ArmA2: Operation Arrowhead Impressions - ALL OA Impressions/Videos/Screenies Here

[kohlenhydrat 10]

Haha, like the AI in Dragon Rising is any better.

mhm, that's true the AI(but only partly) and the collition detection

[LJF 0]

Haha, like the AI in Dragon Rising is any better.

I loved how they stacked up near doors and the way they used buildings, but .... yeah ... not really the greatest ...

[4 IN 1 0]

For me the "game we shall not talk about" AI is as retarded as A2 AI when not functioning normally

[Nightrain 10]

You have got to be kidding,

I have a Core2Duo @2.2GZ, a Nvidia 9800GT, 4GB of ram, and Vista 32 bit. I run the game fine on normal to low settings and only get lag near lots of trees. I don't even get that much lag in Zargabad.

Mess with your settings, the game looks great no matter you run it on very high or normal. And use the environment modules, they also make the game better.

[[frl]myke 14]

Yes i called for assistance.

Let me tell you a episode i had on my first encounter with OA.

I was a grunt in a team of probably 8-10 soldiers. We had to clean a small village, so we advanced and took our fight. During the fight, i got wounded and called for medical assistance. Like you i wondered why the medic didn't come or the teamleader ordered him to heal me.

Already thinking "excellent, doesn't work, as expected" but continued the mission. Suddenly i realised that the teamleader led us outside the village, a bit away from the "hot zone". The teamleader ordered a few units to guard the position and then started to send the medic to all wounded units, including me.

Take note, this was SP with AI as teamleader.

Now tell me, what is smarter? Being healed (and therefor helpless against enemy fire) in the middle of a combat zone or leading the team out of the danger and there issue orders to heal the team?

And about this one:

Machine Fine.

No, it is not. Else you would play OA with 40-50 FPS. So there is something wrong. Since you don't provide more detailed info about your system (like a dxdiag.txt file and your exact ingame settings) we can only wildly guess whats wrong.

[ATP Arma 2 OA Fan 10]

Myke;1688197']Let me tell you a episode i had on my first encounter with OA.

I was a grunt in a team of probably 8-10 soldiers. We had to clean a small village' date=' so we advanced and took our fight. During the fight, i got wounded and called for medical assistance. Like you i wondered why the medic didn't come or the teamleader ordered him to heal me.

Already thinking "excellent, doesn't work, as expected" but continued the mission. Suddenly i realised that the teamleader led us outside the village, a bit away from the "hot zone". The teamleader ordered a few units to guard the position and then started to send the medic to all wounded units, including me.

Take note, this was SP with AI as teamleader.

Now tell me, what is smarter? Being healed (and therefor helpless against enemy fire) in the middle of a combat zone or leading the team out of the danger and there issue orders to heal the team?

And about this one:

No, it is not. Else you would play OA with 40-50 FPS. So there is something wrong. Since you don't provide more detailed info about your system (like a dxdiag.txt file and your exact ingame settings) we can only wildly guess whats wrong.[/quote']

Been gaming for 20 years i know every asshole setting like the back of my head every driver like the insides of my guts.

All my other games work fine my settings are on low view distance none and still i get lag with all drivers being fully updates and a defrag on every install of a game.

Im not going to fanny about with shit im sick of it until they release updates i will continue to complain AS THE CONSUMER.

[[frl]myke 14]

I'm sorry, it wasn't meant offensive. My apologies.

My point was, there are hundreds of people playing OA without major problems as you describe them, some of them with weaker machines as yours.

Conclusion: OA doesn't like one (or more) particular and individual setting of your rig.

If the game had performance problems in general, everyone would discover the same problem as you do. But obviously for a lot it runs fine.

And i also don't think in a negative manner about your knowledge. But as i have also some (might be less than yours) there is one truth i'm always aware: no matter how much you know, there is always something new you can learn every day.

You can complain if you want, i don't care. But complaining wont get your problems solved. Your decision, mate.

[Scrub 0]

Been gaming for 20 years i know every asshole setting like the back of my head every driver like the insides of my guts.

All my other games work fine my settings are on low view distance none and still i get lag with all drivers being fully updates and a defrag on every install of a game.

Im not going to fanny about with shit im sick of it until they release updates i will continue to complain AS THE CONSUMER.

Scion, is that you? If not, I'd suggest you give these guys some hard data and settings to work with and drop the bad attitude. You will find no greater problem solvers in a community than here. You may know your computer, settings and such, BUT you obviously have no clue as to how OA works with them. Again this is a different cat - configuration included. I have half the computer than you, and run steady 40-55 fps. You have obviously something local wrong. Either enjoy more of the frustration you heap upon yourself, or accept help from these exceptional people and have a great time. Good luck whichever you choose.

[froggyluv 2136]

Been gaming for 20 years i know every asshole setting like the back of my head every driver like the insides of my guts.

All my other games work fine my settings are on low view distance none and still i get lag with all drivers being fully updates and a defrag on every install of a game.

Im not going to fanny about with shit im sick of it until they release updates i will continue to complain AS THE CONSUMER.

Been gaming for 30+ years :D

Seriously, I understand your frustration. After a long 6 month hiatus away from Arma2 and not much desire to get the expansion I finally caved last nite, shelled the cash and downloaded from Steam.

1st impression: Freakin horrified as my FPS was literally 1 on the loading screen and in the mission. Updated drivers and defragged, same problem. Now if I was new to BI, I would have cursed the day and deleted the game but I am familiar with them and new even one little setting somewhere could be holding the whole beast back. After extremely hard and tiring work week, I really wasn't in the mood to start the grind, scouring the forums for maybe that one helpful answer but luckily, I found it to be the HDR setting, and once I changed that, the game loaded up at the V-Sync max of 75 (although fluctuating wildly!).

Now with Beta added, the game still fluctuates its FPS quite dramatically but it is entirely playable. Haven't tried the Campaign yet but so far, I really compelled by the landscape, atmosphere, new voice actors (well maybe not compelled, more like relieved). Overall, I think I'll enjoy another round with this BI product :)

[cartier90 0]

Get a quad core - good GPU - your good to go - if you dont have the money. Earn it.

[froggyluv 2136]

Get a quad core - good GPU - your good to go - if you dont have the money. Earn it.

Specs:e8500

Ati 4870

8 gigs ram

I don't think my problems were hardware related although moar always gets you moar right :D

This system playes Arma2 just fine albeit certain patches which had dramatically bad effects on my performance. The point of my post was that sometimes it's only a setting and/or the current engine build.

Thanks for the money tip though :p

[Grizzle 0]

Give this one some time. He sees the light but just can't quite reach it yet :) His "OMG did that just happen?" moment hasn't come yet, but it will :D

[cartier90 0]

Grizzle - I was really replying to ATP , his posts have become wearisome.

[Grizzle 0]

Grizzle - I was really replying to ATP , his posts have become wearisome.

Yes I know. He's just another frustrated newbie and we've all seen that before.

[mrcash2009 0]

My rig isnt bran new anymore and Takistan is fine but can be a bit laggy near buildings and stutter when spawning occurs but no show stopper, although Zargabad is my worst nightmare, especially when populated and ESPECIALY when ambient civ's are on, thats then a un-playable mess. I have to avoid mission on that map.

Mission 7 of campaign I was getting 14 FPS peaking a 20 the whole time, average 14 though (zargabad mission). So its playable but i just have to avoid zargabad the most. Having said that I dont rate that map so much anyway, I prefer open areas and small villages/towns to be honest.

I ran the benchmark scenario for AO and it comes up 34fps every time, check ed with FPS counter and fraps and in general id say im getting about 25-30fps, so Id say 24-25 in populated areas, 29-34 in open areas, although I have to exclude Zargabad out of that because its blatantly a CPU killer for me.

No shock as I know I need to upgrade, but the type of mission I create and want to play are small close nit skirmishes, I dont really go for large battle scenarios and I dont really play tanks and fly that much either so I dont get disappointing that much.

I tend not to sit and be and FPS counter watchmen and get angry, I simply play and feel if its ok or not, and for what ive got its fine.

Edited July 18, 2010 by mrcash2009

[Victim ZSU 10]

Because I know this community has a sense of humour...

[SaOk 112]

I find Operation Arrowhead as an really excelent game, but with very much loss of potential to become a legend just because the campaign only offers a short showcase for different features rather than an exciting war journey. There is no interesting mission level story (like the hopeless surviving mood in resistance) and characters to follow, missions are really short and there is only few.

Operation Flashpoint and Resistance both had an revolutionary campaigns that all talked about. The reviews in game-magazines focused to praise experiences from the campaigns which I think was the main reason people wanted to try/buy the game. From ArmA1 the game serie have been leaning too much for community created content which is a irreplaceable part of the game for many (including me) but not for "mainstream"/new players who want an excelent longplay game straight from game dvd.

From ArmA1 a leading finnish gaming magazine have always complained of campaigns in reviews, also many players I know have been dissapointed. And now some are even not buying OA just because they have heard (from reviews again) that there is a very short campaign.

I strongly think that BIS arent using an good opportunity to knockdown todays 6hr playtime mainstream games with unique long campaigns. "Take a part in massive 40 mission campaign as different roles" in back of any gamedvd-case would never make me to put the game back for shelf without learning more of the game. For many, today the big campaign is even more wanted than much weapons/vehicles/unitclasses.

Many of here may say that they dont care about campaigns and only play mp with custom missions. They may be nearly majority here in forum but not in overall gamers.

Edited July 21, 2010 by SaOk

[Pauldarrington 9]

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Because I know this community has a sense of humour...

Where is Beaker and how do it get it?

[call_911 10]

Silly ai I'm dead already lol 8)-

[RogueAssassin 10]

First, i would like to say the graphics on this game(Arma 2) is stunning. However the game play is shit... I say this out of frustration, do to the fact that the AI under my command cant follow orders in a timely fashion.

Example below:

Calling for a medic: Im down and bleeding, i call for a medic and the one job this sob has to do he cant do. He sits and continues, to shoot at the enemy that he has no chance of hitting in the first place. A field medic first and most important job is to HEAL THE WOUNDED THEN KILL THE BAD GUY! Not vice versa.

AI getting stuck: This happens a lot, I have a team member down and i try to heal them enough so that medic can finish job. but i cant drag him because some invisible force is holding him too the ground. Wont let me heal them either. It starts to but then stops 2 sec after the fact.

AI is slow: In real world applications. Squad members don't normally have a hard time following there leaders orders quickly and accurately . But not in this game The AI in this game is slow to respond and slow to move/act on orders given.

This is only a few of the problems i have seen, there are more. But, otherwise the game rocks. Please if anyone of importance has read this. Try to fix the AI on single player. As well as the map blocks that are preventing motion on a object. Just a idea, but might want to look for the solution in the command item placement coding. Personally i think it might be areas of the map that are meant for objects to be placed (VIA command)that is getting the AI's stuck.

Thank you

*Sorry might have posted in wrong forum*

Edited July 27, 2010 by RogueAssassin
Wrong post location. please move to proper area.

[ck-claw 1]

A field medic first and most important job is to HEAL THE WOUNDED THEN KILL THE BAD GUY! Not vice versa.

Alas- the wrong place! :rolleyes:

But even if that meant him dying/being killed before he got to the wounded?

Edit:-

Just to add, check out the addons part of the forums- plenty of Ai adjusting mods there! :)

Edited July 27, 2010 by ck-claw
I like it!

[HyperU2 11]

Stop getting shot.

[l mandrake 9]

Having played OA for a few weeks I just want to say how impressed I am with Takistan. The huge variation in terrain, from mountain peaks to luscious green valleys keeps the combat fresh and challening. The more I play the more I notice the impressive attention to detail by BIS's artists; flowers and fauna; remote outposts and mines, market stalls and courtyards to name but a few features.

To conclude, really loving OA guys, amazing work :notworthy:

Mandrake

[dragonbaron 10]

Having played OA for a few weeks I just want to say how impressed I am with Takistan. The huge variation in terrain, from mountain peaks to luscious green valleys keeps the combat fresh and challening. The more I play the more I notice the impressive attention to detail by BIS's artists; flowers and fauna; remote outposts and mines, market stalls and courtyards to name but a few features.

To conclude, really loving OA guys, amazing work :notworthy:

Mandrake

Couldn't have said it better myself.

The cannabis plants in the game remind me of the following video:

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Edited July 30, 2010 by DragonBaron

[vilas 477]

except positives, i see mistakes:

FAL has burst like M16A2 instead of full auto

ELCAN SPECTER DR has no zoom and no NV like in real life (Polish GROM uses Elcan Specter DR, this is day-night scope with 1-4x zoom)

once again wrong AK-RPK in game

i must spend more time to test more and than say more

a.t.m. i see a some of error messages about not loaded, missing textures,

error messages about "not able to load texture "brick" " not able to load carpet, not able to load roof etc.

seems like there are missing textures on buildings of Takistan ??? or what ???