I'm loving this game...But somehow I find myself missing spawning in bunkers and having to ride in halftracks for 5 minutes to get to the objective.
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Bunkers and Half-tracks.
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Give it time. Half tracks are on the way! As for bunkers, just wait to see the massive array of maps the community will make. It will be a great thing to make the great game...even greater!
Yeah I actually remember reading somewhere that halftracks would be in the game down the road. But at this point, the way the game functions and size of the maps, half tracks don't seem like they would serve much purpose. Maybe I'm wrong?
You played DH I guess?
Only in DH long rides happened, RO1 was pretty boring for me if we compare it to DH.
Half-track could be nice, but depends a lot on damage model.
Brew-ups should not be the rule
Also - over the top need left side right side options in addition to rear exit - and these need to be player choice based.
Finally - what worked really well is the mobile deployment vehicle concept in dh.
Spawn in half track if half track no in cap, or, in direct proximity to enemy, or heavily damaged (for the RO2 incarnation).
It works well - giving the immersive feeling that the HT is indeed transporting infantry to the front with no need to wait around for HT to fill.
The HT is never visually in range to anyone long enough for a disconnect feeling that scores of infantry are emerging from it...and generally scores never do. They are vulnerable machines those HT.
Needs to have a specialized crew though.
Brew-ups should not be the rule
Also - over the top need left side right side options in addition to rear exit - and these need to be player choice based.
Finally - what worked really well is the mobile deployment vehicle concept in dh.
Spawn in half track if half track no in cap, or, in direct proximity to enemy, or heavily damaged (for the RO2 incarnation).
It works well - giving the immersive feeling that the HT is indeed transporting infantry to the front with no need to wait around for HT to fill.
The HT is never visually in range to anyone long enough for a disconnect feeling that scores of infantry are emerging from it...and generally scores never do. They are vulnerable machines those HT.
Needs to have a specialized crew though.
there was a map (one of the annoying winter ones) where it was about 3 minutes to get to the objective, and you usually got blown up most of the way there...
For smaller maps, it would be pretty good for immersion if instead of spawning in a zone, we spawn in a truck that arrives at the spawn zone and unloads us.
Of course for sake of gameplay the truck would be invulnerable
Of course for sake of gameplay the truck would be invulnerable
Well, if they are implemented correctly, I really look forward to seeing them. I just had this discussion with the men in the unit I am in and we agreed that the maps currently in the game would not need a halftrack or UC but community ones could in the future. Plus I am sure TWI will make some to support their use. Usually HTs were used by 1 person to get to an objective and not used properly. I'd like to see them actually be of important use other than "omg HT!" *1 AP later, 8 kills*
Sitting in the back of a halftrack with 5 others on the way to an obj in RO was at times highly immersive...tension could be immense.
I want them back...with maps just big enough for there use...can't tremeber the name of the map in RO it had a church and I think a railyard...loved the use of halftracks in that.
I want them back...with maps just big enough for there use...can't tremeber the name of the map in RO it had a church and I think a railyard...loved the use of halftracks in that.
Yeah, a number of the larger custom tank maps (Eindhoven springs to mind) meant at least two or three minutes in a half-track; five would be uncommon, but not impossible.
This is what comes to mind when I hear halftracks on public servers.
Entry Of The Gladiators - Julius Fucik - YouTube
Entry Of The Gladiators - Julius Fucik - YouTube
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you by any chance play dh on some horrid custom bigass REALISTIC map ?
Of course