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Colonel_Flagg <colonel_flagg@_NOSOUPFORJ00_internetwarzone.org> wrote:
>until you mentioned it, i never once noticed a swastika in the game.
No charge. ;^)
>realism is subjective. my opinion of realism is based not on eye-candy
>but on authentic-era tank models, rate of fire, types of weaponry
>assigned to troops.
You do have the same with BG but they were smart enough to call it
"accuracy" instead of trying the realism flag.
>not like some folks, i understand bugs and bad code. what i have is the
>ability to see the big picture and understand that the folks creating FH
>were doing so from a historians point of view, not so someone can make a
>buck off of their product.
There are still the limitations of the BF engine so any kind of serious
realism is impossible. Take, for example, the german heavy tanks which
were notorious for mechanical failure. No way to implement this in the
mod. Or the problem Panthers had with rotating the turret when standing
tilted sideways, burning engines, breaking transmissions and whatnot.
How about frozen mud clogging and damaging the interleaved wheels of
heavy german tanks? How about early Shermans catching fire? It just
doesn't work, the modders always have to compromise, sometimes down to a
very low point, which frankly has nothing to do with realism.
>the bottom line is, if you're wanting to play a rather historically
>accurate game based on WWII, FH is the best version of BF to play.
I've heard XWW2 is better in that point but I haven't tried any version
of it since...hmmm....don't know, 18 or 20 months. Again the claim of
realism drove me off.
>it doesn't mean i don't want to read and learn about that
>period of time and about nazis. people, as a whole, learn from their
>mistakes and from the accomplishments of others.
Of course. But you don't have to do it in a game. Swastikas and SS runes
in a game accomplish exactly nothing. While they may look authentic they
don't serve any real purpose except pissing some people off and actually
making the game or mod illegal in some countries, like Germany.
>nazis, while it's an
>understatement to say they were the scurge of the earth, are worth
>studying.
That still doesn't have and can't be done in a game.
JK'05 aka Elkrider
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