Environments

[Fire_Monkey]

I was just wondering if anyone knew about how active environmets will be etc.. and if you can use trees, rocks, debris, etc.. well as cover.
For example getting up in a tree to snipe at people, or chucking 'nades over rocks at people an such.
Also can you use bodies of water inside the continets (lakes, rivers, ponds etc...) to swim or hide in.

ya i said etc.. too much oh well

[Tobias]

aye the tree's walls and rocks can be used for cover.

[Sputty]

I don't think you can climb trees but you can use trees, rocks, grass, and things like that as cover. You drown if you go in water I think though. Not sure about that one.

[BLuE_ZeRO]

I don't think you can climb up a tree but I see no reason why you can't throw a grenade over a rock... unless the guy/girl has an arm like the guy in RTCW. God he had a girly ass arm lol.

Goddamnit sputty stop posting before me!

[Navaron]

It seems no one else will touch this.

There are all kinds of terrain from Arctic to Volcanic to Forest.

You can hide behind trees, rocks, and foliage. You can kneel and hide in the grasses.

You can not swim, but you can enter the water, to what extent we don't know.

[Sputty]

MWAHHAHAHAH

[Navaron]

HEE HEE

I replied and before I did, the rest of you whores did. Punks. :love:

[Tobias]

What if you jumped onto a rock or onto a vehicle and from there into the branchs of a tree? Would you stick up there and just look silly?

[Fire_Monkey]

ok i have another question though, to what extent will the environment react to explosions, gunfire etc.. will tree bark fly or pieces of rock fly off when you shoot it. Has there been a game where trees fall over from explosions? just thought that would be cool.

[Sputty]

Well, bullet holes and blasts show on vehicles. That's all I know...I don't think trees would fall or anything like that

[Tobias]

This screen should help:
http://gamespot.com/gamespot/filters/products/screens/0,11105,437493,00.html?page=98

[Sputty]

Link to PSU's media section. It's in there...

[Tobias]

aye, but takes time to find. And I am lazy.

[Fire_Monkey]

I was asking about the environment not vehicles




....and no im not obsessed with the environment... just inquisitive


:borg:

[Sputty]

You could assume that kind of thing COULD happen to the environment. It happens to buildings too.

[Ouroboros]

Well, from what Smokejumper said, bullets do not go through walls, which I will define as it wont go through enviroments either. :D

Furthermore, SJ said gernades use raycast, and enviroments will block explosions.

[Sputty]

No, but it will show up on walls like it did on the APC

[Tobias]

Ahm, you just looked at the APC, not the bridge, you will see that the metal railing, the concreat bridge, and he dirt have distictly differant bullet holes.

[Sputty]

Yeah(I put something up and tried to delete it but it said I didn't ahve access to edit this....ehhhh...weird)

[Sturm]

Would be neat if you could use dampeners when you jump from a aircraft and land in a tree. Could drop down and ambush a few peeps easily. Be even easier with jumpjets ala the Vanu Max.

[tazz]

What if you jumped onto a rock or onto a vehicle and from there into the branchs of a tree?
This is a great question, which i think i have an idea on.
Im not talking about jumping into branches, which i think are to hight up anyway.
But im talking about jumping onto cars or tanks. I dont think this is possible, one reason most FPS dont let you, 2nd reason because it seem entering and exiting vehicles is automatic and that normally restricts movement onto vechiles, also i havent seen a screen with a guy walking on top of a tank.

[Hamma]

Originally posted by Fire_Monkey
ok i have another question though, to what extent will the environment react to explosions, gunfire etc.. will tree bark fly or pieces of rock fly off when you shoot it. Has there been a game where trees fall over from explosions? just thought that would be cool.
No, the terrain is not deformable. You cant blow holes in walls, knock down trees - etc