Gargantou

I guess the thing that creeps me out about chopper videos etc is how incredibly easy and detached the person is from the actual killing. If you slit a throat, it takes a lot more mental 'strength' I believe, than it does to say just use say a bunch of bombs to blow up a few hundred people. I just think from my own perspective, it'd be far less tormenting for me to say shoot a guy from 200 meters using a sniper rifle, than it would be to actually slit his throat, feel him struggling against me, hear him gurgle etc..

Terrorists are people, heck what is or isn't terrorists varies from nation to nation, one nations "Freedom fighters" is another nations "terrorists". Besides, over here terrorism is per definition someone who intentionally targets civilians for political purposes, including during war time. During the Korean War, the US and SK military shelled Korean refugees that were fleeing southwards, because of fear that there might be communist spies among'em. So, was the US army terrorist then? They intentionally choose that a large group of civilians was worthy of death in order to prevent a possible spy from reaching them. Let's not forget during the Soviet-Afghan war, where the Soviets were supporting the communist afghan government against the talibans and mujahedeens, then the US choose to aid them, since their enemy was the 'victim', and not themselves. Also I'm not sure I would call US for a mature democracy, it's closer to a corporatocracy, at least in comparison with many other western democracies in my opinion. Personally I think strong and firm leaders like Putin are necessary to keep Russia together, without'em it would probably lead to a lot more ethnic tensions and violence. I was just hoping to get some angry reaction out of him for funzies.

Well, there was this one video from a US gunship in Afghanistan that gave me a very uncanny feeling, because you could hear the gunner and pilot talking and laughing as they killed the people, including laughing after one of the terrorists lay down on the ground with heads and arms stretched out(like he surrender), they wait like 3 seconds, then shoot him anyway, and laugh. Shit like that scares me, because it actually makes a mockery of human lives. Also, lots of love to the crazy Russian getting so worked up after I 'attacked' his nation! Reminds me of an Irish patriot I encountered a while back, I told him I thought IRA bombings of civilians etc was wrong, and he got soooo mad. Mad irishmen sound extremely funny. End of story: Russia isn't a properly democratized nation like say Schweiz, no matter how much they try to make foreigners believe otherwise.

So you believe might makes right?It's funny with Russians trying to pretend they're some sorta "Saviours" or "Democratic protectors", anyone recall what happened when Ichkeria tried to gain independence from Russia?:rolleyes: Oh that's right, Russia ****ed'em hard. And besides, during the first Chechen War, you got pretty owned considering the amount of manpower and military hardware you poured into Chechnya, and still they managed to put up a decently organized resistance etc. If anything, Georgia had just as much rights to do what they did with South Ossetia as Russia had with what Russia did to Chechnya. Also, I always find it weird to see real combat videos, I'm so desenzitized to armed conflicts so, from all the games I've played etc.. When I see real vids, it still feels like a game to me you know? It's so strange to think it's real, real people that might or might not have died during the actual conflict.

AFAIK Valve recently implemented a policy for ALL Steam games, even those that aren't their own, that they may not use third-party copyprotection apps on Steam, such as Securom of SafeDisc, because of the issues these programs tend to cause for their customers.

So, what's the general concensus on ARMA2 so far? On a bugginess scale, would you rate it better, or worse than ARMA1? I still have my pre-order placed but I'd like to know if you people think it's worth buying it on release for full price or waiting for a pricedrop, when many bugs will hopefully have been fixed?

Unlikely it will ever come out, it's incredibly ambitious, their first game as a team, and they don't have nearly the amount of financial backing that say World of Warcraft had during its development.I would nothing rather than for Infinity to come out, but I think it's unlikely.

Frontier: Elite 2 did multiple planets(in fact multiple solar systems), that you could land and fly around on, back in the 1990s, on bloody Amiga's! So, why the hell not?:D

To begin with, I haven't been on here since February 2008, so I apologize if this is the wrong area of the forum, I have the memory of a goldfish. Anyway, here's the deal, I loved OFP in SP, I've never been that much of a MP person, so I'm looking for recommendations on what are the most worthwhile ArmA mod(s) that add greatly to the single-player experience. Thank you for any helpful advice/replies! Regards Edit: I'd also like recommendations on the best custom made single-player mods etc :) Basically anything you can think off that will enhance my SP experience is greatly appreciated!

Thank you all for the great tips, really appreciate you taking the time! Gonna start with checking out FDF! Thanks again!

Are there any mods that come with missionpacks out there focused on aerial 'campaigns'? I've become a bit bored of infantry war in OFP, so was hoping someone could answer this question.

Have any of the standard missions been modified to include any of the extra units? Or will we have to make our own missions to use those?

i'm afraid i have to agree with this. it just lacks detail, dirt and scratches. now i feel bad criticising something i couldn't do better myself. Â I concur fullheartedly with you.. It looks more like a toy to me rather than a 'real' vehicle.

Does MCM come with any custom-made missions or does it like use the vanilla missions? Been away from OFP a while, just getting back into playing.

Actually, what he states is that it is the last major release for OFP, which seems to suggest that he's planning on perhaps moving onto Armed Assault. Ontopic, sorry for asking a question that's probably already been answered countless times, is it possible to play through the entire CWC(And/Or Resistance) campaign using this mod?

Holy crap, that's mighty impressive!

I concur with your request, there was a great Mi-26 mod for OFP:R(You could even DROP vehicles mid-air, and pick up other vehicles with winch etc) by a russian mod-team, dunno what happened to'em, if someone did an Mi-26 like that for ArmA I'd be happy for the rest of my life!

Heh, some funny info about STALKER, the team who actually did the original concept for "STALKER" back when it was named Oblivion Lost, LEFT GSC because they got fed up with GSC forcing them to make the game more linear, they formed their own company and started work on a game called "Metro 2033", a post-apocalyptic survival sim set in Moscow, it's due out this year though considering I haven't seen any update for it in a while I'm guessing it'll be delayed until atleast 2009. Back on topic, my dream would be for ArmA2 to have a 100% dynamic campaign like the one found in Falcon 4(If anyone here plays that flight sim), it'd be so awesome, imagine if you could just pick a role when you created your character(Like transport pilot or something) then play the campaign out as that!

I'd give my right testicle in exchange for a Mi-26 in ArmA.

Awsome addons, downloaded'em ALL, now if I can just be arsed to add'em all to my ArmA Edits units file.. If I do I will postit on here for others to enjoy, if someone has already posted such a file for ArmA Edit please do tell.:) I have a question Vilas, when I have as said installed all your addons, with correct BIS configs etc(Including the latest guerilla one replacing the 'standard' one), anyway, when I run the Free For all mission in MP with bots, I get a warning message saying "Missing required addon, vilas_forces". Should I just ignore this or is there a fix or something I need to download?

Hello, please excuse this, I am a total noob when it comes to ArmA editing, anyway, I'm planning on using ArmA for a machinima project of mine, and I've figured out how to script cutscenes etc decently, my problem now is I need to figure out how to force certain NPC characters to use certain animations etc, if anyone have a link to a guide or something that can help you understand how to script NPCs to do certain things for cutscenes it'd be highly appreciated!! //Regards Gargantou

Huge thanks, exactly what I was looking for.

Ah thanks for the quick reply.

I installed this mod using the instsall guide, point by point, still get an error, whenever I start it I get this. "Addon 'CoC_UnifiedArtillery' requires addon 'coc_networkservices2'" I've searched and searched but cant for the love of god find this file, does anyone have it? Any help? Please?

Hello, I was wondering, is it possible to force ArmA to output 'movies' rendering frame-by-frame like some older games that feature DEMO recording possibilities(HL2 for example), so that I could get the game to render/output 30 image files per 'second' for importnig into one of my movie-making programs for later re-encoding? Some older games allow for this which back in the day let you thus do game movies at maxed resolutions even if you couldn't get a stable framerate to PLAY them at, as the game rendered each FRAME in SEQUENCE, much like a CG renderer? Any answer to this would be highly appreciated! I've tried recording my cutscenes with FRAPS with latest 1.07 patch and it rapes my computer to butthell! My specifications are a Core 2 Duo E6600 OCed to approx 3.0 GHz, 2 gigs of high-end(6xxx something) 800Mhz RAM and a semi-aged OCed 7900GS from XFX.. Yet again, any helpful tips are highly welcomed! //Gargantou