BF2S Forums A possibly very annoying exploit possible with 1.3

ThomasMorgan wrote:

it'd be a really good way to prevent enemy jets from taking off.

Oooooh dirty pool!!  Hadn't thought of that.  It would suck too almost be off the ground, then get hit with a huge paper weight like that.

KJ

Kung Jew wrote:

ThomasMorgan wrote:

it'd be a really good way to prevent enemy jets from taking off.

Oooooh dirty pool!!  Hadn't thought of that.  It would suck too almost be off the ground, then get hit with a huge paper weight like that.

KJ

in the other thread i mentioned how i have enough problems avoiding UAVs and supply drops while airborne.  i can only imagine flying along and then having to avoid a vodnik.

but yeah, i know thats what i'd do.  just drop jeeps on the enemy runway as often as i could.

specops10-4 wrote:

I was reading some posts about dropping humvees and vodniks on people as a weapon.  But if a really anoyying clan (like myg0t) joined a server with 8 or so members they could drop humvees all over the carrier with the help of a dumbass commander. 

I have seen that clan be fucking annoying, one time on a wake server a guy from myg0t became commander.  And just to be a bitch he dropped arty on his own guys...  I was on the other team and I wanted a fair fight, so I joined their team and was out to TK him.  Then came up with an idea to scare the shit out of the kid by making my squad and yelling over the VOIP.  He took off his headset from my yelling and TKed me 5 times which equallt auto ban (I think he was somewhere around the age of 13, a bit cruel but I think I served him right).  But with people this stupid and power hungry the humvee drop will turn to child TK tactics and ruining the game...

I hope they do something to prevent this but if not I will quit the game cause one more big fuckup by them and I am out!

nice, you pwned the rager...

I'm not sure how that would stop people from spawning at uncaps remo.  You should be able to spawn there regardless of the amount of humvees there.  It may hinder the usage of choppers and planes as effectively, but it wouldn't keep the spawns from happening.

KJ

The vehicle drop should work the same way as the supplies, only 1 allowed at a time, and remember that a giant C-17 has to drop a vehicle, your gonna need a lot of room, as such I doubt it would be allowed on carriers, or in congested cities, like the ones people point whore on. But imagine seeing a giant C-17 come swooping in Oman, dropping off a shiny M1A2.

You can't block a vehicle spawn point, you just destroy whatever object was there and the newly spawned unit. Also, you get shifted from that locale.

I hope they add a new vehicle, like the MRL(multi-stage rocket launcher) I can see the noobs calling "stat padding" now.
crackshot[MRL] noob1
crackshot[MRL] noob2
crackshot[MRL] noob3
crackshot[MRL] noob4
crackshot[MRL] noob5

But then again, it has an uber long reload time and hardly any armour, but it can take out a sniper from a carrier parked off shore length away.

yeah ive been in the situation where some crazy team mate (like my self) drives so fast that all 4 wheels are facing the sky, followed by a massive explosion :p A car dropped on ya head in that situation would be nice

If you see the shadow it might be worth holding down the 'E' key.

ThomasMorgan wrote:

it'd be a really good way to prevent enemy jets from taking off.

BINGO perfect idea....

While I agree that disaster can result from a lot of careless additions to the game, and I commend your skepticism, I think that unless this adds some crazy new glitchiness, the vehicle drop will probably be a good thing.

First of all, this is a very similar threat to attack-supply drops. I have never been killed by one of those and in general don't think they affect that many people. Granted, the larger footprint would raise the rate of hits. Secondly,  commanders would have to be very careful about when attempting this. Imagine a vodnik being dropped on the train accident flag to kill a handful of noobs capturing. Sure maybe the commander could kill one or two of them with a vodnik but they could also be supplying the capturers with a great .50 cal flag defense vehicle.

I bet it would take very good timing in order to actually make a plane crash into one of these vehicles. Otherwise, it would just be a matter of the pilot hopping out and moving the vehicle a few feet. It would be annoying to a pilot but probably would never get any kills (and they wouldnt be credited to the commander if the plane runs into a vehicle that has already landed) so i doubt it would be done that often.

On the other hand, how many times have u had to SLOWLY run between two flags over the course of a few minutes just because somebody took the buggy and parked it on the other side of the map? I would REALLY welcome a falling buggy in one of those moments, it keeps the action going.

I have to agree that dropping vehicles onto the carrier could be very annoying to a team that is being viscously baseraped...

Last edited by Marinejuana (2006-04-26 11:20:23)

No kidding, there will almost certainly be some limitations that will prevent the inevitable exploits listed here.  There will likely be a limit, or a timer, or perhaps you cannot drop a new vehicle, maybe you will only be able to drop an existing vehicle...we'll see...

Ofcourse they are, have you ever walked in wake from airfield, all the way to South, just to walk back cause the team took it and lost airfield? at those moments i feel to urge to find something high enough to kill me with fall damage.... but there arent high enough places in wake..... (2-6bars is nothing)

I think they should first correct the bugs (especially the red tag bug) before allowing the commander to drop .50 on rooftop and on runaways.