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Using any type of Anti DRM sofwtare cause copy protection to make you Aim like a girl. Reinstall the original CD with code unistall all virtual drive crap on your pc ;} Not really necessary. I play fine here and I have Daemon Tools and some other bits and pieces installed and I have no problems with Arma or any other software.

Hey Cosmonaut, regarding those pictures. Is it a requirement of the force that you must have a moustache?

It may be a moot point I'd grant you but if an RPG round did hit someone, what do you think would kill them first: the pre-explosion/detonator or the shaped charge itself?

Probably one. Â No. It was this old, white haired excentric guy and with him he had the inventor of the explosive, reactive armour. I think he is German. Anway, he had a model of a tank turrent and to this he strapped metal plates at an angle to effectively double the thickness of the armour. Inside this he hung a watermelon to simulate the crew. When he detonated the charge, set up on a platform a few feet away, whic looked identical to the RPG picture Col. Faulkner has posted BTW, the jet of metal sliced right through the plates, through the tank hull and the fruit and out the other side!! The hole the metal made was very narrow though and at one point the jet split in two. They then tried the same test with reactive armour inbetween and it only manage to go through 6 of the 10 or so plates, completely saving the "crew" inside. Very interesting program that one.

I saw a program on Discovery about the shaped charge and how it works. They even tested a homebrew one on some metal plates so I would imaging when that jet of hot copper shoots out, if it hit you in the chest and the explosives didn't get you somewhow that jet of metal would give a new definition to open heart surgery. If it hit the ground near you, maybe it wouldn't be so dangerous?

Interesting that it differentiates between game and entertainment! What do Creative think we play games for anyway?

With the AI I mean. I set up a quick mission to test this. Myself on a hill overlooking 2 BMPs. I had a Harrier with GBU fly from the airbase down to my position. Found that after much trial and error the option to tell the pilot to target the laser designator will only appear once some condition is met. Presumably when hes in range. He then says he is engaging but never drops a bomb. If you tell him specifically to target a vehicle he says he will then immediately after says negative. If you tell him to engage at will through the command menu again he will sometimes switch to engaging but again does nothing. What am I doing wrong? EDIT: Oh and I am lasing the target, or sometimes a patch of ground next to the target, so the menu option to target where the LD is pointing appears but it doesn't seem to make any difference.

Do a search for either "LD" or "Laser Designator". You will find a few threads mentioning the problem and it has been noted on the bug tracker site.

Do a search for either "LD" or "Laser Designator". You will find a few threads mentioning the problem and it has been noted on the bug tracker site.

And yet sometimes it doesn't. I was on a private server with a friend experimenting and just playing around. I was sitting in a Shilka and my friend, without me knowing, had placed a satchel charge right next to me. At the split second he detonated it I had exited the Shilka as it had run out of ammo. I survived!! Not even a scratch on me yet the shilka was blown to pieces. As I walked around the vehicle he was typing "WTF!?" etc.

I've noticed that when crouching down and moving forward that you breathe harder than when you are standing. It's even worse if you have your gun up. After only a few steps you are panting like a racehorse. It's not very realistic as you don't pant that hard when running forward!

Rather like the way X3: Reunion handles anything outside your current sector.

I expect that the people who moan and whine in MP about why they can't "own" and all that rubbish will move on when the next twitch fest turns up. Hopefully UT2007 will pull them away for a while.

Is it really unoptimised as you say or is it more of a case of it doing a lot that users don't appreciate. Inevitably you would get someone compare it to BF2 or its ilk and ask why it can run at 1600x1200 at 100fps+ and why can't ArmA do the same! Perhaps it has something to do with draw distance etc. Yes, it could be faster, I'd be the first to admit that. I too am disappointed about performance and my spec is a higher than yours but it IS a very complex game compared to BF2.

I must have clicked on that option by accident soon after I got the game cause I thought I had broken it. I ended up with a very thin screen down the centre of my monitor!

That looks quite convincing whatever it is and how it does it.

Can you post your system specs?

It might be worth doing an un-install then re-install and prove you can play the game without the patch first. Then apply the patch and re-test.

I think in dirtylarrygb's case he was probably annoyed that you took the kills from him! Perhaps there shold be another global list for abusive admins?

I got kicked from a server once because I was the gunner of a tank on the armoured fist co-op mission. We had taken the first town and had to move on to the second. He ordered me to blow up a Ural and and a UAZ. I questioned him on this and asked why we should waste ammo on them and besides we already have the town and requested we move on. He flipped out saying stuff like "I'm the commander. Do as I say or else. When I tell you to do something you do it!". I replied that I didnt see the point so he kicked me!

You can swim but you lose your gear. Hope that gets fixed soon. Also, regarding bullet penetration. On the co-op missions called insurgents where you have to ambush a small convoy, last night I was on the north side of the road behind some rocks. The man in front of me was killed by the MG on the truck. I crawled along ground to take his RPG and the truck started firing at me....through the rocks. There is no way he could see me for one thing and also I don't believe those bullets would travel straight through 6 feet of solid rock.

Totally agree with this comment. I stopped playing BF2 after a month to 6 weeks when I realised I was just playing to push that little orange XP bar over to the right. That has happened to me many times in recent years. I'm not sure if its me becoming jaded with the games but its as if part of me takes a step back and says "What are you doing this for?". Then I realise there is no point to playing it any more so I stop. A bit like the WOPR in Wargames playing Tic-Tac-Toe! And it's exactly how I feel about MMOs. I last about a week or two till the treadmill sets in and realise that's all they have to offer to keep you playing. I haven't experienced this with ArmA and I've played it almost every day since release for at least and hour and much longer periods at the weekend on Co-op. You'll never have that same experience with BF2/2142, at least not on the same scale.

I couldn't imagine it being a lot of work to have an all body texture of burnt blacks and browns. I think the trickier part would be to have the bodies stay with the wreckage or spill out in some gratifying way....did I say that out loud?

Interesting that you note that "all the old problems are there" and yet refer to OFP stable and playable. Apart from the old problems I guess.... Visually it is better as you say. I never spent a lot of time with OFP as I spent more time with VBS1 so can't answer definitively about the other differences but I would guess the short answer would be no, you can't bring the new models into OFP.

Plaintiff1, I can see the beam quite easily without NV unless you are talking about IRL. Point the LD at the ground nearby and you will see a large semi opaque disk of light off centre to bottom right. At 200 odd metres I can make this out on the hull of a BMP. And regarding SF Recon switching to LD, you are right Dallas, they do. But they keep switching to and from it when they are a member of your squad and sometimes when they aren't, even if you have removed all their gear apart from the LD they will keep using it then putting it away then using it again. I don't know why as they have had no commands given to them and I am stationary. Once I told him to target the BMP, which he did, spottily. I then told him to Engage and he ran right towards the BMP, which was facing away from him at the time so it didn't spot him. He kept on running until he was in its forward arc and then it proceeded to kill him. I'm not sure what he was expecting to achieve wielding only an LD but it's just an example of artificial stupidity!