First of all really enjoying the new transports, they’ve been really fun and I run them on most factions now. Not big issues but a couple things I’ve observed:
People refuse to leave the truck at times and this prevents spawning.
Maybe the vehicle should have a PARK mode and just eject people as they spawn in instead of them being in the seats, or boot them out after a duration. I believe it’s usually players that don’t know how to tell the AI to get out of the vehicle and only leave by themselves. If a player AFKs in the vehicle for an entire objective it’s a huge pain and I’ve had it happen a few times now. (BR2 matches)
A bit of a request more than anything but I wish the transports or driver had their own specialist medal for EXP bonus.
I’ve had many games where I did very well and could honestly say the truck actually won us the match however I never got a medal that seemed related to the truck. EXP is very important in this game and while I enjoy the truck it’s very disappointing to not get a medal for it when it’s taking up one of my precious few slots. Maybe you can get the best vehicle squad medal with it but that’s always going to be earned by tanks/planes.
Hopefully not an issue soon as the devs said they’d improve the vehicle but the German half track handles very poorly if it isn’t on flat terrain. I’ve been stuck for several minutes at times trying to get the damn thing up a hill or out of a small crater. I spend so long cussing it out, wiggling every which way to get out with my buddy telling me to ditch it to which I say “NO! I’m too stubborn to destroy my baby!” To my teammates fighting for their lives on the frontlines Im sorry but… just give me five more minutes!
For instance, i know that if you still have a squad member from the APC, you can hop back on it and move it somewhere else and that’s great and all, i managed to place it near a spawn and have a few squads get in and get the point, then i moved it to next control point.
That’s awesome but the chance that your squad survives until you feel the need to use the APC again is minimal. However, when i can spawn a new APC squad, plenty of times i already have an APC placed right where i want it and it defeats the purpose if by spawning another one, it results in destroying the APC.
On top of that, for everyone that is playing with the basic 4 squads and if the tank/plane squad you took is locked from spawning, it means you realistically only have 2 squads to cycle if your APC continues to be on the spot for an extended period of time.
So, i’d like the to exist the option to spawn a new APC squad on the APC you already have on the map, with a few conditions, of course. For instance, it has to be on a playable area, if the map progresses and your APC is about to be on the gray area, you can’t spawn on it. My suggestions is only for the APC squad, mind you. I’ve seen people suggest this to extend to squads in general but i don’t think that would be a good idea.
Another thing i’d like to see would be to give the APCs some logistical abilities. For instance, you could unlock the option to fit ammo or other equipment on it. Much like the medic pack, it could have a reserve of ammo people would be able to resupply from. Or for example, you could have an APC with canteens that would give acertain amount of squads that spawned on it a stamina boost.