MagR 10 Posted December 23, 2010 Hi I've just ordered Arma II and while waiting for it to be delivered I'm trying to work out which patch I need (I will only be playing the singleplayer campaign if that is relevant). I downloaded patch 1.08 - about 323MB - assuming it was cumulative. However the patch notes that came with it are a bit confusing and suggest this is an incremental patch. Can anyone help - if I install the vanilla version of the game will patch 1.08 bring it to the current version or do I have to install 1.01, 1.02 etc all the way through. Your help will be much appreciated. Regards Mag Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Undeceived 392 Posted December 23, 2010 (edited) Welcome, MagR! 1) Install Arma 2 2) Install Patch 1.08 and you're completely updated and done for Arma 2. If you order Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead later (which I would recommend), then do the following: 3) Install A2: OA 4) Install Patch 1.57 So far there are two DLCs for Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead: British Armed Forces (BAF) and Private Military Company (PMC). BAF is at 1.02 at the moment and PMC at 1.01. If you have the DLCs: The latest versions are also included in the OA patch 1.57. One last thing: You say you ordered Arma II. If by this you should mean Arma 2: Combined Operations, then you made the right choice ;) and ordered Arma 2 and Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead together in one game. In this case you only need to install Patch 1.57. The latest patch for Arma 2 is also included in this one. Edited December 23, 2010 by Undeceived Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MagR 10 Posted December 23, 2010 Thanks very much for your comprehensive advice. I wish there was a convention everyone used when releasing patches where they used a suffix such as "C" for cumulative and "I" for incremental so newcomers like me knew which to use straight away! I've also ordered Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising from the same retailer and downloaded two patches in anticipation only to find the second one is cumulative - I can't win! Thanks again Mag Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dale0404 5 Posted December 23, 2010 Thanks very much for your comprehensive advice. I wish there was a convention everyone used when releasing patches where they used a suffix such as "C" for cumulative and "I" for incremental so newcomers like me knew which to use straight away! I've also ordered Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising from the same retailer and downloaded two patches in anticipation only to find the second one is cumulative - I can't win!Thanks again Mag Why oh WHY!!!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SteveJA 12 Posted December 23, 2010 (edited) I've also ordered Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising - I can't win!Mag Quick hit the cancel order to avoid dissapointment and a waste of money!!! In my (and 99% of this communitys) honest opinon. http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=104134 This is why /\ and \/ I take it it's perfectly acceptable to promise free updates and perhaps even some good DLC post-release, and then get a couple sub-par DLCs adding hastily thrown-together maps that no one played more than once, plus, I think, what, two patches? The first one locking out all forms of modding all together, the second one causing severe system usage for everyone using it. Not only that, but they never fixed that bug with the latest patch for DR, they just dropped support for it entirely and moved on to the sequel - Red River which, wouldn't you know it, has no ability to create community content what-so-ever. They got all the money they figured they could out of DR, so why should they continue supporting it? That certainly showed their true colors. Not only that, but they showed such abysmal community support with a brand synonymous with dedicated post-release development and improvement.You think it's blind to dislike CM after they pulled crap like that? What, do you need to literally have a CM representative come, steal your wallet and kick you in the nuts before you can dislike them? :p I didn't like the game itself, and I thought it was not a true testament to what OFP stood for, but what irked me the most about DR was how terrible CM supported it, and how fraudulent they acted. Supposed "fanboism" to OFP aside, I will never stand for developers who treat their customers like dirt. I will also not stand people who defend such actions as well. Edited December 23, 2010 by SteveJA360 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
