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Tracked AFVs and Tanks....this thread is still about Light Infantry yes? Why don't you just let Roadkill focus on finishing the current pack.

I was just playing on the fact that you said the Marines were running around with army gear...which would imply something... You'll get it eventually.

Are you accusing the USMC of something?

What's the obsession with the greens? I don't see much reason for having a differently equipped reserve force, as has been repeated ad infinitum you're talking about a very small army. Textiles aren't particularly hard to manufacture and presumably the Post Guba/Troska military wouldn't be old enough to have much in the way of hand me downs. If RoadKill really really wanted to have a bag of ham militia/2nd line reserve force, he could just give them his Nogova pattern DPM with russian helmets, webbing and weapons. Now excuse me while I go scrub my brain with a wire degeeking brush.

That would make them seem like poor cousins of the Light Infantry battalions...why would you want to do that? I meant trousers that looked like they were a lighter fabric or had more pockets or reinforced sections where the harness would be pressing against the body.

What is this myth that elite forces all run around with small shopping mall's on their backs? If I see one more otherwise serviceable "SF" unit for OFP ruined by the addition of an incongruous unremovable Bergen or Daysack I may just scream. Soldiers don't wear large backpacks in advances to contact or on patrols, they may wear small (30 Ltr max) patrol packs to carry extra ammunition in but even then it's a bit pointless having purely decorative packs in OFP. If someone where to be attacked while making a long overland trek with their large pack on their back the standard operating procedure in all western armies (and presumably in most eastern armies too) would be to drop their main pack grab the patrol bag and get out of the killing area. Back on topic, please don't include backpacks that have no function and can't be dropped. Make them a hidden selection at least. And camouflage faces should be available for all units ideally. If you want to make soldier units that look like Paratroopers then give them lighter gear, maybe get rid of the utility pouches from the back of their load carrying equipment and fit extra ammunition pouches and a bayonet holder to represent that they're geared towards assaulting more than anything else. Give them para versions of the FAL, and lighter looking helmets, give them different looking trousers or put extra pockets on their shirts/tunics. But please don't put camo and a backpack on a unit and then say "Ommfffguh they're leet"

The OFP Aviation king returns. Are all of your planes listed on the footmunch.org frontpage?

Haven't had a chance to really try everything out yet but the desert textured vehicles are to your usual high standard. However the thing that really caught me by surprise was the beautiful Rafale...from the cockpit to the Canards, it just looks too good to be in OFP. No cannon though? Crazy 1990s "No more proper wars" design strategies!

We may have to talk about that in the future, depending on whether the Irish Army decides to purchase them You've certainly achieved quite a bit for two blokes, so well done on that and I regret not having the capacity to help.

Just tried out the pack, nice all rounder. I noticed one small problem though, the M-250 gives me a model special error

Errr yes, and if the Spanish marines really used IIIHs then it would be accurate and we could ask to use them for the Irish pack....get it? The Irish Army uses the IIIH http://www.62infantry.com/images/photos/mowag.jpg Back on topic, are those Hmmwv's in the pack or URO VAMTACs?

Hmmm if only you used Piranha IIIHs instead of Cs.

Hi, We're doing the ammunition values for the light version of the Irdf infantry pack at the moment and I was just wondering if the timed detonation applied to some AAA fire ingame could be implemented on a carl gustav round. So that the player could load an Airburst 1000m or Airburst 200m round into the launcher, fire it...and have it automatically explode after travelling the stated distance in game. Ideally we'd like to do it simply as possible (by having the different distances as different Ammo (magazine) types which could be transported in a vehicle or crate type addon.

Most excellent work gents.

Ok, two topics in one day...I know I know. Sorry folks. But while discussing all the new and exciting things for the game like dynamic weather and top1 (fingers crossed it will be as good as it sounds) it came up about super detailed islands like Mapfact Nogova and farmland island. Now the one thing that seems lacking in these islands is a bit of life, you can painstakingly place civilian units for a bit of atmosphere but even then if you aren't moving through their specific location it can be wasted on you. What I was wondering is would it be possible to have some sort of integral script in an island to generate non military activity at varying levels of CPU suck and depending on a predetermined War footing of the island itself. So for example in standard OFP warfighting missions you might see a column of randomly generated civilian vehicles pass you on the road, or animals out grazing on a hill. Picture the atmosphere of passing a wrecked car with two dead occupants in your military convoy. Secondly for wandering around super detailed islands like Mapfact and FML, even a few civilians randomly sitting in enterable buildings or walking the streets would do wonders for atmosphere, making even a mission less explore or quick firefight in the editor a more immersive experience. Finally, I know that OFPs engine has it's limits in these regards, but still I'd ask you not to pelt me with rotten fruit.

All in Thunderbird84s hands I'm afraid and he is working under a great deal of pressure to get all of his own and our projects done in a limited amount of time. So wish him good luck in his work and we won't keep the release a secret.

Well what I was thinking of was that the Civilians would be triggered by the proximity of a player. As for giving cities more life, I was thinking about the sort of "novelty" addons that things like Cessena fun (Sp?) used like beach bars and offices by philcommando. but built into islands. That way in theory civilians could be spawned and take up some reasonable civvy behaviour like a move waypoint followed by a get in waypoint at a desk and chair for instance, or into a phone box or bus. *ducks for more vegetables*

Just a question, are any mortars outside of those in used in the CoC and VME artillery systems actually functional in OFP? Apart from one instance with the WH40Kmod Mortars firing on an enemy on a slope above them. I have never managed to get any mortar addon to fire on the enemy of its own accord, and have been unable to replicate the one time success with the WH40K mortars. Any advice on this?

Thanks for that guys, will endeavour to try out all the options

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You arent by any chance refering to the R-73 Back missiles...which only lock on to targets flying behind them are you?

Its great fun to match a few of these up against IKARs Rafale. Well done SCAR

Yeah, the Llauma faces are something we are investigating with a mind to sharing other llauma compatible faces and more importantly in my view camo faces for every soldier at an appropriate time. The Textures and models have been finished for a few months, it took time for weapons to catch up with them and the main thing is the config, TB84 should have our final internal beta finished soon (he's got a small amount of work left to do on the config) and is hopefully going to be working on it tomorow. Don't take that to mean a release date though, we'll still have to test and fine tune.

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The map is really gorgeous, the small size doesnt bother me although if there is a way to make it less processor intensive please do. Didnt even realise there were weapons in the pack. Excellent work though.