Storch Can Pick Up Downed Pilot to get a Landed Rescue Message

[bustr]

Allow the Storch to land and pickup a dead engined landed/ditched pilot or parachuted pilot. Then the Storch pilot if he lands successfuly at a base gets a landing message:

HOST: fudknuker in a Storch Fi156 Rescued buddybumper successfuly.

It will only cost the rescued pilot a littel time and who knows what he might shoot on the way back to base.

[SmokinLoon]

Lots of coding for no useful purpose.

I vote no.   

[Karnak]

Why would the downed player wait for a slow, likely to be shot down, Fi156 rather than just hitting .ef, grabbing another plane and getting back in the game?  The downed player will not get a "Landed successfully" message as he did not land his plane successfully.  In addition, if rewards were added to actually make it worth a downed player's time to wait for rescue, it would be bad for the game as every player that is sitting on a hill waiting to be rescued is not participating in the massively-multiplayer aspect of the game and each player in a Storch is only semi-participating.

I am sorry, but this is just a bad idea for the MA.  It might have very limited use in scenarios.

[4Prop]

maybe if the pilot gets his name in highlights if he had more then 2 kills?

Lots of coding for no useful purpose.

I vote no.   

does it matter? you arent the one doing it

[bustr]

Why would the downed player wait for a slow, likely to be shot down, Fi156 rather than just hitting .ef, grabbing another plane and getting back in the game?  The downed player will not get a "Landed successfully" message as he did not land his plane successfully.  In addition, if rewards were added to actually make it worth a downed player's time to wait for rescue, it would be bad for the game as every player that is sitting on a hill waiting to be rescued is not participating in the massively-multiplayer aspect of the game and each player in a Storch is only semi-participating.

I am sorry, but this is just a bad idea for the MA.  It might have very limited use in scenarios.

Then Sir KnowItAll,

With your logic Hitech should simply pull the Storch as a usless POS and get on with asking you for what you think should be on his HoneyDo list each day. I'm just trying to give it something to do worth while other than be gun fodder for any popgun in the game.

Since the game is still based on free association it would be up to the two players involved to participate. Meaning it's something they agree with each other to do and no skin off your postierior. Or have you been hired recently to be the game nanny? Do we check in with you now to preflight our diapers and make sure they are on clean and tight? I got a truck load of Depends for you to inspect and fluff in that case......extra fluffy. Do you wash windows to?

[Chalenge]

The Storch has an excellent role already.

[Rob52240]

The Storch has an excellent role already.

Spawning when all the hangers down, bailing immediately and taking out troops with his .45?

[MAINER]

Then Sir KnowItAll,

With your logic Hitech should simply pull the Storch as a usless POS and get on with asking you for what you think should be on his HoneyDo list each day. I'm just trying to give it something to do worth while other than be gun fodder for any popgun in the game.

Since the game is still based on free association it would be up to the two players involved to participate. Meaning it's something they agree with each other to do and no skin off your postierior. Or have you been hired recently to be the game nanny? Do we check in with you now to preflight our diapers and make sure they are on clean and tight? I got a truck load of Depends for you to inspect and fluff in that case......extra fluffy. Do you wash windows to?

 

[MK-84]

Spawning when all the hangers down, bailing immediately and taking out troops with his .45?

The .50 on an m3 is ineffective against a chute?  Something doesnt seem right here

[Rob52240]

Not when you're not looking for them.  Chute Icons can only bee seen while flying at certain angles.  And their icon range is a lot shorter than anything else in the game.

[Martyn]

The game has lots of interesting 'scenarios' already. If it's not too difficult to add the 'rescue downed pilot' option (and maybe he can keep half of his won perks) then that would be a nice little addition. Furthermore, in scenarios when you're only allowed a limited number of lives wouldn't a rescue be helpful?
With another little tweak maybe you could land, drop off a pilot who would act like a scout of FOO particularly in a GV battle. In any case I think its nice idea.

[PanosGR]

Nice idea +1

[cowboy03]

When I used to play BF1942 (totally different style of game) I perfected the art of picking up downed pilots in the water (For those who never played, usualy you died if you were in the water to long)

I'd grab an SBD or other similar 2-seater and as I flew directly over the other player they'd press the enter vehicle button, then I'd fly back and they could jump out and parcute back to base. Obvious merits of this were each death counted against the score so there was some incentive for me to do this. No personal glory, other than saving a teammate and the over all team score.

Would I do this if it was implemented in this game, certainly, I'm a terrible dog fighter (the transition from Arcade Jet Fighter games was not kind to me, what no 1:1 thrust ratio?)

So any litle side thing I can do I enjoy. (i.e.  AA-plunking with a B-25H, Torpedo runs with a TBM, marking targets with a storch) I realize in the over all scheme of things most of that doesn't contribute to the game that much, but it's fun for me. 

[tmetal]

I've made my opinion of this particular wish known multiple times before, but I figure I can throw a +1 on this thread too.

[matt]

The .50 on an m3 is ineffective against a chute?  Something doesnt seem right here

cant always have m3 50 cal spawn to said port or vbase