I believe your class will auto change to pilot/tanker when you spawn in a vehicle. If you enter as gunner you will exit with whatever kit you spawn in as. I think.
Only the driver/pilot needs to be the special class, I think.
I say that because I heard something about your vehicle being locked when you leave it as the Tanker class, not mention the gameplay showed gunners hopping in and out of the tanks quite casually.
Yep - it’s just that the vehicle classes get the incredible ability of repairing safely from the inside.
It’s going to be really effective for planes, where you can directly start repairing yourself IN AIR after winning a dogfight where you took damage.
For tankers that are aware of what’s around them, it’s going to be an effective wait to repair at all.
It’s just that gone are the days where a tanker can run as an Engi and just self repair himself all day long after he gets hit. Repairing on the move requires teamwork now more than ever, and I think that’s a good system.
So, will the vehicles auto-regenerate health after a given time? Like normal mode in bf4? Or will it have to contain a tanker/pilot class driver for that? Hoping for the latter, as I think it will be a good teamwork system for repairs as well.
Because the “inside” repairing completely hinders your use of the vehicle. If you try to do it directly after someone shoots at you to try and prevent them from destroying your vehicle instead of just bailing, they’re going to destroy it anyway. Also, it forces people to think more tactically about where they repair, because if your tank takes ANY damage while you’re self-repairing, the repair resets and you gain no health back.
It doesn’t allow you to operate the vehicle at all while doing so. So you can’t just do it in the middle of a dogfight (unless you want to crash) or a tank battle.
Whereas if you have a teammate with you, he can hop out and repair in the MIDDLE of you fighting another tank, so you can be consistently getting repairs AND continue fighting the guy that’s trying to destroy you.
It takes away from the fact that in past BF titles, you could just back in to cover, hop out of your tank and start repairing, and if ANYONE becomes a threat to you, you could just instantly hop back in and start slaying again. You won’t be able to do that anymore. Repairing on the move by yourself is going to be a thing of the past.
Vehicles seem to have their FULL effectiveness restricted to using teammates in BF1, whereas in past BF games your vehicle could be an entirely effective killing on the field with just you in the driver seat as an Engi with a repair tool.
You’re confusing me Einstein. Repairing with teammates is the exact same as it was before, but now you don’t even need them to repair. You dont even need to get out !!!
From what I understand - only tankers or pilots can repair their vehicles, while inside - and not passively as in BF4. They actually have to hit a repair button? If that is the case, then it is quite different.
Driver/Pilot is mandatory the corresponding class. If you hop into tank during battle you save your class. At least as a gunner. If you’re driving a tank your class may be changed for Driver, not sure about that.
No restrictions for other vehicles. And horses =)
It’s not really the same as before. For instance, you can no longer just get out of your tank and repair it whenever you want, which keeps you safe from dying if the vehicle is destroyed while you’re repairing it (most of the time). You no longer get to hide behind your tank while self-repairing, you now have to sit in the tank WHILE not being able to do anything but repair, making you a direct target for anyone that sees your tank while you’re doing it. In BF4, you also didn’t get your repairs countered every time your tank took damage while you were repairing - now in BF1, if you’re repairing and someone hits you mid-repair, that repair does nothing and it’s timer resets.
Lastly, vehicles don’t have regenerating health like they did in past games, which either FORCES you to use teamwork to repair, or forces you to think smarter about when and where you repair.
You need your teammates to repair if you don’t want to just be a sitting duck - because if you’re in a tank battle with someone and you even go behind a building to repair, the enemy tank can literally just blow a hole through that building and start shooting you again, rendering your repairs useless (thanks increased destruction!). You also have to remember that aircraft can now spot and do damage to you with their regular guns as well, making hiding to repair an even BIGGER task.
Essentially, it requires you to either use teammates for active repairs, or to be a panzy and run and hide every time an enemy is about to destroy you because the only way you can self-repair is by becoming a sitting duck with repairs that can be instantly countered and rendered useless just by causing you damage.
Self-repairs will be a powerful tool for anyone that strategically places their tanks in the right place for the right situations, but will not help headstrong tankers that like to rush in to battle AT ALL. It’ll just force said tankers to run away from battle just as quickly as they rushed in to it. UNLESS they brought some teammates with them.