New carryables mechanix

(Violator) #1

Firstly this is a fun new experiment, and seems to work pretty well so far :). Found a few things though -

Can melee with a carryable by pressing quick melee key or RMB - we tried this tonight and couldn’t get it to work? It drops it instead.

Had a couple of maps where the last ammo didn’t spawn making the map unwinnable. On Whitechapel, the game eventually went to overtime, and because the EV couldn’t be loaded the map was stuck (even when EV disabled).

On Camden, I was able to pick up the docs and transmit them (to an invisible space where the skycrane comes in) before the first objective was done and in warmup. Couldn’t repeat however.

Had a couple of times where I had to load ammo twice into the back of the EV, this happened on LB.

(Mustang) #2

Some of these are bugs, others feedback…

To be honest I would expect that both quick knife and secondary fire should be melee.
Would like to see primary fire throw a little further.

Pick-up/deliver times seem to be map dependent, they should be consistent over all maps.

Based on the Camden:

  • Delivery time, it could do with being longer (somewhere in the 50%-150% extra time range)
  • Auto-return time needs to be longer to encourage defenders to return and to allow attackers to drop it for a firefight then pick-up again without having to run back to it’s respawn location
  • Defender return time is probably alright, maybe could be a little longer, more testing required
  • Pick-up time is far too annoying, it would be much better if pick-up was instant upon running over
  • There should be a HUD icon to indicate an item is being carried
  • Several people have suggested that primary weapon should be usable whilst carrying, personally I don’t mind if it is or not, but I’d like to try with at least sidearm being usable, then you are forced to either try your best with the sidearm and retain mobility, or drop the objective to use primary and have to camp/return to it, this combined with longer auto-respawn times (mentioned above) would be fine, at least it should be tried