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1st Firebases, Is it possible to have a flag or something on a team fb?

Why? Because the other day on muttrah some Really Smart teammates thought it was a good Idea to build a fob on the mosque roof. Then I was gunning in the cobra and Not focusing on the mini map I fired 20mm on it (1tk) then My Pilot didn't notice it was friendly so down came 10+ FFAR Rockets on the squad (4tks)(Auto ban pilot).

2nd Is it possible for the "I need a HELICOPTER at the coordinate" To deploy a Purple Smoke nade kinda like Regular BF2? But make it so its only visible to pilots or the team requesting it.

3rd Head movement when running? Yes like bf2142 and I know the engine if upgraded but I saw this video.

4th the M134s on the Ah-6's, Maybe up the RPM to 1200 or so (from the current 900)?

5th More Detailed/Realistic huds for jets

make it so its only visible to pilots or the team requesting it.

thats how it works in bf2

why? color smoke should be visible for everybody, but it can be abused, when you need smoke and dont have any just put "need heli" and voila, you get a smoke screen

3. this video is made by chuck and posted on chis channel, and it will be probably implemented in 0.86 because Chuc is a DEV and he specializes in animations

4.already implemented in Combined Arms mod, check it out

5.same as above

1st - A flag wouldn't have helped your situation. ALWAYS check your map before an attack run in an aricraft, ALWAYS! I'd like to see FOBs and Bunkers in slightly differing styles for different factions.

2nd - Not realistic, no thanks. SLs have coloured smoke for a reason.

3rd -

4th - Check out Combined Arms, I too would like to see this in PR.

5th - " "

masterceo wrote:3. this video is made by chuck and posted on chis channel, and it will be probably implemented in 0.86 because Chuc is a DEV and he specializes in animations

4.already implemented in Combined Arms mod, check it out

5.same as above

Sgt.Smeg wrote:1st - A flag wouldn't have helped your situation. ALWAYS check your map before an attack run in an aricraft, ALWAYS! I'd like to see FOBs and Bunkers in slightly differing styles for different factions.

2nd - Not realistic, no thanks. SLs have coloured smoke for a reason.

3rd -

4th - Check out Combined Arms, I too would like to see this in PR.

5th - " "

Yea I know he's a dev...
Yea I've play CA.

Sgt.Smeg wrote:1st - A flag wouldn't have helped your situation. ALWAYS check your map before an attack run in an aricraft, ALWAYS! I'd like to see FOBs and Bunkers in slightly differing styles for different factions.

The Mosque wasn't a friendly flag, there were a lot of markers for friendlies near it, but I couldnt pick out the mosque itself on the map. Fuzzy spotted a few chuckleheads on the Mosque roof, he got 1 TK, I didn't notice, and made an amazingly epic Cobra divebomb attack on it, got 5 TKs, 4 punishes, and a ban.

So if Fuzzy had been able to spot an American flag on that Firebase, this would've never happened.

So good suggestion.

TomDackery wrote:The Mosque wasn't a friendly flag, there were a lot of markers for friendlies near it, but I couldnt pick out the mosque itself on the map. Fuzzy spotted a few chuckleheads on the Mosque roof, he got 1 TK, I didn't notice, and made an amazingly epic Cobra divebomb attack on it, got 5 TKs, 4 punishes, and a ban.

So if Fuzzy had been able to spot an American flag on that Firebase, this would've never happened.

So good suggestion.

hahah yea i remember that

a flag or a different structure would be nice

TomDackery wrote:The Mosque wasn't a friendly flag, there were a lot of markers for friendlies near it, but I couldnt pick out the mosque itself on the map. Fuzzy spotted a few chuckleheads on the Mosque roof, he got 1 TK, I didn't notice, and made an amazingly epic Cobra divebomb attack on it, got 5 TKs, 4 punishes, and a ban.

So if Fuzzy had been able to spot an American flag on that Firebase, this would've never happened.

So good suggestion.

If you spotted friendlies near it, you shouldn't have fired at all...

Seriously, if you can't take the time to spot for friendlies, how're you going to notice a flag whilst flying past? Not only would a flag look ridiculous, it's not going to help a helo gunner looking at his black and white monitor. A little flag like on the crates wont help but a huge flag waving on top that you can spot from an aircraft will just be silly.

So bad suggestion.

btw, the mosque is the building on the map with the massive marker on it.

As you can't check every second for friendlies whilst flying around, you need to keep tabs on friendly movement, looking at your map every so often. A good way of being safe if you're unsure who you're looking at is to not fire if friendlies are in the same block of buildings.

Dear fuzzy, when posting a suggestion please do not just throw in a bunch of stuff saying: fix that and then have a look in those. If you want something new or fixed just focus on one suggestion and tell us a way to solve it.

Ok just because you didnt see a TK doesnt mean we need to be waving flags everywhere. If there are friendly forces in the area you await a lase, or actualy support needed from squads. As a gunner in an attack helicopter you need to keep an eye on the map and talk to the other squads or even better have a spotter in your squad to do this for you! Your second point for the smoke to be seen by only friendly forces and pilots is just wtf, invisible smoke in a game about reality? Also as people have said SL and snipers have coloured smoke for a few reasons. The last 3 points i cannot answer.

FuzzySquirrel wrote:1st Firebases, Is it possible to have a flag or something on a team fb?

what happened was your own fault unless friendlies were lased

2nd Is it possible for the "I need a HELICOPTER at the coordinate" To deploy a Purple Smoke nade kinda like Regular BF2? But make it so its only visible to pilots or the team requesting it.
seriously...thats rediculous as Smeg said, SLs have smoke for a reason

3rd Head movement when running? Yes like bf2142 and I know the engine if upgraded but I saw this video.
agree...looks like the DEVs are making it...

4 and 5 are being made in CA as you well know, I seriously doubt the DEVs would ignore such good work as a new hud.

But seriously...whats with all the 'a few suggestions' threads lately? Put effort in to one or 2 suggestions instead of a shopping list. Otherwise the thread cannot seriously discuss them as you'll be jumping all over the place.

Yeah, ALot of things in CA should be implemented into PR.

Dr2B Rudd wrote:4 and 5 are being made in CA as you well know, I seriously doubt the DEVs would ignore such good work as a new hud.

But seriously...whats with all the 'a few suggestions' threads lately? Put effort in to one or 2 suggestions instead of a shopping list. Otherwise the thread cannot seriously discuss them as you'll be jumping all over the place.

Maybe we don't want to have 5 different threads? I think you can discuss things fine in the format of

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M_Striker wrote:How about a flag on the map??? Not a real flag on the structure. But a Flag right beside the structure on the mini map

There is a Firebase icon on the map.... what more do you need?

An enemy firebase is identified as a red triangle (if you have a commander), friendly FOBs always show up on the map. maybe not the minimap but if you're piloting, you should really be aware of where your front line infantry is and try to remember where friendly FOBs are.