in practise because you can pick up a kit thats lying on the ground, so in a round about way you could actually swap kits with someone in your team at the moment. Pick up a kit lying on the ground. Your mate picks up the one that you dropped and you pick up the one that he drops, done. But a pain in the a$$.

Again great idea on the supply crate kit swap though

[Slayter_Maximus]

Re: Supply Crates / Player Kit (Another Idea)

Hey if you wanna do it then go do it.
Don't ask why ppl are saying no and then try and flame me

I really don't care either way, if you do it and it is used by a mod then it can be just another useless feature i don't use.....
But heres a newsflash for you: If lots of ppl suggested this idea to EA then maybe they'd listen but if one person suggests it on a non-EA forum they're not gonna listen.

Anyway just go do whatever it is you wanna do cos I don't care and I'll be surprised if EA does either.

Sorry Was not trying to flame you or souly refer to you.
I was just saying I feel it should have more interactions.
I used the wrong words in my "statement"

My apologies. For not making it clear. Seriously. (no sarcasm)

[Leviathan]

Re: Supply Crates / Player Kit (Another Idea)

sounds good to me

*votes yes

[LT_Bootymac]

Re: Supply Crates / Player Kit (Another Idea)

While it's a good idea on paper, it kind of destroys the point of squad play.

I think we're getting too ahead of the game

[Slayter_Maximus]

Re: Supply Crates / Player Kit (Another Idea)

Making one huge Modification to the idea, removing squad portion.
I feel as I bet others do from what they've said, that the Dropping" kit idea sits better then swapping in squad, it is a pointless function since both ideas are almost exactly the same, but dropping is most functional.

Thank you very much for your responses!

[64K1]

Re: Supply Crates / Player Kit (Another Idea)

Honestly, this idea does make a little sense to me. I mean, you see a supply crate loaded with explosives, ammo, and probably a few weapons, and all you do is pick up what you've used up so far. Would make sense to do other things, like grab C4 instead of grenades, or trade in your sniper rifle for something suited for closer ranges.

But there's where the problem arises. I wouldn't go for it because one person would be whoring the supply crate and doing nothing but go Rambo-style on anyone trying to approach who isn't wearing the same uniform. If we changed it around, like say, you could only change your gear once every life, then it'd make better sense and avoid somebody going Rambo.

Would be nice to pick and choose what gear you want and what you don't want. Got a yes vote from me if that's the direction you're heading.