What do you define as 'by the book realism'?
There is no such thing per se. Realism in games is already there. It's waiting to be used. You either use it, or neglect it.
After that, what has to be considered is HOW one uses it. And in our 'book', that's as far as it can be implemented without compromising gameplay. For that we are VERY selective.
I enjoy contructive debates, I really do. But what I do not find entertaining is people suddenly grasping at threads telling me how the human body can achieve amazing things such as one's ability to drive at stupidly reckless speeds down narrow roads, or how one's friend can twirl a pencil around his finger just for the sole fact of adding meat onto his otherwise skeletal composition.
Going on a forced march 30 kilometers with full combat gear and a rifle in one's arms before having to fight the enemy is a far cry from pcking up a paintball gun, jacking in a can of C02 and splatting away from the hip. It's hard enought to hit anything with the iron sights when you're that tired, let alone cowboy shooting.
I've gone though your other posts as well, from running inertia to flashlight woes and so on.
Think of this, if you're running, and you want to stop, don't you plan where you want to stop and aim so that you stop there? whether you slow down via momentum or you slam your body against a wall. Now with what you suggest, the game fills in the momentum for you. And what happens is suddenly where you would normally make yourself stop in real life suddenly drifts by as you cannot make the presise move and step there. Next day the messageboards are deluged with posts of 'I overshot the box I was intending to use as cover an got shot/fell of a cliff/etc. YOU CAN'T CONTROL THE FUNCTIONS OF THE HUMAN BODY WITH SUCH PRIMITIVE DEVICES AS A KEYBOARD AND MOUSE. You can only make the controls streamlined for the task at hand and as responsive as can be allowed. Which is what we've done.
You can't tape a United States issue L tube flashlight to an assault rifle with as little trouble as you might like to believe. And in the field, it's standard practice to attach the red infrared filter, which cut's into it's usefulness up close.
Now, these are things I take into account albeit with due deliberation and consideration. Yet I do not encroach on your views unless I feel them counter-productive or offensive. Quite often I've had to reserve my statements on a subject as not to offend someone.
But to say '-the team does not have a clear view on the subject'. Well in my book that's declaring oneself an authority in the going ons of this project's development although you obviously know less than you'd like to believe.
One of the things that bites me is someone pretending to know something when he knows nothing. At times, this statement places me in the spotlight of hypocrisy, but often, I know enough to make a reasonable hypothosis on most subjects.
You are not as unnasuming as you pretend to be right now. That much is abundantly clear. You probably think that I'm an arrogant and egotistical bastard right about this moment. But I'm no more so than the next man.
And no less.
So no sir. I will forget that statement, nor will I not be distracted from it. To me, such critism is 'unfair' in itself. Akin to announcing to the world that an achitect designing his 20th bulding 'doesn't know what he's doing' as he sketches a new innotive design that you haven't seen before and know nothing about. It's slander.
Malicious intent or not, that's what It says to us.
We will implement the features of infiltration is a fashion best as possible with respect to the realism and content of the product, as well as the players of it. They are deserving of no less than our best effort.
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