Unfortunately BAS and a few other mods seem to be damned if they do and damned if they don't when it comes to the amount of information released.
I've seen mods accused of "teasing" the community when they post regular update screenshots by the same people who had previously been moaning about the lack of updates and screenshots
It seems to me that on some forums (thankfully not on here) there is a group of people who want everything yesterday and seemingly only for the purpose of finding faults with it. Faced with this day in day out I can understand why BAS would get fed up with it, personally I think they deal with it very well, I'm not sure I would have after all this time and I'm sure there have been days when they've asked themselves "Why the hell am I doing this?".
As an addon maker myself I have an idea of the amount of time and effort that is required to produce an addon of any quality, let alone ones of BAS quality with all the additional features in them, I've been working on my British Land Rovers for about a year now, in between work and having some form of life and I have to admit that it is the quality of BAS's work that has inspired me to produce the highest quality that I can. In fact you could say that it is thanks to BAS that the people I work with think I'm a military obsesses nut with a lifetime subscription to Guns and Ammo as nearly everytime they glance at my screen when I'm on the net I'm either looking at OPF sites or looking for reference pictures of British Army Land Rovers
Now I'm not getting at anyone in particular here, it just seems to me that lately the "they never tell us anything" crowd as Torak calls them (good name for them btw
) have been particulary vocal and I'm just getting fed up of reading "When is X going to be released?".
I just wish that just once they would try to make an addon themselves and I mean have a propper go, not just download O2 take one look at it and say "This is too hard" and then give up, then maybe they'd have a greater appreciation for what they are getting from teams like BAS. Before I decided to try making an addon for OPF I'd never done any form of addon makind or 3d modeling and it was thanks to the support of DeadMeat (and the squad I play MP with, far too infrequently these days, who are still waiting patiently for a Land Rover to race about in) in those early days that I've stuck at it as long as I have.
Anyway I'll get off my soap box now and finish by saying BAS have made and no doubt will continue to make high quality addons, the Pavehawk is looking great and whilst it may not be what I'm most eagerly awaiting (all H-60 series choppers tend to look the same after SuperFly has ploughed it into a hill
;D) I'll still be downloading it along with anything BAS produce.
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