No smoking please

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Sadist_Cain
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No smoking please

Post by Sadist_Cain »

Currently when you put a marker down (move, attack defend etc.) you get a nice viewpoint on the screen and some billowing smoke for where you have to go.
How about no range marker and no smoke showing where you must go, just the waypoint on your GPS. Unless you have the gold edition I dont think the garmin does laser range finding anf targetted smoke dispensing :D

If perhaps the sniper kit gets given the soflam so he can get his own range (people often use move markers to give sharpshooters a range)

Like I say in my other thread here https://www.realitymod.com/forum/friend ... post544080

things like this can make a HUGE difference in PR simply by not knowing exactly wheere your friends are will make the battlefield hugely more realistic.
Movement will need to be coordinated by the SL because he wont know exactly where all his men are. Vehicle extractions will need to be conducted properly because now you wouldnt be able to so easily see everyone that's on the map and the pinpoint location of every vehicle.

I guess I'm just after the coolness of when Im skirting the trees in OGT and I see the green smoke coming from a gap (not yellow or purple, but greeeen :P ) and I hover over and theres the whole squad, awaiting evac.
At the moment weve got yellow smoke thats invisible to the enemy, I'll land the sl will get in and Ill wait while half the squad jogs over the map to me, because we dont need to work with the team because we can see where everything is and decide ourselves.
Remove the smoke and the friendly position markers. Chopper comes in for extraction, good players and eager n00bs all climb aboard and get in. Uber cool smacktard gets left behind because he dosnt know where we all went while he was ramboing, deep satisfaction as he satisfies his CS urges on a jungle jog :P
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Post by darkNight »

But I love that smoke ... :sad:
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Post by AnRK »

Yeah I agree with you, never really thought about it before though for some reason. At the least get rid of the smoke grenade markers I'd say.
Sadist_Cain
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Post by Sadist_Cain »

I know, its very unnoticed. I only realised when I put a move marker for apc extraction, and chucked out the green smoke and everyone said "wtf are you doing?" and then I thought ohhh, my oompa loompas put my smoke down for me :D
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Post by Jaymz »

maybe, just maybe, it was removed a long time ago in 0.7 development....
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Post by Morgan »

^ i love devs like you :D
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Post by Spec »

[R-DEV]Jaymz wrote:maybe, just maybe, it was removed a long time ago in 0.7 development....
*cries*

You dev's are so mean T.T

But maybe, just maybe that sounds good.
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Post by Sadist_Cain »

[R-DEV]Jaymz wrote:maybe, just maybe, it was removed a long time ago in 0.7 development....
Our brains lag so far behind yours... :D
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Post by Doom721 »

I really do like as how PR progresses in versions that we notice nit-picky things like when placing defense or attack markers on locations that annoying smoke blocking your LOS.

MAYBE it was removed says Jay... so maybe we will be happy in .7 :mrgreen:
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Sadist_Cain
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Post by Sadist_Cain »

MAYBE there's no minimap whatsoever :P (thatd be great)
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Post by Jaymz »

don't give me ANY credit,

I'm just keeping everyone happy while other devs do all the work :p
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Post by Teek »

IRL you can point to things, in game you need attack markers.
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Post by Jaymz »

he means just get rid of the smoke from them, which is what has been done already. Months ago IIRC.
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Post by agentscar »

Yea,that smoke is like from an objective marker like a smoke or something.Wait...It is an objective marker!
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Post by Sadist_Cain »

[R-DEV]Jaymz wrote:he means just get rid of the smoke from them, which is what has been done already. Months ago IIRC.
You make me feel so far behind I should be wearing Tweed :lol:
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Post by epoch »

Sadist_Cain wrote:You make me feel so far behind I should be wearing Tweed :lol:
You'd probably suit it too .........


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Post by Eddiereyes909 »

[R-DEV]Jaymz wrote:don't give me ANY credit,

I'm just keeping everyone happy while other devs do all the work :p
but your so awesome for telling us, can we buy you a pizza ? :lol:
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Post by Sadist_Cain »

cheese filled crust and everything you want :D ... so more about 0.7?
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Post by Jaymz »

Sadist_Cain wrote:cheese filled crust and everything you want :D ... so more about 0.7?
NO!, no leaking. I only said that so the OP knows it's been implemented. No harm in saying it because it's just a small change that makes sense.

That said, pizza please! Someone PM me :p
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