Searching for SP user made missions akin to "Badlands/Dogs of War".

[JunkyardDog 1]

Hello guys.

I've recently purchased Arma2 CO, and have been playing the campaign's Badlands/Dogs of War missions and I fell in love with the RTS aspect of it. However I noticed several things that were bothering me. They were too easy; the enemy AI never put up much of a fight due to being clunky, with average aim, slow reaction times, and numbers. The enemy never had significant amount of troops, and never used tanks or helicopters against me. And it was always the same scenario over and over again.

So I was told, well, the game's been out for several years now, the community has built upon it massively. Go search for user made missions.

Here's the crux of my problem.

I have been completely overwhelmed by the massive amount of user made missions and modifications available for this game, that I simply do not even know where to start.

Would someone be so kind as to point me in the right direction where I could find some kind of dynamic user made mission that's like Badlands or Dogs of War, but significantly harder in terms of enemy resistance?

[gunso 10]

you can try Gossamer warefare or Benny warefare, Benny warefare need to run using dedicated server for it to work properly.

Just go to your arma 2 folder and run the arma2oaserver.exe, then run your game. Goto multiplayer and you will see your server in local instead of internet. Join in, choose a mission (hope u download it and put it in the MP folder), then vote yourself as admin and you can change the mission parameter and activate the enemy AI.

[JunkyardDog 1]

Hi again.

Thanks for the tip, I've downloaded Benny's Warfare, since Goss' didn't seem to have functional AI.

I don't want to create a separate thread for my new issue, so I'll just leave it here.

After several days of on and off tinkering ( my god, it's difficult to set up a dedicated server ) I got everything working just fine, with a server.cfg, both ARMA2 and ARMA2OA content enabled, but I ran into a problem.

Every time I try to run Warfare on a dedicated server, or -any- user name mission I've put into the MPmissions folder, it simply refuses to load.

1. If I enter my server as a user and vote on a user made map, the voting countdown goes from sixty to zero, then hangs indefinitely, not loading the map.

2. If I force the server to load the map as an admin in the voting screen, it forcefully puts me back into the voting screen.

3. If I force the server to load the map through the "class missions" parameter, when I join I'm stuck on 'Waiting for host' with a black screen, and my server's message log is spammed with 'Benny's Warfare read from databank' over, and over, and over again every second.

I can load user made missions okay if I just host it through the game's client, not a dedicated server. In other words, my dedicated server doesn't want to load user made missions, and I do not know what's wrong. What should I do at this point?

[jedra 11]

If you check the rpt files for the client and the server it will give you an indication as to why the mission isn't loading.

By default the report files will be in;

c:\users\[windows user name]\AppData\Local\ArmA 2 OA\

arma2oa.rpt

arma2oaserver.rpt

are the files you want to check.