The animations are so underrated in this game. When I first installed it, i would just spend time getting in and out of a jeep in 3rd person. I still love it.
@@Nutter-l3s comes down to being able to use the controls, if your standing on your seat to peak all the way out how your arms reaching the gas’s and wheel
@@glennpeterson1357 I don't have reforger. I play Arma 3 a lot though. The thing that always bothered me was they never put the commander's 240 mounted on top. The best lav in arma 3 is the RHS mod.
@@keithallen2457 Reforger is pretty good these days. Depending what you’re into. I like PVP which I used to play on A3, but, TBH, I’ve not gone back because Reforger Conflict is just too good!
2:27 I completely agree, utilizing the scroll wheel for gradual peaking would be great, they could even just use the existing stance scroll with ctrl + mousewheel
Ah, a fellow nerd. Here’s something neat tho. All 25mm bushmaster chainguns to include the M2 upgrade to the M3 bradly are being swapped to 30mm to accommodate airburst munitions for anti drone and trench warfare
@ I’d say it’s been in the game since start of the year maybe? So the commander can get really low down looks almost exactly the same as Brad Pitts stance in fury when he and the other Sherman’s are attacking the tree line. Really low profile but still improved visibility over being button up!
will you make a video on the building destruction? i really wanna see what different things will destroy a building and i cant play till next weekend to test myself
scroll wheel stance adjustment could help with hatch peeking, being very fast coming down.. a feature I have been waiting for from arma 3 is left shouldering and further stance with ctrl d ctrl a. the head height scroll wheel could assist with getting the viewports more functional, having two states of turned in where there is a clipping/over viewport limit and turned out where you can lean up as far. I liked RO2 where you could click snap to each port, while some were on scrollwheel. a feature that doesn't matter so much to me was being able to use your arms in arma 3 on some vehicles, while sitting out with a .308 laserbeam lmg.. but we really do need that as well.
Great video Caracal! As usual excellent attention to detail! :) I've been looking forward to the LAV for almost 2 years now! Those pesky BTRs will finally get some comeuppance! :)
Well the good news is the arsenal has certain weapons and items rank locked, meaning the rpg will not be as accessible as it is now (atleast in the early stages of the match).
Idk how warping inside the vehicle is still a thing…. Frustrates the hell out of me knowing that I remember picking dudes off climbing inside the hatch of a tank in COD3 for PS3…. But new AAA games, or AA games like Squad and HLL, still only do warping. It’s been like 20 years since COD3 lol
Can you use your rifle from some turned out positions like in arma 3? that was a great feature now and then. It was nice to turn out for extra visibility when you were in an area where you weren't risking sniper fire, which is accurate.
@ yeah I hope so. It was also spotty with some vehicles having it and others not depending on mods. It was nice because you could use the optic on your rifle to spot a target for the unmagnified 50cal
Little bit offtopic. Looks like they trying to go for realistic sounds, including realistic (or better word authentic) dynamic range between quiet sound (steps) and loud (gunshot, explosion) but they made echo/tails are too loud. I remember the sound of 14mm gun when you sitting inside btr-80, you don hear any echo/tail.
Hello! I have one comment, the question is not really related to this post. I'm curious why the SVD only has the option of a PSO 1 riflescope with 4x magnification. As far as I've researched on the net, there are other riflescopes for the SVD with higher magnification, but I don't know if they were used during the USSR or later. If we compare them with the M21 and the 3-9x riflescope, the Soviet side is very underpowered. Do you perhaps know something more about riflescopes for the SVD during the USSR? Thanks
The only soviet era SVD scope i can find that isn't either a PSO, A copy of a PSO, or a night vision scope (as night vision hasn't been implemented) is the 1P21, a weird 3-9x scope only adopted at some point in 1989 (the same year the game is set, so it's possible it hadn't been adopted by whatever month the game is in and wouldn'tve been widely fielded). It adjusted zero alongside the magnification, so increasing the magnification also adjusted the elevation. It's in the RHS mod though.
Only the PSO-1 and 1PN58 (night scope) was used during the soviet era. Technically the 1P29 and PGO-7 should also fit on the SVD (and PSO should fit on AK-74N/RPK-74N) but they would be rather useless as they aren’t calibrated for that caliber of weapon
The dust kick up from the detonation of the HE round is more realistic than not. If they can get a vacuum effect on the smoke (all converges to the epicentre of the blast). That would be epic. games are not dusty enough
I know the US Army used LAV-25s in the late-80s (the 82nd Airborne still uses some today) but I really wish we got the Bradley for the Americans instead.
I like to think of the LAV-25 as an M2/M3 Bradley made for US Marines. It's light, amphibious, but still packs enough firepower for those jarheads to take out just about anything short of a Main Battle Tank. The 25mm Bushmaster cannon is the very same as the Bradley's. Not much armor however, so it's relatively balanced.
I don't think the commander has his own independent periscope in the lav25 like you would have with other vehicles like the BDRM-2. . If you at the sights they look like an identical copy if what the gunner has, coupled with the same hand controller. Externally the optical port on the commander's side is fixed to the turret, just like gunners. I think the commander simply has the options to take control away from the gunner to control gunner sights if needed. I would expect this to implemented similarly to how pilot/copilot can lock or handoff controls to each other in helicopter, but would instead be applied to the rotation of the turret and use of owns one gunnery optics.
I really wish the Russian would actually get some decent armor. You can kill a whole ass btr with a m60.. same with the brdm too im sure . I know we're getting rockets for helicopters but the russians are seriously outmatched with this going to the Americans. I really think we should get T72's and Abrams man..
@@jamesnoonan2009 So I bought the game on Xbox, so I'm not sure if it works the same, but with regular Arma, came the experimental branch which you have to install, and even then, they haven't pushed this out to console quite yet in fear of playability issues
Comment regarding equipment Does anyone know how the equipment is selected. say LAV 25 and BRDM2 LAV 25 in service 1983 main armament M242 Bushmaster 25 mm BRDM2 in service 1962 main armament 14.5 mm KPVT I don't think you should compare these two vehicles based on their characteristics.. It would be more comparable if the USSR side had BMP2 in service 1980 with main armament 30 mm 2A42 In general, I think that the USSR's armament is undernourished, but not from the point of view that the Soviets did not have similar armament to America at that time. I think the ARMA developers have a bit of a biased view of equipment. This is just my opinion What are your opinions?
I think so too. The gear selection appears to favor soviets getting equipment that is 20 years older. I think there are some historical biases, and perhaps also the devs having easy access to a real BTR-70 from somewhere to model it and record the audio. That may explain the presence of a BTR-70, and not a BTR-80. Someone else also told me that most of the advanced soviet weapons on vehicles at this time were tracked vehicles and refrogger has no tracked vehicles. A BMP-1 would be a very powerful vehicle in the current game setting.
The choice of the LAV-25 is strange as well. The US faction is listed as the US army and this is reinforced with the selection of the UH-1H to be their helicopter (as opposed to the UH-1N for the Marines). The Army did borrow a handful of LAVs during Desert Storm and were the largest client for the vehicle during its development before pulling out of the program, but generally the LAV-25 is a Marine Corps vehicle. The only explanation is that the only alternative would be the tracked M2/3 Bradley and for some reason bohemia doesnt want to model tracked vehicles for Reforger.
I saw on experimental last night a rifle grenade going through it on the side. Not sure if it was a soviet rifle grenade or an american HEDP because the shooter was on the soviet side, however he may have looted an american grenade launcher m203
Tanks have tracks. Tracked vehicles have their own physics and mechanics they have to implement. The tanks available in 1989 also have things like advanced composite armor, explosive reactive armor kits, thermal and night vision optics, gun/turret stabilization systems, human loader positions for Western tanks and auto loaders for eastern bloc tanks and so on. They aren't a trivial addition and the LAV doesn't progress much us towards tanks mechanics wise.
Tank and vic crews never fully expose themselves lol, they only ever have their heads out for better view while driving. Its not done in combat for obvious reasons, and i'd imagine the same effect of being killed will apply in AR.
Maybe not today, but in 1989 it was still common practice for vehicle commanders to risk their heads to achieve better situational awarness. The commander's hatch of the M1 Abrams even accommodates for this by having a position that is open just enough for the TC to pop his head up but still have the hatch hovering over him. What Bohemia needs to do here is make it so that the commander and gunner can duck a little so that they aren't quite so exposed.
Its still definitely done today, it's very situational, if your commanders optic is out how are you gonna see far away, the issue tank crews binos, TCs will still poke her head out for a better view if necessary@@majorborngusfluunduch8694
Because tiny HE rounds (32g of explosive in a M792 HEI-T vs 180g in a M67 frag) and slightly better AP (when 14.5 already pens everything in game) aren't enough to justify adding BMP-1/2.
I think the devs focused on the BTR-70 because they had access to a real one to record the audio from. It would be great if they had a more modern BTR but I think these are harder to get where the developer has their offices.
Lol you cant peak out anymore caus you have to hold the streering controls. Also people peak out their head when driving, i did it all the time in Arma 3 when driving in safe areas or RTB from a mission.
The animations are so underrated in this game. When I first installed it, i would just spend time getting in and out of a jeep in 3rd person. I still love it.
you can go into third person? (I just started playing today)
Being able to control how high your stick your head up is great idea.
@@Nutter-l3s comes down to being able to use the controls, if your standing on your seat to peak all the way out how your arms reaching the gas’s and wheel
the seats on many us vehicles adjust to certain heights irl as well, from eyeballs to fully out
I was a lav crew man from 03-07. Best job i ever had.
yeehaw
Cool! Have you checked out the LAV in game?
@@glennpeterson1357 I don't have reforger. I play Arma 3 a lot though. The thing that always bothered me was they never put the commander's 240 mounted on top. The best lav in arma 3 is the RHS mod.
@@keithallen2457 Reforger is pretty good these days. Depending what you’re into. I like PVP which I used to play on A3, but, TBH, I’ve not gone back because Reforger Conflict is just too good!
I was an optics tech with 1st LAR. I can smell the FRH. Lol
I was an lav25 gunner, and yes you can shoot the LAV 25 main gun and coax from the gunner seat while popped up I did it a few times.
that mustve been fking mental :D
2:27 I completely agree, utilizing the scroll wheel for gradual peaking would be great, they could even just use the existing stance scroll with ctrl + mousewheel
You would not have the hatch open in combat ever. That 25 is gonna rock your dome.
🤣
Your TBI is not service related.
The gun won't actually fire if the hatch is open. There is a inhibitor switch.
That doesn't matter in video games unless you have a mod that has that effect.
@@subjectc7505 there is over pressure and back blast effects coming with the next major update
its a 25mm not a 30mm
Still puts fear into the enemy's eyes😂
Ah, a fellow nerd.
Here’s something neat tho. All 25mm bushmaster chainguns to include the M2 upgrade to the M3 bradly are being swapped to 30mm to accommodate airburst munitions for anti drone and trench warfare
why was I thinking it was 30mm?
@@caracal3892 maybe cause you thought of the BMP-2 ?
@@caracal3892 soviets use 30mm on their IFVs so you probably though the americans do the same
did not knew we could poke the head out to see, thats cool
also, check the reconnaissance vehicles, there's left and right blinkers
very cool! Wish I had arma reforger. Arma 4's gonna be the ULTIMATE military simulator sandbox. So excited
@buggaming5346 we got GTA6 before Arma 4 lol.
Are you a bohemia bot lmao
@buggaming5346 this is arma 4
This is why Arma is my go to game for any military action.
Oh btw, the dust radius is not "Completely exaggerated" it's toned down... you should watch some videos of the real one firing. It's a monster.
In squad 44 there’s 2 positions of looking out the hatch. There’s fully standing and hunched which makes you a far more difficult target to hit.
Did they add that recently? I have not played post scriptum for a long time since after they added more detailed tank crew gameplay.
@ I’d say it’s been in the game since start of the year maybe? So the commander can get really low down looks almost exactly the same as Brad Pitts stance in fury when he and the other Sherman’s are attacking the tree line. Really low profile but still improved visibility over being button up!
@@Benjamin-578 Definitely an improvement then, but I'd say Caracal's suggestion of making it incremental for fine adjustments would be best.
The devs should watch these. Good constructive feedback!
Thanks!
will you make a video on the building destruction? i really wanna see what different things will destroy a building and i cant play till next weekend to test myself
I am uploading a video on building destruction now
@ amazing, love your videos man👍
scroll wheel stance adjustment could help with hatch peeking, being very fast coming down.. a feature I have been waiting for from arma 3 is left shouldering and further stance with ctrl d ctrl a. the head height scroll wheel could assist with getting the viewports more functional, having two states of turned in where there is a clipping/over viewport limit and turned out where you can lean up as far. I liked RO2 where you could click snap to each port, while some were on scrollwheel.
a feature that doesn't matter so much to me was being able to use your arms in arma 3 on some vehicles, while sitting out with a .308 laserbeam lmg.. but we really do need that as well.
Great video Caracal! As usual excellent attention to detail! :) I've been looking forward to the LAV for almost 2 years now! Those pesky BTRs will finally get some comeuppance! :)
Vanilla reforger is actually getting pretty good
I'm unsure how viable any ground vehicle will be in a game where arming every troop with AT weapons is trivial
Well the good news is the arsenal has certain weapons and items rank locked, meaning the rpg will not be as accessible as it is now (atleast in the early stages of the match).
They made weight more impactful on movement, so not everyone should be running around with RPGs
@smokecrash2147 The weight change is decent but still seems a lot of people are still using similar loadouts
@@StevenSeagul783 this plus weight tweaks will hopefully be helpful to the problem
@@StevenSeagul783I would like to see rockets and suppressors locked behind Sergeant, and grenade launchers under corporal
The "25" in LAV-25 means 25mm bushmaster
how do you go third person?
Idk how warping inside the vehicle is still a thing…. Frustrates the hell out of me knowing that I remember picking dudes off climbing inside the hatch of a tank in COD3 for PS3…. But new AAA games, or AA games like Squad and HLL, still only do warping. It’s been like 20 years since COD3 lol
Will the gun on the lav be stabilized? Or is it?
Do we know when this update is coming
This needs to be in VR.
Can you use your rifle from some turned out positions like in arma 3? that was a great feature now and then. It was nice to turn out for extra visibility when you were in an area where you weren't risking sniper fire, which is accurate.
Currently not, however arma3 had this feature so I think refrogger will have it too.
@ yeah I hope so. It was also spotty with some vehicles having it and others not depending on mods. It was nice because you could use the optic on your rifle to spot a target for the unmagnified 50cal
Had to click on this video immediately since I was an LAV crewman.
2nd LAR battalion, Alpha Co.
USMC
Victory to the bold!
Using the scrollwheel to raise your head out would feel quite intuitive I guess
2:27 Tankers refer to this as "eyeball defilade"
Little bit offtopic. Looks like they trying to go for realistic sounds, including realistic (or better word authentic) dynamic range between quiet sound (steps) and loud (gunshot, explosion) but they made echo/tails are too loud. I remember the sound of 14mm gun when you sitting inside btr-80, you don hear any echo/tail.
Are you able to use the binoculars from the hatch?
Hello!
I have one comment, the question is not really related to this post.
I'm curious why the SVD only has the option of a PSO 1 riflescope with 4x magnification.
As far as I've researched on the net, there are other riflescopes for the SVD with higher magnification, but I don't know if they were used during the USSR or later.
If we compare them with the M21 and the 3-9x riflescope, the Soviet side is very underpowered.
Do you perhaps know something more about riflescopes for the SVD during the USSR?
Thanks
The only soviet era SVD scope i can find that isn't either a PSO, A copy of a PSO, or a night vision scope (as night vision hasn't been implemented) is the 1P21, a weird 3-9x scope only adopted at some point in 1989 (the same year the game is set, so it's possible it hadn't been adopted by whatever month the game is in and wouldn'tve been widely fielded). It adjusted zero alongside the magnification, so increasing the magnification also adjusted the elevation. It's in the RHS mod though.
PSO is the optic for this game's setting.
Only the PSO-1 and 1PN58 (night scope) was used during the soviet era.
Technically the 1P29 and PGO-7 should also fit on the SVD (and PSO should fit on AK-74N/RPK-74N) but they would be rather useless as they aren’t calibrated for that caliber of weapon
The dust kick up from the detonation of the HE round is more realistic than not. If they can get a vacuum effect on the smoke (all converges to the epicentre of the blast). That would be epic. games are not dusty enough
Will they update the entry animations for other vehicles since they are making the LAV have a better animation for entering it?
does it go in the water?
Yes
i still want them to add the m113 apc for the usa = it makes it fair the the rus have 2 apc's
Lav is getting a 25mm Soviets are stuck with a 14mm
@@PandaGaming-pc2xv they aren't add tracked vehicles
@@PandaGaming-pc2xv united states have the 50 cal jeep and humvee which are more maneuverable and can kill apcs easily
@@TheRealObj292The LAV-25 only has protection against non-AP 7.62x54Rmm, even a well aimed GP-25 can mobility kill it.
did you try ctrl+z to look out of the driver seat?
Hey, do you know if the Lav-25 has a stabilizer for the gun when driving?
It does
I know the US Army used LAV-25s in the late-80s (the 82nd Airborne still uses some today) but I really wish we got the Bradley for the Americans instead.
2:17 Good idea. Maybe use ctrl-scroll wheel on PC?
I like to think of the LAV-25 as an M2/M3 Bradley made for US Marines. It's light, amphibious, but still packs enough firepower for those jarheads to take out just about anything short of a Main Battle Tank. The 25mm Bushmaster cannon is the very same as the Bradley's. Not much armor however, so it's relatively balanced.
But did you see the 25mm work that T-90 in Ukraine? Totally messed it up.
is the US faction the Army or the Marines in Reforger?
It's Army, I think both sides are modeled after specific formations in real life, not sure which
The army had lav 25 in the 80s and also today the 82nd ab uses it too
I don't think the commander has his own independent periscope in the lav25 like you would have with other vehicles like the BDRM-2. . If you at the sights they look like an identical copy if what the gunner has, coupled with the same hand controller. Externally the optical port on the commander's side is fixed to the turret, just like gunners.
I think the commander simply has the options to take control away from the gunner to control gunner sights if needed. I would expect this to implemented similarly to how pilot/copilot can lock or handoff controls to each other in helicopter, but would instead be applied to the rotation of the turret and use of owns one gunnery optics.
I really wish the Russian would actually get some decent armor. You can kill a whole ass btr with a m60.. same with the brdm too im sure .
I know we're getting rockets for helicopters but the russians are seriously outmatched with this going to the Americans.
I really think we should get T72's and Abrams man..
Is this in every version of the game? I have yet to see one on ps5
@@jamesnoonan2009 So I bought the game on Xbox, so I'm not sure if it works the same, but with regular Arma, came the experimental branch which you have to install, and even then, they haven't pushed this out to console quite yet in fear of playability issues
Comment regarding equipment
Does anyone know how the equipment is selected.
say LAV 25 and BRDM2
LAV 25 in service 1983
main armament M242 Bushmaster 25 mm
BRDM2 in service 1962
main armament 14.5 mm KPVT
I don't think you should compare these two vehicles based on their characteristics..
It would be more comparable if the USSR side had
BMP2 in service 1980
with main armament 30 mm 2A42
In general, I think that the USSR's armament is undernourished, but not from the point of view that the Soviets did not have similar armament to America at that time.
I think the ARMA developers have a bit of a biased view of equipment.
This is just my opinion
What are your opinions?
I think so too. The gear selection appears to favor soviets getting equipment that is 20 years older. I think there are some historical biases, and perhaps also the devs having easy access to a real BTR-70 from somewhere to model it and record the audio. That may explain the presence of a BTR-70, and not a BTR-80.
Someone else also told me that most of the advanced soviet weapons on vehicles at this time were tracked vehicles and refrogger has no tracked vehicles. A BMP-1 would be a very powerful vehicle in the current game setting.
The choice of the LAV-25 is strange as well. The US faction is listed as the US army and this is reinforced with the selection of the UH-1H to be their helicopter (as opposed to the UH-1N for the Marines). The Army did borrow a handful of LAVs during Desert Storm and were the largest client for the vehicle during its development before pulling out of the program, but generally the LAV-25 is a Marine Corps vehicle. The only explanation is that the only alternative would be the tracked M2/3 Bradley and for some reason bohemia doesnt want to model tracked vehicles for Reforger.
Lav25 can be penetrated by some 7,62 rounds, 338, 308 and ofcourse all bigged calibers. That was not implemented.
I saw on experimental last night a rifle grenade going through it on the side. Not sure if it was a soviet rifle grenade or an american HEDP because the shooter was on the soviet side, however he may have looted an american grenade launcher m203
Is this in vanilla or just a mod?
experimental branch, testing for upcoming updates.
@@noahforester7715 thank you brother
Yes thank you sir
It's a 1990 era game and it's missing most cold war weapons
cause its a preview of arma4
Use BTR commander optics to spot, that's what it's for
They should just give in and add a tank at this point
Tanks have tracks. Tracked vehicles have their own physics and mechanics they have to implement. The tanks available in 1989 also have things like advanced composite armor, explosive reactive armor kits, thermal and night vision optics, gun/turret stabilization systems, human loader positions for Western tanks and auto loaders for eastern bloc tanks and so on. They aren't a trivial addition and the LAV doesn't progress much us towards tanks mechanics wise.
I noticed when enemies shoot a GP near the driver place you get thrown out of the vehicle, quite dumb imho
Tank and vic crews never fully expose themselves lol, they only ever have their heads out for better view while driving. Its not done in combat for obvious reasons, and i'd imagine the same effect of being killed will apply in AR.
Maybe not today, but in 1989 it was still common practice for vehicle commanders to risk their heads to achieve better situational awarness. The commander's hatch of the M1 Abrams even accommodates for this by having a position that is open just enough for the TC to pop his head up but still have the hatch hovering over him. What Bohemia needs to do here is make it so that the commander and gunner can duck a little so that they aren't quite so exposed.
@@majorborngusfluunduch8694 Thanks for the insight, I agree with ya.
Its still definitely done today, it's very situational, if your commanders optic is out how are you gonna see far away, the issue tank crews binos, TCs will still poke her head out for a better view if necessary@@majorborngusfluunduch8694
wait.. does this mean soviets can throw grenades down the hatches?
Is it a mod or vanilla
Willl 25mm HE do anything to btrs?
The btr gets shredded by .50cal 12.7mm 25ap will kill what you think he will do to paper gin armor
SO COOL
Can't find this vehicle in game. Not even in game master.....
5:23 haha it’s very Arma that’s for sure lol
They need to stop adding vehicles without periscopes. Like add a basic view like the gunner has at least.
Why the game is unfinished it's v 1.3 bruh this game should be full of content like its lacking most of Cold War weapons and equipment and vehicles
The Devs use it for features to put into Arma 4, they never said it's meant to be a game.
but all of that was in mods added early 2024
Nice vid
I hate the fact that hand guns and 5.56 rounds can penetrate through the hummer and other vehicles. It goes straight through both doors when shot...
Why would they give the US a 25mm and not give USSR an equivalent? -_-
rpg-7
How long did the US not have an equivalent to the BTR? 😅
Having said that a BTR-80A or better the BTR-82A would be a viable counterpart I think.
Because tiny HE rounds (32g of explosive in a M792 HEI-T vs 180g in a M67 frag) and slightly better AP (when 14.5 already pens everything in game) aren't enough to justify adding BMP-1/2.
I think the devs focused on the BTR-70 because they had access to a real one to record the audio from. It would be great if they had a more modern BTR but I think these are harder to get where the developer has their offices.
@@brexxes reforger is set in '89, the BTR-80A was adopted in '94 and the BTR-82A was adopted in 2013.
i bought thegame but there is nothing
Y on a German keyboard is Z on English and Я on Russian keyboards.
Us console players can’t play 1.3 experimental only pc can
I Believe that xbox gets the test servers it's just a different app from the actual game
@@greyg262No hes right, this update isnt currently available for xbox experimental
@@birdwithagun124 ahh I see
Hello guys when this update come??
Just as Oliver said I also heard around a month.
Need Russian T- tanks and american m60s😊. Lav nice adition
They really need to make it possible not to stand straight the fuck up when up top.
This is a mod right?
No this is whats coming next update
German keyboard? I had assumed you're dutch
Thus it's name
Lol you cant peak out anymore caus you have to hold the streering controls.
Also people peak out their head when driving, i did it all the time in Arma 3 when driving in safe areas or RTB from a mission.
Imagine dayz 2.0 on this. Ahh man. I know thjere are modded servers but.
The armor is inaccurate, should withstand up to 50 cal on all sides except back
Drivers are buttoned down in combat. What you're asking for is incredibly arcadey.
Thumbnail looks like a photo
Such a shit game
Ok, sweetie. It’s time to go back to bed.