Holstering pistols

[ralphwiggum 6]

This thread is about holstering rifles, not knives. please stay on topic.

[Ether Dragon 0]

I'm turning into a realism afficiando, I guess.  Do pistols belong in OFP?  Definitely.  Why?  Because OFP has crewmen for various vehicles.  In RL, U.S. armor crews don't carry AR's, they each have a shoulder-holstered pistol.  Each vehicle typically carries one M16 for emergency purposes if the vehicle has to be abandoned, or when setting up a guard position.

If I may be permitted to address the knife issue, every soldier carries a bayonet, which is really just a knife with a clamp on the end of the handle for rifle mounting.  Do they get used in combat?  Only as a last resort.  However, OFP makes extensive use of commando actions, with stealth and infiltration, so a knife is much more useful.  Remember the hostage rescue?  How nice would it've been to silently slip a knife into that guard next to the wall and hide the body?

[MadWolf 0]

>You are undetected in enemy territory, you see an opportunity, you slip out your knife and take out the enemy quietly.

If you are undetected in enemy territory:

1) you are a specop (so u have a silenced weapon).

2) you are an infantryman lost, and you better call reinforcements if u wanna live.

3)You are playing Metal Gear

>Cmon people, let us have a knife!

Never!

[Duke_of_Ray 0]

Knives would be very very awsome, we could have a mid-evil mod.

How would you make you soldier concel his wepon in OFP? It i was in Delta Ops, and the feature was neat, along with the missions.

[IceFire 0]

Hey DUke of Ray. If you like my knife idea, go and fight for it in my "new weapon" thread in Offtopic.

[ralphwiggum 6]

and with knife still flying around this topic is closed.