Introduction
Greetings and salutations, friends!
As a companion-piece to my APC III suggestion topic, here is another, noticeably smaller improvment that’s desperately needed to improve mechanised warfare within Enlisted. Namely, letting us retake control of our APCs on new spawns.
Don’t know what I am talking about…? Allow me to explain.
Demonstration
To demonstrate, I booted up a lone custom-game, this is so that I can easily reproduce the conditions that I aim to have changed. Let me assure you, dear reader, this demonstration is still accurate for regular gameplay, as it occours there as well.
In the following clip, you will see my freshly spawned APC. I’ll drive it into a desired position, and demonstrate how I can dismount, then re-mount, and then retake full control of the vehicle again.
Nothing strange going on here, as I’m sure you can tell.
Now, the same “battle”, but later on, when I spawn in using the same squad. Let us see what has changed.
Here, I tried everything. I tried to force a switch to the driver’s seat by pressing two, which did not work. I tried dismounting and re-mounting the vehicle, and whilst I could dismount I could not get back in.
This is the case for any APC squad, trying to re-take control of your own APC.
Why even bother…?
There are a couple of reasons for why you should be able to re-take control of your vehicle.
- I own it.
Fairly simple really, it’s my APC, I am using the same squad, I should be able to reassert control over it on that principle alone.
- It would reward forward thinking.
Players should be rewarded for thinking ahead, planning APC locations tactically. You might find a very advantageous location to leave your APC, somewhere out of harms way, outside of the enemy’s sight, but still close enough to be valuable to the objective, and still positioned in such a way to allow rapid relocation in case of objective location change. Spawning further forward, or more to the side, than regular vehicle spawns, could be very beneficial.
Such behaviour should be rewarded, not limmited.
- It would reduce the APC-wreck build-up.
After a long battle, the battlefield can often be littered with the wrecks of destroyed APCs. However, not all of them - or sometimes even most of them - were nessesarily lost due to enemy action. Your APC is automatically destroyed when you try to spawn with another.
These wrecks do cumulate, potentially blocking routes for other allied vehicles and even infantry, as well as make prime APC locations get swamped with burning wreckages on Conquest maps.
If, instead of being forced to spawn in a new APC, destroying your current one and creating another road hazard, you could simply choose to spawn in your current APC, and take control of it instead.
Poll
- Aye, for any APC squad in your line-up
- Aye, but only for the connected APC squad
- No (please explain why not)
- I don’t care about this feature
That’s all from me, I hope you’ll consider this Quality of Life upgrade.
Until next time, dear reader, and remember; perfectly functional machinery has a rather unfortunate habit of being useful.
Signed,
Lt. Ogge King, 3rd Experimental Tea Infusion and Small Arms Appreciation Company, Home Guard (Reserve),
God save the King.