JudgeDredd

Thx for replies. I've written to Sprocket. I'm not sure who it was I got the game from...the email is from [email protected], but the link to download is Sprocket. So I'm confused where I should be going. I've initially gone to sprocket...I'll see what they say.

...not to buy download software again...or at least to make sure I tick the VERIFY AFTER BURN option!! I recently posted saying I was having a problem installing my exe. Unfortunately, from the replies I received (thank you), it may appear that my download is corrupt. The trouble is, I removed the exe AFTER I had burned it to DVD (thinking that was sound...a bit silly now, I know). So I have no EXE to install. I've just followed the link sent to me by email from SoftWrap when I bought the software to go and get sprocket and download the game...unfortunately, that link now appears to be dead. Further, I have went onto Sprockets website and entered my email address and tried all my valid passwords and it will accept none. So, in a nutshell, I have no exe and, it appears, no way of getting said download exe. Does anyone have any ideas as to what I have to do to get the software I paid for? Thanks for any help. Billy

I am trying to reinstall my Czech version of this game, but it's encountering an error right at the beginning of the install and I don't know what it means...can anyone help or translate please? (that'll teach me to wait on the English version! This one first And then this one Thx for your help

I would very much like to see a Goose Green mission. Anyone willing to take up the mantle? If not, maybe I'll have to look into the editor....

I'd also like to point out that I also wrote to Idea Games at [email protected] and have NOT had a response from them.

Update on my situation... After being prevented from playing my sprocket download version after installing patch 1.05 and being told my activation details were linked to another successful install, I ranted and raved on various forums, whilst also writing to BIS at [email protected] and Softwrap at [email protected] on Saturday, both of them replied on the Monday informing me that I had 3 new activations left (whether that means a total of 3, or 6 I don't know). So thank you...still an annoying occurence and one I won't be going through again. I'm sick to death of copy protection being the bane of the legitimate PC gamer and I will buy no more games which use online, limited activations, Securom or Starforce...the latter being all but dead, thank god.

The law is the same here in the UK and in fact, it may even be a universal law. There is alot of debate about it because software companies are keen to bring to justice the full weight of the law regarding copy protection, and yet the law to allow you, as the purchaser, one valid copy for your own use and safety of the product is being blocked by the same law to protect the software companies. Anything with Starforce, Securom or activation keys will not get my money in the future...of that I can be absolutely sure.

Better now? Had enough of copy protection now. I just installed v1.05 update and it asked me to reactivate my key...type in the details and bang... Activation Failed The Activation Code has already been used in a successful activation or purchase. It can not be used again. Please e-mail [email protected] Now I cannot play. Trouble is, I have not had any hardware changes since I bought it, and I installed it once...so even if there is a limit, I am nowhere near it. Downloaded the game from sprocket. This is the 3rd game in as many months which refuses to play because of copy protection issues. I've simply had enough of copy protection. I will not buy a game from now on which uses certain copy protection forms. The only one I support, is the serial key method. It is least intrusive and troublesome to me, whilst at the same time offering the same level of anti-piracy protection as the crap systems. Sorry for the rant, but I really, really do get hacked off about not being able to play a game I've bought.

Had enough of copy protection now. I just installed v1.05 update and it asked me to reactivate my key...type in the details and bang... Activation Failed The Activation Code has already been used in a successful activation or purchase. It can not be used again. Please e-mail [email protected] Now I cannot play. Trouble is, I have not had any hardware changes since I bought it, and I installed it once...so even if there is a limit, I am nowhere near it. Downloaded the game from sprocket. This is the 3rd game in as many months which refuses to play because of copy protection issues. I've simply had enough of copy protection. I will not buy a game from now on which uses certain copy protection forms. The only one I support, is the serial key method. It is least intrusive and troublesome to me, whilst at the same time offering the same level of anti-piracy protection as the crap systems. Sorry for the rant, but I really, really do get hacked off about not being able to play a game I've bought.

How bloody infuriating. I mean...we all want realism right? But sometimes, in a game, just sometimes, you need a little help...just to get over the limitations at playing a game on a 2D screen instead of having your situational awareness in real life! I am on the mission where I'm in a convoy of Strykers and we have to go and destroy some Shilkas...only problem is, the automatic save loads at a point where JUST as the Strykers stop to offload us....no sooner do I get out, than the Stryker explodes and takes me with it...all because there are 2 T72s coming up fast from behind!! So I can't order my squad out, let alone select my AT men to attack the T72s!!! And I've loaded the mission about 20 times now....each time I get out and BANG...Strykers goes up before I've told my squad to disembark. I know this is pretty much how it could happen in RL....but in a game, you have a second, third, fourth...chance...but not here...because each chance loads and plays out exactly the same way! I mean...honestly! Give me a break. As the title says...pure brilliance and yet so screwed up!!!

By the way...lmao at that!!

The reason I didn't want to start the mission from the beginning again is because it takes an age to get to where the action is....as a previous poster says, because Stevie Wonder is driving. Anyway...managed to get out with half my squad intact...now running to the bridge with 3 lads!

No...feels good. I expect that will change when they find out how crap I am.

I would like to take this for an online run, but don't want to waste my time with TK'ers and kiddies thinking it's kewl 'cos they've got a great scroe and they pwn!! So, to that end, I am looking for a group of mature people (and that doesn't necessarily follow that mature = older!! who like to play coop online. I live in the UK, so that would be preferable. I have the teamspeak util and have only ever played Battlefield 2 online...but would really like to play a more realistic game online The one sticking point I may have is I own the Czech version...so if there is a compatability issue, then maybe I'm stuck!

I bought the Czech download version from Sprocket (I think that's what it was called) and patched to 1.02 and added the English conversion patch. But I read about on various other forums that the UK version is up to patch 1.05. Have I lumbered myself with an online donkey because of my impatience? Have I made a mistake? I had hoped (and still do) that ArmA is compatible across the board for online play. Also, are there any other patches that I simply can't find? I regularly check the BI website for updates, but only ever see 1.02 for the Czech version. Thx

Just played one of the "sub" missions where I have to snipe an officer... How cool is it! finding THE spot...waiting...taking him out (and the gunners on the roof if you want) and then trying to get out with that helo flying overhead and a plethora of troops kicking about. Loved it...very atmospheric!

...the canons back at the batallion that are too far behind the sandbags so they cannot shoot the tanks (you can aim at them, but you'll only shoot into the sand bags right in front of you) and not a single soldier back at platoon that carries an rpg with him, so you're kind of all alone up to all the tanks left, which was 4 in my case... 1 man against 4 tanks? that REALLY takes a few tries. and it's not that realistic i think! now i'm in the sanitation mission, which is very simply set up. and the stupid part is, that both the foxtrot teams and the bravo teams most of the time get whiped out completely. maybe one of them survives with you, but that's it! again very very unrealistic, these are special forces fighting some poorly trained bums who are sitting there. special forces should whipe them out with one SF casualty at most. I agree with these points...and yet, the game still rocks...go figure.

I disagree. So far I've enjoyed all the missions. They've all been atmospheric and a challenge...and I'm only up to the officer sniper mission (or just done that one).

Just thought I'd throw my tuppence in... I don't think the AI is uber good at shooting I do agree that hiding in the grass and having to go kneel in order to shoot and enemy soldier who is shooting me is not good...hope that gets fixed soon. I don't see many "one shot one kill" situations...they happen, but more often than not it's 2-3 shots before I'm dead. Running straight at the enemy or standing still IS dangerous...there's very little computing needing to be done to shoot someone standing still or moving straight towards you. Jinking from side to side, I think you will notice the AI becomes pretty innacurate. Remember...running straight towards the enemy is often what we are doing....jinking is the answer. Run towards them but moving side to side.

Nice one... I did it completely differently, though. I didn't shoot anything before I got to the contact site...so I move to the edge of the cliff and waited, shot the officer in the UAZ and crawled out...all the while looking about for the multitude of soldiers looking for me and the helicopter. Eventually, I got the gunner and the driver in the UAZ looking for me, but I was so wounded I could only crawl to it...it was about 200 yards away...the longest 200 yards I ever had...sneaking, stopping, shooting...eventually got ot it and high tailed it out of there... excellent mission.

Yes, but the problem I encountered was I wasn't getting the command to blow the bridge, and I guess that was because there was a BMP or truck or something not setting off a trigger...I don't know. At one point I sat and watched a BMP climbing the hill after going across the river (kewl to see it bobbing as it got in the water! and just wouldn't get up that hill...waited ages.

This is how I completed it do not read if you don't want to know how to do it!(although it was very, very hit and miss...too a lot of reloads, mostly because vehicles wouldn't cross for some reason!! 1. I planted bombs on bridge (if you do plant underneath, DO NOT go in the water, otherwise you will lose your rifle! 2. Ran to ammo crates and loaded up on ammo and AT launcher 3. Fired bombs ON COMMAND 4. Took out the truck full of troops, sitting on the bridge 5. Took out the BMP on my side of the bridge 6. Ran up hill and took out the T72 and some troops in the compound to the right 7. Ran down to the UAZ sitting in the compound (watch out for more troops) 8. Drove UAZ out the compound, staying left 9. Got to rendevous and took out the other BMP 10. Took out soldiers running to our location 11. Loaded men (my squad...don't know what happens to the other troops) up in Humvee and drove to retreat point I never did find the boat at bridge 3...tried loads, but couldn't see it. All in all, after it worked, it turned out to be a very atmosphearic mission!

I always plant my charges under the bridge on the first support...one on EACH SIDE of the left support and one on the right. However, last night I placed all 5 on the top and it blew fine. HOWEVER, I do think there's a bug where you THINK you are laying all the charges, BUT because you are putting them in the same place, you are not...I can't realy qualify that argument except to say I went under the bridge and thought I placed all the charges on the same part of ground, when went to blow the brige, it came up with "Set off one charge" or whatever the text is when you click the button to detonate the charges...so it appeared that I hadn't set ALL of them down...only the last one...but I definitely put 5 down, because I had none left in my inventory. If you try to lay the charges, I'd make sure when you lay a charge, a red X appears...move away from that charge until the red X dissappears and set the other charge down and repeat...that way you DO set all the charges down. By the way, I completed this mission last night....t was a good one when it worked. Loved holding off the troops when I got to the fall back point.

I don't think it really matters, m8...I expect you will be prevented from continuing for some reason. I've now reloaded this scenario a dozen times and also restarted in from scratch half a dozen times and still, something does not go over the bridge, therefore, I presume, preventing a trigger from occurring. I don't know how it seemed to work so flawlessly for other people...but it seems to have. I don't think, in my history as a gamer, I've came across such a screwed up mission. It is most definitely a futile lesson in patience and resilience! But to help as much as I can, I found it difficult to place the 3 charges ont top of the bridge, because VERY soon, there is a UAZ heading onto the bridge...so I placed all 3 charges under the bridge...1 on each side of the nearest left hand support and one on the right hand support.

I've had exactly the same experiences as the poster with this mission. I'm going through it right now and I must've tried it a dozen times now. I've experienced nearly all the things he mentions...BMPs not going over the bridge...BMPs going under the bridge...BMP's dropping through the bridge...BMP's refusing to negotiate the bridge...the truck dropping the troops off on the wrong side of the bank...the truck dropping the troops off ON the bridge...the truck heading down to the water, then coming back up and refusing to cross the bridge...the tanks refusing to cross the bridge... All of these I have experience dand I CANNOT get this mission finished. Turned it off in disgust tonight. Really annoyed with it.