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AI / Micro AI is already awesome. It adapts well and handles most situations ranging from large scale battles to a few units clearing out urban areas. What would be a nice improvement is AI using buildings more effectively. Ambushing from cover should be hard coded and work with unscripted missions. Also, AI commanders in warfare should be able to buy AIR units for both transportation and assault. It worked well with Oden warfare, Swedish forces.

Units is something this game have plenty of. More official maps with WF support would be nice however. Granted it is a lot more work to create good enough maps compared to making new units, but as for now ARMA OA only have two, Chernarus and Takistan. A more realistic VBS style map for large scale warfare would be awesome. Even if less detailed, a huge map with life sized cities would offer a new experience to the series. You would have to rely more on air force and transportation to get around. Just a thought :D

Yes I only play vanilla. Sorry for being unclear. Using mods prevents me from picking up where I left off. I normally play rather huge CTI/WF vs AI commanders that can take hours to win on expert. AI commanders need the ability to buy air units. Skies feel empty and makes offline WF half-arsed. Also. What happened to the "Seen anything?" conv script? In OA you always get "Yes I saw something" or "No I didn't see anything" ?? It was the only useful part of that script! Also. Civilians and civ vehicles doesn't work in OA WF. It's too bad bec civ wheels are often the saviour when you are stranded and in need of transportation. Civs also add atmosphere! Now Takistan is a ghost island with empty cities :/ very post apocalyptic. With those features fixed ARMA 2 OA would be close to perfect. It's the only military grade sim with dynamic and unscripted battlefields (WF) that combines strategy, tactics and FP action. Just a thought

AI commanders buying air units should be optional to balance SP WF offline. AI use Air Support On/Off.

Is artillery available in CTI/WF missions such as Superpower and Civil War? How does it work? :crazy:

- Make HDR optional! HDR freaks out!!!! Night gets frustrating as everything goes pitch black but the blurry stars in the sky. Unplayable. - New AI order: KEEP TO ROADS ONLY! Even in SAFE, AI driving skills are out the window. They can't even keep on a straight road without ending up offroad, dodging trees and what not. If you can't program the AI to handle complex scenery, then hire someone who can. - Menus in Superpower/Warfare are too sluggish! After a while, it takes minutes for the list to appear in the buy menu. Same goes for fast travel. I recently made the mistake clicking a fast travel node several times because nothing happened, and whoops a few minutes later it suddenly kicks in while I was off doing something else. Horrific :eek: Also, I assume these are not FADE symptoms because I have a legal 505 copy and I do not use some NODVD crack.

Is it possible to force ARMA2 to run with SM 2 instead of 3 for the extreme performance increase it would offer a lot of players.

Maybe spawning makes a loud supersonic bang :D

Make sure to put your team (especially infantry) in "Danger" and "Keep low". Also, using Line formation in open ares (with flanks covered) and Column on streets seems to work the best. They still spread out taking cover from behind walls and such. In urban areas I also use "Advance" a lot while covering my team from behind checking the flanks. Normally, my team advance in a leap frog manner covering each other automatically.

I agree with this poll. I don't play the campaign though. I spend more time in the editor then on the battlefield, and so far the AI is delivering above expectations.

You are entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts. Don't get ticked off by Codies disinformation agents/fanboys roaming around trying to discredit and ridicule ARMA2. When it comes to military realism, complexity and depth, both online and offline, then ARMA2 stands alone against the mass. Doubt it not.

Congratulations BIS !! The true spiritual succesor of Flashpoint is here, and it's kicking Codies A$$ big time :D

Movement speed in ARMA is realistic. It's not sluggish. Could be a performance issue.

Also, it's easy to forget that AI teams communicate and therefore may know your position even when out of LOS.

Anyone with print screen schematics on how the warfare module and game logic should be set-up, including sync and possible scripting?? :D I just want to create smaller warfare skirmishes, with less towns to capture

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You can run windowed "-window" if you want to lower the rendering resolution and keep your monitors native resolution. I run it windowed in 1280x on my 1920x LCD.

Any console command for extra credit in SP Warfare/CTI? I always run out when I need it the most. :D

How nice of BIS to think of us :D Seriously. ARMA had a lot of problems too, but look how it turned out. I can't wait to see what the community will do with this one. Issues with official missions will most likely be ironed out by BIS though. ARMA2 was just released, and it's no simple arcade shooter on rails. Give it some time.

Thanks for shedding some light on this subject Suma. If you have other tips regarding performance tweaking, other then lowering rendering resolution, let us know. Cheers :cheers:

*BUMP* I'm too lazy to extract the pbo files myself :D Besides, the official missions such as "superpower" are probably littered with countless of stuff and scripting, not really needed for a simple warfare setup. Right?

Thanks for clearing that up. When I reverted to SM2 in CoH I doubled my performance. I figured SM3 was a bit heavy on DX9 cards. I run ARMA2 on a laptop :) with a 7950GTX Go 512DDR3 DX9. I get about 20fps "at best" in 1280x with everything on normal and post disabled. Looks pretty good, but I can't stand the lag. I run ARMA1 in 1280x everything on high + post + AA and long view distance. Looks amazing and runs like a dream. Oh well.. I guess the new AI is hard on the CPU.

Not sure if this have been covered, but do AI buy air units in Warfare now? (Superpower).

I noticed the same thing. It's too bad because I really enjoy offline warfare with AI only for the clean war experience it offers. If AI won't buy air units it will cause too much unbalance and guarantee the player victory. If you take out enemy AA with a few well places hellfire missiles, then you can wipe out half the map with a single AH-1Z. Besides, ARMA2 got so many beautiful air units. It's a sin not using them.