Project UK Forces

[Daniel 0]

This is Mr Nesbitt of Harlow New Town. Mr Nesbit would you stand up please. (after a pause - nothing happens)

Mr Nesbitt has learnt the value of not being seen. However he has chosen a very obvious piece of cover.

[Messiah 2]

ok, as some as you may have realised our forums have been updated a little to incorpotate a news page when you first access the forums. To then reach the forums, just click the 'forum' button at the top of the page.

this new news page will become, with time, our main site - the old site will begin redirecting you soon.

[hazmatt 0]

do i have to re-reg at the forums then?

[Messiah 2]

no, the forums member list remains intact, it was just an upgrade

[Messiah 2]

The defence minister announces the creation of the new scottish regiment, with the motto 'Santa's Little Helpers'

[Cribban 1]

a great addition to the UK forces

[tankieboy 0]

Don't start me on politics and UK regiments...

[snypa 0]

wow are you really going to make winter troops also?? oh that would be cool to make a mission in north Norway as royal marine finding out russians have are doing something in the border...

[hazmatt 0]

are you doing or gonna do a L98 CGP variant of the SA80?

i fire them off at air cadets and was wondering if ya doing them in OFP

[Messiah 2]

not a chance

used to fire them at my cadets years back, and they were awful things - we are introducing some new versions of the SA80s soonish, but it wont include the cadet rifle. Who wants single shot, semi auto, when you have an assault rifle

(by the way, do like that sig with the GPMG and the kid - very famous pic - nice one)

[cobra@pulse 0]

Out of interest guys, you going to be making any winer blokes?

New SA80's, sounds good  

btw, this sig?:

If so, thanks, I got bored one day, ended up making like 25 lol.

[-Ash- 0]

Out of interest guys, you going to be making any winer blokes?

I hope you meant winter blokes!

[Messiah 2]

Out of interest guys, you going to be making any winer blokes?

New SA80's, sounds good

btw, this sig?:

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If so, thanks, I got bored one day, ended up making like 25 lol.

yes, that sig - i did the same with UKF one day - got bored, made 25 or so now.

no comment on the winter blokes - it's been discussed, but we havnt decided on anything yet.

[stainer 0]

Winter blokes would be the dogs bollocks...

[cobra@pulse 0]

Damn my fingers, damn them to hell.

Yes I meant winter.

Almost did it again then

[R0adki11 3949]

are you guys going to release your milian AT any time soon and what about that fancy landrover with the milian AT on top, that thing looked very impressive.

[tankieboy 0]

Both in time.

[Messiah 2]

as huey said, both in time - the WMIK (landrover with milan on top thingy) pack 2 is close to release, the only thing that's stopped it is the very annoying, yet ever present lack of the 'gunner view' in MG car class thats screwing things around.

im pretty sure i have a fix, but R/L is pretty intense right now - from the 16th i have 2 months of holiday to fill, so it should be out soon after

[Imshi-Yallah 0]

Any chance that the WMIK AI could be modified or cajoled via scripting into keeping its distance from the enemy a bit more instead of cheerfuly cruising into SA effective range and trying to use its HMG like a pistol?

[Messiah 2]

thats more of an AI engagement range issue with the HMG weapon - easy to 'fix' but its trying to get a balance between it doing what you've outlined, and standing off 1k and mowing everything down.

I'll look into it

[Imshi-Yallah 0]

Personally I've got no problem with the WMIK being Pwn Monster, I never fight against them ingame anyway

[Messiah 2]

fair enough, but others do - i must admit, that i personally forgot to really test how the AI handled the weapons and their engagement - the way the UKF vehicle weapons work currently, is that they all share the same configs and weapons (ukf_weapons.pbo) and the WMIK uses the HMG weapons and ammo - these were first developed with our Support weapons, and the AI engagement seemed pretty good to me then - this may have changed from its intergration into a vehicle, and will be looked into before pack 2 is released.

[Imshi-Yallah 0]

Well on a more serious note, I really do find the WMIKs left in any way to their own devices tend to be a liability as they basically drive straight into enemy positions and start blazing away at pistol range.

I'm not any sort of expert on WMIK employment but I know that if we were to deploy a .5 on the tripod we'd fire on the post if at all possible, and if we had to direct engage say for support of offensive operations or if our escorting rifflemen had proven useless you'd still want a good 800m engagement range.

[Messiah 2]

but that's real life... whereas in flashpoint an 800m engagement range, whilst realistic, becomes a problem. Hardly any of the units out there currently engage that far out, so would become veritable mince meat to the 50cal

i'll try and balance something between realistic, and flashpoint and see where it gets us - i agree that these things are primarily a stand off weapon, acting as a heavy weapons platform. In retrospect, you can just order the driver to hold his ground and designate targets for the gunner

[Imshi-Yallah 0]

But thats so...much...effort.

Well what about the possibility of scripting .5 support as a CoC style artillery weapon.

What could be more christmassy than a nice stream of tracers from 2km away?

That way people could have their arcadey battlewagon but purists could use the vehicles effectively in a realistic fashion.

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