Commander toys....im in love

wazza_ni · Post by **wazza_ni** » 2007-06-27 01:20

Just finished playing Jabal Al-Burj on :IGI: server and I wanted to share something with the community...

Before any of the open beta's came out I made sure to read the online guide about the new commander assets etc. and I have to say that although it sounded pretty cool in theory, I had no idea about what they looked like, how they worked etc in game. Ive played a good few rounds and I had never seen any of them used.

Tonight on Al Burj though, I finally realised what it was all about - and i gotta say, the potential for this new addition is incredible. Our tightly nit squad (MEC) were defending West Beach and with the commanders help we started deploying the assets around the place. We had ourselves dug in deep...it was really something else. We had a couple of AA emplacements at each end of the beach, sandbag walls scattered along the shore with barbed wire on all sides and a bunker and a firebase in the middle. As someone on our squad said, it was like something outta "sim city" the way we were putting these things up and some team members were gettin stuck in with their shovels n wrenches etc while others were scanning the horizon for threats.

Like i said earlier, it wasnt until i actually seen it in action that i realised how cool this stuff is. Reading it on the online manual doesnt do it justice. I think the devs have done a fantastic job with these additions. Truely great stuff. Hopefully when .6 comes out everyone will be tuned into the benefits of these assets.

I for one cant wait....

ReaperMAC · Post by **ReaperMAC** » 2007-06-27 01:24

Ive only had the pleasure of building a bunker, havent really seen or built a full base yet. I can't wait for the oppertunity though

El_Vikingo · Post by **El_Vikingo** » 2007-06-27 01:30

"You think this is kinder party?"
"If I see one more bag of dirt...!"

All from CoH. West beach and Easst beach heavily defended can be hell to get through.

wazza_ni · Post by **wazza_ni** » 2007-06-27 01:33

El_Vikingo wrote:"You think this is kinder party?"
"If I see one more bag of dirt...!"

All from CoH. West beach and Easst beach heavily defended can be hell to get through.

Think you were on that round before you disconnected Vikingo! Or possibly round before...

El_Vikingo · Post by **El_Vikingo** » 2007-06-27 01:39

I'm not sure, how many players were on?

One thing I hate, is being a Squad member, I just can't believe what people think of.

Them: Charge'em!
Me : Get some supressing fire on 'em. You three take the right side and lob grenades. Then get some smokes and give supressing fire for the other two, and take the left. A friendly tank and comes over the hill, and gives us support and we take the flag.

I don't think I was there, though.

Sgt.North · Post by **Sgt.North** » 2007-06-27 01:41

I Was there

shooting Blackhawks out of the sky with my trusty Heavy AT !

And yes, was cool ........ Who took the screen, you were in the APC i think..... get it posted that man !

Sgt.North

Post by **eggman** » 2007-06-27 01:42

hehe to be honest I really wasn't sure how these would work out lol.

Was all part of a comprehensive way to move completely away from the vBF2 spawning mechanics. We actually started working on this shortly after we released v0.4. We want as much as possible for things in the game world to be controlled by players. And as much as possible we don't want any single player to have a major impact.

BUT.. the commander should be VERY powerful is my view. Not in that ghey raining down artillery on uber zoomed enemy contacts way... but in a way that they can have a major impact on the outcome of a round IF their team coalesces around the [sensible] commander's directives.

Originally the idea was pretty wacked .. but we polished it up from a design perspective... then we ran into all kinds of challenges making it work.. and the guys did a brilliant job coming up with some amazingly creative approaches to making it work.

Obviously still needs some polish and play testing across a full release cycle... but I think they are a great addition.

Wait till we take it to the next level lol

Nutty stuff in the works hehe. I'll explain more about it once we get through v0.6 and validate some of the things we want to do (building on the v0.6 Commander asset foundation).

wazza_ni · Post by **wazza_ni** » 2007-06-27 01:43

El_Vikingo wrote:I'm not sure, how many players were on?

Think it was 10 v 10...then it dropped to 7 v 7.

If i remember right at one stage I was bitching about teams cos it was 7 on 5 lol. You dropped out shortly after then more came on and it was 12 v 12. Was about 2 hours ago....

West beach looked like something outta the Normandy landings after we had built everything haha. We repelled the USMC air and sea attacks for ages

El_Vikingo · Post by **El_Vikingo** » 2007-06-27 01:45

I went to play COH, I couldn't take it anymore.

It's just those times when you die and you say "BS!"

wazza_ni · Post by **wazza_ni** » 2007-06-27 01:47

Sgt.North wrote: I Was there shooting Blackhawks out of the sky with my trusty Heavy AT !

And yes, was cool ........ Who took the screen, you were in the APC i think..... get it posted that man !

Sgt.North

Sgt North!!! We was holding that Beach for ages till the USMC gave up and left the server lol.

Was some other dude in the APC, cant remember his name. I was SL and you were H-AT nailing Blackhawks!! Would love to see that pic of the beach...it was cool as f**k!! Barb wire, sandbags everywhere!!!

Ahhhh great days!!

DarkTalon · Post by **DarkTalon** » 2007-06-27 02:42

in fact last night i got bored and made a prison for civilians in the VCP =D

Xmaster · Post by **Xmaster** » 2007-06-27 02:48

Commander assets are great help when used wisely.
Hey! this mod is all about having brains

Post by **dbzao** » 2007-06-27 04:12

yep, nice screenshot... I was the #3

*2Recon* · Post by ***2Recon*** » 2007-06-27 12:41

Ill jump on the bandwagon.

On Al Basrah

West beach at Al Burj

Post by **Dunehunter** » 2007-06-27 12:46

Cool screens! Sorry if this is a noobish question, but has the points cost been changed/removed? I always found that a bit annoying.

Post by **Outlawz7** » 2007-06-27 12:48

I loved, when our Co on MEC constructed 3 AA guns, a firebase and we already had H-AT and the APC at East Beach.

As soon as a Blackhawk came, it was shot down in seconds, whole sky full of tracers, I even got myself the H&K 21 and contributed

Post by **eggman** » 2007-06-27 14:36

Nice screenies hehe. Am sure we'll have some bugs to sort out. One thing I would like to see if an UNDO .. nothing complicated, just the ability to despawn the last object spawned.

Tartantyco · Post by **Tartantyco** » 2007-06-27 15:07

-Yeah, I'm currently setting up Engineers Squad alot, supporting the commander in asset construction, setting up mine fields and demolitions. Had a great time at Jabal Al-Burj today, didn't get off East Beach the entire time but set up command posts, firebases, and sandbag walls all the time. Had a SL Officer/Engineer, 2 Engineer, 2 Riflemen, 1 Medic squad(Though it changed once in a while when we needed AT or a little more firepower) and we defended East Beach throughout the game. MEC eventually recaptured West and East Beach and we bled out, I think they had 40 tickets left and we had 113 or something when they recaptured. Just before the end the commander ordered everyone to East Beach, five squads moving up from the shore and 'nading the shit out of the base. Of course, I got run over by and APC... It's great when your on a armor heavy map with narrow passages and such, you can really set up a killing field with assets and minefields.

Hawk_345 · Post by **Hawk_345** » 2007-06-27 15:17

yep i was there to today, i was SL of squad 1 and we were at east the whole time, me and comander were always talking and we set up all sorts of stuff, we made 2 defensive lines 1 on the road north of east, it had 1 AAA, a firbase and some sandbags, plus an apc, at the base we hadd all sorts of razor wire along with a bunker, suport truck, comand post about 5 or 6 sandbag empalcements and an AAA on the hill, we kept them back for the whole round till the end, here we had around 110 ticks and they had 60 i think, so we had only one shot at taking it back, i think it was almost a full server so we brouth up 1 apc, parked in the water, and about 20 to 30 guys spawned in the water, we had about 20 ticks, they had 40 or so, we swam to the beach head with heavy resistance we stormed in blew up the apcs and spawn points and cleaned it out and took over the base with 2 ticks left, but the MEC won the round but we took back the base befor the end. it was the most i had ever seen the comander assets used since ive been playing the past 2 betas.