venicle QOL

[gusty dagger]

this is mainly for driving any venicle including tanks/helicopters (mainly helicopters)
first suggestion is for the helicopter with port and starboard gun turrets

• i would love to see an indicator when both guns are occupied with a person
  (this would help indicate the pilot on when to take off)

• secondly i would love an option to only allow your own squad to join the venichles
  (reason pretty obvious)

• a clear health indicator for ALL venichles right now "shaky" helicopter isent a very good indicator to watch health

-a QOL feature that shows an indicator of wich gunner position is talking eg colored names/a P for port and S for starboard P for pilot in front of there names
(this would make communicating as the pilot with your squad incredible helpfull to say eg enemy front etc)

-free look as a pilot like the game rust has to alt look to left or side i think this game also has it but not for helicopter piloting

right now piloting is still fun but its very hard to play tactical
this would make piloting the helicopters much more fun

[unborn marten]

Good points, especially the one about locking vehicles only for squad

We really need this

[compact garnet]

1. pretty sure the occupants shit is like displayed at the bottom right, with the blackhawk it shld be seat 3 & 4

2. eh idk, no comments for this

3. eh i like it with no hp indicator, like how it is for ground unit where u dont see hp, just gotta know when to fall back to repair, or if in the case for the blackhawk, just get someone sitting in the back as engi with repair u can kinda see the hp (since u want some comms)

4. havent see much people actually talk in my games so cant say much, would be cool, but u can already see who is in your vehicle and just defer from there (if u fly the heli alot, eventually u know who is on the left / right)

5. there is freelook on heli, its right click, kinda weird since it affects if u change your mouse to control yaw instead (honestly how they have a setting for this in the future)

[polar widget]

1. You in fact can see what seats are occupied.

2. Squad lock should only be a thing in hardcore.

3. No opinion on that, both ways would be fine to me. If you are a pilot, you usually know how much fire your heli can take, but for someone who doesn't fly them regularly that would be decent to know exactly how much you have.

4. Good idea, knowing who exactly talking without checking crew list would be nice, something like colored P for pilot, LG/RG for left and right gunners.

5. We have free look, although I'm not sure if we have dedicated bind for it in settings

[unborn marten]

Your take about point 2) is stupid. It something that only player who never got their vehicle stolen by some random to just die in it 30 seconds later could say.
Players must have option to lock vehicles, Tanks and APC's. Without this option exiting vehicle to repair or dismantle obstacles like sandbags is just asking for your vehicle to be stolen. It's not fun, it doesn't add anything to game, it's only infiurating to the player, and doesn't have place in the game. Every self respecting game with armoured vehicles have this option for example Squad or Planetside 2.

And to be clear, jeeps, quads and helis, as a primary mode of transport shouldn't have this option.

[polar widget]

Squad is not a casual game, planetside has cost attached to vehicles. I did have my vecs stolen. And i guess i should have elaborated on my take.. Introducing squad lock for vehicles would also introduce pretty easy way of griefing to the game, instead of vehicles being stolen they would be squad locked and left. Also, your vehicle can be stolen by enemy, and that should stay that way.

Since you elaborated on your point: That would apply only to 2 vehicles in game currently: tank and attack birb, since APC technically is a transport vehicle.

If you want squad lock in casual game said lock should be timer based, something like if lock button pressed lock vehicle to that squad for a minute. Similar things can be applied to transport helicopters, but only apply for pilot/driver and perhaps gunner spots. Obviously said lock shouldn't apply to enemy players.

[unborn marten]

Yeah, your suggestion about it, from last paragraph, being 1 min is great tbh. I was writing more about idea than any kind of implementation. But it schould also work for APC driver, not passengers.

And I find it ironic, that point about griefing flew over my mind, even though I was victim of this more than once lol

[gusty dagger]

i mean the squad locking when u are actualy IN the venichle so your own squad CAN get in instead of random people with no mic

if nobody is in the venichle then no ofc no locking

[unborn marten]

And what if you get out of it to repair it?

It takes very long time, and some rando just needs to press F for 4 sec to get in and drive off in to the Sandy Sunset

There should be at least 1 min timer for player to be sure no one for outside can steal it, paired with shorter repair speed.

[grand valley]

Sorry for bumping old topic. But I'd love to see some kind of vehicle lock too. I've been using quads as spawnpoints for objectives near the team's base (by parking them close by in the safe zone), but people keep stealing them even though the base has dozens of them.

[unborn marten]

Unfortunately vehicle lock for transport vehicle will very propably not be implemented. Oki on last weak stream was talking about locking fot tanks/apc/armoed littlebird

[grand valley]

Bummer, like heck I'm going to take one of those instead.

[unborn marten]

He was talking like 10 minutes about implementing this. Overcomplicating and overthinking everything that was possible lol.