Motorcycles are at the moment the exclusive joy of the few despicable degenerates players who are active in Tunisia. However after the merge they will get more exposure to the crowd from other campaigns.
At the moment with 2 trooper per squad, they are the smallest ground combat squad. The premium version has 3 soldiers and I think it would be pretty great if the non-premium bikes would also be given an additional soldier slot to increase their use and survivability.
Here are couple of other suggestions:
1.) Swap the soldier immediately after being shot. The drivers are highly visible and vulnerable. The second soldier tends to die before you can swap control to him in the screen. It would therefore be nice if you switch the control between driver / gunner automatically on death so you can exit the bike asap.
2.) Particularly on the WLA, the driver model blocks around 25% of the screen off so quite often I end up switching to the driver view. However in this view, you have very little indication about the firing arc / position of your gun. So it would be great, for instance, to see the current MG field of fire left and right limit when doing the right click vision zoom in the driver view.
3.) Add motorcycles to Japan and USSR as well.
4.) As said before, but just to repeat. Add the 3rd trooper to the non-premium squads - this would make the squads much more useful instead of a gimmick-pick.
Currently the bikes are 6 star vehicles and therefore very expensive, where the last upgrade is āgun and turret units modificationā with the following benefits:
Shots deviation -15%
Horizontal turret aim speed:+15%
Vertical gun aim speed: +20%
The last two in particular dont seem to make much sense for the mg mount. I would therefore propose those to be changed to:
Horizontal gun firing angle +20%
Vertical gun firing angle: +20%
Full disclosure, havenāt upgraded the bike so just go with what is written as the effect.
There are lots of civilian vehicles scattered arlund the maps that provide quick flanking options. Again an issue confounded by the fast pace (slow it down Darkflow!)
What if those bikes are simply āearly unlocks and low BR vehiclesā and this type of squad later upgrades to āJeeps, KĆ¼belwagen and other armed scout vehiclesā?
Unless those vehicles will be considered as active rally points, those squads would stay gimmicky and completely unnecessary.
Thereās just no place for them in current enlisted. Concept of biker squads feels so fkn unfinished.
so, to still make premium worthed and original, but at the same time, give free to players 3 soldiers, they can do that at the cost of the machinegun for a soldier.
could be an idea.
but yeah, we need new type of bikes too for others factions.
That could be a thing. Though generally Iām not such a huge fan of limiting an entire class to 2 troopers in perpetuity or getting rid of the gun just to get the 3rd trooper.
I think you need to play at least something like 20 matches to have more or less fully unlocked the squad tree - premiums have it from the get go. We also have the precedent of premium squads being generally less versatile than the normal squads.
Iād just say, fuck it - give my people their 3rd trooper.
Yeah, I know one them is like version āaā and second one is version ābā.
But I personally donāt think itās very significant, especially since even devs were too lazy to properly differentiate their names.
They are. Nothing changes for that squad. The unique visual and squad setup is there.
How far do we take the argument? Are we forever locking all bike squads to 2 troops and same or worse gun? Does a patronentrommel version of a free to unlock bike make the old one useless?
While i have some sympathy, just because the devs lazily implemented the exactly same bike for axis as free unlock, we cannot have nice things here? Seems kinda unreasonable tbh.
premium bikes should be better compared to the free to play one.
the argument is in not ripping off the ones who payed for that.
not necessarely lazy ( althoughā¦ yeah in many other aspects )
EDIT. iām not particular against having free to play with 3 bikes. but wouldnāt be really fair for those who bought them for that particular reason.
granted, free to play one does not come with unique uniforms, nor fully upgraded soldiers, or xp bonuses.
but you saw the controversy on the previous event plane.
bad reputation is the least they need right now.
but if they can fit a 3rd trooper in the f2p one, i suppose why not.
Tbh that was my original idea of how to resolve it. Iām sadly just extremely cynical at this point.
I write these suggestions with thaƤe assumption that āadd 3rd trooper to bike squadsā has somewhere between 5-2% chance of happening.
Going from that to āandddd adjust an existing bike squad model as a prerequisite for the other adjustmentā and weāre probably looking at 1%-0.1% chance.
