Tactical Operations

[millzee 10]

Hi everyone,

we've been getting lots of requests recently over at tacticsboard.com to create an ARMA2 tactics pack to work with our web based solution for the arma2 community.

i'm just following this up atm, and want to understand if the requests are valid enough for us to spend our time and effort in devoping this.

Our solution today enables teams/unite/squads (not clans bcos i understand that word is banned here! :) ) to create a secure online team tacticsboard to develop strategies and tactics for use on the battlefield in realtime.

Its being used very effectively in many games by many many teams across the world right now so i thought our 1st port of call would be to ask the community who play this awesome game properly weather you think its a worthwhile exersize?

any thoughts would be great.

thanks for reading this and i hope we can learn from your comments.

regards

Millzee

tacticsboard.com

(I suspect its ok to post the link at the start of the thread, seeming that theres an insert link button available?) if not then i appologise.

[frederf 0]

I approve. Training for small groups of ArmA2 players for somewhat advanced tactics can take an unfortunate amount of time and coordination. Being able to do several top down run throughs in a web client can be faster, take less attendance, and encourage the top down picture style thinking.

Is it possible to "multiplay" these tacticsboards?

[millzee 10]

Firstly, thankyou for your response,

In terms of multiplay. you and your team can stay connected to your tacticsboard for as long as you need to be while you are playing your game. Performance isnt hindered because your only using your web browser. (IE/FF/GC)

We are also working on a playxpert widget right now to enable the tacticsboard to be viewed in game on an overlay. We've had great feedback from xfire (matt gillman) who is also keeping me posted on xfire's in game browser developments.

we are releasing a multipage strategy builder into the engine as well, this is in Q&A right now and should be released in the next cpl of weeks all being well. What this does is allow you to build multi page strategies into a single strategy file so you can flick forward and backwards as you advance in the game (or retreat) which is purposely built for OF2. The feature will be available to admin/leaders only so they can stay in contro of the scenario.

hope this answers your question Freerf.

[sbsmac 0]

Milzee. Looks very interesting. For anyone else a little confused about what this is, this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0klwJ7tND may be helpful.

Main practical problem I see for you is that Arma2 doesn't tend to have defined maps although there are certainly common play areas. The CTF league I'm involved in (www.armaleague.com) might be interested in using this for map strategies for example.

One of the nice things about Arma2 is also that you you create a free-roaming camera to photograph/observe the game from an elevated position. I wonder if it woudl be possible to integrate this with xFire game streaming and your app to provide true real-time commentary/armchair-quarterbacking on a game in progress ? I would be interested in building in support into my scriptpack if this would be helpful.

[millzee 10]

Thanks sbsmac,

we can place a map of any size into the app to be roamed around in on the tacticsboard.

You also have the ability to upload your own images as well. As an example, if u are a team leader and you upload an image onto the your team canvas it is presented on the screen of all your members connected to your tacticsboard in an instance. if you (as the leader) then pan around the map or zoom into the map area then again, that is shown on the screen of everyone else connected to your tacticsboard.

basically, what you see as a leader the rest of the team see.

We can create a quick demo tacticsboard for you to play around with if u want?

re pvp, absolutely. sounds very interesting what you are doing!

Edited October 3, 2009 by millzee

[tcp 10]

If you were to make a full screen overlay on the map screen so that you could draw on the map, that would be very impressive. However, I think there would be problems if it weren't build into the game, as the zoom on the map is variable. Maybe a mod that reported coordinates to your overlay program would make it possible though.

[millzee 10]

Hi,

Weve put the world map onto the demo battlefield 2 tacticsboard for now to see how the realtime engine performes with the large map. (performance is excellent btw)

The map file is called "[ARMA2] - WorldMap" and is seen under the user maps by click file/load map.

if u want to check it out, all you have to do is click on the battlefield 2 public board image on the right hand side of our home page. www.tacticsboard.com

once on there you can play around with the views. (bear in mind the battlefield tactics pack is only a skin for the battlefield game) If this is a goer, then we'll build a front end just for arma.

similar to this:-

Other people may be connected to the demo board while your on there so if u see objects being draw then dont worry.

If you tell us what type of images are beneficial then we'll get them mapped out.

let me know your thoughts.

Millzee.

[NoRailgunner 0]

millzee here you are in the wrong forum for advertising DR stuff.

http://www.tacticsboard.com/ForumsPro/viewtopic/t=135.html

Just take a look who really developed Operation Flashpoint, ArmA and Arma2.

[millzee 10]

not sure what u mean?

if your refering to the front end proto images i posted then i''ve removed the of2 labels.

and for the news link, im not sure what u mean, i just accepted a post from one of our admins.

If this post is in the wrong forum then which should it be in? developments?

[vilas 282]

millzee here you are in the wrong forum for advertising DR stuff.

http://www.tacticsboard.com/ForumsPro/viewtopic/t=135.html

Just take a look who really developed Operation Flashpoint, ArmA and Arma2.

i looked at link, heh, this guy mess Codemasters with Bohemia, Arma with Dragon Rising

Bohemia Interactive have released a mini game to test your memory

"funny"

[Pauldarrington 9]

I believe this is what your looking for http://community.codemasters.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=113

[millzee 10]

Bump :bounce3:

http://www.tacticsboard.com/ForumsPro/viewtopic/p=577.html#577

[Pauldarrington 9]

Better :)

[millzee 10]

swayed off topic slightly i'm affraid, however the original question is for ARMA2.

[grub 10]

Milzee. Looks very interesting. For anyone else a little confused about what this is, this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0klwJ7tND may be helpful.

Link is screwy dude...

The URL contained a malformed video ID.

[millzee 10]

Hi, sorry I didnt post the URL and have no idea where it is supposed to send you :)

I can however show you some screenshots of the work we are doing on the ARMA2 tacticsboard tactics pack.

http://www.tacticsboard.com/News/article/sid=47.html

to get an idea of how tacticsboards work and how you create your own secure team tacticsboard then check out our latest newsletter here:-

http://www.tacticsboard.com/newsletter_nov2009.html

It contains links to many areas on our website that should explain eveything.

If you have and questions or suggestions then please feel fee to drop me a note in our tactics packs forum. we'll be sure to answer them all.

[Bulldogs 10]

It's looking good. The link you posted earlier is linked to a Codemasters minigame, when I read the first line "Codemasters have released a minigame", the first thing that popped into my head was "Yes, a minigame called Dragon Rising" ;)

[millzee 10]

Hi,

Firstly i'd like to thank you all for voting on the poll and providing feedback which has helped us develop the base ARMA2 tacticsboard and tactics pack.

I've posted the release notes in the addons forum here:-

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=91000

If you can think of anything we should add to the stratboard then please let us know so we can make this work how you want it to. We'll credit you on our site.

regards

millzee