Hi guys
Yes I've been using Lightwave since v5.6 (still got the cd somewhere). This update looks great, I'll be upgrading for sure. Bullet dynamics along with fracture and flocking will open up a whole bunch of opportunities for some interesting scenes and effects (flocking excites me the most). There's nothing that new here though, many other programs have had these abilities for ages (I'm thinking Maya mostly) and this fact has held back Lightwave and its users, hopefully that is about to change.
Soft-body dynamics have been in LW for a while, hidden away mind you, far right tab of the object properties you've got SoftFX, HardFX, and ClothFX and some emitter, collision detection, wind and gravity. It's there but not particularly intuitive or fast. Hopefully some of these new features will also speed up workflow in the older features, hopefully ...
Object sequence export is possible, just can't remember how off hand!
cheer
Richard