BF2S Forums Sweet Idea- Paratroops

Like the Spectre in DC? Would be nice but the pilot of this plane would be flying wild maneuvers all the time because enemy jets had only one target in mind... ^^

Spawn plane would be a npc driven air veicle summoned by the commander perhaps. naaah thats to crazy

or a c-130 to drop supplies like fly really low and drop out of back supplies!!

alexace wrote:

the idea would be that it could not be shot down. and it would be circling the map automaticcally so that a chopper could not rape it dead

That's an interesting idea. Basically a circling spawnpoint, so an assaulting team can vary their spawns a bit. The invulnerability thing may be a bit unrealistic, but then again, paradropping soldiers are all the more vulnerable, which is a nifty tradeoff.

how about meeting this idea halfway.. and just making it so that you can spawn on your squad leader while he's in the air (parachute) . It should spawn you into a freefall, and you have to pull your chute or die.

I never understood why we can't spawn on someone just because they're in the air

it wouldnt work becuase people could just wait on the ground with an AA vehicle and then shoot you while you are parachuting.

I think its a cool idea, definately make the plane strong but not invulnerable. And keep in mind you can freefall for a long time before you need to hit the shoot. Maybe allow it to fly higher than jets, or give it good defenses, guns, flares, missiles, etc.

ya maybe it takes 2-3 tv missles to take it down preferrably 3 because it only takes 2 tv's to drop an asset.

how about taking elements of all the suggestions and on certain maps that do not have helicopters/jets, there could be the American troops whose sole permament spawn point is the circling troop carrying aircraft. by capturing ground flags, they establish a ground base. But i would envisage that this means that all American troops can parachute down on to any or all flags, so using the Gulf of Oman idea, the troop plane could circle only on the first line of defense flags, so that in order to capture the others, you must first capture the first line. this would resolve the issue/debate of the game balance.

Its worth pointing out that this idea would also make a point of the airborne ribbon, that seems fairly pointless to me, as in order to earn it i found that i had to actually TRY and obtain it. ie - fly a jet up above 500 feet and jump out, open chute and glide cheerfully down to the ground again.

Paratroopers wouldnt unsettle the game balance though. most of the time a defense will kill a few of them on the way down, but as long as a squad leader survives, spawning on him shouldnt be a problem.
what bf2 hasnt shown us yet is different weather types or indeed darker skies. now a parachute drop in the evening would in some order make the skies more difficult to scan......

Snoogans84 wrote:

Plus they would have to fix it so that pressing '9' actually deployed your parachute every time

The trick is to wait til the gun disspaears from your screen. Or, just keep tapping 9. However, if you drop from high enough you can hit 9 from about 15 feet up and still land.

Might interest some, the highest possible height is 5000m.

=[4th]=SlayThem wrote:

BlackJackBob wrote:

how about meeting this idea halfway.. and just making it so that you can spawn on your squad leader while he's in the air (parachute) . It should spawn you into a freefall, and you have to pull your chute or die.

I never understood why we can't spawn on someone just because they're in the air

because if you happen to spawn before you can pull your chute(which would happen eventually) you'd go *SPLAT* and everyone would be in the complain section making 50000 topics about "WAH I KEEP SPAWNING ON MY SQUAD LEADER AND SPLATTING ON THE GROUND! HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO KNOW WHEN HE IS PARACHUTING? THIS RUINS THE GAME F*** YOU EA FOR MAKING THE MOST STUPID THING YET!"

can you actualy spawn on the leader when he is in flight? or wil his spawn point be red like when he is in a full tank

does anyone know that?

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