Harvest Red

[Whitebishop 10]

Having played all official campaigns and some good ones designed by community, I feel compelled to say that the original Harvest Red Campaing (despite a few glitches here and there) is unmatched in terms of level desing, replayability, immersion and general feeling.

[Hanzu 10]

I think so too and I have also put a lot of effort on reporting campign related bugs to CIT to has less and less bugs each time play or replay Harvest Red campaign. However I think playing Harvest Red campaign cooperatively on multiplayer triples the amount of glitches here and there.

I have no exp in community campaigns since official missions take all my limited Arma2 gaming time, but according to your report I could assume Harvest Red starts getting closer to best community campaigns in functionality and stability. Immersion may be experienced differently according to person who is playing. For example when I played campaign cooperatively with my friends most of them disliked the fact that their character talked too much about their current feelings without staying calm and over reacting things with using profanity. So that seemed to be a biggest immersion killers for them. I also disliked the fact that when some discussion was triggered characters 2, 3 and 4 liked to send their stupid radiomessages like "WHERE ARE YOU" or "REPORT POSITION" and this way cutting and distorting the triggered conversation cooper was having with some other character. The right way to do it would have been to make AI characters to shut up when discussion or cutscene is on. All in all spatial immersion, tactical immersion and strategic immersion are really convincing. Narrative immersion is worst with all that overacting, shouting and excess profanity.

General feeling is a lot of about taste, but there were really a lot of special things which I liked for example that completing Bitter Chill and Delaying the bear is possible without anyone from Razor Team firing a single shot.

Edited February 1, 2011 by Hanzu