depends on how real you want the game to feel but.

[[PTG]Chef_uk]

How about adding something like random suicide attacks. On city maps when the US/Brits move deeper in to enemy terrirtory, have random explosions going off that could possibly kill anyone in the vacinity, say a shop window or a car.

Troops have to live with that possibility every day over there so it was just an idea.

[Cheeseman]

What does this idea have to do anything with "suicide attacks". A suicide attack is when someone commits a suicidal act in which he has intended to also harm others in the process.
By the way this is "PROJECT REALITY", not Project Arnold Schwarzenegger movies.

Somewhat original idea though.

[DrMcCleod]

Chef_uk']How about adding something like random suicide attacks. On city maps when the US/Brits move deeper in to enemy terrirtory, have random explosions going off that could possibly kill anyone in the vacinity, say a shop window or a car.

Troops have to live with that possibility every day over there so it was just an idea.

IRL, things tend not to explode randomly, but because some human agency is involved. If you want to do this in-game, hide some C4 in a bush.

[IronTaxi]

good tension maker.... how can it be applied to the play enviornment though....hmmm...

[BlakeJr]

IronTaxi']good tension maker.... how can it be applied to the play enviornment though....hmmm...

Like McCleod said above; Hide some C4 in the bushes and wait til some unsuspecting schmuck walks by. Preferrably more than one as it would be a waste of a good C4 charge to get only one enemy soldier.

Just a thought.

[Soulja]

Explosions ramdomly going off near troopswouldnt be that bad, would help simulate IED attacks and stuff w/o the insurgents doing it.

[DrMcCleod]

Its not suicide attacks, but I know a few other games that do this with artillery to great effect. I remember it specifically happening in Red Orchestra (I think its the Stanlingrad map). Sometimes a random arty strike will whack you outta nowhere. =)

How is that anything but annoying?

[Soulja]

You know he has a point about the arty, the insurgents we're fighting today couldn't hit a bulls *** with a handful of rice. I've heard my brother talk about they will sometimes hit themselves with mortar rounds because they have trouble aiming them. So random arty would be kinda realistic. lol

[[PTG]Chef_uk]

Explosions ramdomly going off near troopswouldnt be that bad, would help simulate IED attacks and stuff w/o the insurgents doing it.

I meant IED attacks when i said suicide attacks

But yea you get the idea. I'm not interested in how it would be coded in be it C4, or the effects of the arty hitting the ground rather than the visual and audio effects of arty, maybe even another way. As long as the end result is some form of explosion that occurs at random times say twice per map on city maps, once on the open air maps etc and can hurt both teams in the vicinity of where the IED attack occurs.

This would then add the unseen enemy factor troops face.

[Cheeseman]

I kinda get your idea now. Random IED attacks .
It’s not a bad idea, maybe some areas of the map they could have this "IED attacks". It could simulate a high risk area of the city or something. They could even have markings on the US map to remind troops to move with caution at those areas, but it can also be an important root so people at some point would actually need to pass through it instead of just ignoring it.

[[PTG]Chef_uk]

Yup you got it

Nice expanding on the idea aswell

[wasserfaller]

Explosions ramdomly going off near troopswouldnt be that bad, would help simulate IED attacks and stuff w/o the insurgents doing it.

if they did this, the explosions would have to be in fixed positions because there is no randomization code in BF2, so people would eventually figure out the general areas of the strikes and they would avoid the area.

neat concept though, just doesn't seem too doable.

[SevenOfDiamonds]

Really cool idea. I don't know about having maps telling where they would explode. They should be totaly random, but definitly not frequent. This would keep people from bunching up and maybe even get people on both sides of the street/alley/etc.


and i don't think its doable either, but its still cool to imagine.

[ryan d ale]

Good idea. Obviously random/timed intervals maybe 7-8 mins but yeah it would be good. No doubt some insurgents would be hurt too because sunni/shiite militias so it has a fair effect and it isn't one sided.

[Cerberus]

IronTaxi']good tension maker.... how can it be applied to the play enviornment though....hmmm...

Random mortar shells dropping from insurgents?

[Soulja]

Bump, cus i really like this idea, why did topic die?

[Desertfox]

IronTaxi']good tension maker.... how can it be applied to the play enviornment though....hmmm...

Have a explosion at a spot. Have some random timer so it may blow every say 3 minutes and 32 seconds but the next one may blow 5 minutes and 10 seconds later or 1 minutes and 12 seconds.

[Doedel]

Supply crate drifting is random, right? Perhaps it could spawn the explosives in the air (invisibly) that will float down randomly over a particular area/street. That way the most people can do is figure out that this particular block is prone to IEDs, but never know where and when exactly it will hit.