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Well it's the spawning enemies too. If you take your time too much, you ain't gonna make any progress. So... is this the topic where I can also complain about Steam? Steam sucks! I hated GTA because of Steam. Steam is to fucking intrusive and I don't like it on my computer. I don't like the way e-mails are handled and the fact that you can only make one account without profiles etc. Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night with tears streaming down my face screaming "FUCK YOU STEAM!" Steam tries to become the i-tunes of gaming. ONE PLATFORM TO RULE THEM ALL! Here you go, this is your steam-account and your steam-friends, do you want to manage winamp through steam? it's steam all the way baby. Here is a steam t-shirt, now you belong to the steam family. You will download steam-porn from steam. Steam is the future of gaming.. man! Let's steam everything and run everything through the internet! STEAM! YAY STEAM! What the hell was so wrong with the way Cod4 handled registration, multiple users, servers that they had to change it? No, fuck steam. Good morning people!

Short review: this game is a rollercoaster. It's fun, fast, intense, fucking annoying and as linear as you can get. You feel pressed all the time to move on. You can't explore, hide, flank the enemy, retreat, use any kind of tactics or... well, apply any personal playing style whatsoever. You are on rails all the way. I don't really mind though. It's good for some mindless and stressful fun. What really bothers me is that there are no player profiles (more than one people use my computers and we all have different preferences in keys, loadout and perks) which makes playing on LAN a pain in the ass. It could be better. I mean what's the harm in letting the player choose how to handle the missions? I am not talking about Arma level tactics. Just a simple "I can either walk straight through the gates or go around and try to sneak in" kind of choice. For fuck's sake that's the point of having a 3D engine, right? The fact that you are in a 3D world where you can move around, see it from different angles and decide how to proceed. Damn I think I play Arma too fucking much!

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What? There is snow on the map no matter what the fog setting is.

I just read the kill/death streak list for MW2. My god what where they thinking??????? That's turning into a damn pokemon game! What are they trying to do? I know it's about having fun and all that but come on... a tactical nuke? A tactical nuke that can be stopped with some sort of alien emp technology? A deathstreak called "copycat" where you magically take the powers and loadout of the player that killed you? This is some Harry Potter shit right there! FOR SHAME!!! Man, if I wanted magical superpowers I'd play WOW or something. No I wouldn't... But you know what I am saying.

I've noticed something. My particles don't look exactly like the ones in the posted youtube videos. Mine look.. simpler? Less particles and kind of big too. I don't see the little sparks... I see orbs the size of oranges. Anyone else get the same? Do I have to configure the addon to make it look like the videos? Maybe me old eyes be deceiving me...

something aboutArma's texture sizes doesn't like ATI or so I've read somewhere. Search the forums! :)

there is a cheap workaround for this. Let's say you want to be attacked by opfor. Put a bluefor unit on the map and set it as your teamleader. Then set the probability of presence to 0 and this unit will not appear but the rest of the team will inherit the "enemy" status as far as it concerns opfor. I don't know how this affects your unit control though.

Yeah you see Dragon Rising fans are mostly kids. Kids love their facebook. They think it's awesome to become members of groups and shit and love stupid quizes. Arma fans are usually older and they think facebook is kind of faggy thus they find it harder to express their preference that way. Trusting facebook for "research" is like questioning highschoolers for politics.

Some other addon probably fucks with it. That's why I always say "Kids! Don't forget to use a game launcher!". If you are using a game launcher, deactivate all addons except this one and see if it works. Then start adding your mods one by one and you'll find out which one does it.

I just tried it and it was ok but at some point the spawned dudes met with the other dudes that I put on the map and they started fighting each other before we arrived and then the choppers came and killed some tanks and the trees caught fire and our game started lagging like a mofo! Complete chaos! We had to quit it though because we couldn't even see who the hell was shooting but it was fun. I guess I have to start tweaking the values to find a good balance. Thanks.

you know that's all great but I have no idea what you are talking about. What I understand from this is that I paste that code into a notepad file that I rename to .sqf and then sync the combat module to the player... and it all automatically works and there is a war going on? What's ACM? Ok forget it I am on two hours of sleep and I think I am missing something critical about how this works.

I think it was 2001... maybe it was 2002? oh wait. I bought it in 2001 and played it in 2002. I remember it felt very uncomfortable, my graphics card couldn't handle it, I was intimidated by the "thousand" key binds, the floating zone... man I thought the game sucked when I first played with it. I was just fresh of Quake clone fps and I couldn't understand the genre. Next year I got a new pc and gave it another shot out of boredom. It was like a drug.

Really I shot a guy with a SAW and it was like a smoke grenade! I lost him completely behind the dust! Impacts should be faster too I think. I think impacts on earth should be smaller. An the sparks are too big. And the particles sometimes look huge. Well in fact if you reduce sparks and bullet hits to half their size I'll be a happy camper. Sometimes I shoot at choppers and it looks like someone tries to cut a chunk off using a nuclear power plasma saw of death.

I couldn't for the life of me, figure out how to work in high command. I had to resort to taking all villages with a handful of bought soldiers and I left my Razor dudes back in the base because they tend to die when I am not there holding their hands. You cannot possibly imagine how long it took. I played it night after night until I finally destroyed the two remaining camps and the game ended with a ten second priest talk cinematic. Rather anticlimactic but who really gives a shit?

I have tried that and it doesn't work like I would expect. The only thing I have noticed is that sometimes I hear random explosions or see choppers flying around, but no infantry or tanks. Does it take a long time to happen? like how long?

(I sure hope I am posting this in the right place.) So, we all love Arma and play the shit out of it. Now, most of you/us are into the usual army related missions. You know, the whole grunt thing, which is perfectly fine. But in my humble opinion, the reason Arma rules harder than a Babylonian king is that it allows you to take things further. To think outside the skybox. That is evident by the abundance of non-military addons we demand and come up with. Zombies, aliens, era based conversions, props and all that shit we download and play with in the editor. So, I would like to learn about your special wacky missions that take advantage of the game's sandbox/freestyle qualities. So pitch some of them for the inspiration and entertainment of the fine members of this community. Sometimes even the most creative people amongst us run out of ideas. Consider this topic an archive of madness. I'll go first right after I make clear that I play my missions on a four pc LAN so most pitches will be about "four guys that go apeshit" for different reasons. Sniper Priests. War in Chernarus is raging on. Four pissed-off orthodox priests meet up in the middle of a stormy night (in an abandoned church) and decide to end this senseless war. How? By killing the leaders of the two opposing forces. Armed with 50cal sniper rifles, the priests ride around Chernarus on their mountain bikes trying to find targets and take them out. Nothing will stand in their way. They are on a mission... from God! Suitable Revenge Four celebrity playboys (guys in black suits) are ready for the party of a lifetime. The beach manor is lit up like a xmas tree, the music is loud and da bitchez are coming very soon. On a boat. But OH FATE HOW YOU MOCK ME, a helicopter appears out of nowhere and obliterates the boat carrying the ladies (and probably a lot of cocaine) and ruins the party before it starts. Gentlemen this is unacceptable! Nobody ruins OUR damn party. Let's spend some bullets on whoever is responsible! The four stinking rich fellows make a stop at their secret arsenal storage in the middle of the desert. They got some guns. A personal jet fighter, a chopper, some fast bikes and a lot of ammo. The real party is just about to start... Illegal Aliens Agent Smith is in the bus. He returns home after a long night in the office. Agent Smith is a good guy, he just has a problem with certain individuals. He cannot stand illegal aliens. He doesn't like the color of their skins and their dark beady eyes. His is right you know... a UFO is about to blow the bus to smithereens! and the last one for today MegaSuperWar (Granny Nightmare) That is actually a prank I played on a friend when he played Arma 2 for the first time. I told him that I have made a great war mission, come on dude lets play it's fantastic! So we start the game and he is all alone in a field in the middle of the night. A trigger message appears "Someone is going to contact you soon". So he waits there for a while. And then... Old women! Old women everywhere... running... walking. Hundreds of identical limping old women start to creep out of the forests, abandoned houses and bushes while earie music plays in the background. The swarm around him like wraiths. He finally freaked out and started shooting at them screaming 'what the fuck is this man? what do they want? Where are you? What's going on?". Oh and I was playing an alsatian, watching from a distance... barking my ass off. I did chase him around for a while too. Your turn. Ps: If you don't have weird scenarios I don't mind. Post your army missions, if they hold some kind of interest apart from "infiltrate enemy base, destroy AA, run like hell to evac" go wild and shit!

That happens to me too. Weird thing is that it stops once you set shadows to normal.. but light differences don't affect you so you walk in dark places with an eerie glow around you!

I'll tell you the real truth. We don't want children in Arma because 3d children are creepy. You know, kids walk and behave in a certain way that will be even more haunting once you motion capture those little bastards and let them loose in Chernarus.

Ι am so confused. I am still on the 1.04.59026 patch. Which one should I get now? the one called 1.07 or the 59875 one?

Οh damn! I played with a friend over LAN last night and everything was burning nice until I told my friend "Don't get to close the weapons crate it's on fire" but then I looked over to his screen and there was no fire there. Is it a mod that only works though special magical stuff I don't know about? Dedicated server? Man I hate this, it happened with the weather addon too! Different fires on each pc, different weather on each pc? Is there an easy way to do this I wonder....

Dude, I've played OFP so much that I had to rent a house in Nogova. I almost got married there too. BECAUSE I PLAYED SO MUCH! No seriously. I loved OFP. I think it's the game I've spend most of my gaming time on, since I got my hands on a computer. But I have no idea what WGL is. I still can't go back. I love the new graphics and all those little details that make Arma 2 what it is. Sure OFP was groundbreaking and all that but that was years ago...

Operation Flashpoint Dragon Rising = Family Guy Arma 2 = Southpark I wanted a car analogy to be honest but this works too.

Man I've got the dejavu like it's nobody's business!!! Arma 2 is the best. Best character handling, best graphics, best sound, more intense action... The only downside is that Arma2 is still a bit too demanding for the average pc but in one years time it's gonna play like a mofo and all y'all are gonna love it. You know it!