Master gamawa

I don't know if I should spoiler this but what the hell

wait. Isn't the Chedaki base near the airport? I found one on the east and I destroyed it but the notes still talk about a base near the airport! Nevermind. I just completed the campaign! The Russian base is exactly where the notes say it is. I just sent a few of my guys to roam around the airport and found it.

Yeah as I said, I don't mind WARFARE as a concept. It works for MP and even though it's a bit gimmicky for my tastes, it deals with things that organization oriented players may enjoy. It just feels alien to me man. You know those red bars that appear when you capture a base? Getting paid pixie dollars for killing people? Where did that come from? I got 25 dollars for killing a rifleman. And a BRDM costs 800. Well!!! Summoning tanks out of thin air? All I want is a choice that allows me to play the game how I see fit, which was what OpF and ARMA were all about. Cause you see the problem with Arma 2 is ... spreading too little butter on a huge slice of bread. You can't have it all. You can't pack driving/flight sim/armed fighting/commanding/resource management/multiple choices/dynamic campaign in one game. You have to compromise all the time and that's evident in Arma 2. I know it's hard to program the arrival of armored units from the factory to your base. You have to make them pop out in twenty seconds and let your imagination fill the details! You have to compromise when building a base to avoid animating soldiers building machine gun nests. It takes one second to do so but the rest of the game flows in real time! Spawning enemy units are a real disappointment. I reached the Chedaki Base and enemies kept popping out even though I killed everyone. That was what I liked about ARMA and OFP. Everything was there already. You just had to kill it and be done with it! I hated COD4 for the insane amount of generated enemies. I hated Battlefield with all that 'capturing the bases' to win the match. I loved OpF and Arma because they were putting me in the shoes of a grunt that does his small part to help the war. I wasn't always aware of the big picture and that was a huge bonus. I was there with my trusted gun, preserving ammo, hiding from enemies. Trying to survive. My only hope is to play this game over LAN with my friends. No warfare there! No mission crashes and elusive triggers! Damn!

Could the new patch remove WARFARE in single player or at least give you an option to play as a normal recon soldier instead of.. you know.. the unbelievable clusterfuck that happens in the last mission? I really want to play Arma 2 not Command and Conquer!

So this is the ALL IMPRESSIONS topic. First of all, as most of you, I am/was a dedicated Operation Flashpoint and Armed Assault fan. I played the crap out of these games since they came out. To be honest I bought the original Armed Assault (Queens Gambit Exp) game FOUR TIMES, in order to be able to play with my friends on my LAN without having FADE kick in. Well six times to be precise. I got the german version when it came out and the first international version too without the QG. I loved Operation Flashpoint and I loved Armed Assault even though it didn't come without it's fair share of problems. Then came ARMA 2. The answer to all my dreams and hopes. Better handling, better graphics, better AI, huge realistic map and let us not forget that you can actually lift your foot over a short fence and jump it! Amazing! You know what's funny? I am so used to not moving when reloading that I don't know if they fixed that on Arma 2. I seriously never tried it. My reflexes take control and when I hit reload my left hand is temporarily paralyzed! I am usually all about custom missions. I create all sorts of crazy stories and play with some friends but I always liked the campaigns, especially the ones in Op Flash. Since ARMA 2 is pretty demanding for an average PC, I bought it only once since I wasn't sure the other pcs on my LAN could handle it. All I wanted to do was to crawl behind enemy lines, search for enemies, sabotage stuff, fly planes and ride in tanks. I wanted to jump in the battle with a parachute in the middle of the night. I wanted to destroy convoys and steal enemy aircraft. I wanted massive assaults to enemy positions and planning attacks to enemy bases. I wanted to be there and be scared shitless as I was with OP F and Armed Assault! You can't have both! You're either a grunt doing the dirty work or an officer planning the dirtier work, logistics and support! No, I don't mean in real life. I mean in a game where the AI isn't famous for it's understanding of how things work in war. In real life you don't need to tell a soldier in the other side of the country to rearm because they would do that anyway! In real life, officers don't use imaginary dollars to summon tanks from the fifth dimension! In real life, everyone specializes in a certain field. When I am crawling in the dirt trying to evade an enemy tank, the last thing I want to deal with is a strongpoint that was lost 5km away. It's all wrong. This is not real life. It's a game. I want to be immersed in what I am doing. WARFARE killed my immersion, that's all I am saying. For god's sake I watched a flipping movie on tv while playing the last mission. I listened to music because I was bored! That's it. I am done. I just have to wait until I buy three new pcs that are able to run this game and then buy three more copies of the game to enjoy it as I should. I only need about 2500 euros to enjoy it. :)

Damn! Sorry dude I expected the editing forum to be inside the Armed Assault subforum. I am not very familiar with the structure here since I hardly ever post. I ended up making a trigger that causes 0.8 damage to the ufo and that makes the aliens get out but still... I should try the "switch" thing the other guy mentioned when I get home. Thanks.

Let me first describe what I want to do. I am making a mission where the the army has discovered a ufo inside a huge rock. I used the dig site in this new airfield map for this. Very nice! Now inside this ufo there are a dozen starship trooper bugs sleeping for centuries and wait for someone to free them from their rocky prison. yeah... not very original but I guess it's gonna be funny when my friends approach the ufo and those bugs jump out and start chasing them. I started with the ufo named u1 and set all the trooperbugs init as "this MoveInCargo u1". Now I want them to come out looking for blood when a get out trigger is activated, let's say when a player activates some sort of special magnetic radar or something to scan the ufo. I tried giving the bug leader a get out synched with a bluefor trigger but those damn things won't come out. What am I doing wrong.

Let me first describe what I want to do. I am making a mission where the the army has discovered a ufo inside a huge rock. I used the dig site in this new airfield map for this. Very nice! Now inside this ufo there are a dozen starship trooper bugs sleeping for centuries and wait for someone to free them from their rocky prison. yeah... not very original but I guess it's gonna be funny when my friends approach the ufo and those bugs jump out and start chasing them. I started with the ufo named u1 and set all the trooperbugs init as "this MoveInCargo u1". Now I want them to come out looking for blood when a get out trigger is activated, let's say when a player activates some sort of special magnetic radar or something to scan the ufo. I tried giving the bug leader a get out synched with a bluefor trigger but those damn things won't come out. What am I doing wrong.

Yo. Great map. I played last night with my friends over lan and it kicked ass. Do more.

I don't do pbo unpacking stuff.. If i delete watkins island, will the island appear as it was supposed to be?

Really? No wonder it played fine on my pc. It did look a bit empty but I thought it was supposed to be like that. To be honest I kind of prefer it like that, framerate-wise. I try the fix and see if the island is playable with grass on and report back.

When I am in a vehicle and move the mouse, the car steers but my camera looks always at the same point: Forward. When I press the freelook key, I can look around but I can't steer unless I use my keyboard... Which works perfectly. I have assigned my turn left/right keys to steer left and right when I am driving in order to be able to use my mouse and freelook key to look around without messing my driving up. I don't understand what your problem is dude. Use your mouse to steer and your TrackIR to look around when driving. Are you saying that your in game "head" moves around when you are steering the vehicle? Because that has never happened to me. Maybe you need to configure your keys better or something.

I like this island so much I don't know what to do with it. You know what I mean? I just walk around in there and admire the scenery

I have the same problem and someone here told me it's some random addon that does it. I am stuck with it since I have hundreds of addons and it's kind of impossible to test them all. Bad luck I guess.

Dude your island looks better than reality! I'll play the shit out of it!!! Serious.

Nice! Good work! So will the sky texture appear if I download this again?

So is it supposed to look like this? I think it needs more trees. I also noticed that you put an enormous amount of rocks in the water which are not visible unless you are swimming near them. Would removing those, allow for some more trees and and bushes?

Yeah I get the same. No sky textures and some scattered palm trees around. I am downloading again just to be sure.

william1 you da man! I want to know what caused the lag too.

Come on... I have four original copies of the game (one for each computer in my LAN) and this happened to me once too when I tried to get into a public server. You know how computers are. Things like that can happen to anyone. Wenqun, I am sorry my problem happened only once in a previous version and it has never happenened again after the last few patches.

Really? I have seen Dune but I don't seem to remember that sound. Good stuff!

Also... I can't express how much I enjoy the sound of the heat ray. I just wish it had a nice visual to go with. Some kind of ray, you know?

My main man.. This is friggin exceptional. I just blew a few hundreds of them aliens away, with their own weapons, flew their ships and got my @$$ handed to me more than a few times. Good job. I am going to recomend that to some friends. Thanks

Oh damn. I have too many addons to test and too little time. If anyone manages to solve this, please post which add on is doing the naughty thing, here!

Thank god I am not alone. I have the same texture problem and something more. My water breaks. There are gaps between the squares of water. When the waves rise in one square they don't synch up with the next square and small slits are created through which I can see the ocean floor. I have the Nvidia 8800GTX and my settings are all on normal except textures which is set to default and blood which is set on high. What's up with that?