Why so few tanks?

[Big Dawg KS]

Lol. The man asked for tanks, and you gave him a huge story about the evolution of modding in ArmA.

[granQ]

no, its nice.. i been around since early days as well, doing addons and stuff but its nice to hear some other peoples thought on the subject.

and seems i was wrong again.. there seems to be more tanks then I first seemed to notice

[Big Dawg KS]

Yes I know, he has some good points. I just found it funny that he decided to offload them in this thread. One thing I'd like to add though is that there are also a lot of new modders who haven't been around since OFP (or even ArmA), and so I still expect their to be a lot of independent releases. Of what quality I'm unsure though.

[Shadow NX]

While were at it, want to support us with some scripts for the tanks Kyle? ^^

[DK||SES||]

well atm we also have a leopard 2A6 model coming in to arma2 aswell.. with or without slat armor thats just gonna be the case..

[Big Dawg KS]

While were at it, want to support us with some scripts for the tanks Kyle? ^^

Sounds tempting. I still have 3 weeks to kill before school starts and this job of mine is sooooooo boring.

[JdB]

I just found it funny that he decided to offload them in this thread.

Well I thought it was appropriate, since the lack of (separately released) tank addons imo is not necessarily restricted because of more work as compared with other things, or because of the personal preference of the addonmakers, it's got many reasons that when added up cause this (perceived at least) lack of tank addons(packs).

I just used many words to say it (like usual), a shorter (and therefore prone to generalization/misconception) explanation would be: Hardly anyone wants to make them.

Mods can make it harder to find a particular item that you would like to play with (the search function on a newssite may not always point out that i.e. a Tiger tank is included in Invasion 1944 for OFP), and makes it harder to combine things together (modconfig i.e.), but ultimately, the switch from addons to mods that some people made (especially after the public release of the modding tools for OFP) has extended the life of OFP by several years (which doesn't mean that I don't respect the achievements of people that have made addons, since it was an important first step) because of the extensive ... re-birth to the game that mods like FDF, CSLAII and others have achieved (making the games feel like totally new ones). The same can be said of addons that have had missionmakers support it by making missions with those addons (which for some excellent addons was sadly lacking).

Ok, I'll stop typing now ...

[CameronMcDonald]

Sounds tempting. I still have 3 weeks to kill before school starts and this job of mine is sooooooo boring.

One day when I get serious about actually doing something about this game I should probably bother you about getting some decently performing grenades in the game. All this upright bouncing BS has gone on wayyyy too long.

[Blueteamguy]

sometimes you predict the future and you are right, sometimes you are wrong and you don't understand why.

I been wrong...

for ofp people did tanks, apc and so on but the problem was always the internal model, to just rip a BIS one wasn't good enough, people (or addon makers themself) demaded proper interal models which was hard. (hard to model, hard to get reference) and it was to be honest, not really used.

You took a look around and went into scope view.

With ArmA2 you could suddenly forceOptics and there was no longer a need for making internal models of tanks, however still for APC and so on.

I predicted we would get flooded by tanks..all WWII tanks, modern, cold war and so on.. but it never happened... and to be honest I don't seem to understand why, anyone else have foughts about this subject?

WWII: T34
Modern: M1A1/A2
Cold War: T72
already in game, happy?

[.kju [PvPscene]]

I appreciated the post of John.