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Helicopter door gunners don't have animations for holding the gun
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Description

Door gunners on most, if not all, helicopters just kinda sit there as if the gun doesn't exist. They don't hold the gun or make any movement when the gun is moved. Compare the vanilla UH-80 where the door gunner has a firm grip on their weapon.

Details

Severity
Minor
Resolution
Open
Reproducibility
Always
Operating System
Windows 10 x64
Category
Anims
Steps To Reproduce

Get in the door gunner position of a Prairie Fire helicopter with door guns.

Switch to third-person or spectator mode and observe that the character does not hold the gun.

Event Timeline

NikkoJT created this task.May 6 2021, 8:28 PM
Maarten closed this task as Resolved.Jun 29 2021, 3:25 PM
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Maarten added a subscriber: Maarten.

Thank you for your feedback. We have tested with doorgunners holding the guns, however this resulted in a too limited firing arc. In real life the gunners would sling the guns around by displacing their whole bodies, something that isn't possible in Arma. In discussion with our veteran advisors we went with the current solution to preserve a realistic firing arc.

Is it really not possible to have a full-body system similar to existing turrets like the vanilla raised M2s or offroad technicals?