With the new tech tree, there is finally room to add stuff like this (while before people would be enraged at the thought of grinding a level for this). It would make a good entry-level addition to the whole rider/APC (bicycles are a personal carrier) classes.
Pros for adding this are that they were historically used, and they would make for fun content and game experience (imagine destroying enemy Tiger IIs by running a bike into it, it would be the ultimate skill-flex). It would just enrich the game, with more (historical) stuff that were actually used in the war.
Cons would probably be the issues for coordinating the AI in these squads as it would make for AI controlling vehicles autonomously (which it currently doesn’t anywhere in the game) and, in fact, AI would be riding multiple vehicles at the same time.
It should be very cheap to research (maybe 5000 exp max) and purchase (~100 silver), at the bottom of the tech tree. If this still isn’t enough, add them as an event squad or something.
How is running a bike into a Tiger II historical ? WTF
I don’t mind the bike suggestion, BUT think about this a bit more holistically.
The game already struggles with the run and gun dynamic, principally because our wonderful devs, can’t get off the COD, BF and every other retard FPS game bus and actually apply terrain mods to the infantry models.
The moment you hop on your bike and are subject to the same terrain modifiers that vehicles are actually subject to in accordance with terrain mods currently “chucked” into the game, you’d be dismounting and running within 10 seconds of spawn in…
I do agree bike troops were historically used, but in order to make this sort of squad feel relevant to the game, there needs to be a universal terrain effects applied to all forces in the battlespace and the maps made larger so that infantry squads need to think about acquiring some sort of transport between objectives IOT reach them in a timely manner.
Mind you this will increase the actual skill requirement for the game about 10 fold, and I"m not talking the retard FPS fanboi git good at the pew pews either, I"m talking about situational awareness of what’s happening around your squad and the fact that ppl will need to assist each other in transporting sufficient “mass of infantry combat power” into the area of the objective. That means use of transport and building spawns - gosh what a step up for the vast majority of the playerbase…
Look, bikes are neat, but…
As someone else sarcastically mentioned, hello Heroes and Generals.
We dont’ need bike squads. If we do, they should be one man, while the tech tree motorcycles are two. Premium bullshit aside, put bikes everywhere on the maps, and let them be a meme that works from time to time.
If you add multiple-vehicle bike squads, of any description, that include the ability to shoot and ride or build rally at the end, it will break the game at every MM tier, quote me if/when/as it happens.
But jokes aside, I don’t really see it working as a dedicated squad. Afaik bicycles were only ever used as improvised transport vehicles and the idea of armies having designated bike platoons does seem a bit absurd.
Maybe if they added a vehicle slot for every infantry squad and based on some conditions you can sometimes spawn with your vehicle during battle? And bicyles are some kind of budget/low BR version of it?
idk, probably not going to happen either way…
only as transports, i look forward to my aunts m2 instilation on her jeep