Recently, I had a game with a teammates driving their APC over my rally and destroying it. I spent time fortifying my rally with sandbags and built it in a perfect spot, but then my dumb teammates just destroy it so people will only spawn on their APC and they get all the points.
This is a form of griefing and steps should be taken to stop it.
I think this should also be extended to ammo boxes as well. Teammates can easily destroy your ammo boxes. Additionally, in the heat of battle, it is hard to tell whether you’re looking at an enemy or friendly ammo box, so you throw a explosion pack at it just to be safe. This can be bad, because you’re destroying your own teammates equipment.
You need to climb over and your AI may get stuck.
But it’s sure nice to have a rally and those sand bags do a good job of saving the rally from artillery and bombs.
Ofcourse its more ideal to have natural cover inside a building or dig a hole, but there isn’t always time or place for it.
A good example is Stalingrad railway station that often has rallies protected by some sandbags.
Everytime I spawn on a rally fortified with sandbags, I always spawn on top of them. I’d never had AI get stuck in them except maybe once, but even if that happens, you could just dismantle the sandbags.
And the main reason I build sandbags is to protect it from bomb shrapnel (and bullets)
Who the fuck throws a demolition pack at an ammo box?
On the other hand, if they made it so they couldn’t disarm your defenses, it would be hell.
I’m talking about troll players enclosing allied tanks and idiots with the defensive sense of a mouse making thorns and walls for allies no enter through.
Building rallies on top of tall structures is not a good idea because it can take a lot of time to work your way down to the ground—esspecially when the enemy is capping a point and you need to get to it quickly. Time is a resource that needs to be managed.
Also, an enemy tanker or sniper in the right position could easily detect your movement and wipe out multiple squads.
Slightly altering your idea and building rallies on the second level of a building would still prevent vehicles from destroying your rally point, while at the same time allowing teammates to quickly make their way to ground level. However, there are some maps with cap points on higher levels within a building—which means your idea would certainly work under these circumstances if the rally point was placed in the same building.
I just meant just make it so teammates can’t destroy your rallies. I didn’t say anything about barbed wires or sandbags. In fact I would hate it if you couldn’t destroy teammates sandbags/barbed wire because some people are terrible at placing them strategically
