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[Praelium]

Lookign great, im really sure that ArmA2 will be a blast.

Only really bad looking thing were these "good" old ArmA dead anims... horror.

Hopefully this time around we will get slower dieing animations. For example, with headshots the enemy would simply fall, but limb shots he'd fall on his hands and knees, cough or scream in pain, before becoming weak and falling down.

[POTS]

That dog in the beginning kind of freaks me out whenever I watch it. I really like the ending after all the logos though when they're in the warehouse.

Did anyone notice the pond behind the house when Team Razor gets in the UH-1 and takes off? Does that mean that water can be at higher elevations now?

That house seems to collapse a bit too fast.
That part with the slow motion bullet kind of makes me wonder why the two guys next to him don't move.

Even in ArmA1 they move, so I think they told them to not do anything at all times.

[Max Power]

Hopefully this time around we will get slower dieing animations. For example, with headshots the enemy would simply fall, but limb shots he'd fall on his hands and knees, cough or scream in pain, before becoming weak and falling down.

While I agree that it is not the best depiction of reality for people do die instantaneously due to any wound anywhere on their body (including their feet and shins), having some drawn out animation I think wouldn't make it any better. The brevity of the death animations help to alleviate some of the 'canned' feeling that a finite number of pre-animated sequences give.

"Oh look, he's dying by death animation number 11 again. Yeah, there he goes, crying about his gut... now he reaches... then collapses... twitching in 3, 2, 1, twitch."

You get the message.

[CameronMcDonald]

Hopefully this time around we will get slower dieing animations. For example, with headshots the enemy would simply fall, but limb shots he'd fall on his hands and knees, cough or scream in pain, before becoming weak and falling down.

While I agree that it is not the best depiction of reality for people do die instantaneously due to any wound anywhere on their body (including their feet and shins), having some drawn out animation I think wouldn't make it any better. ***The brevity of the death animations help to alleviate some of the 'canned' feeling that a finite number of pre-animated sequences give. ***

"Oh look, he's dying by death animation number 11 again. ***Yeah, there he goes, crying about his gut... now he reaches... then collapses... twitching in 3, 2, 1, twitch." ***

You get the message.

Heheh, reminds me of good old Goldeneye. You would always be able to tell when the bad guys died with the really really really long death animation, and therefore could use their corpses as mag dump practice while they writhed.

[Average Joe]

Hopefully this time around we will get slower dieing animations. For example, with headshots the enemy would simply fall, but limb shots he'd fall on his hands and knees, cough or scream in pain, before becoming weak and falling down.

While I agree that it is not the best depiction of reality for people do die instantaneously due to any wound anywhere on their body (including their feet and shins), having some drawn out animation I think wouldn't make it any better. ***The brevity of the death animations help to alleviate some of the 'canned' feeling that a finite number of pre-animated sequences give. ***

"Oh look, he's dying by death animation number 11 again. ***Yeah, there he goes, crying about his gut... now he reaches... then collapses... twitching in 3, 2, 1, twitch." ***

You get the message.

Heheh, reminds me of good old Goldeneye. You would always be able to tell when the bad guys died with the really really really long death animation, and therefore could use their corpses as mag dump practice while they writhed.

Neck Shot Neck Shot!

[wamingo]

Bleeding soldiers need the wilhelm scream constantly looping... What is this a horror game? comon.

[Shadow NX]

If there is a wounding feature and the possibility to drag soldiers then id think they should scream or at least make some sounds that indicate where they are so you can come to their aid.

Kinda like with SLX for ArmA, worked nicely there.

[Raj]

Damn ARMA 2 looks simply great..a must buy game for 2009..

Nice job BIS..i'm very glad that many features that the community was claimig for was showed on that awesome vids..

hey guys..don't know where to discuss zat but i'm already planning to upgrade my old pc...i'm planning to buy a twintech gforce 9800 512 mb GT XXT for arma 2..will zat hold...

[mr.g-c]

New Interview on Armaholic.com

http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=4315

Quote[/b] ]....All of them are precisely modeled in great detail, have proper ballistic simulation, tracers, ricocheting, <span style='color:red'>penetration</span>, different kind of ammunition.....

That sounds indeed very promising....

Hope they have added different muzzle-velocity based on different barrel-lengths, as well as "basic projectile weight" - or at least made it possible to mod that, without heavy scripting and to define x-thousand types of magazines for different init-speeds.
Everything else was already proper made in Arma1 (Ballistics, Air-Friction, damage based on impact speed, basic bullet deflection at fences, etc.)

[Commando84]

hehe nice interview, sounds like progress is moving at a good rate.
Just tweaking left now will ensure the gameplay will really be polished.

Mm I like that they have some more static defenses like static AA guns and the extra sides in Warefare for Arma 2 will really add extra interest to warefare.
Wonder if there will be 2,3 or 4 sides to play as at the same time or if you can only play as 2 sides but choose any of the 4 sides or something that was available.
Hope civilians will be in towns in Warefare mode too so players can gather info from them and stuff, I can really see how gameplay will be more varied now with stuff like that.