This one shouldn't be too difficult either,

Quote from: N24Reporter on 11-06-2009, 13:06:14

Destructible environments have to be the most overrate gameplay elements ever.

Not if done properly, which no game has to this point afaik. We'll probably not see well made destructable enviroments for a good time into the future.

There have been games where it has implemented well, just not any FPSs. For instance the destructible environments in CoH create some interesting situations gameplay wise and don't seem too unrealistic up until tanks come along and crush everything on the entire map.

I sure hope this shows up given how much fun the old FH.7 kit that could call in a C47 was.

This would be a terrible idea. As it stands already, AT/AA guns are massively vulnerable to tanks, planes and arty, and already take a good minute to repair as it is. And in that time, you can usually expect a plane or tank to return anyway, usually scoring an easy kill. And that's assuming an arty bombardment hasn't destroyed several guns/mg's/radios all at once... damage that would take a number of engineers many minutes to repair.

As it stands now, manning AT/AA guns is about the worst job in the game. You spend half your time repairing things (speaking of which, anyone ever seen anyone get more than 2 repair points?), and the other half generally being slaughtered by planes/tanks/arty. Why would you want to make it even more unbearable?

As Fuchs said, this applies more to some maps than others, and I could see leaving most light weapons(2 lbers, MGs, ect) as is. However, AA/AT guns are hardly that vulnerable on some maps, as any poor soul who has ever tried to take a solidly defended al Khad on el Alamien surely knows. And the thing is this wouldn't  make it take any longer to repair guns or really make them any worse in most cases, it would just give attackers a window of time to move in after an artillery barrage or bombing on fortified flags rather than having the defenses  become active again before they can even reach the flag zone.

And this would help defending infantry in a lot of cases too, since its difficult to mount a defense in areas where you're constantly getting raped by a flak cannon, such as the eastern flag on Aberdeen that is always get shot by the Flak38 at the middle flag. In that case even if you can convince a tanker to come kill the cannon it usually comes right back again almost immediately.

I guess they're in a pickup kit, so just a kit sitting in some tent somewhere that you can press "G" to pick up. I can't tell you of the top of my  head which maps they're in because I can't ever actually remember finding one-not that I've ever really looked though.

Currently I feel that soft-skinned vehicles like the Opel Blitz are too resistant to small-arms fire, in particular from SMGs. It takes about 50 rounds point blank to the cabin or engine compartment from either the MP40 or Thompson to kill a Opel Blitz-a volume that's practically impossible to get off even with the barrel-fed Thompson given the trucks' speed.

I can't really claim this isn't realistic since I have no idea how much punishment the engines on those trucks could take, but I've worked with miniature aircraft engines and while they're not fragile, I can't imagine them standing up to getting shot 40+ times, and the engine is probably to toughest component of the truck. Plus, softening up trucks would promote people to use halftracks, which are currently pretty underutilized, and stop people from trying to blitz through enemy lines in supply trucks.

Anyhow, if you complare CIV and HoI. How much heavier is HoI? Is it true that I gotta read a manual as the size of the holy bible and then play test rounds for 2 - 3 weeks and then give it a go?

The game is a good deal more complex than Civ4, but if you play as a large resource rich country that focuses mostly on ground forces like Germany or the USSR it's straightforward enough that you can pretty much jump right into a game(the fact that if you start in 1936 you get a while to familiarize with the game before combat starts helps too).

That being said I've been playing it since HoI 1 was around and I still don't fully understand how naval combat works