Apc: Hook

Alright, couldn't sleep at all last night.. So thought of a lot of things, here is one:


It's a hook, that you shoot out from the apc, mostly to be used to drag a CV out of water or any other place, where it should not be, now that 9mine is gone. So this is nothing you use for attack, but more of an way of fixing something in your base.
It would use the grenade slot and it would require 3 slots.


If used on friendly targets, they would have to accept the Hooking (Page up, Page down, or any other key pressing the decline key another time would make it unhook).
Alternatively it could be used on enemy targets (not the CV), to slow them down or do whatever you would like to do with them.. (note, the enemy would still be able to fire at you.. So ya wouldn't be able to do more damage than a Jeep could do to it).

Pros: Helps your team back on its feet if your commander by various reasons would feel for taking a bath or is pushed in water by griefers.
Might create some random lulz moments
Cons: None that I can think of, the materials (rope) and models (rope?)
are already there.

Alternative: Only let it be used on friendly targets.

 

so much effort for such a... i dare call it useless... thing.

dz when so many things excist that needs fixing and tweaking etc.... this is the 2nd last thing i would ever want the devs to consider adding (with motorcycles as last).

(dont hate me)

 

Excellent. Awesome. I love it. (For the second time it's been suggested.)

Implement in Empires 4.0 on the Source 2010 engine, please.

 

Gone CV fishing

 

This is a very silly suggestion. What are the chances of having an APC with the hook right where you need it? How many people do you think would waste weight on this limited-application, generally useful once-per-game hook over a gun they could use to defend themselves? And you just know that half the time the guy rushing to the rescue with the hook is going to fall into the water, too.

It's one of those ideas that looks better on paper than it would be in reality. If you want this, just wait for aircraft; hopefully the aircraft used to airlift tanks will have some way of doing this.

 

maybe we should put it on jeeps instead...

 

I recall Megel saying he wants it on the AA trucks, but things can change in time.

 

In all serious, there needs to be some way to extract CV's from the water due to griefers/noob/accidents. Especially now that vehicles handle so sluggishly, its much easy to get hit by a vehicle and run off into the water before you can get control of your CV.

 

Sounds like fun to me, it'd have the same effect as 3-phase jeeps do currently, you could tow around enemy tanks with fission so they couldn't get proper shots off.
Admittedly its probably a waste of time to implement but it's definitely a fun idea, also towing the enemy cv into the drink sounds like fun too.

 

Empires needs utility trucks that can also get resources from piles.

 

I was going to suggest this exact feature.

 

Some very funny ideas came to me from this....
3 apcs with hooks run into the enemy base.... 1 scout stun stickys their comm.... drag off the enemy comm with 3 apcs...
or 3 phase apcs just drive past people at full speed and latch onto them...
or allowing it to stick to people.
So many hilarious scenarios could come out of this. Because of this and the actual practical applications i approve

 

Fuck APCs, put the hook on teh blimpz.

 

what if engies could place stationary winches? attach to shore. attach to com, com draged to shore.

 

Erm.. It just came up to me...

This could be a very powerful anti-air gun.

 

make cv's amphibious (like a hovercraft does, but on wheels) it makes sense in a way and is possible in source

cv in water should be slow, as to not be a cheap tactic of staying out of tank line of fire indefinitely (the infantry could swim over and sticky it because its slow)

 

I Think a repair/multi task vehical would make the game. This hook could be invaluble.

Example uses:
Tanks that stall could be dragged out of trouble.
Could have a repair hook, faster at repairing than enginer.

I however dont like the idea of dragging enemys :p lol tank fishing :p

I SUPPORT IT :D

 

if you want to get cv out of the water then make a blimp with a hook D:

also, dz thats a new AA truck on the picture ? looks like

 

Maybe make it so the CV hovers on water, but takes constant, heavy damage while doing so? That way, water would be fatal and not useful as a defensive strategy for the CV, but slipping into a tiny river wouldn't instantly end the map.

 

I agree... CV should float but, looking at the current models you can see that they would need to be updated to support that idea. Looking at the current models makes you think, "this thing weighs over 90tons, adding some flotation devices or a hover skirt is NOT going to work." Perhaps the CVs should have hover mode to move instead of wheels to move... woot.