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Rico wrote:I like most of what I'm reading but have some concerns:

- Players dropping repair box behind a friendly tank and auto repairing as soon as they get hit. Hopefully this is addressed by having a full repair take like 5 minutes?
- Repair crates again - I can see it now, a vehicle repairing from a repair crate then *pop* it disappears as the driver of the logistics trucks drops it elsewhere for another unit.
- Engineers no longer being played due to limited abilities. I think if they are given ACOG sights or explosives they might actually be played in .85.
- No spawning of vehicles at FOB's. Hopefully transport vehicles will be increased because in some maps you rely on players setting up these bases just so that they will spawn vehicles. Happens in main bases like Basrah, Archer, all the time. No Humvees spawning will also make Muttrah and Barracuda hell for the US. On a side note, can the Chinese please have less Suppy trucks and jeeps on Cuda!
- Lack of kit request at RP's will significantly change the dynamic on some maps, for example not being able to get an AT kit and having no nearby APC, crate etc, on a map such as Fools Road.

Tomato_With_A_Rifle wrote:Nice, but can the Vehicle Resupply/Repair Depot repair enemy vehicles to?

'[R-DEV wrote:Rhino;886239']1 & 2. ye, it will take a long time to repair but unless anything has been changed without me knowing the "repair drop" will only stay around for like 2 or 5 mins after its been dropped so that you will have to use it wisely, and only drop it when you need repairs. So if you dropped it in your tanks "camping spot" so that when your tanks gets hit it will repair you, it would have most likely already disappeared by then or its time will almost be up.

3. Engys will play a different role in PR in v0.85 and will be a valuable asset to a team.

4. yes but also think of it like this, on muttrah etc the other side will also not have as many jeeps to shoot down enemy choppers with there 50cals with

5. we will just have to wait and see how it plays

'[R-DEV wrote:Jaymz;886068']

Let's see,

There are 2 Logistics Trucks per map and they each have 2 seats. That's a grand total of 4 people running Logistical Support out of a possible 32 players per team.

There are, however, a few maps that have an exception to this rule. Large scale armoured conflicts (Kashan being a prime example) will have 4 Logistics Trucks per team. This is to accommodate for the resource consuming nature of MBT's/IFV's (you have to bare in mind that the burden of field repairs now lies with Logistics Trucks).

So, even if we give you the benefit of a doubt and assume we are on Kashan Desert 64 with,

1 x Commander
4 x Logistical Personnel
2 x Transport Helicopter Pilots

That's 7 players out of a possible 32 that are partaking in a "non-combat role". Not even 1/4th of the team.

SocketMan wrote:I hope MEC does not have to wait 20 minutes for the BTR (or whatever they get)
on Mutrah since that would be the (only?) primary transport .
Will remind people that Armored Personal Carrier is for Carrying Personal - I like that part - many people will have to change their "tactics" (eventually).

[R-COM]Outlawz wrote:Can we have more pics of the logistics trucks for other factions?
Also, what will happen to faction that use IFVs and have no APCs, like British with their Warrior or MEC with the BMP3/BTR90?

IAJTHOMAS wrote:Hopefully APCs will attach themselves to a particular infantry squad and service their supply and transport needs most of the time, as well as providing fire support. I've seen it done on current the current version in pub matches a few times, so it is possible, if not a regular occurance at the moment.

The only difficulty is with BF2's hardcoded voip you can't talk to the apc crew while in an infantry squad, unless it through text, which is cumbersome, or over TS, which requires a bit of organisation and foresight that you might not see on the average server which people join on a whim.

Scot wrote:Sorry for double post, but the British have the Bulldog FV430 Series & Bulldog - British Army Website

So it's not like we don't have APCs, and the MEC could use the M113 I suppose...