Ground units to deploy smoke discharger

[Tom P]

Would be nice for ground vehicles equipped with smoke dischargers (almost every vehicle) to be able to use them. Why is this not a thing?

 

[Northstar98]

It is a thing (or at least was) it was triggered automatically when an appropriate vehicle received damage, but the effect was honestly god awful and looked nothing like anything seen IRL (it was like an enormous, low quality cloud). You can see it in action in this post.

I absolutely agree though that it should definitely be a thing and should be a thing players using CA can trigger when driving vehicles. The same also goes for engine smoke systems (which is what the new ship smoke looks like).

[Tom P]

1 hour ago, Northstar98 said:

It is a thing (or at least was) it was triggered automatically when an appropriate vehicle received damage, but the effect was honestly god awful and looked nothing like anything seen IRL (it was like an enormous, low quality cloud). You can see it in action in this post.

I absolutely agree though that it should definitely be a thing and should be a thing players using CA can trigger when driving vehicles. The same also goes for engine smoke systems (which is what the new ship smoke looks like).

I have been playing since 2020 and never seen it. Figured it would be a thing for combines arms but it's not even an option for that.

[Northstar98]

1 hour ago, Tom P said:

I have been playing since 2020 and never seen it. Figured it would be a thing for combines arms but it's not even an option for that.

I've been playing since 2015 and I've seen it plenty, often to the detriment of my eyeballs.

It might be that some update has disabled it/removed it (it is an absolutely God awful effect) as I can't seem to trigger it anymore (it was fully automatic and out of the player's hands).

[Tom P]

Bump

[Tom P]

Bump