BF2S Forums Repair Points?

this is more evidence of EA/Dice screwing over the engineers.  not only do you not get points for repairing vehicles that are only partially damaged, but you can't drop "repair kits" for hurt vehicles.  if a medic or a support can drop their respective kits and get points (even if the soldier is slightly hurt or only used one clip of ammo), why can't the engineer do the same?

Guess Dice thought of all the Tank W...
if you can repair your tank AND get a lot of repair points from droping r. packs.....
too many points for the enginer class compared to the other classes

true, but that shouldn't mean that you get 0 points for repairing someone else's vehicle that's a little bit hurt.  you get points for support or medic when they're not 100% down.

maybe they could do something like revive for the medic class.  you get 2 points for reviving and 1 point for healing.  so as engineer, you should get one point for repairing and 2 points for completely repairing something (like artillery, uav, etc)

I predict that the vet repair badge will be one of the hardest ones for me to get. >.< I am ABLE to get the expert aswell. I have 100+ hours on it... but I doubt I'll ever get 25 farking repairs.

try songhua or zatar, maps where people drive around in vehicles all the time. then get a jeep or apc and follow them, repairing them on the fly.

Nevertheless, it should be a PITA to get..

Even harder after patch...it took a long time before it seems, now even longer?  Where's the motivation to play Engi now?  I agree, the vet/expert repair badges will be a rare sight in the future of this game.

Who cares about Repair - Everything spawns 5 seconds after you spawned yourself if you can't find a supply crate in time... Ea making the engineer almost obsolete...

The only good thing is he can place land mines - though everybody can remove them very easily... Not much future for engineers
Perhaps the portable Stinger would make them better - or perhaps not...

The Vet repair was the hardest badges I have gotten so far.  I got my last week on Dragon Valley playing for USMC.  I would spawn at the docks and just follow the tank and APCs around and pray that someone would go after the command's assets. 

I managed to get 11 repair points.   I am off for the impossible badge, "Veteran Explosives Ordinance".  The last time I had 23 kills IAR was when the command got points for kills.

Last edited by Klonopin (2005-10-17 11:57:20)

I found 10 repairs easy pld on a 64 player kankand map with 40 players.I just followed the tank and apc in my apc and kept repairing um.Thats the best way but 25 repairs no chance.Ive had 15 in a round but never anywhere near 25 u would need a 16 player server playin 64 size map.Which ive never seen im from the U.K and get terrible pings on USA servers.So i guess i will never get expert repair unless EA drop it 2 15 repairs

 

Yeah... I'm still working on basic badges, just now getting 15h on some kits, but I know what you mean.  Basic heal and basic resupply were pretty easy...   basic repair was a bitch... I kept coming up with 4 repairs before the round ended.  I've gotten better at it, and now have gotten I think as high as 9 repairs in a round.  My hours on kit jumped WAY up tonight because I finally decided to start applying for commander... and so far, except when NO ONE would help defend the MEC base at Kubra Dam, and I'd have to respawn elsewhere, I was engie the whole time.

The worst part is when you see a damaged vehicle, run over too them, and the second you start cranking the wrench is the moment the teammate chooses to bail and finish his trek on foot.  Also... would really help if this kit also had a "Get Repairs Here!" spam, even without a throwable repair bag.  Always see half-blown tanks driving off, and with a gunner they just ignore "I need a pickup!".

But yeah... 1 point for 100% repair, as rare as they come along is just too little...  most players treat their vehicles like disposables (except most who get in aircraft and hilos)...  so if it won't go anymore, they chunk it, rather than try to find an engie.  I imagine most dedicated armor guys who know they're getting a tank, and want to keep it...   they take engie themselves.   Maybe if they'd give maybe 1 point per 50% repaired, plus an extra point if a) you repair a vehicle on fire, keeping it from it's impending explosion, and b) when you online a defunct commander asset.  Three points to take an artie from 0% to 100% may be too much, but c'mon... except the AT mines, they have no unique and useful offence, and no smoke grenade, heavy armor, or self-heal defence...  so you've got to make up the points with their support role.

someone should be in the vehicle when you repair it to gain repair points. really screwed

I got 26 repair points in a round once.  Incredibly unfortunately, I only had 55 hours of engineer played.  Now I have 80 hours..expert repair is going to be a bitch to get.