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    The Regiment

    Hmm. The fact it's due out of the PS2 rings alarm bells for me. There's a big difference between PC realism and console realism... I mean, look at the Rainbow Six series now Still, it might turn out alright. I hope it does, if only because I'm sick to the back teeth of almost all tactical shooters being about US forces.
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    Falklands mod progress

    The Falklands are pretty bare IRL too. I once heard someone descibe them as "moors in the middle of the South Atlantic." EDIT: Messy outposted me.
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    Falklands mod progress

    I'd like to see Charlotte Hatherley wearing nothing but a smile. Failing that, I'd love to see the naval guns in action
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    "Mars pictures reveal frozen sea"

    If someone says "nuke the site from orbit- it's the only way to be sure" then this gets my vote
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    Plane attempting emergency landing in UK

    If it just plops out, no wonder houses on the flight path of airports are so cheap!
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    Plane attempting emergency landing in UK

    Okay, we've all agreed that yes, airliners can jettison fuel. However, like Deadmeat and Messiah(?) have both said, the plane was just circling Kent to use the excess fuel up, not to dump it.
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    Bushfires Mod

    Not really, I was thinking more 1960s style mercenaries, since Bushfires is covering that era (amongst others).
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    Bushfires Mod

    Apologies if it's been asked before, but will there be any mercenary units added to the mix?
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    My list.

    Maybe. Preferably if it wasn't as anal as AAO. Having to sit through a twenty-minute lecture on first aid and resucitation, doing an "exam," then finding out that the actual practical test involves running up to three men on the floor and holding the spacebar was beyond a joke.
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    Teamspeak, battlecom or what ???

    I have to say I prefer Ventrillo. TS is a little too bare-bones for my liking, and the amount of faffing around with codecs trying to get good sound quality got on my wick. I've never so much as touched Ventrillo's settings other than output volume, and it's crystal clear.
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    ECP 1.075...The countdown begins.

    I'd recommend copying the old trailer to 1.44mb floppies, putting them in a plastic carrier back and beating him around the head with it rather than trying to convince him to come back to the community
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    Difficulty of custom Cockpits?

    One of my pet hates are armoured vehicle addons with the wrong interiors, but as was said, it can be hard to get hold of good pictures of AFV interiors.
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    My list.

    Vehicle Speed- For ground vehicles, I'd rather have a control system more akin to a driving game: accellerator, brake, gears. Maybe even the clutch too, as a difficulty option. I personally hate the way OFP cars have a "go" pedal, a "go faster" pedal, a "go slow" pedal" and a "slow or backwards" pedal, and think that a more realistic set of controls would really add to driving. Timed Grenades- Yep, especially if you could cook them off. To take it further, different ways of throwing grenades would be great. Underarm rolls, overarm lobs, and a pitching throw would cover most situations, especially if you could choose how much force you put behind it. I find myself having to bracket targets with grenades before I can hit them in OFP, which is decidedly dodgy when you're charging a machine gun nest. Lock to shoulders- There's already the "F-walk" in OFP which sort of helps with this, but yeah, it'd be nice. Missions in patches- I rarely play missions by other people. I either make a rough one in the editor according to what takes my fancy, or play MP ones by my squad's mission maestro. So this one, I've no real opinion. Jeep gunner crotch syndrome- YES! Or, if they leave it in, give us the option to punch them in the stones if they decide to shove their crotch in your face. Scorecard- I'd like to see this or something similar, it'd be a great way of gauging the skill of someone who wants to join your squad, providing it has some way of telling between a "proper" kill and the eight dozen kills he racked up by machine-gunning a mob of unarmed civillians in the editor. Camera improvements- Aye, I'd love to see this. When I use Fraps to capture OFP footage, most of the time I have to use a civillian to get realistic-looking camerawork. Camera.sqs is an excellent tool for stills, but for video it's a little jerky and imprecise, especially on the move. Mission layers- Definately. Joint mission making- Good idea, that'd be great for those learning to make missions. Right now, it's a bit unwieldy, getting instructions over MSN or whatever then trying to work out what they meant by whatever. Tracers- Yes, this would be great. All tracer's a bit dicey, and no tracer's a pain if you're carrying the machine gun. Rucksacks- Only if it you couldn't carry things "stupidly." Like, not being able to carry a Stinger, three missiles, ten grenades, an MP5 and a full medical kit in a 25 litre backpack. Jumping- If it's a mid-stride hop to clear obstacles, yes. All too often I find myself having to run, exposed and under fire, because I couldn't clear that nasty, big 2ft fence and had to use the gate. Maybe handling the button so if you're standing, you clamber up and over an obstacle, and if you're running you do a little jump over it. Add a chance of not quite clearing something and going sprawling, and I'm all for it Bayonets and melee actions- Yeah, I'd love to see this, especially if there was a repetoire of techniques for each. Doubly so if hand-to-hand techniques were covered. Being able to make lunges, quick thrusts and parry incoming strikes with your bayonet would be great. If you were unarmed, being able to quickly disarm an opponent would be great too. I mean, nine times out of ten you're playing as a professional soldier, and as far as I know, they still teach soldiers how to kill with their bare hands and how to take a weapon from someone (or at least prevent them from firing).
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    Blackblood's desert grunts

    Is that before or after Adrian Edmonson drops a fridge on his head?
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    Bushfires Mod

    If you don't like it, don't download it and don't play it. There's more morally dubious stuff that people could make... Operation Flashpoint: Gestapo, anyone?
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    ECP 1.075...The countdown begins.

    I suggest you take your pins off the OFP Maniac Map if that's true
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    New flies addon

    A black drop command dot would do, if you ask me.
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    Improved damage model on vehicles

    Thing is, a .50 is designed to penetrate light armour. A hand grenade is designed to explode and fling red-hot fragments of steel wire in a radius to kill or maim soldiers. Having a grenade go off right next to your M113 would probably do some damage, but it probably wouldn't penetrate the armour to any great extent due to the fact that a grenade explodes in pretty much every direction, so a lot of the shrapnel and concussive force wouldn't hit the vehicle. However, put the same amount of explosives in a shaped-charge rocket that projects the force of the explosion in one direction, and the M113 would crack like a kitten's skull getting a ball peen hammer "introduced" to it. I agree with ebns72, this sort of thing would be great as standard, even if it wasn't visually represented. I don't need to see aviation fuel pissing out of the jet I'm in if the fuel lights are flashing like mad. As long as it's simulated well, that's all that matters.
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    Blackblood's desert grunts

    Hunger's the best spice. Or something.
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    PC Zone Issue 151

    OFP is the greatest game ever. That is, until OFP2 comes out. Enough said.
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    J Rambo's Mid-East fighters

    Units without wound textures remind me of old 60's war films. Not necessarily a bad thing
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    Blackblood's desert grunts

    The UKF Landies came in tan as well.
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    Vote your favorite armored ofp vehicle

    None of them, because not one of them is a Chieftain Mk.3
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    Vote your favorite armored ofp vehicle

    None of them, because not one of them is a Chieftain Mk.3
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