Alex72

Wow nice! Thanks Dractyum. :)

This is why camoflague is used in real life. :) It is hard to spot units and thats a very nice feature of this game. However with time you learn to listen to where weapon sounds come from (little bug atm randomly make distant weapon sounds heared instantly instead of delayed. This will be fixed), and you also learn to spot them easier as time go by. ARMA is definatelly one of the games you have to put in a bit of extra time to learn everything. So it will get better. You'll see. ;) Take Defunkt's advise for now if it bothers you too much. But i normally dont like going too low and get a lot of help from the game as it just takes me longer to learn the realistic mode. It prolonges the inevitable. :D Unless you do want to play on lower setting ofcourse. Test it.

No one heh? Doesnt explain that warfare is one of the popular game modes in A2 does it. Hide the damn thing and protect it. Also has to be said that ARMA2 is a bit harder to play publically since it many times demands maturity in the way you play the game. This because you have everything at your disposal. Kids usually needs a lot of boundaries when they play because otherwise they will go for the biggest and baddest weapon instantly because scoring is the most important thing, and that would destroy any games fun. ARMA players are usually the other way. At least most of them i encountered through all these years. Its more important to stay alive and to win through team effort then to kill the others as fast as possible. Maybe thats your problem. Your playing with people that arent on the same page as you? I mean before anyone changes this game mode you can enjoy good games. You just need to go onto a server with proper players. Basically ARMA needs someone(s) to step up and take a leader role, and this just because the mission design is so open. Not many restrictions that "guides" everyone through the mission. If there are no proper leaders stepping up to take that role the missions might and often will fall flat. I think this is true for many of ARMA's missions. Look up some teams/people/servers that play warfare seriously cause it sounds like you havent so far. And im not saying there isnt room for improvements so dont throw that in my face please, but im sure you can find enjoyment if you find the right crew to play with. Try it. :)

I have pretty good FPS as well. Only when too much AI starts "thinking" my pc halts, but thats because of my several years old AMD dual core. Ive seen gameplay with a lot of AI on i7's with GTX260 and up wich shows awesome FPS. I think tweaking the game a lot before you get good FPS is needed though. Not talking about tweak addons, but the game itself - settings. And not to forget the ARMA2.CFG. Change to: GPU_MaxFramesAhead=1; GPU_DetectedFramesAhead=1; They help a lot when it comes to mouse lag. At least for me and those i know. However it seems BIS thaught about performance regarding OA so lets just kick back, take a chill pill, and await the great expansion. :)

The uglyness comes also from that consoles cant have large textures right? Console ports seem to look like shit when it comes to textures. Get "close" (even meters away) up to a wall on a console and its just a blur. Crap. :D

You are forgetting the complexity of this game. Advertising will not teach people how to play this. BF games are very simple to just jump in and shoot. Heck even my friend that is really dumb (yeah he knows this) baught BF and jumped straight in. No problems at all. When he tested ARMA he didnt know what to do. So there is a difference in complexity. Not only does it take longer time to learn the controls, but also what the missions are about. Maybe PR will change this though on the PvP side. Well have to wait and see.

It has been asked over the whole forum since the OFP days. THis has to be made by BIS AFAIK. There has been tests with AttachTo but its far from perfect. You can move very little and there are other problems with it.

Then... Your boned. Skip the wizard - its for nubs.

Well known save game breaker is if you updated the game. If you update you have to restart the mission, and if its a campaign just revert the mission your on. If thats not the case - i got no idea. Never happened to me.

Wow... Seems very nice. Bit much text for me at this time of night but i can appreciate the grand-ness of this. :) Can this be used now or is it only for beta testers as i read on the site? Thaught it might be ready for the masses posted in this thread (complete addons). Im just tired - off to bed but had to read through what my brain could take in as it looks very imressive. Keep it up!

Maybe 1-20% increase in performance i think was the answer. So dont be glad over that just yet. We can only hope though.

Jakerod: I agree on the orange trees, but we never heard BIS trying to do the trees lighter even though we posted rather much about it. The new ones look great from what ive seen so we can just hope BIS took the complaints to heart and made the new ones "lighter". Again, well see soon enough. :) EDIT: Agreed That guy. But its nice that the parts on the guns now really work. This is ARMA and we chose wich guns we want in the missions so no harm done. :) EDIT2: Meaning the SCARs will surely come in all versions. From stripped down to that bulky beast.

Anyone played this (ME2) on max settings and good FPS can share what hardware you got? I tested ME1 briefly at a friends and i must say it looked pretty fun. Thaught first from screens it was another dumb console alien shooter, but there seemed to be a lot to do and pretty nice story so im thinking about buying ME1&2. Seems it be best to play nr1 first. Never saw though if there was MP option? Like having those 2 fellows with you exchanged for real people. That would be real fun if possible. :)

^^ So you rather just install all day long than play? Hmm ok cool. Give the guys a break.

Yeah its not perfect ofcourse. And SOM is another thing that is affected by it. But making your own mission the traditional way you can rely on that they will come where you want them to. In ArmA1 i remember adding just 1 WP at the bottom of the map and they took the fastest way down there - on the roads. It was great.

Exactlly. High Command is great - warfare is not so great in a campaign (personal flavour ofcourse). We will see soon enough. EDIT: Pretty brutal SCAR in that pic. Kaboom + HeatVision and flashligt. Is that a PEQ unit on top also? Fully equipped weapon right there. Only thing missing is a cup holder. :D

There are no problems making a convoy pass where you want. Thats what waypoints are for. You cant put 1 WP at the end of the map and hope they will take the route you have in your head. Add WP's at critical places and they WILL go where you want them to. Use WP radius in certain places where you want them to go RANDOM everytime.

Classic! Always laughed hard every weekend when the muppet show was on tv (in the 70's-80's that is). Good stuff. :D

Yeah PvP is a whole other ballgame ofcourse, but i will feel A2 being "a bit old" when OA comes out. However i will definatelly test PR even if i normally dont play PvP. Normally not liking it because of the points hunting style of just wanting to rack up kills as a main thing. Sorry but my PvP experience was with BF2 (not PR) and the likes and i kind of hated it. However i think PR might be a little different so i will give it a chance. I might even love it. :) But yeah, the browser could use an info button. That way BIS wouldnt have to rearrange the whole thing. Just add a button called "server info" or just "info", and when pressed it opens a scrollable window where admins can put as much text they want plus clickable links to direct people to addon download pages. Newbie friendly and easy for all.

^^ This is probably one of these things BIS missed so instead of going bananas here it should be reported properly - in the A2CIT (unless it is ofcourse).

To me it only lacks more information. Like an info button with information the admins can add with links to addons used. That way the whole mission name can be viewed and maybe even a section to see whos on (everyone). But to join a clan? Cant be easier really. Clans/teams have their name usually in the server name so you cant really miss. But there are no "make a clan online" if thats what you meant? Like a lobby where you can form a clan etc. Clans/teams are made outside of the game and then they buy server space or have their own server where they add their clan/team name as servername. Check the squad section in this forum to learn what teams there are in this community. Many of them are here recruiting etc. But i agree. Nicer MP browser would be nice. At least an info button where admins can add all vital info as i mentioned. That would be enough for me personally.

Thanks a lot qwertz. With my initial 6GB ram i'll put the heaviest (4gb total) files up in RAMDRIVE and then use the rest from the RAID0. Hopefully satisfying results until i get 12gb ram.

LMAO :D I smell a transition to console very soon. Thanks ACE team for the update. Also a thanks to KH. :)

Huh? We understood it on the first page already. Your a bit late.

I upgraded from 8800GTS 320MB to GTX275 and it was a big difference. The 8800GTX is better than the 8800GTS ofcourse and the 5870 is better than the GTX275. Im sure youll see a great boost in performance when it comes to graphics. Im going for the 5870 myself even though i just baught the 275. The 5870 will move the game even further im sure.