Just converted BF2 Player

[infiltrator_2k 29]

Well, a mate of mine has played FPS shooters for years & loves the thrill of owning newbies, although today I had a call from him to tell me that he's bought ARMA 2 :D Boy is he in for the ride of his life lol!

[Herbal Influence 10]

Nice.

I see more and more coming ...

[grub 10]

He he, nice. I too witnessed a conversion this year, tis a beautiful thing.

I'm a youth worker and work at a youth refuge. The other night I was showing the kids some in game clips of ArmA 2. One kid had to leave, and I quote, because it was "too full on and looks a bit too real for me". I was quite impressed and at the same time I could see where he was coming from. ;)

Another kid who loves his games is now focused on getting paid work asap to fund a rig.

[Kristian 47]

Soonly we get another "how to install /what mods to install" thread I think.

But nice that he bought the game and not pirated it like some lamers. :)

[Fudgeblood 10]

ArmA 2 is starting to turn into a religion, what with all the "converting" and such.

[Dead3yez 0]

On a Sunday I get on my knees and pray in the direction of Bohemia Interactive Studios. To not perform this act is blasphemy.

Well, really, you signed up to tell us your friend has bought the game. I hope you sign back in one day to let us know how things go. :lookaround:

[ajsarge 10]

The main way I've been going "Dude! You should SO buy this game! It's awesome!" Is by using the "Everyone's a live player." catch. It goes something like this...

"So you're playing as a basic rifleman in a fire team. There's four of you. The three other guys in that fire team? All players. Your fire team is one of three in a squad. Everybody else in the squad, including the squad leader, is a player. There's multiple squads in the mission, and yep, they're ALL players.

Now, you're getting into a huge battle against enemies. I'll say it again. Even they are all players. -If you want. You can make them be crazy-real AIs if you only want to play with other people, not against.- But you're in this huge battle. Your radio guy calls HQ (again, actual players telling you where to go and what to do) and asks for an airstrike. You see this plane fly in, and completely decimate the other side. Player. The APCs you rode into the battle on? There's a team of players driving, gunning, and commanding that APC. The Artillery being rained down upon the now-dead enemy is player-run. Even the trucks bringing ammo to the artillery, refueling the aircraft, and replacing the tire on the humvee that crashed in front of you (driven by an idiot, BTW) are all players.

But you're not limited to being the 1-in-100 grunt. You can be the squad leader, the pilot, the APC gunner, the support guy, even the Battlefield Commander. Your choice. Or, you can do all that, on the other team.

Where else have you seen a non-mmo game have hundreds of players on each side, and still run butter-smooth? That's Arma, and it's freaking awesome."

[zoog 18]

The main way I've been going "Dude! You should SO buy this game! It's awesome!" Is by using the "Everyone's a live player." catch. It goes something like this...

"So you're playing as a basic rifleman in a fire team. There's four of you. The three other guys in that fire team? All players. Your fire team is one of three in a squad. Everybody else in the squad, including the squad leader, is a player. There's multiple squads in the mission, and yep, they're ALL players.

Now, you're getting into a huge battle against enemies. I'll say it again. Even they are all players. -If you want. You can make them be crazy-real AIs if you only want to play with other people, not against.- But you're in this huge battle. Your radio guy calls HQ (again, actual players telling you where to go and what to do) and asks for an airstrike. You see this plane fly in, and completely decimate the other side. Player. The APCs you rode into the battle on? There's a team of players driving, gunning, and commanding that APC. The Artillery being rained down upon the now-dead enemy is player-run. Even the trucks bringing ammo to the artillery, refueling the aircraft, and replacing the tire on the humvee that crashed in front of you (driven by an idiot, BTW) are all players.

But you're not limited to being the 1-in-100 grunt. You can be the squad leader, the pilot, the APC gunner, the support guy, even the Battlefield Commander. Your choice. Or, you can do all that, on the other team.

Where else have you seen a non-mmo game have hundreds of players on each side, and still run butter-smooth? That's Arma, and it's freaking awesome."

Problem is, how many people (%) actually experience such organized games ;)

[Fudgeblood 10]

Problem is, how many people (%) actually experience such organized games ;)

My guess is not many. They probably think that if they join a public match it's going to be like that.

[TheCrusader 10]

The main way I've been going "Dude! You should SO buy this game! It's awesome!" Is by using the "Everyone's a live player." catch. It goes something like this...

"So you're playing as a basic rifleman in a fire team. There's four of you. The three other guys in that fire team? All players. Your fire team is one of three in a squad. Everybody else in the squad, including the squad leader, is a player. There's multiple squads in the mission, and yep, they're ALL players.

Now, you're getting into a huge battle against enemies. I'll say it again. Even they are all players. -If you want. You can make them be crazy-real AIs if you only want to play with other people, not against.- But you're in this huge battle. Your radio guy calls HQ (again, actual players telling you where to go and what to do) and asks for an airstrike. You see this plane fly in, and completely decimate the other side. Player. The APCs you rode into the battle on? There's a team of players driving, gunning, and commanding that APC. The Artillery being rained down upon the now-dead enemy is player-run. Even the trucks bringing ammo to the artillery, refueling the aircraft, and replacing the tire on the humvee that crashed in front of you (driven by an idiot, BTW) are all players.

But you're not limited to being the 1-in-100 grunt. You can be the squad leader, the pilot, the APC gunner, the support guy, even the Battlefield Commander. Your choice. Or, you can do all that, on the other team.

Where else have you seen a non-mmo game have hundreds of players on each side, and still run butter-smooth? That's Arma, and it's freaking awesome."

Join a clan, then its like that, I already had the pleasure of witnessing and playing in this exact scenario (with AI on the other side) :bounce3:

[grub 10]

Ok, so I'm at work again. Got a new kid (17) in and he notices the PS3 sitting there. He asks if "we can go hire a game" to which I reply "sure", better than having him sit around watching some s*** dating show on MTV right?

So we're perusing the shelves. Nothings in except COD:Modern Warfare.

So he's playing for a couple of hours and he comes into the office for a chat. "Stuck?" I enquired, "yeah its too realistic" He says. So after the 3 seconds it took to figure out what was going on he continued on his way.

While he was playing I deliberately loaded up some screenies (both in game and landscape) and clips of ArmA 2. Later on he wandered into the office, so i pressed play.

Enough said.

[HyperU2 11]

Are you guys hiring?

[Cowboy Pilot 10]

Problem is, how many people (%) actually experience such organized games ;)

A lot. The 3rd Marine Division hosts a public tactical coop once a month with the public. Then we do tactical coops and other operations frequently within our unit and with other units/clans.

[grub 10]

Are you guys hiring?

lol, there's a lot more to the job than game talk. Dealing with teenagers that come from s*** can be very tough on the noggin.

When I get home I thank god for ArmA 2

[sic-disaster 311]

The main way I've been going "Dude! You should SO buy this game! It's awesome!" Is by using the "Everyone's a live player." catch. It goes something like this...

"So you're playing as a basic rifleman in a fire team. There's four of you. The three other guys in that fire team? All players. Your fire team is one of three in a squad. Everybody else in the squad, including the squad leader, is a player. There's multiple squads in the mission, and yep, they're ALL players.

Now, you're getting into a huge battle against enemies. I'll say it again. Even they are all players. -If you want. You can make them be crazy-real AIs if you only want to play with other people, not against.- But you're in this huge battle. Your radio guy calls HQ (again, actual players telling you where to go and what to do) and asks for an airstrike. You see this plane fly in, and completely decimate the other side. Player. The APCs you rode into the battle on? There's a team of players driving, gunning, and commanding that APC. The Artillery being rained down upon the now-dead enemy is player-run. Even the trucks bringing ammo to the artillery, refueling the aircraft, and replacing the tire on the humvee that crashed in front of you (driven by an idiot, BTW) are all players.

But you're not limited to being the 1-in-100 grunt. You can be the squad leader, the pilot, the APC gunner, the support guy, even the Battlefield Commander. Your choice. Or, you can do all that, on the other team.

Where else have you seen a non-mmo game have hundreds of players on each side, and still run butter-smooth? That's Arma, and it's freaking awesome."

That's what i always tell them as well.

And then i tell them they will be killed with one shot, and attention melts away like an icecube in the desert :p

[Beagle 684]

Problem is, how many people (%) actually experience such organized games ;)

Its getting better with time. I dont like clans and I dont like mods and I dont like teamspeak. I just want to join a game for a few hours once a week.

But I noticed that the games on public servers are beginning to show more and more proficiency, as more public gamers become more comfortable with the possibilities of ArmA2

Some commanders on public servers are beginning to make own "battle plans" and give orders to cooperative players to stick to this plan...and such cooperative players are becoming more and more.

You rarely take the first three towns alone, some players stick together until they got enough money to build a own motorized A.I. squad.

[grub 10]

Man I'm on a role. Just visited the local games store to purchase a copy of ArmA 2 for a family member. The shop attendant says "apparently its a great game".

I explained that the copy was a present and that I've been playing for a while. Mentioned 1.05 release and that its a lot smoother, just in case he'd been mislead like so many that the game was unplayable from day dot.

He was also unaware that ArmA 2 was from the original creators of Operation flashpoint CWC, Res. I quickly informed him of the split (Codemasters and BIS) and the release of the fake which he said "yeah I played that expecting you know, flashpoint, but it was really boring".

We then discussed the modding potential and as I left he thanked me for the info and for convincing him to buy it.

"Mark it eight dude":)

[efefia 0]

The main way I've been going "Dude! You should SO buy this game! It's awesome!" Is by using the "Everyone's a live player." catch. It goes something like this...

"So you're playing as a basic rifleman in a fire team. There's four of you. The three other guys in that fire team? All players. Your fire team is one of three in a squad. Everybody else in the squad, including the squad leader, is a player. There's multiple squads in the mission, and yep, they're ALL players.

Now, you're getting into a huge battle against enemies. I'll say it again. Even they are all players. -If you want. You can make them be crazy-real AIs if you only want to play with other people, not against.- But you're in this huge battle. Your radio guy calls HQ (again, actual players telling you where to go and what to do) and asks for an airstrike. You see this plane fly in, and completely decimate the other side. Player. The APCs you rode into the battle on? There's a team of players driving, gunning, and commanding that APC. The Artillery being rained down upon the now-dead enemy is player-run. Even the trucks bringing ammo to the artillery, refueling the aircraft, and replacing the tire on the humvee that crashed in front of you (driven by an idiot, BTW) are all players.

But you're not limited to being the 1-in-100 grunt. You can be the squad leader, the pilot, the APC gunner, the support guy, even the Battlefield Commander. Your choice. Or, you can do all that, on the other team.

Where else have you seen a non-mmo game have hundreds of players on each side, and still run butter-smooth? That's Arma, and it's freaking awesome."

This is my anual visit to the forums and you almost made me want to re-install with that speech, good stuff. I think I'll hang on and see if someone has the balls to develop and ArmA-esque mmo though, it'd be awesome to be able to do all the above in a persistant world setting with objectives and territory control based on players actions.

[Fudgeblood 10]

I think I'll hang on and see if someone has the balls to develop and ArmA-esque mmo though, it'd be awesome to be able to do all the above in a persistant world setting with objectives and territory control based on players actions.

... World War 2 online?

[efefia 0]

... World War 2 online?

Yeah like that, but with visuals that don't look like they pre-date pong lol

[-Shifty- 10]

I assume this game is going to come as quite a shock to his poor soul.

Be with him every step of the way as he makes this important transition in his life, from being an arcade noob, to being a professional soldier xD

[Flash Thunder 10]

This game is the ultimate refresh from the current trend of tunnel vision FPS CQB Cluster screw sessions, I loved FPS arcadey games and i would never deny that, but since I was 6 and got a facination for the armed forces and tactics I always wanted the perfect tactical game with a little hint of simulation and with ease of use, and thats pretty much Arma 2.

Arma 2 not being perfect and being a complete bug mess at launch could never leave my grip.

Seeing how BIS actually supports their games and actually listens to the community almost on a daily basis its truely unique.

Oh cant forget the kickass community that helps you, makes new content for free and always keeps you up-dated with new goodies.

ARMA 2= My GOTY for 2009, and Most time ever spent on a PC game award.

Tell him to learn some basic scripts and mission making thats where the fun is!

[-Shifty- 10]

This game is the ultimate refresh from the current trend of tunnel vision FPS CQB Cluster screw sessions, I loved FPS arcadey games and i would never deny that, but since I was 6 and got a facination for the armed forces and tactics I always wanted the perfect tactical game with a little hint of simulation and with ease of use, and thats pretty much Arma 2.

Arma 2 not being perfect and being a complete bug mess at launch could never leave my grip.

Seeing how BIS actually supports their games and actually listens to the community almost on a daily basis its truely unique.

Oh cant forget the kickass community that helps you, makes new content for free and always keeps you up-dated with new goodies.

ARMA 2= My GOTY for 2009, and Most time ever spent on a PC game award.

Tell him to learn some basic scripts and mission making thats where the fun is!

You're just like me :D Especially when you were younger.

[noubernou 77]

I extol the virtues of this game every moment I have. :D

I don't even play it that much anymore to be honest... I am too busy making addons for it! ;)

[Master gamawa 0]

I have noticed something peculiar.

Of all the people I've "trained" to play Arma, the best players are mostly the ones that SUCK at standard FPS shooters.

Experienced FPS players cannot easily conform to the Arma experience. They are tainted by their own expectations and skills. They complain about the controls and the fact that the game doesn't "feel" right (hint: Right = CoD4). They get angry when they get attacked and cannot tell when the attack is coming from. In fact they are conditioned to play without planning and tactics.

Virgin fps players don't see it that way. They see an open world where you have to move slowly and observe the environment to survive.

Edited January 11, 2010 by Master gamawa