The need for Afghan mountains

[merlin 17]

I'd rather see some kuwaiti/iraqi maps, featureless desert terrain with small settlements and a modern highway system, it would be a great place for combined arms warfare. the expansive terrain would do great justice to the workhorses like the c130, and the V-22 (which really has no place in combat). urban sieges would be common and preceded by artillery barrages (the massive scale of any desert terrain would finally put the MLRS to good use) and aircraft could finally operate in areas large enough to suit them. not to mention the lovely tank battles that would ensue.

[cream-t 10]

I to would like Afghanistan scenario. Currently feels like I am fighting in Switzerland.

I was gutted to see COD6 is the same made up Russian/Terrorist scenario. COD4 middle east maps were poor i.e. small and just town fighting. Couple of good maps in Project Reality. Can't remeber name of one but it was small with mud ditches for cover. Great fun as Brit.

Afghanistan green zone has plenty of vegetation and wadis for cover.

Roll on a good mod.

[S!fkaIaC 10]

Console kids are poisoned by Afghanistan and Iraq war.

Utes is desert nuff.

[BigSlongsDaddy 10]

omg desert maps will be so crap , can you imagine all the snipers just picking off the enemy as they try to run over the sand dunes towards the small village that you posted at, i for one would be a sniper just racking up my score with bear kills, pure head shots all the way and the incoming enemy wouldn't have a chance. :p

[p75 10]

omg desert maps will be so crap , can you imagine all the snipers just picking off the enemy as they try to run over the sand dunes towards the small village that you posted at, i for one would be a sniper just racking up my score with bear kills, pure head shots all the way and the incoming enemy wouldn't have a chance. :p

I don't think you've watched enough Afghanistan material.

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Console kids are poisoned by Afghanistan and Iraq war.

Utes is desert nuff.

Your ignorance suites your intelligence. Please behave!

[derk yall 0]

What so cool on desert? It is a very bad terrain for conceilement and cover, almost nothing, infantry would be targets for a sniper if they dont have an APC or other transport, also tanks and other armor would not have the posibility to hide. Attack on a village without support of other vehicles would be an end for the attackers, because in the desert there is almost nowhere to hide...

I would be for some winter terrain, winter chernaurs would be nice.;)

[dunedain 48]

You know Afghanistan is not a sand desert ...

I'm also bored with this endless US vs RU war.

I would like to see much more nato stuff from France, UK, Germany and Italy which are by far before all EU countries in term of military budget and are all engaged in Afghanistan.

Seems that Cold War is not the past in Czech Republic, dunno why they added ugly/aborted xm8 and not Famas G2 or L85A2 ?

Edited July 26, 2009 by dunedain

[p75 10]

Who is talking about a desert? I'm talking about a Afghan mountain with a green zone. Don't you all watch our soldiers fight?

[derk yall 0]

I know that afghjanistan is not a sand desert, but desert is not only sand, I watch enough of photos and videos of 601. skss in loghar (afgahn). I know that there are mountain and the terrain isnt flat.

Sorry, for my post before I little havnt fully comprend what you meaned, So. Afghan would be maybe nice to have, but preferably, I would like something with snow, beccause hovever even if afghan is not completly desert, it has that feeling, also i hate the USA vs. terorist (insurgent, freedom fighter etc) them.

[p75 10]

I know that afghjanistan is not a sand desert, but desert is not only sand, I watch enough of photos and videos of 601. skss in loghar (afgahn). I know that there are mountain and the terrain isnt flat.

Sorry, for my post before I little havnt fully comprend what you meaned, So. Afghan would be maybe nice to have, but preferably, I would like something with snow, beccause hovever even if afghan is not completly desert, it has that feeling, also i hate the USA vs. terorist (insurgent, freedom fighter etc) them.

I agree on the snow part. It would also provide a nice variant. It gets winter in Afghanistan :D

[derk yall 0]

You know Afghanistan is not a sand desert ...

I'm also bored with this endless US vs RU war.

I would like to see much more nato stuff from France, UK, Germany and Italy which are by far before all EU countries in term of military budget and are all engaged in Afghanistan.

Seems that Cold War is not the past in Czech Republic, dunno why they added G36 and ugly/aborted xm8 ?

40 years under iron curtain and a invasion in 1968 do the job. But have the cold war realy ended? Maybe for the west world, but when the US wanted to build the radar in CZ, one Rus general stated, they would maybe target theyre balistic rockets to czech republic, also there are many reports of russian spies in there.

p75: You realy like afghan is see :D But afghan in snow, that doesnt sound realy bad.:cool:

[Aphotic 10]

It would be cool to have some afghan areas, but arma 1 sucked, lets be honest.

The desert was not good.

Arma II, to me, feels much better and brings back the vibe of flashpoint, it is a true successor and I am very glad I have it :)

The mods coming out are great, what I would really like is for BI to bundle up the best mods/skins/conversions and send them out as updates similar to what TF2 is doing with best user created maps.

Look at what CS did to half life sales for instance, I think ARMA could move a lot of copies in the future if the publisher really gets behind user created content.

[xtriaden 10]

Ofc I want an Afghan Map that runs as a stand alone addon.

I want as many cool Battle Fields and Toys as I can get my hands on.

I would like to see BIS working hard on the next patch and releasing the latest tools and let the Community make / convert the maps and Addons. I think we are waiting for the release of Visitor 4 before you will see lots of new Islands.

[Jimbo762.au 0]

I would love to see some nasty arse mountains. Snow extremely steep inclines type of ground that takes you 1h to move 100m horizontally because you have had to maneuver vertically to find a safe path.

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Rough as guts.

Edited July 27, 2009 by Placebo

[icebreakr 3157]

Jimbo762.au: try out my Panthera for some rock climbing (Mt. Triglav for example). Too bad AI in A1/A2 can't handle these mountains and they constantly crash their choppers and planes trying to manouver around 'em.

Edited July 26, 2009 by IceBreakr

[Black² 10]

Meanwhile you can easy use some nice addons (afghan_village and avgani, if i remember well).

The links and instructions to use them are posted in the forum.

They are working fine.

Cheers

Also some people dont even own ARMA1, so ye..

[p75 10]

What Dideco stated is not right. It is not an easy install, its missing textures etc. It is a poor alternative. Maybe when they convert propperly, but it is not great in the first place.

[horror1 10]

razani is working too and it looks very good in arma2 , of course some things are missing but still looks good.

[jakerod 254]

Anyone else recall a lot of people complaining about North Sahrani because it was mostly mountains and worthless? Same applies here especially if the AI can't handle it well. I would much rather have another part of Chenarus than the mountains of Afghanistan unless it was USSR invading Afghanistan then I might change my mind.

My order of preferred terrain:

Another part of Chenarus

Hilly area of Afghanistan with a lot of villages(w/ 1980s USSR stuff)

Fulda Gap (w/ 1980s stuff)

Snowy Chenarus

Spring Chenarus

Iraqi Desert

[trickster1982 10]

Personally ive grown very tired of playing war games set in middle eastern countries, thats one reason why ArmA 2 is such a massive breath of fresh air!

Also people saying they are bored of the US/USSR conflict in these games, dont you remember Russias actions in Georgia last year?that almost triggered the kind of scenario ArmA 2 is based on!its not exactly an unrealistic plot!

Edited July 27, 2009 by trickster1982

[soul_assassin 1750]

Aside from being a very bland (read not flat but unexciting and barren) wasteland afghanistan would also fall short of providing a good game play. Make a bunch of vehicles for NATO war machine and what for the mujahideen? A donkey, a technical at best? ArmA is a tactical WAR simulator. Afghanistan is a super-massive COUNTER-INSURGENCY operation. Just because Taliban are very spread out and can hide in the mountains that hardly makes them a worthy enemy. Afghanistan in ArmA = patrol and convoy simulation (with a random ambush which usually ends with a massive airstrike killing everybody).

Cold War all the way!

[MegaSevan 10]

BI knows the territory and setting well. They did a really good job, giving an authentic feeling of a former communist bloc country. I would say they would have much less expertise doing an Afghan map and campaign.

[novafluxx 10]

BI knows the territory and setting well. They did a really good job, giving an authentic feeling of a former communist bloc country. I would say they would have much less expertise doing an Afghan map and campaign.

I prefer the terrain in the games currently actually, but I would not object to an Afghan type terrain in an expansion ... once all the bugs are ironed out first of course!

[Lightninguk 0]

i would like it all to be change to snow with snow units that would be very nice

[Thirdup 0]

BI chose the setting for ArmA2 to fit their storyline (just like they did with the islands and maps of OPFP and ArmA1). There will be plenty of addon maps (there were dozens in OPFP/A1) . Give it time for the modders to do thier thing (maps are a huge project).

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Edited July 27, 2009 by Thirdup