undead reindeer cavalry Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 has there been any word about night operations? US forces can be expected to make full use of their huge advantage in night operations. how will it be simulated in CMSF? does CMSF keep track of what kind of night vision stuff all units and teams have? will they be able to pass information gained by night vision stuff to units/teams that do not have night vision or have lesser quality equipment? what about friendly fire? e.g. Iraqis consciously tried to cause blue on blue situations. friendly fire is already in CMx1, will CMSF have any improvements? what about the differences between active and passive night vision stuff, will they be simulated? EDIT: for example consider differences between how a warm and a cold tank show up with different night vision stuff - e.g. with some there is no difference, while with others it makes a huge difference. and finally, will there be flares? [ January 11, 2006, 05:26 PM: Message edited by: undead reindeer cavalry ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drusus Posted January 12, 2006 Share Posted January 12, 2006 Will illumination be modeled? I know it is not the easiest to calculate realistically what kind of light conditions there will be on the field when illmuination is used, but this will be really important for the Syrian player. 81mm mortar illumination grenades are enough to make the battlefield bright enough for fighting. This one will have a huge impact for night combat when CMx2 gets back to modeling WWII battles. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sequoia Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 Bump to see if Steve feels like answering these questions now. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SgtMuhammed Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 Will there be a way to let your troops know that you are about to pop illum so they can turn off their nods? Nothing sucks more than having the entire world flash green for 15 minutes in the middle of a fire fight. Ok, not really a game thing but this was always one of my pet peeves. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyD Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 Ah, another year old post. Since this was first asked we have seen a few control panel screenshots. Night vision goggles can be spotted among infantry items. Moon may have said it would be represented by a jump in individual LOS during night battles - no creepy green camera views or anything. I also recall Moon mentioning different grades of night vision capability dependng on a particular Abrams' upgrade level - or something like that? Maybe we need someone with better memory (or Moon himself) to properly answer this one 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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