Those weaponmodels looks pretty sweet imo. I just don't get why they went with the XM8 instead of HK416 and 17.
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[Game] The Armed Assault thread
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All of the models are great and so were the various AR setups, but looking at pistols and MGs well those are not exactly many. But probably won't matter in the end anyways.
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Arsenal seems alright. Just a bit stupid that they basically only have three assault rifles: AK, G36 and M16 and their variants and impovements. Some more variety would've been nice like maybe a FAMAS or something. Models look good though, let's hope they're actually animated.
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I heard the animations are supposed to be very good this time around. It has seperate animations for difffirent weapons. Also animations for when a player model is walking up/down stairs or up/down a mountain and such.
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I think something where ArmA2 is really in front of OFP2 is the terrain. If I look at any OFP2 videos(techdemos or gameplay) there's no real forests and villages don't really look too real either. ArmA2 on the other hand seems to have a bit of balkan-flair plus from what I've seen forests look really great. Most important thing about forests imo is that you really kinda feel that you're not out in the open anymore but in a completely different area. If I remember OFP1 for example, if you were in the middle of a forest you could really feel the silence and it felt like you were somewhere completely different. Much of that atmosphere is created by the density of trees, because in a real forest it's much darker than outside due to the trees blocking the light to some extend. OFP1 did that quite well and looks like ArmA2 will handle forests even better.
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http://www.videogamer.com/xbox360/operation_flashpoint_2/preview-1599.html
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Notice the huge drawdistance of the grass, the cool grain effect and the high amounts of AA used.
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i need to see some ingame videos first before i can be sure that those pics are actually ingame
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Exactly, the forests in Operation Flashpoint are so believable and immersive, even without the ambient sounds...
I can almost smell the resin and pineapples.
But maybe I'm crazy 'cause I can almost smell burnt rubber and gas when I'm playing Live for Speed or GTR Evolution...
The only games which comes somewhat close are Crysis and Oblivion, but that is more jungle like.
I'm pretty confident that Bohemia Interactive will give us that feeling again, this time trees will actually grow using L-systems algorithms and affected by seasons and wind.
I do like the minimalistic HUD where BI has definately gone off the chart though.
The environment looks very 2004-2005 (Battlefield 2-ish) though.
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To hide obvious shortcomings of the engine?
About ArmA II and woods: They may look great, but come on, it's pretty obvious (especially considering BIS record so far) that these are the special not-going-to-run-on-your-rig-anyways settings. They always dust these off for their game convention videos and trailers, but only a few players with the willingness to pay that much more will be able to run these. The rest of us will again have to live with pop-up trees and framerate drops.
Remember how abysmal ArmA ran on your average rig while looking half as detailed and tell me you think BIS has really optimized basically the same engine to such a degree that these screens and vids will represent what you will get.
About ArmA II and woods: They may look great, but come on, it's pretty obvious (especially considering BIS record so far) that these are the special not-going-to-run-on-your-rig-anyways settings. They always dust these off for their game convention videos and trailers, but only a few players with the willingness to pay that much more will be able to run these. The rest of us will again have to live with pop-up trees and framerate drops.
Remember how abysmal ArmA ran on your average rig while looking half as detailed and tell me you think BIS has really optimized basically the same engine to such a degree that these screens and vids will represent what you will get.
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