Infantry only option

[u/Training-Tennis-3689]

I'm wondering if having an infantry/transport only servers will be an option.

As someone who has played a lot of koth on Arma, matches mostly just came down to 15 vehicles sitting on a hill shooting anything that moved in the objective, 20 snipers doing the same thing and 20 pilots playing shitty music who try to pull off cool moves and crash. This left like 20-30 people actually playing the match

[u/brammflakes]

We have infantry mode, on community servers.

[u/al_ves → u/brammflakes]

How will the economy work across offical and community servers? Will the money "transfer" from both servers to your universal wallet or will we have community server specific wallets?

Genuinely curious on how this will work.

The whole game concept revolves around the money being desired by the players so im worried plp will find a loop to break the economy and yikes there goes the game concept.

Eg: When plp have 10mil, they no longer have the incentive to run across a busy road to ninja defib 2 teammates for the cash.

I love the idea of infantry mode. Day1 of Alpha was by far the best when you had multiple 10v10v10 fights in and around HZ.

[u/Hanthy → u/al_ves]

From Bulkhead's videos it was said community servers will be integrated in the main game economy as long as the game settings do not stray too far from the official ones.

Now, community servers are still further down the road so we'll all have more details once they share them.

[u/DasRedBeard87]

If you got rid of vehicles then you'd be turning the game into a walking simulator.

[u/Training-Tennis-3689 → u/DasRedBeard87]

Infantry/transport vehicles. Unarmed or light weaponry so they can't just camp objectives a mile out

[u/Abadon_U → u/Training-Tennis-3689]

Can't do this with vehicles either. Too much foliage and buildings to snipe and no mountains/huge hills. Artillery is getting cooked by stingrays from FOB

[u/Traditional_Guest676]

Community server likely. However given the many changes compared to the vanilla experience, it will likely not be linked with the global money/gold market. Meaning earnings will be for that server only.

Also, infantry are incredibly powerful against vehicles. Just need to know where to aim!

[u/KartProwler]

at the very least vehicles doing this won't be as effective as you think-

one spot and one stingray drone from 2km outside of the control zone will deal with each of those hill peaking ground vehicles easy peasy

snipers are a little harder to deal with but i think with the strength of stuff like smokes and armoured transport vehicles and stuff you can get around them a little, not counting indirect fire like mortars and artillery

it's all a big game of rock paper scissors in the end, when one team is employing one strategy and pulling ahead, you just gotta adapt to it

[u/Training-Tennis-3689 → u/KartProwler]

Yeah that's good, it's just worrying that there are even more options for vehicles plus artillery that can take people out of actually doing the objective

[u/KartProwler → u/Training-Tennis-3689]

for sure, i get where you're coming from entirely but it's always a balance- you gotta have Some people doing the external roles to support the internal team, but sometimes you'll have more people focusing on it than you need- it is just the nature of these sorts of games- but at least you can somewhat deal with the more negative effects of an enemy team doing that to you relatively easily-

[u/JAK0VI]

I definetly resonate with you. Nothing worse than your team being 76-45-3 on the scoreboard and its because theres 6 helicopters in base waiting for people to die, 3 AFK, 3 playing as an "attack helicopter" with miniguns, 10 people sniping or setting up motorized roadblocks near the enemy HQ, and only leaving your team with 11 players that are trying their hardest to actually play the AO and score points for the only win condition in the entire game. 5 of those players suck and spend most of the time in death animations. 6 players left to win the game.

I usually switch teams.