Benzy wrote:
I have a small petition if you will to add, would it be possible to add a single small eastern weapon pack to stage 2? This is mostly for TvT operations as while most of the A3 vanilla AAF weapons are okay some of them really just are not up to par. A nice rifle such as an AK would be great over the F2000 and the AAF desperately need an AR and a Machinegun that are actually capable, for 3 rounds in two different OPs i have taken the MK200 AAF AR and it is almost completely inadequate to the Blufor FN minimi, the FN has almost two times the fire rate, far superior accuracy at all ranges up to 800 meters (From my testing), better sights less weight to lug around and far less recoil. There is honestly no advantage with the MK200, even its 6.5Mil rounds which should do more damage 2/3 times take one more bullet than the FN to kill making it completely useless and it is just a horrible gun to take, a good AR is critical to a squad and the MK200 simply does not make the cut i would be far happier even just being given the MX SW.
IndI also does not have access to a heavy MG such as the M240 which limits our mission making potential as they can have no real weapon squads, as i stated above despite the MK200 posing as an LMG which should be in the middle of the two Blufor guns mentioned it is completely outperformed by both and holds no real advantage over either. With a proper MMG/LMG available to IndI we would be able to add some more flavour to our TvTs, there are a large number of guns we could go with from traditional Russian weapons such as the RPK/RPD, PK/PKP or we could use variants of modernised European weaponry such as the MG3 as the other AAF weapons hail from. Some of these weapons also offer smaller magazines and reduced size variants ie. the RPK meaning they could easily be used as a squad AR as well.
My two cents and something i hope we consider, obviously as a British group British guns have to come first but i feel that having some modern fireams in the hands of the other team is also something important to "Who we are" as it adds a lot for myself in terms of feeling that we should be using L85's and dare i say actually using these guns. It would also help the AAF a lot in TvTs (You can tell i enjoy playing them can't you)
I was intending to bring this up at the last meeting but i am usually busy on Monday nights so this seemed the best place for it.
(I am aware this is currently under stage 5 but i feel that given its value to gameplay it may be beneficial to either move it up, or failing that give a number of members the task of looking for a pack that could satisfy our needs such as a variety but not flood of choice, vigorous bug RPT and script testing to ensure no errors - obviously one of the most important aspects and the one most people fail when they throw weapons at us going look these look cool and ensuring that we have a mod meeting the quality we are ensuring is attached to those packs we adopt so that at least we have an idea of what weapons may be implemented)
Good points Benzy.
Right at this moment I would say addition of more mods / testing is currently locked down while we wait for BIS to fix multiplayer because without that stable base we can't detect new mod issues. Very frustrating as we'd all like to get on with it.
However, now is probably a good time to start looking into what should be included in Phase 5 - "Enemy Forces", as we're not all that far from getting there.
Serjames has recommended some good ones to me (he is the ORACLE) - perhaps we can have a general discussion as to what we want and the priority order for testing and inclusion? I can then update the testing list with some details.
In fact, it's easy for anyone to select their favourite mod, run it as the only mod in single player, use the modded units/gear/vehicles and then check their RPT files for errors. Obviously we're looking for clean logs or feedback to mod authors requesting fixes. That can start happening now for anyone that wants to help. If we're presented with a mod that has been tested and shows no errors it's far more likely to get included in the list quickly.
