Deployment Zones

[ClaytoniousRex]

The 1.1.3 release includes Deployment Zones. These are a way of bringing up reinforcements from outside of the local area without using dropships (either nearby reserves on standby or drops at greater distances with overland driving into the local battle area). A team can always deploy into its deployment zones even if it has run out of dropships.

These zones are shown as dashed boxes on the Tac Display. The green boxes are your team's deployment zones and the red boxes are the opposing team's. When picking a drop location, just click inside of one of these boxes in order to deploy this way instead of using a dropship. Once you've picked the location, some time will pass before the unit you've requested is brought up as a reinforcement. After that time elapses, the new unit will appear in the deployment zone (just as they doing during the Deployment Phase).

Nothing prevents either team from doing anything they would normally do inside of the deployment zones. For example, deployment zones do not represent some kind of "safe area". Yes, this means a team can "camp" the enemy deployment zones and even place mines and turrets in them. This is a risky use of a team's limited number of deployables and it's very hard to try to keep the cork on that bottle (an entire enemy team appearing simultaneously in a small area is a force to be reckoned with), but you're welcome to try!