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  1. Posted

    Yes it does not feel like normal.

    I've had the pleasure of driving a Soviet-manufactured 6-wheel-drive military off-road truck for a couple of months as my duty in various conditions, grass, sand, ice and in over 50 centimeters of snow. I've also driven the UAZ 4-wheel-drive vehicle, plus Finnish-manufactured 4- and 6- wheel-drive military trucks. Compared to my real life experiences with military wheeled vehicles I say that the vehicles slow too much when not over tarmac in ArmA.

    I drove the 6-wheel-drive vehicle on many occasions as fast as was possible in quite harsh conditions and I think ArmA really slows the vehicles too much when not on tarmac. I know from experience that quite a good speed can be maintained on non-tarmac surfaces also, if the vehicle does not sink significantly to the terrain and the surface is level enough. Often I drove practically flat out in a level but somewhat muddy grass field, being careful that my head doesn't hit the roof of the cabin. You get the picture when I say that I could not, at those speeds, sit on the seat, I was just hanging onto the steering wheel with a foot on the gas pedal and tried to avoid hurting myself in the process. This kind of driving, I can imagine, can happen in an event of war so it was good to practice it too.

    One condition in which I had problems to keep the vehicle up to speed was when I had to follow a group of BMP's into a very muddy groove (tank groove as we used to say) in a forest, there the tanks had not much problems but my wheeled vehicle started to really struggle to keep up with the tracked vehicles. I had full power but could only barely keep up with the tanks and the speed was not high. I think this situation equals to how ArmA simulates the vehicle speeds on a surface like what visually looks like a grass field, the vehicle seems to be slowed down like the deep mud in the tank groove did.

    One possibility is that BIS actually wants to simulate a worse terrain than is visible for us in the game. If they want us to think that the terrain is so soft that the vehicle actually sinks into it enough to slow it down significantly (like in mud or snow). But when the ground looks to be just a level grass field and the vehicle doesn't seem to sink into it then it doesn't feel right at all.

  2. Posted

    Removing even the very basic rights of humans in front of a court is nothing that is internationally accepted and it is a shame that such initiatives are coming from a country that does not hesitate to promote it´s way of living as a high value example of

    democracy and tries to promote and spread that system among others.

    Yes, yes... it is very controversial that a country that drives its ideology of democracy and freedom to others is actually doing this kind of things. For starters keeping people locked away for years so that they have practically no chance to even try defending themselfs.

    One of the most disgusting things I have ever seen is the spreading of democracy with acts of war, even if it is said to come as a side effect. In my opinion such a system spreads by itself if it is truly worth it. Forcing it upon others with the 'help' of acts of war is not going to be succesful, no matter how brilliant you claim the system is.

    A lot of compassion and support was given for USA after the incidents of 9/11/2001. It is sad that some relatively small group of people have so effectively blewn it all away.

  4. Posted

    Any kind of agreement that doesn't follow our local legislation is an invalid agreement.

    To make one thing clear: the legislation of my country does not allow distribution of content that was ripped from a game which license does not permit it. Last time I checked I am allowed to rip the game apart and modify/improve it for my personal use as long as no distribution happens.

    EULA is just words someone made up somewhere. It must be in line with legislation still, to be effective.

  5. Posted

    Sorry a bit offtopic but as response to earlier posts. A law from for example the U.S.A. has no meaning to me. I am asked to obey the laws of my country and if I fulfill that requirement everything is fine. No U.S. police officer can require me to follow their rules in my own country, and vice versa. This is very simple if you really think about it. Who controls your country? My country is not controlled by U.S.A. "International laws" are only in effect if our local legislation has decided to apply them.

  6. Posted

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    heh well you know what? I was thinking about this some time ago too! And indeed I think that there is something unnatural in the way the missiles fly in ArmA...

    I think the problem is that the programmers can't simulate the missiles like they behave in real life regarding laws of physics, aerodynamics and so on, as that would likely be way too much processing power consuming. So they have to cheat a little bit. Maybe the cheating goes too far in some situations.

  7. Posted

    Hey PaulHargreaves

    If you are serious about 3D modelling then I recommend you familiarize yourself with 3D navigation devices and purchase one.

    I've used such a device at work (Computer Aided Engineering) and now I can't even think of using a 3D modelling program without one. It really takes a lot of pain away from your mouse hand! I had pain in my mouse hand always in the end of a working day, but after I got a 3D navigation device it helped a lot in reducing the strain on my hand and also improved working speed.

    One manufacturer, which supports also 3DS Max, is http://www.3dconnexion.com/

    A 3D navigation device is not at all a big investment if you are going to spend a lot of time doing 3D modelling.

    3dconnexion gives away their Software Development Kit for free so even Bohemia Interactive Studio could integrate support for the 3D navigation devices into their own 3D modelling program.

    Best Wishes,

    Baddo.

  9. Posted

    Yes it was a good idea.

    For me it is easier and faster to find to the ArmA Editing Board as it is now.

    If the ArmA Editing section is moved under the ArmA board as it is now, it would require one more click with a mouse to reach it from the frontpage. This is so high a price to pay that I'd rather not do it. The "Forum jump" menu gives access to Mission Editing board with 2 clicks though, which equals to the amount of clicks if the ArmA Editing board is like it is currently. But "Forum jump" is not visible on all sections of the forum for some odd reason.

    Also the Editing board is different in nature to the other boards. Other boards get a lot of bullshit posts and fighting but the Editing board is much cleaner.

    Best Regards,

    Baddo.

  10. Posted

    Just that I think that we are sometimes too harsh demanding people use the search

    Yes very true. I've not been a victim, but I've seen many many people get treated badly by old (and young) members of this forum. In my eyes such blunt behaviour isn't justified in such situations.

    I'm not saying people shouldn't search, I'm saying when they don't you should still treat them nicely.

  11. Posted

    Its not realistic to have all the time (also in zoom-mode) a compass-view.

    That's not what we want.

    The problem is, when you look through weapon optics, then back to normal view again, the previous setting of the compass/GPS being on has been turned off. Now we need to turn it on again, and again and again... how convenient is that if you want for example the GPS to be on during the whole mission? Not convenient.

  14. Posted

    It's like people just assume once they get the tools, addons will "magically" make themselves, or they will add quality where there is none. Other than taking advantages of some of the new engine tweaks and binarizing, there is very little that can't be done using the tools out now. Seriously. If you can't make an addon now, having the tools won't help you.

    It's quite funny that when I said some time ago 'you can do a lot with existing tools, you don't need the arma dev tools yet to get started' an old member of this community, a respected addon maker, jumped on my throat and ridiculed me like I didn't know what I was talking about wink_o.gif

    What comes to the expansion pack and current state of ArmA. Sure ArmA could be more stable. 1.08 seems to not let me play multiplayer, I tried many times and it always either crashed and jammed the whole computer or just dropped the connection about 30 seconds into the missions. So ArmA is not quite stable yet (I have a slow computer too so that could add to the problems, but doesn't explain the crashes in my opinion). I'm looking forward for this expansion pack, it's only positive that we get content created by professionals and don't have to rely on non-professionally made content which often lacks in terms of quality. My best wishes to BIS, have strength to withstand all the complaints, go outside once in a while and don't read too much from the forums during your working day as that is quaranteed to distract your work.

    Best Wishes,

    Baddo.

  15. Posted

    If BIS really wants to wow people over with content they need to:

    1. Let the community make the content, you make the game engine.

    Hey friend I think you took your statement too far. Some people expect a game in a box that is said to contain one, not just a game engine. I definitely would not rely on the 'community' to create content for a game I have paid for. I am happy for what is created by the community, but in my humble opinion it's not a realistic solution to expect that the 'community' can create the content needed to make a game enjoyable. If you look back at what kind of content there is for OFP, you must admit that most of the addons created for OFP are not even near the quality that the original content in OFP has. It's not going to happen for ArmA either. There are of course exceptions which I very much praise, but it's just not enough to say we don't need BIS to create high-quality content. And I'm not talking about very very small errors in the content, which are even highly debatable if they are errors at all. Like having a wrong kind of button in some sleeve etc.

    I have to add that one of the biggest problems with user-created content is that it often doesn't match well visually or configuration-wise with existing original content or content made by other users. That's one significant problem and organisations such as BIS can hold it somehow together inside their walls but some random hobbyist addon creators scattered all over the world are highly unlikely to achieve it. As proof for this claim, there's just too many addons for OFP that clearly do not fit into the game at all, and look very much out-of-place. Many soldier addons cannot be used against each other as configs are too different, creating totally unbalanced firefights where other side is always deemed to lose. As an example of an exception to this is FDF Mod's addons for OFP which fits well with the original content in my humble opinion.

    So, to sum up my words, I very much welcome the existing high-quality content and any new high-quality content made by professionals. I also welcome high-quality community created content, which I already enjoyed to great extent with OFP, but as I said I rather rely on a professional well-organized team to create the content for a game I paid for instead of hoping someone in the community will some day release some nice high-quality addons.

  16. Posted

    What Jonny_2LI wrote deserves a permanent ban for him, no matter where he comes from.

    It's all too easy to come up with comments like that, or with comments like 'nuke the whole place' when you really have absolutely no idea what you are really saying, who deserves what kind of punishment and who doesn't.

    We are, after all, living under the same sun. I'm trying to live my life here. Some idiots are trying to prevent me from doing it. Most of the people over in Middle East are trying to do exactly the same, to live their life, and they have their own idiots over there. It's the relatively small number of religious and ideologist fanatics (includes Americans) and other lunatics who have turned the place into what it is today.

  18. Posted

    Remember that the anti-spyware programs can also give alerts for something that is not at all spyware. It's not uncommon. For example in Linux chkrootkit and rkhunter both give false alerts, depending on what is installed on the system being checked. It's also true for Windows. An anti-spyware program has a hard time figuring out what is actually meant as spyware and what is not (if detection is based on some common characteristics of spyware and not detecting exact file fingerprints).

  19. Posted

    Oh. Well in Armed Assault AI soldiers go up a very steep mountain wall, standing up and aiming with their rifles... then they lay down (half of their body is not supported by the ground now) and start shooting very accurately! Impossible in real life but not in Armed Assault...

  20. Posted

    First make sure your computer is clean. Use anti-spyware programs to check your computer, format hard disk drive, reinstall operating system etc. biggrin_o.gif the usual procedures with MS Windows.

    Then check if you still get the same error. If yes then contact BIS support and ask them what is going on.

    [rant]

    Those firewall / anti-spyware programs can't really prevent a user from going to the wrong websites and clicking the wrong 'OK' buttons...

    ...it helps a lot already when you consider carefully where you go in the cyberspace and what you download. If you keep doing the wrong things yourself then no firewall or anti-spyware program is going to save you.

    I've cleaned other peoples' computers too (including the computer of my boss), and I don't like such a job one bit, I think I let them suffer from now on if they do same mistakes over and over again without listening to advice.

    [/rant]

  22. Posted

    Hehe... biggrin_o.gif

    Isn't it always so that the salesmen are trying to fool you into buying something? That's what I have experienced no matter what I am looking at. Go look at a car which is for sale (new or used), it is guaranteed that the seller is either trying to hide something or simply talks bullshit, trying to make the car look better than it is.

    Best what you can do in these cases in my opinion is to let the seller think they are fooling you. Do not show right away that you have better knowledge than they think you have, just let them talk bullshit as much as they want. That way you'll gain better understanding of the sellers' honesty and know how to deal with them. You can always drop a bomb at them in the end of course.

    In this specific case it looks to me like it is not Atari which gives an impression of something that is not true. In the bottom of the document's pages it says:

    Quote[/b] ]COPYRIGHT 2007, ARMCHAIR GENERAL® MAGAZINE, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED www.armchairgeneral.com

    When Atari links to such document, they should say they do not have anything to do with the content and will not promise the content is true. Actually, Atari does not say the content of the document presents accurately what ArmA has:

    Quote[/b] ]See what advice a real Army general gives when playing ArmA Combat Operations! Written by Armchair General® magazine, this tactics guide will teach you the basics of modern army squad organization and battle tactics through the elements of the ArmA Combat Operations game!

    To my eyes there is no promise in that quote that the content in the document matches ArmA's features. It can be misleading, yes. That's why Atari should've checked it better and make a statement that they take no responsibility for possible errors and misleading information in the document.

    Best Regards,

    Baddo.

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