Gecko1969

Greetings all, I am a touch typist so my natural hand position on the keyboard is the ASDF not the WASD that many other gamers use. Any other folks like me care to share how they have bound their keys? Having some issues with stance and movement rates. Some things are not functioning as expected. Figure if I can over write my config with someone's version I can see if there might be an underlying hardware issue or if it is only software. Thanks for any help.

Happy New Year to all!

Thanks for the clarification. While I like re-skins and all, I will probably just use the sounds if they turn out as well as I hope they will. Glad to hear they are separate and glad to see you all working together. Many hands make light of work and that jazz. Good luck to you all and looking forward to teasers and first releases.

Rg, Great stuff man! Giving the user more options to tweak FOV/UI/Zoom/etc as they see fit is the best way to go. If there was an easy way to toggle all options (like a config file, not sure such thing is possible) that would even be better, but the work you have done is such a great step in the right direction. Thanks Again

Oh look a Troll!

Wipman, enjoy your work and have been running around with a slightly modified "Punks Not Dead". While not a "request" this is more possible inspiration for some future work in the same line. A link to a Maori chief face tattoo. Hunted around for better/more examples but no luck: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news....ku.html Keep up the great work and thanks again for sharing your creations and helping people out. Regards

The instructions say to extract "the folder" NOT "the contents of the folder" in to the ARMA directory. There is a difference. Besides the readme file there is only the @TrueVeiw folder with it's contents.

While not free I have V.A.C. which works great. I got a config file off of the SimHQ forums. I have shout installed, but as I had V.A.C. installed and working I have not had the time to re-invent the wheel.

To get a pure sound you need an acoustically "dead" room. These are made using foam and a zig zag shaped room among other things. I have walked in to one of these rooms and it makes you feel like someone is smothering you. When you speak the sound comes out but dies instantly as there is next to no reflection in the room. Shooting a gun of any size would be difficult in such a room and the equipment that could record such loud sound levels are not easy to come by (digital recording devices could capture the levels but the microphone to do such a thing is not common). That said the work that all these sound mod fellows are doing (FDF, ModWar, this un-named one, and others) is great stuff. Maybe a way to pick and choose the sounds you like in each would be nice but the pack's sounds are leveled to each other not other sound packs. So I will stand back and cheer on all the hard work and criticize no one, except the critics as all this is subjective. Either you like it or you don't.

Guess that is a good enough of a Tit for Tat there for piss poor comment. Won't go poking at the insights Hindus had going on for many hundreds of year prior to Islam. Not like I care either way.

No but it's all contracts made by basically the same company (same people working at "different" companies is all a bunch of paper nothing more). And you are very right that it's to prevent the community from making the changes on their own. But it's not like it'd take more than a swipe of the pen (delete key on the keyboard) to change the contract and the technical side is not the issue. Again Money, Money, and lack of money to be made. Get 100,000 (pulled that number out of the sky) or more fans willing to shell out some where near the 50% price point of the full VBS2 and VBS2-lite will magically appear.

Wow! Why are these guys even allowed on the Forums? With all the rules here I'd guess promoting pirating the software and promoting sites that are how to's would get you out of here. . . Tough call for the Admin though. Bans will feed the hate but silence the yapping cur (They seem to love/hate as they play but pirate). Hate to make the call.

What is this "illegal" stuff? Go to VBS2 website and check out the support links. . . Takes you to this forum. . . BIS owns both. Anything preventing the exchange is made by BIS to prevent it for marketing reasons only, not due to any laws but contractual obligations made BY BIS. The same engine runs both, but time/money is the factor here. Want to pay (guessing amount here) $300 USD or more for VBS2 lite, that is the only way. AND you need enough other people willing to cough up that kind of money, ain't going to happen. No "laws" or technology barriers here simple Market forces.

And your expectations that you can do the things you listed with Tanks and Helos shows you miss the simulation part of the game. But all the write ups that were done by anyone who knew the history of the game mostly make a point that it is an infantry centered game not a Tank or whatever simulator. So your expectations of how things work is off. I will blame movies and the portrayal of combat they give to let you off the hook (the number of times I have seen people pulled out of a crashed car by well meaning bystanders because they expect the car to burst in to flames is a similar thing). Your idea of what is fun and others' idea are not matching up. Fine we all can have our opinions. However the direction you would like to go has been done already it is called Battle Field 2 and you can pick it up today. The core of this community has no interest in seeing ArmA become a repeat of BF2, so don't take it personally that you get people defending it against the ideas you think are great. Different expectations and a different game. Change one to solve your problem but don't expect to find yourself welcomed by those who don't share your views and don't take it personal.

If damage was done differently then you could conceivably take out a tank with ONE DU round IF it hit the ammo. DU is like a knife through butter, so landing 10 rounds on a tank should end it if they are direct hits. There are a fair more than 10 rounds in a one second burst so feeling that A10 is out of balance for doing so is a bit off base. The whole point of the A10 is that it's a tank killer and yes it will unbalance a game if you insist on using it in every game. Again it seems people are getting too attached to the equipment side of what is supposed to be an infantry "sim". I'd love to see the armor and air and water craft all done to "sim" level of detail, but that is not what BIS is selling. The next best thing they can do is leave things open enough so that people who have the time/skill can add more detail as they feel is needed. Which from what I have seen is the general direction they are going. So the BIS A10 flies, kills tanks (saw that there might be an issue with AI, not confirmed, but nothing that can't be fixed) and fills the role. Seems good enough. "Mission accomplished".