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[Flying Dice]

WW1 Arma maybe?

How did I not just think of this, Arma already feels like a war-is-a-fucking-nightmare simulator.

tfw everyone dies because it takes three minutes to navigate to the proper menu option to put on your gas mask and wait through the animation
tfw everyone dies because you can't climb over a knee-high ledge
tfw everyone dies because high-difficulty AI can still instantly headshot you from 600m out even with an unscoped WWI-vintage bolt action
tfw everyone dies because a Mark V bugs out on a rock and flies through a cluster of infantry at 60mph
tfw everyone... you get the picture.

 

[itisnotlogical]

Out of many hours of OFP and a miniscule amount of Arma 2, I haven't really seen that many glitches. There's moments where the AI makes some baffling decisions, but nothing that could for sure be called a bug.

[Flying Dice]

This. This all damn day. It's why I never got within 100m of an active armored vehicle if I could at all help it. I donated for a AAA vehicle on an Exile server-not a modded vehicle, mind, but one of the vanilla ones-and I didn't even need to be moving for shit to happen. I can think of at least seven separate occasions where it flipped upside down while I was traversing the hull on flat ground. Vehicles in general have super-weird physics in too many ways to mention.

And then there's stairs, ladders, rubble piles, rocks, and many other common terrain elements being deadly threats that could kill you at any time with poor collision modeling and wonky physics.

Don't get me wrong, I love ArmA. But there are so many glitchy things, a great many of which strike without warning and kill you dead. ArmA III fixed some, but there's plenty left to get you. At least prone-crawling up to a rock or stone wall will usually just shunt you into a sharp angle looking up or force you to stand instead of sucking you into the ground and killing you. I've still had more than a few deaths to falling through staircases and such, though.

[Shadowlord]

Once, in planetside 2, I was instakilled by my own Vanu hovertank rolling downhill.

It was rolling away from me - I was uphill, where logic told me I would be perfectly safe even if it was somehow possible for a hovertank that hovers ~4 feet off the ground to run people over.

You make ARMA sound worse, which is... disturbing.

[BlackHeartKabal]

even if it was somehow possible for a hovertank that hovers ~4 feet off the ground to run people over.

Being in between a magnetically levitating tank and the ground is unhealthy.

[Shadowlord]

I'm sure it uses some kind of magic. The technology all looks sci-fi, but in function it's all directly cribbed from world war 2 (or even more primitive). (Take the rockets/projectiles and tank armor types for instance)

[IcyTea31]

I'm sure it uses some kind of magic.

The standard 'a wizard did it' explanation in Planetside 2 is nanites. Where do all these tanks and planes come from? Nanites. How can this turret have infinite ammo? Nanites. How does this tool raise the dead? Nanites. Why does a hover tank work so similarly to a tracked one? Nanites. Why do soldiers need to be 'certified' for every piece of equipment separately, even when they are very similar? Nanites.

[Eric Blank]

I'm sure it uses some kind of magic.

Why do soldiers need to be 'certified' for every piece of equipment separately, even when they are very similar? Nanites bureaucracy.

FTFY

[Tack]

Once, in planetside 2, I was instakilled by my own Vanu hovertank rolling downhill.

It was rolling away from me - I was uphill, where logic told me I would be perfectly safe even if it was somehow possible for a hovertank that hovers ~4 feet off the ground to run people over.

You make ARMA sound worse, which is... disturbing.

The problem here is that you play Vanu, spandex scumlord.

[hector13]

even if it was somehow possible for a hovertank that hovers ~4 feet off the ground to run people over.

Being in between a magnetically levitating tank and the ground is unhealthy.

Not of you're a Jedi, man.

[miauw62]

Yeah Planetside 2 is basically WW2 with tracers and stickers and C4 falling on your head from 200 meters up.

[Aklyon]

Yeah Planetside 2 is basically WW2 with tracers and stickers and C4 falling on your head from 200 meters up.

Also lasers and plasma are involved.

[Yoink]

And much better dress sense... at least on the Vanu side.

[Shadowlord]

Once, in planetside 2, I was instakilled by my own Vanu hovertank rolling downhill.

It was rolling away from me - I was uphill, where logic told me I would be perfectly safe even if it was somehow possible for a hovertank that hovers ~4 feet off the ground to run people over.

You make ARMA sound worse, which is... disturbing.

The problem here is that you play Vanu, spandex scumlord.

A. I played all three factions!
B. I quit ages ago.

[Sergarr]

I'll have actual, bleak, horrifying trench warfare sooner-or-later goddamnit.

This isn't good enough for you?