Surrendering and taking prisoners

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Why would I do any of this. It’s a fight to the death, and I’m not taking prisoners.

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22

Then kill the surrendering soldiers. You could get more points if you take the surrendering soldiers prisoner though.

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23

still not seeing example of squads surrendering in middle of ongoing battle where they were evenly matched, well supplied, had clear supply lines and reinforcement.

surrender happened when soldiers were surrounded and/or are heavily outnumbered and/or had no ammo/supplies and/or there was no hope of reinforcement coming anytime soon. good example of situation where soldiers had to surrender was Battle of Arnhem.

in game where you have constant influx of reinforcement, where you cant be surrounded by enemy (cause gray zone) there is absolutely 0 logical reason for surrender option to exist. like @VoyoMayPL wrote, it could exist as cutscene after battle, but not during battle.

  1. it is unrealistic
  2. it generally harms attackers cause they will lose tickets cause e.g. people want to change squads (cause someone destroyed vehicle)
  3. it harms both teams cause it deprives them of easy xp. you could potentially get “extra” xp by “capturing” them (i guess you would want for player to go to them and press use?), but players would need to take risk and expose themselves to enemy for that bonus xp. also what happens to surrendered soldiers if your ally kills enemy you are surrendering to?
  4. it is stupid for fast paced arcade shooter.
24

I don’t even need to read the rest. Get that bait out of here.

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25

Allowing players to shoot disarmed and surrendering enemy combatants would not be a good look for the game.

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26

While that is true, players are already allowed to shoot wounded soldiers on the ground crawling away.

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27

Very true, I just think that the gameplay utility of being able to surrender isn’t really worth the additional scrutiny the game might get for war crimes and such. I agree the most with @VoyoMayPL’s suggestion of adding a surrender cutscene at the end of a match, similar to the cutscenes that exist in Battlefront 2.

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28

I can understand that. Maybe one day we will get a cutscene specialized for each faction (as surrendering was very different for each country).

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29

That could be cool, I don’t know much about it. At any rate I hope this wouldn’t be considered for a long time, game has much more pressing things to work on.

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30

Agreed, but a suggestion is still a suggestion, so it will be here until then.

What I meant about surrendering being different for different countries is that some were known for not taking prisoners at times (Pacific) (Eastern Front).

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31

ちょっと面白そう

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32

I don’t mean to be rude but every time you post you have the worst takes

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33

In your opinion, what has been my worst take, and what has been my best?

34

oh yeah, just ignore the argument… lets have people from one squad surrender while another 5 squads 5-10 meters away from it are fighting enemy… totally realistic scenario…

35

We can not use our Bipods but talk about a Video scene inGame about Surrendering, only makes sence when we get france as fraction

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36

You may not think it’s realistic but at least it’s better than having to use a suicide button

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37

That made me chuckle :rofl:

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38

Best: Add John Basilone as a gold order soldier

Worst: this one

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39

war crime… now you will be tried for killing pow

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40

seeing this makes me hate the Americans

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