Do you think there will be any? Or if there are beacons, how would they work?
I don’t think there were any portable radios in WW1 (if there were they were really large and cumbersome) so a beacon wouldn’t look right in this setting. I’m sure that they would keep the spawning on squad leaders (and members) intact though.
Yes, but I would like it if the Squad Leader to have.
I think DICE already confirmed these along with parachutes.
Sweet. I mean, it wasn’t going to be a big deal for me if they didn’t. But they’re nice to have
Hmm…well seeing as how the reason for there to not be spawn beacons in BF1 is because its set in world war 1 and that technology didn’t exist then, but the technology didn’t exist in BF4s setting either. We still don’t have the technology to spawn soldiers at a beacon anywhere on the battlefield but it was in BF4 anyways. So I see no reason for DICE not to add spawn beacons in BF1, they will probably just be called something different.
Actually, you DO NOT NEED radios for portable spawn points. The first Battlefield title to have such a thing was Battlefield Vietnam, which uses a shovel as a mobile spawn point (the idea seeming to be that you dug an underground tunnel for troops to spawn from).
Also, this time, such a thing shouldn’t be for the long range class (Scout). It should be used to constantly put pressure on the enemy line or to position troops at the enemy’s flank, NOT to camp on a hill. . .
THIS
The spawn beacon should be given to a class with shotguns/smg/melee focus in order to push,not for camping snipers
Telegraph maybe…check out http://earlyradiohistory.us/sec013.htm But hard to put a spawn beacon in WW1 technologically. Even in BF4 it’s really scifi. Triangulation was common practice and could help spotting for stationary gun emplacements, aircraft or tanks.
The vietnam mobile spawn was limited to one per team, spawned at main and had to be moved into position. When destroyed it would respawn at main in around 5 mins. If you died carrying the tunnel mobile it counted as destroyed.
Axis had the tunnel which had to be transported and placed by an engineer. Allis had the hut thingy that had to be picked up and placed with a chopper.
Here’s a vid on them.
Also, not all maps had them. Some only the Axis had them.
I really hope for some awesome variations such as the video above me for the spawn beacons. Sometimes I feel like in the current Battlefield 4 game, beacons aren’t used at their full potention or used that often since they are given only to the sniper class.
Indeed, just imagine if in BF4 Assault had the beacon. Game changer!
There are also blimps remember ? or moving trains, boats,… those are probably going to be mobile spawnbeacons like one of the first battlefield games!
Well, I’m usually a sniper so granted, I want them. And I understand the frustration with using them and camping but they can be used strategically to place troops into enemy controlled territory. And I’m against using any out of date technology for BF1 as well. But like you guys said, BF4 had it so might as well implement it right?
thats awsome! :3
Is there really a need for spawn beacons when you can spawn on a squadmate?
mobile spawn beacons is key (sort of command center, you have to be with couple of guys in the same spot and do something to set it up. It can also be destroyed by artillery or vechicles not by infantry), also moving objects like the blimp, train that goes around the battlefield in some way. Boats…
let’s change the name to “Rally Point”. I love the beacon in BF4, set it up out of the way. Works fine until some idiot spawns on it then proceeds to fire his weapon at the enemy standing near it, bringing them to the previously hidden beacon.
And get shot immediately.
True. But there are some players out there who see they are the last man standing in the squad and they hide in a safe spot until squadmate spawns.