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[Scrub 0]

But then we all would go fishing, and there would be no war. Unless someone got hurt (grenade) fishing, then I believe a ruckus would start

[Callsign 128]

lol, scuba diving into missions would be pretty cool, harpoon fishing lol

bootneckofficer

[jakerod 254]

But then we all would go fishing, and there would be no war.   Unless someone got hurt (grenade) fishing, then I believe a ruckus would start  

pfft, grenade fishing? More like satchel fishing.

[deanosbeano 0]

or what about law fishing

fishing on nogova

[MrZig 0]

or what about law fishing

fishing on nogova

Gol-damnit that song is overused. Play something original for once! And yes this is supposed to be construction critisism, not flaming. so please, dont take it that way. Its just that I turn videos off now when I hear that song, it's just waaaay overused and not funny anymore. =\

[ag_smith 0]

http://www.coop-center.de/site/uploads/newspics/arma19906-2.jpg

Don't you think this water is way too transparent? It seems like developers need to get out of BIS headquarters sometimes, go some place nice and see how real rivers/sea/whatever look like.

I think the stuff below should be distorted a bit but that may be a bit too complex for this game.

Picture

Too complex? It'd be entirely processed by GPU (pixel shaders), which means no additional load to CPU. So I can't see the reason why not.

[stegman 3]

Nice to see so much OFP content in ArmA.

See the pier in that image above?

Also look here, it's the factory building from Nogova.

[Commando84 0]

yeah the pimped it out with a big chimney too of thats the correct word i think

[stegman 3]

yeah the pimped it out with a big chimney too of thats the correct word i think  

quite right.

Also the little white building in the back ground.

[redface 1]

all the screenshots look really nice lately, just a question - what exactly is the source of all these screenshots? because there are like 5 new arma-specific websites run by random people that I've never even seen or heard of that post like 30 screenshots a week....

do this many people really have the press demo or something?

I was wondering about the same thing

some of the "loyal dogs" may indeed own the ArmA domains around

yet: no offence, but the French NO-Frag videos were clearly made by people with no OFP videography experience whatsoever (no camscripting at all). Extended "actual gameplay videos" taken from 1st person view only may be insightful for people unfamiliar with the "OFP style", but they do not do justice to the engine's scope, innovations and AI autonomy.

Imagine a press demo in the hands of one of the OFP videography gurus or editor gods (Blanco, Mapfact, Parvus, kenwort, Lee Oswald, I44 crew, ...): real cutscenes with enemy close-ups, explosions, tracking shots: that would be more adequate publicity for this gem.

[CameronMcDonald 146]

See where you're coming from, but I think something is better than nothing. Though I understand that a few of the features may not be shown off that well, but the 1st person stuff is what the game will look and play like (despite the poor quality of the videos, cough) from the infantry's view, at least.

I'd like to see a tank or chopper video, myself. An extended one.

[dm 9]

I have to agree... It seems really odd that a group of "nobodies" appear with the press release (I'm told its technically not a demo) when the big names with a lot of OFP history - OFPEC, ofp.info sites like that - get nothing.

I have asked Placebo about it, and he tells me that it was a missunderstanding with certain publishers, and the press release was never meant to be "released" to the general public. It was intended for computing/games magazines to write their previews.

[hellfish6 7]

I'm a bit amused that anyone with an Arma website - no matter if its a site nobody's heard of run by people nobody's heard of - can get a demo of the game but all of the mod teams who have kept OFP alive all these years have yet to see anything.

[dm 9]

I'm a bit amused that anyone with an Arma website - no matter if its a site nobody's heard of run by people nobody's heard of - can get a demo of the game but all of the mod teams who have kept OFP alive all these years have yet to see anything.

Amen to that

[Frans 0]

I'm a bit amused that anyone with an Arma website - no matter if its a site nobody's heard of run by people nobody's heard of - can get a demo of the game but all of the mod teams who have kept OFP alive all these years have yet to see anything.

I'd like to add all the OFP players to that

[llauma 0]

I'm a bit amused that anyone with an Arma website - no matter if its a site nobody's heard of run by people nobody's heard of - can get a demo of the game but all of the mod teams who have kept OFP alive all these years have yet to see anything.

But on otherhand I do understand that it's about promotion too. They wanna reach out with information about the game to sites outside the OFP community.

[hellfish6 7]

Oh, of course. But i'm very much of the opinion that viral marketing works. Who better to spread the word about ArmA than the very people who have kept OFP alive and know it's capabilities?

On several forums and websites I go to, there is a lot of spontaneous pimping of ArmA by modders and average fanboys. They are the ones who are spreading the ArmA gospel, yet they have to rely on clunky, unprofessional screenshots, interviews and movies by people who barely know a thing to back up their word.

[Espectro (DayZ) 0]

I'm a bit amused that anyone with an Arma website - no matter if its a site nobody's heard of run by people nobody's heard of - can get a demo of the game but all of the mod teams who have kept OFP alive all these years have yet to see anything.

I'd like to add all the OFP players to that

I'll add us then

[Frans 0]

Perhaps we'll get a demo next week. Placebo wouldn't give the competition prizes away without a demo to try them with, would he?

I'll keep my fingers crossed...

[sanctuary 19]

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yet: no offence, but the French NO-Frag videos were clearly made by people with no OFP videography experience whatsoever (no camscripting at all). Extended "actual gameplay videos" taken from 1st person view only may be insightful for people unfamiliar with the "OFP style", but they do not do justice to the engine's scope, innovations and AI autonomy.

That's funny you say that, because the 4 nofrag videos actually told me a very lot more about ArmA than any of the previous promo videos that floated around before.

They are certainly the 4 videos that gave me the most will to buy it and play because unlike "professional video cutscenes" those nofrag videos show me what will be exactly Armed Assault in a real (as the author of the video is not a newcomer when it comes to OFP) player/mission maker point of view, and that's exactly what i wanted to see.

[tinyzor 0]

I have good feeling about demo on Friday . Latest screenshots have been simply awesome.

[hellfish6 7]

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yet: no offence, but the French NO-Frag videos were clearly made by people with no OFP videography experience whatsoever (no camscripting at all). Extended "actual gameplay videos" taken from 1st person view only may be insightful for people unfamiliar with the "OFP style", but they do not do justice to the engine's scope, innovations and AI autonomy.

That's funny you say that, because the 4 nofrag videos actually told me a very lot more about ArmA than any of the previous promo videos that floated around before.

They are certainly the 4 videos that gave me the most will to buy it and play because unlike "professional video cutscenes" those nofrag videos show me what will be exactly Armed Assault in a real (as the author of the video is not a newcomer when it comes to OFP) player/mission maker point of view, and that's exactly what i wanted to see.

x 2 - I thought the No-Frag videos were excellent. And it's clear that the guy who made them knew what he was doing. He told you the best and fastest way to make a complete simple mission very quickly. You could even use that as a beginning tutorial for all mission editors.

[lwlooz 0]

First I didnt want to reply to this because the whole topic seemed to silly,but since this starts to grow I want you guys to ponder at 2 points:

1. Like Sanctuary said actual gameplay videos are much more useful than some cutscene video thrown together by someone who thinks he has to be an artist/moviemaker. Secondly if you can take the hyped up ofp pic photos as example,that is as far away from actual gameplay as you can get,so no informative at all no matter how "professional" it might be.

2.There is an OFP community outside of this forums.Seems odd,but that is actually the case,especially for french and german OFP players.

Also I think its just that the people that showed up at the GDC got a Demo or something

[hellfish6 7]

Not to mention the Korean, Japanese and Chinese communities are suprisingly large and active.

[deanosbeano 0]

whilst the above is correct and should never be forgotten , you should never bite the hand that feeds you.The fact that bis are very complacent about the stalwart ofp players and have decided for whatever reason not to allow ofpec and mapfact and ofp.info to evaluate arma in a fashion that would suite the "stalwarts" in my opinion is a bollock dropped.

It will have no effect whatsoever on sales or attitudes ,but it dont make it right.You only need to see how complacent BIS pr can be by the fact that it was not until augst 29 th or so that the chief man himself had to sticky the fact that a wiki had been introduced.

which was along time after the event.you see what i am trying to say is that BIS seems to have become complacement about ofp players, there is very little news officially from bis on these forums about arma, its all done by the community and fed from other magazines websites and word of mouth.

at the end of the day all of the above may have no cosequence but in my eyes Bis has such a fantastic relationship with its customers in the realms of addons and engine config /comref etc But in this aspect as in letting people know they are not so good. , but i thought i would say it anyway,cause i hear it day in day out on team speak and know the feeling is out there.

For those who say Bis dont have to say shit, well i agree , but the fact is they are saying things and releasing things but only to a very tightly knit clique ,which is ok magazines need previesw , but when the general public and unkown individuals and websites get hold of press demos, its high time that the well known officialish sites did too ,to even the balance, butr alas its almost too late for that,cause now every man and his dog is playing arma and reviewing it , apart from those who could review itr from the prospective of an ofp player.

end of rant/bullshit.