noted What's the deal with missing crew for all the new ground units

[NineLine]

1 hour ago, twistking said:

Not sure if joking or not, but since the release of those AAA guns, ED has released a lot of extremely high detail ground units; a lot of those being way less relevant for actual gameplay. Those man-hours should have been allocated to finishing what's already released. And this is a case where man-hours should be equivalent: I assume that modelling and animations are done by the same people. If ED had fulltime animators, we would not have that awkward situation in the first place...

We do have full-time animators, but they are busy guys. While accurately and fully animated crews would be nice for each and every model we do, in some cases, we did not have time or the resources for it. As an example, the A-10C II new pilot model is coming; it's waiting on animations to be completed. 

[twistking]

1 minute ago, NineLine said:

We do have full-time animators, but they are busy guys. While accurately and fully animated crews would be nice for each and every model we do, in some cases, we did not have time or the resources for it. As an example, the A-10C II new pilot model is coming; it's waiting on animations to be completed. 

Fair enough. I still think that even static crew (no animations other than perhaps separate dead/alive states) would be much better than unmanned guns. Might look weird in promotional close-up videos, but would provide a much better game play experience.

[draconus]

On 9/26/2025 at 10:54 PM, twistking said:

Fair enough. I still think that even static crew (no animations other than perhaps separate dead/alive states) would be much better than unmanned guns. Might look weird in promotional close-up videos, but would provide a much better game play experience.

I agree but it's not that simple to just throw some model there. Every soldier is expected to have his own hit box/DM (if you kill the crew the unit is not dead but is not active either and it changes the gameplay) and IR layer. Its placement may collide with rotation or elevation of the unit/gun unless smartly connected. Anyway I support.