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Re: Planet Battlefield Forgotten Hope 2 Interview

October 1st, 2005 12:58 PM

Artillery barrages will saturate large areas (the explosion strength depends on the type of artillery. eg: mortars or 105s) and airsrikes will be pinpoint attacks, usually for digging out a stubbourn tank camper (a ground attack plane will fly in and bomb the area targeted. before you start bitching about "OMFG!CAMMANDER BOMB SNIPING" note that the plane will take a few seconds to reach the target, at any time the target can move, plus the plane can be shot down)

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Re: Planet Battlefield Forgotten Hope 2 Interview

October 1st, 2005 01:15 PM

Great news! One question, will the artillery be maintained by a crew or will there be automatic 88's?:lol:

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Re: Planet Battlefield Forgotten Hope 2 Interview

October 1st, 2005 01:41 PM

Are the ground units going to have their externally mounted AA equipment as and when appropriate?

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Re: Planet Battlefield Forgotten Hope 2 Interview

October 1st, 2005 01:58 PM

I am not sure i understand this. There is no actual artillery gunner involved? Or no pilot involved? All the commander has to do is point and click? Can anyone explain this to me?

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Re: Planet Battlefield Forgotten Hope 2 Interview

October 1st, 2005 02:10 PM

No pilot, and the plane is the artillery. There are seperate kinds of map depandant artillery.

IE 105 barrage(What BF2 has now)
Broad anti-infantry/thin-skin attack from Nebwels and Kat's
or "Pinpoint" strikes from Divebombing/Ground attacking airplanes. Planes that take a few seconds to spawn/fly to target and then exit the map.

IE to give Allies the chance to kill that Tiger dominating the ridgeline on Goodwood. Or that stuborn sniper across open ground.

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Re: Planet Battlefield Forgotten Hope 2 Interview

October 1st, 2005 02:35 PM

thats correct.. it's just different forms of arty the commander can choose from.

edit: nvermind, dident see that post ^^

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Re: Planet Battlefield Forgotten Hope 2 Interview

October 1st, 2005 03:28 PM

You heard it right.

Point and click, its not that unrealistic, artillery men where not front line troops, if arty was called, arty would come from far away. One that insists on arty men being present, must insist on army priests, mechanics.. etc.

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Re: Planet Battlefield Forgotten Hope 2 Interview

-|DKS|- deathBOB

October 1st, 2005 05:39 PM

Excellent! How hard is this stuff for you guys to code? Seems like you are doing a lot of major gameplay changes right off the bat. Is this due to easier modability of the BF2 engine or the experience of the team, or both? Just seems like you are making a lot of big changes immediately, which I really like.

Damnit Mcgibs, why didn't you leave us in the dark? I want it now! I just can't wait!!! :lol:

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Re: Planet Battlefield Forgotten Hope 2 Interview

October 1st, 2005 05:54 PM

I'm not sure I understand the thinking behind the airstrike artillery. Isn't taking out armor and other vehicles/objects what human controlled planes and pilots are for? Or are you talking about maps without planes?

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Re: Planet Battlefield Forgotten Hope 2 Interview

October 1st, 2005 06:04 PM

I would like to know this too.

Is the commander artillery going to be in along side player controlled artillery? Or does it replace it?