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Emmm..... PAL version?!?!? Someone enlight the 505 GS about of the ArmA are an PC game, where are no PAL/NTSC versions? ^^

@DeadMeat: I'm very happy, if a correct MH-60L addon come out. ^^ @Frans: Sorrowly i only have around two hour to play, then need to rush back my workplace, so cannot test everything. When i fly the AV-8B, use standard takeoff and landing method, i did not find any VTOL landing possibility in the action menu, but perhaps i just missed. @Straw Dog: Sorry, i forgot to mention, i play in 1680x1050 resolution, the screens have the same, if you see it.

Just short impressions after 2 hour try: -The english-language trick are far for perfect, the missions briefing, and many HUD element (like guns name) are remain czech. With this, i hardly try to begin the campagin... :\ -The TrackIR rocks!!! I have a TrackIR 4Pro, and have absolutely positive feelings about using under ArmA. -The AI are... well, not really perfect. I shoot down an truck driver with M24 sniper rifle, but the driver two comrades, sitting alongside are doing nothing... -The game need a decent PC. I have an AMD A62X2 4000+ @ 2400Mhz, 2Gbyte Ram, GeForce 7900GTX, and playing all options set to Very High, except Anti-aliasing, wich set to Low. Note: default the anti-aliasing setting are medium, wich hardly eat the VGA! I get the following performance: 1200m sighting distance: Wandering outside towns: 30Fps In towns: 25-30Fps Firefight between several soldier: 25-30Fps Firefight in town: 20-25Fps Flying outside towns: 30Fps Flying above larger towns: 25Fps 3500m distance: In land: 25-30Fps In town: 22-25Fps Firefight outside towns: 20-25Fps Flying in daylight: 20-25Fps Flying in midnight: 15-25Fps 10000m distance: In land: 15Fps In flying: 8-15Fps Flying in midnight: 6-10Fps I try a short Stress-test, using 180 infantry unit and 24 M1A1 tanks, i get around 20 Fps flying above with an helicoter, and 16-18Fps walking among them (two last pics). The screenshots

Probably because STEAM is the devil, and personally I'd rather wait another four months for ArmA than have to install that trash on my precious laptop. Thank you! Been discussed and those against it heavily outnumbered those for it. And how many people argued against the STEAM? A Dozen? Perhaps twenty? A little more? Accept it: the masses of players are not exits in this forum. The STEAM has several million account. At least thousands of STEAM users interest to bought ArmA. And if your one of the many country, wich wont have ArmA distributor, this is the only real way to get the game legally, easly and relatively painfully. Wich is better? If you wont like STEAM, no problemo, wait until you can get somehow the game. But actually in the situation, like currently the BIS and ArmA have, the STEAM (or similar type of online distribution) imho the best option. If you know a better way, then go on, and enlight me...

False. If you wont have internet connection, the STEAM offer you to start as offline. You can play any games you have under STEAM. Anybody can try it, who has STEAM... When you account are banned, you do something, wich is illegal, like try to use false card numbers, or use cracked STEAM files. When you accept the term of use, you accept this. I (and many of my mates) use the STEAM for years. In the early years, yes, even i hated very much. About the last two years, i bought and play many STEAM distributed games (HL2, Sin:Episodes, Red Orchestra, etc.). Dont have any problem with it, even complete computer change are solved easly. The last problem i has, when i try to use my card number, and the STEAM reject it, i wrote an e-mail to the support, and within 24 hours i get an answer, then i can use my card without problem. This was happened in 2004... So if you wont have experience with STEAM, dont try to criticsm...

[joke] Hehe, who knows, maybe you are right, and the BIS never want to we play the game... [/joke] Perhaps we never understand what behind the decisions of BIS, even you are only guessing. But after all, i feel a little betrayed about this distribution mishap...

Hatred != Anger.

Yepp, and you think this little fault, wich cost months for the english version (and if the online distribution are reality, then the worldwide) release, are absolutely not connected to BIS? Ohh, come on...

Your kidding right? About what? About to buy an Czech version even if i dont understand? No. I'm serious. (call me fanatic ) About the feelings toward the BIS, because the distribution problems. No. I'm dont know why the BIS dont try to distribute the ArmA under STEAM, or try to make an alternative methode, like an Czech made english version, can be bought online, and send by mail or UPS/FedEx/Etc...

Excuse me, but why BIS ignoring the possibility of the STEAM distribution? Simple, no problem where you live, if you have an internet connection and a bankcard capable to use in internet payment, you can use it. Yep, many people hate the STEAM system, but i think most of the ArmA fan are can accept it, exchange for the earlier release (remember, no official english version at least 3 more month! ), and the easier option of buying when live an undistributed area, like the US. Personally i decided to buy an Czech version, with the help of the hungarian OFP scene, and hope there is an way to translate to english or hungarian (when we get it, we see it). It's an hard choice, i'm angry toward the BIS, because the distribution problems (again: online distribution), but i try to respect their work. I hope they deserve it after all...

Hungary, wich is good and bad in this situation. Bad, because no "505 Area", and currently no hungarian publisher for ArmA Good, because we are close to Slovakia and Austria, so relatively easly to reach the game...

Hungary out of sight...

And you think when you start spamming the topic, someone turning into a glowing angel, and enlight you?

Nice, and if we see from buisness viewpoint, correct. But, if i see as an eager OFP / ArmA fan, i feel betrayed. I wont say a word when the BIS slide the pressumed ArmA release date time after time. I wont say a word, when the localized release dates are come out. I dont care about anything, i can sustain release over STEAM, i can live with the most hardcore copy-protection are exits. I want the game badly, and wait patient. Until now. I plan to get to my car, and travel even several hundred kilometer, if needed, to buy my ArmA. But this 'no for english' localization means this plan has sinked. So, i have two choice: -Try to force a smile for my face, and wait months more, just because of this. Not because the game is not ready, just because the english version are behind time, thanks for the publisher, and thanks for BIS (i know the apology, but i can't accept it). If someone speak german, czech, polish or russian, they can play the game earlier. I just unlucky... -I wait for a hacked / cracked version, and forget the problems with legal issues... Thats what i deserve it? PS.: Sorry Placebo, i know this is not really on-topic...

Go to the ArmA Progress Update topic, and in the 331 page seek SGT. Hurley post dated Oct. 12 2006,13:07. In short term: no, the localized versions wont have English language options. If this is true, we can make an easy statement: if you cant understand Czech, Polish, German or Russian language, you cant play the game (legally) until 2007 Q1, when the international version release come out. Or you make a prayer, and wait until someone solve this "little" problem, and hack the game...

Exactly.. live with it.. It's enough when we are only try to be cheerful, or need to raise statue for the BIS and 505, to we reflect our gratitude to do this?

So if you wont familiar the Czech, Polish, German or Russian language, you can't play the ArmA before 2007. What can i say? We suck it, because we are only secondary level lifeforms...

Yupp, i can accept that... but dont be harsh to me, if i dont feel happy, because some people can play the game months earlier than me, just because of this. You know, the unbeatable envy... Hey guess what,I live in the US,we don't even have a publisher,we may not even get one yet and we might be the ones that get the game last,yet you don't see me feeling sorry for myself. The fact, wich mean you are in more worsten situation than me, mate, wont make me feel better.

Yupp, i can accept that... but dont be harsh to me, if i dont feel happy, because some people can play the game months earlier than me, just because of this. You know, the unbeatable envy...

Well, in first sight, this is a very good idea. But second sight, it's easly become a disaster for realism. One easy example: A T-72B(M) with Kontakt-5 ERA. The T-72 w/ Kontakt-5 ERA capable to stop an DM-53 or M829 APFSDS-DU round. So, the T-72 front armour in this case are invunerable for almost any western MBT. But many are begin to whine, because the Leopard 2A4 or the M1A1 are need to be better, than the T-72, just because... they are better, everybody know, even the Discovery Channel say it. So, now what?

First of all: i hate the "playability balance". We seen in the OFP: we get Mi-24V's, but not the standard loadout of 4x32 57mm or 4x20 80mm unguided rocket pod + 4 9M114 (AT-6 Spiral) anti-tank missile, but 2 rocket pod and 8 AT missile, to perfectly counterbalance the AH-1W. Bahhh.... Yes, in a war there are no balance. So yes, we need different type of weapons, and yes, this means someone has stronger, and the other are weaker in some field. But this is a game god damn it, and the players are want to enjoy it, even if the ArmA a simulation. Yes, you can make a mission, when the two side has 1:3 players ratio, and the "west" side has silenced, scoped M4's, M1A1's, night vision, etc., and the "east" side has a plain AK-47 or AK-74, old model T-72's and good ears... But who choose in this case the "east" side. You can bet, the few. Most of the players are want the scoped M4's, the better M1A1, and the idea of the "unbeatable rambo" style gaming, to slaughter the "east" side players, not because he has better player, but only because he has better gear. Sounds great? Well, not for me... Why? Well, because the majority of the players in this version of game wont wanna play the "east" side, so if they cannot join the "west" side, simple seek an another server. We see it many times... I hate the "good old" way of the west vs. east style wargaming. You say "normal" to match M1A1's and T-72's, because this is the "formal" way of the wars? I say this is bullshit. This is an fictional war, so why we copy the Gulf-war? In the single player mode, this is wont mean any problem. We are the good guys, we are overwhelmed by the kommunist northern army, but we have the better gear, so at least we have the chance to play it rambo-style. But in multi-player... welll... But no, we dont need T-80UM or T-90S, even the T-72 can be a real nasty opponent for an M1A1, if the "east" side upgrade it. The T-72B(M) has Kontakt-5 ERA, wich capable to stop an M829 APFSDS-DU round fired from an M1A1 MBT (proved in germany test field, 1996). But not only the russian upgrade can do this. The Czech and Slovakian T-72 MBT upgrades (the Slovakian T-72M2, and the Czech T-72M3/M4) use an own made verison of reactive armour, wich at least equally effective against the APFSDS rounds. The modernized T-72's can fire ATGM's from their 125mm guns. The M1A1 can't (well, not really true, because the Abrams can be upgraded to use the israeli LAHAT missile). So if we want, even the T-72 can be an formadible enemy for the Abrams... Anyway, the addonmakers, who's keep the OFP in shape even 5 years after the release, can be make good addons, wich help in this problem. But i'm very curious how the BIS want to solve this in the original, not modded ArmA...

Well, the new pics are cool all the way. The video... well, if once i can download, i say it. ^^ I notice two thing of the new pics: -In this pic we saw an assymetric armament, the AH-1Z have an 7-tube (LAU-68?) Hydra-pod under the inner right pylon, and an 19-tube (LAU-69?) pod on the inner left pylon. Rather disturbing, because rarely use different type of pods in the same pylons of the two wings. But this raise a question: we seen perhaps an example of the custimzed weaponry in the helos? I like the idea, always hated why we are restricted only one type of armament in OFP... - But this is the other thingy... Well we are saw pictures showing M1A1's with M2 Machine Guns in the commanders hatch. But as we see, the T-72(M1?)'s are lack of the NSVT anti-air MG's... I hope the dev's are change this, and the T-72's get AA MG's too in the game...

Only the VBS1 programm WITHOUT modules (like terrainpacks or soldiers..ect.) and tools... Without addonmaker tools and modells it wont worth too much...

October 6... Thats a long time...

No competition there i think. I dont know what "VBS lite" means, but VBS has some nice thingy, wich wont exist (as far as we know) in ArmA. So...