I was thinking about how they said that you could fit a whole five man squad in some of the tanks. Although tanks that were used in the war like the mark 4 and the A7V did not have a swiveling turret. So think it would be very unlikely that the driver would also operate the 6 pound cannons and drive the tank. Further more if the tank driver did all of that then what would the other four people in the tank do? Besides the machine guns they would just sit there right? I think that the driver will not have a weapon and will just drive (duh). But if he gets no kills then he will just leave the tank and no one would be able to use it then. But perhaps the everyone in the tank gets the same amount of points as the person who got the kill then they would not leave. This would also solve the problem of stolen kills. Too many times have I been a tank gunner and be almost done killing an enemy when the main cannon turns around and takes my kill. If everyone in the tank got the same points. (Not a kill just the points) then people would be less inclined to be selfish and desert the tank or take your kill but rather more inclined to work as a team to be more effective. Tell me what you think of the idea, I’m open to any suggestions.
Tanks are going to be very teamwork oriented. I suspect that tanks without driver operated weapons will score out very similar to how the transport chopper scoring works in BF4. Mainly pilot/driver assist kill points. If you have 4-5 guys pawning with 1 pound guns etc those assist points are going to be pretty high.
Should just be like Infantry on Sony Online, where every kill the gunners get, are also allocated to the driver
So a tank with 4 gunners would give the driver the cumulative in total kills of all the gunners?
- Gunner 1: 8 kills
- Gunner 2: 4 kills
- Gunner 3: 13 Kills
- Gunner 4: 6 Kills
I hope they keep the main gun as a driver weapon.
I don’t doubt they will fairly compensate the driver with assist points. But he will not receive the full amount of points that the gunners get. It will be similar to BF4.
Rev0verDrive wrote: »
So a tank with 4 gunners would give the driver the cumulative in total kills of all the gunners?
- Gunner 1: 8 kills
- Gunner 2: 4 kills
- Gunner 3: 13 Kills
- Gunner 4: 6 Kills
Rev0verDrive wrote: »
So a tank with 4 gunners would give the driver the cumulative in total kills of all the gunners?
- Gunner 1: 8 kills
- Gunner 2: 4 kills
- Gunner 3: 13 Kills
- Gunner 4: 6 Kills
So would it be like a tank moving with like 5 or so infantry guys moving behind it or something?
From what’s been revealed there are tanks and transports than carry a full squad. The Mark IV tank actually has 5 cannons. That’s 5 separate seats for firing.
Players already get points if the main driver gets kills!
It will be like in bf4. You really think all 5 people will be active tanker. At most 1 driver/gunner and 1 bow 1 stern machine gun the rest are just passengers.unless u want them to put in a loading action where u just load the tank. Maybe the tank has 5 guns but 5 people shooting in every direction just sounds like a mobile death fortess. Unless u can call in instant air strikes no sir.
Have you actual looked at WW1 tanks, in their simples BF operation, the way I see it going is
Light tanks (typical Renault FT style) is like to have 1 driver/1gunner or just 1 driver/gunner.
Medium tanks (British mark IV style) 1 driver 2 gunners or maybe 3 gunners
Heavy tanks (German A7V style) 1 driver 4 gunners or maybe 5 gunners
They would be far from mobile death fortress, if turrets hold up to authenticity the will be slow and the cannons rate of fire will be slow too.
A good tank crew in Bf4 with just 1 driver and a gunner already can become a mobile death fortress if they play smart and communicate.
I’m expecting the tanks in bf1 to be a lot weaker with worse weaponry and probably a lot slower too. Plus the LAV in bf4 had 3 gunner positions along with the driver controlling the main cannon, so a full squad fitting into a vehicle isn’t really new.