Just a few Suggestions...

[Uoy Dellik]

I have a few suggestions I'd like to throw around and see if I could get some approval or disapproval and a gauge on whether or not the community would like it. Of course, all my ideas would need tweaking, and I'm not even sure some of them can be done, so responses would be useful.

1. Airstrike beacons: Commander can place a beacon for an airstrike, (anywhere on the map) that can be seen by all players on the map. As it is now, commanders can communicate to squad leaders and give them destroy orders to take out targets while there in a plane. While this is all good for coordination and teamwork, it is quite annoying when you have your squad leader flying around in a plane, or if your the commander, having pilots that you cannot communicate with.
When the beacon is placed, it would come up on the map (like the artillery icon) and (to help coordinate the airstrike) a colored smoke beacon would appear above where the airstrike would be located (kind of like the Return to Castle Wolfenstein Artillery strike beacon). Artillery, as it is right now, is completely useless in taking out tanks, and this mode would give forces on the ground the small chance to move out of the way before an airstrike would come in. The commander would not have to wait for a squad leader to request it, and the beacon would last for only 30 seconds or so with a 2 minute recharge time.

2. Artillery: If you leave Artillery in, however, make atleast one of the artillery shells (doesn't matter which one) actually land on the spot the squad leader desiganted. This way, Artillery would actually pose a threat to tanks, and be used more on them because they would actually do something.

3. M-16: Give it a full auto option, as it is right now it just sucks. (if thats too unrealstic for you guys my bad, just that every other guns has a full auto mode)

4. Grenades: make the primary fire a quick short lob toss, used for killing units at a short range around corners. Secondary fire would be the charge up toss, causing you to throw a far range, at a sacrifice of speed of throwing.

5. Swimming: Make it so that any class (wearing body armor) cannot swim in water. Whatever it is you make them do, like they cant move or die, just make it so they cant swim. Although you would have to redesign a few of the maps (by adding rope bridges or more boats)this would help create chokepoints and value the classes of combat engineer and spec ops for what they truely are. This way, on maps like operation ghost train, soldiers would try and fight across the bridge, or atleast use a boat to get across and fight over the rope bridge. Special forces classes could then sneak behind enemy lines (because everyone is fighting over the bridges) and destroy enemy targets. Also, combat engineers would be needed to repair and destroy bridges to help team movement, and limit the enemies. (its not realistic for a soldier with a 50 lb body amor and another 40lbs of equipment to be able to swim, while a soldier without body armor and a carbine would)

6. Vehicle hiding: Just one last thing, there needs to be more spots to hide spawn cars under in maps like Al-Basrah. if the other team has a commander, all of those cars will be destroyed by the a-10 before the insurgents can do anything. You need to get rid of those invisible walls under buildings (where you can walk under those balcony things) so we can hide cars down there.

Thanks for reading, if you dont understand just ask for clarification, i will try and respond to some of your suggestions. And admins if you like my ideas why not try em out?

[carld2002]

1) Maybe not a beacon but maybe a vector for future guided bombs/missiles

2) Reality mod

3) Reality mod

4) Good idea but most likely can't be done

5) um... you are defenceless in the water, and slow too anyways and adding something like that would be unrealistic(most people can swim)

[eddie]

Most people can't swim with 60~80 pounds of weight
You don't need to worry about point 6 for Al Basrah

[Uoy Dellik]

In response to post #2

2. Well In a reality mod one of the artillery shells would actuallly hit its target... beleive it or not, artillery is pretty accurate these days.

3. I know the real m-16 might not have a full auto mode, but c'mon its a game, and for the sake of balance give it a full auto mode.

5. Well can you swim with 50 pounds on your back across a river? Let alone 90 lbs?

[carld2002]

2) I know exactly how accurate artillery is these days.

3)HAHA

5) I had only replied to a part of #5... you are arguing the part that I didn't even comment on.

[Blackhawk 5]

3. They only used full auto M16 in Nam Which was the 1st earlierst version. The one in game is the A2 or A4 whatever does not have full auto. Watching too much movies?

5. http://realitymod.com/forum/showthread. ... t=swimming

6. lol, insurgetn light cars in real life would blend in with the city since its non marked civilian (except the pickup techinal and semi with a 500lb bomb on back )

[Army Musician]

I was talking to an american guy, at an English Civil War display at Caldicot Castle. This american who was part of the Display, was in the USAF, and we talking about modern warfare and the M16 and he did say the M16 has single shot, 3 round burst and full auto. I know that DCon have an M16 with all 3 modes. I aint American and I think if their are any US Army guys here you will probably, correct me.

[youm0nt]

How about in a river or ocean, the map makers put down barbed wire in the ocean, river, etc to simulate the player is drowning... Sounds odd enough right? Well, FH mod for BF1942 did this method to prevent players swimming across cold water on the winter maps but these are two different situtations...

[Uoy Dellik]

Honestly, this is a game, not real life. I know reality helped make the game what it is today, and i'm sure that a real artillery barrage could take out a tank, even if they werent spot on.

If the engine is limited so that you can't specify who swims, i still think it be cooler if nobody swam at all, so the barbed wire idea is a good one.

[Mongolian_dude]

Im affraid Dellick, ALL of these points have been suggested at least once already, which under server proceedure means that this thread is now locked.
Please use the search funtion to see if if has already been suggested.


...mongol...

[Blackhawk 5]

IB4L! i guess?

[El_Vikingo]

Mongolian_dude']Im affraid Dellick, ALL of these points have been suggested at least once already, which under server proceedure means that this thread is now locked.
Please use the search funtion to see if if has already been suggested.


...mongol...

you forgot to lock?

In be 4 da loCk!

[Expendable Grunt]

ibtl

[Raniak]

Yay, I got a chance to use this picture !

[ub3rxn00b]

Mongol is lock-obsessed. I swear, this guy is trying to break some kind of record.

[El_Vikingo]

^^^^ He's doing his job....adminning

If he weren't we'd be up to our necks in:

-Sh*tty suggestions,
-Vanilla suggestions.
-Already suggested suggestions (say that fast over and over).
-these three above.

[daranz]

WEeeeee.

Sorry, had to do it.

[Mongolian_dude]

What the?!!?!!?
I did lock it!
Its the second one tonight which didnt lock. hmph!

Yeah, it may look like im trying to break a record, but im really breaking my keyboard! It looks like any joe smutten with half a brain relises that something is not 100% accurate with the mod, therefore he has to tell the world about it.....This keeps happeneing and happening and happening.
Also, i think we are comming to the point where its going to be hard to add any new ideas to the game as i think everyones pretty much suggested everything.

Case closed

...mongol...