Next patch wish list

[SpetS15]

What's the problem right now? You can set the date and time to such that there is a full moon.

but I have to test every night date to see if there is a full moon, I dont know, maybe a little icon showing the moon state

Another one: a better Bulldozer, I just need a copy&paste feature there

[coopr]

coopr maybe read the changelogs and tell us where BIS made only AI fixes and forgot about improving "some non ai feature requests and fixes"?
If you play only pvp you shouldn't be worried about more AI fixes and improvements...
Otherwise someone could also suggest
"No pvp improvements or testing speedy + funny but unrealistic features!"

Maybe you should read the changelog lol? And compare the ai fixes and features to The non related ai features and fixes? And what is unrealistic and funny about my suggestions? The whole ai thing is funny and unrealistic. And only slows further development down in my opinion. If we get flashlights and lasers on weapons which every human player can use with out a problem. The devs have to code another 2 weeks because people are whining why there idiot ai teammate doesn't use them. Soon after that people start to whine that ai is giving there position away because they always have there flashlights on and yet another 2 weeks of code. Etc etc etc etc just a simple and stupid example but I think the reasons why we see so less new features coming in patches.

[VIPER[CWW]]

One that has always bugged me is when you kill the AI that is in a group while using a suppressed weapon, all other AI know that he is down, wounded/killed regardless of their position relative to him, so for example if I shoot an opfor who is at the back of his group by some distance, all other AI in that group are aware he is dead.

It would be much better if they are only aware of his health status by line of sight, in other words they have to see that he is down before they go into combat status.

Also to tie into this perhaps making the AI less aware of suppressed weapons at the moment there is no effect while using suppressed weapons against the AI, they seem to know that a shot has been fired regardless of their range from the shooter, making the suppressed weapon in-effective (fyi I know what a suppressed weapon is, and I know they still make a the slightest sound, they reduce the sound and muzzle flash from a fired weapon)

And the circle that represents where vehicles are or where enemy is, (white circle, red circle) while looking away from them or at them is a bit of an immersion breaker... wondered if its a setting I could change, but it isn't as far as my testing found.

[Bulldog72]

Beef up multi-player server security. A lot.
What's currently available is still not good enough.

[schmambuman]

I don't really post here a lot, so apologies if I'm ignorant.
Things I would like to see in a patch, if possible, are:

Updates to reload speeds, and animations if possible. Right now, you can reload a SAW about as fast as you can the M9, and even the RPG, and it kind of kills the realism.

Tone down the "swing gun around like a maniac while sprinting" animation. It looks pretty silly, to tell you the truth, to see a guy with a 20 pound rifle swinging it around like a very light sack of potatoes.

The civilian "sprint with hands perfectly straight, fingers perfectly extended" is a little odd, but I can live with it."

I would love for there to be more advanced graphics options, but not really super necessary. Right now, I play ARMA on a macbook 13" pro on a windows XP partition. Pretty bad, yeah.

Anyways, sorry if this has been asked already.

[BasileyOne]

Beef up multi-player server security. A lot.
What's currently available is still not good enough.

nice idea,but a guess how its can be done ? [w/o huge CPU overhead, i hope]
switching to PB ?
adapting FADE-style countering to BE behaviour[make it more FADE-ish] to counter re-engineering, more tamper-resistant?

[domokun]

One that has always bugged me is when you kill the AI that is in a group while using a suppressed weapon, all other AI know that he is down, wounded/killed regardless of their position relative to him, so for example if I shoot an opfor who is at the back of his group by some distance, all other AI in that group are aware he is dead.

It would be much better if they are only aware of his health status by line of sight, in other words they have to see that he is down before they go into combat status.

Also to tie into this perhaps making the AI less aware of suppressed weapons at the moment there is no effect while using suppressed weapons against the AI, they seem to know that a shot has been fired regardless of their range from the shooter, making the suppressed weapon in-effective (fyi I know what a suppressed weapon is, and I know they still make a the slightest sound, they reduce the sound and muzzle flash from a fired weapon)

And the circle that represents where vehicles are or where enemy is, (white circle, red circle) while looking away from them or at them is a bit of an immersion breaker... wondered if its a setting I could change, but it isn't as far as my testing found.

I couldn't agree more with the problem of neutralising an isolated AI only to have their platoon magically aware of your location. I can understand if they used a radio to alert them but it that case it would be nice to see an animation. Imagine looking through your scope to see your target, lying wounded and speaking into a radio. THEN you know you're compromised.

As for the circles, these options can be turned off. IIRC its in your options menu. IIRC the Veteran pre-set disables these "aids". If not you can always use a mod to tweak such aids. The PvP clan have got some here.

[RogueTrooper]

Soldiers should have no prefigured names/descriptions.

I.e. when you place an AA-specialist in the editor (or createUnit on the fly), he remains an "AA soldier" by name all the time, no matter what weapons he actually has.

When you order your group to attack a unit or loot a dead one, you always see that stupid description and even with the weapon in ( ) behind the name according to the description in the editor, regardless of the weapon the unit is actually now wielding.

They all should just be "soldier" or "man". Further specifications should be made when you recognize the unit's weapon. Especially the ingame-display of the editor's weapon name in ( ) behind the name is somehow annoying.

Any unidentified human being should just be "man" (maybe also "woman" when you are near/binocular'ed enough to identify it), any as hostile identified infantry should just be "soldier" (red name).

Sure, in harder modes you don't see these names. But the difficulty settings from the main menu don't say anything about how difficult your actual mission is. Even on the easiest level you can have hellish hardmode A.I. (scripting).

[Nyles]

1. FuseDistance not working for missiles
2. SACLOS missile range too short
3. Certain missiles lack manual guidance
4. Some cars can drive faster off-road than on roads
5. Bullets lose too much damage over distance
6. Aircraft countermeasures too effective
7. Freelook inside vehicles with AI crew sometimes stops working
8. Add additional "preparation" time when selecting launchers
9. Player cannot lower handgun or launchers
10. Cannot raise lowered weapon from crouch stance
11. Weapons with TI scopes to be treated like machineguns in inventory
12. AI warping at distance
13. Implement single-use weapons (AT)
14. Vehicles should not need to turn engine on to rotate main turret
15. MG Nest model uses low LOD over distance (warfare town defense issue)
16. Add new (useful) content to increase variety. To this day I simply can't understand why there has not been a small DLC or patch, which provides cheap and easy reskins of already available models for different factions. M113 for US, Ka60 for Russians, BTR60 for Guerrilla, BMP2/Shilka/BRDM2/AN2 for Russians, T55 for CDF, and so forth...
17. Improve High Command module to allow for more reliable control and increase command options. Given that CTI is still a very prominent MP mode, it would be really useful for commanders to get a better command and control interface on the strategic level.

I suppose there are plenty more...

[ziiip]

Grass is (mostly?) dependent on the terrain detail setting.

Object detail determines its density and terrain detail determines how far its drawn.