Gumpy

It's not so much how effective it is as the option being available. I know I shot whilst running plenty of times in OFP, and there was nearly no point to doing that - though I did get a kill every so often. Bollocks. We're still playing ArmA. Also, those people would be put down instanty like the trigger-happy killjoys they are. :D This. The amount of times I've come into contact with a soldier, clicked wildly and had to wait for the animations to go through about two or three steps before I was able to shoot. That 1 second of pause is the thing that ruins you. And in ye old OFP I tended to just strafe and fire wildly in such encounters, which had the desired effect. Galzohars' splurge in the first page of the thread sums it up. It's not something you'd do often (people thinking this would turn the game into CoD, please :j:), and in real combat situations there's a bit of a 'safety net' of other activities, but it does happen. It's there to suppress. There are still bullets flying at you, and one of them might hit. If I'm ever pinned and I need to break cover and run, I'm always hungry for the option to take a shot here and there, but I've got to wait through "step one, step two, step three" before I can aim and shoot. It's annoying and makes one feel they're forced into a certain tactic/set of movements. *scratches head* um, yeah. Yeah I guess I probably would. I disagree, but if I tried to explain my view it would probably take this thread off on a wild tangent and I'd get flamed for not being a member of the elite or something. Simply put - well, how can I put this. If a game seeks to be nothing but an ad-hoc representation of 'RL' it ends up being mercilessly governed and constricted, and usually boring because of it. Giving a little leeway here and there on tiny gameplay mechanics such as the topic doesn't make it unrealistic, it just makes it a bit more playable. Also, thank you Cheeba, for your incredibly valuable contribution to the thread. Could we put a stop to the "if this, then why not this!" non-sequiturs, please? They're retarded and childish, and anyone knows they're both a poor way to argue and usually a misinterpretation of the argument anyway. Haven't you people graduated high school? edit: to clarify: This is the kind of thing I'm talking about. It's not like implementing it would make some overwhelming change to the game and turn it into "Battlefield!!!!112", it's just another little option that smoothes the gears and can be used every so often. I'd bet if it were in A1 and A2, in a similar manner to OFP, none of you would make a sound unless it was brought up and you had to think about it.