Tracer

No, you had to die. Very true, you couldn't swim in OFP

...maybe because you didn't reported this "bug" ? it's been known/reported since OFP! It was well documented back then but it's shocking to find it still exists in ArmA -yes i know ArmA is OFP with an HDR 'coat'.

Amazing how no one mentions that fact that you can't use binoculars in armoured vehicles (Commander) when unbuttoned either? -you could in say, M1TP2. Anyway, There is an age-old 'bug' still present in ArmA that was present in OFP You have your weapon on 'burst' or 'full' prior to using bins ok. then select bins have a lookie around, see enemy and need to drop him pronto. Switch back to main weapon and it's......yep back to 'semi' mode. Only single round fire... (guns must ALL have worn fire mode switches) How many times i've been killed because of that annoying 'bug'!!! Why hasn't this been addressed?

What's forgotten is that OFP broke the mould regards AI. There's no other title that has dared attempt to emulate an AI battlefield -BF et al is a bloody disaster regarding SP AI! It's easier to chuck out titles like, Americas Army and WWIIO and let the humans do all the hard work and not give a damn about any form of SP AI. There isn't a game out there that has given us miles of open terrain and decent AI that can flank you or hide from you -period! Even your own AI soldiers respond almost 'human like' to their own particular situation -grenades,203,RPG etc. Without you directing them. Now that's clever!! I think folks have become quite complacent to computer gaming of late =read: spoilt! I can count only several titles that made an impact like OFP. Far Cry SWAT3 Just jump out at me with incredible AI. FEAR was good, but again enclosed and heavily scripted. BIOSHOCK has, supposedly, got clever AI -well i've got it pre-ordered so we'll see. Point is, hardly any game out there, FPS, has any real quality open playing fields like ArmA or OFP. It's all enclosed Doomesque levels otherwise. BIS are hardly being challenged? Maybe they will develope a new 'brain' for their baby in the future? The foundation is already there.

Are you using a download accelarator? If you are not, then suggest you do. Any lost interrupted data will corrupt the final download. Also, don't install the game with a V scanner running. I downloaded the 1.05 European patch from http://www.armedassault.com/dwnl_update.html and it worked first time. So i can't see it being a corrupt installer etc.

What is the exact purpose of 'training' -apart from the obvious for a neewbie to ArmA/OFP? I actualy thought (at first before i played the campaign) it was carried into the missions? You know, you get more sniper missions because your an ace shot, or helo pilot sent in against HV targets etc. Would have been a good simple idea to have used the potential.

I wonder how we used to complain without the internet? Some of us used to just keep our wallets closed in future if a particular company didn't offer support by way of patches etc. Simple easy answer. Instead we have 55 (and growing) pages of 'housewives' bickering over who's grievance is bigger than the poster below them... Do you honestly think BIS is going to trawl through this to find genuine input?? No wonder BIS hardly post anymore -unlike the old forum.

So much so, that after over 2 years of not having OFP/RH/Resistance on my HDD. I'm now replaying the whole thing again from the start! Must be age, but it's good to not be able to remember every damn mission and outcome Compaired to ArmA (i've already commented on the empty campaign) the pure love that BIS poured into OFP et al is what made that baby turn out what it eventualy did. ArmA is premature, the engine is there, but the campaign makers weren't!

Nearly all flight sims of the early 90's had some sort of dynamicism to them, be it through clever scripting,ability to chose targets,limited resources or whatever, it still had replayability and immersion. EF2000 TAW EAW Falcon 4 F-15 Longbow 2 Wargasm -that was to have been DID's 'virtual battlefield' These are but an example. I thought that due to the huge success of OFP and it's addons, the natural path (for ArmA) was to make a dynamic campaign that had a front line, which raged across the entire theatre. The campaign -could in theory- last months! The natural knock-on effect of not taking out a target is what could easily drive it. nothing like present ArmA. In a sad way, i find the whole campaign in ArmA like HUGE demo! Just when you are getting warmed up, it's finished......... Compaired to OFP it's very poor and absolutely not even remotely like it. As an old vet of OFP etc. I can but wish i could ask the guys at BIS if this (ArmA) was what they realy wanted to release to their 1.5million+ fans that bought the original? There is no doubt the 'heart' is missing from ArmA...That passion that drove OFP to present a world that immersed you, has gone...it's either that or their goals/ideas were too huge! To make ArmA anything like OFP would need another complete longer campaign released. The 'auxiliary' and 'main' objective missions just don't seem to work in this type of game (for me), it's too 'clunky' and disjointed. It reminds me of the C&C3 demo; where you have great FMV that builds you up to the gameplay -but as the demo only has one mission, it leaves you gagging for the full 35mission game! In Arma, the full game is way,way to short... Anyway, thanks for reading! Hope BIS get the idea of what we fans crave for

It's not really good etique to post private PMs -regardless of the content.

take a look at the little demo...watch the editor and see how I added commands. Download Your 'demo' chopper hovers about 6ft off the ground, then when you go in the chopper it ejects you at the next waypoint (at about 30ft) killing you!

Just a thought, but copy and paste doesn't always work with some keys or passwords and isn't the same as typing You have to manualy type the key in, in some cases. Give it a go?

I seriously can't get to grips with the Cobra (it may be the same with other helos, haven't tried them?) Flying as pilot and telling your gunner to engage with hellfires (as well as you locking up the target) i just can't get to grips with it??? With the new patch i'm getting engaged by Shilkas nearly 1000metres away and i can't even get a lock on them as it's too far! Also i thought you could move the gimble to 'look down' and engage targets instead of having to point the nose at the target to be able to fire and lock them? This of course causes two big problems! 1) Pointing your nose to lock a target means your gaining forward motion and getting closer to the target! 2) You have to lower the helicopter to compensate for the above problem, this puts you close to ground objects; trees,buildings and ground fire! My question: Can BIS please look at allowing us to hold the alt key and slew (yes i know the Spacebar allows you to lock-up targets, but i can't see through my gunners head, since he's infront of me! ) the targeting system independant of pointing the helo or lowering it's altitude and with a clear view as from say, the chin of the helo or without your gunners head in view? Cheers

Nope i am using a joystick, but it's the gunners head that's really getting -literally- in the way! I keep losing my SA by having to look up at the radar (top screen) because of his head! (as in the target is in front of him and i can't see it! Wish/hope they give us an independant view like the Hokum but slewable. Cheers

I have the sound blaster audigy 2 ZS and i suffered from a period of sound loss, *but* i solved that by reducing some of the ingame settings. I have an AMD64 3500+ ASUS A8N-E nForce 4 motherboard 120gig and 200gig Western Digital Caviar SE 7,200rpm HDD 1 Gig Crucial Ballistix PC3200 (dual-channel) GeForce 7800GT PCI-E 256mb Audigy 2ZS I found that messing about with  the in game settings -majority on 'normal' except shadows (low) Ground (low) AA High, AF low i could play and not suffer sound loss. I also have turned off EAX. 1280x1024 I admit it's early doors, but it's progress compaired to the beginning when i just ramped up the detail and lost sound as soon as a big battle kicked off! I also suggest this http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310353 as it takes a shed load of rubbish off your CPU and RAM. Works real sweet

Haredogg you need to take chill-pill! I see folks here being civil and your still popping your top and got a mouth like a sewer! Keep your points contructive and folks will help you, but 'spit the dummy' and act like a 9year old and you've blown it.... Very clever indeed.........

I'm an old fashioned gamer -i like a physical copy of my games inc manual or limited edition extras. I will never advocate STEAM or any other download purchase. The license is exactly why it doesn't work. I build my machines -as do millions of other gamers, the trouble is MS (and other companies) think we don't and that we all own Dells Vista, originaly, had a limited 3 install license, then you had to buy a NEW copy!! We, the PC builders, quickly petitioned MS and got that changed! (if your motherboard failed etc that was a license used. -Yeah right! Now you can reinstall it as many times as you want, on your PC. If i have a physical original copy of my games (Over 400+ i have since 1994) then i have no worries of patches or reinstalls causing havok with the limited license. Of course i understand that BIS and other Devs try to cut out 'the middle man' and make more profit. But untill download licenses work like a 'hard copy' etc. Â No chance will i support it.

Unfortunately when a game crosses the boundaries of Quake; you don't hear bullets untill they have passed you in real life and you don't see them either -unlike the Quakes of the world which is cool if you want that type of gameplay (which i do when i'm not playing ArmA/OFP Couple that with a sound card that bottle-necks up (which is why your sound disappears; possibly?) and all frustration kicks up multiple times!! It's like the game is going to beat you by all tactics it can use -sabotage the PC LOL. Sometimes just leaving the game for a day or two then going back and trying different tactics can work wonders? Also lower or turn off HW sound acceleration and/or EAX? Just don't give up.

Hi quick reply; It uses 8bit to allow me (7800GT owner) to use HDR and AA Go into 'your docs/ArmA and open the ArmA.config file and you will see language="English"; adapter=-1; 3D_Performance=8721.000000; Resolution_W=1280; Resolution_H=1024; Resolution_Bpp=32; refresh=75; FSAA=3; HDRPrecision=8; Change the 8 to 16 switches off AA in the game options and you get a truer Oblivion HDR experience (if that's the word? lastDeviceId="4318,146,0"; localVRAM=258793216; nonlocalVRAM=394264575;

I know, but i thought i would satisfy your curiosity since you asked.

Yes i understand from OFP -a long time ago- but the issue appears worse because you, as a physical entity in the game, think that you are hiding behind the new feature called grass! also i and the poster, hadn't fired a shot and where completely hidden (you can see how well in 3rd person vew) The AI still looked straight at me and shot me dead. Try the convoy SP mission? Hell i beat OFP/Red Hammer and Resistance all those years ago! But when AI is picking you off with iron sights and your 200m away with a scope in ArmA, it's not about gloating but about you trying to beat an enemy with a 'sixth sense' hardly realistic... Sure we as human OFP 'old timers' can adapt, but it's not selling the game to the ordinary punter who's new. Anyway, the new patch is around the corner

Ah, so that's what BIS have implemented in the SP missions? Lot's of other posts regarding the 'all seeing AI'

I use CB with my 7800GT PCI-E, all you had to do was click the CB reg entry and then go to your graphic card settings and you would have this extra feature. It is good for reducing mouse lag -particularly in Oblivion. I've left it at '0' since that was what was recommended.

The AI is Borked! One of the dev's has already said it'd fixed in the 1.05 patch. Two examples posted and clarified; I hide in a forrest (note forrest not sky line) overlooking the road 80m away, set satchel charges for convoy and detonate. As usual some soldiers survive, but as soon as they exit vehicles i'm under direct fire and killed. Impossible since i've been in that position for approx 5mins without moving. The other person posted his scenario; Hiding in a church tower (or the like) and again satchel charges are used against a convoy. Survivors or tank kill him whilst he's hiding behind solid wall in tower. Again impossible for AI to know this. Which of course was correct, as the dev said it was a bug which is fixed in new patch. So yes AI can 'see' and find/shoot you through anything just now.

I haven't played OFP/Red Hammer/Resistance now for a good 2 years (since i played and finished them), so i installed for 'old times sake' and glad i did. Thing is, ArmA is like what Morrowind was to Oblivion -it takes a lot to accept changes in the community. I keep playing the SP missions in ArmA and have backed off the campaign until the 1.05 patch. But it's a weird beast, because it attracts you more and more you play it! The story and campaign are not in the same league as OFPs -yes it does feel disjointed and you have hit the nail on the head by 'sensing' a lack of enthuisiasim by BIS. I got the same feeling? I was pretty shocked (and let down) when the campaign turned out not be an epic. But i'm giving BIS the benefit of the doubt; they have been though a dirty separation from Codemasters and financialy they must have felt it. Anyway, i bought ArmA from Gameplay for a tad under £22. So it has 'sandbox' potential and if BIS hit this with a good patch (1.05 looking good) that and another good addon campaign (Resistance style) well......who knows eh