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Ok after quite a lengthy , informative and educative debate in the A&M section in the RHS thread plenty of us discussed about DU rounds used in Iraq/Afghanistan/Balkans and debated about there lethality and ability to pollute the envoirnment and finally kill people .... I would like people to post more about this controversial issue which seems to have been deemed un-harmful by the US army as they still seem to use it mainly because they can get it for free from Nuclear reactors (its them supplied to defense contractors who are allowed to make projectiles from them , in other words its an efficient way of disposing off nuclar waste ) ... what do you all think? Is it RIGHT to use them ? You dont only kill amroured vehicles with it but spread RADIATION , which doesnt kills only the people involved in combat but civilians and the surrounding populace as well , not only that it can infect future generations too! Do we really need a weapon such as that? So whats your verdict on this? Post away.... P.S: Also if someone can try and list all the ammos it is used in so far i know its used in A-10's , Abrams tanks , British Challengers , some AAV's too , AC-130 gunships used it in Afghanistan there are some more which i cant remember right now ....

Check out the scans for pics and the mag article here: Inside Gamer Seems this game has gone the same way as OFP in terms of publisher vs developer. Ubi owns the rights to the Far Cry franchise so they get to make their 'own' sequel while Crytek went and built Crysis for EA, though crysis isnt strictly a sequel but it looks very similiar in locale to far cry. Reading through the last page of the mag i read a comment referring to OFP and how the game wont go that way in terms of realism and then i was confused as i dont understand what sort of realism they are talking about .. last page Theres a lot of talk about the game having intelligent and dynamic AI , dunno if its gonna happen they said the same things with Far Cry and it wasnt THAT far away from the normal run-gun FPS that we usually see.

Hey everyone, been a long time since i played ArmA. I was hoping to install it back along with QG but the thing is i am not able to make sense of the different patches floating around and dont know the sequence in which to install stuff. So can anyone help me out here? I have ArmA installed at 1.04 now what do i do ... install QG on it and then 1.14 or get 1.05 then 1.08 and then 1.14 and QG on top of it? Its a freaking mess...

Thanks for the assist Mr Burns .

Umm yeah i agree with pong2cs this game looks more like arma then the original old pics shown before arma was made public . Still as long as BIS deliver on what they said about the gameplay mechanics then and include a PROPER campaign this time i'll be happy. Graphics will only take you so far the rest is all dependent on the gameplay.

So what gives them the right to mock 'hollywood realism' as they just did back there? This form of 'realism' imo is even worse then the 'hollywood' one.

Another 8800GTX casualty. Gives me the heebie geebies since i am gonna be hopefully buying this card in a another month or so .

Was i supposed to be dead? So Manhunt you got a E6850 and a X1950 and still get LOD issues? Anyone know how to fix these LOD issues, they werent so bad in OFP atleast we had the option to tweak it aswell. Dont see so in ArmA.

Hmm no multi core support sucks. I assume a patch wont help remedy the problem either? Since it would require the whole of the game programming/engine to be overhauled and rewritten in a fashion to take advantage of the many cores .. right? Hope BIS is taking notes for this on the Nextgen game.

The CPU and RAM speed will be a big bottleneck for that 8800GTS. I have a similiar setup except i got a 6600GT and 2.4 Ghz CPU and i cannot play on high settings with good frame rates at all. I intend to get a Q6600 when its price drops and 2 GB RAM along with a 8800GTS or GTX depending upon the price when i go out to buy in a month or so. Btw can anyone tell me does ARMA make ANY use of the multi cores? Will the Quad enjoy any benefits over the dual cores? Also i've heard and seen people with 8800 getting random CTD's consistently in arma , whats the deal there? Its the high end card and its having troubles? How the hell do you play this game on HIGH then? Hows the 2900XT's response to arma aswell. If anyone can answer these queries they will greatly help me in my buying decisions. Those who already have similiar setups please give us a peformance run down of your experience in ArmA atm.

I need a new d/ld link the one provided in the first post is simply taking me to the download link but nothing is happening ...

I didnt know anything about ARMAAC until i played in a MP game just now and it read 'this server is protected by ARMAAC' .... so i think ok neato , very much like PB, ArmA needs something to protect players in MP. And guess what in that very game on that very server, a guy from some clan called Mygot shows up and cheats left & right , tking deliberately everyone just to show off that he can do so even with Armaac on , then he put on some wierd sound file which played the sound of a man screaming bloody murder on and on and on ..... untill it forced us all playing to shutdown the volume of our radios in options. he kept on asking for an admin to ban him so he could come back and prove how worthless bans are as he was changing his game ID's on the fly according to him. It was a real pain playing like that. Now i dont know how it all works but BIS should do better with in game security. If cheats like this get out, MP is doomed. or will only be enjoyed behind closed doors locked sessions  . P.S: It was the 22SAS server the one on which this happened iirc.

Nice plain & simple website. me like . Hope to see many missions there.

I really liked this addon back with OFP but it seemed to take up a bit of resources and caused some lag , i wanna know if it does the same in ArmA?

Have you played the campaign in full yet? You should have come across this there. Unless you like many other simply skipped the missions in which this was mentioned . These new RACS are great , that recently released M60 goes with them well too. We just need a few more complimentary vehicles and units and we can have the RACS army in forest camo.

Those Sahrani army ,but Racs are private army /sahrani flag on the arm/ RACS = Royal Army Corps of Sahrani I think thats what the abbreviation is for. So they are not private army .

Finally i've got ArmA and am dying to play it in all its glory fully patched and all. I have the 505 boxed DVD version and internally it reads v 1.04.5121. So which patch do i need to d/ld now, the update page was a bit confusing there are so many variants of the game . There are EURO and INTL updates and i dont know which one to get. Plus they are all BIG patches so i dont wanna mess up the d/ld. My net isnt the fastest on the planet so i cant afford to make the mistake of getting the wrong one.

Ok so i reinstalled the game and then installed the patch again . Took me about 3-4 hours just to do all that ... Still d/lding the 1.08 patch lets see how long it takes ... probably double the amount of time since its double the size. I dont understand why PATCHES are so big now? Did they forget to put in major stuff and just bundle the original release half empty .

Ok so i got this patch and its taking light years to install and in between i get this error now ... "Errorfound in file Addons/air.pbo (96587d7e!=fe592cae)" What the hell is wrong now?

But the question still remains. Why is this game so buggy? I thought BIS would have learnt something from the OFP era. But it seems the beta testing just didnt happen maybe they were just hurrying the product out for reasons i dont know considering the fact that we kept hearing about delays before the release and all and talks of Quality before Early release . I was thorougly disappointed after going through ArmA. I was all hyped up but the game has disappointed on several fronts. It has the potential but this is not the way it was meant to be showcased and brought to the world. Once again sales will be lost due to a poor 1st release, even if Queens gambit comes out and is blockbuster in terms of quality and all ...

Finally i've got ArmA and am dying to play it in all its glory fully patched and all. I have the 505 boxed DVD version and internally it reads v 1.04.5121. So which patch do i need to d/ld now, the update page was a bit confusing there are so many variants of the game . There are EURO and INTL updates and i dont know which one to get. Plus they are all BIG patches so i dont wanna mess up the d/ld. My net isnt the fastest on the planet so i cant afford to make the mistake of getting the wrong one.

Ok so the first patch would weigh in at 227 MB and the other after it for 1.08 would be around 565 MB? Isnt there like ONE big patch for it all?

Ok so the first patch would weigh in at 227 MB and the other after it for 1.08 would be around 565 MB? Isnt there like ONE big patch for it all?

But i didnt buy the game in europe, i live in the middleeast, shouldnt my game be Intl or something then? I hate this quadzillion patch business. i wish it were simpler.

But i didnt buy the game in europe, i live in the middleeast, shouldnt my game be Intl or something then? I hate this quadzillion patch business. i wish it were simpler.