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direction of smoke deployment (e.g. Strider)
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Description

In the current version launching smoke grenades from a vehicle creates a big cloud of smoke around your vehicle.

Instead of putting the Strider (or any other vehicle able to use smoke) into such a cloud, smoke should build a broad screen in front of the vehicle, allowing it to relocate or withdraw unseen.

RL-videos to show what I mean:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TODr5NKNuCg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjlJi4l0cBs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0nPgu_ckDY

That would also mean that vehicles that have the launchers placed on a rotating turret could create a smoke screen at any side of the vehicle.

Edit: Screenshots from ArmA 2 (thats how it should be) & ArmA 3 beta added. {F20343} {F20344}

Details

Legacy ID
550776518
Severity
None
Resolution
Open
Reproducibility
Always
Category
Gameplay
Steps To Reproduce

Enter any vehicle that has smoke grenades and launch them by pressing the counter measure key (default g) when sitting at driver's seat (IFVs) or commander's seat (strider).

Event Timeline

mikeeagle23 edited Steps To Reproduce. (Show Details)Jun 26 2013, 4:51 PM
mikeeagle23 edited Additional Information. (Show Details)
mikeeagle23 set Category to Gameplay.
mikeeagle23 set Reproducibility to Always.
mikeeagle23 set Severity to None.
mikeeagle23 set Resolution to Open.
mikeeagle23 set Legacy ID to 550776518.May 7 2016, 2:58 PM
ProGamer added a comment.Jun 27 2013, 1:11 AM

Do you mean counter measures or that you put smoke gernade or round into the vehicle and it fires them?

mikeeagle23 added a comment.Jun 27 2013, 1:15 AM

I mean the smoke that you can use in ground vehicles by pressing the counter measures button. (just like flares in an air vehicle), not smoke as special kind of ammo.

MulleDK19 added a comment.Jun 27 2013, 1:36 AM

In ARMA 2 the smoke was deployed in the direction the turret was facing.

mikeeagle23 added a comment.Jun 27 2013, 6:44 AM

I was not sure about ArmA 2, but I guess that's what it should be like in ArmA 3 as well.

MadDogX added a subscriber: MadDogX.May 7 2016, 2:58 PM
MadDogX added a comment.Aug 13 2014, 2:20 PM

Mass closing ancient tickets with no activity for > 12 months; assume fixed or too trivial.

If this issue is still relevant in current dev build, please re-post.

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