hoak 0 Posted June 11, 2009 (edited) Will there be another 'Ask The Devs' Q&A venue before Armed Assault II is released in North America? There are a lot of questions that have been raised, that have yet to be answered, and this would (imtho) be another great opportunity for more ArmA II PR to show how uniquely responsive BI is to it's Audience, and depth their game design. The last Twitter thing was, well 'ok' but a lot of people (me included) think Twitter is awkward, poorly designed, not worth registering on (even though I did just for ArmA II), and not a very good Q&A venue for a serious state-of-the-art game like ArmA II. One alternative would be live moderated IRC release party; there's little to compare with live presence of a real opportunity to field questions to the Developers of your favorite franchise; and the transcript can be edited and re-purposed getting still more mileage out of the initiative when it's posted to the site as 'News' and/or forums... Just a thought (and hope), may your sales in North America be momentous! Edit: Later in the thread Placebo gives us the 'go ahead' to start compiling a list of questions for our Hereo Celebrities at BI, here's the post template: [b]Catagory:[/b] (examples) Tools, Features, Support, Engine, [b]Q:[/b] Your question here... Just cut & past the text in the box and enter your catagory and question(s)... Feel free to post and ask as many questions as you like (except about the cookies, we're out)... :o Edited June 16, 2009 by Hoak Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Placebo 29 Posted June 11, 2009 Twitter is shitterâ„¢ It's definitely something we'd like to do, and especially on the forums, but as with everything it's a case of finding the time and people to get it done when the people you want answers from are the people working 12-16x7 on the actual game, but we'll see what we can do :) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hoak 0 Posted June 11, 2009 (edited) ...but we'll see what we can do :) Thanks Placebo! That's as much as we can ask for all things considered, and as is usually the case with BI it means they'll do more then anyone else in market is doing. Edit: Only one cookie... :) Edited June 11, 2009 by Hoak Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nicholas 5 Posted June 11, 2009 lol nice pic. Anyway, cool to hear that you'll see what you guys can do. I only have Twitter for my live gaming feed, it sends out twitters when I go live. And it's crap. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Deadfast 43 Posted June 11, 2009 The game is just ARMA, not Armed Assault anymore :p ;) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hoak 0 Posted June 12, 2009 What?! You guys want cookies more then you'd like to talk to the BI Devs and get direct answers to your latest questions? :confused: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Maddmatt 1 Posted June 12, 2009 Yea, I think it would be a very good idea to discuss upcoming stuff and reveal a bit of what is planned :) Some info on tools would be welcome too. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hoak 0 Posted June 12, 2009 (edited) Maybe in the interest of getting this warmed up, we could use this as a preliminary 'Ask The Devs' thread (with a Moderator's blessing)... Using a standard cut and paste template to make the questions easier to organize and navigate like: [b]Catagory:[/b] (examples) Tools, Features, Support, Engine, [b]Q:[/b] Your question here... You just cut and past what's in the code box and enter your catagory and questions so all the posts will look like this: Catagory: Support Q: Will BI continue to support and patch ArmA now that ArmA II is out? Except that the BI fourms code boxes are broken and don't support BB Code, and we don't have the 'go ahead' from the bosses... :) BTW, the poll bunny is out of cookies, he brought you all a bunch, but he 'eated 'em all'... :( Edited June 16, 2009 by Hoak Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Placebo 29 Posted June 12, 2009 Maybe in the interest of getting this warmed up, we could use this as a preliminary 'Ask The Devs' thread Excellent idea, go ahead, although please note I cannot at this time make any promises about the A part of Q&A :) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
{SAS}Silentkiller 0 Posted June 12, 2009 (edited) Category: Serverside Q:To run a dedicated box do you need a copy of the game in the drive or are there server files? Category: Multiplayer Menu Q:I haven't got the game yet, so, what are the multiplayer server menus like? Is there a friends system or favourate server/last server memory? Edited June 12, 2009 by {SAS}Silentkiller Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nicholas 5 Posted June 12, 2009 (edited) My Questions: Catagory: Support Q: How long do you guys plan on supporting ArmA 2 with patches, will you do the same as you did with ArmA 1? Catagory: Features Q: Do you guys plan on comming out with expansion packs? If so, what will the plots be like. Edited June 12, 2009 by Nicholas Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hoak 0 Posted June 12, 2009 Catagory: Support Q: Will BI continue to support and patch ArmA now that ArmA II is out? Catagory: Engine Q: Will the 505 and North American release support Anti Alias? Catagory: Console Xbox 360 Q: Will the console version incorporate Keboard & Mouse support? :) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kristian 47 Posted June 12, 2009 Q: will kicking a player be easier? I hate when players named [[s1per@@__#(Ƽᕌᬾ缴]](\0/))] joins the game, Teamkills, and anyone wanting to votekick will have hard time typing that.. Some sort of system like some games got: Part of the name. In this case, writing "S1per" would be enough to launch votekick Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CarlGustaffa 4 Posted June 12, 2009 Can't you also kick (vote to kick) using his number? At least I think it worked this way in Arma1. Was this removed? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
-)rStrangelove 0 Posted June 12, 2009 Q: Will a documented list of all BIS_x.sqf scripts/functions be added to the BIS wiki ? Cause this would mean all scripters would operate on the same codebase and scripted missions would automaticly be updated via official patches. :) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nicholas 5 Posted June 12, 2009 Q: will kicking a player be easier? I hate when players named [[s1per@@__#(Ƽᕌᬾ缴]](\0/))] joins the game, This can simply be answered here, to kick a player hit P, look at the number by there name and type #kick player 1337 like that instead of typing there name Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hoak 0 Posted June 16, 2009 Catagory: Engine Q: What patch/version level will the Steam & N. American release be? (and/or) Catagory: Engine Q: How soon to the next patch? Catagory: Engine Q: What features and changes can be anticipated at the next patch level? :) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
=Spetsnaz= 0 Posted June 16, 2009 (edited) Catagory:Engine Q:Will there be a patch to increase system performance and optimization? Catagory:Engine Q:Will there be a patch to add more realism to the physic's of soldier's deaths and animations? Catagory:Engine Q:Since the game at the moment requires higher system requirements than Crysis and alot of people are having issues running the game with decent FPS are you going to improve optimization? Catagory:Engine Q:Alot of people are complaining that the AI are still somewhat dumb, will you continue to improve it, through patch releases? Q:I've noticed that we were promised alot more than what you had to offer in the game, what do you think could of caused this error and how do you think the game could of been improved if you had more time to work on it? Catagory:Engine Q:Will you continue to support ArmA after the release of ArmA 2? Catagory:Engine Q:Will there be a anti-cheat system in ArmA 2? Catagory:Features Q: I think ArmA 2 will be an awesome game but will you continue adding features to the game with patchs? Catagory:Campaign Q:I would really like to see the Russian aspect of the campaign,Will you release any future expansion packs for that? Like Red Hammer was for Operation Flashpoint? Catagory:Campaign Q:What made you decide to choose your plot specifically? Why a Civil War/Cold War Plot? why Russia Vs USA? Catagory:Engine Q:Will you support GPU stream processing in your future patches? Edited June 16, 2009 by =Spetsnaz= Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mikobiko 10 Posted June 16, 2009 Catagory: Features Q: Is it possible that a future release will allow for passing IP's to the dedicated server in Arma or Arma2? We currently have 20 ips and run multiple ArmA servers off the machine and dealing with all the ports gets tedious. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hoak 0 Posted June 16, 2009 Catagory: Game Metrics Q: Will BI publish weapon handling and performance metrics? :b: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bushlurker 46 Posted June 16, 2009 (edited) Category: Control UI Q: Will BIS add support for the popular Freetrack headtracking software to Arma2 in a future patch? Category: Community Editing Q: Can you give us an idea of if/when community editing tools will be released? - Any details? eg: Will there be a new Texview for the new .paa compression? Will it be easier to create roads that the AI will follow in the new Visitor - if there is one?? Can we expect a basic mlod model or two to work with in the (near) future? Category: Graphics Q: There's been considerable community controversy over the current implementation of motion blur, fillrate, PostFX, etc, and the curious absence of more familiar features like AA... will these features be added/changed/made optional in a future patch? Could you give us some details?? Edited June 16, 2009 by Bushlurker Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hoak 0 Posted June 16, 2009 Might be nice to integrate the and this thread in one master sticky thread of 'Q&A For The Devs', as there are so many questions that are getting asked over and over, (which will only get worse if they go unanswered after the GA release)... Category: BI Q: How long is a BI workday? :) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bushlurker 46 Posted June 16, 2009 (edited) Good plan Hoak! Theres SO many questions, and, when/if we DO manage to pin a Dev or two down to ask some, its unlikely we're gonna have time to ask them all... Some sort of Master List, or "top 10 or 20" might be a good idea... perhaps skip simple questions like "when's the next patch coming out?" to which they ALWAYS reply with "soon" or "when its ready"... Apart from this and the Steam list, its fairly easy to spot the main topics people are concerned about, or would like to hear Dev opinion on..... The same questions get asked over and over again on the forums too, but the reason we don't have billions of threads all on the same topic is because Placebo et al. are continually categorising, moving, merging... in effect, they've already filtered questions for us. Just about any thread thats got more than 100-150 posts and is consistently on the first page of "Troubleshooting" or "Suggestions" should cover most of peoples immediate interests and concerns... The main job is really to take all those topics and formulate clearly worded questions for each... B Edited June 16, 2009 by Bushlurker Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RS//Shnikies 10 Posted June 16, 2009 Twitter is shitterâ„¢It's definitely something we'd like to do, and especially on the forums, but as with everything it's a case of finding the time and people to get it done when the people you want answers from are the people working 12-16x7 on the actual game, but we'll see what we can do :) Placebo thats one point excessive bad language could result in permanent ban. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Placebo 29 Posted June 16, 2009 There isn't such a rule, there are however rules about ignoring a moderator's instruction, spamming etc, I'd suggest you pay closer attention. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
