Skill Based Abandoned Vehicles

• All vehicles abandon on destruction every time. But they're in a special state where they have almost no armor and only 80 HP.
  
• After 3 seconds, the engine catches fire, the vehicle self destructs, and it becomes a wreck.
  
• If an engineer squad reaches the vehicle within three seconds, they stop the auto destruct timer, and can "capture" the vehicle. This takes around 20 seconds. The vehicle then disappears from the map and can be called in as an off map by the player who captured it.
  

Jump back to quoted post7 Feb 2017, 17:18 PMLucas Troy

Abandon vehicle is mostly RNG right now. I think it could be changed to be a more prominent game play mechanic, while also depending more on skill and planning.

• All vehicles abandon on destruction every time. But they're in a special state where they have almost no armor and only 80 HP.
  
• After 3 seconds, the engine catches fire, the vehicle self destructs, and it becomes a wreck.
  
• If an engineer squad reaches the vehicle within three seconds, they stop the auto destruct timer, and can "capture" the vehicle. This takes around 20 seconds. The vehicle then disappears from the map and can be called in as an off map by the player who captured it.
  

So this way, abandon is more like an ambush mechanic where you keep an engineer squad in waiting and then have them try to seize the vehicle. It doesn't net you the resources of the vehicle (so you can't abuse it on your own vehicles) but it let's you get a vehicle you wouldn't normally have. So think USF trying to get an Elefant, or Ost getting a Comet from the Brits.

Jump back to quoted post7 Feb 2017, 22:38 PMmiragefla

I think only certain weapons/abilities should cause abandons so one knows when they can get the abandon critical to go off and so the opponent can better judge when they should dive in or not.

Jump back to quoted post7 Feb 2017, 21:13 PMEtherealDragon

If anything I'd like to see them add a map ping every time your vehicle is abandoned... I often find that the audio cues aren't enough if the match is really intense and had no clue there was an abandoned vehicle until it returns to haunt me.

I simultaneously think that abandons are stupid because its RNG completely turning around a game in some cases and nice because they add some risk-reward to tank dives where there is some risk to you abandoning a vehicle in your opponents base/where they can easily recover it.

Jump back to quoted post7 Feb 2017, 22:38 PMmiragefla

I think only certain weapons/abilities should cause abandons so one knows when they can get the abandon critical to go off and so the opponent can better judge when they should dive in or not.

Jump back to quoted post7 Feb 2017, 23:37 PMLoopDloop

Anyone else feel like you never hear when that one random squad you forgot about gets engaged in combat but you ALWAYS hear that they've been wiped out? Just a random observation of mine.

Jump back to quoted post8 Feb 2017, 01:46 AMVuther

It's probably a focus thing. You hear about your squads getting engaged all the time so it frequently becomes white noise if you've got better things to micro. Losing a squad, however, is significant and bad no matter what you're doing so that throws you out of it.

Reminds me reading about a development note for Age of Empires 2, they mentioned playtesters complaining there was no warning noise for their towns being under attack...that warning noise was working just fine, the testers turned out to be just focusing too much on something else.

Jump back to quoted post13 Feb 2017, 14:29 PMSwift

Just remove abandon.

Jump back to quoted post13 Feb 2017, 17:35 PMImagelessbean

At this point I agree. The mechanic makes no sense, can turn games in a moment, and feels stupid. Diving for a Kat to have it abandon and recrew is potentially game ending and the diving player did nothing wrong.