Xapz said:but by the same token, would you want one guy to be able to go to the inven, hit his alternate pack key, go to inven, hit alt key again... etc. Or would you want the heal over time to happen?
what, you mean exactly like you can do in T1 and T2, but with repair kits? (granted you wouldn't be repairing shit surrounding you in T1 or T2)
My concern is that it will be harder to recover a raped base because of the change to the rep pack. Really though, i have no idea because i haven't been able to play with it yet, and really don't understand how the pack works yet.
Another potential exploit if the packs started with full energy would be chucking a bunch, then picking up, using and dropping them later. Think SH, and you have like 4 rep packs sitting by the gens at full charge. you lose the gens and inv's, but don't die and kill the HO. you can get the gens back up in a flash just but touching, using and chucking those 4 packs on the ground.
another idea might be that if a pack isn't attached to armor then it's charge degrades.
again . it'll be fun to play with in beta.