First and second person weapon orientation animation.

[anglomanii]

i think i may not have explained my point sufficently, what i was trying to improve is the player immersion element in game.
if two soldiers (a couple of meters apart) turn toward each other, possibly to communicate or share the lattest gossip from the barracks . how then do they hold their weapons?, what do you do with a firearm when talking to someone? i would say these two soldiers lets call them "rudy" and "tom", i would say they'ed not be pointing their rifles at each other. now if rudy spies "terry the taliban" sneaking up behind tom he'd more then likely raise his rifle and give terry a good pasting, tom might not be happy and be partially deaf, but he'd still be alive. he'd also be aware that rudy was aiming atsomething behind him if tom notised the large rifle pointing in his general direction.

look all i was tring to do is enhance the immersion factor for the player, not try and change game play or tweak friendly fire problems.

[Operator009]

Originally Posted by anglomanii

i think i may not have explained my point sufficently, what i was trying to improve is the player immersion element in game.
if two soldiers (a couple of meters apart) turn toward each other, possibly to communicate or share the lattest gossip from the barracks . how then do they hold their weapons?, what do you do with a firearm when talking to someone? i would say these two soldiers lets call them "rudy" and "tom", i would say they'ed not be pointing their rifles at each other. now if rudy spies "terry the taliban" sneaking up behind tom he'd more then likely raise his rifle and give terry a good pasting, tom might not be happy and be partially deaf, but he'd still be alive. he'd also be aware that rudy was aiming atsomething behind him if tom notised the large rifle pointing in his general direction.

look all i was tring to do is enhance the immersion factor for the player, not try and change game play or tweak friendly fire problems.

I feel like this decision would result in--indeed--increased immersion. But it also presents an element of potential abuse.

Plus, aint nothing shittier than having a friendly step into your line of sight to reset your deviation bcause your weapon moved.

[Dev1200]

Then wouldn't you be able to detect enemies because your friend will be looking more aggressive then passive?

[Smegburt_funkledink]

Originally Posted by anglomanii

if two soldiers (a couple of meters apart) turn toward each other, possibly to communicate or share the lattest gossip from the barracks . how then do they hold their weapons?, what do you do with a firearm when talking to someone? i would say these two soldiers lets call them "rudy" and "tom", i would say they'ed not be pointing their rifles at each other.

Have you played PR recently? Players don't point their weapons at each other unless they 'sight in' their weapons. This suggestion does nothing for the game.

Originally Posted by Dev1200

Then wouldn't you be able to detect enemies because your friend will be looking more aggressive then passive?

Yeah. If there's some sort of automated stance depending on if you're looking at enemy or friendly, it's easily exploitable as others have pointed out.

This suggestion has no real merit.

[Bob_Marley]

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