Have the MG pivot around the bipod

[Jaesperson]

..not around the center of the player. this would be/look really cool

but would also make shooting the MG from prone position difficult. can anyone tell me how hard it is to swing around an entire machinegun (something bigger than an M249, i guess the DP and the german MG42/34 were a little heavier and longer) while laying on the ground as it currently is displayed in RO?

 

[Witzig]

I guess prone it goes like:

You'd simply lift the Bipod of the Ground and place it in a New Direction.

 

[The_Countess]

i think we'll see some VERRY strange mg possitions then.
for example a MG places the bipod near the edge of a building... and then dus a 180 degrea turn.
we now have a MG-er floating in mid air with the only thing supporting him being the MG

 

[The_Vicar]

I think pretty much everyone would like to see this, but it's a question of how easily if at all it can be done. Also, it wouldn't affect gameplay much so I would rather other things be sorted first.

 

[Hyperion2010]

This would require major modifications to deep engine code. There is a tiny chance that this might happen.

 

[Witzig]

Might come from Tripwire if they decide to invest the time in that project. You need a lot of good Animating to make that look good.

Since you need to show the Avatar crouchin at different Heights, moving sideways etc. In addition to the coding.

 

[Nimsky]

Might come from Tripwire if they decide to invest the time in that project. You need a lot of good Animating to make that look good.

Since you need to show the Avatar crouchin at different Heights, moving sideways etc. In addition to the coding.

That's true. Before they even think about adding this, they should add a crouch feature for MGs and a better deploy system. But it's something i want to see in the future for sure.

 

[Mormegil]

i think we'll see some VERRY strange mg possitions then.
for example a MG places the bipod near the edge of a building... and then dus a 180 degrea turn.
we now have a MG-er floating in mid air with the only thing supporting him being the MG

I thought a deployed MG can't do a 180.

 

[Witzig]

Well this would obviously need a Collision Detection, and some other Detect Codes...

Ain't without problems this kind of MG Deployment.

 

[[-project.rattus-]]

Still, that was on my wishlist (even before the release) and already mentioned. So I guess if TW (and Ramm especially) has plans to implement this, they'll do.

 

[Eater1]

This would require major modifications to deep engine code. There is a tiny chance that this might happen.

No it wouldn't.... there isn't anything in "deep engine code" for this stuff, unless you're thinking of doing something bizzare like moving the actor's pivot point or something... I suppose a really brute force of doing this would be to just manually calculate the new location with a bit of trig, but this wouldn't do collision detection. Maybe some voodoo with velocities could get the native collision detection to work for this.