OA- Waypoints Don't Seem to Exist

[viewtifuljon 10]

Hi. Sorry, if this has been asked before, but I just purchased Operation Arrowhead. I'm experiencing an unusual problem involving waypoints. Mainly, that they don't exist.

I first noticed the issue when I was playing the demo and couldn't find the location of my objective. After I had purchased the game I noticed that I could not complete the "Night Ops" training mission at the part where it told me to "Go to the waypoint". It wasn't on my HUD, and it wasn't on my map. I even looked at a video of the mission, and wen to the place where I was supposed to go, but that didn't seem to trigger anything.

Now I'm noticing that waypoints don't seem to exist anywhere. I didn't really care until the campaign became unplayable on the second mission when I had no idea where I was supposed to go in the military base.

I have tried updating drivers, reinstalling the game, checking the difficulty options (the issue persists even on Recruit difficulty with extended HUD info on, etc), and searching seems to provide no results.

Has this been seen before? Any ideas?

Again, my apologies if I'm overlooking something, or this has been asked before.

I really don't think anyone will need my system specs, but here they are just in case: Core 2 Duo E8400 @ 3.6 GHz, Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit, Geforce 9800 GTX+, 4 GB RAM. Playing on the Steam version of the game.

Many thanks.

[avengerzx 10]

It must be some kind of bug, It wasnt there in the older patches

[viewtifuljon 10]

A small update. It seems to only be certain waypoints that are missing. I can create a waypoint with the mission editor, and play as the character that it is for, and the waypoint is displayed and active.

Also, the "challenges" or whatever in the armory work fine. They'll give me visible waypoints.

However, none of the Scenarios, Campaign missions, or training missions give me any sort of waypoint ever, with the exception of the occasional "FOLLOW" waypoint on my CO.

EDIT: In addition, all waypoints on ArmA II vanilla work fine. I have no mods installed.

Edited November 17, 2010 by viewtifuljon
forgot something

[node_runner 0]

I'm having the same problem! I'm running the Steam version of both ArmA 2 and OA, fully patched, and no mods. I'm using dual ATI Radeon 5870's on my rig.

I first noticed it on the same boot camp mission where a waypoint doesn't show up for me during the "night ops" mission. I've noticed the same behavior is some of the other campaign missions, such as the 2nd campaign mission where you command an M1A1 and a small armor convoy. I had to watch someone else play the mission because the waypoint never pointed me to the M1A1 and I wasn't sure where I was supposed to go when I started the mission.

[Jagermeister 0]

Same exact thing happening to me. Was working fine and when I got to the Night Ops tutorial I noticed there was no waypoint on my hud. I restarted the game and no luck. I went on to the parachute tutorial and there was no waypoint there as well.

ATI Radeon 5850 here.

I'm having the same problem! I'm running the Steam version of both ArmA 2 and OA, fully patched, and no mods. I'm using dual ATI Radeon 5870's on my rig.

I first noticed it on the same boot camp mission where a waypoint doesn't show up for me during the "night ops" mission. I've noticed the same behavior is some of the other campaign missions, such as the 2nd campaign mission where you command an M1A1 and a small armor convoy. I had to watch someone else play the mission because the waypoint never pointed me to the M1A1 and I wasn't sure where I was supposed to go when I started the mission.

[node_runner 0]

It looks like a bug report has already been submitted to the CIS here: http://dev-heaven.net/issues/15191

If you guys notice any other missions where this is happening, it might help if you add those to the comments section of the bug report.

[FrozenII 10]

I have exactly the same problem and i just bought this game 2 days ago from steam running on high quality

[rok 0]

Test with latest beta version. Issue should be fixed in it:

http://www.arma2.com/beta-patch.php

http://forums.bistudio.com/forumdisplay.php?f=82

[boneboys 0]

The way-points show up when running in the editor. Once exported to SP they just don't show.

Testing my own missions here.

Will take a look with the latest beta....

EDIT: Way-points work with the latest beta.

Edited November 29, 2010 by BoneBoys