Explosive Ordinance + Laser Painter

[Tracekill]

Man two ideas in one day my brain is smoking. I came up with an idea for a new class and a new ability for this class if implemented. Explosive Ordinance or Explosive class would be in charge of demolitions and prevention of large scale troop movement or enemy armor movement. They would be equipped with the standard rifle, fragmentation grenades, mines, C4 plastic explosives, tripwires mines and the laser pointing device. The laser poining device, if held on a location for 30 seconds will signal an immediate airstrike from an automated (not user piloted) joint strike fighter. Of course there would be a necessary cooldown for the weapon so the entire map is not shrouded entirely in the fog of 1000 bombings but I figured it would be a cool idea.

[lemmingzappa]

Originally Posted by Tracekill

Man two ideas in one day my brain is smoking. I came up with an idea for a new class and a new ability for this class if implemented. Explosive Ordinance or Explosive class would be in charge of demolitions and prevention of large scale troop movement or enemy armor movement. They would be equipped with the standard rifle, fragmentation grenades, mines, C4 plastic explosives, tripwires mines and the laser pointing device. The laser poining device, if held on a location for 30 seconds will signal an immediate airstrike from an automated (not user piloted) joint strike fighter. Of course there would be a necessary cooldown for the weapon so the entire map is not shrouded entirely in the fog of 1000 bombings but I figured it would be a cool idea.

I like the idea, but I dont know if this kind of equipment is used by standard, could be a very specialist thing im not sure. Secondly, If they are going to have a gun too, I think it should be something smaller like a pistol of some kind, having all that stuff with a rifle is a bit too much.

[Solitas]

As it stands in 0.3 Engineers will be gain claymoores from snipers as well as having mines and a c4 pack. So in essence they'll be the demolitions experts.

[Tracekill]

Cool but the main feature I was looking for there was the target painter. Would be an excellent tool in battle.

[Malik]

The Spec Ops class gets the laser painter in 0.3, but as such it isn't complete and doesn't do anything to allow for extended requests to the commander for artillery and such (in 0.3 the commander gets artillery, but it can only be dropped on requests, and as always it's destroyable, and if I'm right boxes don't fix it, but either way boxes are on request too). When the devs figure a way to make a proper target painter, we can see team based bombing runs on targets.

[JellyBelly]

Would be a nice feature in the future.

[Solitas]

Originally Posted by JellyBelly

Would be a nice feature in the future.

Most definately, co-ordination between air and ground can be improved. Without TS it's hard for a squad to request air support on a target, the laser painter would make it easier (in a normal game they'd listen to the request and probably still deny it )

[Tracekill]

Originally Posted by Solitas

Most definately, co-ordination between air and ground can be improved. Without TS it's hard for a squad to request air support on a target, the laser painter would make it easier (in a normal game they'd listen to the request and probably still deny it )

Yeah thats what Im saying, making the air strikes automated like arty or supply drops. Model a Warthog McTankraper and have it automatically fall into attack formation and bomb the tanks and pulll away into the cloudline out of view of the player. Wouldnt be too complicated.

[Wraith]

This has been something ALL of the major mods have been discussing. IMO we could just make the target designator "shoot" an invisible flame that burns for say 30 seconds on what ever was shot at. This would allow for pilots to get a lock on the "painted" target in order to fire high damage heat seaking missiles at it. Just an idea but that's the quickest way for me to think of to resolve this issue.

[JellyBelly]

Id rather an LGB. All the pilot has to do is line up the plane, so he's at the right angle, wait for a clear tone lock, then drop an LGB. Bomb would semi guide itself in. All the pilot has to do is make sure the bomb is at a good angle and height.