Ideas for 0.8 promotion

[Valtasar]

I agree with davetboy_19 here.
The vidio should focus on the teamwork and communication part of the game as thуy are the most important part of the game.

[Mora]

IMO since PR is trying to get as far away from the way people play BF2 have a video showing that. Show BF2 with all its players being smaktards, TK-ing, not listen to a thing the Comander or SL says and flying their Helis into walls or just doing the normal BF2 type things (being knob scoffs) then cut to PR and do some shots of a sniper team doing some impossibly good shot, then to a really good Black Hawk insertion into a 'Hot' area and other things like that, as well as anything that makes you think 'Teamwork' when you see it with every one communicating really well during the video.

Would make a good Promo video, plus it would attract people who want teamwork and communication in a game. Instead of bring some BF2 smacktards over who are in it for the better graphics/weapons.


EDIT - Just thought of a way to make fun of BF2 a little while promoting PR. Show a New player who just started after playing BF2, show him getting killed a lot either in any funny situation, have him complain/bitching about the fact the tactics he uses in BF2 aren't working. Make him sound like a complete idiot, then show the guy IRL getting up and walking out complaining about not being able to lone wolf or just the way we have teamwork or something like that (include a heap of puns about it) then zoom into the computer screen and show the PR screen

Agreed, First show some ordinary bad vbf2 gameplay & tactics (Spawncamping, bunnyhoppers,crashing choppers ect.) Then show the awesome PR gameplay, tactics and vehicles.

[=Romagnolo=]

Yeah, some shots showing the anoying BF2 gameplay and then "ARE YOU TIRED OF THIS SH!T ? SO YOUR PROBLEMS ARE GONE, MEET PROJECT REALITY" and then the video shows all the PR goodies.

[youm0nt]

Heh, that's pretty much done:
YouTube - Project Reality vs Battlefield 2
Of course, that was made back in January 2007.

[Cassius]

Well how about a rope winch for the larger helicopters so they can be used in jungle like maps where there arent many spots to land.

[[T]Terranova7]

Well how about a rope winch for the larger helicopters so they can be used in jungle like maps where there arent many spots to land.

Ugh your joking right? If it is, bad joke... if not, your completely off-topic and brining up a subject that is most dreaded on these forums...

Perhaps we can still keep the humor aspect in it... call it VBF2 players v.s PR players. Run it like a reality show, where VBF2 players attempt to use their l33t skills in "The Real World". It shows VBF2 players crashing their choppers, unleashing full auto spray and missing every bullet, a confused lone tanker, and a large squad attempting to parachute from a helicopter only to fall to their death.

[Cassius]

I admit iam not long on the forum. I would have to run a search to catch up on the topic. However it could be an extra model for use in a setting where there arent many spots for a black hawk or even little bird to land while in the other maps the current model is used just like the marines dont make use of it every time. I assume with the vanilla comment you are making reference to troops parachuting out of a black hawk.
What is the proper name of the thingy ? Rope wench in search only turned up my post. Is it fast rapple hook ?

[Cassius]

I don't think we should promote any more. We'll only invite more "You know whats" [Ie WuMz] to the mod... and gameplay will deteriorate from there.

Dont you worry to that sort of player PR doesnt Roxorz enough and they will go back to Vanilla for furious action and instant gratification.

[[T]Terranova7]

I admit iam not long on the forum. I would have to run a search to catch up on the topic. However it could be an extra model for use in a setting where there arent many spots for a black hawk or even little bird to land while in the other maps the current model is used just like the marines dont make use of it every time. I assume with the vanilla comment you are making reference to troops parachuting out of a black hawk.
What is the proper name of the thingy ? Rope wench in search only turned up my post. Is it fast rapple hook ?

Well to put it bluntly, "Fast Ropes" or "Sliding down a rope from the side of a helicopter" just isn't practically possible with the BF2 engine. You can use an unorthodox method to accomplish it but it's not very practical on a public server. Yeah, my vanilla comment was based on that. The second paragraph wasn't intended as a response to what you said, but rather a continuation on the discussion of the promo.

[Cassius]

Yah okay admin feel free to delete the comments on the fastrope dont want the o.8 suggestions thread locked because of that. If it takes real sweat to work it in the engine I suppose thats something else that can be worried about when all has been done and the developers are scratching their head with a "now what" face.

[Zimmer]

What we could have was this:

We put 64 us soldiers in kashan and have one guy stand on the second floor then he says well today we are going to attack this airport showing it on the screen with the minimap of kashan. Then the commander says that he has one good and one bad news the bad news is that a noob pilots had crashed both the AC-130 gunship and the A-10 so no Air support. The good news was that the noob pilots is dead. I have bad humor.

ANyway I think a humoristic style on some small clips can work seriously though Battlefield bad company looked like a bad game when I only saw the boring trailers when I looked at teh funny one I nearly bought bf bad company insead of mgs4. Just because of thoose funny momments of clips.

[HippoBirdy]

Here's how it should be promoted. Introduce a good squad, the members, their roles, their personalities. Then show them playing as a good squad. Promote PR on it's strong point: teamwork. The squad should attack, defend, and infiltrate enemy positions. They can occasionally be supported by armor and APC's, but focus on infantry combat.

PR should not be promoted for its cool weapons, or vehicles, or effects. PR is primarily a teamwork mod.

Suggestion for members: a Squad leader, a medic, a rifleman, an AT/engineer, a marksman, and a SAW gunner.

[Bringerof_D]

Id like to see something like the US Army all picking up kitbags that have been requested in a big 'pile', then loading up on choppers and/or all piling in to the huge static cargo plane. Drive a few humvees into the cargo plane as well, start up some jets, and fade to black saying "Reinforcements have arrived" or something similar...

thats a good one

i was thinkin that too have(camera outside of plane) a bunch of troops slowly, heads down, filing into the back of a large transport plane, humvees/landrovers rolling on (camera from inside looking out of plane

"Lets get this thing in the air."

words flash across black screen "this is war, this is reality"

Troops patroling out in the desert. dust blowing past them

PROJECT REALITY

faint voice "We brothers in arms, we who shed our blood for our nations, may god protect us all"

field of destroyed vehichles and bodies

[Alex6714]

And CAS procedures! Actual people lasing targets and having helis pop up from mountains or jets come down!

[General Dragosh]

Dont mention GOD, he has nothing to do with PR, he is an idiot for not giving us the source code...

[Mora]

Comments like these ^ are just stupit...

[G.Drew]

personally, i want to see a trailer involving stuff that u can actually do in PR, old and new, basically showing off PR to the ones who are yet to be 'educated' with PR

overall i think we should look back to the 0.5 trailer, and see what made that so dam good!