Armed Insult

[Fiasco 0]

Having been a big fan of Operation Flashpoint I was really really really (x10) looking forward to Operation Flashpoint 2 and was pretty excited when I found out about Armed Assault (Operation Flashpoint 1.5). I had to import a copy of Armed Assault since it's not available in the US. I played the demo until it arrived.

My setup:

Asus G1 2.0 Core 2 w/ GeForce 7700go 512mb

TrackIR 4 Pro

CH Fighterstick, Pro Throttle, Pro Pedals

My impressions:

Pull the demo off of the internet ASAP. The demo is bug ridden garbage. It will do nothing but scare people out of buying ArmA. (although it is a semi-accurate indicator of what ArmA is) BI would be better served by letting the youtube videos speak for the game.

The terrain is flat out gorgeous. WOW! Unfortunately, that is the only thing good.

Player movement is obnoxiously kludgy. Trying to shift left or right a few inches to improve your view through a window or around an object is an exercise in frustration as you move two feet past where you wanted to stop and have to repeatedly tap left or right to adjust. The gunsight or scope square jerking around the screen during motion is also annoying. This should either be smoothed out or the sight should just be removed during motion. Is there mouse lag artificially inserted into movement?

There should be some kind of mini-map showing your immediate area and friendly units within it (150 feet). A limited FOV through a monitor limits your situational awareness and a mini-map would make up for the limitations of viewing the world through a monitor.

There are absolutely no real physics in the game. No ballistics, misaligned sights, falling through floors, 5 feet drop is enough to kill. Vehicles are a cruel joke. (Helicopters roll around the x axis like an airplane) eject in a chute at no altitude and high speed and live, upside down helicopters on the ground ect ect ect ect. That two foot high fence over there? No, you can not lift your leg over it.... go around.

Bugs, Bugs, Bugs. It is remeniscent of the Derek Smart much hyped title "BattleCruiser 3000AD". The sound quality is downright abysmal, if my sound is working at all. Gunshots sound like pellets rattling in a tin cup. Sound intermitantly cuts out. I can hear birds and my squadmates but the helicopter overhead is cutting in and out or I hear it ten miles away and not up close.

The Feild of View and fisheye lense effect are extremely annoying. Buildings are still worthless obstacles difficult to maneuver through and just feel weird when inside of them due to the aforementioned FOV/fisheye.

There are also numerous lighting problems. I contantly have to muck with my gamma and brightness to either see because it's too dark or see because the screen is washed out white. (and both will happen in the same mission....)

Multiplayer is a farce. 1 disruptive person can ruin the whole scenerio. People are downright rude on every single server I have been on.

All of this would be forgiveable if this a 1.5 release made shortly after Operation Flashpoint. It is many years down the road now and the standards for FPS, iron sights, FPS physics and interfaces have been established. There is absolutely no reason all these years later to be mucking around in the same clumsy movement/interface.

Even if the bugs were fixed we would still be left with the clunky interface and the extremely whack player movement.

I was really hoping to get some of my clanmates to convert to a squad level tactical game (from Call of Duty 2) but the Demo that I convinced some to download promptly made them mark a big red X over ArmA as a game purchase.

It's a huge disappointment....

[Fiasco 0]

I do still hold out hope for the game.....

[jantenner 0]

playing good small coop missions with ppl you know this game rules!

its specialized in that

but bis need to release the tools, so ppl that know how can make some kick ass coop missions and addons!

[bravo 6 0]

maybe we should add this in here, no?

Waiting for a miracle...

Time will come!

[Allenn 0]

hmmm have u patched ur copy yet? some of those problems u mentioned (shaky sights, lighting problems, misaligned sights etc.) have been fixed with the new patches.

[MrS!eep_w!c 0]

the movement is still messed up.. as a team tactic game , Awsome!. as a player game it isnt worth a second look..

the time you spend lining someone up by shuffling u might as well run over to them and punched them in the face..

also the inablilty to use all mouse buttons annoys the crap out of me

[churnedfortaste 0]

thread title made me go -

[dmitri 0]

My impression from your post is: You played OFP a little. And then expected ArmA to be completely different.

Quote[/b] ]Whack player movement"?

..feels about the same as OFP..what's the problem? If you can't get the hang of it: Fine. I'm surprised though, since apparently you're a big fan of Flashpoint.

Quote[/b] ]There should be some kind of mini-map showing your immediate area and friendly units within it (150 feet). A limited FOV through a monitor limits your situational awareness and a mini-map would make up for the limitations of viewing the world through a monitor.

What in the name of all that's holy? Situational awareness is ACHIEVED BY LOOKING AROUND. As a big fan of OFP, you should know this. Notice the new "peripheral vision" indicators? Probably not, guess you need a minimap for that too.

Quote[/b] ]Multiplayer is a farce. 1 disruptive person can ruin the whole scenerio. People are downright rude on every single server I have been on.

That's the server, not the game. Ah, try changing servers? Or go back to Call of Duty 2..huh? Don't play OFP, it's very similiar..oh wait. You've a big fan. Keep forgetting.

Quote[/b] ]I do still hold out hope for the game.....

What?..Four posts in of non-constructive bashing and we're supposed to what..like you now 'cause of that one post. PM Luciano for his troll crown of thorns. You martyrs you.

I've got some issues with ArmA. Do I feel the urge to troll endlessly? No. You got a right to complain if you've put your money down, yeah. Try wording it in such a way that the rest of us don't turn red and are forced to respond..as you would, as a troll.

[Crushed 0]

An insult would be if you installed it and it was a Mavis Beacon Typing Simulator instead.

The game is fun, I enjoy playing it a great deal. There are some minor annoyances and with only one mission have I experienced any bug that has forced me to restart the mission.

Sound is good (could use a better sound library for some weapons it seems), Graphics are good (the terrain is very nice), the Gameplay is sensational (as was OFP) the Campaign is interesting, different from the "possible WW3 scenario" of OFP (which gave it so much of it's drive).

Could some things be better or be fixed? Sure. Does it make the game an insult? No not at all imho.

[inferno7312 0]

I feel Fiasco is talking about the impressions of the demo which is full of bugs.

 One thing I agree with Fiaso, remove the demo from internet.

[W0lle 1052]

One more pointless ranting thread with half-truths and alse pretences.

There are enough other threads similiar to this one where you can drop you bashing.

Closing.