minor realism improvements

[illinifan]

1) instead of the messages telling you about events, for example in stalingrad kessel when the north railyard wall gets blown up, have the sapper radio to his team "North Railyard Wall has blew up" and the SL or whoever is closest to the wall for the germans "North Railyard Wall has blew up"

2)instead of pressing o for the objective map make it a weapon that you hold so you have to mousewheel scroll to it

3) take away death messages or have it where you automatically radio "i killed ROplayer by the reichstag approach" and only radio if its like a headshot in the open and not some pixel hunt where your not sure if u killed or not

 

[RedGuardist]

1) instead of the messages telling you about events, for example in stalingrad kessel when the north railyard wall gets blown up, have the sapper radio to his team "North Railyard Wall has blew up" and the SL or whoever is closest to the wall for the germans "North Railyard Wall has blew up"

Sapper using radio (I presume you mean some kind of portable field radio?) would hardly be any more realistic than messages.

But yes, more realistic communications etc. would be nice, but they also could be hard/impossible to do in game.

EDIT.

Ups..I think I completely misunderstood your point.

If you meant, that sapper who blew the wall should inform his team about it (no message text at all), for example by using voice commands, I agree very much.

 

[illinifan]

lol yea thats what i meant

 

[I. Kant]

Suggestion #2 might pose some problems for tankers. You can't cycle through your weapons in a tank.

 

[2M|Bivoj]

map like weapon? not bad, but what is more important: no GPS navigation, i.e. give as back mod1.2 map...

 

[MILK]

Suggestion #2 might pose some problems for tankers. You can't cycle through your weapons in a tank.

yes you can - you switch your position by that previous/next weapon (poping out from tank and back), so it can be just another "position"
-watching map -> watching from tank -> poped out of tank... and back

 

[illinifan]

yea milk your idea sounds like it would work, im not sure though because ive only played in a tank once

 

[C-Unit]

not everyone has a radio........especially back then

 

[I. Kant]

I'd venture a bet, though, that the majority of frontline soldiers had vocal cords.

 

[Sir Tristram]

well perhaps you could use the existing artillery strike radio to radio in comunications, and as for the map, it's a good idea, but i think it should JUST be terrain, objectives aren't marked (unless they were issued with marked objectives in real life),destrucables aren't marked, and your not marked, artillery and rally points are ok for now, since not everyone would understand the complexity of the point system used in life back then

 

[Zell]

I like idea #2. It takes time to pull out a piece of paper and unfold it and find your position, so it should reflect that in the game. It could actually add to the strategy of the game, as it would make it a stupid idea to pull it out in combat, so you have to get your bearings before or after combat. Also; how's this for a replacement for the GPS- instead of the arrow, your avatar points his finger on the 'map weapon' to the area where you are located in a casual manner, much the same way someone would trace their finger over a map when finding directions. Super-realistic and cool!

 

[Dav1d]

I like idea #2. It takes time to pull out a piece of paper and unfold it and find your position, so it should reflect that in the game. It could actually add to the strategy of the game, as it would make it a stupid idea to pull it out in combat, so you have to get your bearings before or after combat. Also; how's this for a replacement for the GPS- instead of the arrow, your avatar points his finger on the 'map weapon' to the area where you are located in a casual manner, much the same way someone would trace their finger over a map when finding directions. Super-realistic and cool!

That sounds great, especially the pointing part. Vietcong does the map quite well

 

[Reddog]

Imagine like the sapper when he planted the bomb yelled an alert (like automatically) eg. "fire in the hole/russian and german equivalent"and then dynamically the game had all the nearest soldiers pass down the alert as would happen in reality. All of course using glorious 3D voices coming from each soldier.

 

[Zell]

Ahhh... 3d voices. You know, I will never understand the reasoning behind the devs' decision to make the voices global. I know they were 3d in the mod, why would they possibly change that?

 

[Reddog]

Well on my end it didn't work fully in the mod, you'd only seem to hear the odd voice once in a blue moon, even when everyone aroudn you was yelling things.

It could also be a network resource thing?

 

[[16ID]Malcolm]

That sounds great, especially the pointing part. Vietcong does the map quite well

I personally quite like the idea and i think this would also be historically accurate.Since they used it during ww2 for map navigation in all the armies allied or axis.