I'd love a future co-op commando mission expansion some day - a new set of, perhaps slightly smaller, maps. They'd be intended for commando style play, and probably stealth, so human players only: no friendly bots (and therefore like Copehill Down map). They'd each have a unique mission. Here are some ideas? What else would other players like to see?
1) Capturing some V.I.P. warlord/drug baron type from their base.
There'd be some base/compound/citadel to attack and in the final lair there'd be the VIP and his bodyguard. They'd be programmed not to leave the final lair. The VIP would have a gold desert eagle and an infinite armored vest (i.e. he couldn't be killed but he could be knocked over by gunfire/explosives like other players). He'd have a bodyguard of maybe half a dozen uber-bots, like the officers with vests and rare weapons. You would have to take out all the bodyguard first and then the VIP would surrender and map finished.
2) A convoy. Some trucks that you have to escort through a rocky, winding ravine.
If blown up, the trucks would respawn at the start. Say, there are five trucks at the start and the aim is to get five original or re-spawned trucks over the finish line for victory.
There could be a river as well, that forces the road to cross it using bridges at points on the map.
A general "one side of the map to the other" game, on a longer, narrower map, with good height on each side like the east ridge on Rattlesnake Crescent (but with impassable points at the top occasionally so you couldn't walk right along the top of the ridge, like on that map).
3) Capturing some briefcase from somewhere.
This briefcase would glow gold, like the one in Pulp Fiction. You'd have to capture the briefcase (which could perhaps maybe be in one of a few random locations) and then return it to your home base.
Once captured the briefcase would have a map marker.
There could be some semi-uncapturable enemy spawn bases (like the enemy ones on Vigil Island) and so the person carrying the briefcase back home might be shot often. Then it could be that it takes several players' lives, with the briefcase changing hands a few times between players, before getting it home to victory.
4) Infiltrating and blowing up some dam complex.
5) Freeing some prisoners. Probably set in the jungle like the Rambo/Killing Fields movies, liberating US POWs from the Vietnam War.
There could be one or several prisoners to free. Maybe you'd get to the prisoners, possibly capturing zones in the process. Then the freed prisoners would start with body armour vests and would be programmed to start running towards the home base (maybe some cardboard helicopters). There'd be some uncapturable enemy spawn points so there'd still be enemy bots on the way back home and so players would have to ensure the freed prisoners returned home safely. Medikits essential.
6) I'd like to see a big base on a mountain top. Something with a big height difference effect, like the ridge on Rattlesnake Crescent. This would be a big walled base, at least as big as west and east bases on Fridge Valley put together.
The mountain would be in the middle of the map so you could walk around it at the bottom at the edges of the map and go up it at various points.
I'm not sure whether the RWR game engine goes below ground level, but the unique feature of this map could be that the edge of the map is below ground-level, to give it some real verticality and the height perspective of a mountain base. It would be a challenge to push the engine to its workable limits in a vertical sense. For example, having the central part of the map set at the height of east ridge on Rattlesnake Crescent would be too close to the camera, so to speak, perspective-wise.
7) Some sea-based map which uses the patrol boat/rubber boats.
Maybe a harbour, capturing a ship. This could be capturing an enemy ship or it could be a friendly ship that you have to re-capture from pirates or other enemy.
Or maybe the aim is to blow up some heavily guarded enemy ship with C4.
Players could maybe start the game from a submarine spawn point (a cardboard one, like the aircraft carrier in Black Gold Estuary), and they'd have to use the rubber boats for a bit to get to the target in the harbour. Maybe there could be a couple of enemy guard rubber boats patrolling the waters on the way. Maybe the harbour mouth is guarded by watchposts.
8) Some sort of oil rig complex with the game on raised platforms and suchlike above the sea.
I'm not a computer programmer so I don't know the technical terms! But a lot of the objects in the 3D environment would be see-through objects, like the metalwork on the two big radio towers you can run up in Copehill Down - metal walkways connecting platforms with the sea below.
9) Attacking and capturing some island, like Vigil Island but maybe different location, and you start the game on rubber boats from the sea. Maybe it is a pirate island.
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