Precapping

[Raneman]

Precapping is when a whole bunch of members of the offensive team go into an objective before the previous objective is capped, so when the other objective is capped they can instacap the new one with virtually no resistance.

Dicuss.

 

[Jodl]

It's also called as 'tactics'

 

[Raneman]

It should be called "exploiting" and "unrealistic."

Are you to tell me that during the clearing of the grain elevator, the germans waited in the second floor before they had secured the first?

 

[Cwivey]

It's a valued Tactic, if the defence allows the attackers to get behind their lines, they face the consequences of losing the area much faster. People need to keep an eye on enemy movements and make sure spots behind (or above in the case of GE) are clear.

 

[Proud_God]

It's a valid tactic, and most of the time a stupid tactic. If the teams are even you will need most of your people at the capzone! get in the capzone private!

 

[Icey_Pain]

It punishes the team that does not go for the objectives. Because if both teams go for the objectives, they will need every man to capture an objective.
So it's not unrealistic nor exploiting.

 

[Rabid Penguin]

If the defending team are any good, a) you won't get anywhere near the next objective, and b) you won't be able to take the current objective because half your team aren't trying to cap it.

So, if you're able to 'precap', the defending team deserves it, basically.

 

[Raneman]

It's only really a problem on grain elevator: allies shouldn't have to defend all 10 or so entrances before Axis has even taken the elevator foothold.

 

[Manbearpig]

It's a lame tactic, be a sport and stop doing it.

 

[wooki]

It's only really a problem on grain elevator: allies shouldn't have to defend all 10 or so entrances before Axis has even taken the elevator foothold.

Annoying yes. But the building actually is the objective. The rest of the zones are just defenselines

 

[AntoxaGray]

How is that unrealistic?

 

[plex]

Ya...
Its called blitzkrieg, Angriff der Russen!!

 

[Raneman]

Sorry for my heresy in suggesting that objectives should be fought over in a logical, chronological order.

 

[plex]

Sorry for my heresy in suggesting that objectives should be fought over in a logical, chronological order.

War isnt fair my friend, you sound like the French.

Give us an inch and we will take a mile.

 

[Shadrach]

All's Fair in Love and in video game War I guess.

 

[Fidelius]

Spawning should stick to the original spawn points (yeah, even if that makes you move more!) and cap zones should be cappable without any illogical and supernatural limitation (like exploding in guts if you end up capping a objetive that ends been a enemy spawning zone)

A system just like in the Close Combat series, where objetives have nothing to do with and order to attack or anything.

 

[r5cya]

this tactic will only work against a team of guys camping outside the cap zones trying to pick people off. so yeah, i thinks it's fine to do.

 

[Colt .45 killer]

do a search for my writeup on a dynamic terratory mode. This an issue related to how the capping system works.

 

[NikolaiLev]

Precapping is when people _with fast computers_ stack offense and cap an objectives _before the defense has connected_. That doesn't happen in RO2.

This was a rampant issue in games like Dystopia, but they created measures against it. But what you're talking about is exactly what offense should be doing. If the defense lets you cap objectives, they're failing their jobs.

 

[Spindle]

Ya...
Its called blitzkrieg, Angriff der Russen!!

Hardly something you can call a "Blitzkrieg".