ArmA 2 Press Coverage

[NoRailgunner 0]

Looks very nice hope devs will fix view geometry & fire geometry and of course AI viewblock if trees etc. are "cut down" during gameplay.

On pictures there you see sunshine effect which is imho little bit too shiny.

[Raptor 10]

wow, the detail of the vegitation is awsome.

Now I believe what Marek said, its one of the mainfeatures.

But for me the only disadvantage is the blurry lightning.

And I also noted the low shade of the end of a grassfield.

That can also destroy the good athmophere which is created on such fantastic vegetation. Maybe its possible to made a better shade and enlarge the ending of the grassfields.

But keep it up BIS.

Also thanks for the entries and declarations of the developement process.

[CameronMcDonald 146]

Shweet. <drools> Now, if that AI ACTS as good as that terrain LOOKS...

[mr.g-c 6]

wow, the detail of the vegitation is awsome.

Now I believe what Marek said, its one of the mainfeatures.

But for me the only disadvantage is the blurry lightning.

And I also noted the low shade of the end of a grassfield.

That can also destroy the good athmophere which is created on such fantastic vegetation. Maybe its possible to made a better shade and enlarge the ending of the grassfields.

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But keep it up BIS.

Yes i also think that there should be a better solution for drawing of distant grass.

The current way (as you show in the screenshot) of Grass for "X-Meters" around the player and then a simple texture is bad.

There should be a more smother transition at least, or even better the ground-texture should have the color of the grass.

Other option could be to create distance lods for grass with only a very few triangles for performance reasons.

Regards, Christian

[Commando84 0]

Omg good news that A.i wont fire me through the bushes as much anymore Very nice graphics! I can't believe how they can make it look so good.

[kavoven 4]

Now that looks amazing Has much more OFP feeling in it than ArmA ever had

[mr.g-c 6]

Another Preview in a german gaming Magazine:

http://www.pcaction.de/?article_id=643593

New (at least for me) Pics from it:

[Crystal 0]

WoW!!

The second one looks like OFP2 a bit. But better and more realistic as this Renderscreen

[Commando84 0]

very nice pics! But ofp 2 render pics aint ingame.. like this arma 2 pics are

[kavoven 4]

Everything looks great.. but pic4

BIS, please, pleeeeaaase improve the lightnings! I can't stand this umbrella-like streetlights anymore ^^

[CameronMcDonald 146]

Agreed - we do not need light cones coming out of vehicles and/or streetlamps any more. Please bin that shite.

I fixed that issue in OFP, and if necessary I'll do it again, but I'd rather not have to.

[Yeb 0]

It seems we finally get rid of the rusty wrecks once the vehicles get destroyed (the screenshot is ugly though ), it is rather a confirmation as in older videos, there were no longer rusty wrecks.

And we can see some nice backpacks (with some features related to? just a guess...).

By seeing the landscapes, it's way much better than arma: ofp feelings. There are one thing i do not like in sahrani, it's the south, in my opinion, it is way too colourful and pretty (is it a war zone?) and the transition between the north and the south of sahrani totally ruins the immersion (transition between a spanish/arabic south and a east european north).

But Chernarus looks awesome by the screens, it looks like a realistic environnement (it is in fact), a war zone, and when you look at the face of the characters, you know it's serious business.

By the way, is that a mounted m240?

[Deadeye 1]

I made a small summary for the armedassault.info news :

http://www.armedassault.info/index.php?cat=news&id=844

(background story and some more info)

Don't beat me, english isn't my native language

[Barely-injured 0]

OMG that looks good.

Nice work ofpdeadeye. Is anybody willing to do a full transelation even if it is a rough one?

thanks

[Colossus 2]

Agreed - we do not need light cones coming out of vehicles and/or streetlamps any more.

Hear, hear!

The only time you can really see it like this is in dense fog, and even then the lines are washed out/blurry.

It's outdated.. and soo 90's

[Heatseeker 0]

Those US SF character models look a bit too mercenary alike for me, not sad like the QG's ones but not spot on either yet.

I also dont get the thing with the 5 man SF razor team.. only 5 and always 5?http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/agency/army/a-team.htm

If they are sticking with 5 i hope they put more atention to the character models, backpacks, maybe cammo their faces.. dont try and make them look cool (it fails) but make them look real .

[Commando84 0]

I dunno if they are gonna do a more character based game with few troops in your group/s? Maybe it could be a good thing to make them look a bit more special..

looking at the dudes a bit more closer i hope the bright green is toned town a little bit. Other than that some great stuff!

Hmm i dunno the characters in ofp got their special character feeling through cutscenes with audio speech and dialogues.

So i dunno depends on how military or Pmc they gonna make them look like but if i know Bi they will make them more military.

[smellyjelly 0]

Yeah, I noticed that the green is a bit bright/bland also.

The lighting is very disapointing because I was really hoping for a improvement. It doesn't even have to be dynamic, GTAIV didn't have shadows for peopleor objects, but the headlights still didn't go through buildings. For Arma II that is perfectly acceptable in my opinion, but honestly, how it's shown now, is not.

I did notice a few other things though. In the screenshot with the burning car, the fire is actually bright. It looks much better than Arma where the fire has no bloom to it. Also, in the picture with the night vision, the grass looks bad, though the latest developers blog would have me convinced they've redone the grass to make it look better. I guess that it may just be an old screenshot then. Finally, in the last screenshot with the destroyed buildings, (which looks awesome by the way), there appears to be a fire in the background. It's not to interesting, I just think it looks fantastic.

[MehMan 0]

Hmm, these screenshots were carefully taken so that no weapon clipping is seen! The only weapon where it would be very visible is the M249 and where does the screenshot end? Just before the front grip.

Or it could be the alternative explaination, but what the hell, I'm allowed to whine and bitch.

[sv5000 127]

WOW, i cant wait for this. I hope they have not dropped the Marine theme thou, but it looks like they have which is a bit dissapointing.

Still cant wait.

[BigRed 2]

Looks like they added some nice eye candy but would still like to see video footage of animations.

[Heatseeker 0]

Looks like they added some nice eye candy but would still like to see video footage of animations.

I can tell by the screens that the animations are the same from Arma, but maybe they will change them later on (who knows? ).

So far the most promissing thing is the new island, the buildings and vegetation look very nice .

[SHWiiNG 0]

Looks brilliant, im loving the washed out colour scheme.

Arma was to pretty and colourful. one could play it to 'get away from the city' but this looks much more intense, wartorn and realistic

But.... 5 Men? What! thats not war, thats a game of paintball. Please dont turn this into a 5 men vs the world game. personally i hate all that Ghost recon stuff, because i believe that a war is fought with armies not some special ops team who Nail everything and claim that they always kick ass.

[mr.g-c 6]

The 5 Mann team is only the thing for the Singleplayer campaign.

I mean, in Arma you were totally alone within the campaign - sure there were often alot of other AI players fighting on your side, and the same would be also happen at Arma2 i guess.

So who cares? MP is the real heart of the Engine/Game and its all up to the mission-designer how much player will be in one squad.

Regards, Christian

[SHWiiNG 0]

I have to disagree with you there, bescause Multiplayer can be one of two things.

1. A truely immersive experience where players work as a combined force against the AI or indeed other co-operative and mature players.

2. A complete farse where players are running wild, blowing up friendly vehicles, killing friendly players, going Lone soldier, not working as a team.

Guess which one is more common.. Number two.

So the Game should not be only based on Multiplayer because often the immersion i get from playing single player is better than playing single player (Unless i play online with a clan)

I think i must admit something here, i never played past the third mission in the Arma campaign