Panko-31stMEU-

We are again becoming active in the ArmA 2/OA community and are looking for good personnel to fill out the ranks. Our new Ventrilo info is: fluorine.typefrag.com port: 9825 If you would like to come on our vent to chat with us then the best times would be after 2000 hours EST on any Monday or Wednesday. Hope to meet some of you!

We are trying to recruit again. Looking for some good guys with the following attributes: -positive attitude/team player -good listener -tactical thinker -general interest in the military/war -some time to play the game every week Please hit me up if anyone is interested. The guys in the group are great people and very personable. Don't be afraid to come by and talk with us. vent info: fluorine.typefrag.com port: 9825 web page: www.31stmeu.org ^must talk with us in vent to gain access first

For the love of god... type -F7- (SPELL CHECK)!!!! It's "Anti-Personnel." Cool addon though.

We are recruiting on our server 5 days a week (except for Monday and Wednesday). Please come by and check us out. You shouldn't be disappointed.

Both are welcome. We only discriminate based on you speaking English. No broken English either. Come check us out on our Teamspeak ASAP! I'm on right now. Teamspeak IP: 216.6.228.102:10242

http://www.31stmeu.org So here you are. Scouring the squad and fanpages' threads in the hopes of finding the right group to fit your teamwork style. I know it seems tedious and/or fruitless BUT... there is still hope. Here's why: -You won't be yelled at -You will actually move in coordinated patterns with fellow teammates -You will be led by professional but very down-to-earth people -Your ideas will be listened to and your opinions will count -You will be among a SMALL group of dedicated teammates -You will be talked to as an adult Upon filling out an application you will complete up to a 2 week trial period of casual gaming with the Unit to be accepted into our training program. The basic training program is titled Marine Corps Recruit Training (or MCRT). This is a one day (1-2 hour) program designed to get any prospective member into the Unit smoothly. He/she will learn logistical and historical Unit information, the chain of command, our Uniform Code of Military Justice (rules), and complete basic rifle and pistol training. Upon completion of this training the "poolee" will now be a full fledged Marine/Sailor within the 31st MEU. The more bread-and-butter information such as basic combat maneuvers in a fire team/squad, communication procedures, and weapons familiarization will be completed at a later time in another program named the School Of Infantry (or SOI). So join our Ventrilo server and talk with us. Find out for yourself if we are what you are looking for in a group. fluorine.typefrag.com Port: 9825

I know this is going to sound really ridiculous but myself along with 5 or 6 other people cannot connect to any server currently. Â We are all located in different parts of the US with working internet connections (dsl/cable). Â We also notice right now that there are very few people online and that it's dropping. Â We noticed that during a game a few us lost connection and/or had a ctd and then that was the point when we could no longer connect to a server. Â Once the rest of us chose to leave said server we could no longer connect to a server either. Â We also all see the pings of each and every server with just a "?" symbol. If someone could try to connect to a server (no matter whether it is dedicated or self hosted) and let me know what happens then that would be great. Â Hope I don't sound too crazy. Â We are all at a loss for what could be happening.

FFAMM for the win. When I heard your very first release I knew you had potential to make an insanely good sound mod. This only proves my predictions. Keep it going man. I miss the tracers you had in the older version though. Those with the current sounds will be a sweet combo. Man, if you, the FDF guys, and Chammy got together... we would have the ULTIMATE sound mod. Nonetheless, my Unit (31st MEU) and I are all using your sound mod and you have our 100% satisfaction and "2 thumbs way up". BIS should hire you.

Sorry Mike, I don't think anything seems to be working properly. Â Sounds are the stock m4 sounds, definitely get rid of those, and the rof is WAY too slow. Â Get it on par with the Q11 rof mod; he has the right idea. The picture will illustrate my problems with your model.

As with what my main Army man Mr. 19D cav scout... CQB is not MOUT. It's solely in one room or building. CLOSE quarters... not SORT OF close. And please don't assume to be some "CQB specialist" (whatever that means coming from yourself) unless you've been in some military training (IN REAL LIFE). If anyone was a "CQB specialist" as you so eloquently put it, it would be someone in the special warfare section of the military or to a lesser degree to your local SWAT teams. CQB can be summed up as: -assault/support/security elements (MOUT too) -slicing the pie -buttonhook and cross -violence of action -quick and accurate target identification -extreme level of competance on individual movements -muzzle and trigger discipline -front sight focus and trigger squeeze -controlled fire and speed I am by no means "an expert" but I have a fair knowledge of what's involved for those who can actually do it. I am not even including some of the advanced training those like the SEALs get nowadays with using the weapon in conjunction with a pseudo martial arts program. You can't always kill, in the movies they do but in the movies they can get yelled at and then everyone is cool and no one gets in trouble. Sometimes a man may only have a bat or stick and is confused to what's going on and is caught in the middle of it. He may be hostile because he doesn't know who you are and what you're doing so you can't just shoot him. You put your SMG butt out and knock his ass down. Here's the quote from wikipedia: Anyway back on topic, I think huge cities and maps would be (larger than the ones in ArmA currently and on par with VBS2) great but unfortunately what's the point of having a ginormous city if only 30 people are playing? The amount of men won't be proportional to the area you're working in. In a city the size of the one's some of you guys have been talking about are pointlessly large. There is such a thing as TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING. Let me put it this way... are you willing to wait in an APC or UH60 for a 1 hour ride to the AO? If not... then there's no point. Already in the game if you fly from the airfield to Pita in the East it takes about 5+ minutes of just sitting in the chopper flying at an average speed of 170+ knots. It feels like you're in the thing forever (my opinion anyway). If they will ever make the map real life size with hundreds of thousands of kilometers of ground... you will need to set up some MMO type gaming system where there are thousands of people playing the same area at any time. But of course good luck getting any sense of a chain of command. There is only so much you can do with a game that is meant to be fun. VBS2 is the way it is because it's for actual military training. This is a time where it actually NEEDS to mimic real life as close as it can. There will always need to be an HONEST balance of realism and fun.

AMD 4800+ X2 8800gtx xxx version 3 gb ddr 400 180gb SATA 7200 HD 8mb xfi soundcard Everything was set on very high, view distance was at 3k. I noticed a GIGANTIC performance increase and was running between 30-60 (min and max) and with it being about 45fps most of the time. Whoever is not seeing a performance increase, your card is either not powerful enough to notice a difference since they will be noticed more on very high settings or your card just worked well with it from the beginning (the 8800's had problems since day 1, finally fixed now except for the fog distance problem). Too bad the demo is not worth playing since I have the full game. Can't wait until 1.06/1.07.

Except for the simple fact that with the BIS intent for users to create their own missions... there is no legal merit with what you are saying so it's pointless to bring it up. Â Look up "fair use" and don't be a know it all. Â He's (CaptainMurphy) not claiming it's his and he is not trying to make a profit. What are you saying, that he is going to sue someone? Â He would have to register his work first of all before doing that. Â And I'm pretty sure by registering it he would want to be making money off of it, and I don't believe that would be legal. Â Good try. By the way, great mission. Â But I do agree that we should appreciate his work and not do anything against his will. Â I would not want him to stop his tireless efforts because people are getting antsy.

Yes the MK19 does need to be as my astute colleague, Sgt. Mabes, pointed out in his original starting thread. The term "fog of war" comes to mind from the 19th century and before that time where the white smoke created by the black gun powder used would create everyone being caught in a real fog of gun powder. White smoke? I think not with a Mk19. This new thing called "smokeless gunpowder" was created a long time ago to stop this. Let's please have this fixed so we can use the weapon after more than one round of accurate fire.

This is definitely a well thought out mission but some of the vehicle usage requirements don't work. Â By not working I mean by the time you get it, it's useless. Â Primary example... the M1A1 Abrams, you have to be a Colonel to drive it, a bit high don't ya think? Â Not even the fact that you have to literally be a Colonel but mainly because to get that many points within a relatively moderate time period you have to be using the chopper to transport people or even the 5ton. Â Most likely though the pilots will have the highest scores, from what I've seen so far, and those people aren't going to want to switch to driving a tank (I don't want them to since they can fly well obviously). Â So then you are stuck with waiting until you have cleared all but about 3 bases and by that time the distance to drive the tank is so far that there is no point in doing it. Forcing the transport chopper pilots also to have a higher rank forces friendlies to attack the enemy bases in a linear direction, according to where the road simply takes them next. Â You have no decision on whether you want to send a small insertion team into the main base at Pita or some other base and start attacking from two sides. Â You can't drive all the way there because of the threat of armor watching roads and enemy aircraft circling ahead. Â I suppose you possibly wanted it to be done this way but it definitely takes a bit of the freedom out of the missions. A good idea for the pilots and crewmen might be to make their classes not able to use anything other than a sidearm and smoke grenades but allow them to exclusively drive or fly anything to their respective specialty. Â This way you won't get the BF2 style play where people just jump in the chopper to get somewhere and bail out over it and crash it, BUT... you will be able to have people support the infantry with their armor/apc's/close air support/transport from the very beginning and allow the game to be given different strategies to win. Overall though it was extremely well done (2 thumbs up). Â Please take the last comment above into consideration. Â It was talked about over a long discussion with other 31st Unit members. Side thoughts: -too many attack choppers and harriers (4 harriers are a bit much, especially since usually no one ever levels up high enough to use them) -not enough transport choppers (used a lot, obviously)

Not to be a smartass but they do have sound mods out that VASTLY improve the quality of gameplay. Try out the FDF sound mod. My Unit (31st MEU, US based) uses it and we swear by it; at least until something better comes out anyway. http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=896 link^