Your Sand Castle / Roadblock!!

[RAWSwampFox]

Good Evening,

It gets kind of frustrating and disappointing when you work so hard on building this stuff around knowns and unknowns, players that spawn on them blow them up because they can't get out. There are so many noobs (yes, I use that term very strictly in this sense) that just don't get the object of defending a cache and only want to go around COD/CSS/HALO/QUAKE/DOOM/DUKENUKEM/DELTAFORCE/WOLFENSTEIN/etc. style and kill everyone that is walking. That game list above tells you how long I've been playing multi-player FPS games.

Oh well, such is a PR vet's life.

[TheMerchantOfMenace]

...only want to go around COD/CSS/HALO/QUAKE/DOOM/DUKENUKEM/DELTAFORCE/WOLFENSTEIN/etc. style and kill everyone that is walking.

Completely agree, which is why I hope that this new breed of players that have jumped onto PR will not unduly influence the DEVs into giving an inch in to their demands.

Meaning that I fear that this recent breed of players might/could influence the DEVs to put out more maps of the Gaza Beach, Asad Khal variety. That type of combat is not what made PR the great game that it is.

[RAWSwampFox]

Good Afternoon,

Here's the reason that Insurgency is not broken in reality. When blocking in a cache like this where you can't get out if you spawn on it, you have folks who get these "BRIGHT" ideas to place mines and IED's at the base of these roadblocks not realizing that when they blow, they destroy the roadblock. If they don't do this, they run around complaining about not being able to get out and they throw a nade tk'ing everyone in the blocked off cache. This is the reason Insurgency is not broken because reality dictates that uninformed/untrained numbnuts will always want to be "in the action" showing their COD noobish skills.

On another note, the combat engineer wrench will build the roadblocks in 20 seconds just like a combat engineer on blufor with razorwire. If you want to get roadblocks up fast to trap enemy armor in certain sections of the map, go combat engineer.

[fatalsushi83]

I like how you included Delta Force on that list.

[dysin]

i consider myself a trash engineer. really good addition to the game. i haven't tried it, but can we shovel+right click to demo like razor wire? didn't know about the repair bag, nice swamp.

[RAWSwampFox]

Good Morning,

Well, there was a party at the hotel in Al Basrah, we threw all our trash in the pool nearby almost covering a cache. NOTE: The box of shotgun shells was all that was visible and you can see it right above the left shoulder of the guy holding the shovel at the bottom of the pool.




Here's another genius way to block the enemy from building behind the wall in M9 of Fallujah. Place a roadblock (all 10m in this example) perpendicular to the map's edge south of the building pictured causing the driver to swing out a bit farther right off the map. Now for the sneaky part, on the north side of the building, place at least 3 roadblocks horizontal with the edge of the map causing him to stay off map a bit longer than he can live causing the vehicle to become abandoned, killing all who are inside, and thwarting their FOB building.



Now, you can also do this at the top left of the map as well as in A6. Armor and other vehicles like to skirt the edge of the map to position themselves in A2 or B2 all the while avoiding the roads that Pendeho is sure to mine.

Lastly, keep in mind to place all mines, pressure plate or otherwise, a healthy distance from roadblocks. When these explode, they destroy the roadblock.

[RAWSwampFox]

Good Afternoon,

It is so amazing the lack of depth by most players the invaluable asset that the roadblock gives. Do they not realize that a breacher only carries 3 C4 packages? Well, if there are enough roadblocks around the cache blocking almost every entrance, those 3 C4 packages will not get very far. The roadblocks are the quintessential delay factor that has been lacking in Insurgency. For example, I placed a smattering of roadblocks around a known on Fallujah in B3 at various buildings. I expertly covered the entrance to the actual cache building while covering the other buildings in almost the same manner. There were at least 2 squads of infantry combined with Humvee and maybe one armor piece, can't remember, and it took them over 5 minutes to find the cache. We had only one FOB in the area in E1 but the amount of time it took them to find the cache would have allowed us ample time to reinforce the area and possibly repel the attack. Instead of doing this, the team basically gave up on the cache.

Roadblocks are extremely valuable!! So the next time you call me or others idiots, retards, and whatever other colorful terms you usually use, think outside of the box instead of making it all about you.

[Zeno]

My little Marlin Fort:

[RAWSwampFox]

Good Morning,

I've seen more logies driving up to the caches nowadays than ever before to provide supplies to breachers trying to blow up roadblocks.

Now, question, I have yet to test this, does the big C4 totally bring down the roadblocks?

[adrenalinetooth]

trash castles in the sky!! - with a lot of patience and luck of not deleting the barrier you are not standing on, you can make some pretty cool platforms to scout from as a civvie.

[Zeno]

[RAWSwampFox]

Good Evening,

Here is my latest Al Basrah creation and as Spongebob says, 1 hour and 8 deaths later:







To even get this started I had to build a SPG/TOW so the roadblock would have a base to build on. I was able to get one last roadblock and at the end, I was 36 meters away from the hideout. I did a print screen but the roadblock disappeared so I don't know if I accidently undeployed it or not. After the roadblocks were built, I could never get back out to the end to continue it.

[RAWSwampFox]

Good Evening,

This is from a round on Karbala. I was trying to build high enough to get to the top of the water tower. The round ended too soon.





edit> The second picture was the final height that we attained. If you'll notice, the round was ending. Now, people were telling me that my hook was only falling short by 5 meters or so. Still going to work on this one.

[rPoXoTauJIo]

[mat552]

[RAWSwampFox]

Good Evening,

I've always had issues building roadblocks in certain buildings. Try placing fob assets and then the roadblock. The roadblock will use the fob asset as a base for placement. You can then remove the fob asset after beginning your series of roadblocks.

edit>> It has also come to my attention that some servers are starting to pay attention to how roadblocks are placed as in if you place it on a vehicle to gain height, you may be kicked or banned. Be aware of server rules. You can attain height by stacking the roadblocks but you will run out of roadblock "slots" within the perimeter your trying to defend.

[RAWSwampFox]

Good Afternoon,

I was able to reach the top of the water tower. =TBA= BJC and myself were able to get on top of the water tower which I believe it is the first time in PR history for any Insurgent on the Karbala map to achieve. I accidentally fell off so BJC went commander and started building a FOB. Well, when he was almost done, the server crashed. It took us 31 minutes to get up there. I tried it again later but was unable to achieve it because a sniper kept bugging us and then the round ended. I was able to get a screenshot or two and I will hopefully get those uploaded soon.

On Fallujah, I was able to build a row of roadblocks all the way from the house of pain south of the mosque to the building at the SW corner of the mosque compound. I will also post pictures of those as well.

For the next month or so, I will be absent more than present in PR due to school starting and all the "busyness" surrounding that.

[LiamBai]

Saw this one on FCV a few days ago.


I was impressed.

[RAWSwampFox]

Good Evening,

Well here are the two pics from Karbala. The first one will show me standing on top of the tower looking down to BJC. The second one will show the server crashing with a map view of a fob at the target marker and BJC building it on top of the water tower.

[RAWSwampFox]

Good Evening,

Here's a trash causeway from the house of pain to the mosque. I couldn't place anymore so if I could have removed the perpendicular one and put it to the north, I would have had a complete causeway.