Title says it all. Bombs and rockets should be able to kill friendlies again. And because some players surely don’t care, that their behaviour contributes to losing the match, add +10 seconds respawn time per friendly killed.
This wouldn’t weaken the deadliness of CAS directly, but it would mean, that planes can’t just drop their bombs on or close to a contested capture point without a care in the world. Bombing further away from the action would give fewer kills per bomb on average, unless the player takes the time to actually look for massed enemy infantry. In either case, the overall killcount of aircraft would be reduced a bit, especially if the pilots aren’t very skilled.
The ability of aircraft to take out greyzone campers wouldn’t be hampered by this at all, which I think we all can agree, is a good thing.
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And then there is this “ally” sitting on top of enemy tank, not marking it but just riding around because he has no means to destroy it, and you want me to get “extra” time to spawn if I drop a bomb on enemy tank to destroy it, no thx.
Did you try Lone Fighters mode, it’s constantly friendly fire by bombs, not even so close to friendly troops (because blast from bombs are sometimes very weird), how many times I just flew by enemy tanks beacuse of a teammate sitting on enemy tank, don’t want it in squads mode.
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Ok, 10 secs might be overblown a bit and no I don’t play Lone Fighters and I didn’t take it into account. In Squad Mode however, we do get markers for friendlies and the kind off accident you mentioned wouldn’t happen there.
There should be no penalties, maybe automatically kick voting after 10/20/insert any number friendly kills.
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Oh we would, because I sometimes see players on top of enemy tanks in Squads mode and I play here like 95% of the time.
BTW in Lone Fighters mode there are markers for your team, just the “hardcore” version doesn’t, and in Lone Fighters there is friendly fire from basically everything.
Right, there are friendlies riding on enemy tanks, but what I mean, is that you would be able to see them and decide not to bomb the tank (or do so anyway, because a single team kill matters little compared to taking out a tank).
Im all for friendly fire of all kinds
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Same for arty, airstrike and grenades?
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Personally, I would be in favour of that, but I guess most other players wouldn’t, so my suggestion only concerns bombs and rockets.
Honestly, who are these whiners? I only come to this forum, when I’m bored, which isn’t often, but I haven’t seen that many complains about aircraft lately.
The airgame right now is better, than it has ever been (since I started playing). Air spawns are further away, planes are less tanky. Playing fighters and building flak is acutally worth it.
FF would only be the cherry on top.
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I wouldn’t mind ff but firstly we need a good antiff system (maybe we do, I don’t play lf).
Also I’m affraid of situations like with friendly concusion where I had no indication that I concuss my allies (gj devs).
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the whiners are the ones who told DF to nerf planes. they obv exist, especially among the forum trolls.
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Nah, especially among CCs. For example anti explosion CCs like quadro or majormcdonald.
I have not seen a single topic here about how planes needs to be nerfed. Majority of people here were just dissatisfied with AA changes (i am not one of them).
Would just result in big griefing. Minimum 20% of the playerbase is too malicious /& retarded to use flamethrowers, molotovs, ampulomets and wp-nades in a way that doesn’t 50% of the time victimise friendlies as well.
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@ParaDivision
My idea is that it is usually a better idea to make strong weapons more vulnerable instead of nerf their power, so people have to use with brain instead of spamming. These weapons could be still powerful if used with strategy, and countermeasures make the game more dynamic.
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We used to have FF on bombs quite some time ago and there wasn’t that much griefing. And honestly there isn’t that much griefing nowadays, either. Besides, these fuckers are crafty and always find ways to hurt their team. Take away FF and they build barbed wire around rallies or they build bot traps or block passages with tanks.
Only a votekick system truely works against griefers.
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A dream to bring back the friendly fire from CBT.
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