We've Effectively Only Bought An Editor

[derfalpha 0]

a) The campaign is short, buggy, and of poor conceptual quality.

b) The multiplayer doesn't work.

c) The only thing that works, is the editor.

[NeMeSiS 11]

Haha! My multiplayer works great!

(Thats what you get for such vague posts )

[Overdosed 0]

SP is great, MP is even better. I wish they fix the performance drop in 1.05 in next patch, thats all.

[W0lle 1052]

Quote[/b] ]a) The campaign is short, buggy, and of poor conceptual quality.

Partially true

Quote[/b] ]b) The multiplayer doesn't work.

Then the many, many people playing online each day are just an illusion.

Quote[/b] ]c) The only thing that works, is the editor.

Maybe because that's the only thing you tried seriously so far?

@Mods:

Useless ranting topic, please close

[derfalpha 0]

Have you played OFP?

[celery 8]

derfalpha,

You are either running a very old version of Armed Assault or you are blinded by rage caused by some small bug, and to make your issue seem important, you exaggerate it to the level that the whole game is useless.

[Call911-AGE- 0]

Go play BF 2 then. Game is fine sure some minor things like any other game out there. I must be in a dream state then from all the servers i see an all the players i see playing in them Not to mention that with 1.05 the server list doubled in size an with US release will probably triple in size.

[ck-claw 1]

Have you played OFP?

WTF is OFP?

[opteryx 1562]

A lot of people on this forum seem to think just because their version of ArmA works rather well, they are aloud to bash down on people who are not so fortunate.

My PC (according to some test) meets the demands for ArmA, however, for me MP is a 80% LOD, texture and lagg hell, the other 20% have been quite enjoyable I must say.

So I quite agree with the topic starter, we have effectivly bought an editor with SP and MP just a buggy bonus.

However I am a BIG fan of realism gaming so I will keep shut and wait to see where this game goes because I still belive in this game.

[Gunney 0]

I disagree with the OP, the MP is lots of fun depending on your server. However, the editor actually does own face . Your imagination is the limit. Try making your own creative missions if you find MP/campaign a problem

[opteryx 1562]

I disagree with the OP, the MP is lots of fun depending on your server.

Well, not really, I have had awesome games on some servers with teamwork, low ping, no bugs all is good etc, came back the next day and found it completly unplayable.

Also been playing on servers for hours with no errors then all of the sudden I see a texture glitch and it just goes downhill from there, really bad.

To me it just seems completly random when bugs choose to appear.

However, the editor actually does own face . Your imagination is the limit. Try making your own creative missions if you find MP/campaign a problem

That's what I'm am doing right now as a matter of fact, one of the most enjoyable parts of the game, especially when playing with friends.

[Big Dawg KS 6]

Quote[/b] ]a) The campaign is short, buggy, and of poor conceptual quality.

Quote[/b] ]c) The only thing that works, is the editor.

And that only leaves you with a lifetime to play "Make a new campaign", it's the best type of gameplay I've ever known in OFP, it's fun, it's intelligent, and most of all it's rewarding. The goal: make the next best thing to happen to ArmA Singleplayer. You've already got all the requirements; a working editor and a desire for a better campaign, so start playing now before someone beats you to it.  

[Luciano 0]

You didn't buy anything, you invested Remember, this is an investment people

[NeMeSiS 11]

You didn't buy anything, you invested   Remember, this is an investment people  

See signature..

[Albert Schweitzer 10]

me still can not do Multiplayer. and thats freeeeeaaaaking me out!

Only one of 20 servers accepts me in.

[BroK3n 0]

You didn't buy anything, you invested   Remember, this is an investment people  

You know.. i think you're not a bad guy after all. lol.

Anyways can we stop with the "Go play BF2/UT/Q/arcadeshooters" thing already?

its becoming more of a Mac-and-Apple elitist nuisance already.

[Clavicula_nox4817 0]

You didn't buy anything, you invested   Remember, this is an investment people  

Yup, and I like my investment too. Thanks for the support.

[Scrub 0]

me still can not do Multiplayer. and thats freeeeeaaaaking me out!    

Only one of 20 servers accepts me in.

Do you hang on the 'wait for server' (or host or something)? trying to enter a server? or does it boot you because of low bandwidth/ping? (and yes, I'm certain you know the difference, you just were not specific in details )

[frederf 0]

Playing multiplayer effectively isn't that easy. During 5 hours of play, you usually only get in 20 minutes of decent play between the ramboing, UH-60 crashing, restarting, lagging, waiting, dying, poorly-made-mission bugs, BIS/ArmA bugs, TKing, and general larfing about.

[KJAM 0]

Hell, the Editor was, for me, the thing that kept me interested for so long

[-ZG-BUZZARD 0]

My PC (according to some test) meets the demands for ArmA, however, for me MP is a 80% LOD, texture and lagg hell, the other 20% have been quite enjoyable I must say.

Most people have upgraded their PCs just to play this game better, and keep in mind that there is not yet any PC available AFAIK that will play OFP with everything maxed out and have a picture-perfect handling without lag with OFP... and this is more than 5 years after the game was first released...

And ArmA is just starting, so...you get the picture...

[Luciano 0]

Quote[/b] ]Most people have upgraded their PCs just to play this game better, and keep in mind that there is not yet any PC available AFAIK that will play OFP with everything maxed out and have a picture-perfect handling without lag with OFP... and this is more than 5 years after the game was first released...

That doesn't answer anything. The reason is because OFP isn't designed and optimized to take advantage of new hardware. Thats why it runs better on older PC's. And thats a given fact.

You can even have a supercomputer and try to put 100,000 tanks on the map and have them shoot at eachother. It will probably break the games, since its not designed for that.

Just because it works in theory doesn't mean it actually works in reality.

What your saying sounds like a lame excuse of why we get so many performance problems.

[wamingo 1]

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How exactly do You define "fact"? OFP does definately not run better on older computers...

And what theory are you refering to? What about arma has been claimed to work that doesn't?

[Luciano 0]

OFP runs better on my old Geforce 4 MX400 than my Geforce 6800 GT.

So yeah OFP does run better on older cards.

Ask around, I'm not the only one with that conclusion.

[Balschoiw 0]

Quote[/b] ]So yeah OFP does run better on older cards.

Simply not true.

I bought a new gfx card lately and as I´m playing online mostly with OFP I was able to significantly raise all my OFP setting to an incredibly high setting, including all textures to 2048, all shadows enabled, geometry performance maxed out and all sliders in ingame OFP to the max settings.

This is something I certainly was not able to do with my old ATI 9700 PRO, but is no problem with my Leadtek GeForce A7600 GT.

So either you did not adjust you´re settings properly or you simply refuse to accept anything good coming from BIS, as it doesn´t fit your way of reasoning, period.