Airborne options?

Nanashi · Post by **Nanashi** » 2005-10-18 01:52

Yeah, but I don't think the BF2 engine supports any sort of AI what so ever. I don't really call BF2s bots AI because they’re so incredibly simple minded.

I would be partially offended if the team made up some sort of marines airborne. That would be one step forward and two steps back in the pursuit of realism. I do not believe the USMC should be taken out, for the love of god no, there a very effective ground force, but I don't think a little recognition for other branches, and proper structure is too much to ask. I would suggest changing the team name from USMC to US Military or USA. I hope you can make another tab for more classes though, It would rock to have several more classes. ^_^

PHILYBLUNT201 · Post by **PHILYBLUNT201** » 2005-10-18 01:55

Nanashi wrote:Yeah, but I don't think the BF2 engine supports any sort of AI what so ever. I don't really call BF2s bots AI because they’re so incredibly simple minded.

I would be partially offended if the team made up some sort of marines airborne. That would be one step forward and two steps back in the pursuit of realism. I do not believe the USMC should be taken out, for the love of god no, there a very effective ground force, but I don't think a little recognition for other branches, and proper structure is too much to ask. I would suggest changing the team name from USMC to US Military or USA. I hope you can make another tab for more classes though, It would rock to have several more classes. ^_^

TIss true .. even though i love my USMC .. i think there should be some recognition for other branches .. bassically usmc and army i guess are the biggest factors of this game ..

Jantteri · Post by **Jantteri** » 2005-10-18 11:46

And how often para drops are made when there are known enemies nearby?

I thought so.

How about if we could only respawn in the base spawn point and nowhere else.
At least the reinforcements would arrive in a more realistic manner, rather than one by one...

Nanashi · Post by **Nanashi** » 2005-10-18 17:30

It may be easy to say all you have to do is give it a string of XYZ factors, and its all good, but you have to keep in mind that esentialy, the team cannot actualy ADD somthing to the game. Sure you can mess with some numbers, add new models, sounds and animations, but as far as I know, there is no sourcecode for programers to compile. This means that everything has limits. In order to make the plane fly around on its own, they have to come up with some sort of trick (like setting its orgin at the center of the map, and giving it an animation that slowly goes in a curcle, but then the attachment points and everything can get thrown off) or they would have to use an existing feture in the game. As far as I know, there are no vehicles tha follow any sort of path in the current BF2.

Post by **BrokenArrow** » 2005-10-18 18:50

the US side doesnt have to be named US military or simply USA. it can represent different branches for different maps with different vehicles, weapons etc. just takes more modeling and skinning and more work in general. you can have the Airborne in some maps then the Marines in others and if we get really picky (and the devs havnt dropped dead of exhaustion by then) we could even get down to specific units. throw in a Navy SEALs map, a USMC First Recon map etc etc.

Mad Max · Post by **Mad Max** » 2005-10-18 23:32

Having a moving cargo plane would be possible (well.. spawning into it). Think of how you can spawn into a vehicle your squad leader is in when it's moving? It could use that system but there just needs to be a way of actually making it go on a loop thats controled by the computer and not a player. Maybe it could be a commanders toy? "Reinforcements by air here", then it could fly over the map, or maybe have say 3 that last for a min or so to people can spawn into it then jump?

DAWG · Post by **DAWG** » 2005-10-18 23:50

They did this in PoE for BF:V, I don't imagine it would be so difficult for the PR Devs, they seem to know what they're doing. You just need to code the object to move in a set pattern, the Spawn point is attached to the object and acts like a squad leader being in a vehicle.

PHILYBLUNT201 · Post by **PHILYBLUNT201** » 2005-10-19 00:46

BrokenArrow wrote:the US side doesnt have to be named US military or simply USA. it can represent different branches for different maps with different vehicles, weapons etc. just takes more modeling and skinning and more work in general. you can have the Airborne in some maps then the Marines in others and if we get really picky (and the devs havnt dropped dead of exhaustion by then) we could even get down to specific units. throw in a Navy SEALs map, a USMC First Recon map etc etc.

COugh* FORCE RECON >>> lol..

Post by **BrokenArrow** » 2005-10-19 00:50

i was referring to the first recon battalion, first unit that came to mind.

PHILYBLUNT201 · Post by **PHILYBLUNT201** » 2005-10-19 01:01

BrokenArrow wrote:i was referring to the first recon battalion, first unit that came to mind.

ohhh i c ... i thought u were talking about marines SF ..

Post by **BrokenArrow** » 2005-10-19 01:04

well they are recon marines so theyre up there on the ladder.

PHILYBLUNT201 · Post by **PHILYBLUNT201** » 2005-10-19 01:09

BrokenArrow wrote:well they are recon marines so theyre up there on the ladder.

U know im not even too sure .. i sort of think <not too sure> that FOrce recon and battalion recon are a different type of thing then regular recon imm not sure somebody could correct me if im wrong .. ive always been ify about the info that i know on force recon since there such a type of black ops SF .. meaning they dont have video games about them .. lol..

Airborne options?

I thought this was about reality