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Almost on the topic, what gives with the BTR-60's?

In quite a few sessions on Muttrah City me and fellow Perkeleet squad members have been wreaking havoc to the American LAV's, usually knocking out both of them with a single BTR, and with considerable ease I might add. This is not to boast our skills as crewmen, but rather to stress that the BTR has been positively murdering any opposition on Muttrah.

Now, just a moment ago I had a rather cold revelation on Tactical Gamer (still sorry for it, chaps). The map being Jabal, fueled by our ongoing successes I whipped our APC crews to confidently engage the very same LAV's with the very same barrage of 14,5mm lead, only to unload four or five 50-round belts into a single LAV before getting killed by the same vehicle. And no, we weren't crewing the initial BRDM armored car, but the same, full-blown honking APC we've been using on Muttrah lately.

Judging by the posts made by others, this wasn't a one time, lag or whatever influenced incident, but more of a gameplay decision. As such I'd like to ask for a confirmation if this really is so, and much appreciate the reasoning behind it as well. I could imagine it's there to actually allow the U.S. even a landing on Jabal, but couldn't the same goal be achieved by fewer APC's for the MEC forces?

I don't consider myself quick to complain about things, but APC X killing APC Y on map A, but not doing a scratch on map B just doesn't go down for me very well.

LAVs have paper armour designed to withstand light prodding and the occasional rain storm, I doubt this has been changed recently as it is actually quite realistic, I think what you experienced may have been a one-off.

Saarna wrote:Almost on the topic, what gives with the BTR-60's?

In quite a few sessions on Muttrah City me and fellow Perkeleet squad members have been wreaking havoc to the American LAV's, usually knocking out both of them with a single BTR, and with considerable ease I might add. This is not to boast our skills as crewmen, but rather to stress that the BTR has been positively murdering any opposition on Muttrah.
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I don't consider myself quick to complain about things, but APC X killing APC Y on map A, but not doing a scratch on map B just doesn't go down for me very well.

Where you playing these two maps on the same server?

Also, I've found that the BTR and LAV are rather well balanced for Muttrah as far as lethality to each other goes. Sounds like you were having a good night...I've had good nights with both LAV and BTR on muttrah. However, I do think that the LAV has better edge because of its heat rounds. I think the BTR needs to also receive something along the lines of a heat round or replace the current model with something that is equally effective against infantry as with the BTR you have to be a good distance away just to get the down angle to shoot infantry.