3.0 suggestion compilation

[Learner-=Of-God=-]

Here's what I would like to see in 3.0. This is my compilation of what I see people wanting and what I think would be awesome.
1. Drawing on the Sai for battle plans.
Alpha Team = Yellow
Bravo Team = Blue
Charlie Team = Red
Delta Team = Green
Entire Squad = White
Only Squad Leader = Orange

2. Character customization
Race
Left hand/Right hand
Male/Female
Skin/hair color
A couple of static faces

3. Bipod usage on windows/vehicles

4. Old stats "linking" (get a little badge (or some other recognition) for all the training in AA v2.0+, so that all your time is not completely wasted.

5. Window/Glass door smashing with rifle butts. (So you don't have to waste bullets breaking thru and you can have better aim firing thru them.)

6. More maps with vehicles (even if only on AI maps, I really like humvees,)

7. Does the U.S. army still use gun turrets? Like at barracks for defense? If possible that would be fun.

8 .Some damage to structures from grenades/guns.

9. Loading bar so you can better tell if map has frozen.

10. Civilian interaction of some sort. Like in the Hospital SE map! I love that map!

11. AI weapons don't stick through walls.

12. Larger server size/more spawn points

13. Ammo sharing between teammates if you run out.

14. Safety for certain rifles so I don't accidentally shoot teammates.

15. Single player support (with AI) for those with bad internet connection or just for practice.

16. Language training so that you may be able to recognize Opfor tossing a grenade, etc, and can warn teammates

17. Multi-Core cpu support

18. Maybe Mac support? It may be hard building the game for Mac, but more people could play = possibly more real life recruits or at least stimulate some interest.

19. No more death messages, however if you are close enough to confirm the kill then an instant Team Message telling who had been killed. You wouldn't know who did it but at least you would know an enemy could still be in the vicinity.

[andrewbuddy12]

pluberus said:

Here's what I would like to see in 3.0. This is my compilation of what I see people wanting and what I think would be awesome.
1. Drawing on the Sai for battle plans.
drawing? how?

2. Character customization
Race
Left hand/Right hand
Male/Female
There are no women in active army combat positions such as those outlined in the game. The rest of these options sound cool, but I wonder how much it would take out of computer resources.
Skin/hair color
A couple of static faces

3. Bipod usage on windows/vehicles
haha, thats been on the wishlist for a long time. I would definitely want that as well.

4. Old stats "linking" (get a little badge (or some other recognition) for all the training in AA v2.0+, so that all your time is not completely wasted.
I think they need to do something like that for those that worked so hard in 2.x. For example... those who actually got to 100 honor would get a cool badge or something.

8 .Some damage to structures from grenades/guns.
I do'nt know if UE3 supports that... but that doesn't mean it doesn't. Would be nice I think.

9. Loading bar so you can better tell if map has frozen.
They already have this, you just have to make some changes in your ini files.

12. Larger server size/more spawn points
I bet maps will be larger in the next version.

13. Ammo sharing between teammates if you run out.
kudos

16. Language training so that you may be able to recognize Opfor tossing a grenade, etc, and can warn teammates
I really wish they would have this. It would be really useful.

17. Multi-Core cpu support
This would be nice.

18. Maybe Mac support? It may be hard building the game for Mac, but more people could play = possibly more real life recruits or at least stimulate some interest.
This would be a waste of resources since anyone who has a mac can get bootcamp/parallels to run AA.

[Peace-=Of-God=-]

#9: Look here for the tweaks to make in order to get the "loading bar" (and yes, it's legal! ).

#18: They used to have Mac and Linux ports of the game available within a couple of weeks of the Win release; as I recall, that were discontinued back in 2.4 or 2.5, because the guy who was doing it (for free) decided that he had better things to do with his time -- can't blame him for that.

#16: One of my AASA associates (from the [CLS] clan) created a pretty cool OpFor translator a few months ago -- check it out here.

[Learner-=Of-God=-]

Loading bar tweak doesn't work on my comp. *Tear* Oh well, If i do that the game will flash when I run it.

[Phalanx-=Of-God=- (James)]

Game Mechanics:
- Resting weapon on any horizontal surface or bracing it against any vertical surface (ie: walls (vertical), windowsills, overturned tables (horizontal)) to obtain supported accuracy and combat effectiveness even with no bipod fitted to the weapon (taken from Red Orchestra, an excellent Unreal engine game)
- When engaging iron sights, you will rise up, like when you move while crouched, allowing you to fire over cover and then quickly duck back down just by un-scoping or de-sighting
- Ability to deploy weapon bipods on any horizontal surface in addition to the ground
- Crawl with bipod down

Weapons:
- Add the M14/M21 DMR as a semi-auto sniper rifle.
- Switch from the M16A2 to the M16A4. This upgrade adds a rail on top of the receiver as well as full-barrel length accessory rails for the attachment of optics, bipods, grenade launchers, forward handgrips, lasers, and flashlights. Normally issued with front rail covers and a detachable carrying handle/iron sights.

Training:
- Foreign weapons familiarization. I've always wanted to take the AK to the target range, and even better if you could use the familiarization to eliminate or at least mitigate the combat effectiveness penalty when using enemy weapons. This would probably go under SF training.

Features/Interface:
- Full 3D iron sights for ALL weapons.
- Expand to SOPMOD block 2: EOTech holographic sight, AN/PEQ-2 laser/infrared illuminator, etc.
- Change the SOPMOD interface so that the custom mod sets would tell you which mods you have attached to your carbine. As of now, they only have the Set 1-5 drop-down box with no window showing what you actually have attached to your gun.
- Have a separate slot for the rocket weapons so that you can still pull out grenades and door breachers without having to drop your current weapon.

I'll throw more in there once I remember them...

[Learner-=Of-God=-]

For the drawing on the SAI I meant something that allowed you to show battle plans to your teammates. You push f4 and draw Orange line to obj A, Yellow line to B, etc, then hope fully will folow your directions.

[Mach1neGunz]

I think most Mac users know before they buy a Mac that they will be unable to play most video games. So, I don't think very many would play it on a Mac. For the rest of your ideas, they're all great. I would add the ability to mount your bipod on any object around you, even when crouching/standing. (i.e. on bridge crossing standing up and putting your bipod down on the pillar.) I also think you should be able to put bipods up + down much quicker. It doesn't take more than a second to do it IRL.