Concerns with squad spawning and Light Assault

[Coreldan]

Originally Posted by Kipper

I enjoyed this in BF2142 where it was a deployable asset, and you could see drop pods coming in which allowed you to roughtly locate an enemy beacon, and made you want to fight your way to it so that you could liberally apply C4.

Destroying enemy spawn beacons should be worth some decent XP.

"Destroyed enemy equipment, 20 points" BF3 style, FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU I get more from one heal tick >.<

[Aurmanite]

Originally Posted by Redshift

legitimate tactic is legitimate

Excellent post is excellent.

[kaffis]

There's a lot of assumption here.

The biggest one is that "spawning a whole squad" will be a "quick" affair.

If a squad commander wants to get into an abusive position and spawn one MAX at a time over the course of the next 5 minutes (assuming a 30 second squad spawning cooldown, which I don't think is an unreasonable assumption -- if anything, I suspect that's a generous one), and nobody notices? More power to him. By the time he's got his whole squad of unsupported (no engineer!) MAXes up there, the fight's probably move elsewhere, anyways.

[NewSith]

Originally Posted by Nick

How is it irrelevant? It doesn't matter if all empires have it if the mechanic is dumb and ruins fights. It's obviously unfair for the defender if the problems arise as I stated.

Your point makes no sense at all.

If you float in like in BF3 Spawn beacon style then it will be fine, which I assume the Planetside 2 drop pod mechanic is inspired by..

Search the forums about what we know so far. For starters squad spawning is going to have a timer.

[ThGlump]

All that thinking of spawning on squad leader and limiting squad leader so he dont abuse that. It was stated that if squad spawning will be certed high then you can spawn on any squad member. So unless you kill every last one drop pods will rain from sky.

[Marinealver]

Originally Posted by Zenben

I don't see how this is any different than a cloaker in PS1 sneaking/dropping to a tactically advantageous spot and placing a router pad. As a matter of fact, the router was more dangerous, because it wasn't limited just to your squad.

Those were actually the hardest to do. I seen more routerss get OSED than AMSes. Especially around interfarms. (okay mabey an exageration but they were definatly #2 especailly if they were parked near towers)

But routers were vunerible also odds are more likely than not you had to drive the router yourself. So you cold not say hop in a mossie and then bail out over the roof without loosing ownership of your router thus deactivating your telepad.

With the Light Assault Squad Commander squad spawn ability, you can jump and then act as the spawn point all by yourself.