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Just recieved my copy from Game @ 13.05 hrs. Huzzah! Time to crack open a cold beer and instal. I am quite impressed with the DVD rom case artwork by the way, I quite like it. Hope to see you all online soon!

Same here!

Hi, im wondering if anyone has a similar rig as mine, and what kinda results they have with Arma 2. And is it even playable with this spec ??? I havent upgraded my system for about a year as i have mostly been playing on my xbox 360 and ps3. so.... AMD Athlon 64 x2 4200+ 2gb DDR2 RAM (soon to be 3gb) Nvidia Geforce 7900 GS 256mb Windows XP Home SP3 I can play Arma 1 mostly on medium settings currently. I kinda know already i will have to upgrade somewhere/ some time... Cheers.

Yes nice one mate. GAME are pretty good with pre orders too. Most of the time, the games I have pre ordered from them have arrived on the release date or a day before.

Yes they have. I have now recieved an email comfirming my pre order will be available from GAME , on the 19th June.

Ok thanks for your help Cheeseman! I guess i will just buy a 1GB stick of Ram and upgrade to 3GB's total. Cheers.

I am using windows XP Home. I have 2gb of RAM installed, with 4 slots. I believe the motherboard can handle up to 8gb, according to the manual. So can anyone tell me how much Ram i can actually use with Windows XP Home? Because im not too sure about upgrading to more RAM yet. Thanks.

Basicly I am now confused about the release date for the Uk version of Arma 2. I was led to believe that the release date is the 19th June, after reading the forums. However after pre ordering online, at GAME uk, i recieved an email stating the game would now be available on the 26th June instead. I emailed them back to clarify this, and they have replied to me that it is correct. But places like Amazon uk and Play.com are still advertising the game for a release date on the 19th June. Im confused , can anyone explain to me when the uk version will be available for certain? do we have any official news on this? Thanks.

hmm I think i will open a cold can of beer, read the manual while the game instals......then figure out if i need to upgrade my pc after trying out the single player missions.

Thats really awesome, well done. Perhaps you could add a roll of 'razor' wire to the front or back, for effect too.

I have noticed that there is a problem for the Resistance AI squads when they are spawned near water. Quite a few times on various servers, I have entered a new town, to witness many squads without weapons. I assume they lost their way trying to cross bridges and lost their weapons in the water. This does not present any challenge at all to the East or West sides when trying to cap a town. They may aswell not be there. Wouldnt it be better in this case to prevent the loss of weapons in water, due to the poor AI path finding?

Im impressed, love the new units, the marines and static units. Performance so far seems very stable and improved

This looks like a really good idea for a mod. Some of the map landscapes kinda reminds me of the atmosphere in films such as '30 days of night' and 'The Thing'. Good luck with this, i hope it evolves further.

They have already had mass beta testing for OFP and Arma. Yet despite that, and the tons of feedback on these forums, they still have bugs to fix, and requested features missing from the game. I dont mind speaking out aloud and say i have little faith the new game will be that much better than the current Arma and bug free from the start. I hope im proven wrong. In my opinion they are better off employing more of the talented individuals from the community to design and build a game worthy of our expectations. The public addon makers and mission designers we have at large, are very talented. And at least they seem to have more 'passion' about the game and getting things 'right' from the start. But yeah bring on the mass beta testing....again

You can change the gunners weapons when in the command position, i think, by pressing the space bar, then pressing F. Im not sure how you change the ammo though.

Just watched the latest vids, and im not impressed much at all. I realise its WIP and dodgy camera footage,but there is nothing really to get excited about just yet, based on those vids. Looks rather bland as if they have added a generic 'Stalker' visual filter to the current Arma game. Just to try make the game more gritty. But im afraid it doesnt mask the flaws in the Arma engine. The animations appear to be the same, ie rubbish. Â On the positive side i saw an Osprey and Raptor i think. But i guess we will have those sooner or later in Arma anyway. I hope they improve Arma 2 vastly to what we have seen so far. Â Â

Thats looking really impressive. I cant wait for this to be released. By the way, what do you mean by 'summer camouflage' ? Is that some kind of woodland/green paint job version? Nice work guys.

Few Suggestions for modmakers with alot a free time A multitude of civillian boats. A mountain bike. Something like a Sports Stadium/arena would be pretty cool. As seen in the old DFBHD game. A Â castle/fort thats very usable and different from the ingame offering. Hot air balloon Pipelines. BM-21 "Grad" Â

My feedback on 1.12b Pretty cool so far. I hated the 1.11b, had many crashes. This is more stable for me than the previous 1.11 beta. Textures seem to run smooth, no slow loading like in 1.11b. I notice that an increase in slowdown on MP, which seems to happen on JIP, but not every server... Im not to sure about the new FOV yet, seems too different and 'arcadey' for me, maybe the FPS has improved though. My Specs, AMD AM2 4200 DualCore 2GB DDR2 Ram NVIDIA ASUS7900GS 256mb ASUS M2V Motherboard 160 HD Crappy creative sound card (no EAX) XP Home Most of my ingame setting are on normal and high. View distance is about half or under. But im going to continue to fiddle about with the settings, to get the best visual and performance i can.

Yeah it does seem kinda of untidy and slack if they dont plan to release them, to leave files/code behind. But i guess this happens in other games and applications too. However, I hope BI can actually deliver us this stuff. I have been wanting to use a shotgun in game.

Thanks Hoz Â

Hmm ok, sorry to hear others have the same problem. But its frustrating because i have carried out the installation as per instructions given in the read me files. Yet there are conflicting reports on how everyone has installed this patch to get it too work. Is there a quick fix for this? or does it means a complete reinstall from scratch? Cheers.

I followed instructions for the installation now i seem to have lost the A10....? Why? Do i need to re install everything again now?

@ Agamoth: Really creative and awesome work on this mod so far. Have you considered making some scientists/ doctor type units? Perhaps wearing their scrubs and lab coats? Like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrubs_(clothing) Give them the ability to heal like a normal medic unit perhaps. I think in a  post-apocalypse scenario theese people would be in great demand Â

Hi, thanks for the tutorial. But im struggling, and i wonder if anyone can help. (If i may, im refering to part 4 of the pdf tutorials, and using the provided downloaded files as an example, to work through). Im having trouble with buldozer it seems. I have followed the steps to the letter. I haved saved the pew file etc. However im not seeing anything , other than a small box, half submerged in water, when i open it up in buldozer. No land mass or spikes as shown in the tutorial  . Any help would be much appreciated Thanks. *Edit* Problem solved lol..... I just didnt move the cursor to the land mass