How much realism?

[Instinct]

Tell us how much realism you want in a game like Men of War?

[u-51]

I want 100% realism, if my sherman gets hit and catches fire i want my computer to catch fire and explode also.

[Instinct]

So what do you do, when your crew gets hit?

[u-51]

So what do you do, when your crew gets hit?

Hmm, that's a though question , i guess i could put a hand grenade under my chair for such situations

On a serious note - if the addon have realistic ranges would be AWESOME!

[Instinct]

To be honest, real realistic ranges won't be possible for this Addon. The whole game would need redesign, not to talk about Singleplayer maps
But I don't say it's impossible for future updates, depends on the people wanting it.

[u-51]

But I don't say it's impossible for future updates, depends on the people wanting it.

Unfortunatelly that's true , but i guess you reccon the reason why so small group of players and modders is actve is because of the "exelent" and "outstanding" "inovations" FOW brought, both gameplay wise and mission design ("design" ), while keeping all the "imoprtant" features of SHOWW2. That should've scared off alot of good folks for sure. Hopefully the devs will learn from their MISTAKES (both from SHOWW2 and FOW) and will make something set in ww2. But i'm not relying on this, as TOW and COI will come very soon and i'll be very busy .

[Instinct]

I think we all learned from the mistakes. The only difficulty is, not to make new ones.

[C0ntrol]

Speaking of the addon. I think the realism level set in Soldiers mods BTRH/SoE/Direct Engagement, would be just perfect! The ranges were perfect, units were realistic and there was NO possibility for a regular Sherman to knock out a Tiger or a heavier tank than that.

[hint]So maybe Bestway could look a bit these mods and pick some models/units/weapons etc. etc., armor settings and ranges.[/hint]

[u-51]

I think we all learned from the mistakes.

That's correct.

The only difficulty is, not to make new ones.

That's also correct. But, it shouldn't be hard to remember the fundament of game development - "Never fix something if it's not broken". If you follow that rule you will make far less mistakes.

[Instinct]

I'm carefully watching the overall process of developement. A few times a week I hock up some coop games and have a look again at the original FoW missions.

I must say that I'm really happy with the current progress of Addon and it's gameplay. Our main focus is to give the player more time, more freedom and more interaction + adding even more cinematic feeling, but lowering the level of scripts in missions. That's a difficult mixture and a big challenge which will be mastered for sure.

How the gunranges will be changed, I can't say now. But I'm confident it will be the right direction.