Hey too bad you couldn't find that UAV terminal. It is in the barracks as I recall. You missed a room. Two other things that are useful. There is a TWS scope - white hot, high magnification - best scope in the game. I think that is also in the barracks. There is also a rangefinder - unbelievable magnification - best binoculars in the game. That is in the little town where there is a patrol, plus guys hiding in rooms, and there are 3 more quad cycles in addition to the one at the gas station.
This scenario has to be maybe the very best one in the entire game. I probably have over 100 hours in this one alone.
The only thing that I missed was that once you kill every single enemy on the map, you can't find any more - they don't respawn. So I would guess there are about 40-50 enemies in all, including at the airfield, at the base in the hills, out marching around the countryside, and in the two towns.
The scenario is an awesome sniping scenario, once you find the TWS gunsight. Somebody said there is a virtual ammo box - but I must have missed that. The great thing about having the UAV terminal, is that you can use the drone to loiter around the map for a couple of hours before it runs out of gas, and you can use that to spot patrols. Then once you get familiar with the map, taking your bearings from the friendly house with the red getaway truck, you can use the quad to get quickly to the patrols, either in front or in back, and take out an entire 11-man patrol - two patrols that have linked up. That is a very hairy encounter. When one or two guys escape, the drone will help you spot where they are so you can pursue and kill.
For a long time I could not figure out how the guys at the base - I left as many alive as I could so they could pursue me - maybe about 6 left alive - I couldn't figure out how with their marksman scope, they were virtually as deadly snipers as I was. But six months after playing the scenario, I found out that you hold the ctrl key, then hit the scope key on certain scopes, and THEN you do have high magnification, like 10x magnification, instead of 2x which is normal.
I have posted extensively, with many screenshots about this awesome scenario, on afterdawn forums, especially here: http://forums.afterdawn.com/threads/the-official-graphics-card-and-pc-gaming-thread.647383/page-477. I have a couple of posts on that page about Arkham Asylum, and Far Cry 3, but the one you want is #9540 dated August 7, 2015 which includes about 20 pages and maybe 10 screenshots about this scenario. It also explains how to set up your own save system, for incredible replay opportunity.
I used to get on the mountains up above a main trail, and use the TWS scope to find the patrols. When I realized that the drone could help me find the last guys who were sniping me, I also started using the drone to find the patrols, and I show in drone images how I killed off a full 11-man combined patrol.
I don't know if the scenario has been updated.
I play Arma3 single-player, and I still have about 50 scenarios I haven't played yet. When they updated Arma3 two years ago - they do it often every 3 months or so - I lost all my saves.
So I don't let steam update it. I play offline, I disconnect my internet, or if I have to be online to activate a new game, I catch steam and pause the update, and then I delete the content from the steam update folders, and I have a copy of the present major exe files in case I slip up and steam does its thing.
I also have great saves from the Combined Arms showcase. I can play the counter-attack close-in as a grenadier, or behind the magic main rock as a machine gunner with the zephyr, with the MX-SW with 100-round clip, with the enemy Katiba, or long-range with enemy katiba grenadier, which is hairy because they are coming down the hill to my left, and if I don't take them out with the grenades, I will be forced to move around the rock to my right, and then the later troops coming down the valley will kill me. Sometimes I run forward, grab a zephyr, then go prone in the back near the two mraps, and hold that position 3rd person with zephyr. That also is very hairy. I try to throw smoke in back to protect the sarge and the one other prone guy if I can.
I also play most recently with enemy high-powered scope once I learned the ctrl + scope trick.
I usually save after destroying the oncoming mrap - to get that out of the way and ditch my rocket launcher, and keep it only as an infantry counter-attack challenge.
And more recently I have started appreciating the advantages of playing in 3rd person, which compensates for the advantage the AI have in being able to see through tall grass. Playing in 3rd person lets me look up over my prone body. It comes in very handy sometimes. You can look over walls too. When you scope in you have the same scope view as 1st person.
You can take cover behind the little rock outside the FOB near the side entrance, and take them out as they come along the wall. If you try this in first person it won't work as well. But in 3rd person your cursor is on their head, and most of you except for the tip of your rifle is behind rock cover. I usually throw smoke to protect the sergeant down in the mrap gulley. I try to keep him alive to call out enemies for me. I won't save a counter attack that does not have the sarge in that gully - otherwise he gets killed off immediately. And I have played many many lonely hours by myself, finally winning, but that's not as much fun. If I keep thowing enough smoke, sometimes I can keep one or two more of my teammates alive. Some of the counter-attacks have me left with only a total of a 5-man team, but we usually survive as a 2-man team, me and sarge, or sometimes 3 of us. Those counter attacks are intense!
Truly Arma3 is one of the greatest, if not the absolute finest gaming experience available today. In my book it is the cream of the crop and I salute Bohemia!!!
And a shout out to the creator of Scotch Lass - nichevo. Dude, you are a friggin genius!!! My hat off to you man!!!
Good playing guys,
Rich
