short and "easy" MP missions

[andersson 285]

Hi,

What I would like to see in arma2 is more of the smaller MP missions. Normally I prefer to play big missions where you have to plan and have patience. But now and then I lack the energy for that and just want to play a small and easy mission.

If you, BIS, make a bunch of short simple MP missions in different settings I think new players could get into arma2 more easy as they can try and retry without loosing too much progress. It would also be easier for open MP servers to fill up with players as the time between games wouldnt be that long, and the replayability would be ok as you dont have to invest that much as a player (I dont know how many times I played clean sweap in OFP. Another example is ebuds arma missions that were released long time ago with his units, we still play them).

Another good thing with simple scenarios is that the probability for bugs is smaller.

So please, if time, make some extra short and "simple" MP missions for casual gameplay and new players. Attack the farm, snipe the officer, steal the car, blow up the house, drive the tank...

[Raphier 0]

Reload you gun sounds like the simplest mission ever.

[GepardenK 0]

Maybe “random†missions?

Like random seize the town: It would put you and a squad outside a random town, defended by random enemies, at a random time of day. Of course a semi-random mission briefing would tell you aprox what to expect, and you would be able to change your own loadout.

Then you would have random defend the town, random tank battle, random snipe the convoy etc ect

Would work perfectly for both MP and SP, shouldn’t be hard to script for BIS, and it would give immense replayability

[dr_eyeball 16]

Arma basically already has that in the form of the MP mission Wizard (templates).

IIRC, they said arma 2's templates will be much better and enhanced even further.

[Alex72 1]

I remember i read somewhere BIS will make quality over quantity in ARMA2. What i read some time back was that there will be one mission. Or one main mission where a lot of love goes into it. It was a CTI mission for COOP and the same with modifications for PvP. I think elements from WARFARE was the idea where you earn cash and can get more and more gear. I cant remember where i read this im afraid, and it was some time back so it might not be the deal in the finished product. But it sounded very nice if its a very refined WARFARE type of mission. With exciting side missions and all out big war clashes it can be very ineresting.

Like i said though i dont know if this is what BIS shoots for in the end. But i remember it cause i thaught it was a good idea. A good idea because BIS would create a complex huge CTI mission where they put all their energy on it instead of making a lot of small ones. The small ones we got enough talent in our community to make ourselves.

Anyone else remember reading this?

Alex