Feature: Vehicle Scuttle

[kashash]

Purpose of scuttling: To destroy a vehicle that is stuck, damaged, or no longer desired. The advantage of scuttling is it will be destroyed and thus no longer count towards the max vehicle count for the team. It will be faster than waiting for reset.

How scuttling works: There are 2 stages:

• Priming, primes the (thermite) in the vehicle to scuttle
• Scuttling, activates the thermite if vehicle is empty

Steps to scuttle a vehicle:

1. Enter a vehicle
2. Press scuttle key, if the vehicle is empty, it is primed to scuttle
3. Exit the vehicle
4. Press scuttle key again, if vehicle is empty, the vehicle is destroyed via thermite (not explosion)

Exception: If the vehicle is primed and another player enters it, it will no longer be primed.

Specifications:

• [ ] Vehicles that are scuttled are destroyed with a different emitter and no explosion (thermite)
• [ ] SLs can scuttle squad owned vehicles (without priming) from the overview map (right-click context menu), however the vehicle must be empty
• [ ] Create scuttle command with a key bind
• [ ] All players can use scuttle command in a vehicle they can enter
• [ ] Entering a vehicle will remove its primed status
• [ ] When player who primed a vehicle is killed, they cannot scuttle it on respawn

[kashash]

After I've played a couple of rounds, I'd like to deem this feature of manually despawning vehicles from a distance being very urgent. I thought this could be done a bit postponed later on but it would be the most desirable if the feature could be implemented as soon as possible. the reason we urgently need that feature is because like in the screenshot two guys at once are asking to destroy it cause they can't move, both tanks. And this just happens constantly and quite breaks the game in some way because vehicles, especially tanks are huge part of the game.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/366692287939346435/376765909433450496/20171105161127_1.jpg

So that once it's clicked (from a distance even if not being inside the vehicle), it would trigger the timer for like say 30-40 sec, where it would set on light grey smoke emitting from the engine (same one that is usually from a "yellow state" tank), and then after the 30-40 sec it would basically disappear just like any wrecked vehicle does right now in the game.

[kashash]

I've changed the title because I think I need to be more clear.

While I appreciate the fix to vehicles disappearing after a set time with no friendliess around. I'm trying to point out the necessity that the player should have the ability to basically scuttle his tank manually whether he's in it or not, by going to the deploy menu and clicking a button.

And how much it's needed to be able to scuttle your vehicle from the deploy menu for all the situations where the crew either got shot of the tank, and even though the tank is undamaged, it's too far for him to get back to it.

Other times the crew would not wish his tank to disappear automatically because that person may wish to get back to it and still use it. (This is where some crews might not want to scuttle their tank because scuttling a tank would subtract tickets from the reinforcements, unless the tank is either stuck, or is too far away).

So this is where automatic disappearance of the battlefield takes too long for the player to wait such amount of time in order to respawn a new tank, and also too unpredictable due to some players either wanting or not wanting their tank to disappear.