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We really should make a petition for BIS to really make it possible for people to walk and shoot from moving vehicles, like in that test video they released from VBS... I mean, if they made it work there and then, it shouldn't be too hard to make it work in ArmA... no?

Taking into account that BIS made a game that is a sequel to a successful game, but unlike the first game is not relying on a big famous publishing house (with regards to the PC market) like Codemasters or EA or whatever, so you can't expect a big publishing campaign rivalling with OFP's... I think that the people that have accompanied the ArmA development so far, and BIS themselves have acknowledged that the czech and german releases were too early in time... But nobody forces anybody to buy anything, and I think it is normal to expect problems with ANY software in their initial release. One could only compare the release of ArmA with the release of OFP, which was also a bit buggy (though how much I don't remember, my earliest copy of OFP is the Gold Edition - 1.20, not OFP 1.00), and taking into account that it's not any sort of "arcady game" like Half-Life or BF1942 or something of which you also expect to be instant hits from the moment they hit the stores - and none of these games was bug-free either - I think it is impossible for you to state that ArmA will never live up to its hype because I believe it will surpass its hype from BIS's side alone, not taking into account the mods and addons that will exist for it... and I'm not alone thinking along these lines.

On a more serious note, any dictator could develop tall mechs as crowd-control things, since they look awesome and fear-inspiring (nobody would like to get caught under a foot of one of those things, and the weaponry it would be carrying would be far-reaching into any crowd).

Right... in tests everybody has metal objects removed, even buttons and fly zippers etc... But if it were used on a real crowd... I bet both Russia and China will be very eagerly wanting something like that as well... I wonder how they didn't invent it first...

Well, GIMP is actually easy if you know a bit of PS beforehand, although it goes a little different, but 3d modelling is NOT easy... I tried my hand at Wings 3D until my gaming rig gave up on me a few months ago... From all the free programs it looked easy to me though I still haven't gotten around it very much... argh...

I guess the M113 will find a new use being host to a number of these panels - because that Humvee mounting looks a bit fragile to me...

Yeah, imagine using that in a Paintball game!!!

So "can" other aircraft. Provided you're speaking of missiles that do not rely on the aircraft's radar for guidance. Better to fire and forget than forgetting to fire, right? But it's true that the russians were of the first to implement directly rear-firing rails and missiles... P.S.: I think the major difference between the SU-34 and the Strike Eagle is that the SU-34 is going to be around for a longer time than the Strike Eagle, I think... P.P.S.: I don't know how the real SU-34's cockpit looks like, but in the pic of the ArmA version, it looked somewhat too empty... I think it could be more interesting than that... Then again, any SU-34 seems to be WIP...

The Nimitz would look too old-fashioned, last-century like... Do you know an old little jewel of a game called "Heavy Gear"? Now THAT had a bad-a$$ hover-carrier... May I present you, a model of the CNCS Vigilance! Edit: It's not mine and I didn't do it...

[OT Blazin, you're off-topic... Â /OT] Otester, a Nimitz with wheels would be exaggerating a bit, though I'd love having a sort of vessel that would float in the air and could deploy mechs...

Well, to tell the truth I don't know if that game uses voxels - the screen is crappy resolution because I think it's from the Playstation 2 version of the "Front Mission Online" game (of which also exists a version for Windows). I don't know if Voxels were used in the "Joint Operations" series from Novalogic, but I DO know that there was a mech game that used voxels, it was called "Shattered Steel", and it was great. As for this beauty presented, maybe, *crosses fingers*, just maybe we could be seeing it in ArmA, since the Front Mission universe is the one in which there exist the Wanzers and other mechs from the Front Mission Universe, brought to OFP by the great "Battle of Hokkaido" mod and addonmaker Ocrambass... So hopes are valid I guess...

Can't seem to access this link...

I'd still prefer this... Now THAT's what I call a Battlestation!!!

There are a lot more reasons besides money to start a war for... But I also believe that the U.S. would not be the ideal target of a chinese aggression... there are economically speaking juicier targets in China's neighbourhood... taking into account natural resources, that is... Â

I wonder if, besides planning to mod for ArmA, the BOH team is considering still to release something for OFP, since it still seems some time off before everybody will be able to fully enjoy ArmA, be it due to lack of a more world-wide release, need of patches, and non-availability of modding tools... I hope as well that further BOH releases will keep incorporating "Front Mission" hardware - I wonder even if there is cooperation in any way between Ocrambass and the BOH team?

How about posting the rest of the system specs? Also, did you try out using the official Ati drivers for the card?

I wonder how it will compare to ArmA's SU-34, but I bet Hudson & Pennywise will get it right...

That's why I thought that Russia would be a better target for all of China's military might - land warfare... Plus it makes economical sense, getting their hands on natural resources they need to live in 21st century standards, not just to build (military) hardware etc. And I would really wonder who'd win if the Dragon would descend on the Bear... And what the rest of the world would do.

XeLSiS, no matter how crappy the J10 may be, you can count on the fact that the chinese are able to churn out a whole more of them than any number of fielded F-22's could take out right now, I guess... @Balschoiw: I've missed out another angle that I've once read about in a Tom Clancy book called "The Bear and the Dragon" - China could be trying to go for Russia's natural resources, as it definitely faces an ever increasing need for oil, gas etc... Whatever is below the surfaces of Siberia I do not know, but China could go all out on Russia... now that WOULD be FUBAR...

Balschoiw, taking into account the planes the Chinese got their ideas from to make THAT plane, I must say they got to an UGLY mish-mash result...

Well, don't forget that the chinese are a patient people, and they've always opposed "western" support of Taiwan, so who knows, maybe they're really going to do something about it? Taking into account that U.S. military forces are fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq, with a possible situation coming up with Iran, if China ever wanted to strike at Taiwan and get away with it, there could soon not be a better timing...

While I must say that some things were made differently from OFP ( i.e. the infamous lack of inside views in vehicles, lag-inducing map view, amongst others), and some features remain to be implemented (walking on moving surfaces, partially destructible buildings, etc), I sure hope that ArmA will become in the future what everybody expects it to be... But with regards to eye-candy, if BIS won't do everything, I guess you can count on mods to bring it on as they have done for OFP in the past...

You've been seeing The Matrix Movie too many times... J/K I think we'll just be happy to have functional elevators of any kind in ArmA - but I don't think anybody will make a mod covering elevator simulation in THAT much detail...

I guarantee you that, 100%, and without a single script. And to everyone who thinks the elevator (or lift, whatever the hell you want to call it) in that video was scripted has no idea how to script, because there's no way that was scripted. Are you referring to Deanosbeano's video posted here on this thread, or are you referring to the initial test vid from BIS showing off a 100% functional elevator?

Is that an official portable-ladder addon? The kind of you can just put anywhere? Or did you make it for ArmA?