just thought i`d say hello ....

just thought i`d say hello to you guys...especially anyone in Europe (even maybe England..lol) long time player of GR and F`point, and i played a "little" 2.86 Inf. I`ve just found the 2.9 version a coupla days ago right at the same time I was getting back into GR after a long spell off, and for the last coupla days GR hasn`t got a look in, I really like the realism touches with this mod, the absence of crosshairs is excellent, the collision of weapon with surroundings is nice, very little of the map is a no-go area, you can fall off places (unlike GR!!) you can drop your weapon when jumping a distance and that I`ve never seen in any game learning curve is ok...BUT my main prob. has been identifying team mates!!! being new to game is bad enough but getting TKs `cos you can`t suss the camo out at 100+ mtrs is very embarrasing, I`m certainly no spring chicken (or even a summer one ..lmao) but my eyesight ain`t that bad...lol..I`m used to having comms in clan games (GR etc) so its not been a prob up to now, but as I`m a lone gunner atm that doesn`t apply, plus the amount of times I`ve hesitated to shoot just to try and check the camo and been killed in those few seconds is a real pain, I`ve read about Report Direction and have just got UTcompass, could anyone tell me about RD as I`ve no idea yet how it is used in the game, only other problem that has kinda spoiled the realistic feel is the amount of `nades flying about...but I think with a couple of teams in a server who both play real team tactics this game is hard to beat...anyway if you see someone in game squinting in your direction for a couple of seconds it`ll probably be me

hey thanks for the welcome I`m guessing that this location problem is only a prob in the public servers when playing with a mix of people/clans? in matches, and team/clan skirmishes you use voice comms yeah? they were invaluable to our squad during matches with GR etc., and I think TS/RW/etc. does a good job of simulating contact on a modern battlefield situation...as I`ve no military experience whatsoever these are laymans comments!!! but just having your squad or team mate on a voice channel completely alters the immersion factor IMHO....even if its just to hear the chaos going on the only problem I can ever remember coming up (again in GR....) was that people who were dead still having access to the maps and were still able to see through their corpses eyes, and so were acting as a "lookout" for team mates and using the voice comms to pass info to the members of the team who were still alive......still not sure if any solution was found lol,
had a look at RD and speechpack and i think i`ll be PMing the authors pretty soon....software ain`t my thing unfortunatly, so i might require an a little extra assistance in setting them up