Obsession with Large Gates

[Stifler's Dad]

I just don't understand why people insist on using these instead of walls and small gates or bunkers. Gates might have more health but they are disadvantaged in that you don't have space to stand on top to shoot down from except on the edges. Waste of resources in my opinion as you can climb up any wall from the outside at their middle low point.

[Simple Kind of Man]

see, not everyone has a jet-pack we need doors.......

[Torv]

Covers the length of about 3-4 regular walls, has the durability of a bunker, has a gate if needed, but I do forget how much they cost. If they're around the same price as a wall, this is a no brainer. Finding ways to navigate above the gate should be simple and worth the trade off. I stand on top of large gates often, they have big end pillars you can set up on.

[Stifler's Dad]

Originally posted by Quis sum? Solus sum.:

see, not everyone has a jet-pack we need doors.......

You don't need a jetpack, i play operator and vault over things constantly. I'm just saying the default shouldn't be to just put gates up all over, especially in ARC. It's an inefficient use of resources.

[RX-3DR]

It's pooling 2 walls into a single wall. It has more health (2.5 walls worth), has some benefits and drawbacks with repairing but loses the walkway for a risky walk along the top where you can get sniped by Gunners. It has it's value and we don't have large vehicles so it's not like there's any reason to save them.

Outside from a one specific niche case, I just let people handle it whichever way.

Edit: On cost efficiency, it's just 500 vs 400 for 2 walls, you're mostly paying that 100 for that 50% extra HP.

[Onimaho]

If you have the speed repair toolkit...

When that large gate does finally go down, it can be rebuilt in 1 second. Basically means can rebuild a huge section of the fort "instantly" with much more area to choose where to do this action.

That can be a huge game changer compared to the individual walls which will each take 1 second to rebuild plus run time to get to them in infested areas with bugs still pouring through the other busted sections.

[D]

Large gates are good, just build a ramp wall with it.
You can build ramp wall at the same spot you put down large gate;
Don't know why but you can build ramp wall inside the gate part, and it works like 2 walls with a ramp in the canter.

[rgarrett]

cuz its bigger its better

[DinhoBR]

I love the towers.

[kampfer91]

I see sometime people build a ramp wall inside the large gate , they say it is a glitch .

[Petnavi]

Originally posted by Stifler's Dad:

I just don't understand why people insist on using these instead of walls and small gates or bunkers. Gates might have more health but they are disadvantaged in that you don't have space to stand on top to shoot down from except on the edges. Waste of resources in my opinion as you can climb up any wall from the outside at their middle low point.

You can use place a ramp nearby or a tower and jump on the walls. It also has the same durability as a bunker so you can use the bunker to be near the ARC for even more defense. It's also easier to repair than the bunker from my personal experience

[Masacre]

Originally posted by rgarrett:

cuz its bigger its better

Now we'z just need sum red paint an' it'll go fastah! Come on you grotz, you'z wanna live ferevah?!

[LowDragMaxSag]

You can place a ramp wall in the middle of the large gate for extra armor, You can also put a bunker under the ARC before it lands making it near invincible

[Snake]

I stand on gates just fine sorry your to large to stand on them