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still is fucking lame

idk why you of all people are defending regen health

>Get hit by rocket
>Run
>Wait 10 seconds
>Full Health

fuck that shit

Roc18 wrote:

>Get hit by rocket
>Run
>Wait 10 seconds
>Full Health

fuck that shit

It's more like,

- get hit by rocket
- run away for a minute or so, completely away from the action
- wait 20 seconds
- full health


So it is lame, but people aren't going to run far away from the action just for free health, it's much more practical to use a med kit in the field.

How exactly did the Vehicle health regen work in the alpha?

I know for the infantry health, it took 20 seconds to kick in and the counter was reset every time you were either hit or suppressed.

But I didn't see any videos showcasing the regen on the IFV.

Imagine aircraft regen.

And did anyone notice if the IFV had limited ammo?  Back on BF2, I regularly ran out of TOW missiles.

Keep your distance in the water, dodge distant incoming rpg's.  I'd get hit on occassion and go to like 80% or some such.  Continue dodging for less than 30 seconds and I'm 100% again.  I was practically invulnerable.

Ilocano wrote:

Keep your distance in the water, dodge distant incoming rpg's.  I'd get hit on occassion and go to like 80% or some such.  Continue dodging for less than 30 seconds and I'm 100% again.  I was practically invulnerable.

yea, but if you're doing that then your team is losing.  The only way to get the first two* MCOMs on that map was to load the APC with at least four dudes.  Haul balls to A. Driver\main gunner gets out to plant.  MG gunner covers, driver returns to IFV. Then they proceed to rape faces and provide support for the trickling in attackers at A.  A is destroyed, repeat for B. 

I never one a game as attackers unless that happened.  I only saw the back part of the map maybe ten times during the alpha?

Last edited by SonderKommando (2011-08-02 18:48:21)

SonderKommando wrote:

Ilocano wrote:

Keep your distance in the water, dodge distant incoming rpg's.  I'd get hit on occassion and go to like 80% or some such.  Continue dodging for less than 30 seconds and I'm 100% again.  I was practically invulnerable.

yea, but if you're doing that then your team is losing.  The only way to get the first two* MCOMs on that map was to load the APC with at least four dudes.  Haul balls to A. Driver\main gunner gets out to plant.  MG gunner covers, driver returns to IFV. Then they proceed to rape faces and provide support for the trickling in attackers at A.  A is destroyed, repeat for B. 

I never one a game as attackers unless that happened.  I only saw the back part of the map maybe ten times during the alpha?

Yeah, did that too.  But driver and main gunner stayed.  Fully loaded IFV (God, I miss that from the early BF2 days).  But then defense got smart and started planting C4 all over the place.  Wait for IFV to roll over, and boom, 6 kills.

Stay on the lake, covering as team mates go for the MCOM's.  Easy kills when the enemy tries to disarm.

You'd think they'd enable battlelog forums so we could at least discuss the technical issues we had on the Alpha.

Lucien wrote:

limited regen health is fine, limited as in you can only fully regenerate up to say the quarter of health you're in. drop down to 30 health, regen up to 50, almost die with 2 health, regen up to 25, etc.

Yeah, that's a good system how it can work.

Far Cry 2 did that very well, only it used five 20% steps.
If you were below one, you could only regenerate your health up to that, but not more.

If your health was in the <20% increment, you needed to perform a long-winded healing animation (putting bandage on, pulling out shrapnel with a pocket knife, removing glass shards or metal parts, etc.); same applied when you were on fire, where you had to extinguish yourself to stop health from going down.
The regular healing with syringes was faster.

Uzique wrote:

regenerating vehicle health makes no sense in any game universe... especially one that has an ENGINEER class that basically SPECIALISES in being able to, oh i don't know, REPAIR SHIT. this sounds like top-level fucking cluelessness to me.

Indeed.
What would be next?
Regenerating ammo in guns?

globefish23 wrote:

Lucien wrote:

limited regen health is fine, limited as in you can only fully regenerate up to say the quarter of health you're in. drop down to 30 health, regen up to 50, almost die with 2 health, regen up to 25, etc.

Yeah, that's a good system how it can work.

Far Cry 2 did that very well, only it used five 20% steps.
If you were below one, you could only regenerate your health up to that, but not more.

I'd go the other way. Less then 50% health take 2% dmg every 30 seconds. Less then 20% health take 5% dmg every 30 seconds. And health packs can not instant heal, you would have to pick one up then spend 1 second to heal every 20% hp yourself (or a medic can do it for you if they are close).

Uzique wrote:

regenerating vehicle health makes no sense in any game universe... especially one that has an ENGINEER class that basically SPECIALISES in being able to, oh i don't know, REPAIR SHIT. this sounds like top-level fucking cluelessness to me.

Make a game.