There should be less .50 cal technicals in Insurgency

[octo-crab]

Originally Posted by unrealalex

Just replace snipers with technicals and it still stands true. You proved my point.

Snipers and technicals are two completely different things. Technicals serve as both heavy fire support and transport. Therefore you would have more of them because they are a crucial part of the battle.

Originally Posted by Ace42

I don't know about you, but I don't play PR because I'm too short / fat / gay / crippled to join the army for real - I play PR because unlike reality, it's a load of fun.

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[badmojo420]

I could go for this change, but not on ramiel. That black hawk has miniguns, so it would ruin gameplay to take out the only effective weapon to counter that. We've all seen the black hawk used in an unrealistic way, circling caches miniguns a blazin. And also Rameil is based on black hawk down, and in the movie there were a lot of technicals. (but, the funny thing is in some scenes they show a black hawk flying directly over a technical and not once are they used to fire at the helicopters. That kind of bugged me the last time i watched that film.)

But, arguing that technicals need to be taken out because of helicopters being shot down is a pointless argument. That's all player behavior. A skilled pilot can run transport on a map like basrah without ever getting shot down by a 50cal. It just takes proper flying.

I would say remove them because they're unrealistic. (the number of them is anyway) But, also because the technicals promote insurgents going head to head with the coalition. Using crazy driving techniques we've all seen and most of us used.

[Alex6714]

Originally Posted by [R-DEV]CodeRedFox

I'm gonna throw aside the "what is and what is not realistic in PR" as it doesn't matter in this question. If RL pilots were to fly around like the pilots do in PR I bet the numbers of downed heli's would go up.

If helis were like they were irl, along with some other things, they wouldn´t fly around like they do now.

[Jedimushroom]

I think the thread creator wishes for fewer technicals rather than less technicals, a technical is a discrete object and not a continuous quantity.

[Royal_marine_machine]

FEwer and less mean practically the same thing.

And the number of technicals is a continuous variable.

So bleh!

[[R-CON]JuniperM40]

Moot point. Next version of AlBasrah has No Helicopter. (which is a shame, since as INSURGENT, I always love killing that thing every 5 minutes w/my technical for a good -6 tickets). =)

Guess I'll just have to carbomb an extra APC every 5 minutes to make up for it (and ensure a staggering Brit loss of 90-0). =)

- JM40.

[Rudd]

^ that makes me so sad!

Hopefully they might make a heli layer.

[CyrusPI]

The things we must sacrifice for a sound bug. D: Maybe in some miracle, Dice can fix it . . .

Four technicals in Basrah could seem like over kill, but I think if we got rid of more squad transport, it may be harder to navigate the map as Ins. Although, I'm not sure how the creator wanted the map to play out. Maybe real life Insurgents have that many pick-ups with mounted guns.

[Royal_marine_machine]

How can the next version have no Helicopter

There better be Armoured landis (no .50 cal) cus otherwise the insurgents will own everything in sight...

[StuTika]

Royal, Jedi is right. Technicals are individual (discrete) objects, so FEWER is correct. Something like water or a distance is continous so LESS is correct .
So similar but not the same.

And TBH, I don't think there are too many technicals. You just have to not fly straight to the cache.

Stu.