ArmA II: Operation Arrowhead discussion thread

[Trracer 10]

if the game is not on steam i will cry

I will cry with you if it's not gonna be on steam.

[MontyVCB 0]

That's not what I'm asking. I'm talking about the gunner inside the Apache firing laser designated Hellfires. I will kiss BIS's boots if they give us this feature in the vanilla.

(I could link over 100 reference videos, but I'd get in trouble because most of the content is too graphic.)

As for the UK forces, at this point in the OA media blitz, I don't think we'll see them in the final release. We would have heard something about this long before the upcoming release date. Also, what are the chances BIS texturing the UK units with multicam? Christ, the US Army changed ACU uniforms to multicam for soldiers conducting operations in Afghanistan about four months ago and we're still seeing ACU wearing units in OA. As far as I know, the UK has changed their uniforms to multicam about one month ago. I doubt BIS would rush to retexture UK units and not/skip US.

Its MTP not multicam, We have been using it for little more than a month. Besides the MOD had announced MTP as a complete replacement for DPM as early as December 2009.

[Richey79 10]

i really dont think BIS is stupid enough to show us pictures of british troops in game, and not include them :p

And remember that ANN was referenced in the recent 'campaign gameplay' video that was released, so seems like a viral marketing campaign to me. Viral marketing campaigns don't work by getting you excited about cool stuff and then saying, 'but that's not in this release, anyway'.

I'd like to get OA on Steam, but I like to do things like split my addons folders over several hard-disks, and I'm afraid of Steam throwing a wobbler and detecting non-original files and redownloading everything/flushing out all my mod folders. Is that kind of stuff a problem with Arma, Steam-users?

[sparks50 0]

Its MTP not multicam, We have been using it for little more than a month. Besides the MOD had announced MTP as a complete replacement for DPM as early as December 2009.

I can see how someone could make that mistake though, MTP is very inspired by Multicam.

All awesome content aside, I just hope we get Arrowhead in something that resembles a complete state. The preview version has a number of visible bugs and theres not much time left to release.

[AnimalMother92 10]

Is that kind of stuff a problem with Arma, Steam-users?

Not for me. Especially if you turn off automatic updates (had to do that anyways since 1.05) there should be no issue.

[SASrecon 0]

All awesome content aside, I just hope we get Arrowhead in something that resembles a complete state. The preview version has a number of visible bugs and theres not much time left to release.

The preview copy was representational of the state of the game about 3-4 months ago iirc. Seeing how many optimisations BIS has made through the ARMA2 beta process, something tells me theyre working really hard on the game.

[pauliesss 2]

Maybe some high-detailed MRAP models as DLC....:cool:

[Kristian 47]

Maybe some high-detailed MRAP models as DLC....:cool:

Man can allways dream :D

I'm hopin' for sum desert marines and Ch53

[whisper 0]

All awesome content aside, I just hope we get Arrowhead in something that resembles a complete state. The preview version has a number of visible bugs and theres not much time left to release.

Expect the bugs to still be there at release. Though what I saw "resembles a complete state", tbh. Let's not be overly dramatic/negative

[Smurf 12]

Whats that orange thing in the HMMWV hood? (Seen in Generation Kill too...)

[RogueBlade 0]

Isn't that for air units to IFF

[stilpu 0]

Some more pics of OA which I found by messing around with the links.

New:

http://www.aan-online.com/images/stories/news/jac_img7.jpg

http://www.aan-online.com/images/stories/news/jac_img8.jpg -is it me or is this one using the film grain module?

http://www.aan-online.com/images/stories/news/jac_img9.jpg

I'm assuming they changed the last pic afterwards, what was it about originally? :)

[TeRp 1]

The preview copy was representational of the state of the game about 3-4 months ago iirc. Seeing how many optimisations BIS has made through the ARMA2 beta process, something tells me theyre working really hard on the game.

That was said for ArmA II as well.

Remember how that worked out?

[Rak 0]

That's a classic way to keep the hype up. In the end, mostly everything is the same/worse.

[mr burns 132]

That was said for ArmA II as well.

Remember how that worked out?

For ArmA 2 they´ve been handing out the retail/gold version (at least that was the case for germany), instead of the now very clearly WIP & incomplete 'preview' version.

In the end this might not mean anything at all, just pointing out the obvious :D

[Smurf 12]

Isn't that for air units to IFF

hm, don´t even thought about that... Yeah, makes sense.

EDIT:

Is that snow in the new AAN video? oO

Edited June 1, 2010 by Smurf

[roberthammer 582]

Let it snow , let it snow :D

Yes, it looks like snow :)

btw Karzeghistan is third map or with Takistan map?

[m1n1d0u 29]

it's tchernarus i think =)

[Mr. Charles 22]

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LOL, great subtitle @ 1:00 Edited June 1, 2010 by Placebo

[cm. 10]

HAHAHA @ 1:00 News slide!

[Caselius 94]

Text from the video:

British Dragonmasters defeated by Czech Bohemians in 1-sided route.

:D

[myshaak 0]

HAHAHA @ 1:00 News slide!

Seconded, that made me laugh! :D

[SASrecon 0]

lmfao that made me laugh so much...

So true though :D

Video isn't appearing for me so I'll link it here:

[honkitonk 0]

Is there some dust blown over the street right before the first of the three trucks appears? Maybe a sign of huge sandstorms waiting for us :D

Edited June 1, 2010 by honkitonk

[Maio 293]

Remember that , in the armedassault.info preview they pointed out the environmental effects module . Maybe that module adds snow/dust storms ? . That would be more then awesome .