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Ah, generic swiping motion it is then. Unless you own a motion capture studio or know a friend who has one. Well, after being told that it is possible to have close combat anims, forgive me for being somewhat disappointed to learn that it is in fact a "fastened throw grenade animation". Whatever... let's move along - I'll not likely find much use for that sort of thing anyway. Did not mean to be cheeky just saying that it is possible but expensive. I remember when ArmA was not that long out when a guy managed to get his hands on a motion capture studio. Various anims were done and it was supposed to be a replacement to the original anims as well as some extra ones. Nothing came of it though.

Ah, generic swiping motion it is then. Unless you own a motion capture studio or know a friend who has one.

Of course! I just assumed he meant modern units. Very bad of me. If you search on these forums you will find the threads for these units. High quality interesting stuff being worked on: especially the Gordon Highlander's.

Missions come with the mod. Also, a few pages back is a link to a MP mission pack and a file with updated ships and some missions.

Two groups making HM Forces stuff. Project UK Forces (PUKF): Google PUKF and you will get their website. I don't know what they are all making but it seems to be infantry, weapons and some vehicles. They had some releases for OFP which were of excellent quality. Some recent WIP pics from them indicate the same. RKSL Studios: Not what you asked for specifically but these folks are focusing on Aircraft stuff. They have quite a few RAF/Army/RN aircraft in the pipeline and some Eastern stuff for OPFOR. They are also working on some Anti-Aircraft stuff with advanced scripting to simulate all the fancy technology you get in those things nowadays. In addition they are also doing the same for aircraft. Google RKSL and you will get their website. They also have a number of WIP videos on YouTube.

I fired these up today and there was an error message before OFP started and after that message OFP just did not start. Somehting about the conifg. It mentioned vehicle and grenade launcher I think. I was using it with your vehicle and desert infantry.

Which would be very nice. But what if OFP2 is not going to be the game that some people are expecting it to be and it turns out to be a COD4 clone? Since you quoted me I'm assuming that this is aimed at me. If that is the case read the last two sentences of my previous post very carefully and you will see I am not implying such a thing. Just merely telling people to reserve their judgement when a demo has been released for both games. Rather than making comments that are bollocks.

I am rather impressed by some of the posters on this thread. They seem to be so confident that Codies Operation Farcepoint 2 will be so astounding and bug free that they must have some sort of secret ability to see into the future. I am going to wait for a demo for both games before I say which is better. I suggest other people do the same instead of jumping to conclusions.

Not sure if I should post it here or make a new thread... but here goes. Real Life Rambo I laughed so hard it actually started to hurt! Some highlights from the article: No shit. Erm...yeah. No surprise there. Okay. Now we're getting delusional. ORLY? It's not the exactly the SAS is it? Oh dear...

If you Google 'Principality of Sealand' you will get something similar to that. EDIT: Found it. PoS Website

Battlefield mission usually lags with any mod that has a lot of scripts and/or big smoke effects. The mission should run fine without mods or mods that are light on the system such as GRAA or ECP. AFAIK resolution doesn't make a difference in OFP. Set it to you screens native resolution. How much RAM is that? I have 1GB and Battlefield runs fine. IIRC it ran fine when I had 256MB RAM. Keep your terrain detail to low or normal. If it is still not running fine disable shadows and see how that goes.

There is also the ECS mod which is like ECP. I think. Never tried it myself. For mods that enhance the game look out for: Sickboy's Pack 1 and 2 True Mods PROPER Mods LowPlants and Durgs vegetation fix Sakura Chan's sprint fix addon ArmA Effects or DM Smoke effects Sakura's non-blinding sun mod NWD's mods (proper ballistics and tank FCS) If you want to find out more mods there is a thread in the Addons Complete section called, 'Addons for more realism and immersion'. Look it up. That's all I can think of off the top of my head.

BUMP. To go away from the usual Middle East or gun control debates I would like to hear from someone in the US about support for Southern Independence. I came across a few videos supporting it on YouTube* while looking for videos on Scottish Independence. Is the idea of a return of the Confederate States an issue in the US at the moment? (I would guess no). How much support for this in states that were in the CSA? Is there any political support for this? If any people support a return of the Confederacy are they your 'average American' or nut jobs? One of the Southern Independence videos I saw. Link. * I am aware that YouTube is not a great source and seems to be full of idiots.

Have you tried Amazon?

I don't see any bashing going on. I see people criticising your government and they are well within there right to do so seeing how your country's economy affects everyone else's which in turn affects us. Ah. So lived in every other country have we?

Could you post up some pics of your work so far? Might get people interested. I envisage some Dad's Army style missions. Don't tell Him Pike!

It is a realism feature.

Then where is official word, on usage of models from STALKER, not some user on forums that doesn't even work for GSC.. It was not even a user that posted that but the forum moderator.

That's a bit drastic. In other FPS for quite a few years they have not even enabled you to see your own body in first person. Your still just a floating pair of arms with a gun.

Since the International Politics Thread has went completely OT and became a discussion on WW2. I felt that there was a need for a thread such as this. This topic can be a centre for discussions from Ancient Wars to Modern Wars. From Roman Legionnaires to British Grenadiers. Arrows to machine guns and so on and so forth. Want to discuss the effectiveness of the Soviet T-34? Use this thread. Want to discuss US Military strategy for the Vietnam War? Use this thread. Try to keep to the purpose of the thread. Military History and not Political History. Although politics will be a theme of military history in some cases.

Right, didn't mean to sound grouchy towards you. Vehicle/Aircraft recognition may have been overlooked because there Aircraft would have been in contact with each other for a short period of time before the war ended. Once the ground troops linked up the firing would cease. Whether ground forces went over their designated lines intentionally is debatable. I doubt it, I'm not so sure if the soldiers on both sides would have been up for more fighting than was needed. It was probably just map reading gone FUBAR. You know that saying, 'Most dangerous thing is an Officer and a map.' I remember reading about Patton and how he wanted to 'push them back to the Asiatic steppes where they belong.' I don't think he was stupid enough to intentionally send his forces farther than they were supposed to be. He landed up dying in a car crash anyway so I suppose they didn't have to worry about him. If he tried to escape his leash he would have been sacked. Wasn't MacArthur sacked when he wanted to move into China? Or am I just imagining that? @ Second: Thank you for answering my question in such depth.

One off the top of my head was a blue on blue against the Danes in Afghanistan last year. According to Wiki the Danes were from (the strangely named) Royal Life Guards. Gaurdian Article An RM patrol boat was hit by a British checkpoint when it was wrongly identified as an enemy vessel. (Iraq 2003, Al-Faw Peninsula) Another one here Gaurdian article Doesn't seem to be any blue on blue incidents by the British in 1991.

With regards to Allied aircraft engaging Soviet aircraft you have to account for aircraft recognition training on both sides. Were Allied and Soviet pilots trained to recognise each others aircraft? Maybe but I would be a bit sceptical about that. Moreover German aircraft were still flying in 1945 so the could have mistaken to be enemy aircraft. Allied and Soviet troops did engage each other. It is mentioned in one of the books I have. An American officer suspected that they were fighting Russians so he went and got a flag, climbed to the top of a building and waved it. The firing stopped. I can post it up here if you want? This would be expected. The end of the war is close thus there are still German troops moving around the area so Allied and Soviet troops are still weary. Furthermore I doubt that both sides were trained to recognise each other and their equipment. Hehe, nice concept of being an ally if the brass knows they're sending their forces into an area where allied forces are known to be, without giving your own proper id training... Apart from the fact that the russians were also still flying some american lend-lease planes... Means the americans weren't able to identify even american-built planes? Makes me think that's not a snafu, that's a fubar... and not a german one... Hartmann recalls in that book having attacked a flight of lend-lease Douglas A-20's operated by the soviets, being escorted by soviet-built fighters, and a squadron of Mustangs appeared. As Hartmann was flying higher than all those planes, he ordered his flight to dive through, killing whom they could along the way. As it was usual for Hartmann to use the Boom'n'Zoom tactic and fire at point-blank range, he attacked the Mustangs first, more than 1 going down, then proceeding to dive onto the bombers, diving through the soviet fighter cover. I think he got one bomber but didn't take the time to see it go down, as he and the rest of his flight kept on building speed until they hit the deck to race away for safety. Since nobody had spotted him before but the soviets discovered the Mustangs in the area, the bombers dropped their load into the countryfield and turned tails, and a scrap ensued between the soviet fighters and the Mustangs, several soviet fighters going down as a result and at least one Mustang also having been damaged. Probably those Mustangs belonged to the 15th USAAF... Maybe I'm reading too much into this but are you suggesting there was a conspiracy? First of all the Soviets probably were not really 'Allies' as there had been no cooperation between each others forces. The closest cooperation was something along the lines of, 'Oh look they are launching an offensive in 3 weeks so I will launch one as well.' Second of all the aircraft were likely not to know that they were in the same area. I highly doubt that they were communicating with each other. Moreover you would have to consider how much lend lease aircraft the Soviets actually had. The Soviets got a number of Sherman tanks but they were never favoured by the Soviet military. It could have been the same for aircraft. Third of all the the pilots were probably not trained to identify Soviet aircraft. Same goes with Soviets not trained to identify US aircraft. The Soviets and Allies were busy fighting a war against the Nazis and didn't have lots of time to study each others aircraft. I have an aircraft recognition guide that was issued during the war (to Western Allies) and not one Soviet aircraft is listed. Furthermore I imagine the aircraft were rather confused when a bunch of planes zoomed through the sky and opened fire. I would envisage panic and evasive manoeuvres to dodge fire and then the pilots would probably be trying to get a bead on the attacking aircraft. They (Soviets/Allies) just saw each other and reacted. The adrenalines pumping and suddenly it is a question of life and death. Even if one of them did recognise they were shooting an ally how were they supposed to get the word out? It would take hours to go through their HQ, then over to some other dept., through red tape, then message to gets to other ally, message has to be sent to their departments and by the time it reaches the other aircraft squadron the fight would probably be long finished. In addition with a war the size of WW2 there is no possible way you can avoid blue on blue. As I said I really doubt the Soviets and Western Allies had comms with each other so they cannot say 'hey mate stop it. You are shooting friendlies'. Friendly fire; the spoils of war. With regards to communication between Allies take a look at some modern examples. Look at the 2003 Iraq War. We have a pair of A-10's circling a British convoy. The convoy has orange markers on the vehicles so aircraft can identify them as friendly. The pilots fail to recognise this but they call the convoy in to their HQ to make sure there are no friendlies in the area. HQ calls back and says there are none so the A-10's have permission to engage and so they do. Only until after they have fired on the convoy do HQ call back and say it's a British force. The tragedy has already happened. During this war the British and Americans were close Allies fighting with each other, trained to recognise each others vehicles and a blue on blue still happens. Thus I am not surprised if it happened with Soviet and Allied forces. They were not fighting with each other, probably didn't communicate with each other (unless you can show otherwise) and were probably not trained to recognise each others equipment (unless you can show otherwise).

Yes but the public of Western Nations would not be willing to fork out huge sums of money for products that could be a lot cheaper. Workers in Western nations demand good working conditions and decent pay which would cause the price of say, an ipod, to rise quite a bit. Basically, products made in China are a lot cheaper.

There ain't no point in debating with him. He already made up his mind long ago. Maybe he was run over by a business man in a BMW or something. People like me, Baddo and MehMan would condemn a mass slaughter caused by any Government no matter what their political leaning was. But for Spokes a Communist/Socialist nation could go in and rape every pregnant woman in a nation and he would say 'it's okay they are defending the revolution'. Just like he said about the Purges. Which was obvious BS to anyone with an ounce of common sense. Bet he would change his mind if he was on the receiving end though. It's like that saying; 'the ones who want war have never experienced it.' With the Winter War in Finland. Anyone in that nation who dreamed about the glory of socialism must have got a shock when Soviet bombers hit population centres. Killing the people they were supposed to be saving. Destroying their homes and lives. Oh wait a minute. The Soviets said that they did not bomb any population centres and caused no civvy casualties. They must be right of course. The Finnish must have blown it all up themselves despite needing all the munitions for fighting the Soviets. Oh those damn "liberals". Since Spokes started debating on these forums a few months ago, thanks to him, I utterly hate Socialism and Communism now.