Complaint about MP

[SiroVai 10]

Hey,

I have been playing the demo for arma2 all week, and I've really enjoyed it. I loved the small 6 man coop missions and the fact I could make small custom missions for a team of 6. It was all very accessible, user friendly, and I could get straight into the action.

Now I've bought the full game I've found that the multiplayer is completely different. I was expecting to find the same small scale, teamwork orientated missions like in the demo. But instead I find massive servers, hosting massive maps which a new player has no idea what to do on. You spawn in the middle of nowhere, you have no idea where to go or what to do.

I cannot find small, 6 man servers like there were in the demo, which was why I got the game. Playing with a 6 man team was really fun and exciting. But now I just run around a massive map and when I do eventually find the enemy they're all dead, nobody helps. I mean wtf!

Why are the demo and actual game MP so different? Bit misleading and I totally regret my purchase of the full game :(

Anyone else found this to be the case?

[celery 7]

The servers and what people choose to play on them is hardly BIS' business, if that's who you're complaining at. It's sad that so many like to start a game of Evolution, Warfare etc on their own empty server when there are existing ones that could use a boost in the player count, but that's Arma 2 community for you.

[galzohar 28]

BIS could've at least released good baseline multiplayer missions. Right now all missions that are ran online are user-made, and most have pretty terrible (or if you're lucky just bad) gameplay. We'll probably have to wait for people to make better missions that are more playable (without requiring a pre-organized group that has everyone in it know the mission inside out, and even then not being too great), and for server administrators to run them.