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http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?63053-New-interview-with-Maruk&p=1094515#post1094515 I got a fair amount of flack for that suggestion, it's nice to have some vindication. Congratulations to everyone that made it happen.

BIS making a milsim, in a persistant world... that's my idea of bliss! I'd still want a single player game though personally. I think any prospect of an mmo has been ruled out by a dev recently anyway.

I've just had this, exactly the same point, in the same mission. All drivers up to date and on patch 1.57. If it helps diagnose the problem, my screen isn't entirely blank, the loading bar appears at the bottom but is dimmer than it would be if anything were actually loading. Looks like a corrupt load to me, obviously as it's hanging on a load screen of some sort the endmission cheat isn't possible.

Pretty much the same, the major difference being the WAH-64 inclusion of the more powerful Rolls Royce engine. Unfortunately the US designed transmission system can't utilise the extra power so performance remains pretty much the same. OT, congratulations BIS for an excellent addition to the ArmA family. BAF is superb and worth every penny.

http://brokentoys.org/2010/08/02/xfire-acquired-neglects-to-keep-people-who-made-xfire/ Having been a huge fan of Xfire I was saddened to see this news, I think it's prudent to let as many people as possible know about this. I'm going to give it a couple of weeks, wait and see what happens but I would expect the new management to start selling email address' along with gamers stats.

I've been a huge fan/supporter of xfire for the best part of 5 years now, I think people should be made aware of this development though. http://brokentoys.org/2010/08/02/xfire-acquired-neglects-to-keep-people-who-made-xfire/

ArmA tempered my enthusiasm, ArmA:QG slightly restored my faith, ArmA 2 once stable gave glimpses of what I've been missing since OFP, OA restored my faith in BIS fully.... this DLC is going to make me don my BIS fanboi cap again for the first time since OFP:R. Well done gents, I haven't looked forward to DLC in any game as much as this.

The warfare stuff is a fine example of a big idea gone slightly awry, definately the biggest mistake BIS have made imo. When you've got a community of players enjoying and thriving on the grunt experience it doesn't really make a lot of sense to throw them headfirst into sn RTS style micromanagement nightmare at the end of a great single player experience. I think it's under-estimated just how much fun it was to pile out of the back of a truck as just another face in the crowd, trying to stay in formation under fire, seeing countless other grunts eaither side on your flanks scrambling around.

That was a true gaming highlight for anyone that played the game. I think what I like is the way that dynamic events occur in BIS' games, you can play the same missions over and over in different ways and the course of events and outcome will rarely be the same. I remember one of the early missions in ArmA, leading a couple of stryker and a couple of hummer's (from memory) out of the airfield up to the coast road, the first time I played it I was probably a little too cautious and the Russian armour ended up pinning me down, what ensued was a game of cat and mouse for what seemed like an age. I'd lost the styrker, was down to 3 or 4 men and it was looking grim when I hear a distant rumble, one of the BMP's blew and directly overhead swept an AV8-B, to cheers from me that I can't repeat without breaking forum rules. Downside was it was 1am and I managed to wake my neighbours lol

Congrats to all at BIS, I've been with you all every step of the way since OFP, I found ArmA disappointing, ArmA 2 was fun at times but not consistently enough..... a few hours into OA now and I can honestly say I haven't had this much fun with an expansion in any game, in any genre since OFP:R Keep up the good work!

Steam are at the mercy of the distributors, I assume that'd be Atari again for them in this instance. They had the exact same problem with Activision not releasing EU CD-Keys for the new Transformers game last week (they still haven't got that game available to EU customers even now)

Placebo, you need to have a word in someone's ear. The Sprocket.exe took 10 minutes to download (all 344k of it), download from the sprocket.exe holds at around 312kbps, using the direct links results in a download speed of 25kbps. I understand it'll be seeing some heavy traffic but this is exactly what happened when I purchased ArmA/QG through Sprocket. Although i'm not on the best connection here, speedtest.net verifies 9mb connection and Steam trundles along at 917kbps so i very much doubt it's my connection.

How's the d/l speeds for people ordering through Sprocket? It would be my preferred choice but it's just taken me 5 minutes to load the page, I guess it's getting battered with a massive increase in traffic at the moment but I'd rather go Steam if it means I can d/l in hours rather than days.

So I made the system requirements up did I? uh, no they're from the back of the damn box. I'll be back to revisit this thread when AC 2's system req's are up to give you some more FACTS, until then. Ciao. ---------- Post added at 12:18 AM ---------- Previous post was at 12:15 AM ---------- From the article: "We equipped our test PC with high-end components, a GeForce 280 GTX, and a quad-core Intel Core 2 CPU." you did nothing but reinforce my point, thanks...next?

You've not even presented a coherent argument or attempted to answer my statement with any facts of your own. My post included FACTS, who's deluded? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KW0zvBjG918 Name a PC game with visuals as good as Assassins Creed (2) that can run on a 3 year old mid range PC. It should be an easy task given your above ridiculous statement.

Clock speed has nothing to do with it, without getting too technical... Assassin's Creed Recommended specs: Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.2 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ or better RAM: 3GB Video Card: 512 MB Card Sound Card: 5.1 Sound Card HDD Space: 12GB DirectX Version: DirectX 10.0 Now that's just the recommended specs, we all know that to run any PC game at max settings (which would give visuals the same as the 360) you need way, way above those specs.

Not necesarily correct, despite it's age the 360 is aging very slowly in terms of visuals. It's also basically a Direct X 9c platform which helps, if DX10 had taken off it may not have weathered so well but as it stands currently the only big leap the PC will be making over the 360 will be when/if DX11 manages to get a foothold. Don't forget that PC games have to be developed to be playable on the widest range of system set ups possible if they have any hope of being a commercial success, very, very few games take advantage of cutting edge PC hardware.

Yeah like that, but with visuals that don't look like they pre-date pong lol

This is my anual visit to the forums and you almost made me want to re-install with that speech, good stuff. I think I'll hang on and see if someone has the balls to develop and ArmA-esque mmo though, it'd be awesome to be able to do all the above in a persistant world setting with objectives and territory control based on players actions.

I wonder if the Taliban lag warp? lol

evo was the only reason ArmA1 stayed on my hard drive for more than a week, the same with any multiplayer experience, your enjoyment or lack of is dictated by the other people playing, get a good bunch of people and you'll have a great time.

Can you please have Maruk add it to the update notes then?

Just when I thought BIS had nailed it, I was really enjoying the campaign and now... this. A gamebreaking bug in the main campaign and it's gone unfixed for almost a month, I'm done recommending this game.

And the way to answer a "troll" is to hit his thread up with 2 pages of replies in an hour? Good work fella!

Some of you people need to realise that not everyone has played through OfP, Red Hammer, Resistance, ArmA and Queens Gambit. Like it or not, these kind of games just aren't very common, so when someone new comes along, it's a completely different experience for them. How about highlighting the inherent problems with games on this scale, how about offering genuine support and helping these people actually garner some enjoyment and add to the community instead of just dissmissing everyone like this as "just another 1337 bunnyhopper" this community could and should be so much more if so many of you didn't all have your heads up your elitist arseholes.