Re: Simple things DICE could do to make the game better

**Snail88** · 11-28-2006, 05:52 PM

Originally Posted by jepzilla

A repair bot would be cool. They could have something like, only one repair bot can work on a vehicle at a time, and it tracks nearby friendly vehicles like a motion mines.

At first i thought the repair hub would be overpowered like telorn said, but this idea is awesome. Anyone familiar with Company of Heroes knows how cool it is as germany to build a repair bunker. They would track any vehicle near it and run out to repair it automatically. Granted it was a slow process but hey its automatic. If they were ever to implement this it would have to be slow as well to off-set the supply box + engy + repair bot scenario

**=Sarc=** · 11-28-2006, 05:59 PM

If the repair hub repaired slower or had a much lower limit to the amount it could repair before being destroyed, that could balance it out. If the engineer wants to repair faster, he'd have to use the repair tool.

**Maus** · 11-28-2006, 06:48 PM

Uhmm, what's wrong with asking the comm for a supply crate, or calling out for repairs? An Engineer basically is or should be a repair bot when the need arises.

**DudeWheresMyAK47** · 11-28-2006, 08:42 PM

Originally Posted by Maus

Uhmm, what's wrong with asking the comm for a supply crate, or calling out for repairs? An Engineer basically is or should be a repair bot when the need arises.

Well in my experience [as chief idiot in doomed Walker] no one repairs anything anyway. Ok thats unfair, when i play no one repairs because the USA is still at work/in bed and I'm playing with non TG'ers

I'm always engineer, and mostly use armour but it is getting pointless. I try to repair others and they are off over the horizon, running over my toes in the process

There is simply too much antiarmour weaponry, all these balls flying around beeping in my ear. I cant cope with it.

So I'd rebalance the Walker to make it the awesome weapon it should be - in the right hands, yes practice and skill should be required - instead of the zimmer frame of death it is now. You only have to look at it aggresively and it falls on its butt.

Or maybe I just suck at 2142

**Apophis** · 11-28-2006, 08:47 PM

Dugg

**Arf** · 11-28-2006, 11:33 PM

Two models for both the sentry guns and the Beacons so you can tell what team they're on.

Also I think this is a good time to brag about how Bommando and I had a perfect round in the Walker racking up over 60 kills and without suffering a single death. It was like riding Godzilla into battle.

**Lord_Jebez** · 11-29-2006, 12:45 AM

I have a huge complaint about Titan mode and it is the reason I've basically quit playing 2142. IMHO, the Conquest mode in 2142 is pretty much the same as BF2. Just different skins and tweaked vehicles. Same stuff, different game.

Titan offered a new style of game play. But once every single person that plays as the commander drank the same poisoned koolaid and started doing the same stupid move in every game I played, it killed the entire game for me. That would be to move the Titans next to each other. Again, IMHO, this has to be one of the dumbest moves I've seen from anyone playing any game in a long time. It reduces this game play to nothing more than the same style of slaughterfest I can get with Unreal Tournament 2004. By moving the Titans next to each other you have totally neutralized all of the Titan defense guns. Everyone just pod hops from one Titan to the other and there is no defense to stop an escape pod. There is no strategy involved in this. It's just wave after wave of people boarding your vessel until by shear numbers they finally breakthrough any defense you set up. The best thing EA could do to restore the Titan game play IMHO is to make the Titans a fixed base. Then it would force everyone to use either the pod vehicle or helos to gain access to the enemy Titan. It would bring back into play the defense guns and you would have to build a strategy to defeat them to gain access.

But, sad to say, this will never happen. Because it would cause the "five minute people", who have less than half the attention span of a gnat, to get bored and quit playing the game.

Think about it. What real world commander would intentionally park his aircraft carrier next to the enemies carrier and nullify the usefulness of all his carriers defense systems and give them unrestricted access to board and attack his own vessel?

**=Sarc=** · 11-29-2006, 07:31 AM

Originally Posted by Lord_Jebez

Think about it. What real world commander would intentionally park his aircraft carrier next to the enemies carrier and nullify the usefulness of all his carriers defense systems and give them unrestricted access to board and attack his own vessel?

If a commander does that now, it's for different reasons. The latest patch only lets you move the titan if the shields are still up. The commander is possibly moving the titan to allow your team to pod onto the enemy titan while the enemy can't board your titan.

It's odd that you use the term slaughterfest though. I find that Karkand for BF2 is a slaughterfest. Some 2142 conquest maps are the same such as Camp Gibraltar. In fact, I find the entire conquest game type to be a slaughterfest. It comes down to the team that dies the least. It's rarely about the team winning by flag capture since ticket bleed is so hard to achieve.

**LuckyStrike** · 11-29-2006, 09:34 AM

Originally Posted by DudeWheresMyAK47

I'm always engineer, and mostly use armour but it is getting pointless. I try to repair others and they are off over the horizon, running over my toes in the process

I'm always engineer too and I never understood the people that just drive away while you try to repair. You have to really expose yourself to get a single repair point.

**LuckyStrike** · 11-29-2006, 10:03 AM

Originally Posted by Bommando

Drives me nuts. I hear the repair noise the instant an Engineer tries to repair me. Only if I am under serious pressure and have the option of cover do I move while being repaired. In open ground, you might as well be teamkilling the friendly Engineer if you move, because you are the only cover he has.

Most TG'rs are good about not moving and using squad communication makes it better for everyone.

**Zoopy** · 11-29-2006, 11:13 AM

I think they should tweak the titan attack/defense points and pins. Right now there is no real points incentive to actually attack the enemy titan. They should introduce a titan attack pin to give people a real reason to attack the titan. Currently you can just capture/defend silos and rank up more points then actually assualting the titan, while people defending the titan have a huge advantage and get a crap load more points then anything.

To summarize:

1) Make a Titan Assault Pin.
2) Increase the requirments for the Titan Defender Pin

**=Sarc=** · 11-29-2006, 11:18 AM

It's definitely unbalanced with titan defenders being favoured. It should all be evened out so that silo capping, titan attacking and titan defending are rewarded equally.

**WhiskeySix** · 11-29-2006, 05:03 PM

Seems simple:

Originally Posted by PanzerHans

The more reserved slots we keep the more random unsupporting members will be exposed to the less than ideal kickmessage. It is a matter of balancing the negatives with the positives on this one. For christmas this year I wish Dice implements a custom kickmessage that works without punkbuster......

**Maus** · 11-29-2006, 06:10 PM

So PB is stopping us from having a custom message? Isn't the server well adminned enough to not need PB, or am I being naive?

**chaf3d** · 11-29-2006, 06:25 PM

Personally, if your the commander, you shoudln't be able to spawn with a kit (in titan mode). Conquest is fine the way it is.

That should prevent all the nub commanders from just using the command utilities for themselves.

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