new vehicle hacking discussion

[Shogun]

ok, i guess there were already about 90 threads about being able to hack enemy vehicles, but i didn´t want to necro, so i start a new discussion.

what was the reason for the devs to not include vehicle hacking again?
if i remember right, in the early discussions the vehicle addons were accused to be the problem. but why?

i haven´t checked ingame lately, but i saw in the video where hamma and jenny showed off the harasser the first time, that they could swap their vehicles. so obviously you can take over a vehicle from a friend with all of its equipped upgrades.

so i don´t see any problem in hacking an enemy vehicle and being able to use it with whatever the enemy had equipped in there.
we can´t change upgrades on already drawn vehicles anyhow.

the infiltrators could really use the v hacking ability to be more useful.

i am not sure how risky the hacking should be.
if the infiltrator could cloak forever, i would say hacking needs a visible ray like it had in ps1, take some time and emitt the distinctive hacking sound it already had in ps1.
but i don´t know how this would need to be tweaked for an infil that can´t move up to a vehicle and hack it in one cloak-pass.

if we get vehicle hacking, we also need 2 other changes:
the timer that deconstructs unmanned vehicles has to go!
and the deconstruct vehicle button has to return.
deconstruct button should only work if vehicle is unmanned and it will not deconstruct immediately but after some seconds to prevent last second killdenial.

turning the empirespecific colored parts to the new owners factioncolor should be possible as well.

the only problem i see is the unreliable friendmarker. someone in a hacked enemy vehicle with desertcamo will take friendly fire for sure.
but i hope this will be adressed in the big quality of life patch.

so what do you think? do you want infils to be able to hack empty enemy vehicles? or if certed to maximum even vehicles with enemies inside, ejecting them when vehicle is hacked?

do you see any problems i have missed?