Why the HELL do you forbid a comrade, or ourselves, from calling in artillery at the same time as a friend?
Many times I aim for a spot far from my friend’s target, and they still tell me I should wait for him!
That’s when a group of bombers is about to arrive, and then we are FORCED to wait for this disaster to pass so we can call in our artillery.
And we still need to be lucky that the enemy doesn’t jam our radio or a friend doesn’t call faster than us!
How difficult is it to balance this ACTION within the match? I understand the limit of 2 calls at a time, but there are still times when the game bugs out, and only one call happens, and when we want to call 2 at the same time, the game PROHIBITS IT.
I won’t waste time sending videos or prints, because I know I’m not the only one suffering from this, and what’s more, the worst thing is that you need to call artillery quickly, and the game locks you up and you have to wait almost 2 minutes, and SURVIVE until then…
mate i think the glitch is two arty strikes active, one at a time though not sure is rocket and normal stack, though i think in market garden you could use two at the same time
And to this day, I’ve never understood how it really works. I simply try and try again and again until I succeed!
I’ve even seen the map clear of targets, and the game said a friend was calling.
Strikes are only locked during other teammates strike you can call right after it finishes, arty needs a cool down, or just do what everyone else does,
call arty strike from a radio man in a regular squad, then latter an arty strike from a radio squad, you nor the game needs or can handle every player being able to call in rolling arty strike, dont ask for glitches to be made part of the game
As far as I know, there can only be one artillery per team, and you have to wait for the pink circle to disappear from the map to call it in. It doesn’t matter if it’s already stopped in the game, as it won’t let you call it in until it leaves the map.
It’s real-time, allowing you to have the map open, waiting for it to disappear, and then immediately request yours. That’s why people request it before you do; they already have the map and the objective, and they’re probably spamming the click.
Exactly that, they stay in SPAM until they get it!
There used to be no limit to the number of simultaneous strikes, and IIRC the cool-down was 30 seconds!!
Limiting to a single strike at any time, increasing cooldown to 45 seconds (IIRC), then 1 minute, and now to whatever it is now were all done to deliberately nerf artillery spam.
And we are much better off for all that!
Eg thread from 2021 -
And another -
It is rather frustrating trying to call in artillery strikes over and over and over again, only to be told repeatedly that you have to wait. Meanwhile, you wait and 80% of the time you’re waiting your radioman dies.
Why can’t you call it in and just get an acknowledgement reply. This would be like the dude taking the radio calls and writing them down, so you, the soldier can get on with fighting instead of waiting and dying while you wait. The only drawback to this is, you won’t know when your actually artillery is coming in, when normally you can guess as to how long it takes when you’re the only one calling one in. Still, I would rather call it in and be done, if I get wasted by my own artillery, so be it, most of my bot soldiers aren’t smart enough to live long enough while waiting to call in artillery the current form it’s in.
Exactly, friend, that’s what I was trying to express, but I couldn’t!
That’s right, it’s hard to get that answer and still have to wait in the middle of the CRAZY battlefield, and be lucky that your radio survives, which if it’s a BOT, it certainly won’t!
no stacking artillery just remove bombers
Dude, bombers only help the enemy farm points, haha, nothing more than that, because nowadays we already know how to dodge them, and even bots rarely die to them!
It’s easier to die to concentrated artillery than to those 5 useless planes!
which is why we want are team to use bombers less, letting people stack arty and bombers would cause people to use bombers more which is bad, if you have a way for only the enemy team to use bombers suggest it