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  5. Posted · Edited by St!gar

    The title really does say it all. I've just bought the whole shebang from Steam - ArmA 2, OA, BAF and PMC - and now that they're all finally done downloading and installing, I download- and run the latest beta patch.

    Problem is; when I run the beta patch exe-file, it is only Operation Arrowhead that loads. Not Combined Operations, which can only be started "normally" from the Steam menu- i.e, without the beta patch.

    So... help?

  6. Posted · Edited by St!gar

    So I've just reformatted my computer, and would like to re-download all the ArmA 2-stuff. The vanilla game, (Steam), Arrowhead, British Forces and PMC, (Sprocket) - with all the latest full- and beta patches installed, obviously. The question is only exactly how I am supposed to go about that.

    With all these versions and patches around, it's getting a little hard to guess which ones I should install in which order, if at all. I'm thinking that first of all, I'll install vanilla ArmA 2 of Steam. Presumably, Steam automatically downloads the latest version, so at least that would be covered, I suppose.

    This is where it gets tough. Because now I'm presumably supposed to re-download Operation Arrowhead from Sprocket, but does Operation Arrowhead simply use the latest patch for vanilla ArmA 2, or does it need its own exclusive set of patches? And if so, how does the British and PMC mini-expansions add up to that? Do they both need individual patches? Do they need to be installed in a certain order? :confused:

    And after all that, I'll obviously want to download the latest beta-patch. Is it enough to simply download the latest one, or do I have to download every single one that has been released since I last played the game?

    Thanks in advance. Please enlighten me.

  7. Posted · Edited by St!gar

    I've served in the norwegian army, and yes, a few of them was like that, but most guys was good guys. One of my room mates is now working in silicon valley, another one is about to finish his med studies.

    If you were conscripted, that doesn't really count. It's a special kind of person that gets attracted to a military career, and semi-unwilling conscripts does not count towards that category.

    I don't buy it. Most people are not assholes. US Army might recruit more amongst poor people than amongst rich, but that doesn't necessary mean that they are stupid and vulgar.

    Oh, really? You know this for a fact? Have you ever served in the US Army? Or are you just guessing, based on your own life-experience? Because if so, you're not that much better than the person you were arguing with.

    Was it really necessary to have the characters start accusing another of being 'racist' and saying 'that's just not on' during a firefight. I have toa admit that had me rolling my eyes and thinking 'Erm guys...we're being shot at here...'

    1. I think they would have more important things on their mind, like shooting the guys trying to kill them.

    2. I think your average PMC/Soldier has more on his mind than whether his fellow soldier's are loving every race on the planet.

    3. If calling your adversary a 'Dirty Taki *astard' warrents a grilling from your squad, then I feel sorry for the guys who have their multicultural commissars watching over them during battle..

    Absolutely not. It's because you are expected to behave professionally that there's no fucking excuse to yell racist slurs at the enemy.

  12. Posted · Edited by St!gar

    How do you know that it's different when they flee from smoke grenades, than when they flee from gunshots? Whenever I throw a smoke grenade, Crazy Australian Guy will commend me for it, and wander about the compound shooting up in the air, which is exactly what he'll do if you fire your rifle instead. I think the civilians just notice you using violence against them in both cases, and so will flee, and you will have ended up using the "violent" option, which will probably come back and bite you in the ass later in the campaign. I'm sure there's another option. I've ran all the way around the compound seeing if there's an alarm I can set off to scare them, or something, but apparently not...

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    Hey. As we all know, PMC was released yesterday, along with a patch for OA. (Or CO, if you have both.) It was stated that there were two separate versions of the patch. One for the Steam-version of OA, and one for the Sprocket-version.

    My original ArmA 2 was downloaded from Steam, but the expansion and both DLCs were downloaded from Sprocket, so I downloaded and installed the Sprocket-patch. After that was done, and the actual PMC DLC was finally downloaded ages later, I noticed that my Steam-version of ArmA 2 had automatically started self-updating. But... what, exactly? Unless I've misunderstood something, the patch was only for OA, right? So what exactly are we downloading, here? The Steam "news"-page does, of course, say absolutely nothing, whatsoever. Not exactly helping, is the fact the download takes freaking ages, and seems to be huge. Is Steam downloading the whole fucking game, again?

  19. Posted

    Check forums, you might find something useful here.

    I am checking the forum, and that's exactly what confuses me so. There is either so much scattered information in the different pages of the different threads that my eyes cross, or there is so much condensed information in one place (that sometimes contradicts the aforementioned scattered stuff), I get somewhat overwhelmed and only more confused. (i.e. the Wiki.)

    So I assume the gist of what you're trying to tell me is that since STEAM autopatched vanilla ArmA 2, I only need the OA update, because the BAF-patch is included in that one? But in one of the other threads here on the front page, it is claimed that I still need to apply the BAF-update manually.

    Ugh. My head hurts.

  20. Posted

    Okay, this is just confusing. I'm checking the official patch -threads, checked the Wiki, and there is just too much information, all over the place. Please clarify this before I go do something stupid and end up breaking the game beyond repair.

    I have the STEAM version of vanilla ArmA 2. I have the Sprocket versions of OA and BAF. In the main menu, the game is recognized as "Combined Operations". I'm currently using the latest beta patch, "1.55.75445".

    Earlier today, STEAM auto-updated vanilla ArmA 2.

    So... what do I do, at this point? On this very forum, there are threads for an ArmA 2 patch, an Operation Arrowhead patch and a British Armed Forces patch. Which one(s) do I download, if any? All of them? None? Does anyone know?

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