ArmA Progress Updates

[tkokid 0]

hows about stop flip floping around with the front page of this site and do some real work pls

[max power 21]

I hope this classifies as a progress release, and I hope I'm not repeating anyone.

http://firingsquad.com/features/armed_assault_interview/

Mmm.. that's good information!

[Bush 0]

firingsquad ArmA interview

[Guest Ti0n3r]

W00t! New superb pics of US soldiers in ACU cam.

I'll read the interview later, for now - I must dance like an idiot for 30 minutes

[adumb 0]

Quote[/b] ]FiringSquad: What can you tell us about some of the more unique features from this game that will make it stand out from the crowd?

Paul R. Statham: things such as: Multiple gunner positions on vehicles

[M4XSs 0]

Many interesting features are confirmed now.

Thanks plaintiff and bush!

[Sniperwolf572 758]

Quote[/b] ]bullet kinetic energy

Finally I get to use the banana smiley too.

[kernriver 4]

Quote from the interview: Paul R. Statham:...If we were to try to release some kind of half baked, dumbed down concept in our new game we'd most likely be lynched, so fortunately for us that was something we could never consider...

Does this need a comment at all?

Another qoute: ...if you stare at the sun you damage your eyesight, common sense really!... OMG!!! can it get more realistyc than i thought?

And another: ...Then a level beyond that we're going to have hard coded into the game a mode of play similar to the immensely popular capture the island, this aims to be a persistent, largescale conflict, fought over the whole island for hours, even days at a time... YESSS!!!

Go BIS, we're with you all the way!

Great find, plaintiff1 and bush

Edit:

[Guest Ti0n3r]

Definetly the most informative interview since a few months back. Accurate weapon recoils sounds very nice. It was one of the things I always missed in vanilla Ofp.

PS: It's always on a Friday

[martinovic 0]

I hope they give those CTIs a more realistic flavour then the arcade RTS immitations, like establishing/capturing beachheads, airfields, landing zones instead of building factories, etc. With lots of amphibious and air units, indirect fire, with only a few tanks, as it would be in real life when you try to capture an island. (capture, not "glass" - that would be the most realistic).

[D.murphy man 0]

Well it just keeps getting better and better BIS have created the ultimate soldier sim, once again. Well done guys!

Edit: Also it says 60 players mininum

Just imagine! 30 vs 30, with each player having 12 AI units to command... It could possibly be the largest MP battle ever....

[Journeyman 0]

"...we're looking at releasing the tools they need around the same time as the game ships and we're already working on the documentation they'll need to use the tools."

.... This is gonna be one 'mother' of a modding platform! The groundwork is already laid this time, no more working it all out with trail and error! I bet no one will get even half way through the Sahrani campaign before the first addons and mods are released!    

[hellfish6 7]

Well it just keeps getting better and better BIS have created the ultimate soldier sim, once again. Well done guys!

Edit: Also it says 60 players mininum

Just imagine! 30 vs 30, with each player having 12 AI units to command... It could possibly be the largest MP battle ever....

If you had a 1GB LAN connection and everyone with top of the line machines, maybe... but I don't know if 60 people on standard internet connections with older machines could pull off having 11 AI each...

[D.murphy man 0]

Well it just keeps getting better and better BIS have created the ultimate soldier sim, once again. Well done guys!

Edit: Also it says 60 players mininum

Just imagine! 30 vs 30, with each player having 12 AI units to command... It could possibly be the largest MP battle ever....

If you had a 1GB LAN connection and everyone with top of the line machines, maybe... but I don't know if 60 people on standard internet connections with older machines could pull off having 11 AI each...

ok maybe i was a bit optimistic but still! wow!

[shadow 6]

Another qoute: ...if you stare at the sun you damage your eyesight, common sense really!... OMG!!! can it get more realistyc than i thought?

Thats actually old news. We've known for some time now that ArmA will support HDR. Being temporarely blinded by light is what HDR is first and foremost about. Check out Far Cry and Chaos Theory if you have a SM3.0 or 2.0b capable card.

But still, its nice that ArmA will have it.

Hopefully they will push that focus effect a little further and maybe we will see the same light and focus effects you get in Tomb Raider Legend. Very atmospheric, especially when you look through the binocs and it focuses on objects in the center of the screen.

[kernriver 4]

Of course, but IMO, in ArmA it could mean the difference between (virtual) life and death, you could build your whole tactics around the position of the Sun. If you approach the target with the Sun behind your back, the enemy would have a great disadvantage. I like it!

[bravo 6 0]

who tought ARMA would not have bridge with water?

One ARMA bridge

[lwlooz 0]

Greetings,

I am really happy about this,this turns out very nice.The new pics look great,the only 2 things I didn't like was:

1) The Textures on the trees are WIP I guess(the grey one looks very odd for example)

2) The Grass:

While it looks nice in most pics now,I guess you will have to find a way for it to always match the actual ground-texture.

Grass on Bright

On the midday-summer-noovercast light setting the ground is lit up

really brightly,while at the same time the grass on it actually remains "dark" which makes it look odd (to me and some other people at least).I figure since the ground texture is supposed to be "grass" as well,you might want to match it with the actual grass objects on it(color and lighting wise)

Great to hear "Multiple Gunners" made it in.Thanks for that.I am wondering tho if limitations for individual classes have gone as well(i.e turrets on Planes and the likes).

Hopefully you get the AI as good as possible in the remaining time,because thats something that could make this game perfect or frustrating if you have that lovely engine,but a very dumb AI.Good Luck

Edit:Looking at the pictures it seems the pictures from 6 upwards are from an older version,so nvm the grass-thing if you fixed that already

[bn880 5]

I second looz.

[Big Dawg KS 6]

Some types of grass actualy grow like that, the terrain color is different because they're different types of grass. You've never seen splotchy grass like that?

[tkokid 0]

yea nice kylie

go get a job or get a hobby eg http://www.spring-green.com/

[Big Dawg KS 6]

yea nice kylie  

go get a job or  get a hobby eg http://www.spring-green.com/

I take offense to that, don't make me have to get placebo in here. As I said, that's pretty offensive, and downright rude. What's wrong with me spending a lot of time looking at the ground? Maybe I just have a greater attention to detail than you do.

Anyway, I'm just assuring him that BIS knows what they're doing.

[franze 196]

I can see it now:

Armed Assault: Lawnmower Man - War In Cyberspace

[chipper 0]

Please keep all discussion of Ondrej's hair to this thread.

[Scrub 0]

After seeing the latest pics on Williams' blog, I'm fairly certain that 'grass on bright' are placeholders, meant to stick out and be tuned.

Just a thought.

About the bridge pic (OFP type). I'll be dancing a jig if the AI can cross it smoothly.