Operation Arrowhead: open beta

[[frl]myke 14]

No one noticed and it's well hidden on the ArmA 2 homepage but there is a open beta available for ArmA 2: Operation Arrowhead.

Direkt Download link:

http://tinyurl.com/yza4ert

[SASrecon 0]

Even the Apache has render-to-texture and so far it looks like the AI are using the buildings well!!! I love you BIS!!!!!

2nd download link if the first one doesn't work: download quickly before the servers get bogged down here

Some pics:

argh nice one xD I fell for that one, just playing along ;)

Edited April 1, 2010 by SASrecon

[Tonci87 163]

O this is great^^

[SWT_Janowich 10]

Sorry but whats that?

Where can I find the options to boost up the game settings

a little? I mean the performance is great and all that but I cannot

even disembark out of a frigging helicopter!!!

Also the keyboard layout seems a bit odd, who was that

smartass who decided to put the fire key somewhere else instead

of mouse (at a destination I did not even figure out yet)

HUI is straight bull also the sounds,

If that is really the final product then there is no difference

between this and OFP DR (which is even better than that)

[Laqueesha 474]

This should be in ArmA 2 General, not Off Topic. :D

[icebreakr 3159]

I believe this beta version is 1.04.2010? =)

[Guest]

Only beta I ever downloaded which included anti piracy measures. I think FADE is triggered, it tells me I need windows 3.11 to install!

[roberthammer 582]

Hell yea beta is cool , thx guys for info :p

[[GLT] Legislator 66]

Great beta! Thanks! :) Had fun for hours :lol: :D Game will definatly be bought.

[SASrecon 0]

Only beta I ever downloaded which included anti piracy measures. I think FADE is triggered, it tells me I need windows 3.11 to install!

Try -winxp startup ;)

This should be in ArmA 2 General, not Off Topic. :D

For some reason it's ended up in 'ARMA: ARMED ASSAULT / COMBAT OPERATIONS > ArmA - GENERAL' instead of ARMA2 General :p

[schaefsky 0]

Thanks Myke, I would have totally missed that vital info!

[Maio 293]

Fake ?

[[frl]myke 14]

Fake ?

You might contact your local calendar dealer.

[Alex72 1]

Wow the beta is flawless!! Havent found a bug yet! :)

Myke you bastard... :D Good one. ;)

[blackland 26]

Fake ?

Never ever ....

See you latest night original News (german):

Open BetA at 4:00 PM

:j:

Version 0.1.04.10 ist nice and hot!! :madtongue:

Edited April 1, 2010 by Blackland

[Kristian 47]

I believe this beta version is 1.04.2010? =)

This beta is still at stage 1.04.1337.

FLIR looks good, but sometimes bodies "cool down" too fast I think, and the insurgent speach module sounds a bit funny. Other than that, a great first release by BIS, hopin' for patch soon. :)

btw, has anyone found this easter egg yet:

Gotta love BIS for what theyre doin'

[Schancky 10]

Bloody hell, BIS you are Gods!!! Awesome work!! XD Defo download. Worked on my old 1.2GHz single core with Nvidia GT4000 with 512MB RAM and ran on med-high with graphics better than ArmAII. This is epic!!!!

;)

This should be posted on Armaholic!

[SWAT_BigBear 0]

Finally.........I seen BigFoot, bout damn time!

[avibird 1 155]

Bloody hell, BIS you are Gods!!! Awesome work!! XD Defo download. Worked on my old 1.2GHz single core with Nvidia GT4000 with 512MB RAM and ran on med-high with graphics better than ArmAII. This is epic!!!!

;)

This should be posted on Armaholic!

Hey if this is ture, Then it can run on a console well. Can someone else check it out and give us the information. Hope may still be alive for a console port of ARMA:yay:

[[frl]myke 14]

Operation Arrowhead requires DOS 3.1 to run properly, consoles aren't compatible to this file format. Models have to be redrawn with 10% of it's actual polycount, textures downsized to 16x16 pixels, shaders re-programmed to remove normal and specular mapping. And finally still then the amount of data wouldn't fit on a console cartridge.

And for the record: another game developer tried to port the ArmA-experience and produced an epic fail. Porting ArmA 2 to consoles is almost as senseless like watching a 3D HD Bluray movie on a 50 year old b/w TV set.

Edited April 1, 2010 by [FRL]Myke

[Baraka 10]

Wow the beta is flawless!! Havent found a bug yet! :)

Myke you bastard... :D Good one. ;)

Wooooah thats too much!Arma without bugs!

[Guest]

Try -winxp startup ;)

Awesome thanks for that, never though of that.

Now I will also try -cpuCount=-3 just to be sure.

[SnR 1]

Fantastic MP servers are full, Just came out of a AAS with 120 players.

Saw 45 guys para in to support the SF squad who were driving on Sand really fast in buggys. Just noticed the 64bit and D11 support nice :)

[ProfTournesol 956]

Love the new faces, especially the one of the new "Razor" team leader :

[cm. 10]

Okay guys I think we get it now... :P