Rifle Bayonets

[ShadowRanger]

Hello everyone,

I just have a quick suggestion I'd like to share in regards to the a Vietnam Mini-Mod of PR:BF2. I'm someone who's very interested in the history of the Vietnam War and have read lots about it, seen many documentaries and watched many movies on the war. One of the main reasons I purchased BF2 and installed Project Reality was to play the Vietnam Mini-Mod. After playing a fair few games on some of the Vietnam maps in my first couple of weeks of owning BF2 I can say that I have really enjoyed it.

One thing I noticed that I had a suggestion for was the bayonets/knifes in the kit loadouts for both the Americans and the Vietnamese, mainly for the infantry who use the M16's and AK47's. Currently, you receive a knife on it's own. What I would like to see and which is my suggestion is to have bayonets for these rifles instead.

Here's a couple of pictures to display my suggestion. Both are from We Were Soldiers, a war movie favourite of mine:




Anyways, that's about all I have to say for the time being. Let me know what you think of this idea. Thanks.

[ShadowRanger]

Moderators, I apologise for not placing this thread in the Suggestions forum; I could not figure out how to create a post there as I couldn't see a 'New Post' button. It would be great if the thread could be moved to the right forum. Thanks.

[Rhino]

We have some fixed bayonets ingame and have had for some time:

We however had stopped keeping them updated and adding them to new weapons because they where so much extra work to do and keep updated and at the end of the day, since you couldn't fire your rifle with the bayonet attached (handheld weapons can only have one fire button) they where basically just a knife with a slightly longer range but took ages to deploy, and where far harder to animate and keep updated.

And then even if we thought it was worth adding them to the Vietnam rifles, we don't have an active animator currently to make these happen either.

As such, this isn't going to happen sorry.

[Viikkasota]

There's already bayonets for AK-47's but not for M16A1's.

[Wakain]

Would be nice to have these at least for the NVA, seeing how they made use of human wave tactics. Would give them that slight edge in close combat too

[Viikkasota]

Would be nice to have these at least for the NVA, seeing how they made use of human wave tactics. Would give them that slight edge in close combat too

NVA already has them.