A viewer of YouTuber TheEnd004500 spotted something interesting in a test video featured in the latest Battlefield Blog post about the some of the new maps and vehicles featured in Battlefield 3’s End Game DLC.
While the post itself may have been focused the new motor-bike, upon taking a closer look, you can also actually notice the new dropship far off in the background, said to act much like the AC130 gunship from Armored Kill, but will instead support infantry with additional troops and vehicles.
Check out the video below. Thanks, TheEnd and “TheGreatDestroyer34!”
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Battlefield 3 End Game is due out this march for Premium members first.
Interesting.
oh god please don’t be in rush
the dropship is also in this screenshot, look at the sky next to the jumping motorbike, just above the tree
So its an AC-130 that might drop a few vehicles in addition to mobile spawn point like it already is. Sounds like they didn’t really do any actual work just changed it.
The biggest complaint about the AC-130 (which is an attack version, hence the A in the AC) was the guns, and how the owned poor ground pounders.. so they knew with the size of the maps they would need to have something to help you spawn into the action, given the motorcycles and other ways of getting across the map quickly, and they brought back the AC-130 but dropped the attack portion. The C-130 does troop and vehicle drops, so that what we have.. it also drops IFV besides parachuting troops.
Sort of gives of a lazy implementation vibe, same thing they did with the AC-130… they made a half-assed system that people think is overpowered but really is terrible and could’ve been so much better. Should’ve just made AC-130’s pilotable with a crew, akin to UH-1Y’s… rather than being Jet/Stinger/Helicopter/SPAAG/Tank/Javelin/EVERYTHING bait.
So the AC-130 wasn’t a tad bit overpowered in Rush?
NO, it was NOT overpowered. It’s a AC130 for christ sakes, those huge cannons are supposed to obliterate anything on the ground if you don’t have teamwork skills then you deserve to get your ass handed to you by the gunship.
The AC-130 is overpowered. In rush you can spawn in the AC-130 and just spam the targets (M-COMs) and you will get a big amount of kills. It’s also very easy to control.
It wasn’t overpowered but it was very unbalanced. There must be something wrong when the attacking team wins 95% of the time. After all the patches it is better now: 60% of the time the ATK team wins 40% the DEFs do.
it’s useless now, all thanks to the kids complaining on battlelog, it’s the exact same kids that complained about the FAMAS. The rate of fire on that gun was 1000 you’re going to get raped by it, the huge disadvantage was long range.
That’s what happens when DICE bases a weapon’s damage on it’s ROF instead of it’s caliber. And the AC-130 should’ve either been pilotable or just not put in at all. This “on-rails” vehicle crap is just another sign of lazy game design.
C-130 Pilotable? I wonder how many assholes would just crash it like I’ve seen plenty of times with the UH-1Y
Ugh, that guy has a very punchable voice..
Someone needs a hug.
Wait… people ACTUALLY thought it might be a different aircraft other than the C-130? That in and of itself is hilarious..