Two Jeep Fixes

Jeeps already take some pretty major damage from hitting stuff. In fact, vehicles in general do, and the faster you're going, the more you take. A head on with 2 max health jeeps can be enough to kill them both if they're both turboing at eachother. But I see no reason that jeeps should take damage for running over people. That's just stupid.

 

is it possible for jeeps to take DOT for stuff on top of them? Stops them from wearing tanks as hats.

 

That's fine for big vehicles, but not for jeeps.

I've never seen a jeep explode after ramming a tank. No, I just see the jeep shove the tank around for a while. That's a problem.

I thought that we could just increase the damage taken by jeeps when they impact other vehicles. Kill them before they get the chance to wear their hat. It seems like the system is already in place, so it would only be a tweak.

 

Make a kill-zone under commanders, heavies and mediums that effects jeeps. Instantly dead when they try to drive under the 50 ton WWI war machines.

 

Make the dead ragdolls of infantry driven over by jeeps stick to the front bumper (or rear bumper, if you're driving backwards). When you see a jeep with 10 dead guys on the front driving at you, you'll know what to do.

 

awesome idea... I would love to see it implemented on the shear fact of how great a jeep with ten dead bodies attached to it would look.

 

the thing i find funny is that the majority of posts with the exception of tricksters, are made by people who dont really play all that often.

This post was made to discuss ways to improve jeeps, not ways to nerf them.

 

Jeeps are far from needing improving. They already offer ways to out-speed missiles, allow scouts to rape refs & drive squads of infantry into a base. On top of that a decent driver can fuck up a column of tanks.

 

Oh em jee, Apex, joo are a noob! Jeeps are so ez to kill!

 

Somehow i don't see a turbo jeep collision doing 200 damage. Full speed 3phase into a wall only deals 8-10 hp

 

I probably play empires more then any other person.

 

I know for a fact that turboing into a wall when you have 3phase can reduce your jeep to red. Id what that works out at in terms of HP.

 

I remember for a fact when damage-on-hit was implemented and even so much as nudging an errant pebble made your heavy explode.

It was like playing battlefield all over again, vehicles really don't need more impact damage.

 

Hahahaha, I remember driving an APC on emp_escort and some arty came BARGING IN and I just knew he was going to nudge me into a wall and I was like "NUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU" *booooooooooooom*

 

yeah and it hung around where if you touched an engi wall at all youd blow up too....good times

 

Jeeps should take partial bullet damage.

 

Well thank god we aren't suggesting such a thing be added to heavies.

Jeeps are meant for transport, so they shouldn't be running into stuff. When they run into something (be it a heavy or wall), they should be punished.

For a game that prides itself on shoehorning extra strategy and skill where it doesn't belong, this seems like an obvious and intuitive way to make Empires more strategic. I really don't understand why people don't want it.