Mogley

I have just downloaded this and it looks like its going to be fun! Any updates on the PVP version?

Yes, yes thank you sir. Wow this is gonna be fun. Are there any other missions similar you could recommend my good friend?

Hi sorry have searched but cant find a mission I saw on here before that was something about a battalion level mission. It used some sort of command interface. I want to download this badly but I cant find it anywhere. Please help me thanks in advance.

Its the mouse floating zone setting that causes this. The floating zone feels and is perceived by the gamer as lag or mouse lag. I wish someone would make an official thread about this. I have said it before and I will say it again turn the floating zone completely down (all the way to the left) and watch your aiming get alot better.

The adjust he made is in arma in the conrols for the mouse and its called floating zone. It is not a video card adjustment. I have said this before and I will say it again everyone needs to try to adjust the floating zone and find a setting they like It is being perceived by the casual gamer as lag or mouse lag and all along its the way the game handles the mouse input. It makes it hard for some to aim. When set all the way down your character in game will perform like it does in all other first person shooters. There are post about players even clan members giving up on arma because it felt wierd. All along it was the floating zone for the mouse. It was even stated in that thread that BIS should make this setting easier to find. People see a floating zone setting and have no idea what its for. It was even suggested they turn it down before the US release. Reason being is when its turned down your character now will move just like a character from call of duty, americas army, battlfield, counter strike, etc. This one setting makes this game feel different to new people who arent old school OFPers. Also so you know I have played operation flashpoint before its release. I played the demo over and over. Just that one mission. Then I had the Euro release. Then I bought the US release when it came out here in the states. So yes I am old school.

I was in the TN 278th Armored Cavalry Regiment. we did not have it either. But if you visit VBS website or at wikipedia you can see the list of customers and the National Guard is one of them doesnt say which state is using it. Direct your command to the wikipedia or the vbs website for a list of customers. Wikipedia on VBS1

Wait one week for the US version. US guys like me with a foreign version are gonna have to wait several weeks probably before we even get a patch to bring us up to the same version. BTW, about VBS2 and the Army. We got it but its only for the elite US Army National Guards troops. Dont know why the Guard has it and the regulars dont?

The TOW's act like hellfires they guide themselves.

I have noticed the max speed does seem less with the gear down which is realistic. I once did try to fly as fast as I could with an undamaged gear to see if it would damage it as Op4 BuhBye correctly stated should happen when flying to fast with it down. I then tryed to retract it and it worked so it seems the only way to damage it is a hard landing.

I did not notice the floating zone setting until I used my german CD key to load the UK version my cousin bought. I did this so I could play the new UK version 1.04 while all the CZ and german version were still stuck at 1.03. I never noticed the setting for the floating zone before that. Maybe thats because I speak english and had been playing the german version so I guess I just overlooked it. I will say again that I like the floating zone myself...just not too high. I am an OFP'er since the demo I got in my PC gamer magazine before the game was even releases. So I am major OFP old school veteran. But the problem I see is the new people, who never played this series before. No other FPS game on the planet handles the mouse control like this game. So the newcomers coming from CS, BF, JO, etc., etc. have no idea WTF is going on. They think the game is bugged. So either they dont buy it or if they already bought it they stop playing it. Dont you see that the mouse floating zone is misunderstood by them as either lag or a bug. Read all the complaints on this forum. I believe a good number can be attributed to this floating zone setting. So then these players give up, it hurts game sales and it hurts all of our multiplayer experinces when they arent on the servers to play with us because they gave up on what they thought was lag or a bug. Now as another person already said (he obviously understands what im saying) that BIS could by default leave it off or very low so the new users (not the vets like us) wont leave the game alone for the above mentioned reasons. Heck if BIS just renamed the setting to Mouse floating zone or something than maybe more people would find the setting and have a good Arma experince (just like the thread starter who found the setting with our help). I am only stating any of this so that the newcomers will stay with us and enjoy this wonderful game called Arma!

I believe its a feature. Only has happened to me after a hard landing. But what I dont understand is that repairing still does not fix it even though it fixes everything else on the jet.

BIS better read this and take notice. Alot of the complaints about lag and other user problems are related to the floating zone on the mouse. The original verison (I own German version) 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, etc did not even have a setting for the floating zone to adjust. When the UK version released it finally had he option. I just wish people and BIS would realise that this setting makes this game feel different for most people. They cant quite figure out what wrong but the game just feels funny to them. I myself like a little bit of the floating zone but not as much as the default BIS setting is. If they would just lower the default setting more people wouldnt just give up on arma. When they see/feel this mouse lag, they either think it their computer is lagging(hardware), or they think the game is just wacked. I have played OFP since 2001 and the floating zone in that game was not as bad as Arma. Add in that alot of peoples pc's arent up to spec's and the floating zone and it makes the players feel like there is something wrong. BIS PLEASE TAKE NOTE OF THIS AND LOWER THE DEFAULT SETTING FOR THE US RELEASE(DEMO WOULD HELP TOO) OR YOU WILL LOSE ALOT OF POTENTIAL CUSTOMERS WHO THINK THIS GAME IS SCREWED

I live in the US and have been playing Arma since V1.0 german. I love it! I saw this preview in the US PC gamer a couple of weeks ago. I too was suprised at the preview. It was very good for Arma sales here in the US. And where do more games sell than anywhere else in the world??? The USA!! So this will be good for us when all the rest of my american gamers finally get their hands on Arma. Imagine the number of multiplayer servers and players that will flood Arma's battlefield when this hits the stores. I just hope as mentioned the actual review is as nice as this preview.

Tried the beta last night after work. Loved it. I love the new viewdistance, 10,000 seems to much for my PC but 7,000 is about perfect. Love that I dont have to save one last bit of ammo to rearm vehicles. Im at work now and didnt get to test it yet, but did they fix the optic zoom on vehicles such as the tank commander, TOW, etc?? Other than that I am really loving the fixes. I imagine the US release will be at a very playable level compared to what it was with the original german version etc. BTW, I am in US and I preorder the german version. But I never complained one bit because I knew damn well I could of waited for the US version and all its fixes, but I wanted this game ASAP!

Anyone know if BIS is still thinking of redoing the OFP Cold War Crisis campaign for Arma. That would be the ultimate. To replay the old campaigns but with Arma's beautiful graphics!!!