It's Coming Right For Us!!!!!

Solitas · Post by **Solitas** » 2006-04-21 20:45

Ok, so I've been reading through the Statics thread with interest (and hope), and it got me thinking. People are suggesting all kinds of buildings, objects, vehicles, that should be exclusive to maps, so what about local Flora and Fauna?

Now obviously the engine has limits, both in terms of hardware limitations and server load.
Now flora is pretty much covered in terms of being featured, it has to be in order to make the maps. However, why not make the flora semi-destructible?
Now I'm not saying when an explosion goes off trees and bushes should fly everywhere (even though I'd love ot see that), but why not have wood chips, leaves, dirt fly everywhere and to an extent pieces of the tree like a branch?

As for fauna, birds feature on several maps, but they always nest in the same place and only move if disturbed (like a natural alarm for someone on defence). Whilst no other animal (to the bets of my knowledge) appears in the game.
So why not introduce more varying types of animals and actually give them some mobility so their not just for show i.e. in other words have hostile animals, crocodiles (some maps are begging for them like songhua stalemate), vultures (seemes fitting for a war game), tigers (pftt their everywhere just throw them in), etc.

Imagine the scene, you've escaped a firefight in a boat and have wounded, suddenly a croc appears and poses a threat do you open fire and risk giving away your position? or do you try and escape?
Or a guard is in the way but he doesn't know your there, you fire at a flock of birds to distract him and take the flag his supposed ot be watching.
Or your driving down a dirt road, a deer appears in the road! Do you swerve and hit a tree or hit and put up with having to turn the windscreen wipers on?

Anyway love to hear opinions, I know it's very much a dream but I think it'll be nice ot hear peoples thoughts none-the-less.

-Solitas

trogdor1289 · Post by **trogdor1289** » 2006-04-21 20:54

That would be so awesome local threats such as snakes, crocs and the like.

six7 · Post by **six7** » 2006-04-21 21:20

grenades need to kick up more debris.

Tony238 · Post by **Tony238** » 2006-04-21 23:01

I have a friend whose dad was playing the original ghost recon. as he was hoing through a field full of water he was suddenly dragged across tha map and out of bounds and then it said he had been killed by a snake. I lol for hours when I heard about that.

[T]Terranova7 · Post by **[T]Terranova7** » 2006-04-21 23:25

Chances are in a warzone animal life will try to avoid it (lound sounds may tend to scare off animals). Not to mention I don't want my health suddenly dropping because a scorpian stung me while I wasn't looking. Then again this is a matter of personal preference to me. I just couldn't bear the thought of having a bunch of venomous snakes around the map.

Pence · Post by **Pence** » 2006-04-22 00:43

Terranova wrote:Chances are in a warzone animal life will try to avoid it (lound sounds may tend to scare off animals).

The only way to scare off a Lion when you are unarmed and alone is make yourself look big and make loud noises, because you cant practice this in PR and so you must run round.

Post by **AiRfOrCe** » 2006-04-22 00:49

lmao I would just grab my rifle and go hunting for the entire round rofl.

Solitas · Post by **Solitas** » 2006-04-22 01:42

'[R-DEV wrote:AiRfOrCe']lmao I would just grab my rifle and go hunting for the entire round rofl.

Hence the thread title

Good 'ole Jimbo

trogdor1289 · Post by **trogdor1289** » 2006-04-22 02:23

Hey pence whats with the sig's recently. Also it would be great to have a complety random safari map all grassland and you can hunt boar from a little bird ala BHD.