Left Hand Player (F/M)

[VirtualReal]

i would highly welcome a left handed player in the game!

one that holds the gun all the time in the left hand
one that throws grenades with the left hand

basicaly the same as a normal player but all actions mirrored to the left side

and because i know also left handed girls who play arma i also have to ask for a left hand female player

at least a lefthanded guy and a lefthanded girl should be added!
better would be if we get a point in the options where we can set all characters who are playable to left or right handed

this should only affect the player it self! (because as in real life most enemies are still right handed) :))

this possibility should get implemented into all games that exist!
or at least in arma ;)

until some Left-Hand fix comes out (maybe with the next update) i am open for any thing that fixes this problem!
point me at any addon/mod or just tell me where to edit what and how!
every suggestion is wellcome!

thanks in advance :)

[ck-claw]

What your asking there is,well basically ,err aint gonna happen!
I'm no expert (actually never am this time of night-Cider!!!)

But i'm assuming it'll have to be huge changes!

[VirtualReal]

yes i also think this is not done in short
but there are many requests for left hand characters in arma ... even in this forum

bis should maybe reThink about theyr character model for any version in future ... it seems not to be flexible enough to change it in two minutes or with one click in the options =(

i did read now also a lot about why no one is willing to support left hand people "in reality the shells burn your face", "in the army we did learn to shoot with right hand", "left hand weapons exist but only for private people", ... ...

so i am not in the army i can hold my gun as i like
between me and the virual world is a screen so i dont fear the hot shells
and in the virtual world i am virtualy a rich despote of the axis of evil i can virtualy buy millions of left hand weapons for my left hand army ) (at this point the difference between virtual and real world realy hurts)

so please i hope the god BIS of virtual world hears me and all others who ask for left hand look and feel in arma

maybe to tell more about this weapon shell and right hand shoot drill in the real world
it is clear that the army only buys one weapon model and not one for left and one for right, let us say it is so ... maybe not clear to but i accept that
and logicaly all get forced to shoot on the right side because of that
so if you are in the army and you have a riffle you shoot with the right side ... because they cant afford left hand weapons ... and so the shells would burn your eye
but in the other hand ... in reality i would throw a grenade with the left hand ... and also in reality no one would force me to throw it with the right hand ... or at least no one who like to life long time )

so maybe you see this point too...
in virtual world shells dont burn
in virtual world we can afford left hand weapons as much as we like and dropp ever 5 minutes a nuke whyle we eat popcorn and watch TV
and the virtual world dont looks very real to me if this guy throws grenades with his right hand all the time ... thats not my player ... i feel as i would look through the eyes of my enemy

so please and hopefully BIS will hear us and get theyr characters more flexible.. i also like to feel me as player as every right handed player does

[Jedra]

I think the usual response from BIS on this (ie left handed models and female models) is that they would rather spend the development time on something that adds functionality to the game. If you want female soldier models then you are not going to get swimming (an example to push the point).

I understand the desire for these things, but as a paying customer I am not sure this is good investment of their time.

You could of course take it upon yourself and learn how to model and animate. There are already female soldiers made by the community (the Iranian Forces mod has them, and there are some US Female soldiers). Alas they are all right-handed, but if you have the desire then you could do it. Alternatively your best bet would be a post in the addon request thread.

If you do decide to do it yourself then I salute you because it's a big, big job!