Friendly match ADW/GWL

Hi Nemesi,

Actually I didn't play the dynamic campaign map and I only played the small one that we played last friday. Regarding this, I was only wishing that the dynamic campaign wasn't/isn't similar to that smaller map in the sense that I hope that the dynamic campaign doesn't have the same limitations such as "playable areas" surrounded by barbed wire or by instantaneous death scripts.

Regarding realism in ArmA, yes I understand that while the best realism for an ArmA online game would be not having any respawn at all, that of course is NOT feasable because of the reasons you mentioned above and compromises between realism and certain gameplay features (such as respawn) must definitly be made. But whenever is feasable or possible to have realism or to avoid "arcadish" features (such as again, areas limited combat areas) that action should without any doubt be made.
By the way, an another good realistic feature is having like you already mentioned, aircraft flyable only by "pilot" soldier class.

Regarding the repawn and repawn points, I also understand that having AIs guarding the respawn areas will eventually lag the server when many human players are present but I completly disagree with the point that "placing resp far away from the battle then it takes a lot of time to reach the front" because fortunally ArmA allows you to drive/control a wide array of transport vehicles such as truck, Jeeps, APCs, Boats, Helicopters, etc... that would make the time of travel to the combat zone quite fast and of course more realistic. Those vehicle would also allow the players to aproach the combat area from diferent positions which will in the end limit the "campering techiniques".
An another very interesting aproach (at least IMO) that you could take is by using mobile respawn areas, which could be vehicles (as M113 for example) in where the player would respawn (they would respawn near the position where the respawn vehicle is located at).

Regarding the following comment:
"and as for campering and spotting points it is part of the strategy to get better spotting points than the adversary - so if you found a better spotting point you were good!"
Sorry but I could not disagree more with you regarding that. Of course people sometimes (or many times) don't have the same oppinions about the same thing but for me campering is definitly NOT a strategy or else Conterstrike would be the best strategy game on the planet. Rolling Eyes

You see, for me strategy is for example advancing with members supporting each other covered by machine gun fire with also the support from armor and aircraft and also Artillery support if avaiable. For example if the teams have Armour/Air and specially artillery support I doubt that most of the player would be tempted to use capering techiniques. Of course normally teams that are defending objectives trend to "camper" somewhere or perhaps a better word for this is to use "concelement" but if the enemy have Air/Armour/Artillery support available the defenders wouldn't be doing this in open camp or on the top of a hill and finally if the map hasn't a limited playable area then TRUE TACTICS such as attacking the rear or the flanks would be possible and campering techniques wouldn't be that usefull since you don't know where the enemy comes from. These for me are REAL/TRUE tactics and not campering!
I strongly believe that in reality if someone used campering techiques like we saw last friday that person wouldn't last more than a few seconds before being killed.

So my suggestions how to have more realistic battles are:
1- Never limit the map, in order to allow true tactics such as flanking or rear attacks which of course will limit defensive campering "techiniques".
2- Put controllable armour and aircraft (which should only be controlled by the respective soldier classes) in order to give infantry essencial fire support.
3- Make the use of artillery support available.
4- Put the respawn areas far from the combat area (and specially in zones unknown to the opposing team) but with transportation available (transport trucks/jeeps/APCs/Helicopters,Boats,etc...)
5- Use mobile respawn point available. Being it by using captured areas as respawn points or using certain vehicles (a M-113 for example like we have in Domination) as mobile respawn point.