Project Reality Highlights Reel #6

[2Slick4U]

Hello and welcome to the second Project Reality Highlights Reel of 2010! After a fairly long break with the PR v0.9 and PR v0.91 patch releases, the pace has picked up again and we are excited to be able to show you some of the new goodies awaiting you in the not-so-distant Project Reality release. Let us skip all the boring chit-chat and dive right into the new highlights!

- Close Support Bridges
As a new addition to the deployable arsenal of conventional factions, these mobile bridges will help your team to stay on the move and take a different approach to the objective.
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- Panther CLV
The Panther Command and Liaison Vehicle or Panther CLV is the United Kingdom Armed Forces variant of the Iveco LMV, a four-wheel drive tactical vehicle. The deal is sealed with a Remote Weapon System.
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- Mil Mi-8 'hip' / Mi-17
In our continued efforts to phase out all vanilla Battlefield 2 models, the Russians receive a brand new transport helicopter, the Mi-8. In addition, they can rely on close air support from the powerful Mi-17 (Mi-8MT), which can carry up to 80 unguided rockets.
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- Other Featured Highlights

• Vehicle: IDF Namer APC
• Weapon: Mortars
• Map: Jormdarreh Range
• Vehicle: Zhi-9 and Panther series of helicopters
• Weapon: Zeiss Z-Point Reflex Sight
• Misc: Some recent alpha screenshots of 3D scopes
• Weapon: Leupold Mark 4 LR/T
• Misc: NOR Mossberg 590, M82A1

That's not all by far, so feel free to browse both The PR Highlights Forum and The Dev Blogs for even more sneak peeks on assets and features that are currently being developed!

See you on the battlefield!


- The Project Reality Team

[Rico]

Looking great guys. Quick Q - whatever happened to the Up Armoured Humvee that was pretty much done?

[XxxGrANdmA]

I really hope people don't complain about the number of rockets the mi8 has and get it nerfed. Everything looks great! Especially excited for the deployable bridges

[Rhino]

Looking great guys. Quick Q - whatever happened to the Up Armoured Humvee that was pretty much done?

Up Armoured Hummer is kinda low priority (since its really just an addition to something we already have) but its being worked on slowly. Pride is working on the Texture at the moment but he also has his Exams coming up and is also working on some stuff that is a little more important.

PS. Love the sig Rico. I couldn't help just wathcing it over and over again laughing my *** off

[Many]

This is awesome

[havoc1482]

I really hope people don't complain about the number of rockets the mi8 has and get it nerfed.

Its probably balanced. Its a bigger helicopter so it will most likely be less maneuverable than other helis with rockets (ex. Little Bird)

[bad_nade]

Thanks! I had actually missed couple of those, weird

Any news on PR:ARMA?

[andy1123]

pretty as usual <3

[Dougalachi]

looks interesting.

[Ghost Wolfe]

sweetness

[Snazz]

Its probably balanced. Its a bigger helicopter so it will most likely be less maneuverable than other helis with rockets (ex. Little Bird)

As well as being a large and easy target.

[Wakain]

not-so-distant Project Reality release

sounds good to me!
I do remember some model highlights on the m14 EBR and a new dragunov with bipod from before the 0.9 release, never heard anything about those anymore, are they still in development or are they rated low-priority?

[Kaurava]

sounds good to me!
I do remember some model highlights on the m14 EBR and a new dragunov with bipod from before the 0.9 release, never heard anything about those anymore, are they still in development or are they rated low-priority?

Would like to hear about these as well.
That new russian sniper rifle too.

Great stuff anyways.

[boilerrat]

*Excited face*

[Burton]

The Panther looks amazing - PRAA will do it much more justice than BF2 though I think

The CSB's - why not just butcher a CR2 model and take the turret off and whack the bridge model on top instead of having it come from inside a logi truck???

[Snazz]

The CSB's - why not just butcher a CR2 model and take the turret off and whack the bridge model on top instead of having it come from inside a logi truck???

Rhino explained why in his highlight thread.

Ingame we are not have any of these specialized vehicles for quite a simple reason, we do not have enough players ingame to crew bridge launching vehicles with also carrying out all the other tasks required ingame already. As such we have simplified it by giving the task of carrying and deploying these CSBs to the logistics trucks since they are pretty close to a Tank Bridge Transporter, other than you cant see a huge section of bridge on the back of them and it gives the Logistics truck anouther useful role ingame to encourage players to play that role more.

[Rhino]

Thank you Snazz, but Burton I suggest you read that topic because it explains it in more detail since a TBT (Tank Bridge Transporter) is basically a truck that can carry CSBs which I mention in that quote the logi truck isn't too far off.

It also wouldn't be just a matter of "butchering" a Challenger 2 if we did go down that rout. We might be able to get away with having every faction using the same type of CSB even thou in r/l pretty much each faction has there own unique one, but we certianlly wouldn't be able to get away with having the Chinese deploying bridges with a Challenger 2 and we would have to make a AVLB (Armoured Vehicle Launched Bridge) for every single faction which would be a huge amount of work and then for what, to have a bunch of players taken away from the front line to deploy bridges in a vehicle that will only be used a few times in a round for that job?

With using the logistics truck we not only encourage people to use them more to ferry supplies about the battlefield but when they are not doing that, they can also deploy bridges.

[Sgt.Heine]

I cant wait for the new M16A4 foregrips and 3D sights.

[Dev1200]

I've already seen all this stuff! Where's the new stuff

[kaufman_23]

verry nice