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Well... Unless people want to open up the modified T-72 and Abrams models used in this addon to make copies of the optics and make their own fully NWD FCS-compatible versions of other tank mods, in which case it would be. Suppose it'd need NWD's permission to do this though

Everything exploding? You want swamp clouds with that too? Come on... ever seen a wooden barrel full with water or old metal scraps explode? And counting bullets? So many games already do that arcade whimp-stuff. Possibly that they could add an action to move bullets from one magazine to the other, so that if you sit on four half-empty magazines you can, if you have the time, get yourself two full magazines instead. No need to strip away all the realism from one of the very, very few decently realistic games we have, hmm?

Essentially the tanks one want to use this for need to have modelled optics, and not only a viewpoint with a 2D overlay as it is per default. This is because the reticle itself should always stay the same size relative to the target (otherwise the MILS-marks on the optics become wrong), contrary to how it is in default ArmA, where the optics overlay always stay the same size, regardless of if you zoom in or not.

Well, I was playing ArmA on my old system that had a AMD64 3200+, 1GB 266MHz DDR2 RAM and a GeForce 6600GT. Sure, it wasn't pretty since I had to run virtually every graphics setting on 'Low' or 'Lowest' and with a 1500m view distance (i.e. flying wasn't a good idea). That was before the patches improving general performance though, so I bet I could crank the view distance up enough to be more useful in the air.

Even as much as 2D? Heck, back to good ol' original Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon crosshairs, that can properly simulate a misaligned weapon. At the moment it is waaaaaay too easy to shoot in ArmA when turning sharp or when lying prone and shooting at distance. No need to align the sights after every shot at all. Just put the ironsights on target and shoot. After all a trained rifleman is supposed to be able to put 10-12 accurate shots on a target per minute IRL. One can easily do twice that in ArmA. Likely a full magazine during that minute. All well aimed shots. Quite sad actually that I can't recall one single aiming system better than the original Ghost Recon and Rainbow Six ones since those games' release. So please, add the need to realign sights after shooting. Add rotation along the X and Y axis to the recoil animation so that it is harder and takes more time (especially at distance) to shoot again, since then, even if you put your sights straight on target, your weapon won't be properly aligned so you'd shoot over/under/on the sides. This 'sight alignment' shouldn't be controllable by the player (possible speeded up by good soldier attributes, to simulate a difference between a standard rifleman and a SpecOps with their vastly different training level in shooting). After all we only aim where we want the soldier to shoot. If I'm supposed to detail-control every moment I'd like to decide when to blink my eyes too. I.e. that detail ain't needed. The soldier is doing his job to his ability. We as players just 'tell' him what to do.

Wow. Incredibly stunning map! I'm really, really looking forward to fight in that environment. So open and yet so much concealment makes for an infantryman's hell or heaven

Looking better. But I think you can attack the mosaic even harder considering how heavily worn the rest of the walls are. I.e. missing pieces of mosaic that has fallen off. Preferably in low-contrast spots, like in or just in contact with the red parts of the mosaic, so that the pattern isn't that easily spotted when watching it. Also there should be vertical dirt under the 'squares' extended from the walls from dirt and rain pouring down. Not sure how possible that is though. Depends on how you've textured the building (but as it looks to me from the screenie it can be done)

Bipods can be made by essentially making a static weapon, with an unanimated bipod and the gun being animated on top of that "lavette". Other than that have the default pose with the machinegun being held against the chest (like when at 'safe', unless one raises the sights (right mouse button) in which case it'd be held ready to fire at the hip or shoulder (if from the shoudler the exhaustion on the soldier should increase rapidly) Would be a bit bothersome to transfer ammunition between the hand-held weapon and the static weapon (i.e needs 98 defined magazines depending on how much ammo they should have left for the M240 and PKM) and so on, but it definitely can be done.

Don't count on this. Even though it is war I don't think they'll include stuff that's against the Geneva Convention, inhumane (well, intentionally target-specifially, personally inhumane, compared to general, anonymous inhumanity of war), and that's very negatively related to but at the very least lots of the people in the countries active in Iraq and Afghanistan, just to mention two of the popular war resorts. They'll get their asses flamed to bankrupcy in media if they do it.

I love the offer, but tragically enough I can't find anywhere close to Sweden that sells it, and the freight from US is as much as the TrackIR itself. Sad situation for a poor student

And well, if you want more than the raw engine, what's so horrible about paying $50 for a game with missions, instead of $45 for a game without? Â

And well, since they'd have to code for both DX9 and DX10 it's quite an extra workload (a large chunk, if not the majority of all players doesn't have DX10-compatible cards, so they can't skip DX9), so if what DX10 offers isn't worth the strain of coding for both, then why should they? I fully understand that so many developers stick to DX9 since there is nothing revolutionary in DX10 to be had. Just smaller improvements. Possibly that we'll see quite some use of DX10 in two or three years more when the vast majority will have upgraded to DX10-compatible cards, but who knows; maybe we'll have DX11 by then.

It's just very hard to make it work well in ArmA. There should be virtually no recoil at all for both the first and second shot, but after the second you get the recoil of both shots near simultanously. To make the game not put in recoil between the first and second shot, but to put in recoil after the second one is a bit tricky. It can be done with 'fired' event handlers and dynamic magazines, technically only shooting one stronger shot but removing two from the magazine. On the other hand this will make the weapon unreasonably good against armour. So a tricky thing indeed...

To be able to use ArmA without the official campaign and other missions one still needs all the animations, sounds, other graphics, objects, models, etc to have something that's playable at all. The campaign is but a fraction of the cost of the game, so you wouldn't save much money on getting that alone. And fact is, I think it'd be a waste of money for BI to even create a campaign free version, since distributing yet another version of the game isn't exactly free.

Woah! That's how a CAR-L is supposed to look! ow just a yummy CAR-H with it and... <drools>

If they are renamed or not depends on if they have to be touched or not. Some things can be left untouched and be implemented as is, others will need modifications to blend into ACE, and will then get renamed.

Lovely initiative! Very happy too see people helping to improve already wondertastic addons! Very nice to get some improved versatility in how to use the Hinds, and please... add the ones that can be used by the Ka-50 to that too! I'm quite sure the Ka-50 can use the UPK-23-250, although don't take my word for it. I know it can use 250rnd gun pods in a pair though, although unsure of the exact model.

Both that with the JIP players, and if you alt-tab. An alt-tabbed client effectively stop responding and can thus get kicked for that too.

I don't say we should have a GTA4 cover system. I say that ArmA should let you lean around corners like on the picture, so you can look around a corner without exposing half your body and your whole arm, which usually means you get shot.

I do agree that ArmA needs a proper "peek around the corner" move. When just "leaning" around the corner one exposes very much body, while all that needs to be sticking out is so much of your head you can look around the corner, pretty much like in the GTA4-picture. What is shown there isn't far from the 'proper' way to look around corner that is educated within the military. Sum of it all: There should be two ways to lean. One with weapon raised to actually shoot around the corner, and one with the weapon pointing to the ground, only sticking the head out around the corner with the sole purpose to only take a look.

Woah! Totally adorable! I love what you've done to the aircraft!

It is not possible in a mission, since ArmA only works with all classes in the .pbo files set to load when started.

Well, the fact BattlEye kicks you if you Alt-tab because your client stops responding is quite a reason not to use it within closed communities.

Wondertastic vehicles! Thank you for bringing civilian diversity!

Better and better... It carries more ordnance, but doesn't have nearly the same amount of armour and survivability