Squad revive costs the number of dead people +1.

More like quickrete

 

The engineer still doesn't need both revive and heal, tbh. Rifleman squad leaders, lacking all ability to heal their teammates (and selves) may find it more useful.

Also dead people + 2 is what I'm in favour of.

 

That sounds neat. But before you guys create a giant bug, here's an exception.

If I fired bio ML at someone and he got into a vehicle right after, he would still die, but the vehicle would remain.
Bug potential :
1: He dies -> vehicle dies -> corpse pops out.
2: He dies -> vehicle doesn't die -> corpse doesn't pop out.

 

Oh yeah, it's awful. There's a reason that it hasn't been fixed. It's riddled with exceptions.

 

While i still stand by my suggestion, Id rather see being able to revive someone by deconing the wreck, with the first calculator tick, instead of recycling, revives the driver/passanger instead.

Probably a bitch to code though.

 

Seems like vehicle revives are in, tomorrow. That was fast.

 

Also, don't just revive and dump people there like an asshole, under a lot of circumstances it's really not helping at all.
Play as a taxi and bring him back to base.

 

I need to jinx things like that more

 

The bodies should totally eject out of the vehicle like fireworks when it blows!

 

I want to test the waters for this one again, because I do like it. I would also make the flat amount +2 instead of +1 so it isn't any cheaper than it is currently for go for a full squad. There is a real tactical choice that still exists though, that being it gets more efficient to revive more people instead of less (3 points per player for one player vs 1.5 points per player for four; I'd definitely spend 3 to get someone like Security back, but I'd hold off if I was going to get a squad of nobodies). This would be a really easy change to implement too.

 

I feel like this just makes squad rev even stronger?

 

Well. Why not? It's not like it's impossible.

My main concern is how to make the mechanic more evident to (new) players, especially when new players already have trouble understanding the existing squad power mechanics.

 

new people will never know how to play squad lead, because its an advanced technique (and im the guy who whines about what is easy for new players to understand). when i played planetside 2 for a couple hours i had no idea i had squad lead or what it did. it doesnt mean its a broken mechanic.

there just needs to way to get rid of a nonactive squad lead

my opinion hasnt changed from the first page

also its hilarious that in this topic people are fine with buffing squad revive and in the other they want it nerf to hell

 

i learned about squad mechanics because there was a sudden death game on an infantry map and people kept saying GUYS SQUAD REVIVE IF F-S-A

 

I think it would be good if squad revive worked much like it does now but limited it to the leader's aura (and squad members). Visual cue could just be to have the revive icon for players within the aura to flash between different colors and/or the same on their label in the squad player list. That way you know who will be revived.

It wouldfix it being too overpowered for the ninja tactics which always felt a bit cheap to me and also the end of round, out of ticket fuckery that plagues loads of small linear maps that never end where there is never any lack of squad points and you can happily play for 30 minutes on 0 tickets.