Can teammates steal your vehicles

(gerry) #1

Just wondering since this was a really big pain in the ass in battleifled 2, if you were an engineer class and hopped out to repair your vehicle chances were some asshole teammate would run by and steal it from you. I recall in one of the e3 vids a mesage saying “you must return to your vehicle soon or it will begin to decay” or words t that effect, does that mean once you hop into a vehicle its your vehicle and noone else can take it? And does anyone know if strogg can take gdf vehicles and vice versa? :???:

(Gringo) #2

As far as i know strogg cant take GDF and vice versa. Thats if i remember correctly which is far from being a certainty.

(Etnies) #3

He means teammates that are on the same team, can you steal your m8’s vehicle or can only the person who made it drive it

(Gringo) #4
(Etnies) #5

pwnt.

(ParanoiD) #6

And yes, teammates would be able to steal it i guess. But forget teh BF2 shit and think ET:QW. Now close your eyes and… OMFG NO! Not your real eyes, but digital eyes and relax while reading the next text and start smiling :smiley:

Me: [Repairing vehicle][Vehicle fixed]
Teammate: [Enters vehicle at steerwheel]
Me: [Enters vehicle at gun]
Teammate: "Great lets go as a TEAM to the strogg base
Me: “Fine, ill kill those bitches while you drive”
Teammate: [Starts driving in good direction]
Me: [Killing strogg bitches]
And so the 2 GDF soldiers were killing teh Strogg an helped their team winning the game.

Altough its easier to just call in a new vehicle instead of repairing one :stuck_out_tongue:

(Gringo) #7

Thats true, i hear the only a 4 star engy can fix flat tires!

(jjpron) #8

why can’t you shoot the fscker that steals your car?
not like theyr’e gonna court martial you for it?

(kamikazee) #9

The game will probably need a “carjacked” award at the end of the round…

(Nail) #10

lvl 3 engis get “lojack” for their vehicles ?

(Apocalypse) #11

This is actually quite worrying. But the main reason why half the team fights over vehicles in BF2 is that they are uber pwnage machines… Any decent person who can fly will rack up 40:1 KDR easily. And remember kids, in BF2, its all about your e-penis enlarging points! :smiley:

In QW, the vehicles are supposedly not that all powerful. So, if the noob wants it, take it. :slight_smile: Its not like we see everyone fighting over the those tank mounted MGs in ET.

Hopefully.

(Fitzsimmons) #12

That’s a really good example. They have tons of firepower, but in one direction at a time. And the guy in the turret is stationary. :smiley:

(CrazyGuy) #13

Well, in planetside, ( i only tested the beta version, didn’t buy retail ) players that bought vehicles could locked their vehicles. So other couldn’t steal them.

As stated aboved. They have their weak points and strong points. If your getting an vehicle. Stay out of the bases when attacking.
And, let the foot soldiers do the grunt work. While the tanks, and other vehicles take out other threats to their teammates on foot.

(ParanoiD) #14

You could be happy when another guy gets your vehicle as it really has effects on the game! When you are in a vehickle with 3 persons its great in ET:Qw ive read. One is driving, the other is shooting (and can rotate 360 degress, when only one is in teh vehicle you cant turn 360 degrees with the gun) and the last is ginving objectives to teammates. The Et community is not <15 year old kids from BF2, but they do what is best for the team. You are part of teh team and ppl new to ET and ET:QW will need to learn this and they will! You are part of a team, you cant do it alone, everybody is helping somehow.

(nUllSkillZ) #15

Just an idea:
May be associate a vehicle directly to the / one player.
And only to this one.
Not sure because of the vehicle / player respawn.
(If it will be like in BF2 and if the vehicle would crash and the player would survive the vehicle would respawn in base and the player would be somewhere in the map = unused vehicle.)

On weapon limited servers in W:ET (for example only one Panzerfaust) no one wants to steal your PF.
Because they won’t get it anyway (only if the PF player changes weapon or class).

(Societal Eclipse) #16

So what happens if you repair a vehicle then get killed before you can get in it? Would you want your teammates to be unable to use it (hence you just wasted your time/life)?

(Isabel Lucas) #17

I like the idea of a lock function that you can activate before you get out.

That way you can get out and leave a vehicle unlocked for others to use if you no longer want it, but can also get out and leave it locked is you want to return to it or repair it.

I’m sure it wouldn’t be difficult as all thats needed is a lock / unlock function bound to a key so that it can be tabbed on / off at will.

Al.

(Ragnar_40k) #18

It should automatically unlock when you get gibbed/respawn, when you leave it alone (e.g. when the distance between you and the vehicle exceeds 10 meters or so) or when you don’t reenter it after a certain amount of time (60 seconds?).

(mortis) #19

Should coverts with a uni be able to break into/steal Strogg vehicles? Or at least sabotage them? Or maybe they can have a jimmy and steal strogg stereos.

(Hakuryu) #20

Well in the video’s I’ve seen there are a ton of vehicles for the 12 people on that team. It looked like 2 tanks, 2 atvs, 2 fighter flyers, 2 transport flyers, etc… almost as many vehicles as there are players.

On a 64 player server, this might be an issue, but I have a feeling it wont be worth noticing on a 32 (16v16).