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Haha, I know how you feel about that. I felt pretty guilty a few times when I was flying from above causing absolute carnage. Although I feel that the 10-second limit is not enough, I think it should probably be a bit higher ?Yeah it was a fun play, but please implement a 10 second time limit if player "LuccaWulf" enters the chopper
Other than that I think without the crosshair it was more realistic, and I guess the weapon damage was also greater?
Ten second limit for what? How often the rockets can be fired?
Yes, the weapon damage was adjusted significantly for most weapons. I'm hoping to add a better armor system in the next big update so that vehicles have a realistic amount of protection against incoming weapons. This will mean damage done to certain vehicles by certain weapons will be greater in some cases and less in others. For example, 0.50 caliber bullets will do more damage to aircraft, making the tripod-mounted DShK a more viable defense against Hueys, but the M8 Greyhound's 37mm gun will do little to no damage against a T-54 depending on where the shot hits.Yeah it was a fun play, but please implement a 10 second time limit if player "LuccaWulf" enters the chopper
Other than that I think without the crosshair it was more realistic, and I guess the weapon damage was also greater?
I believe Shark was talking about a 10-second limit before I can take off, at least that's what I assumed and played along with.
oh no no no, I meant if the player name is 'LuccaWulf' -> then player only gets 10 seconds of fly time in the Huey ? ahah
It was nice playing with you.
Ah, when you mentioned smartest bots you reminded me of Powerstomp. He's the admin of Easy Prey Death server. He has worked extensively on improving his bots to make them smarter. He has done a pretty good job on all his maps. I think you both can share some ideas on this subject. @IceSkater can get you in touch with him.
Excellent! Thank you Shaun
Do you mean the M101A1 105mm howitzer that the US uses? I've actually never tested the maximum range, although it's pretty far. I'm fairly confident I remember using the howitzers on Ia Drang at the US base to hit the Riverbed flag in the far bottom left. Unfortunately, I accidentally broke the artillery spotting system and haven't been able to fix it (even going back to the original code for the binoculars didn't solve the problem), but there is a replacement for it. Now if you pull up your minimap, you can see an icon that shows you where each shot is going. The only problem with that is for now it only works properly on singleplayer. The way it works is that each projectile has an invisible "vehicle" mounted to it with a minimap icon like any other vehicle so you can see where it is, but in multiplayer there's a limit to how far away an unoccupied vehicle can be before its icon disappears from the map. So if you're shooting a significant distance away (using the example that made me realize this problem, this means anything further from the NVA airbase to the US base on Khe Sanh), it might look like you're hitting one place but you're actually hitting much farther away. I'm hoping to fix this at some point in the future for multiplayer, but for now it at least works fine on singleplayer. And in multiplayer, you can still get someone with binoculars to hang back from the action, watch where your shots are going, and make adjustments for you in chat. Oh, and the NVA/VC Spotter class has special binoculars that you can use to call in an "artillery strike". Just point the binoculars at what you want to blow up, press the " fire" button, and in a moment, BOOM!
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