[Weapon] v0.9 Improved Area Attacks

[PLODDITHANLEY]

Imagining Inf waiting outside Blast radius in Helis, APCs, trucks etc ... JDAM goes in ... quick lets go!

Excellent once more the PR team forcing teamwork on us!

Good work, any info on protection offered by buidings, and I wonder if an MBT/APC/IFV was in the blast radius how would it be?

[Smegburt_funkledink]

Originally Posted by [R-DEV]Jaymz

Ok,

You just volunteered to be the guy inside the Kashan Bunker we'll be dropping the JDAM on.

Thank god. My head was starting to hurt...

Originally Posted by PLODDITHANLEY

Good work, any info on protection offered by buidings, and I wonder if an MBT/APC/IFV was in the blast radius how would it be?

Originally Posted by [R-DEV]Jaymz

• Kill Radius (regardless of cover) : 75m

As Jaymz has said, regardless of cover, if you're within 75m of the blast, you're toast.

If you've parked your MBT within the blast radius, say goodbye to it.

[Arquin]

The JDAM change is obviously huge, but i'm curious about the others. It would be nice to have a comparative list on them. Good job, commanding is more tempting with big toys :P

[clueless_noob]

Originally Posted by [R-DEV]Jaymz

Laser Guided Bomb (JDAM)

This will be used for conventional factions on select medium/large maps.

• Weapon : 1000 pound General Purpose Bomb (equivalent to a MK-83 or KAB-500L)
• Kill Radius (regardless of cover) : 75m
• Kill Radius (open terrain) : 175m
• Wound Radius (open terrain) : 350m

This is very velcome change indeed.

I guess those numbers are effects against players only, not deployable assets or vehicles? So if a Jaymz Direct Attack Munition is dropped on a fortified firebase, a lucky guy hiding in a builiding 76 meters away can still shovel it back up, including the deployed TOW, .50 cal and AA?

[[R-DEV]Sniperdog]

If your curious as to why the JDAM works now (and want to see it in action) watch this video...




We applied a type of code to the JDAM Projectile called a "supply area". This is the same type of code that causes damage on the Molotov cocktail and map statics that are on fire. Infantry who are killed behind cover area killed by the weapon as its falling although to those who died it will seem as if they are killed by the explosion :P. The two reasons why this code is so useful are 1: It does this damage regardless of your cover; and 2: You can put many different layers of this code on a projectile where with the primary explosion you can only put on one damage variable.

In addition to being used on the JDAM this type of code can also be used to create highly configurable scaled explosions as you can put many layers of this customizable code at varying damage rates so that people within certain regions sustain a certain amount of damage as the munition is falling. (IE only being wounded a certain amount as opposed to killed)

Props to Alex6714 for thinking to use this code


RIP FailDAM

[hx.bjoffe]

So now JDAM do damage below the horizontal point of impact?
Or?

[Alex6714]

Originally Posted by hx.bjoffe

So now JDAM do damage below the horizontal point of impact?
Or?

They do, Yes.

[=Romagnolo=]

hell yeah !



Edit:


I found the video

YouTube Video

[McCree]

Finally!

No more duck and cover 2 meters away from the direct impact point of FAILdam to avoid it

Now.. only thing left is to make those bunkers collapse after such brute force

[Gosu-Rizzle]

Sounds like the new JDAM will indeed be epic
But im actually more excited about getting more than 1 area attack per map! It would be really great if you could have mortars on (almost) all maps, with a faster reload time than now. (15-30 mins) Then on some maps we could have arty and/or JDAM on top of the mortars (with 60mins reload time or more)
That would make it alot more fun and helpfull to be commander.