Operation Arrowhead with older campaigns

[louthelou 1]

My brother and I were playing through a previous campaign in the OA client. We were going through it just fine, until we came to this mission which required us to ride in a low-flying transport plane. The problem with that is, the plane's flight path causes it to crash into the trees (it doesn't pull up fast enough). It's not a one-time glitch, either. Every time we ran that mission, the plane crashed into the trees, thus making the rest of the campaign unplayable.

Anyone else encountered this? If so, has it been fixed? I don't remember the specific mission where this happened (it was a long while ago), but there can't be that many which have you sitting passenger in a low-flying plane.

P.S. I'll see if I can't find the specific mission.

EDIT 1: It's the mission Manhattan in the Harvest Red campaign. You'll have to give me a few to find out if it's still a problem, because when I simply start from that mission, everyone who is riding in the plane dies 10 seconds into the mission - probably a result of the "saved game" and changes which have been made in patches. I'll post back after I've played through the previous mission and tested this plane ride again. .... I suppose I should have done all this before posting. :-X

EDIT 2: Yeah, it's not me. I played through from the previous mission, and when I started Manhattan, my crew started dead. I backed out to the menu, Reverted the mission, started it, and my guys died within 10 seconds, as though they were constantly being damaged in small amounts - probably by the movement of the plane? But yeah. I'm verifying my game cache through Steam now, but I doubt that will fix my problem.

EDIT 3: Damn. 2 files failed to validate and were downloaded, but it did not alleviate this issue.

Edited May 18, 2013 by louthelou

[louthelou 1]

Ok. It's not just the OA client which causes this problem. Even running the base ARMA2 executable, I have this problem. I cannot complete the Manhattan mission because all of my guys die right at the beginning of the mission. I reverted, so as to start with mission defaults, and it still doesn't work.

I stopped playing ARMA because of this a long time ago. I stopped playing Carrier Command because of the pathfinding fails in that game (though, after playing ARMA and watching NPCs attempt to drive, the retardedness of Walruses is not really surprising). I'm beginning to wonder how BI is still around. - Oh yeah. People mostly play ARMA, and mostly play it multiplayer, thereby being able to circumvent the AI fails.

Seriously guys. Hire a/another pathfinding/AI specialist, because the resources you currently possess really don't cut it. What you do well, you do really well (graphics, realism, etc.), but what you don't do well, you are... let's just say, not very good at (namely, AI)(and that is putting it NICELY).

And yes, my current ARMA problem isn't AI related (though, I suppose that depends on your definition of the responsibilities of "AI"), but that doesn't change anything.

P.S. The About page for Bohemia Interactive contains an error or two. First, Arma2 is 13th on PC Gamer's 100 Best PC Games of All Time list, not 14th. Also, I don't think PC Gamer has ever given out an award for a game being "Most PC" (though this one could be attributed to a language issue (i.e. "most" instead of "best"), but of course, this can't be checked, as the 2009 list from PC Gamer isn't available anywhere (that I could find)). If I were you, I'd fix this, as I find the fact that the About page for your company (which probably doesn't see that many changes) contains errors to be indicative of the capabilities of the company as a whole.

P.P.S. Your forums do not function in Internet Explorer 10; no action can be taken which requires logging in, because it always says you need to log in, even if you already have. Also, I feel you need to extend the logout timer on the forums. If I log in to post something, I shouldn't have to log in again when I am done typing it just because it took a few minutes.

Edited May 19, 2013 by louthelou