The key issue with nerfing transport vehicles is not pushing the spawnable distance farther away, but making them easier to destroy.
It’s simply too tanky (by “tanky,” I mean it’s unreasonably durable)!
Even when the engine and drivetrain are wrecked, it still keeps spawning soldiers just fine.
Isn’t the whole idea of spawning from a vehicle based on the concept of transporting troops with that vehicle?
Then why is it even possible to spawn from a vehicle that can no longer move? I genuinely show no understanding of this.
So please roll back the current per-map distance limit (currently 60–80m) back to the old 50m,
and instead change it so the vehicle can be destroyed more easily!
For example, if the engine compartment or drivetrain is hit and disabled by an anti-tank rifle or an anti-tank rocket,
make the vehicle itself get destroyed outright,
or simply lower its overall durability across the board.
What makes the current spawn vehicle frustrating is not that the spawn distance used to be fixed at 50m,
but that infantry had difficulty destroying it from range.
Even if I hit the engine compartment precisely with a Panzerfaust and destroy the engine, the vehicle doesn’t get destroyed,
so I’m almost always forced to fire two or more shots.
If you roll the limit back to 50 meters and make it easier to destroy,
you can prevent the spawn vehicle from losing too much value compared to rally points,
while also significantly reducing the most frustrating parts of the gameplay.
it should just have same distance as rally point. setting x distance is bad solution cause it is distance from center and not from edge of cap. previously you had some maps where cap was ~50m radius, so you could basically park APC on cap edge and spawn there.
If damaged has caused the truck/APC to loose the function of propulsion, then it should no longer function as a mobile rally point. Either repair the truck or respawn it, either way it’ll be out of action.
I would be open to a player still being able to spawn in their own APC, even if it’s damaged, maybe with just the APC squad itself even, just to make repairs a little easier to complete… But that’s about it…
I would still like the ability to take control of my own APC after respawning in it, and it’s unfortunate that’s still not possible… But that’s a little outside the main point of this post.
This poll is a bit tricky. I agree that APCs should be allowed to park much closer, exactly the way we had them before the last major update if possible. But they shouldn’t be weaker than what they already are.
They need fixed…especially for those that bought Premium…it’s a really bad business practice to nerf thing people just paid money for…take the new perk point update, nerfing APCs, weapon fire rates, etc…just BAD.