Take On Helicopters: Rearmed - Official at last

[Scorlhov]

Awesome News ! Can't wait

[Mr. Charles]

I'll need a bottle of vodka before i engage with my precious Mi-24V in the Warzones of Chernarus and Takistan

[F27Sharps]

OMG! Only BIS can do a surprise like that, it will be multiplicated the possibility of gameplay. Thx Bis!

[twisted]

BIS that is amazing and unexpected news. Glad I bought Hinds. Imagining the carnage in chernarus. Or opfor invading the seattle if I understand this properly. Epic.

[EricM]

I was a bit reluctant to buy Take on Hinds until now, but if I can easily use most of the A2/OA content, then It makes much more sense.

I think I'll get the DLC soon then...

[twisted]

Just thinking, so it will be possible for modders to apply flight dynamics to existing helicopters in O2? Apache? Eagle wing?

[Defunkt]

Past time if you ask me. I'd have already bought it if it had been released in this form initially, now with the A3 Community Alpha not far away I might be less inclined (if only because those I might play with will be even less so).

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I would add that, having seen nothing official on the matter myself, I think a lot of fans are presuming too much in automatically assuming that ArmA 3 will include TKOH's more advanced flight model. To my mind it would be odd for BIS to launch a new product stream only to roll the two back together within ~18 months. Could be this (TKOH2 as a standalone expansion to A3) will be the model going forward.

[Jedra]

@twisted - yes it is possible. BIS hace already released example models and configs to do this. It's a matter of whether the addon makers themselves wish to do so.

@Defunkt - A while back one of the BIS guys (either Armored_Sheep or DnA) mentioned that they were still thinking about whether to add the ToH model to Arma 3 or not. It seems from the latest post that it won't be fully integrated. I agree with you though that if they did then ToH would cease to make sense as a standalone product. Personally I think they have kept their options open to see if ToH can fly (forgive the pun) as a standalone - a lot of the tech in ToH was a testbed for stuff that will go into Arma 3 methinks.

It would have been nice to see the ToH model in Arma 3. Then all we would have needed was Take On Tanks.....

[WingsOfDeath]

Wait so how does this work?

can the pilots have TOH and arma 2 and the ground pounders just have arma 2? or does everyone need TOH to be able to play together?

[Defunkt]

Then all we would have needed was Take On Tanks.....

Well the good thing about tank combat is that with features like Render To Texure and the HandleDamage event handler it should actually be within the community's ability to develop the fidelity to a pretty high level if BIS don't. I seem to recall there was a project space on DevHeaven to do such a thing for A2 but it never progressed.

Wait so how does this work?

Everybody would need TKOH.