Trains after all?!

[Farks 0]

Look at the top left part of the picture about a minute into the NAPA trailer!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoaIGC_ny94

[M.Andersson(SWE) 4]

Oh yes, thats a train allright....

[Alex72 1]

Looks like it.

Has been discussed here already:

http://www.flashpoint1985.com/cgi-bin....st=1215

[Spokesperson 0]

Wow, a train. I hope you can load vehicles and cows onto it.

[fullmetal69 0]

tchoutchou !

Is good surprisse !

thanks BIS !

[sparks50 0]

Hold your horses now, for all we know it could just be a set animation for the cut scene or something in that regard.

[ck-claw 1]

Hold your horses now, for all we know it could just be a set animation for the cut scene or something in that regard.

Then again?-it might not of been.  

[sparks50 0]

Better safe than sorry

[Monkey Lib Front 10]

I'd rather have FLIR

[ck-claw 1]

I'd rather have FLIR

I wouldnt!

Easier for modders to add FLIR than Trains

[Maddmatt 1]

Easier for modders to add FLIR than Trains  

Not really

I have yet to see a convincing FLIR addon in ArmA that can work without having to edit every unit model.

I think engine changes are needed to do it well.

Not that I rate FLIR highly on my list of wants, but it would be nice.

[walker 0]

Hi all

FLIR is best addressed by a FLIR LOD.

Kind Regards walker

[Monkey Lib Front 10]

Hi all

FLIR is best addressed by a FLIR LOD.

Kind Regards walker

Yes but i'd rather have it at the ground level, especially if we are having UAV's etc.

[walker 0]

Hi all

FLIR is best addressed by a FLIR LOD.

Kind Regards walker

Yes but i'd rather have it at the ground level, especially if we are having UAV's etc.

Hi Monkey Lib Front

Obviously I agree.

But we are dragging the thread offtopic.

It is nice to see an additional mode of transport added to ArmA.

As I pointed out in the complexity thread; it is the continual insertion of new possibilities that attracts people to the Real Virtuality engine. People are talking about possibility of doing an Under Siege 2: Dark Territory mission with the trains. Will they be enterable? Can we MOD them to put in an Amtrak type train? What about the Aircraft carrier can we wonder around inside it? Can we MOD it? What about a battleship? Under Siege anybody.

Possiblilities is what people want.

No more prisons for our minds.

Kind Regards walker

[Commando84 0]

I think Bis stated in interviews in autumn of 08 that there wouldn't be movin trains, just static ones.

But I dunno if they changed their minds? It was something big in the engine code that stopped them from doing it I believe..

In ofp there was the AEF mod that put in trains with some serious work around codes and it was very limited and didn't work in a mp enviroment.  

OMG OMG OMG!!!!     I watched the Napa video again and oh crap, I think I saw it too...  

Omg Arma 2 had a highscore in my head of 8 or 9 but this is absolutely a 10, oh the possibilites of mission making with trains, Im wondering if there will be fixed tracks on the island that the trains can use and or mission editors will be able to put out their own tracks and train bridges and trainstations?  

what role will trains have in the Warefare / CTI missions??? Like will players be able to build them at trainstations or just use them as cover during fights near them or troop transports hitchhiking with civilian trains from town to town?

[Raphier 0]

I think Bis stated in interviews in autumn of 08 that there wouldn't be movin trains, just static ones.

But I dunno if they changed their minds? It was something big in the engine code that stopped them from doing it I believe..

In ofp there was the AEF mod that put in trains with some serious work around codes and it was very limited and didn't work in a mp enviroment.  

OMG OMG OMG!!!!     I watched the Napa video again and oh crap, I think I saw it too...  

Omg Arma 2 had a highscore in my head of 8 or 9 but this is absolutely a 10, oh the possibilites of mission making with trains, Im wondering if there will be fixed tracks on the island that the trains can use and or mission editors will be able to put out their own tracks and train bridges and trainstations?  

what role will trains have in the Warefare / CTI missions???    Like will players be able to build them at trainstations or just use them as cover during fights near them or troop transports hitchhiking with civilian trains from town to town?

Have equipment carry and train sabotages imagine, your train was sabotaged, your equipments fell sleek to the enemy, you will cover these things.

[Nicholas 5]

There was an addon for OFP that was an Island that had a train track running all around it.  IT also had working trains, im serious. The train n the video is exactly what it looked like.  You placed the train near the track and it auto-snapped onto it, and you could drive it around with it's cars hooked up, was pretty cool.  So trains are possible in ArmA if some addon maker made them back in OFP.(THey weren't buggy at all either if i remember)

[max power 21]

Having trains really opens up a lot of potential for mission developers. One scenario I can see is instead of a convoy busting mission you could have an old ww2 style train strafing mission. And, like those who said before, it would be really cool if you could have trains that make a logistic difference in some kind of persistent, living world mission like warfare. I wonder if they go over any bridges or of they are derailable in any way. That would be hardcore, to see a train drive off of a half blown up bridge.

[Big Dawg KS 6]

Imagine the amount of fire support you could haul by rail. Seems fun.

[Steakslim 1]

Anyone else thinking how cool it'll be to assault a train if it is being used by the opposing force? One could base entire missions around that idea.

Edit: Sorry I just got home, seems some other people already brought this up, yay!

[W0lle 1049]

There was an addon for OFP that was an Island that had a train track running all around it.   IT also had working trains, im serious. The train n the video is exactly what it looked like.  You placed the train near the track and it auto-snapped onto it, and you could drive it around with it's cars hooked up, was pretty cool.  So trains are possible in ArmA if some addon maker made them back in OFP.(THey weren't buggy at all either if i remember)

There were a lot of issues with it, especially with turnouts and stuff.

As for moving trains... not trying to destroy anyones hopes but: Maybe it was a static object moved using the setVelocity command? Would explain the high speed.

[KAOSInc 0]

Big Bertha or the Gustav Gun perhaps!

[Big Dawg KS 6]

As for moving trains... not trying to destroy anyones hopes but: Maybe it was a static object moved using the setVelocity command? Would explain the high speed.  

While extremely probable (only to be correct setVelocity wouldn't work on a truely static object, it would still require it to be be of a simulation type that could move and interact with physical objects, just not necessarily pilotable), one would hope that BIS wouldn't tease us like like that. So far they have a history of not being misleading with their marketing; for the most part what you see is what you get ingame. It's not like them to use cheap tricks like that.

I will agree however that I have some doubts, but it's hard not to be excited. In either case it does show that they are willing to do more with the trains than just use them as static scenery.

Edit: It's not as if BIS would be entirely without motivation for implementing functional trains either. If ArmA2 can simulate trains it makes it that much more of an OFP:DR killer.

[Dwarden 1125]

if there was feature subset for working trains ... i feel sorry for Auran

[W0lle 1049]

As for moving trains... not trying to destroy anyones hopes but: Maybe it was a static object moved using the setVelocity command? Would explain the high speed.  

While extremely probable (only to be correct setVelocity wouldn't work on a truely static object, it would still require it to be be of a simulation type that could move and interact with physical objects, just not necessarily pilotable), one would hope that BIS wouldn't tease us like like that.

Crap now you got me... of course static objects can't be moved using setVelocity. Shame on me