Muscular Beaver

Could someone explain to me the different playable classes, please? Like what their special abilities are and explain those abilities too if they are not self explanatory. Thanks!

Sad, sad thread. Shows me that I will probably not be playing ArmA 3 and instead stick to ArmA 2. Not even a developer chimes in. But no answer is an answer anyway... And as proof that it is possible someone posts a video of someone aiming that quickly in about a 15 degrees range. Yeah, totally the same thing as 180 degrees, huh? Really, really sad what has become of ArmA. My projects have been put on hold until this turning speed issue is cleared. Hell, I even wanted to buy a new PC for ArmA 3, I have just canceled that thought too... Thank god I got my supporter edition refunded. I would be even more furious about it otherwise.

I dont think they will fix it. It will stay CoD-like. One of the main reasons why I dislike ArmA 3, but the twitch-shooter guys are the majority. They like it.

Some people say ArmA 3 has better animations now. I agree somewhat, but then again, I dont. Yes, a lot of animations are more fluid now, but they also look more unnatural. For example walking or running. While ArmA 2 was pretty much perfect at those, aside from running with a side arm in hand. In ArmA 3 models seem to slide a lot and the animations often dont fit the movement speed. Turning animations also dont look as smooth and natural as in ArmA 2. I hope this is still due to alpha phase, but I really dont know how people can call it generally better animations.

Huh? Moving much faster (velocity and reaction) with lots of gear (ArmA 3) vs moving much slower with lots of gear (ArmA 2) is more realistic? Ohhhhkay. Whatever. Now I only feel bad for spending money on the supporters edition... As a last comment: I read that you guys did the motion capture yourself? I can only suggest paying actors next time. They are there for a reason.

Or maybe it was because I am concerned that it will stay this way, if I dont voice my opinion. What do you expect? That I keep silent until its to late? Seriously... As someone else pointed out, the OA animations were very well made. Duck run, run, walk, duck walk, very authentic, just the feel of the controls were clunky and laggy, and some animations were simply too slow, like changing weapons, or letting the AT launcher drop, or going prone while having an AT launcher in hand, raising your weapon up after stopping, not to mention going over fences. But as it stands right now, the controls feel fine, with a few little exceptions, but the animations dont fit at all. They look very stiff and thus unrealistic and some are far too fast. As I said, look at your char from 3rd person view and then look at him in ArmA 2. In ArmA 2 everything moves that needs to move, it looks very real. While in ArmA 3, the body barely moves, as if hes some kind of Adonis running with no gear at all and only has a body weight of 30 kg. Even the backpacks dont move a lot! Ther is NO WAY that this is authentic. Seriously, Im going nuts pondering why people dont see it. And YES, I will say it again, I am quite embarrassed by the animations right now, when I want to tell someone that ArmA 3 is supposedly better than ArmA 2. But as I also said, its not only the animations. The trees, the textures, it looks worse than ArmA 2. That isnt only limited to land movement, btw. I am only being honest here, and its kinda sad to see that some people take it personally, because that means that my opinion isnt worth anything to them and that it will most likely stay that way.

Kinda ironic how all animations are much faster now, but when you have to go prone quickly, that animation is much slower than in ArmA 2 and just cost me my life.

Very disappointed here. Controls are generic ones now, just with added stance options, far too fast now, which makes it unrealistic. Animations are unrealistic and stiff, graphics arent that great (actually worse than ArmA 2 in some cases), the annoying dirt/blood overlay seems to be stolen from generic shooters too. When you customize controls a lot, the whole game seems to break, the switch from map to game still has a long delay and I just entered a multiplayer game that was stuttering horribly. Not like slow graphics, but like massive loading stutters, even though my game is on an SSD.

Yeah, I agree with Max Power, that with duck-walk close quarters were no issue before. It was kinda too slow, though, but this now is far too fast. Its sad to see that all the whiners from other games got their will... "Wah wah, its so clunky, and I cant play it because I am only used to CS-like controls". I played a bit more, and its even more evident now that the animations look very stiff and unnatural, again, too fast. I mean turn on your 3rd person and watch your char go. Its silly. I feel kinda ashamed showing people this "new improved ArmA", while ArmA 2 looks so superior. The whole game now feels pretty cheap because of that, like a generic shooter. Also graphics arent that great. Textures, even on ultra, are very blurry on distance (like hill textures - making the whole scenery look very artificial) and most trees look like green blobs on medium to high distance. So far I am pretty disappointed and almost regret paying for the supporter edition, but again, I strongly hope this is only due to alpha status.

Indeed. Go Benny!

Someone here posted a video about footsteps not being in sync. You can see a very good example in that video of how unnatural it looks. The model slides, moving faster than the animations are. So much for "my definition thereof".

Yes, lets just put words in my mouth.

Engage from higher distances? That was a problem in ArmA 2 already, because they landed very accurate shots even with unscoped weapons from long distances. One huge question is, if they are still able to see through bushes, leaves and fallen over trees.

Actually after playing ArmA 3, I agree with OP's statement. The crosshair is overdone now and because of it, the game feels like a generic shooter.

Yeah, if you have a reference point like dirt on the screen. :P Its different from weapon to weapon. You cant count on the barrel.

Exactly the same way I feel.

I disagree strongly. Have you ever used a real gun? When you hold one you know the general direction youre pointing it, and even from the hip quite accurate shots are possible on low to medium distance. That is not possible without a crosshair in a computer game, because you dont have the "feel" for the gun. Same as the zoom and 3rd person features. They are simply needed in a computer game, because zoom allows to compensate the pixels, which are not there in real life and 3rd person compensates (well, at least a little) the low FoV and action like peeking with just one eye around the corner, or with a mirror.

I checked now with SixPlay the server info, and its what I thought, every server has a different version. I now installed like 4 different version, some very hard to come by, but now it seems to work. Still servers still change their accepted version on a weekly basis.

Sigh... Every day a new server suddenly doesnt accept the CBA versions I can get my hands on anymore. Today another one, that worked fine a few days ago. WTF is going on?

Yeah its kinda ironic, because they actually allow other addons, even JSRS, that needs CBA to work properly. Anyway, still wrong choice of words: There are many servers that dont accept it because there are a bazillion different versions out and every server uses a different one, so even if you have all of those installed, its impossible to find the one that is allowed on the server. To me many admins seem to be very confused about CBA, not knowing what to install themselves. Not that I can blame them.

Will 1.5 still need CBA? I can hardly find servers that allow CBA anymore. :(

Hey there, I recently started playing ArmA 2 again and used to play with CBA and JSRS. I installed the newest version of both addons but I noticed that only very few populated servers allow CBA anymore, or at least the newest version. Some actually have CBA listed in server mods, but I still cant join them. I load CBA, CBA_A2 and CBA_OA. I even tried many old versions and they werent accepted either. It seems to me that splitting it in 3 addons made things pretty complicated for some people, so they only put one of it on the server or something. Sometimes only loading CBA_OA (or any other) is accepted, but then JSRS says its missing something. I dont know, but I talked to some admins and they said all looks fine and they have the newest version too. One even told me he doesnt allow CBA anymore because of too many problems with new versions?? Anyway, I really dont know what to ask in this post, since all people I asked seem confused themselves. So I guess I can only ask for some hints. I just want to use JSRS really, but without CBA it doesnt work properly.

But why doesnt it work with the newer versions from devheaven and sixupdater then? There has been a thread about that on devheaven but got ignored in the end?

Will the issues with missing CBA/newest CBA version be fixed in the next version? I dont see CBA listed anywhere as prerequisite, but without it (or with the newest version from sixupdater) the normally awesome distant sounds cant be heard properly (it even says in an error message that "JSRS_Distance" is not working because of missing "Extended_EventHandlers").

Still having this issue regularly. Especially the longer I play the more likely it will happen and it WILL happen if I play for a long time, like 4 or 6 hour Warfare. Flushing in between doesnt help at all. As a matter of fact it did this once 20 mins after I flushed.