snakefang

Ya, I agree, these things are next to useless due to that little fact, and if you dont hit the plane the right way you dont recover, and you simply, slowly crash into the ground while yanking the stick up yelling, "PULL UP YOU PIECE OF CRAP!" >_<

No, but for a military simulation is isnt too high on the simulation part is it? Heck about the only realistic thing about the game is it takes about 30 minutes to travel from island to island via truck.

No idea mate, but mine wont even install now, it says i already have it installed when i uninstalled it and removed all program files of ArmA... This game is bugged worse then ET for the 2600.

Money. Why release a combat sim thats about as real as paintball?

Show me a game where that's actually a feature. *Points to every soldier in the world* Seriously. You try pulling it out of whatever pocket it's in, pulling it's pin, throwing your arm all the way back and hurling it across a field in under four seconds. JOTR, and ALL NOVALOGIC GAMES feature realistic bullet drop, WINDAGE, and ELEVATION FOR ALL WEAPONS, sniper rifle, M4, MP5, M203, everything. As for grenades, its not in your pocket, or at least i hope it isnt, they should be located on your belt, and if i had 2 brain cells, id look down, grab the thing, and throw it. Even then, put a base ball in your pants cargo pocket, it sure as h@#% doesnt take me 4 seconds to pull it out and throw, and im not trained solider. Also, i dont think you need 4 arms to carry a freakin MP5, and an M4, if you would need 4 arms to carry those, youd need more to carry a M24, and an AT-4, since they weigh a crap lot more. Also, i dont think ArmA soliders carry 80 pounds of equipment, heck unless there carring the M107 or Jav, they probly arnt carring more then 50 pounds. My dad was 82nd AirBorn, he carried an M60 machine gun, with 1,000 rounds, and the base plate of a Mortar, and he could run 400m, drop to the ground, set up with M60 in about a second, and give ACCURITE BASE OF FIRE OUT TO ABOUT 500 meters! More so if need be.

I would enjoy a more realistic solider combat. Please point to a solider that cant run and reload. Please point to a solider that moves slow as f@%, and in a jerkish motion. Please show me a solider that cant jog/run with his weapon and still be reasonably accurite at ranges between 80m-10m. Please show me a solider that cantt o adjust his sights on his weapon. Please show me a solider that can carry a M24 sniper rifle and a AT-4, but cant carry an M4A1 and an MP5. Please show me a solider that takes 4 seconds to throw a freaking grenade. Games like COD may not be "simulators" if you even care to call ArmA a sim, but they got a heck of a lot better controls, that respond quicker, and more realisticly then ArmAs. Heck, you want a simulation? Look at freakin Americas Army! It was MADE to do NOTHING but simulate WAR. For gods sakes it was MADE BY THE US MILITARY, not some random company.

What about Evolution? Where the AI dont come at you, you come at them....

Wow, just wow. I didnt think anyone here said they wanted a f@#%ing perfect simulation of a helo or plane. Â Where you got such an idea makes me wounder about your thinking abilities.... We want the ability to do something we know we can do, its not the freaking difficult. Â Like an earlier poster said, youd be pissed too if you could do everything we can now do with rifles, sept look down the sights. Or how about the ability to shoot the M24, but not the ability to pull the bolt back. Â How about the ability to pull the pin on the grenade before throwing it? Yes, i understand people can learn to fly like this, yes i understand i could simply not fly, but that isnt the point. Â There are those that have learned to play games that lag 100% of the time, are full of hacks, cheats, and glitches, and are no where near as fun as rolling a ball up a hill. Â So I guess we should just shut up and play no matter what problems exsist right? Its a very simple, we dont want the ability to track 15 targets all at onces and fire heat seaking tactical nuclear warheads at them all while doing trig and making a steak in our rooms. Â We want the ability to TURN LEFT OR RIGHT with the rudders. Â Its not that hard, the fact that it isnt already in the game makes me wounder about BIS and their ability to think clearly. I mean BF2 even has rudder control, and its up their with Doom now in therms of game play.

Insdie Paraiso down the main street leading to the open field next to church there is a AK-74 with a PSO-1 scope. Dont know if other citys have similar "hidden" weapons or not but would be cool.

Ok, at first it thought ArmA wouldnt need Anti Cheat/hack software, but now i see it does. I truly do not care what anyone else thinks on this matter. When 6 servers i joined in the last 20 minutes all have hackers and cheaters nuking the base, having full auto Javalins, and flying hummvs im done "thinking" about having it in the game. When 3 servers today that i have joined were shut down and taken over by hackers i am done "thinking" about if they should add it or not. Get over it the game is laggy and buggy, thats how it is, adding anti cheat software may make it more laggy, i dont care. As long as servers arnt taken over by these little a holes, and their bloody flying hmmvs of death I dont really care.

Ok, at first it thought ArmA wouldnt need Anti Cheat/hack software, but now i see it does. I truly do not care what anyone else thinks on this matter. When 6 servers i joined in the last 20 minutes all have hackers and cheaters nuking the base, having full auto Javalins, and flying hummvs im done "thinking" about having it in the game. When 3 servers today that i have joined were shut down and taken over by hackers i am done "thinking" about if they should add it or not. Get over it the game is laggy and buggy, thats how it is, adding anti cheat software may make it more laggy, i dont care. As long as servers arnt taken over by these little a holes, and their bloody flying hmmvs of death I dont really care.

He has a point, i can modifie my zoom in ability to be even better then that of the M24/XM107. Think of having the ability to snipe targets at 1000m with an M4? Or M16 ACOG. So while he has a point, other mods also create disadvantages. But then again, those are a personal choice.

Ok, ive gotten this 4 times in the last 30 minutes and its pissing me off. What does it mean and how do i fix it please.

Aye, also the [uSA] IMO server almost always has 15+ ppl on it 24/7, and most of the time Admins are present so its pretty fun there. Only problem is its dedicated EVO, nothing else.

ArmAs multi player realy isnt that fun, ive been playing since US release and im starting to get burned out. Heck normaly i can play the same game for 4 months, or even a few years without getting really burned out, but ArmA just burns away my desire to play.

Watch out for anyone with the tags Mygot. Many may know them from other games such as BF2, JOTR, and CS/CS:S, there clan is DEVOTED to hacking, cheating, glitching, stat padding, Tking, and over all ruining the gaming experiance for everyone. They have even gone so far as to hack into a server, ban everyone from it, then use the server for their own use or crash them.

Wow, what a mature post. Thought i left those behind in the Planet Battlefield forums... Anywho yes, the interface is very complicated, the only other time ive seen SO MANY commands is in a flight sim. Grant it, 50% of these commands are general useless, such as turn head left, right, ect when you can simply hold down cntrl and move mouse that direction. Also i agree, mapping keys to diffrent keys for ease of use is extremely annoying, i spent 20 minutes the first time i played just trying to get keys in the right place and not one key for two things. Also the joystick controls are messed up, most of the my keys set for joy dont work period, and other wont map to it at all. Tho it starts to feel okay (I wont say great because it feels like your character lags about 1/2 a second behind everything you do.) after you play awhile, they could still improve on some areas. Id personaly enjoy it kinda chopped up, so flight controls are in one area ect, not all in a list like it is, very over whelming.

I dislike the fact that the weapons feel horrible, and most dont have the correct rate of fire, or even the simple stuff like being able to adjust for distance on the sights of your rifle. I HATE the A-10 and its inability to make a turn without falling out of the sky like a brick. I mean, why put it in their if you cant even use it 80% of the time? Also the helicopters are a joke, i mean, the engine starts leaking fuel if you land too hard? What the heck? And the bots always seem to shoot your fuel tank, no matter how fast, high, or where they hit. They could shoot the nose of the helo and it would start leaking fuel.... Another thing is the shotty controls, are we soldiers in this game or mentaly handicaped escappies with guns? I mean come on! I can JOG and hold a gun steadier then these guys. I mean its like trying to control someone who has random spazz attacks. Last but not least are the bloody AI. I mean come on! Your AI are the stupidist, most worthless pieces of crap on the battlefield, they dont even provide decent FANNON FODDER! While the enemy AI can SNIPE you out of a HARRIER going 500MPH with an AK-74. And they have the shooting skills of freaking Chuck Norris, able to hit you at any range with a pistol, one shot one kill. END-Rant.

Yes, but think of Red Orchastra, it had very good vihicles, but it did not have airplanes and helos, but if they can get cars, tanks, trucks. I guess it may be more difficult, but if you can get cars and trucks to work, then prehaps you can get helos and airplanes. I dont think anyone has really tried it, ive seen a few CS mods that have helos and stuff, but that was using the old HL1 engine. But ya, the maps are a bit small too. Once again RO had pretty decent sized maps, no where near as big as ArmAs, but then again ArmAs maps are like 1/8 the size of JOTRs maps. And JOTR could support up to 150 players on the server, with tanks, helos and the like.

Sounds like HL2. I mean look at Insurrgency, or whatever, its very realistic, even more so then ArmA in some reagons, and its got TONS of mods. Very easy to work with. As for physics, yes, i would enjoy shooting a guy and not watching him fall over THE EXACT SAME WAY the other 10 guys before him did. I would enjoy seeing the car i just nudged not get nocked off a couple of kicks to my left for no real reason. Id love my harrier to not BOUNCE off trees as it crash lands. But hay as they said, it might make the game EVEN MORE BUGGY. JOTR anyone?-For those that did play it, you could run threw walls if you knew how to, without hacks...

Now if only we could attach IR tracker to a head set, that included a screen for viewing, and then a IR tracked weapon for you to shoot, so you wouldnt have to use the mouse.... Also add a sort of dance pad beneath you to move and then a normal keyboard in front of you and youd be set for life.

NOTE: i havent read threw all of this thread, so please excuse if it is a read post. If you use SD magazines in normal weapons such as the M16A2/A3, IT WILL STILL COUNT AS A SILENCED WEAPON. The bots will not hear the shots, even when your close. This works will all no silenced weapons, tho it throws some off a bit when aiming.

Heres a question, when you play the sinlge player compaign, it says that you are US ARMY. BUT! They are using harriers and Cobras? Also, if its the other way around online, then why are they using BlackHawks and not Hueys? Also M24 instead of M40A1/A2/A3? M9 but not M1911? SPR-4 but not M14/M21? I get the fact that BIS makes the stuff that people want, but for gods sakes, the game has been called the "Most realistic FPS out their." If were gona call it that CAN WE AT LEAST MAKE IT REALISTIC? The Army doesnt use harriers, the Marines dont use the Black Hawk. The M16s have a faster rate of fire then that in game, and the weapons in general are f@#%ed beyound belief... "Well, then just make your own mod or something." I paid close to 50 bucks for a REALISTIC COMBAT GAME because i got tired of the bunny hopping arcade style of the BF games, the LEAST they could do, is use the right equipment and ROF for the weapons in the game.... As my grandfather always tells me, dont do something half a#%ed, if your gona do it, DO IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME. Little bugs in the code dont really count, those are just the reaction to diffrent machines ect.

Evo is pretty fun, especially since your fighthing a much larger force of enemies, even if they are bots. One thing i would like tho, is the ability to get, and pilot everything from the begining, although, this might cause more smack tards to pop up and destroy everything, but still. I personaly enjoy the game more when i can get a squad of 20 guys, roll into a town with Strykers/Hummers, light crap up, and always have the option of calling in air support. Theres just something about a human piloted A-10/AH-1z flying over your head and taking out the three tanks that were pinning you down that is more appealing to me then getting spawn camped by some guy in a tank....

Agreed, i hate the steering in this game, it sucks beyound all belief. Also, why is it that the cars go from like 50 KILOMETERS PER HOUR, which, realisticly they would go faster at top speed, to like 20 KPH when on grass? Im sorry but things like the HMMVVs were made to go over hills and such. Also, last time i checked, the Stryker isnt a stick shift.... Nor the tank, nor the civilian cars. All of these vihicles have higher top speeds, i mean come on, theres no way a strykers max speed is around 50 KPH, more like 50 MPH.