Shoot Ice w/ Explosives = Ice Breaks, Tank & Infantry Fall In

I'm thinking of a POW game mode where one side is tasked with freeing the POW soldiers, while the other side must defend a prison in a somewhat asymmetrical warfare setting. This is almost like terrorists (holding hostages) vs. counter-terrorists, and it seems to be a very well received game mode, at least from other titles and in concept.

The Historical Backstory...

One historical reference has to do with the US fighting alongside the German Wehrmacht, against the German SS soldiers at Castle Itter located in the Alps in 1945 (the only known occurrence in WWII where German and US soldiers fought together!). The mission was to rescue prisoners at the Austrian castle, who were very high profile individuals including ex-prime ministers, former military men, and celebrities. The entire story is bizarre and intriguing and it would make for a great War Story (or at least a multi-player mode, or a co-op mission).

As another historical reference in WWII, Amiens had a prison camp and there was a major air raid (the Amien Raid) to free resistance fighters. No foot soldiers, per se, were sent in, but perhaps there were French resistance fighters there to coordinate the prisoners' escape. In any case, a BFV version of Amiens might be a nice encore map to see.

The Mission...

The attackers start with a fixed number of players with little to no reinforcements. If the attacking team reaches and frees the POWs, then those are your reinforcements and you can spawn from prison (or they're merely NPCs, or they remain as NPCs until you respawn). Now, the attackers and POWs have to escape and reach a boundary for extraction. Since the POWs have intel and/or are VIPs, if all of the prisoners die, then you lose the game.

Just throwing some ideas out there. Any thoughts?

As you can see from the image below, the pre-load date is incorrect for BFV. It should be the new November date, and not 12 October.

Please update the info!

They are aware and hopefully the date will be updated very soon.

Yep just a refresh comming soon with the new launch date.

So a kind of rescue the VIP and then escort them out game mode, If I understand you correct? 🙂 

/Atic 

I get that the support shouldn't have infinite ammo (i.e. not having to grab from the ammo stash manually). But shouldn't supports start off with max ammo since that's how they would prep into battle? Whenever they are out of ammo, they can grab more ammo manually by pressing 3, but it just seems to not make much sense that the one player with an unlimited stash of ammo doesn't think to come into battle with maxed out ammo at the ready.

I do see that there are separate vehicle sensitivities for planes and tanks in Options > Gameplay > Advanced all the way at the bottom. Right now, the other, primary Vehicle Sensitivity in Options affects both of your planes and tanks, and it gets annoying to have to set it somewhere else entirely. To me it makes sense that they should be made separate without a general vehicle sensitivity setting. This is because these types of settings are typically setup only once and it's forgotten about. If you end up having to need to switch it later for whatever reason (e.g. new mouse with different settings), then you don't want to end up changing the general vehicle settings, and forgetting about the individual vehicle settings tucked away further down in the advanced Options.

i agree 100 % with what you said 🙂

I also noticed that the medic class starts of with an additional med pouch at the ready (i.e. maxed out supply of meds).

As a WWII buff, I've heard of many instances where dropping bombs meant quicker acceleration and longer flights. If you're on the biggest bomber plane and you drop your entire payload, shouldn't you accelerate a little quicker, and even fly faster? This may make even more sense if you upgrade your plane to carry more bombs. In which case, it should make you slower if you take on that upgrade.