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How do the grenades react to soldiers and vehicles? (That's a vaguely sensible way of saying, can I throw them at people's heads and watch them bounce off? )

How do the grenades react to soldiers and vehicles? (That's a vaguely sensible way of saying, can I throw them at people's heads and watch them bounce off? )

I think Bibmi left the community a while ago. It'd be worth asking UKF, as he helped found it.

I'm really excited about this. Should save us using external scripts to enhance the AI's teamwork. And, even though I'm usually not interested in tiny little bits of eye-candy, the animated hand grenades made me grin

I'm really excited about this. Should save us using external scripts to enhance the AI's teamwork. And, even though I'm usually not interested in tiny little bits of eye-candy, the animated hand grenades made me grin

Two words. AWE. SOME. I love robots, and I hate flies. The perfect solution!

That sounds like Close Combat Marines, Atomic developed it for the USMC as a training aide. Pretty much impossible to get hold of. Full of bugs too, or so I hear.

Regarding the idea of sound dampening etc., it'd be great if the AI could pick up on the sound of your kit rubbing or rattling depending on how close you are. By that I mean if you're wearing a bergen, full webbing and have a belt-fed machine gun slung over you, you'd have things rustling, clanking, clicking together, and they'd hear you coming over ten fields. If you were just wearing beltkit and your weapon (and your uniform, obviously), you'd make less noise on the move. Now, this could be tied to the unit type (a conscript or regular soldier making more noise than a smoothy special forces bloke), or, more interestingly I think, to the skill slider. That way, you could have a way of simulating preparation before a mission, or personal experience. That way, you could simulate differing levels of skill within a squad, with some members being seemingly more experienced and therefore quieter, and some being very unexperienced, and having their kit rattling and clanking all over the show. Just my $0.02 US.

I was rather disappointed when I found out it was more of a shooter than a strategy game. I've played and loved every Close Combat game from A Bridge Too Far to Invasion Normandy (especially when I get the Gold Juno Sword mod for CC5 to work), and have been hoping that they'd make a modern or at least Cold War one for ages. I'll stick to sending my rifle section through that hedgerow while the platoon MG team lays down suppression fire on that German-occupied farmhouse rather than bothering with this rather weak-looking shooter.

Personally, I would rather this system was not part of MAAM. I do not use MAAM myself, as JAM does the exactly same thing just as well with one letter less, and I don't really want to have to convert the configs of the JAM addons to MAAM so my tanks have more realistic armour and armaments. CAVS or whatever the end accronym is would be perfectly acceptable as a stand-alone in my opinion. It's good to see people trying to solve the problem though. I was half-expecting this to disolve into the classic "I know better" competition as the spotter heavyweights starting duking it out as to how their favourite tank can survive everything and kill everything. Hats off are in order

That's actually quite an interesting idea. Could work.

I've not baked or cooked a thing as nobody in my family trusts me in the kitchen. I have been constantly toasted though

Hah, I was thrown out of Religious Education at school once because I said that Christmas was a celebration of Lemmy's birth. Christians have no sense of humour

Very nice!

Ah, you meant HK53, not G53. I was worried that my geeky HK knowledge was failing me

I'm making a start (a very slow one) on learning how to texture, so I might tap you up for the G33. I'd ask about the G53 and G93, but I've never heard of either of them

A lot of Japanese films nowadays use CGI blood. If you can get it right, it looks good. In my experience, a bit of clever editing and a squeeze bottle of pig's blood works wonders

Nice idea.

They are call grenade launchers! Sincerely, MilitiaSniper Correction. They're smoke dischargers.

I agree with Silesian on the zoom thing. The field of view from the cockpit or driver's seat in most vehicles it just too narrow. I prefer to fly from the cockpit in flight sims, but in OFP I have to use 3rd person to see enough. *digs out the roll of sellotape*

To save me from saying it again

Best. Helicopter. Ever. Now excuse me while I shove all my other OFP chopper addons into the recycle bin

I read that the Germans used to have an anti-Santa who used to beat bad kids with sticks and, if they'd been little bastards, shove them in a barell on his back and throw them into the fires of hell. Much more effective than getting a lump of coal, I think. Frankly, I think Christmas would be much better if all the kids were scared shitless, because then they wouldn't be clogging up the shops and pissing everyone off by carol singing then demanding money.

I can't wait for the Christmas Eve booze up personally. Alcohol, miseltoe and seeing how far the spirit of generousity extends with the ladies

If it hadn't been for those parts, I'd have really hated those films. Instead, I just dislike them strongly