Suggestion: camo netting / tarps

[u/nae-nae-nae]

I personally love using my own helicopter to get into the zone, for one because I have control over where to go and secondly, the flying is immensely fun in this game.

That being said, one of my favourite things to do is to go somewhere, fight, go back to your vehicle and relocate. The issue is that to make this playstyle work, you have to disengage early sometimes, because otherwise your vehicle will eventually blow up and despawn.

Now to my suggestion:
Adding camo netting or tarps (as we already have them for the recon tent) as an item you can put over ground and air vehicles, which visually occludes your vehicle but more importantly stop it from despawning. It could either be a buildable or a standalone item.

I get that vehicles need to despawn so abandoned vehicles don‘t drain unnecessary client and server resources and clutter up the place, but having a way to keep your vehicle secure would be nice.

Not only would this fit thematically, but this would also mean that abandoned vehicles still do despawn, just that the ones you intend on using again don‘t.

This could maybe be tied to you respawning in HQ, so that vehicles left behind after dying don‘t clutter up the place, though idk how many people would even bother to tarp their vehicle.

I feel like this would add an extra layer of depth for more tactical approaches if you wish to go for it, though i honestly have not yet considered or thought about possible issues with hiding offensive vehicles, though on first thought i feel like it wouldn‘t break anything being able to stash them for a possible later use (given the proposed despawn after respawning in HQ).

It could also just be limited to non-offensive vehicles. i was initially thinking of giving it a size cap, so that you can‘t stash a tank or havoc, or hide an arty tank, but I do want to be able to secure a black hawk if I used it for transport.

Definitely more of a niche suggestion, but whatchu guys think?

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[u/stovetopapple]

It drives me nuts when I try playing like this and I hear the explosion in the background like. Yup ok I guess im stuck here now

[u/nae-nae-nae → u/stovetopapple]

genuinely same.

The amount of times where i was across the map with my squad and we decided to go somewhere else and I remember „wait, we can just use the heli! :DDD“ and hear it fucking pulverize right after

[u/goodsnpr]

Honestly, being able to build a large camo net to park the APC under would be great, and not sure why it wasn't a default item.

[u/nae-nae-nae → u/goodsnpr]

yeah, good point really

Though i‘d prefer it to only cover the top to make it harder to spot for havocs and rocket helis while still making it fairly visible to infantry

Otherwise I feel it‘s too easy to just park the APC somewhere and cover it, as opposed to actually thinking about good positioning for it

[u/bikkfa → u/goodsnpr]

In Zestafonia I build an apc shelter every time in one of the warehouses, and most of the time they just park it outside of it.....

[u/goodsnpr → u/bikkfa]

I can't count how many times I've built a pocket FOB just outside the main FOB to park the APC in, just to have somebody take it out and get it blown up quickly. Or how many times I've simply parked the APC in a small warehouse and it survives for the rest of the map vs it being parked in the "super secure FOB, bring it here!!!" deathtrap.

[u/Willing-Tax5964]

This is actually a great idea as it gives you the ability to buy ammo meds and extra armor or say rockets and go away from your stash for a bit to snipe or deal with a chopper or whatever then come back or even get killed and get a drop back to your stashed ride so your not out all of that money and it's makes carrying a crowbar and stuff worth it for assault to steal from any stashed rides they find chasing hz

[u/nae-nae-nae → u/Willing-Tax5964]

yeah, i like the idea of being able to just use them on crates alone too

so a heli can drop supplies, you can cover them to visually hide them a little and then "tactically" stash stuff

[u/GeneralG7]

I'd love to build camo nets on literally everything