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Not bad. I like the Spec Ops idea and the Medic idea. They had "booby traps" on veichles in Vietnam, I never got to use them properly. The Sniper heat-sensitive scope would be good for SF but not normal BF2, as a hot desert battlefield will make it virtually impossible to use.
I think the Medic needs lollipops rather than smily bandages. Most people would walk over their own mother to get a lollipop.

they all sound like good ideas, but the spec ops idea is the best. hopefully some mod teams will pick up on this one and run with it.

it would be cool to have car bombs and shit..but then people are looking at a 50/50 chance of  dying everytime they get into a vehicle. but, could this apply to aircraft and tanks? the problem i could see with the whole car-bomb scenario is that people would then eventually stray away from vehicles for the risk of being killed as soon as they get in.

yea...i hardly play engineer simply because the kit sucks and it is pretty hard to gain points as an engineer.

Rapturesan wrote:

Rather than more unlock weapons(although I would like to see a new sniper rifle and AT gun) I think that they should add more kit equipment that you can choose from.

What's wrong with new weapons? Much of what you're proposing could be dealt with with new weapons that have different characteristics to some of those available now. I like new weapons.

Let's look at some of your ideas:

Spec Ops. gets 'carbombs' or 'booby traps'.

That one exists already, it's called a claymore, just place it near the obvious entry point to the vehicle and boom, no more player trying to get in the damn thing and a team mate can drive it away. If vehicles/armour are a problem it's more an issue of map design or player skill than anything else IMO.

What might be a better bit of kit for Spec Ops comes from the game Commandos - that little noise making device. One is issued to each SF player, you place it on the ground, move away, activate it and wait for someone to investigate the noise, then you could knife, C4 or just gun them down. The noise it makes could be something enticing like a call of 'Medic! I need a medic here' or perhaps it could be something like a tank engine idling, making some enemy players back off and others charge in. That would be far more strategic and more interesting than C4 powered claymores that you put in vehicles that you've proposed IMNSHO.

For SF perhaps an IR strobe could come in handy. Either lob it at a target area so your squad or friendly neighbourhood attack chopper knows where to shoot (a la Black Hawk Down) or use it as a distraction device, place it somewhere the enemy will see it and sneak up on 'em when they're wondering what the hell it's doing in the middle of nowhere.

Sniper gets thermal scopes. Thermal would be activated passively whenever the scope is used and turns your screen grey/black while illuminating players and other heat sources as white/light grey. In SF thermal would be a good alternative to using nightvision, and in BF2 you could use thermal to see and engage targets at longer distances more easily, and would allow the sniper to identify targets through smoke and or small barriers.

See, now that's a more interesting new device to add to the game.

Support chooses between a spare barrel and a tripod. The extra barrel can be switched to rather quickly instead of having to wait for your gun to cool down. The extra-barrel configuration will also come with larger capacity ammo boxes so that the player can take fuller advantage of not having to deal with overheating. The use of this extra barrel will work by pressing a key similar to reload, your soldier will slide off the hot barrel and replace it with a cold one very quickly so that you can resume firing.

Why not just offer a weapon as an unlock that has a heavier barrel, 'longer life' barrel? That way it would take longer to overheat and there's no cumbersome switching going on. Trade-offs, if necessary, could be a shorter sprint time (carrying a heavier load) or a longer time to cool off if you overheat it.

The tripod allows you to stand up or crouch and mount your LMG on a wall or some sandbags to increase the accuracy of it without having to go prone.

Why would I want to take time to fix my weapon to something and then be stuck there, standing up shooting at enemies and having to take it off the tripod, then pack up the tripod before I could run away? Perhaps a simpler function to add would be the ability to rest the existing bipod on something (wall, sandbag, vehicle bonnet or so on) and have it reduce recoil, which of course, is similar to increased accuracy, although not to the same extent as being prone.

Engineer gets anti-personnel mines. Engineers would get around 3-5 anti personnel mines and could use them in a similar manner to claymores. Hell, how about smart-mines that don't blow up when teammates are in the explosion radius.

Now that sounds like fun. Perhaps he could get 4 and have them replace grenades in his inventory? Though I do like grenades, I really do, so maybe not...

Medics, well they're a little more troublesome. Perhaps they could collect dog-tags from guys they were too late to revive and for every 5 or 10 dog tags they collect your team gets a ticket back and they get a point? That way they still get rewarded for reviving/healing folks, but if they try and fail (as they often do, arriving mere moments after the critical injury time is up) they haven't totally wasted all that effort.

Another idea might be LAWs or similar disposable, one shot AT weapons. They could be open to all classes, they could perhaps be a type of supply drop, so if you get cornered or really need some AT firepower you could ask your commander for a LAW drop. Perhaps once picked up the weapon is armed and must be fired or dropped, you can't switch weapons while carrying it to prevent everyone being mini-AT kits. Hmm, maybe it isn't such a great idea, at least, not as it stands.

Perhaps an alternative would be giving the commander the ability to call for a Tomahawk/Cruise Missile strike rather than an arty strike. It would be far more accurate but would be a single explosion rather than a series like arty, perhaps it could be guided a la the attack chopper TV missile so the CDR can take out targets like tanks or APCs that are moving....

Runway denial devices are another Commander possibility, instead of arty he could deny the enemy their runway/helipad, meaning their choppers and aircraft couldn't rearm/repair for X many minutes...

Last edited by RhadamanthysSCC (2005-12-09 04:20:08)

The barrel thing is an awesome idea, i can swap the barrel of my M245 in 4 seconds plus adds a little realizm to the game.  You are required to swap barrels of the 245 every 200 rounds and 249 every 100 rounds.  If you dont they will warp and make your bullets curve down and eventually into the ground as you are shooting.

I would like for you to actually be able to upgrade what you use the most.. For those that spend a lot of time on the ground running.. medics for example you can upgrade your speed, for the support you can upgrade your armor.. Actual upgrades would be sweet rather than just new weapon unlocks..

pass this on to EA. all these idea's help things, and yes they do listen.

mcminty wrote:

Nice ideas there. I especially like the assault shotgun.


How about having depleated uranium rounds for the sniper rifles. Not only will you kill your target, but everyone around him, and anyone that enters that area for the rest of the game.


Seriously now, how about that cruise missle strike but it is laser guided by spec ops guys. Or having the aircraft bombs laser guided, again but spec ops guys.

i like the laz-guiding system... but the rounds are celled DEPLETED uranium for a reason.... as is no more green glow.......it's just that they are very dense... maybe for use as AP rounds ... but.. the m95 does a good job of that...

Depleted uranium is a lead isotope...

I have wanted things like this for quite a while.

Not necessarily new weapons, but as you get more points you can choose to unlock a variety of different weapon modifications.

Some of the ones I was thinking about was extended clips for a lot of the weapons, variable zoom or multi-level zoom scopes for the snipers, and scopes or accessories such as flashlights for all of the weapons with picatinny rails.

Your best idea I think would be for the Assault kit, and for the Support kit. I play support quite often, and on Call of Duty, you can mount your gun on a window sill, or a set of sandbag, and it came in pretty handy, I don't see why you can' do that with a support gun on this game.

this game needs the javelin.  great anti-armor/helicopter/airplane weapon.