Apc: Hook

I'd love to be able to use this hook on specific parts of the tank or at specific points.

Scenario:
Shoot hook at the turret of a Heavy (u mad?) and disrupt its aim by driving in circles and forcing the turret to follow you insted of the various tanks shooting him.
Shoot a corner of a LT and completely fuck up its driving by pulling it into a turn.
"Tow" friendly tanks faster

 

Oooh how about this? APC's rush out after a tank battle, retrieve blasted tank hulls. Drag them to a repair pad, and poof! A shiny, factory rebuilt tank for free. You just have to be able to drag the hull back to base without getting blown up yourself.

You would want to make tank hulls last longer for this to work, too (Map based config?).

 

We might as well put in a "Surrender" feature and a POW camp. About one time out of five, the player's character surrenders when his hp is all gone (set and fixed to one hp). If he isn't apprehended by an enemy player in 10 seconds, he regenerates all of his health and goes on fighting.

If however caught, your team tickets go down by five. The player then spends the rest of the game in a POW camp, but can choose to break out with his fellow inmates or with outside support. If they manage to break out, then all tickets lost by capturing those soldiers are restored, plus a bonus in resources from the grateful families of those soldiers.

 

The original suggestion of that was actually hilarious, I really think that the guy was serious as well.

TBH though, the only problem here is CV swimming, and surely there's a better way to fix this.

 

Amphibious CV's anyone? Might as well.

If the CV flies off a cliff and into water and there's no beach, well, blame poor map design.

 

make it a harpoon and rope gun for the comm. That way thers only 1 and he can get himself out of trouble.

 

I'd have fun running around harpooning infantry.ove:

 

Jeeps are reasonably useful if you know how to use them. They're cheap and fast transport, and they're usually first thing you can pop out of the vf. Hell, you can go without armour and make it even less expensive. They're mostly bulletproof and they'll take at least two cannon hits before blowing up.

The only real danger is ML turrets.

So in short maybe they could be jazzed up a bit, but jeeps have their uses early game.

 

I'd love that. Make it 1 shot like 5 seconds reload or something. "Detachable" with alternate fire so the CV can pull itself out of holes and crap like that.

Would make it harder to wall in the CV.

You could also drag around the corpse of the last engi you spiked like a trophy.

 

Sir, that suggestion is made of win!

 

3rd times the charm. I'm bringing back the apc hook.
I want this tested, even if its only a rudimentary invisible hook that attaches to everything.
I will bug a dev for this!

 

Seconded.

 

If you really want a chance of this being added, then add some practical evidence of this working by simulating it in a map. There's entities to measure and apply motion, and ofcourse, rope entities.

 

You are aware that we can't hook this onto anything other than command vehicles, and it can't be fired while driving, and it won't pull the comm vehicle due to parents?

 

You can pass the activator of triggers, use that to parent it to any vehicle.

 

Do Eet!

 

bump.

don't let a good idea die!

 

Solokiller has clearly stated unless we do the impossible it won't be thought about by the devs.