Anyone else think royal flush stinks?

[skypine27 0]

I have Queens Gambit installed, and thus have Armed Assault patched to 1.08 (1.08 patch seems to come with the install of Queens Gambit).

I just played through the Armed Assault campaign (never played the game before 1.08 was released).  I thought it was totally awesome.  Much better than I remember the original Flashpoint 1985 campaign being.

Now, I just started playing the Royal Flush campaign.  I am not enjoying it at all.  Im on an early mission where I have to drive some crappy 4 x 4 through the woods to a "concentration camp" and a "labor camp", then call in some transport trucks to pick up the prisioners.  These missions do not seem enjoyable what so ever.

And the whole buying weapons thing from Dealers.  Sound fun in theory, like stockpiling weapons in the old Resistance game.  But, in practice, I don't like it at all, just like I tought it never worked well in Resistance.  If, because of a save game bug, you have to hit "revert", it seems you lost everything you bought in the previous mission, and start off with some default stuff. And, where do you "put" weapons you find in the field to use them on the future missions? In a truck that may or may not be yours in the next mission? I don't have any documentation to Queens Gambit, maybe that's my big problem with the weapons thing.  

Again, I just dont find Royal Flush fun at all.  Anyone else feel this way?  I just swtiched to Rahmadi.  Played trough first mission, assault the beach.  Seems fun so far.

Thoughts?

[hoz 0]

Moving to Official Missions...

[kroky 1]

Both campaigns of QG are not the hammer.

Very short and not very inventing. OFP campaigns were a lot better.

All in all I feel someway disappointed with BIS again. The extension pack QG didn't deliver any really good new content.

[Heatseeker 0]

I havent finished any of the campaigns but technically speaking QG's Royal Flush campaign seems very well done, maybe on par with Resistance but much shorter, i just didnt like the weirdo Mercs, didnt fit.

The original Arma campaign is just unplayable.. i think Black Element could have pulled a really good campaign for original Arma.

[Kristian 47]

I dont like queens gambit's campaing. it doesnt matter if any of ur's friends die. and in one of missions, when I byu a flare. in next mission, HE DOESNT HAVE IT!!

[CyDoN 0]

it was way too amercian for me and btw mercenaries are not any good at all they are just cold blooded killers...

[Migel 0]

@offtopic Had same opinion about mercenaries untill I drank a good whiskey with a fellow ofp cti player from finland who also is hired gun.

@campaign:

I thought the campaign QG was better then first one because the story was better. But indeed it did seemed like it was at cost of the missions compared to first one. Also starting with Rahmadi now GL and GG

[Jaksa. 0]

and btw mercenaries are not any good at all they are just cold blooded killers...

WTF??

Have you ever seen any mercenaries?? Could you imagine, that many of them are protecting civilian workers in Iraq and other places? Do you know, how many of them was KILLED in action saveing civilian lives?

Let you go play Sims.

[pathetic_berserker 4]

Right now.....TOTALY

I don't think I would pass as a noob at this game, but the first mission has got me screwed. Cant believe it comes down to wether or not your AI leader dosn't get killed by the AI enemy. Havn't been able to keep us both alive yet.

[sic-disaster 311]

Wait, what?

You think ArmA's campaign is better then old Operation Flashpoint's campaign? What are you on?

ArmA has no known characters except for the journalist chick that dies and deservingly so for being annoying, you continually shift soldiers with no personality.

Missions are badly designed, especially compared to OFP's campaigns and not only that, but they arent in any way realistic either.

1 man taking out an entire armoured tanksquad, please.

And it's a hell of a lot shorter as well!

Now, dont get me wrong, i love Armed Assault.

But the campaign is just plain shitty and feels slapped together. You can tell there was a whole lot more work put into the Blood, Sweat and Tears mission.

Co-op is the only real way for me to play ArmA, next to custom campaigns like The Cause by Rejn.

[malick 0]

I hate the first mission ('Rescue Mission'.

The mercenaries usually take serious damage from enemy fire, like one or two of them down with the first shot ! Then, when we have reached the woods and see the car, they just empty their magazines into some empty, not moving truck, while I run two clicks behind the UAZ... I managed to complete the mission only because the AI got stuck due to lame path finding.

Otherwise, I was quite impressed by the voice acting and intro quality. Very good job on this point. The mission making doesn't show any huge scripting talent so far But, average/good overall quality.

Malick

[the unknown 0]

Didnt complete any of the arma campaigns cause i just couldnt be bothered to do it afther playing 2 or 3 missions of each campaign.

I tink that says enough.

[mac81 0]

Well I personally liked royal flush campaign, based on a good story with good missions.

Agree with all who think that BI need to make some serious development for AI which at this level is quite poor.

Completely PISSED OFF by the rhamadi mission wich is the usual impossible thing where you spent hours & hours to build up tactics move silently and suddenly even a soldier spot you at hundreds meters distance and heat you millimetrically even if you're hiding in the bushes. Well guys this SUCKS!!!

[russin 0]

Well I personally liked royal flush campaign, based on a good story with good missions.

Agree with all who think that BI need to make some serious development for AI which at this level is quite poor.

Completely PISSED OFF by the rhamadi mission wich is the usual impossible thing where you spent hours & hours to build up tactics move silently and suddenly even a soldier spot you at hundreds meters distance and heat you millimetrically even if you're hiding in the bushes. Well guys this SUCKS!!!

get durgs tree fix and all is good

[njmatrix 2]

all i can say is thank GOD i boot legged Queen's Gambit and didnt buy it like i did before with ArmA. I will definitely try before I buy the next BIS product as well. F me once your fault F me twice my fault and i dont like getting F'D twice with no grease. Sad thing is I purchased the german version and then the US version hoping they had fixed a few things. Long Live OFp

[Placebo 28]

Long Live OFp

Long live ban lists........

[rundll.exe 12]

I bought QG last week, and I have to say that im verry pleased by the Royal flush campaign!

It makes ArmA a comple different game that isnt focussed on military tactics and protocols. I love the freedom.

The weaponsdealer is fun, but the money somehow isnt right and you can never buy AT or something.

The standard campaign sucks tho, I quit it after 3 missions...

[PainDealer 0]

I'm a bit confused with the Chem Base mission in Royal Flush. After I've called in the specialists I don't get any hints of which direction the two so called fugitives got off in their UAZ. I've zigzagged through the woods and gone deep North to find nothing

[Broakham 0]

Jump in the pickup at the side of the house, turn right onto the dirt track and hit the gas.

[Matte_PL 0]

We cannot compare ArmA and OFP at first, but Both campaigns from QG are much much better than original ArmA campaign. CWC & RES were the best!

[Amoki 0]

QG wasn't all that bad, campaign missions were much better and more "involved" than ArmA SP campaign. Would be better if there's a bit more missions though, and sometimes bugs still get in the way (e.g. AI wouldn't fire flares in the prison-rescue mission) . The free-form ending in Royal Flush was a VERY nice-touch, coming close to the OFP: Resistance there. (referring to the part where you choose to let the prince die and then have to fight your way to the airport. That was freakin' awesome )

If anyone has issues playing the first mission in Royal Flush (Rescue mission), just "camp" on top of the piles of rocks, which will give you pretty good view to the surrounding. The enemies come to you one direction at a time and I had no problem getting all my team-mates out alive once I got the hang of it. In fact the "good" ending was pretty bad-ass if you kept everyone alive.

[NightShade 0]

I just finished Rahmadi Conflict and I'm a bit confused. The point in ArmA's original campaign was that it seemed like the north were attacking the south for the hell of it and making up an excuse when really the south were murdering civilians and the north was actually telling the truth. Now in RC it shows the North guys killing civs for the hell of it and has basically completely confused me, like none of the whole "the ones you were helping that you thought were good were really bad" thing.

Am I missing something here?

[CameronMcDonald 146]

Yeah, I'm fairly sure the US release of ArmA had the original ending being arranged thusly:

- SLAg troops dressed as RACS dudes massacred the civvies on South Sahrani in an attempt to discredit the royalist forces. This is seen where the player's squad comes under fire in the final mission from dudes wearing 6-colour desert (i.e. RACS) camouflage. Despite looking like RACS guys, appaz these are just disguised SLAgs.

Hence the Rahmadi conflict is arranged correctly. Damn convoluted plot lines.

[NightShade 0]

Aaah, thanks, it makes sense now but... doesn't feel anywhere near as exciting and twisted as it first seemed...

[Guest Ti0n3r]

I really liked Royal Flush. It had a good and unpredictable story and very nice choice & design of the missions. Best ArmA campaign I've played.

Rahmadi Conflict is on the other hand a stinking pile of regular BIS campaign. I couldn't find one good thing about it.

Just my opinion though.