What do you *HOPE* will be in ArmA?

[CameronMcDonald 146]

Left handers too, please!

[Friedchiken 0]

Pbbt, left handedness is for people who like to kiss their own brass.

Well, I guess that if would add variation to the various soldiers to shoot.

[CameronMcDonald 146]

Ah, you right handers and your non-brass-kissing. Just cause I haveta have the "special" version of the F88.

[Friedchiken 0]

Acck! My eye!

[/lame lefty joke]

[martinovic 0]

Soldiers often put the rifle in their left hands during urban combat when trying to "lean left".

[Comradesniper 0]

To be honest I had been hoping for something a little more original than the stereotypical evil communist dictatorship (oxymoron) randomly invading the american-allied-can't-put-a-step-wrong democratic side. I mean really. Why does there always have to be some "evil commies". I hate this stereotype so much.

Without going into a lesson in left-wing politics, can you please, PLEASE understand that this is a bad representation of Socialism?

Hey, why don't we go wild and have an evil hyper-capitalist military dicatorship invading an introverted Socialist utopia or something for once?

[Web(13) 0]

To be honest I had been hoping for something a little more original than the stereotypical evil communist dictatorship (oxymoron) randomly invading the american-allied-can't-put-a-step-wrong democratic side. I mean really. Why does there always have to be some "evil commies". I hate this stereotype so much.

Without going into a lesson in left-wing politics, can you please, PLEASE understand that this is a bad representation of Socialism?

Hey, why don't we go wild and have an evil hyper-capitalist military dicatorship invading an introverted Socialist utopia or something for once?

hahaha... you are absolutely right!

[NeMeSiS 11]

Hey, why don't we go wild and have an evil hyper-capitalist military dicatorship invading an introverted Socialist utopia or something for once?

Because less people would buy such a game. I wouldnt care as long as the game is good, but not everyone thinks like me...

[Guest Ti0n3r]

Without going into a lesson in left-wing politics, can you please, PLEASE understand that this is a bad representation of Socialism?

Is it really? As far as I know totalitarian communist regimes don't really have too much in common with socialism.

It's more of a bad representation of totalitarian regimes, from my point of view.

[Friedchiken 0]

To be honest I had been hoping for something a little more original than the stereotypical evil communist dictatorship (oxymoron) randomly invading the american-allied-can't-put-a-step-wrong democratic side. I mean really. Why does there always have to be some "evil commies". I hate this stereotype so much.

Without going into a lesson in left-wing politics, can you please, PLEASE understand that this is a bad representation of Socialism?

Hey, why don't we go wild and have an evil hyper-capitalist military dicatorship invading an introverted Socialist utopia or something for once?

You have a point, history has pretty much perverted the true meaning of socialist philosophy ever since Lenin died and Stalin killed Trotsky.

However, as a die-hard evil capitalistic pig-infidel, I suggest this reading for you:

7 Principles of Sound Public Policy

Beware, you might be suddenly stricken ill by something called "common intuition" .

Actually sorry for the glib, just wanted to represent my opinion on related ideologies.

[Comradesniper 0]

Yeah... but they call themselves "Socialist" or "Communist" is what I meant. Whatever. I am just annoyed at always seeing the same-old.

[bravo 6 0]

what you suggest then?

[Friedchiken 0]

Yeah... but they call themselves "Socialist" or "Communist" is what I meant. Whatever. I am just annoyed at always seeing the same-old.

I would agree.

Currently China calls itself "socialist", but in reality they have returned to traditional Chinese culture.

The system plays out like despotic capitalism, the Qin Emporor is Hu Jintao, and the secret societies that fashion the true decisions of the country are represented by the Chinese Communist Party.

Doesn't really sound like Marx's theory of communism.

[NeMeSiS 11]

what you suggest then?

The world runs out of oil and the US starts randomly attacking countries for their oil? The EU tries to stop them together with parts of the middle east. (trow in china who also starts doing naughty things and Tadaa! you have a not completely unrealstic story )

Meh, they arent going to change it anyway, and right now the setting is fine as it is.

[Friedchiken 0]

what you suggest then?

A peace keeping operation!  Like FDF mod!  

Africa or Eastern Europe would be candidates for further intervention. Pretty violent places too.

Some of those missions were really fun, from investigating local violence, to relieving a trapped mechanized unit frrom enemy attack.

[Comradesniper 0]

You have a point, history has pretty much...

*snip*

...just wanted to represent my opinion on related ideologies.

I am not prepared to argue with you. This not the time nor the place - as I said.

Quote[/b] ]what you suggest then?

There must be other scenarios that you could make up, surely?

My point was that we are seeing a generic representation of Socialism in two games in a row. The first time round I could understand, because we were dealing with the USSR - and at least we got a campaign in the end that allowed us to play from the Soviet perspective.

But this time round they have gone for the same thing again? Pick on somebody elses ideas.

[bravo 6 0]

Oil is the main subject on nowaday's wars, so if they used Iraq War environment they would need diff map, and the map could be kinda borring cause its only desert and citys and no forests, so i believe they added more variances and created an island that can combine all in 1.

They could use Vietnam war but then it would be something already made and not right environment for all to combine.

I think BIS made a good choice on the island and the story line.

Citys, forests, desert, bridges, natural wildlife.. what you want more?

Dont worry too much about the campaign community will arrange more storylines.

[Friedchiken 0]

You have a point, history has pretty much...

*snip*

...just wanted to represent my opinion on related ideologies.

I am not prepared to argue with you. This not the time nor the place - as I said.

Quote[/b] ]what you suggest then?

There must be other scenarios that you could make up, surely?

My point was that we are seeing a generic representation of Socialism in two games in a row. The first time round I could understand, because we were dealing with the USSR - and at least we got a campaign in the end that allowed us to play from the Soviet perspective.

But this time round they have gone for the same thing again? Pick on somebody elses ideas.

OK, some other guy with greater qualifications than me has provided other scenarios that may realistically erupt in the future:

Potential Conflicts

[Friedchiken 0]

Dont worry too much about the campaign community will arrange more storylines.

I personally enjoyed the Retaliation campaign for OFP. It was a scenario not easily marketable, but the community was open-minded enough to enjoy the campaign.

[maxqubit 1]

on Topic

In OFP:E you have the GUARD waypoint. Very powerful that is.

What i would like to have is a PATROL waypoint (i don't know if this is in OFP, it is NOT in OFP:E)

PATROL would define an area (circle) in which the units does its random!! patrolling. So you would not setup an route but just an area, say a village with some surrondings.

You could extend this in SENTRY-PATROL or GUARD-PATROL or TIME-PATROL (=patrol for a certain time, than go to next waypoint).

The effect i want this to have is that you can quickly make very entertaining mission with a lot of surprises.

(But as said, perhaps in OFP and/or mod it already exists)

[maxqubit 1]

I didn't like the rock steady sniper/zoom view is saw in a vid:( ... I hope BIS makes it move a bit thus making a distant kill a form of art.

Note: In OFP:E it isn't rock steady, you can 'hold your breath' for some secs by gently pressing the trigger a bit. Superior to this (at least from what i see in the vid)

[Guest Ti0n3r]

This would be nice

[somebloke 0]

This would be nice

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(sorry bout the pic place)

[Marco.A.Aguilar1 0]

To add to my list:

Military working dog (German Shepherd)

UGV

UAV

Did they confirm VOIP in ArmA? Will heads move around when in a vehicle or aircraft when the default Alt button is used?

[benreeper 0]

If you watch the video, you'll notice something is different but you can't tell right away: the pilots head is moving-- looking around.

--Ben