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Ok so this may seem really minor, but unfortunately it was done enough to me last round to piss me off so I figured I would come make some sugestions... Anyway, on an insurgency map I was greeted by several civilians who had taken to swimming in the middle of a river (fully aware that they couldn't be knifed while swimming) and would subsequently hop out as soon as you were too far away and start hucking rocks at people. As soon as people moved toward them they would hop back in thus impossible to kill other than by shooting.

Several ways this could be adressed:

Make civilians unable to swim, probably not a stretch considering that they are supposed to live in a desert

Allow people to shoot at civilians while they are in the water without penalty, similar to if they are climbing or in a vehicle I believe.

Allow people to knife in water

Thanks for reading my suggestions, comments are welcome.

Hardcoded. In before the Vikingo.

Hmph, the title of this topic is very misleading

Yeah I saw it too. There was about six guys trying to push him out of the water.

Maybe a limited time a civilian can spend in the water like one minute or something before he drowns.

You'd think people who live on their own lands for generations would know how to survive on it.

never noticed something like that happening but something definitely needs to be done. Allowing people to use the knife in water would probably be the best solution, if it isn't hardcoded.

normally when civis go swimming while me or other people are chasing them they usually just get shot by some one in my squad at the time (often the SL) i havent taken up on doing it but if it gets done to me enough i might.....

Tehy liff in de dessert, why wud tehy now how 2 swim?

If they do it just walk away and hide, they'll come out soon enough.

Pull out your officer pistol and start executing your own men for letting the civie get away. Do this while you wait for the civillians to get out of the water. Then shoot him in the leg till he get blur vision. Move in for the arrest.

or u can just get a car a hide so when they come out u do a Hit&Run on them or if ur not in that time yet do a drive-by

Alternatively, take that car and drive at them, very very fast (engage the boost function about 20m before the edge of the river).

Land the car on the civillian's head.

If you miss, don't worry- just bail out very quickly and swim for the shore. Hopefully the ensuing explosion will kill the civie, as they can't swim as fast for as long.


Failing THAT, I suppose it's probably possible to make swimming one of the actions that doesn't include the shooting penalty, along with driving and rope-climbing. (Thus taking away ALL the civillians' chances of improving their physical fitness, ensuring that by 0.8 all civillians will be massively obese and therefore easy to distinguish from standard insurgents)

How about just make the water not "swimmable"?

should be able to make a lasaroo thow it at them and drag to feckers back

or just have the knife usable in water.

I would've just shot him tbh...

After an extensive water battle I did finally execute him with my officer pistol in frustration.

Just ignore them and just be on your way. Pop some smoke and then run like hell. No need to kill them. You're just letting yourself and your team down by killing them.

Leave them. Civilians bathing in some swamp arent any use to the Insurgent team anyway

El_Vikingo wrote:Tehy liff in de dessert, why wud tehy now how 2 swim?

If they do it just walk away and hide, they'll come out soon enough.

They do have a swimming pool at Bashar(?spelling) Hotel

Xsher wrote:After an extensive water battle I did finally execute him with my officer pistol in frustration.

giving them 10 tickets, mission accomplished. Roadkill is the best suggestion, those ditches arent very wide