Staging a full assault with airdrops.

[Webs961]

Does anyone remember the ability for the utility chopper to hover over a tank or other piece of ground equipment and airdrop it somewhere in Battlefield Vietnam? I think that was a pretty forward thinking feature, albeit one which as almost never used.

I'd like to see a map where the US starts at sea and airlifts equipment off of a supply island or off the carrier. It'd implement a completely new degree of tactics needed - you'd have to RIB troops over to the area to secure a LZ from the Militia or Insurgents first to be able to safely drop armor, trucks, etc. Not to mention that it'd be really useful to be able to use a Blackhawk or something like that to airdrop a badly needed APC or IFV right into the action for your troops. Of course, if you drop it from too high an altitude or if the chopper which is carrying the vehicle is destroyed, the vehicle is damaged or destroyed. I'd also make it so that you couldn't pick up vehicles which had players in them; this would hopefully prevent some abuse.

I get the distinct feeling that this is definitely moddable, and it's something which I feel would fit right in with PR.

[waaah_wah]

Impossible... You cant use one vehicle to tow or airlift other vehicals:/

[Webs961]

Impossible... You cant use one vehicle to tow or airlift other vehicals:/

Why exactly would that be impossible?

[gazzthompson]

Why exactly would that be impossible?

yea i do remember hearing it is impossible do to with the bf2 engine, post on PR forums for a quicker and more accurate reply if i was you.

[Rhino]

its not possible to do this with the BF2 engine, the way BFV had it.

the only thing we can do is abit like how we drop supply crates from trucks, cars and choppers is to spawn it, but ehh I dont think much is air lifted by choppers now than supplys, cars and small to medium sized bits of equipment.

that tank in BFV was a tank made to be really, really light so it could be air lifted by choppers but I dont think they make any tanks just for that purpose these days.

[CDN-SMOKEJUMPER]

What do you mean? Are you saying a UH-60 can't lift an Abrahms??!?!?


:P

[Webs961]

its not possible to do this with the BF2 engine, the way BFV had it.

the only thing we can do is abit like how we drop supply crates from trucks, cars and choppers is to spawn it, but ehh I dont think much is air lifted by choppers now than supplys, cars and small to medium sized bits of equipment.

that tank in BFV was a tank made to be really, really light so it could be air lifted by choppers but I dont think they make any tanks just for that purpose these days.

So essentially you can't, with code, arbitrarily set the position of an already spawned item and get the coordinates of another already moving item?

[AJED (G.Drew)]

unless you can spawn a jeep, along with a few supply crates which is supposedly going to be implemented in the community made *cough**cough**cough*

[SonicPixel]

What do you mean? Are you saying a UH-60 can't lift an Abrahms??!?!?


:P


I'll say it if they don't. A UH-60 CAN NOT airlift a MBT (Main Battle Tank). They do not have the capability to lift such a heavy object.

Airlifting MBTs is mainly conducted by fixed wing aircraft, although there are some heavy-lift helos capable of transporting certain armored vehicles.

[AJED (G.Drew)]

a Globemaster can only carry one MBT, and that plane is bloody huge

[Tango9]

Well, right now in rl the only tank able to be airdroped is the sheridan, and thats more of a tank for killing infantry and destroying light vehciles.

So, it's not a MBT. (This is Project REALITY, right?)

[Sir. Tasty]

What about a static plane that you jump out the back like in AA? or a 'bot' controlled object that flys around the map and players can spawn off that?

[Rhino]

What about a static plane that you jump out the back like in AA? or a 'bot' controlled object that flys around the map and players can spawn off that?

got a C-130 model hanging around? if we had then we would most likely make a map for something like that :p

[ConscriptVirus]

wait...i totally rmember seeing a few videos of this night drop map for PR where there was a static plane and ppl could just jump from it. it miteve not been a C-130 but its in the night so u cant tell

[Rhino]

wait...i totally rmember seeing a few videos of this night drop map for PR where there was a static plane and ppl could just jump from it. it miteve not been a C-130 but its in the night so u cant tell

that was a community map using the BF2 SF static plane, and we wouldn't use a static plane that just sits in the same place in the sky :p

[Sir. Tasty]

Well it does not need to be a very good model really, very low poly exterior and just some nice details in the back.