galzohar

Asim, on 18 May 2013 - 05:53 AM, said:

If you think people have gone BF3 and COD mad, you haven't seen Farmville and its followups.

Basically, I was at a convention when someone showed a graph of the number of gamers playing games requiring high-end hardware and how it changed over the years. When high-end GPUs started to become common and constantly improved, the number was going up accordingly. But then around the same time of the release of facebook, farmville, etc - There was a huge drop, almost to the same numbers from before the high-end hardware became common. Since then, those numbers haven't changed much, even though the improvement in hardware never slowed down. Mobile platforms (aka iphone/android games) aren't really helping the hardcore games either.

Basically, hardcore games such as GB (or ArmA, or even Starcraft if you only count those who play the competitive mode) are a niche genre on a niche gaming platform... This isn't even mentioning anything about PC vs consoles - For the sake of this post they both count as capable of running "games requiring high-end hardware".

New DTAS gameplay video:




New version released:

http://forums.bistud...Respawn-A-amp-D

Apparently arma3.ru run DTAS now. When I joined today there were over 20 players playing, and I joined pretty late. Not sure about their schedule need to dig around arma3.ru with google translate some more.

Well, there are plenty of realism issues with the hydra. You'll still need to simulate a lot of effects such as weapon weight, which can make the already difficult controls even less responsive.

With the rift, due to the low resolution, I think it can be great at short-range, but at long range engagements you just won't see much of anything. A normal monitor already doesn't do very well at long (yet realistic) engagement ranges due to its resolution.

Most stealth missions intentionally dumb-down the AI to allow for stealth, so I'm not sure what improvements need to be made to actually allow more stealth. Playing mostly PvP, I can tell you that sneaking around is only possible (with low chances of failure) if you're completely outside the line of sight of the enemy, so this isn't really about the AI.