My argument for why flying XV should be able to carry the flag

[EvilGrins]

Anytime this has come up the counter-argument is it would be unfair to one team if the other team could take the flag and fly away, which has never made sense to me.

If one team can fly away in a vehicle with the flag then it follows so could the other. Imagine the dogfight battles!

Besides, the game has unreal in the title!

Now, this is not without precedent:

1. Strangelove & RX have flying vehicles:


2. Bat-wings lets players fly with the flag:


3. Even Rosebum's flying saucer can carry the flag:


Given all that, why not XV as well?

[Buggie]

Code own mutator to XV and make them allow flag, if you want.

[UnrealGGecko]

As default, heck no, way too op.

As an option/seperate mutator... Sure!

[EvilGrins]

Code own mutator to XV and make them allow flag, if you want.

Not my area of expertise.

But c'mon, the chopper is so weakly armored you can shoot it down with a pistol!

As default, heck no, way too op.

How is it any more overpowered than RX or Strangelove? You've seen how fast those things move.

[Delacroix]

I actually vote in favor of this. Lack of ability to stick the flag onto a vehicle and drive off is a pain in the ass. Why should you be relegated to on-foot for maps huge enough to require vehicles to manage the distance? It's bullshit.

[UnrealGGecko]

Nono you CAN do it on jeeps and tanks already, just not copters and hovercrafts (which is what EG is asking for).

[EvilGrins]

not copters and hovercrafts

Yeah, what's up with that? The hovercrafts can't even fly... they hover.

[Delacroix]

And copters, as any vehicle, IIRC can be destroyed, so the point is... moot?

[EvilGrins]

And copters, as any vehicle, IIRC can be destroyed, so the point is... moot?

Easily, the copter is the least well armored of all of XV. You can practically shoot it down with a normal pistol.