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    Are AA3 players tank shy?

    This
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    Arma 3 - APEX - NEWS and SPECULATIONS

    Indeed, throwing grenades is much harder than it might seem. There are military competitions on grenade throwing accuracy and most will be shocked by how hard it is.
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    Public Beta

    Excellent news! BattlEye anti-cheat now supports Linux, already live in ARK: Survival Evolved
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    Idea for official support funding!

    It sounds very unconventional, but I actually think this might work. Linux and Mac enthusiasts (and gamers) are usually more willing to spend more on software than "regular" Windows gamers. Maybe BIS should consider this, although I recommend that the executable should not be exclusively available to those who help fund the Linux and Mac project. Crowdfunding is acceptable these days, even for developers that potentially have the resources to go it alone.
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    Oculus Rift & Arma 3?

    I would wait until there is a uniform VR SDK that works on all/most VR hardware.
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    Public Beta

    Great to hear that VP, BIS and BattlEye are working on getting BattlEye middleware ported to other platforms. A triple-win situation if you ask me! No word yet on the porting of the launcher. To me it would seem that porting the launcher could be a good effort to learn how Linux/OSX applications work. BIS could learn how to implement SDL in future applications, which in turn could make porting to any other platform less complicated.
  7. Not sure, I can however tell you that it works just fine on the i5 model.
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    Public Beta

    I don't think this is something that can be done overnight. The best scenario in this case would be BIS introducing a development or feature freeze on the Windows branch and waiting until the Linux/Mac port catches up with the Windows version.
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    Public Beta

    Then there is also the middleware that apparently doesn't run on Linux or Mac. But all in due time I guess. Great first step. Unfortunately, mine doesn't start because my old HD 4870 doesn't support OpenGL 4.1. But I will get a new graphics card soon.
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    European Politics Thread.

    I think many of those problems are caused by a very weak Schengen treaty. It should be revised. Ever since we have the Schengen treaty, immigration figures from outside the EU and human trafficking statistics have soared. As a result of these issues, neo-nazi sentiments are also growing and like jihadist movements they also operate underground. I am afraid that if the national governments and the European Commission don't act soon, both will cease to exist eventually.
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    Vehicle handling (dev branch)

    Aha, that explains the too smooth acceleration and the slow wheelspeed but high engine RPM when the tracks (wheels) loose traction.With the amount of torque of those MBTs, there should be way more violence (i.e. wheel/track spin) visible.
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    Greece navigating "uncharted territory"

    I hope that the EU can at least finish building the internal market. There is still lots to be done: telecom (the 2017 roaming solution is only half the work), energy (this is probably going to stay like now for a while, until Russia stops pumping gas), defence industry (Nexter & Krauss-Maffei Wegmann fusion is a good step, especially with France privatising Nexter)We are getting there. It is just the Euro (which wasn't even an EU project to start with!) that might f*ck things up. All other policy areas, with the notable exception of the outdated Common Agriculture Policy, are largely successful.
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    Greece navigating "uncharted territory"

    The thing is that in the end, to us it does not matter.You see, the national government that you did or did not elect in Poland decided that money should be sent to Greece. If you ask me, before the Euro was implemented there should have been a tax union. Without a single tax union, how can you control inflation? Or alternatively, the Euro should complement existing national currencies pegged to the value of all currencies combined.
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    Greece navigating "uncharted territory"

    No, the signing for transferring credit in your case would be: Mateusz Szczurek and Jacek Rostowski.In mine that would be: Jeroen Dijsselbloem and Jan-Kees de Jager Like I said, the EU is a union of national governments not civilizations. It is our national ministers that decide who or what to support. Sometimes with a qualified majority vote, sometimes with full unanimity. Well, there you exposed the Greek euro problem. The Greek government used a credit swap mechanism to turn their existing debt in an interest. An interest looks less appalling than an existing debt would.In short, the Greek government used a mechanism to falsify information. The information concealed a huge debt that was not known before. When Greece joined the EU in the early eighties they had a little trouble integrating in the Eurostat system. The Greek government barely kept statistics on their finance!
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    Greece navigating "uncharted territory"

    I guess that (corruption) is a problem every country has, albeit in less obvious ways.There are populist sentiments here in the Netherlands (and I know they can be found anywhere else), where people claim that cultural differences between southern and northern countries are to blame. But that is only a small piece of the pie. If you ask me, it is a matter of public administration. I know for a fact that Dutch and Belgian people value transparency and accountability of not only public spenditure but also to regulation of it. There are strict laws in the Netherlands that bind everybody who is paid by public (tax) money to a maximum salary that is no more than 130% of the salary of a minister. With the notable exception of the King, which for some reason is largely accepted. Complementary to the regulation of public spenditure is the law on the openness and transparency of public administration and governance of 1980 (Belgium in 1993). When a civilian requests information on a certain decision or specification or communication between public bodies, any level of government must respond within 4 weeks and must forward you to a department that does have information. Public disclosure is the legal basis for all public bodies. If they cannot provide information they must explain why they cannot find anything. If they concern privacy-sensitive information or state secrets, a judge will decide if that information will be disclosed or not. Since then, most EU member states followed suit, finally implemented EU-wide by the narrow/limited Regulation (EC) No 1049/2001. I know for a fact that Greece has only started to implement this principle since 2011. The reason why this was never implemented is because the Copenhagen criteria of acceding EU member states did not yet exist. I think that the underlying problem is that the EU was not conceived out of a revolution. It was more or less "imposed" (might be the wrong word) by the United States. Without economic integration, European nation states would receive less or no Marshall aid. Something along the lines of the Benelux Union (which still exists today; within the European Union) needed to be formed on a bigger and more economic level.The EU as we know it today is a union of national governments and an institutionalized treaties organisation, with limited checks and balances by the European Parliament. It is not yet a union of civilizations. The delegation of powers to Brussels is in a way in reverse order of "how it should be". A proper federal state would only delegate sovereignty to a higher power on the areas of foreign policy, defense, energy and security. But those areas are still governed at national level. This is caused by an unfinished single market and on-going backdoor protectionism. Instead of leaving internal matters to national governments, these are regulated by Brussels whereas federal level matters are regulated by national governments. Unfortunately, also the limitation of EU foreign and defense policy was imposed by the United States under US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and her 3D approach after the 1998 Franco-British Summit of Saint Malo. Apparently, the US felt that the existence of NATO was threatened by a possible EU foreign and defense policy. If anything, the EU should reform drastically. A lot of good proposals were made, such as an EU tax.
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    Vulkan API instead of DX12 API

    Still beats having no Linux support, big time.
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    Vulkan API instead of DX12 API

    It'll be a wrapper-based Linux port I assume. I do hope that the new engine iteration will have native Linux binaries.
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    Vulkan API instead of DX12 API

    I can imagine that for BISim it might be more interesting to look at porting the VBS codebase to GNU/Linux and OpenGL(ES/Vulkan). Mainly because of the Linux-based embedded systems used by the many simulators NATO armed forces use.
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    PhysX

    Looking at the scale of that game, the first question I would have is: Would that code scale well on Arma 3 proportions? And my second question would be: Would it work without performance issues on multiplayer?
  20. Please change my username to Pyronick
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    JSRS: DragonFyre -- WIP Thread

    The Gorgon has a nice Detroit Diesel sound to it. The only thing that bothers me, which is probably a game engine issue, is that when you release the throttle on the Kuma (like on 1:21 in the YouTube video), it sounds as if a clutch disengages and the engine falls back to idle almost instantly. This shouldn't be the case with automatic transmissions such as those used in MBTs and most military vehicles. Instead, it should gradually fall back in RPM and maybe switch to lower gears. The game doesn't make a distinction between automatic and manual transmissions, it just mixes both. I do love the whine of the transmission that kicks in at a certain speed.
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    Ukraine General

    Greece was corrupted because of the power and virtual autonomy of the armed forces and police forces. Furthermore, they were stuck in the credit default swap loop, which gave them the opportunity to join the eurozone while still being in debt. Schröder and his Ostpolitik was basically put letting NATO's guard down. He was also responsible of what now are the Four Common Spaces between the EU and Russia. Merkel is just continuing his Ostpolitik and that needs to be stopped asap!
  23. I did, maybe this interface then exposes a flaw in the vanilla setup because I don't remember being able to use incorrect APP-6 symbols in vanilla ArmA 3 before.
  24. The APP-6 symbols are not correct, you cannot have OPFOR shaped icons in blue as that would compromise its "side".
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