I want rumble seats on all transport vehicles.

[Rothnang]

The next patch is supposed to introduce rumble seats for the Flash, allowing you to take along a passenger who can actually fire all their weapons and use equipment while riding along on a vehicle.

I think that this capability is potentially a game changer for the way that vehicles and infantry interact. Up until now transport vehicles have always been incredibly boring and frustrating to use, because if you aren't in the turret then you can't do anything at all, and if the vehicle does have turrets than it loses its defensive capabilities once all the passengers get out. It's simply a lose/lose proposition, neither the people who want to play with the vehicle nor the people who want to play infantry and have the vehicle help them get around get what they want.

Imagine if a Sunderer featured 9 seats, 3 left, right and back for people to fire their weapon out of from behind a protective cover, instead of simply having the people be completely unable to act. Suddenly the vehicle would become a lot more attractive to actually ride around in. You could put Engineers into a Sunderer and make it into a combat repair vehicle, or put Medics into it and use as an armored ressurection vehicle.

Maybe in time the Sunderer could no longer be a transport vehicle, and instead we'd have a real dedicated troop transport, like an APC of some sort.

Other vehicles could work similarly, the new LACs will be awesome for this type of gameplay, and a Galaxy that can actually carry a ton of people and have them shoot out of the side would be a fantastic vehicle to use both for the Pilot, and a hell of a lot more fun for the people that ride along in it.


We really need to apply this capability to as many vehicles as possible. Even if you are able to hitch a ride on top of a tank it would be awesome, though a tank wouldn't give you any protection from enemy fire if you're not sitting inside.



I love any system that allows infantry and vehicle players to benefit from each other and play together. That's what this game should be, and weapons free seats in vehicles are an awesome way to make this a reality.