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If the effects are configured properly, you can get some very convincing falls. Max Payne 2, on the whole, has some of the best deaths in games so far, without the yoga positions you see sometimes in Unreal Tourney 2003, Raven Shield etc. If the OFP engine can do it and our PCs can handle it, I hope it gets implemented. Ragdoll physics are in Hidden and Dangerous 2, which can have a fair amount of detailed soldiers getting blown around at any one time, and the lag was negligible on my PC, and it's hardly cutting edge...

The SA80/L85 is a poorly designed weapon anyway, and the build quality really doesn't help. I've heard stories from an ex-forces guy about major welds busting during bayonet practices- he stabned the first two sacks with no trouble, but when he ran the third through, the gun pretty much broke down the middle, and he had to charge the rest of the sacks with just his bayonet and a silly scream. Funny as hell if it's in training, but if it happened mid-way between some close-quarters work, you'd be stuffed. Now, compare that to stories of NVA and VC soldiers running out of rounds and being cut off, then using their wood-stocked SKS and AK47 rifles to beat their way through the enemy. Like Baron said, age is irrelevant. I fired an old Lee Enfield No. 4 once, and the guy who owned it said that it'd never jammed, misfired or broke in the fifteen years he'd had it... and it was an ex-issue rifle that could well have been used in real combat during WW2. Also, the HK G36 is meant to be a very reliable weapon (good old German manufacturing). I'll have to admit that I have a soft-spot for the SA80/L85 just because it's British and it looks different, but it's a crappy gun. Everyone I know who's used one has said that when it works, it's alright, very accurate, but it's heavy, and the A1 had far to many sticky-out bits that'd catch on your webbing (in the worst case, you could catch the magazine release switch and dump the mag). And having to operate the safety (on the A1 at least, not sure about the A2) with your index finger... that'd madness! If you're taking the safety off, it's because you intend to fire upon and kill someone, and since it's the last thing you do before firing, the time you take putting your finger back on the trigger may well be the difference between life and death, especially if someone's got the drop on you. EDIT: I understand the thinking between the adoption of 5.56, and it's a sound theory, but after hearing stories about special forces in the Falklands putting two or three rounds into an enemy soldier only to have him turn around and start firing, I have my doubts. Give me and L1A1 SLR any day of the week: it was tough, reliable, and if you were in a pinch, you could always use it to club people with it instead.

I can't wait to see all the RN boats in OFP for myself. Who needs more M4s when you've got a County-Class frigate?

From The Encylopedia of the World's Special Forces: That any help to anyone?

I'd say the 7.62x39 round used in the AK47 is a better round than the 5.56mm NATO round as if it hits you, you go down, no questions asked. Factors such as accuracy, weight and balance are all second to reliability if you're in combat. You don't want to pull your ergonomically designed, high-tech, lightweight, all-singing, all dancing assault rifle up only for it to jam, especially if the enemy only have to stop firing to reload. Good example: The SA80 (L85A1). Accurate, compact and relatively light, but totally unreliable.

It'd be nice if things like changing mags were animated properly too, so you'd see the magazine getting replaced, the weapon getting cocked etc. instead of just fumbling with the thing with noises going over the top of it.

Screw the rest of the mod, release the push trucks!

If the addon compatability works like they said it would, it doesn't matter, we can just play with our WW2 addons from OFP1

I reckon the seventies is a good choice for OFP2, seeing as how if they made it in the nineties or even "now" you could settle most battles by calling in the choppers and watching through your binos while they gut the enemy. WW2 games leave me cold now, seeing as they all tend to cover one particular period of the war (D-Day), and almost all tend to be US-centric. If I want to play a WW2 game, I'd rather play in a theatre that hasn't been done to death, as my own country. I mean, there's only so many times you can run up a beach getting shot to bits with Garand. I'd much rather go charging around Arnhem or Nijmagen with my Sten gun, or fight at Monte Casino alongside the Gurkhas. And with WW2 games, there's always that nagging little feeling that it's not right to be having fun in one of the worst wars there's ever been

AFAIK, most vehicle-launched missiles (TOW, AT-3, as well as the Carl Gustav) can be guided in-flight. Just move the mouse around. It takes a bit of practice, but once you get the hang of it, you can engage moving targets with ease. Just make sure you tell the driver to stop first

Aye, nobody except the military should have access to guns, but since there's always the risk of some nutter getting hold of a gun, the police should have some too, just in case. Then again, you could make guns perfectly legal. Just make it impossible to get hold of ammunition instead

Ooh, lovely stuff. Managed to wipe out an entire regiment of enemy infantry that were marching towards my guys with just a radio... well, a radio and access to two batteries of mortars, a battery of 105s, four M109s and an MLRS

I'd like to be able to dive and roll around the place (not all the time though, after two or three rolls to your side, you get a bit dizzy  ). I mean, in OFP, you get shot at or see a flying grenade while you're sprinting, it takes a little while to slow to a jog, then a bit longer to actually get down. By then, you've been hit and you're deader than disco. Now, if you could hit a "dive" key and a direction,  you could just throw yourself that way and hope for the best. It might also be an idea to code in a small chance of you dropping your weapon (let's face it, if you dived into cover while some beady-eyed bugger with a sniper rifle was trying to turn you into another notch on his stock, you'd probably be more concerned with getting into a bit of cover rather than keeping two hands on your gun).

I think that the occasional dud hand grenade/40mm bomb/rocket would be great, that could really add to the randomness of combat. How cool would it be though if you fired your last 203 bomb at an enemy soldier, only for it to land in front of him and go hish and start smouldering... then to have the bugger grin, pull his AK47 up and let rip, only to have a stoppage

What'd a Vietnam campaign be without everyone being stoned off their arses? TWO, REPORT STATUS! THIS IS TWO. WHOA MAN, I CAN SEE TIME AND THIS STUFF TASTES LIKE RED... OVER.

The idea that games and films can influence people to do bad things is bunk, IMHO; if you play a game and then go out and re-enact it, it's because you have no perception of what is real and what is make-believe, and you have no grasp of what is right and what is wrong. While I'm at it, the whole idea that games teach kids to kill is bunk too; chopping a dude's head off with a katana sword in real life is more than a matter of pressing left-right + B on your joypad, and shooting at passing motorists with a real gun is much harder IRL than moving a mouse around, then clicking the left button. If we're going to ban something, we should ban guns.

If watching violent films or playing violent games makes you a violent person, then why aren't the board of censors all charging around with hatchets cutting each other to pieces? The versions they see are usually more extreme than the released versions (at least they are in Britain), so why aren't they stark raving bonkers? But seriously, all but one of the games in my collection have some level of violence, be it shooting people in a "realistic" environment (OFP, Max Payne, Delta Force, Raven Shield), being able to run folks down on a whim (Mafia, GTA3, GTA2), or ordering other people to do the killing for me (Red Alert 2, Ground Control, Close Combat IV). Hell, I even own a couple of replica guns. I watch violent films, listen to rock music, and I intend to learn a martial art at some point in the future. But I'm quite a well-balanced, mild-mannered kind of guy. I don't like fighting in real life, and I've been known to be physically sick at the sight of blood. Hell, I refuse to eat meat if it's still kinda recogniseable (stuff like chicken legs, pork chops etc.). Now, if the ban-happy killjoys who insist that it's films, games or music to blame for violence, and not poor parenting, undersocialisation into the norms and values of a modern culture, lax gun laws in some countries, and mental problems, I'd be a crazed psychopath who likes to shoot at kittens with air rifles, burn churches and generally rape, loot and pillage my way around the country, while sniffing glue and drinking excessively. But I'm not. Hmm, I think we've hit on something guys. If we all were influenced by games, all the people who played Sonic the Hedgehog would have dyed their entire bodies blue and started running around the place, somersaulting into people, and picking up gold rings.

You lie with your body to one side, kinda firing the weapon across you. If I find a picture, I'll post it. It would be handy though, I'm sick of getting shot in the chops because I have to get up from the prone to shoot at tanks with a launcher.

It's always been under armoured for me. As far as I know, it's just been put in the armoured section because it's an armoured car.

I thought it was an FN Five-Seven (AKA the AP Army), especially since you could pick up 5.7mm pistol ammo.

I thought it was an FN Five-Seven (AKA the AP Army), especially since you could pick up 5.7mm pistol ammo.

Any progress mate? I bought myself an airsoft P226 the other day, I'm kind of spoiling to get one in OFP too so I can shoot at more than paper targets and next door's cat with one

If you make a decent Chieftain, I'll keep you in beer for the rest of your life mate

Can't wait to take some of those Pucaras down in my Sea Harrier

Nowt like a bit of carnage to make you feel patriotic again. I loved the Pebble Island raid bit, and the ships look great. And that firefight at the end.... All hail the Falklands Mod!