needs more FIRE

fludblud · Post by **fludblud** » 2008-04-05 04:50

vehicle destruction in BF2 and PR is far too boring, it just goes BOOM and suddenly turns into a smouldering wreck.

as the videos show this isnt the case, maybe it is possible to have the vehicle when hit by a missle to stay intact with some degree of control (depending on what hits it) but gradually get consumed by flames before climaxing by a huge firey explosion.

i dont know how hard this will be to do but i guess that for the burning bit, just adding a ton of fire decals will do the trick for starters
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd9-1NRpcSE[/youtube]

GR34 · Post by **GR34** » 2008-04-05 05:14

Would be awesome to see the tanks and planes go up like that

charliegrs · Post by **charliegrs** » 2008-04-05 05:49

i agree, perhaps you could have secondary explosions too? and let it burn for a long time, just have it burn and smoke until it respawns. that way it wont leave any extra litter on the battlefield to make the game lag.

Expendable Grunt · Post by **Expendable Grunt** » 2008-04-05 07:44

That first one was...beautiful...BUT, we cannot have that, I'd bet :/

Sundance Kid · Post by **Sundance Kid** » 2008-04-05 09:04

i agree...to be honest the explosions when a tank or a plane gets shot or gets hit by a missile in PR are kinda lame :S .And i think its not hard to add some extra smoke and flames in it..prove me wrong

Sundance Kid · Post by **Sundance Kid** » 2008-04-05 09:07

oops double post..sry

Cyrax-Sektor · Post by **Cyrax-Sektor** » 2008-04-05 15:06

Currently, some remains burn lightly, but an all out fireworks show would own!

UndeadComrade · Post by **UndeadComrade** » 2008-04-05 18:32

HAHAHAHAHA AT THE END OF THE 3rd one (sry for caps) they start yelling ALLAH AKABA repeditly after the heli gets hit

space · Post by **space** » 2008-04-05 21:03

A few nights ago I was driving a challenger that took out an APC on Al Kufra. After it blew up it kind of carried on in a semi circle still smoking before coming to a stop. Gunner saw it too. Is this APC designed to do this or was it somekind of bug?

darkNight · Post by **darkNight** » 2008-04-05 21:32

Yep. The PR explosions and fire effects are really lame... We need more smoke and fire! This guy is right! An aircraft doesn't just transform into a wreck after getting shot... there has to be more fire, smoke and the jet should fly a bit longer and crash after some time. Warning signals and alarm sounds inside a jet/chopper which let you know if you got hit would be really awesome too! So you have time to eject etc.

Just turning into a wreck without any effects is really unrealistic and boring.. also some other effects haven't been changed until now. They are still vanilla-like. For example a HMMWV doesn't just explode after getting hit by some small arms.

And yeah.. wrecks should burn and smoke much more than they do right now..

Thanks for reading.
I hope the DEVs will take this to heart as far as it is possible to change those effects. If not, apologize!

Mora · Post by **Mora** » 2008-04-05 21:43

kinda every he said ^

Game play is one but the eye wants something too and it gets you more in the feeling.

snotmaster0 · Post by **snotmaster0** » 2008-04-06 01:01

Couldn't they just have some Molotov cocktails spawn around/on the vehicle when it's hit. I'd really like to see something like in FH2 where there is a column of smoke coming up afterwards! Imagine going into AL Basra seeing all of the smoke from destroyed apcs (really increase the pucker factor).

Dragonfire43560 · Post by **Dragonfire43560** » 2008-04-06 01:12

This is desperatly needed IMO, possibly the most appealing comsmetic change you guys can do.

Waaah_Wah · Post by **Waaah_Wah** » 2008-04-06 01:17

UndeadComrade wrote:HAHAHAHAHA AT THE END OF THE 3rd one (sry for caps) they start yelling ALLAH AKABA repeditly after the heli gets hit