Ghosts in my editor :)

[Gen_Protection 10]

Very strange goings on lol

I am in editor

I place mh6, with me as pilot.

Then I place 1 enemy bmp with assoc troops. Change my mind and remove/delete bmp, and regroup troops to their leader.

preview mission. enemy troops where I expect them, and no bmp as expected.

I shoot all troops, (middle of a field). Next thing a BMP drives along a road to the north and shoots me stone dead. LOL WTF? I go back to editor and for sure no BMP is there and certainly not on a road to north where I never even placed it even before deleting. Spooky or what. Goin to sleep with 1 eye open tonight!

Gen

[SASrecon 0]

haha, that's very odd. Is there any way you could try recreating that moment and see if you can capture it on film?

Maybe bigfoot was driving the bmp !?!

[SteveJA 12]

Ha Ha great i love the random events that happens, really gives me the creeps when you create a mission, and because of this, you think you know whats going to happen etc then something completely random happens and it kicks you in the face.

Il never forget a night time seek and destroy mission i made. I had just taken a villiage and needed to get to the enemy scuds (classic) quickly before they launched. Anyways i found an abandoned truck and decided to go cross contry with my 12 men. So we're nearing the objective when suddenly out of a vally to the left front of me a convoy appears headed by a shika. I was like WTF!!! that convoy was placed miles away how on earth it got there i have know idea, instantanusly i orded my men to eject whilst taking fire, all i could hear was status reports of men killed injured, contacts position and gunfire. I was led on the ground with dead leg that i recived when giving orders,with only a few men left i tried to crawl away from the wreck and engage the convoy, i took the shika down but then recived a fatal shot.

I then stopped realised i was back in the real world with heart pounding lol

Name one other game (non-BI) that can create such emersive gameplay, for 1 hour i was an officer, led next to my burning truck trying to take control of the situation :)

[maddogx 13]

Name one other game (non-BI) that can create such emersive gameplay, for 1 hour i was an officer, led next to my burning truck trying to take control of the situation :)

By "emersive" I assume you meant to coin a new word, combining the words "emergent" and "immersive", in order to more accurately describe the awesomeness that is Arma2. Good job, sir. ;)

Those moments, like the one you described, are what makes BIS games special.

However, I think the OP was describing something different - a unit was there that shouldn't have existed at all. Personally I haven't experienced this though. Maybe the Ambient Combat Module was active and it was all just a strange coincidence?

[Alex72 1]

Never happened to me either. Like MadDogX says you probably had the ACM module on the map.

[SteveJA 12]

By "emersive" I assume you meant to coin a new word, combining the words "emergent" and "immersive", in order to more accurately describe the awesomeness that is Arma2. Good job, sir. ;)

*cough* yes errr thats exacly what i ment :j:

yeah tbh in my mission i didint delete that convoy but it certianly shouldnt of been there lol

[Master gamawa 0]

Dude are you sure you clicked on preview? I had the same thing happening to me because instead of previewing I 'continued' the mission so the new data wasn't loaded.

it took me a long time to figure it out too, since once you get comfortable with the editor you do things automatically.

[dmarkwick 261]

While developing the Fire & Smoke addon I was alone, no single other thing in the editor, when something scared up a flock of birds a few hundred meters away. It wasn't me, and I know for a fact that the birds are only ever scared up by something moving reasonably fast. I thought "Goddammit, I've found Bigfoot at last" :) so I went carefully hunting it down, quite scary in a way.

Turned out it was a rabbit :D

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While developing the Fire & Smoke addon I was alone, no single other thing in the editor, when something scared up a flock of birds a few hundred meters away. It wasn't me, and I know for a fact that the birds are only ever scared up by something moving reasonably fast. I thought "Goddammit, I've found Bigfoot at last" :) so I went carefully hunting it down, quite scary in a way.

Turned out it was a rabbit :D

Hahaha, thats epic! =D