Official Co-op Missions?

[{SAS}Silentkiller 0]

Just wondering if BIS have produced any official multiplayer co-op & PvP maps at all? and if not why not?

I think multiplayer is something that BIS has almost totally ignored with Arma 2 & left it to the talented, undervalued & over relied on members of the community to design missions, for many, many many people who play Co-op & PvP games. The net code (according to a friend of mine who is an expert in such matters) is very shoddy to say the least.

Everyone knows that multiplayer co-op & PvP gameing is the way forward, not single player, so I hope they wake up to this soon & improve it. :)

[flufball 10]

The campaign works as a coop and it's rather nifty too, it's just a shame though that you can't seem to get it working on a dedi server without having to do a hatchet job.

Something smooth and official in regards to the campaign would make it much more accessible to lazy sods like myself.

[cjsoques 0]

I absolutely love this game and there is nothing that comes close, but the multiplayer let me down big time.

The base infrastructure BIS provided for multiplayer is, for a lack of better words, pathetic. I do not see why optimizing their code for better multiplayer and simplifying the multiplayer process wasn't on the top of their list.

I join servers with 20-60ms latency and the movement of other players are still extremely laggy and stuttery. I hope patches fix this and they spend more time on the net code, it just doesn't seem to work good enough to even be playable unless over a LAN.

Love the game, but dissapointed in the multiplayer...just wasted potential in my view.

[{SAS}Silentkiller 0]

I absolutely love this game and there is nothing that comes close, but the multiplayer let me down big time.

The base infrastructure BIS provided for multiplayer is, for a lack of better words, pathetic. I do not see why optimizing their code for better multiplayer and simplifying the multiplayer process wasn't on the top of their list.

I join servers with 20-60ms latency and the movement of other players are still extremely laggy and stuttery. I hope patches fix this and they spend more time on the net code, it just doesn't seem to work good enough to even be playable unless over a LAN.

Love the game, but dissapointed in the multiplayer...just wasted potential in my view.

My sentiments exactly :) There is soo much potential for the multiplayer side of things that is almost totally untapped atm; a real gold mine if they nail it!

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Just a note, I played a capture the flag (a game type I don't like) with only 2v2 & there was teleporting going on all the time. I looked at the map saw there was an enemy infront of me moved forward a few feet, looked at the map again & he'd apparently gone right past me!! This was what the other platyer experience as well :(

This is a major stumbling block to a great multiplayer experience & I hope they get it sorted out or get someone in that knows what they are doing to sort it!!

[Yapab 10]

What are the problems with co-op campaign?

Me and a friendly play most co-op games together and are looking forward to playing ARMA2 in coop for the single player campaign... can you shed some more light on this issue as we are about to buy ARMA2 and might reconsider if the coop does not work or has major problems.

Thanks,

Yapa

[TCEd 0]

If it's PvP/Multiplayer maps/game mode your looking for then check out this thread on PvP maps & gameplay.

And just to point out, I like co-op maps as well, the improved AI in A2 really make it a challenge.