Z-Nine

The majority of the time they are smaller skirmishes. I think the biggest battles you will see are when operation missions are initialized - Though I am not that much in the campaign, so there is a very real possibility that battles will get bigger later on. So far the biggest battle I've encountered that wasn't on the semi-linear missions were a couple of t-72 enemy tanks, a decent amount of enemy infantry, and an enemy armoured transport versus 1 TOW Humvee, 1 M1A2, and, again, a decent amount of infantry. It was quite massive over the expanse of an outskirt of a city. Nothing company size, but something to respect none-the-less as it was an unscripted event.

There is a war going on outside just where you are, it's not just where you think it's happening... it is ACTUALLY happening. I've never felt more part of a war. I've walked through forests and stuff looking for enemy camps, and in the distance hear firefights break out among friendly/enemy troops. I usually rush in and try to assist my allies (whoever they may be) and eliminate the threat. The benefit of this is that the friendly unit you saved will continue with their patrol or mission, and can serve as a fall back position for you if things get too heavy. If you lose an area to enemy forces it only makes things harder for you. I'm not sure on how many free-roam missions there are.. so far, I am only on my 2nd free-roam mission and have yet to complete it. They last me a while, and I always find myself reverting the mission just to get a new experience out of it, and hopefully do things more efficiently.. as I tend to screw things up/kill the wrong people :p heh

Well I haven't played through the campaign in it's entirety yet, so I don't know just how much previous missions affect the newer ones.. but I am sure it's actually quite a lot. You meet people, and you can decide to help them/do a mission for them or whatever, and you meet those people again later on and can help you with tasks, or give you advice or tip offs where an enemy position might be. You are given options like if you are ready to evac, or if you want to continue your mission.. which undoubtedly made the next mission a lot easier for me, but once you get into free mode, it seems like the collection of those first few linear missions and your actions really come to life then. I have played a couple of the open-ended missions over and over a few times. There are some scripted, big story-driving events, but there are also things that I have witnessed to only happen once. For example [minor spoiler] an allied mi-17 helicopter had crashed in the map, and there were survivors, so the commander requests you go and rescue them. This only happened to me on one play through, when I restarted the mission, I never had any helicopter crashes happen again. I am assuming the crash REALLY did happen in the world, and that sparked a rescue operation for you to complete. It does not load a new mission when this happens - it's simply added to your task list, you have a list of tasks to accomplish over the area of operations, which is a huge huge chunk of the map. - You decide how to accomplish them, and in what order you want to do them. Sometimes objectives give you moral decisions to make, which will affect things like how the civilian population's relation is towards you. The best way to put it, I never had the same experience twice on these open-ended missions (which last a long time, and you determine when and how they end). The AI is a decent, you can definitely tell there has been an improvement. Sometimes AI still does stupid things, but most of the time I've been able to rely on my teammates to get things done on their own while I flank a position or whatever. Enemy AI is also quite good, the biggest, and probably coolest thing for me was to see many enemies actually FLEE the battle after suffering heavy losses from my squad. - I went down into pursuit, only to run into a lot more enemies. I'm not sure if it was planned, but it turned out to be a pretty cool scenario. Sometimes when there are firefights near cities, you will see civilians run to cars and drive away as fast as they can and you will see some run to their houses, or just simply get off the roads and lay prone in backyards.

Yeup, apparently the price has just been lowered on steam! Good news!

Are you in ironsight mode or not? That is an important factor to take into account. If you are firing just from the hip, then no **** it's inaccurate.

Steam stated many times, they do not decide the price, the publisher does. So if you encounter the 1:1 ration with euro/dollar, it's not steam's fault, it's the publishers that decided it was a good idea. Though whenever I travel to europe, I tend to see games that are 1:1 ratio same price in game stores versus game stores here.

It was 10 hours since my purchase, I emailed them not even 5 minutes ago, and I got an immediate response with my key. I gave them my order number with it, so maybe that had helped the process. Edit: I had used the subject line in German, which said Kleine CD-Key. I'm not sure if any German would make things go faster either, but I am sure a simple online translation for key things you want to say wouldn't hurt.

It appears Peter Games is not registering properly when I go to purchase with my Visa Debit card, nothing is charged, and I haven't got an email for 2 hours now.. or access to any files. I've tried it multiple times.. hopefully it doesn't work magically later on and I get charged 5 times for the game as I thought maybe the purchase did not go through - so I tried a few more times. Is there any alternative download site someone from the US can use to get the german release of the game? Thanks

Could you post a link to this please? I searched all over these forums when I saw your post but no luck. Thanks much

I was just wondering if someone had made a free roam map. Basically where civilian life is going all around the whole map of sahrani. I think it would be fun just to cruise around with a buddy online. Perhaps stick all the available vehicles at the airfield as well? Anyone know of something like this? It would be a great map! -NuclearDruid

I was just wondering if someone had made a free roam map. Basically where civilian life is going all around the whole map of sahrani. I think it would be fun just to cruise around with a buddy online. Perhaps stick all the available vehicles at the airfield as well? Anyone know of something like this? It would be a great map! -NuclearDruid

I was just wondering if the emagine z800 http://www.3dvisor.com/ had support in this game for headtracking? I know a few other games do. It usually emulates a mouse unless the game has a patch for otherwise. Do people have any word on this? Much appreciated -NuclearDruid