Improve & Optimize multiplayergame!

[simonwa1 0]

One of many things in arma which actually made me stop playing it was the lag in multiplayer online. I'm not talking about big lag, which occurs in all games, I'm talking about this "mini" lag which exists all the time even if you have ping around 30-40ms. Its like very short lag. If you for example are in a vehicle as a passanger, the vehicle is re-positioning every second. I hope I'm not the only one who experience this. Well, this HAS to be better optimized in the future.

Anyway:

* Make MP more smooth to play!! Important!

* Pay more attention to fix MP bugs, so missionmakers dont have to!

* Better communicationsystem online (chat)

* The chat should be based on like cellphones SMS, like you're getting a notice "New message" and then open the messagewindow were you can read/send/order messages/make message macros/send tactical plans etc. etc. And the current rules allows you or not allows you to send messages to specific persons, like leaders etc.

* Possibility to mute people, both individually and as a global server setting.

* Better overview over groups and leaders and a nice GUI to communicate with other groups!

[wipman 1]

Hi, a better MP browsing servers way will be very pimp too, with

more options, like: browse only coop missions, find servers that

play with or without addons etc. That will help to find a game

faster, now the process for find a place wereplay can take from 3

to 15mins, and that makes the people loose interest in the game;

sounds stupid... i know... but is real. Let's C ya

[simonwa1 0]

I Agree!

[Stiletto 0]

One of many things in arma which actually made me stop playing it was the lag in multiplayer online. I'm not talking about big lag, which occurs in all games, I'm talking about this "mini" lag which exists all the time even if you have ping around 30-40ms. Its like very short lag. If you for example are in a vehicle as a passanger, the vehicle is re-positioning every second. I hope I'm not the only one who experience this. Well, this HAS to be better optimized in the future.

Anyway:

* Make MP more smooth to play!! Important!

* Pay more attention to fix MP bugs, so missionmakers dont have to!

* Better communicationsystem online (chat)

* The chat should be based on like cellphones SMS, like you're getting a notice "New message" and then open the messagewindow were you can read/send/order messages/make message macros/send tactical plans etc. etc. And the current rules allows you or not allows you to send messages to specific persons, like leaders etc.

* Possibility to mute people, both individually and as a global server setting.  

* Better overview over groups and leaders and a nice GUI to communicate with other groups!

Absolutely needed to draw in more players.

Plus it would make the game less cumbersome.

[mr.g-c 6]

What annoys me at most is that there are still those damn "beamings" of units (soldiers) in the game, no matter how hard/good you tweak the server settings and no matter how good your server is (we have 4GHZ E8400/4GB and it still lags).

[Praelium 0]

I hope all bugs are fixed. I've seen enemy tanks appear a few meters above land, fall, then instantly appear back above land, and repeat. Other times vehicles that are damaged don't show the damaged textures.

One time, while I was playing Warefare, I was in the Striker with the grenade launcher as a gunner with someone else driving, but I couldn't see the explosions my grenades were making, as if I was shooting duds. Finally the Striker was damaged because I couldn't defend us, so I jumped out just before it blew up, and for whatever reason the driver was blamed for my death.  

The lag isn't terrible, but it could be improved.

The menu could also be improved. I think it should be more interactive. The columns, like Server name, Players, Ping, ect, should be adjustable. The information box on the bottom should be collapseable, and should show more info, including any needed mods and room for a custom message from the admin. Since there isn't usually room to fit all of the player names and stuff down there, we should be able to click it and a box will popup giving us the desired information.

[Commando84 0]

i dunno but lately when i play arma at my home computer sometimes it CTD'swith a arma had to be shutdown by windows message when i play multiplayer.. its really freakin me out and there should be more options in the filter menu like those suggested above.

[Praelium 0]

I think that the server admin should be able to customize the missions so that they could change it to "pistol only" and more. It would also be nice if mission designers could add options for admins. For example, Evolution should allow admins to decide whether ranking is on, whether you should be able to recruite soldiers, ect. That way we don't have fifty versions of the same mission.

Also, this is the community's fault, but can we please keep the max players constant within the server? Sometimes I'll be playing Evolution or Warfare with 30 people, and when the change mission box comes up at the end of the round, I always see missions that are designed for only 12 or 6 players listed. If everyone were to choose that then a bunch of people wouldn't be able to play, but luckfully that's never happened.

[Commando84 0]

i noticed one thing a friend said to me was when we where playing warefare at my place for a whole day and i tried to find a good server we had played on but we couldn't find it.

And my friend who sometimes is very observant said "Is there no History or favourite servers menu?".

It made me think Arma 2 needs a history tab where i can click and see last 10 servers i played on and a tab i can click to see my saved favourite servers.

Example pic of Steam server browser menu interface

Praellum what you ask is to make every little and big mission support 30-60 players? Like c'mon some missions are made for a small 6 player spec ops group then its the way it is, not all missions can have exactly the same specifications.