I'm not sure if a heavy APC could ever fairly fit into Empires, but I've been thinking... Heavy APC Four armor plates per side Medium Tank speed/handling Two 2-slot Machine Guns No Grenade Launcher Otherwise operates like a typical APC Insane? Wonderful? Too much DU? Not enough DU?
well the first question that pops up is, would it be a spawnpoint? the rest is a matter of how op vehiclemgs are in the end, especially with infantry i can see issues with the current balance (dumg + .50cal)
It would make commander rushes pretty good, with 4 plates of armour and double the firepower. Don't know if that's a good thing though.
It should be like in Advanced chassis, so you can like pick between, go straight for heavies, or go for the HAPC and then heavies, or the otherway arround ofcourse, I like the idea a lot, although balancing weight etc , how you gonna do that?
APCs are currently the third most powerful vehicle in the game when used correctly. Making a better APC. yeahhhhhh no.
i think it's a move in the wrong direction. bloat because we already have vehicles that do the same job and it's not like vehicle mgs are better at killing softies than a trusty BEHR/NFAR
Heavy Jeep would pwn this. And although the idea is nice, the engine would need some serious re-working to compensate for the heat of the weapons.
I'm really impressed with all the enthusiastic support. This obviously needs to be implemented immediately.
In Weedy's Empires mod mod, he had a medium tank chassis with the APC turret, and had it fitted with 2x2slot MG. This was overpowered unlike anything you could possibly imagine. Realistically, I don't think there's a purpose for it. I'd love to find a position for a new vehicle but I just can't see one. If we ever had aircraft then obviously an AA vehicle, although words cannot describe how unfun it is to fly over the AA vehicle in BF3, you just stand no fucking chance, so maybe AA vehicles aren't the best of ideas (instead giving current stuff the ability to engage aircraft). If we ever had a heavy APC, I'd want it to be something a bit like the Leviathan from the Unreal Tournament games, without the main gun. I.e. multiple mounted attack points for passengers, so you have more of a mini battle fortress. But we don't have mounted weaponry for passengers so that's a pipe dream.
ya.. the leviathan was awesome. Can't we put together a map with something like a leviathan in it? make it a mobile flag? when captured it moves one way and when another team captures it move the opposite way.
well... he is probably the only one who could put something like this together and then mess it up by adding rainbows to it. He would probably just copy the rainbow road map put the leviathan on it and then change the model of the leviathan to be a unicorn shooting a rainbow out its ass as it travels in one direction or the other.
