MaxxyB

I was the HUD/OSD UI artist from very early on - so a lot of the stuff in game is the stuff I designed, however in many cases the functionality that ended up in the game is not quite how I would have liked it to work. The keyboard controlled radial is not my cup of tea really, for example. As a HUGE OFP fan, I wanted a very hardcore and realistic PC centric game (I was worried about how the PC version would suffer otherwise). I would have preferred an interface tailored for PC and then a console one afterwards, but I guess that would cost more dev time :( I was looking into real AH1-Z helmet mounted topowl interface's and MFD's - basically I wanted to completely simulate stuff like that. But that wasn't really what they wanted and that's fair enough - it's their money and game I guess :) And I was just a grunt! I'm not ranting or anything, I enjoyed my years at CM and left on good terms - it's just not the game I would have wanted to make but like I said it's their money. Being diplomatic, I guess for the type of game they wanted to make, they have done a good enough job. I hope I'm not sounding like a disgruntled & jaded game dev! Not my intent, but I'm talking as an OFP and mil-sim fan and not a developer or corporate foot soldier. And I did jump in and defend CM about the 'trick video' allegation after all, so it's not all bad ;)

To be fair to CM, they didn't pass it off as ingame - that video was leaked out and of course many people thought it was actually ingame footage, but it's 2d animation. It was entirely meant for internal use only, so I could demonstrate my ideas for command UI etc - in fact I did it in my own time after work to show my vision of how the game should be like. Since it's been leaked out for ages and the game is now released, I didn't see any harm in allowing people to see it in proper HD)... I want to also point out that I never fully finished this but not long after I started making it, I resigned from CM for personal reasons :) So that was the end of that.