TheReddog

T72: Balkans on Fire is ok, it has decent graphics and controls but is severely let down by the campaign side of things. It feels more like a tech demo with a few missions than a complete game. I've heard that Kharkov 1942 game is much better but haven't tried it myself. As far as tanks go I was always pretty content with RO's tank battles, they weren't the height of realism but were realistic enough to have skill and understanding of the concepts play a big part. The Combat Mission series, while not dedicated tank sims, are always good for some excellent tank action. I sometimes just play random generated maps with light wooding and medium hilliness tank only against friends. The contrast in style you have to use when playing CMBB in say late 43 with Russian against German is always interesting.

I've played GTA IV with people around the world as well, in fact here in Australia it almost never match makes me with someone in the same country. In this time I experienced everything from horrendous warping to people dying 10+ seconds after you had shot them in the face. It was utterly horrid and only reaffirmed my choice never to pay for XBL. Oh and before you say it I was using 30MB Cable at the time. P2P was abandoned for PC Games years ago for very good reasons. The only reason it is returning to PC is because developers want to spend as little time as possible making cross platform games. I also get the feeling these days developers want to kill off the modding scene, no dedicated servers makes it very hard to grow a community and mod for a game, these days rather than giving a game longevity they want to take your money and then have you purchased next years model again and again. P2P is inferior to Dedicated Servers in every aspect.

Goddamn the install process could certainly be a little less convoluted, I had no problems following the guide below and kudos to the guy who wrote it. But still, there is no reason that this process should have been contrived as such in the first place, it is only going to drive anyone with only basic computer skills around the bend.

I blame the family first party.

Prices for games down here in Australia are outrageous, as are the prices for anything electrical.

I would never ever buy from those guys, not after the nightmare time they game people with Arma 1.

Cause the developers aren't releasing shit.

Why that sheen just means they're done... good eatin' :D

The Arma1 demo didn't come until sometime after release, in fact it was even after 1.08 if I remember correctly. There really should be a demo out near initial release in my opinion so that people can get a feel of the game.

I just want it to bloody work. I have forever had this bug with ArmA where while using night vision it will randomly not draw the green circle field of view on my screen. I can still see my hud and everything but nothing else (so my screen will flicker black for 5-10 seconds at a time then back). It only happens when using NVG's and is pretty damn game breaking.

That's the problem, inconsistency, and treating games as if they're something only children play. Fear 2 is banned here due to excessive violence, which is rubbish, there are much more violent games that are completely legal to play. Whether a game is refused classification or not seems completely arbitrary and up to whoever at the ACB reviews it. These same people are apparently going to be the ones charged with controlling the internet blacklist if the Governments new net censorship plan gets through. If that happens I am moving abroad! :mad:

This worries me, as currently (due to some nut job Governor General in South Australia) we have no R18+ classification for games here. Anything deemed R18+ is automatically refused classification. I guess I'll have to purchase this from overseas :(

I was just wondering how you guys reckon Arma2 will go for me, I've got; C2D E6600 (definitely the weakest link) 2GB DDR2 ASUS GTX260 (the 216 stream processor version). I'm guessing I'll probably want a quad core cpu.

It's obvious what's happening here, they're planning to release 'Mission packs' as DLC for console versions of the game which you will of course have to pay for. Call me a cynical bastard but that's how it appears to me.

My clan and I were playing in a tournament with missions made by the admins for each match, that is until the other teams all dropped off and it imploded. I can't see the harm of Arma2 having some dedicated PVP modes, in the end it is only going to increase the scope of people this game will attract. Some of you guys saying that PVP game modes are automatically unrealistic need to takes your heads out of your gaping pie holes.

XBL multiplayer is shithouse; - It' solely P2P, there's no such thing as dedicated servers and hence everything is laggy as hell and player counts are forced to be low (as in 4-8 people). - There's no such thing as a server browser, all you get is a join button which you hit and blindly hope that you don't get shunted into a laggy game hosted by some dude with dial up in Bolivia. There's no real control over where you're going. - It is expensive, here in Australia it works out to like $80 a year which is outrageous. On the other hand PC multiplayer rocks because; - Dedicated servers exist allowing games to have high player limits like 32, 64, 128. They also provide lag free gaming and pings like 20ms. - You actually have a proper server browser or can use a 3rd party server browser which allows you to pick and choose which game you join. You have ultimate control. - It's free!!!!!

I'm going to burn tyres in my back yard, change the oil in my car flushing it down the sink mind you and shoot at as many endagered species as I can see... which I will then cook over said tyre fire.

I don't care about good graphics, I just want the game to be well optimized and run with a decent and consistent level of performance. I also want to be able to look at a single bush in the middle of a desert without it plummeting my frame rate. Two things which Arma failed to achieve. BIS can concentrate on making the game as pretty as they like but unless they address the critically bad performance issues the Arma engine has then it will be all to no avail.

No. Last time i heard BIS had about 50 people working on Arma 2, and they are using Arma as a foundation while CM is starting a multiplatform game from basically.. scratch. Theres a huge diference, the engine that powers Arma 2 is the result of over 10 years in development. And still performs incredibly badly while not looking that good either. RE: No jets in OFP2. I'd rather have no jets at all than unrealistically implemented ones like OFP/Arma. That's my personal opinion though, I never really enjoyed flying at all in these games. I think they could be done well as non-playable craft, like having air assets available for CAS when properly called in.

Guys lets be honest here, Arma looked awesome in the screen shots, yet once you actually installed the game you quickly discovered that it was buggy and ran horribly even on a high end computer. I have a PC double the games recommended specs yet I can barely run it with medium settings and even then looking at dense foliage causes my mouse to feel as if it's mired in molasses. What evidence is there to indicate that Arma2 will be any different? NONE. Which is why I take all these awesome looking Arma2 screens with a lot of skepticism. Looking at these OFP2 screens I am quite happy because I would much rather sacrifice a bit of visual quality and have the game run well than have a pretty looking but unplayable mess. The grass is good, so what if it's billboard style, at least you can see it is rendered into the distance a fair degree rather than just stopping 5 metres from your character like in Arma 1/2 which to be frank looks shithouse.

I'm not an American and therefore I don't really support either side. That said I think McCain can only hurt his campaign with someone like Palin on board.

Palin has no place in the presidential campaign at all, she is unqualified, inexperienced and not cut of the right cloth. The fact that McCain chose her as his running partner baffles me to no end. It's almost as if he thought, "Well they have a black man I'll get myself a woman!!!". The fact that someone like her is even involved at such a high level coupled with the latent mud slinging and bullshit going on, once and for all time confirms that American politics is a freaking circus. Did you hear her answers to the press when they questioned her experience with foreign policy, "I governed a state which borders Canada and is really close to Russia so I have foreign policy experience!". What a steaming load of shit! The really sad thing here is that half the country will swallow it anyway.

They still have the same issue as the old NEM zombies in that more than a few of them crushes your performance horribly.

Ok this is crap, my performance going from 1.12 to 1.14 has dropped by about 20%. Nice patch.

Just a few q's; - What sort of tri count should I aim at, I know it's subjective but give me a ballpark figure. - How many lod's would be best for a weapon? - What sort of format/exporters will I need (I model in maya 2008) - Anyone got some good tutes for normal mapping etc? Thanks in advance.