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

Hi everybody Today I wanted to download the new 1.01 patch for the german version. So I surf to www.armaholic.com and downloads it. When I try to start it tho, a window pops up and says that it's corrupted. So I download it again and the same window pops up. So I download the 1.01 patch from www.armedassaults.de instead. Same window pops up. The same happends when I try to download the file from www.arme.eu, www.armed-assault-zone.com, www.armedassault.info. Same problem.. What is going on?

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

Its the Marine Cap, but no biggie. Although just as an FYI BIS for next time, the Army uses patrol caps, not the USMC utility caps... although now looking at it in real life, it could be just a modeling error... (a cross between the two) Doesn't matter to me aslong as it looks good.. Which it does! I LOVE ARMA!

I second that. I don't give a damn about little videos showing reloading animations or if a blackhawk gunner holds the gun correctly when it turns . Hear, hear! I can't belive this are the requests people are comming with. Personally I would take a 50 vs 50 battle, sit my ass in a chopper and watch the battle unfold. Here people are checking if the zipper-animations are in sync and if the velcro sound are realistic. What a bummer this thread must be for the devs. It's like "Hey guys, I bought a new car!" "Cool! Can you take picture of the tire patterns!" "NO! Take a video from the glove compartment!" "Record you honking the horn!" "THE FLOORMATS SUCKS ASS! I HATE YOUR CAR!" Edit: Kudos to Shadak anyways! You must be a very patient man, Shadak. C'mon we already know what the big battles look like, there are countless videos showing it. What really matters are the details. It's very hard to get the "real life feeling" if the details arent correct. When I saw the M203 reloading animation, I felt like, "Whatever, I should've expected this". Now i'm kinda pissed off

Hi Shadak! I really love your videos! I would like to post a simple request. It shouldn't be too hard to do I wonder if you could give us a short video showing the M203 (Or grenadelauncher for you guys who dont know weapons ) being reloaded..

I guess Armed Assault is just OFP with better graphics. I just cant accept that they'll use the same engine for Game 2.

Thank you so much!