Hold position order 2.0

I see the DEV,s are going to make a great update soon, and i real hope we recive a new feature in our arsenal of tactics, i posted this sugestion, but i see i need to make my posts in a highter standard. so no more gramatics errors, and some pictures has well. i hope i convice the DEV,s that this ideia will give great possibilitys and that is EASY CODED has well,

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So what we got here, is the Alt and select a order. the order is placed in the alt menu so you can place a individual move order in the soldier you controling, once the order is given the soldier will stay there AND not move by any means.

notice the move order is blue, meaning is blue not only the soldier will stay there but also will return to that position.

so i started to advance my ‘‘assaulter’’ in that case a sniper that has a STG44 scoped. in order for exemple trow a granade. notice that the gunner is in blue that means he will not only stay in that position but will return has soon i select another soldier.

so here, is the move order in blue. you can get move order blue by using Alt circle of commands. or K in order to send another soldier in that case you are not controling. just press X for a while and the individual move order will be blue.

once the soldier recive a hold position order you can select he shoot all his LMG bullets, the swith to a assaulter and advance, unlike green move order he will not only NOT FOLOW YOU in the sequence, but will return ALWAYS to the position, and the hold position order will be SAVE util you press X to cancel the all orders. that will not aply to folow me orders. so if you make you gunner hold the position and Give follow me order, the blue order will stay there.

------------------------Tactics that will become possible whit this sugestion---------------------------

Snipers AND gunners will benefit from hold position order. gunners for cover/supression, and snipers to be the eye of the team. frist le,ts go the most classic move in history of infantry.

1 Step one. Select the gunner.
2 Step two. Give him hold position order.
3 Step tree. Shoot everthing you got kill has much you can.
4 step four. Select the assaulter,
5 step fiver, Trow the granade.

Second possible tactic.

1 step one, Select a sniper.
2 step two, Climb a house.
3 step four, Select the soliders and folow me order.
4 step five, once you recive enemy sniper fire select the sniper.
5 step six, kill the enemy sniper using YOUR well postioned sniper.

so, two new tactics, quite simple whit this easycoded sugestion. i don,t think it will be hard to do this DEV.s

has for gramar, has soon i post this topic i will be ''repairing my poor engish skills".

cheers.

Not sure if English is your primary language, but that was a rough read friend.

it,s not. sorry.

well, the whole point of the game though, is to stay with your squad.

which you can somewhat cheat if you tell your bots to hold the capture point.

the default x button is meant to tell your bots to stay in cover nearby ( and not get shot. or guard your flanks ) but this imply that they are still nearby, otherwise if you are too distant, they will follow you.

the other selective hold, ( they call them personal commands ) have in principle to give them separated orders and positions.

for example, put one guy in the anti tank gun, another guarding ( for example ) the stairs, the other the door, and so on.

regarding this suggestion, i think it’s an improvement for the personal order.

but at this point, i suggest to actually tweak the current personal orders one instead of adding another one on top.

would make the wheel less clustered, and do the same thing.

if you don’t need it anyway, you can always select the soldier and re-press X so that the soldier does not follow the order again.

and if you don’t need all the soldiers to follow personal commands anymore, just alt and press follow me so that they will forget about those orders and follow you again ( like it currently already works )

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The game is so fast paced that I barely give personal commands, except of go there to hide, cap the point or help me building faster engineering structures. (Which is totally stupid, as they arrive 1-2 seconds before I’ve done it myself.)
One time I used personal commands and laughed my ass off when I saw my bot, who was in charge of “protecting” the door just looked at the sky during a whole enemy squad walked in. Guess I didn’t pay him enough salary to do the job.

I like you constructive critic and aprecieated you education, most people around don,t do both things all time.

so cheers anyway.

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