CoD will be "only" a FS or something more?

[Krt_Bong]

Having some cut scenes of pilots running to the planes after getting the call to scramble would be great but the animation of these is sometimes of lower quality in a game that has high detail of machines and no FPS elements, realistic people are much harder than realistic tanks and planes IMO. Mission Briefs and Debriefs can be used for this and maybe the possibility to include still photos could be used for this as a splash screen while the mission loads.
Ex. Campaign start -splash screen shows pilots relaxing in lawn chairs with squadron puppy etc..15 second track of hundreds of bombers
Briefing; ..Scramble Chain Home reports Heinkels 100 plus..
Mission start splash shows a shot of pilots running to their planes.
After mission, debrief and map showing flight path, description of pilot accomplishments, commendations etc... Possibly inclusion of a 15 second track of the action from Gods Eye view of the battle.

I think that would be a more realistic expectation of the game engine not requiring making 3D people and a lot of animation.

[mazex]

Originally Posted by Krt_Bong

Having some cut scenes of pilots running to the planes after getting the call to scramble would be great but the animation of these is sometimes of lower quality in a game that has high detail of machines and no FPS elements, realistic people are much harder than realistic tanks and planes IMO. Mission Briefs and Debriefs can be used for this and maybe the possibility to include still photos could be used for this as a splash screen while the mission loads.
Ex. Campaign start -splash screen shows pilots relaxing in lawn chairs with squadron puppy etc..15 second track of hundreds of bombers
Briefing; ..Scramble Chain Home reports Heinkels 100 plus..
Mission start splash shows a shot of pilots running to their planes.
After mission, debrief and map showing flight path, description of pilot accomplishments, commendations etc... Possibly inclusion of a 15 second track of the action from Gods Eye view of the battle.

I think that would be a more realistic expectation of the game engine not requiring making 3D people and a lot of animation.

I'm pretty sure that is what they have been cooking One thing I hope for is a campaign builder that allows users to create something like this themselves. Lets say you can add a chain of images with texts and maybe your own movies for the briefings that gets displayed in sequence with a simple "next" button? This way we could write a simple manuscript of the "beween missions fillers" in a "black and white movie / comic style". That would work for me and only requires someone with drawing skills doing some simple images to add a lot of story between the mission, or add in game screenshots for the story etc... The coding to add that would be really easy to do. You should then be able to add you own recon photos etc to the actual briefing to add some depth.

[The Kraken]

I remember HTML being mentioned as an option for mission briefings, so basically they would be completely customizable, including images and videos. Not sure if that's still part of the release though.

Personally I don't really care much for videos or animations as a transition to the mission; I usually skip those after seeing them a few times.

[mazex]

Originally Posted by The Kraken

I remember HTML being mentioned as an option for mission briefings, so basically they would be completely customizable, including images and videos. Not sure if that's still part of the release though.

Personally I don't really care much for videos or animations as a transition to the mission; I usually skip those after seeing them a few times.

I remember that too, I wrote some sample code to do that as a simple xml/xslt transformation instead so the mission builders don't write Html themselves as that would be to beg for problems. I sent it to Oleg in 2008 but no answer yet

For me a "fill outs" with some "slides" showing real images with historic background like "On the 15:th of September Luftwaffe put up another... ", or the casual style with cartoon strips with an image of two pilots having a pint and the text: "That night we realized that there was no use thinking they would find Paddy alive, Dan had talked to some of the pilots at 602 and... ".