It is not possible to kill a biker with rifle, mg or knife. No matter where you hit him. Tested only in Coop.

Also there is another thread about no killing when shooting at the back. I can't find it right now. I also seen this at least when enemy is prone or in AA or AT-Gun and one shoots at his back.

RL-Joke:
It's hard to convince a PS3 gamer to play a mod.

Can't you do any statistics on the fhawards server to collect map outcome. Every player has his own map stats but can't you collect some general ones. Surely there must be sth..

my 2 cents:
Action-packed FPS require younger players (teen to twen)
More tactical FPS adress older (30+) players too but the potential player base is smaller

Some (mostly older) players have a special relation to the WW2 setting since they grew up with a lot of movies about WW2 or even had relatives, who where contemporary witnesses. These players will leave the player base one day.

Then the question is, what will attract more players to a WW2 setting then to different ones?
Being strong at these differences will make a game or mod more successfull than others. Copying new releases like BF3 and such, hoping to profit from their marketing, will get you nowhere as they'll always do it better.

What makes the WW2 setting special?
Fighting changed from the trench warfare of WW1 to more agile tactics with smaller units working together, because the small arms got more effective while still not having the high precision of today's weapons. Camping and sniping is easier with todays weapons. In WW2 you still had to go into the action. You get the feeling that you have to rely on your abilities and intuition and that tactics matter more than sheer numbers, especially on maps with fewer players.

If we get the 128 players server it depends on how we play (it always depends on that). If we use the numbers to operate more tactical (have dedicated tasks: arty, spotter, mg's for suppression, use of smoke, tanks and inf working together, close air support, defensive lines with AT and AA) or just have a WW1 style meat grinder.

Another cool thing about the WW2 setting is the great variety of theatres and landscapes. In all places fights can get intense if weapons range is limited.

And the last one I can think of atm is that most soldiers were not professionals. While games about modern warfare present professionals as being either keen on following orders and fighting or at least cool-blooded killers, the WW2 setting has a special atmosphere of pain and sadness. War is presented as a dreadful thing and most soldiers long for other things in life and hope for the war to end.

Quote from: dead_man1876 on 10-02-2012, 09:02:24

Nebelwerfer can fire and does fire at allied forward western spawn and fixed arty/mortar pieces behind allied ABC line. Is it meant to be like that? Didn't check if cloud/tree aiming is possible, it could be.
Thank you.

Solution: place it behind German ABC line. Advantage for both sides.

Sorry, but this is not a solution for the Nebelwerfer being able to rape the allied spawn and arty near the barn behind ABC.

Thank you for the information ajappat, I was not sure about the increased traverse, now I am.
Unfortunately I cannot see this as an improvement due to the following reasons:

The sliding: i could easily manage that
Gunner cover: can still be easily shot out of the gun (flanking inf/HE/AP, even frontal MG I think)
Gun traverse: The game is so fast paced and there is no "front line" and the enemy can come up as tank or inf from any side and I do have to change shells often, now i have to change seats too.

Even if the AT-Gun is not meant as a poor man's tank, WWII tanks usually needed 5 people to operate and they can be used by one player in FH2, the AT-Gun now needs 2, this is not fair.

The only effect all these changes bring is to make it easier for tankers to spot an AT-Gun before they get shot at. Why?

You cannot wait for a tank to come along, because he will see you if you have a direct line of sight. Camouflage is not working in FH2. Your only chance in FH2 is to hide in cover and to pop up and shoot as soon as you suppose the tank in a favorable position. This was my way, which was now redered useless due to seat hopping.

All in all for me the AT-Gun got less attractive if not useless. Not useless against noobs but against experienced players, some of which probably complained that they sometimes get damaged/shot in their valuable tank by so a low tech thing as an AT-Gun. Intolerable!
I wish a nice and unhindered tank ride!
I'm out of AT-Gunning too, after I quitted AA. If this trend is to go on, only plane and tank skills will soon count in FH2.

Edit: Unfortunately these assets are limited and it will decide a battle if noobs are using them or not, no matter how many good players a team has.

Many thanks to CptdeS35. I didn't really know all that. As it is stated even French people might be unaware of it, so thank you for that information. I assume that the invasion of Netherlands and Belgium broght a critical change to the assumptions on which the Allied defensive plans were build before the war.

Many thanks to vonMudra too, for the information about how the Polish defence worked. This makes the passive attitude of the allies even more regrettable.

Poland and Romania had signed several treaties ending in the "Treaty on Mutual Assistance against Aggression and on Military Aid". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish-Romanian_Alliance
There were even ucrainian territories occupied mainly by Poland (before the war) to make up a border with Romania. There was a worst case plan: the Romanian Bridgehead, but after the russian Invasion it was no longer used. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish-Romanian_Alliance#Outbreak_of_World_War_II Instead 120 000 Polish troops were evacuated from there to Western Europe. Romania also helped hide a big amount of the Polish treasury from the Reich and later the SU until it could be returned to Poland.
The passive stance of the allies made Romania choose to join Axis, which I regret, but while Poland lost 6 Mio. civilians, the loses in Romania were comparable with other nations so it was the "right" decision as well as the French one to avoid the war. Though as I said, France was not threatended on two fronts like the eastern european states.

What about the suggestion of "blind dials" to avoid cloud/tree-spotting?
It would also be nice if the sight indicating cone could be removed from arty minimap.