Civilian in the water.

ReaperMAC · Post by **ReaperMAC** » 2007-12-23 16:32

brummy.uk wrote:I just had a kill streak of 3 yesterday while being Civilian Rocks aren't pathetic!

Never said rocks were pathetic, said if you are afraid/die by them, YOU are

Post by **Spec** » 2007-12-23 19:14

If there are really heavy vehicles and helicopters trying to kill civs in the water, its perhaps not a bad tactic to put a few of them in the water and place an RPG somewhere near to this area ^^ Seriously, they never annoyed me except when they jump into my line of fire.

Post by **Outlawz7** » 2007-12-23 22:51

gazzthompson wrote:IIRC u can shoot em if in water , same as grappel hook

Water isn't a vehicle.

Razick · Post by **Razick** » 2007-12-24 01:26

Outlawz wrote:Water isn't a vehicle.

Yea you need the Aquaman kit to drive the river.

Teek · Post by **Teek** » 2007-12-24 01:46

How would you run a swiming civi over with a LAV, if the warrior cant swim?

ReaperMAC · Post by **ReaperMAC** » 2007-12-24 02:36

Teek wrote:How would you run a swiming civi over with a LAV, if the warrior cant swim?

Well... it can... it just doesnt last that long

Had some... interesting results on Fools Road.

Waaah_Wah · Post by **Waaah_Wah** » 2007-12-24 02:38

ReaperMAC wrote:Well... it can... it just doesnt last that long

Had some... interesting results on Fools Road.

Tnx alot

BloodBane611 · Post by **BloodBane611** » 2007-12-24 03:58

Dude, the warrior is totally amphibious. Just find an engineer, a really shallow spot, and DRIVE FAST! I did that on al basrah SP the other day, super fun. Totally pointless, but....

Anyhow, civis are not a big deal. Let them waste themselves, don't get caught up in catching them. Search and destroy tactics will let you find the caches in plenty of time at this point. In .7 I hear we're going to have 300+ locations, so new tactics soon. But for now work with what we've got.

kckid2599 · Post by **kckid2599** » 2007-12-24 03:58

Ragni<RangersPL> wrote:You've got two options:

1. Kill them.
2. Leave them.

Option 3:
Shoot them in the foot and let THEM decide if they want to die or risk getting out of the water to heal themselves.

On a totally unrelated note, if you need some patching up yourself and there's a civi on a lamp post in the area, shoot them in the foot. They'll try to heal themselves, will drop a field dressing, and it will tumble to the ground, free for your use.

ReaperMAC · Post by **ReaperMAC** » 2007-12-24 05:25

kckid2599 wrote:Option 3:
Shoot them in the foot and let THEM decide if they want to die or risk getting out of the water to heal themselves.

On a totally unrelated note, if you need some patching up yourself and there's a civi on a lamp post in the area, shoot them in the foot. They'll try to heal themselves, will drop a field dressing, and it will tumble to the ground, free for your use.

Way to use your head, rather than standing on the side of the river, trying unsuccessfully to knife the civilian then going on the forums to complain about it.

TravisRomano · Post by **TravisRomano** » 2007-12-24 05:51

if you shoot a civi and he bleeds out slowly do u get the long spawn timer?

Razick · Post by **Razick** » 2007-12-24 06:03

Post by **Spec** » 2007-12-24 10:25

See, thats a tactic which is totaly against the point of civilians. I doubt reallife soldiers would go to some random civilian, shoot him in the food so he drops the magic field dressing... Civ's need to be tweaked so people stop searching reasons to shoot at them, thats just not what they are for. Maybe arresting them should make them spawn 5 dressings or something.

Soulja · Post by **Soulja** » 2007-12-24 21:55

Yea I can see that now....

Outside Al Basrah at the VCP in real life.

1st Brit soldier, "Look it's another one of those civilians in a bright green shirt."

2nd Brit, "Quick stab him so we can arrest him!"

*Both start chasing civilian*
*Civilian pulls out grappling hook from nowhere and climbs onto light pole*
*Civilian starts throwing rocks at Brits, hitting one in the head*

2nd Brit, "OW! Damnit I'm bleeding and don't have any field dressings."
1st Brit, "Just shoot the civilian in the foot, they drop field dressings for
some reason"

Post by **Spec** » 2007-12-24 23:07

Perhaps the civ's dressings should only heal insurgents. Or give him a modified medipack. But nah, thats also unrealistic... But the insurgency mode needs changes... We'll see what the devs have done for 0.7

kckid2599 · Post by **kckid2599** » 2007-12-24 23:46

Spec_Operator wrote:See, thats a tactic which is totally against the point of civilians. I doubt real life soldiers would go to some random civilian, shoot him in the food so he drops the magic field dressing... Civ's need to be tweaked so people stop searching reasons to shoot at them, thats just not what they are for. Maybe arresting them should make them spawn 5 dressings or something.

I also highly doubt civilians run around with Taliban acting like living body armor, and then go climb lamp posts and hide in water so troops can't stab them with their handcuffs.

Post by **Spec** » 2007-12-25 00:01

Well, taliban could use them as human shield, thats simulated.
And they can climb and swim, but usualy the troops just wouldnt care about that. Great, a civ in the water - who cares?

And idea would be, if a civilian was throwing a rock, hitting one of the brits it would be allowed to shoot him for a few seconds. So he cant climb up somewhere and throw rocks.

TravisRomano · Post by **TravisRomano** » 2007-12-25 06:31

why not make the civi start droning if hes in the water for longer then 30 sec seeing civis are abusing there rights to swim and make the light polls higher so they cant grapple to them this would fix it end of story .

also maybe we should make the civi pick up rocks off the roads and not having 1,000000 rocks from out of no where

TeRR0R · Post by **TeRR0R** » 2007-12-25 14:19

Are you overstrained with civis?

Whats the point then to play civi? Its there to annoy the enemy.