Sh1fty

will I learn to retreat to?

Was OFP really the first game with death qoutes?

Yeah. Marketing. You don't know what realism nor tactics means pal... CoD4 is an arcady gungho quake style game. Tactics and thus realism can only exist in games where fear of death or loss is high. Stop playing old school ordinary archaic CTF or DM if you feel arma is arcady... er, Shallow much!? best game? CoD4 is 5 hours long if even that (developer's own words), not including MP of course. Let's not even begin to wonder how many of those hours you spend on saving and reloading though... But after about 5 days playing the only reason you'll continue playing is because of the unlockable items, BF2/2142 style, and the fact that you spent 60 dollars on it and you want your damn money worth... Sad. Sad, sad, sad. Or wait, maybe you didn't spend anything... You'll just quit. And Crysis isn't even out yet! How can you compare? And just like far cry it'll be the biggest hyped up game in history, maybe just second to halo3, and it'll last 3 days after release week and it'll be remembered only as a bloody benchmark, exactly like all these other shallow games controlled by 2 thumbs from your couch... Both those games cost 50-60 dollars, Arma cost me 25, I bought 5 ish other games since then all played through, all forgotten, 8+ months going I'm still playing arma. BIS did something right too. I'll give you a clue - It wasn't marketing. Relax, there's a reason why COD4 is popular and Armed assault isnt

Patch to 1.08 I have 1.08

I bought ARMA a few days ago, and I have to say that I'm extremely dissapointed. Playing around in the editor with some downloaded addons might be fun for an hour or so, but eventually I wanted to try some of the missions, so I started the convoy ambush mission, which is similar to the co-op mission in the original flashpoint, desert ambush I think it was called. This is why I dont like armed assault. Even though the game world is huge, the limitations and bugs of the game limits the players action. There are tons of things possible, like blocking the road with the vehicle, ambushing from one of the houses and so on. So I started by going to the woods, and planted one mine and about 3 satchels. The convoy arrived, but the BMP was only immobilized by the mine, accompanied by a weird BIP BIP like a truck going reverse. It didnt even explode, not even after some time. Ofcourse it kills me. So I try again, go to the houses with the car and plant two mines this time. Sure, the BMP is immobilized again, but after like 5 seconds it blows up, killing me with it, even though Im safe in the house, and not standing by a window or anything. So I hide in the grass, and yet the soldiers see me when they disembark, and kill me instantly. And I hide behind a big pinetree, yet they still see me and kill me. By then I'm so mad and frustrated that I actually shut the game down and play some BF2. Yes, BF2. And I do love realistic games, and OFP is still my favorite, but BF2, unlike ARMA, actually works, and it's a forgiving game and I can do whatever I want in that game, without getting stuck, shot when I shouldnt be able to and so on. And gosh, the main campaign is so bad! What were they thinking of? rant rant rant

Hi! I have this problem with OFP, and I've had it for quite some time now. Sometimes when using OFP the sound "slows down", making it impossible to hear. It's like you have a normal voice and then it slows down to this evil-devil-speaking thing voice. It always happends when multiple explosions occur, like firing 10 rockets from a helicopter. It influenses the whole computer, i.e. if i play CTI with a friend using Ventrilo, his voice slows down aswell. Now the wierd thing is, if I continue to play and fire rockets and hear explosions the sound goes back to normal again.. Why is this? The first time it happended I searched for some drivers, installed them and the issue was solved, however when I rebooted again, I was back to square one. I have windows XP Sp2 and SoundMax drivers for my motherboard. I think the drivers are old, but I've been searching frantically and I cant find any new ones.. Thanks Sh1fty

Fraps sucks, real games include FPS counters, just another reason not to buy/play ARMA

Why should PC gamer magazines patch the game before the review? It is the responsibility of the developers to release a playable version of their game. If they cant do this, then the game shouldn't get any high ratings

Check this one out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wanv4uPr40Y

Everything is cheaper in the US..

Whatever

haha, good old french army

Looks like I am not the only one with this problem. Thank you placebo, I will try to contact Morphicon

I would just like to point out that the files turns out corrupts when pressing the .exe file, ie before the patch has been installed. And since it's never working it has to be my computer, I just cant figure out what. And it's only this patch, not any other .rar files. Would someone like to host a version they know work correctly and then maybe give it to me? Or via MSN?

It's a bought german version, ie before the patch was released Thanks for all the quick answers