Elite SEAL

Awesome, seriously looking forward to seeing more screenshots of the addons you guys are creating.

Nice looking vest/soldier, are you likely to create a Coyote Tan version as well? And what about varients for different classes, such as Rifleman/Grenadier/Machine Gunner all with different pouch layouts? What other custom gear are you guys working on? any new holsters for example? Leg rigs/pouches etc.

Cool, thanks for that anyway wipman. Appreciated.

Hi mate, with the gloves that are used with your custom faces do they normally "overwrite" the ones that might be used with a particular addon if the unit is already wearing gloves? If not would you be keen on doing a custom face with Oakley Assault Gloves shown here, along with a desert camo face scheme and three-colour desert camo sleeves? Thanks very much

Great work, vests/pouches are looking very impressive.

Excellent work on the vest, very impressive. Will you be creating some new pouches to go along with the vest as well? Like admin/map pouch, pistol magazine pouches, utility pouches etc. Or just stick to the BIS default pouches and vary them up a bit dependent on the load out of a particular class?

Just out of curiosity will you be doing any 22nd SAS or any other Special Operation unit in this mod? I'm not too clued up as to whether the SAS are even in Helmand Province or not, but figured what with this being a british forces in afghanistan mod you may have included some SAS anyway?

Some very impressive looking stuff there, especially liking the NZLAV.

Awesome work ardvark, most definitely looking forward to the next release with SCARs aswell, then all thats left is some armed with a Mk14 EBR and a M60E3. Thanks heaps .

Nice looking Masada HH, just wanting to know however if there will there be versions with Collimator/Red Dot optics (Aimpoint M68/Comp-M2, Trijicon Reflex etc) and/or Holographic sights (Eotech)? Thank you very much for any answers you can give.

Some interesting looking police M113's on that site, like the Calhoun County Sheriff one with "Have A Nice Day" written on the side.

Randomise via scripting or some such? Will there still be light units without any of the extras, just the vest and such. Have you considered adding any units with drop-leg tactical holsters?

I'm not entirely positive if this has been pointed out before, but if you notice on the Razor Team PDF document that was part of a press release a bit ago they showed the Machine Gunner guy with a Mk48 equipped with a Vertical/Forward Grip and he had a specific animation of him actually holding this. Shown here in the following image. Strangely however, I've noticed some recent pictures, shown on gamestar.de that do not include this animation, as the machine gunner is now holding it by the handguard/lower rail area vs. the vertical grip that is still attached to the weapon. So is the above image just a render, and the animation shown in it not actually a "in-game asset", or was it removed for whatever reason?, if so why keep the vertical grip?

Yeah from the pictures of this sasha character, the merc on page 3 is somewhat close, apart from the fact sasha doesn't wear a vest, his shirts a slightly lighter shade with a taller looking collar, aswell as the fact hes a tad lighter skin-toned, and has rough looking stubble. Maybe a interesting idea to make a "sasha" character for the merc pack, as if he "was" working for money wouldn't that technically mean hes a merc? He doesn't have the soldierly look that most of the other blokes did (uniform etc.)

Nah man, nothing wrong with eastern/russian mercs and such. Espiecally with the one shown in the previous picture, apart from the skin-tone the guy looked quite similar to the sniper in Behind Enemy Lines (though he wasn't using a SVD Druganov was he?)

As much as they may be universally disliked (or so I assume) maybe some Blackwater inspired mercs would be in order? Crye Precision MultiCam, CIRAS vests (or the Crye Armor Chassis vest), Safariland 6004's or Blackhawk SERPA holsters, TCI Liberator II headsets etc. "If" .Jonny does get in contact with you, he has some of that already.

Nice work there mate, looking good.

Very nice mercs from the pics I've seen here, will have to try these out (aswell as replace the default QG mercs) Just out of curiosity though, have you considered contacting .Jonny though to see if he would lend you some specific items from his SF pack, like the CIRAS, backpacks, holsters and other drop-leg platforms. Oakley M-Frames etc. I'm not sure what his policy is on that though. But I'm sure these items would make you mercs look even better yet. Cheers.

As monty also stated, possible. Jonnys older 1.5 marines had them obviously. But from this quote: "I removed the pistol from the holster as it was causing some weird problems for me and it was just antother 1024*1024 on the model. not worth the performance it was taking..." It looks like he won't be adding them again, which is fine as they were largely eye-candy anyway. But besides that and as I was pointing out in my reply on the Marine thread, the fact that the holsters are not dynamically "used" makes it pretty much useless in my opinion. (Think the GRAW series, CoD4 and a few other recent games. These have what I'd describe as "dynamic" holsters, probably not a good/correct descriptive) I believe BIS should have designed them so that when you had a specific pistol in your gear/inventory it would show in the holster such as a M1911, Sig P226, Kimber or whatever would show rather than just always a Beretta M92F. I'm hoping ArmA II gets rid of this issue but I have some serious doubts, OFP2 might though (I hope.)

I removed the pistol from the holster as it was causing some weird problems for me and it was just antother 1024*1024 on the model. not worth the performance it was taking... Just out of curiosity would it have been a big performance hit? I thought the older versions of your marines ran fine even "with" the pistols in the holster. Even though sure, it was just a bit of eye-candy. Its a shame that BIS didn't design it so that the holster would be filled dynamically if you have a pistol in your inventory/gear, like most other games do today. I hope ArmA II or OFP 2 fixes that problem (more-so then as you'd have the proper pistol holstered, depending what your kitted out with.)

Possibly for the same reason the drop-leg holsters were empty in his SF pack, my first assumption was something to do with "Queens Gambit". But I could be wrong.

I'm terribly sorry to hear this Crionyk, you and your family have my condolences. Take your time mate, there will be a good number of people still around eagerly anticipating your awesome work Cheers.

Thanks heaps for these awesome quality SF units Jonny. If you plan to touch these up or add anything new to the units in the future, would you consider adding a Crye Precision MultiCam version? (Ghost Recon 2: Summit Strike comes to mind.) Cheers mate.

Hey Crionyk, If you ever consider further customising your characters with high-end gear, would you consider giving them a new type of drop-leg Tactical/Thigh holster? Such as the ones below: Eagle Industries - SAS Mark V Airborne Holster Eagle Industries - SAS Mark V Holster with Light Mount Blackhawk - Omega VI Ultra Holster Not entirely sure if its possible or not, but seeing as how Queens Gambit (originally) had a pistol in the holster you might be able to put one of your own pistols in the holster as part of the model. For instance having the Glock with Tactical Light in either the Blackhawk Omega VI Ultra or SAS Mark V with Light Mount. Please give this some consideration as I for one would like to see some new holsters in ArmA. Thank you very much for all your hard work .

Heres some pics. Radio Pouches Blackhawk S.T.R.I.K.E. MBITR Radio pouch: Eagle Industries MBITR Radio Pouch: Utility Pouches Blackhawk STRIKE Utility Pouch. Blackhawk STRIKE Utility Pouch Medium: