Reduce the Big Red armor

[gazzthompson]

Originally Posted by loki1120

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but to make it fair, your not going to see a bomb just chillin on the back of a Bigrig, lol. maybe hide like 4 250Lb bombs in the center of the chassy so that you can have some Big Red's that arnt VBIED's??

there is new large VBIED model in dev journals/blogs somewhere.

[boilerrat]

Do you guys realize how hard it is to use big red? It is sorta hard to sneak up on a tank in a HUGE RED target with a bomb on the back? Many people know it is unrealistic how much damage the VEHICLE can take, but there is a point where fun factor has to stay.

Usually the driver dies before the vehicle anyways. Rarely I see big red do anything at all to the other team, its hard enough to make it useful.

[Nebsif]

Originally Posted by boilerrat

Do you guys realize how hard it is to use big red? It is sorta hard to sneak up on a tank in a HUGE RED target with a bomb on the back? Many people know it is unrealistic how much damage the VEHICLE can take, but there is a point where fun factor has to stay.

Usually the driver dies before the vehicle anyways. Rarely I see big red do anything at all to the other team, its hard enough to make it useful.

Maybe on basrah it aint useful, but on Op.Archer it can wipe whole squadS bcuz u have no apcs to shoot it for 8 seconds so it will die >.< There was a very good vid of op.archer, with lots of teamwork, humvee convoys and they all got wiped by 1 big reddy.

[boilerrat]

Originally Posted by Nebsif

Maybe on basrah it aint useful, but on Op.Archer it can wipe whole squadS bcuz u have no apcs to shoot it for 8 seconds so it will die >.< There was a very good vid of op.archer, with lots of teamwork, humvee convoys and they all got wiped by 1 big reddy.

Link or it didn't happen :P

[[R-DEV]Jaymz]

We plan on replacing it with a better, more realistic vehicle in the future.

[Qwerty1216]

Personally i think Big Red is alright the way it is now, i have no troubles taking it down. Looking forward to the new bomb truck in the future.

[Ccharge]

Originally Posted by Qwerty1216

Personally i think Big Red is alright the way it is now, i have no troubles taking it down. Looking forward to the new bomb truck in the future.

who says it has to be a truck? *imagines red cessna with a insurgent inside it*

[BloodBane611]

who says it has to be a truck? *imagines red cessna with a insurgent inside it*

BALLER! Seriously, that would be awesome. Not at all realistic though.

EDIT: Back on topic, if a suicide vehicle is going to be effective, it has to be able to blend with the non-suicide vehicles. Even if big red is replaced with the garbage truck, the suicide truck cannot be the only one of its kind on the map. Add another one or two non-exploding trucks, just to keep the coalition guessing.

[Herbiie]

I think there need to be some civilian vehicles that you're not allowed to engage or something, maybe only civvis can drive them and they don't go very fast or something, not fast enough to kill people.

THEN suicide bombs would be more effective because if you drive it slowly it could be a civilian vehicle