Army Units not Marine Units

[a hidden soul 10]

Hello everyone. I'm in a realism unit that's based off the Marine Corps. I want to use a Army replacement pack but the server doesn't have Army units only Marines. So my question would be, how would I get the replacement pack to work? When I go into game it loads the Marine units instead of the replacement pack.

I've asked this question at my unit's forums and the best answer I got was this;

"You need a replacement config to tell your Arma to load the Army units instead of the Marine units. This is completely a client-side thing and has nothing to do with the server. That means someone has to write this config file for you, or you can do it yourself.

You would have much better luck asking this question on either the Armaholic or BIS forums."

I use ArmA2 Launcher to enable all of my mods.

The replacements I want to work are the following;

ACU's

http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=7165

http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=14989

Multicam

http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=15320

If you guys/gals need anymore information please feel free to ask and I'll get back to you ASAP. Thank you for your time.

SORRY IF I POSTED THIS IN THE WRONG PLACE!

Edited July 18, 2013 by Foxhound
moved to correct section

[orcinus 121]

Hello everyone. I'm in a realism unit that's based off the Marine Corps. I want to use a Army replacement pack but the server doesn't have Army units only Marines. So my question would be, how would I get the replacement pack to work? When I go into game it loads the Marine units instead of the replacement pack.

I've asked this question at my unit's forums and the best answer I got was this;

"You need a replacement config to tell your Arma to load the Army units instead of the Marine units. This is completely a client-side thing and has nothing to do with the server. That means someone has to write this config file for you, or you can do it yourself.

You would have much better luck asking this question on either the Armaholic or BIS forums."

I use ArmA2 Launcher to enable all of my mods.

The replacements I want to work are the following;

ACU's

http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=7165

http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=14989

Multicam

http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=15320

If you guys/gals need anymore information please feel free to ask and I'll get back to you ASAP. Thank you for your time.

SORRY IF I POSTED THIS IN THE WRONG PLACE!

Assuming you're logging on to an MP server, the answer is that you cannot. The server (or specifically, the mission running on the server) controls what if any units are in the mission. These have to be global (the same on every client) & AFAIK are spawned on the server. I suspect that the config file change might result in problems wrt the keys, but anyway only you would see changes (if any) in the units. What if they have different weapons to those 'seen' on other clients? - fubar.

If you want the mission to use different units, you have to ask the server admin to make a different version. Then anyone wanting to play that mission will need to have the requisite addons/mods downloadedd and installed on their PCs.

Similarly, in SP; loading say the UNSUNG mod & launching Harvest Red would be a waste of time as it's the mission that specifies the units. It would not - could not - use VN era USMC for example.

Edited July 21, 2013 by Orcinus