Pickles0311

Hi all, So allow me to explain. I only bought ARMA 3 a few months ago at the behest of my girlfriend at the time who is a major gamer and was encouraging me to get into gaming. I like the game and have been only playing through the campaign and making my own battles in the Editor. I have ARMA 3 APEX with all the major DLC. The only mod I have is the ACE 3 mod (which I can use, or not use for the purpose of online play), of which I only am familiar with the map tools and basic medical. I am however decently good at the game. Fighting on veteran mode, and am fast and accurate in my rifle fighting, and have decent speed and dexterity with all most of the fundamental controls (however I have no doubt that more dedicated players with many years of play will absolutely demolish me). But I am sick of fighting AI bots in the editor (I have stopped playing the campaign due to the fact that for some reason, I am not able to use the ACE 3 modifications in the campaign), and want to try fighting against other humans. I am not looking for serious, well organized matches. Being a student and having other priorities occupying my time, I don't have time for that level of commitment. I just want to go onto a public server, and fight other random people. I am not looking for an in depth system where I have to spend 30 minutes of playing just to purchase a rifle with a decent optic. I am looking for a game where you are adequately equipped from the start of the match, and dying doesn't make you wait 5 minutes to get back into the action, or wait for the next match. I know this sounds very selfish, but I only want to be able to log in and play for 30 minutes or an hour, and then log off and get back to chores and homework. I don't know how to get online, how to find server lists, and how to even decipher what they mean. If after some time, I learned the ins and outs of online play, maybe then I would be willing to commit my time to a group of people and get into serious organized unit fighting. My (ex) gf and I have since broken up, and gaming simply isn't that high on my priorities any more. I still have the game, and the dedicated gaming laptop, so might as well use it as a way to de-stress from major assignments and research papers. Any advice on how to go about getting started on this? Thanks

I have Zeus. How does this work?

I'm starting to get frustrated. I tried going back into the game today and use the VR arsenal to equip the Roamer tool, once again. And I could not access it. I'm getting ready to give up on this ARMA game. Yes, I could do it the easy way and just estimate, but I currently want to do a resection in order to determine my location, and this is exactly why the military developed the map and compass. This mission is the perfect excuse to use it. If someone could please help me, I havn't progressed in this mission in over a month because I want this to work before I continue.

Okay, I downloaded the cheat. I opened up the virtual arsenal, but it won't show all the extras for my misc. inventory such as the roamer tool. It does show the renamed weapon names that come with the ACE 3 mod, so the cheat is recognizing the ACE 3 mod, but I'm not seeing all the extra stuff in the misc. section of my clothing or vest inventory. I have used the Virtual Arsenal when customizing my loadout in the mission editor before I got the cheat, and have used it to play with the roamer tool, but I'm not getting the roamer tool now. It only shows the mine detector and Tool kit in my Misc menu. What's going on?

No, I don't need to cheat. I am not having trouble with the mission, I just want the technical mapping tools to be able to navigate realistically, actually make my way to grid points using my compass, etc. That would require the use of the advanced map and Roamer tool.

Okay, so I'm still early on in the game. I'm in the mission where you are making a hasty withdrawal to the sea after a major AAF attack. You boat gets taken out and you wash up on the shore with no equipment aside from a pistol. You have to make your way back to friendly units while on your own. In the mission, I've managed to kill a couple enemy troops and have a map and all other standard equipment. But even with the mod activated, I have no map tool (roamer). I know Bohemia probably didn't include that in the campaign since it's a user made addition. So how do I activate/obtain it in the mission?

Hey, I posted a few weeks ago, but noone responded, so I'm making my question even more specific. I am playing through the ARMA 3 vanilla single player campaign. I installed the ACE 3 mod a few weeks ago. There are a whole lot of goodies that I want to get into in this mod, but the thing I'm primarily driven to use is the mapping/roamer tool system for the purpose of land navigation. I want to use this in my single player campaign. Is there anyway to use this in the single player campaign? I am guessing the map in the single player campaign isn't the same as the ACE 3 map, so I would want the ACE 3 map. I would also want the roamer tool, as well as all the extraneous mapping features, such as using the roamer tool to draw straight lines, etc. So far, I've only been playing via the mission editor. But I want to continue off on my campaign as well.

Hey guys, so as I mentioned in a previous thread, I am now using the ACE 3 mod for ARMA 3, and recently tried out the NVGs in the mission editor after setting time to night. I used the most advanced version I could find (Version 4 or 5?). And they are way too grainy to even use. It's not much better than using the naked eye. If they are trying to simulate real NVGs, then they are way off. I mean, ARMA 3 is set in the near future, they have VR tech and all that, so they should have better or atleast the same quality NVGs I used in the service, and my AN-PVS 14s were a million times better than what's offered in the game. Even the two-eye NVG we had right before the 14s (that are worse quality) has a significantly better resolution than what's seen in the game. I mean, I was in a dark room with an enemy who was standing no further than 2 feet in front of me, and I could not make him out. That's simply ridiculous. I can't make anything out. I had the brightness turned up all the way, btw. Is there any way to fix this?

Okay, so I previously made a thread discussing certain things I want for ARMA 3, and someone kindly informed me that the ACE 3 mod offers the things I was looking for. Well I finally downloaded it and have been playing with the features I am interested in (land navigation and use the Roamer tool). Is there any way for me to use the Roamer tool with my map in the campaign (Yes, this is why I downloaded the mod, lol)? Are there any points of incompatibility when using the Mod in the single player campaign? How would this work? Thanks! By the way, I am still trying to learn to use this mod. There is alot that one can do with this mod, and I have no idea how to use even the things I am interested in (medical for one).

Okay, I'm going to redact my previous post a bit. It was late last night and I didn't have time to fully investigate everything before bed. I spent a significant amount of time learning the functions of ACE's navigation system today though. Basically, which keystrokes bring up which features, etc. I must say that I am extremely impressed!! In the mission editor, I made a basic little land navigation course for myself. I placed a ketchup bottle way out in the forest. I noted the grid coordinates in the bottom screen of the mission editor, and jotted them down on a pad of paper that I used for this test. I then placed myself in this Marina town. I used the roamer tool to plot points of landmarks on the map, such as the edge of a far away building, a fork in a dirt road, etc. I then used the tool to find bearings from one checkpoint to another. I did all that before starting off on my walk. Anyhow, my final checkpoint before finally embarking to find the ketchup bottle was the fork in the road several hundred meters away from my supposed ketchup bottle. The whole while, I moved from point to point using my vanilla compass. I was standing over my ketchup bottle in no time. I then decided to randomly place myself somewhere on the island by using Alt + LMB. I then used my compass to get a back azimuth from two visible landmarks, such as a radio tower, and the edge of another recognizable feature, such as a radio dome. I then used the straight edge of the tool to intersect both lines and found my position exactly. I am using Veteran mode so that there are no goofy position markers. This system is incredibly impressive, and exactly what I was looking for! I only have 2 minor gripes. 1) The in game compass needs to be rendered better. It's hard to make out every degree on the compass. It's not perfect, but it works. But in real life, you can actually bring the compass to your face to line up the center wire with the U-notch on the folding magnifying lens, just like rifle sights. You can still look through the magnifying lens to see the compass readings while simultaneously using the cross hair and U-notch. Not a big complaint, but it is a place for improvement. 2) The smaller grid lines should be removed. Using the Roamer tool, they are not necessary. I really only want to see the 1000 meter grid lines. Is there a way to remove them? One last source of irritation I have is in the mission editor specifically: While I did use this function for my Resection test, it's a pain, overall. How do you get rid of the Alt+LMB teleport? I hate this. Final question: Can I get a roamer tool for my character during the campaign? I would love to use it for my current, "find your way back to friendlies" mission.

Okay, so I have been reading the instructions for the ACE 3 mod from the main website, and there are so many details that I will have to learn. But first and formost, The reason I made this post: I stumbled upon the land navigation tools!! The only problem is that the map grid system and tool arn't scaled appropriately for use in game. Each grid square and the corresponding tool are way too large given the playing area. While it is possible, due to the sheer size of the map tool and grid, it's very tiresome to use effectively. But I did a basic test in the editor. I placed a random rucksack in some random hillside, and then placed myself a good distance away. I marked the location of the rucksack by drawing a small dot on the map. I got a compass direction (290°), using the map tool (roamer), between a specific location and the rucksack. And then in the game, I actually used my compass to follow the same heading (290°). In a short period of time, I find myself upon my lost rucksack. The system has everything one needs to conduct proper, realistic land navigation. IMO, only 2 things need to be done to improve it: 1) The smaller subordinate grid lines that keep appearing when you zoom in must not be there. If they need to be there, then maybe they can make the main grid lines bold. 2) The roamer tool and large grid system must be shrunk down in relation to the actual playing area so that the player can effectively utilize the roamer tool to get compass headings. I'm not sure if BIS is using actual military map scale, but can anything be done? Also, if a mod sees this, can you please return this thread to ARMA 3 General forums, or another one? I don't think it belongs in troubleshooting anymore.

Okay, I feel really dumb now. But I think I got it fixed. I deleted the CBA folders and files from my ARMA 3 folder, and redownloaded the CBA mod through steam, and it put it in the right place. So now the mod seems to be working! lol. Totally thrilled about that. About to dive in and figure out what's new. Can a mod put this thread back in ARMA 3 General please? I think my troubleshooting issue is resolved.

Now it says like 12 minutes, but it keeps changing.

To be exact, it said this: Would you like to replace the existing file C:\Users\Adam\Documents\Arma 3\@CBA_A3\ with this one? @CBA_A3\ I clicked yes, and now it's gonna take like 2 hours, lol. Please tell me I didn't mess something up.

I just now pressed extract file on the CBA folder in the ARMA 3 folder, and it asked me if I want to replace something with something else (I'm not super good with computers so I don't understand lol), and I said yes. It said it's gonna take like 2 hours for the process to complete. Is this normal?