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Espectro, sometimes driving pissed is unavoidable, either due to stress on the job (I sometimes have to go on errands for my company, and sometimes those errands have to be done yesterday) or trouble in a relationship or whatever... but it's still possible to remain safe, as long as you remain focused on driving... As for the drinking punishment, I agree, people shouldn't be allowed to drive whilst drunk... They should get their licenses revoked immediately, no matter how little they consumed... But alas, I live in a wine-producing country, so I'll probably never see that happen where I live...

If you drink, don't drive... such a simple rule... Thankfully more and more people are adhering to that in our country, Heatseeker... I must say it's kinda tiring competing with Greece for the title of "euro country with most fatalities due to car accidents" every year...

They're only making it so gory is make life harder on the next Hotshots movie... because THAT's a series in dire need of another sequel!!!

The issue here though is actually not as much as about having children in ArmA or not, it is rather about who should make such an addon, as the initial request was made to BIS, which I think most of us agree is a bad idea - if any child addon is to be provided to ArmA, let it come from the community, not the game itself.

Actually there was this civilian kid from that south korean mod... but he admittedly looked like a scaled-down adult... and his walking animations are just... well... real funny!

Whilst I do wonder at the lack of female units in ArmA, since in OFP they were part of the civilian units, which makes BIS take the most politically correct stance (not even using them as soldiers), I'm also of the oppinion that BIS shouldn't make children units of their own. I mean, seriously, we've got a talented addonmaking community that's able to churn out more and, as the past has shown, better addons than BIS, so leave it up to them. I must say that I've got the south korean kid in my OFP addon folder and I've never shot at it - actually one of the funniest pics I took was me as the kid standing on top of a BTR-60 I turned over during driving And in spite of the existance of that addon for OFP I've never heard any grand "virtual child abuse" cases in OFP nor did I see pics of it... So this whole point of controversy is a bit rather moot, since anybody with skill could make one for ArmA, and being a third-party addon you can either like it or don't, download it or don't... But BIS really shouldn't go through the effort of making such an addon, especially for those who are completely against it, they shouldn't be forced to have such an addon mandatorily present in their addon folder...

I bet in any case that if the pilots of those helos saw those vids they'd be at least awed and a bit spooked...

Well, you'll definitely won't find anyone here that WON'T recommend you to buy OFP. It's great and it's a good thing to make you think of what will be possible for ArmA. OFP is definitely a king of a game itself, whilst ArmA is still a prince... so get to know the father of ArmA... It's really worth it!

Thanks for the info, da12thMonkey! I must say the result of it is really amazing... what luck that cameraman had that the rotors of that chopper were exactly in sync with his camera's shutters...

Better close it, W0lle... These threads always go the same way... (My only curiosity would be why one would consider buying VBS1 when VBS2 is out or soon going to be out...) And those are my last words on this thread, you can quote me on that...

Means it's a fake. Or the illusion if you want. The point is that the blades ARE TURNING, there's no other way that the chopper get airborn yes? How it's done that it's appearing that the blades don't turning is just a question of technicality. There's a big difference between a fake and an illusion. A fake means something was artificially made up for you to believe something that isn't real. An illusion is just a coincidental thing that makes you think something is happening in a way that it is wrong, while in reality it is happening in a "right" way. And, for the record, said technicalities is what I'd be very interested to know, WHAT is happening and HOW this video got to be the way we see it.

Atm there are some aspects that are better than OFP and others that are worse, whilst some, lol, are just the same. Like you I've been holding out but I don't think I'll hold out much longer the acquisition of ArmA. I tried the ArmA US Demo and I must say as being accustomed to OFP I felt right at home, learning the new tweaks of course but I was able to survive a bit due to my OFP experience. So, be sure to pick up a hardcopy, and enjoy the multiplayer! For it seems to be the best improvement one can see right now...

Ahem... I shudder to think of how that would actually play, taking into consideration OFP's hardware hunger...

If this is real then the engines must have taken heavy abuse... But my money is it's a fake somehow... an excellently made fake... Wonder how it was done...

The original ET was nothing like BF2... this will probably be a blast to play (like Wolfestein ET was), but I doubt it will be realistic at all. Thankfully, I'm able to enjoy both styles of games. I agree, it seems more inclined to steal away people from BF rather than ArmA... and since I just can't be made to like BF2 because of its ranking system, I think I'll enjoy this one... @AWDrift: Bots?!? This game is gonna rock online! Just as Enemy Territory rocked online... Any SP experience is going to be saltwater compared to online gameplay! And not even coop, this will be a team deathmatch slugfest supreme! Take my word for it!

Well, that should explain something - I'm too young to have witnessed the 70's but my parents were always interested in the Eurovision Music Contest, now I know why... So, GranQ, for your next ArmAvision, do us portugueses the favour to please feature a few seconds of portuguese music... if you have trouble choosing which music, I'd suggest you look up music from "Zé Cabra"...

Sorry Farles, didn't know you were the author of that Cessna, looks darn good! I dare say RKSL Studios are going to be the BAS and DKMM of ArmA! I do hope that you've already experienced OFP though, it's very well worth the time spent, even now... And I'll be looking forward to your work!

Seriously now, I admit you're right, we've had some nice moments over the years in the Eurovision Music Contest... But every once in a while there's a music representing our country where I just can't help but ask myself: "WHAT WERE THEY THINKING WHEN THEY PICKED THAT SONG TO REPRESENT US?!?"... Oh well...

I protest against the lack of representation of Portugal in any homage to the Eurovision Music Contest!! j/k (For better or worse we always take part in that... ) .

Sad to see it end like this... Remember the times as mod on the i44 forums... Hope to see more work in the future from the talented team! Thanks for everything!

Hey RockofSL, nice Cessna you got in the works there! Although, for the nostalgia to reach 100%, it wouldn't be the same if it didn't have OFP's Cessna's white-and-orange-stripes paintjob... But I guess that could come later... Nice work!

Great interior, Delta Hawk!

Very lame comment. I did not buy that card to win a counter strike leet speak pissing contest against you, I wanted ArmA to run smooth. It's a shame to read crap like this here in the BIS forums. MfG Lee ... I run ArmA smooth, even without 8800... CPU: Intel C2D E6600 RAM: 2 x 1gb Kingston PC 5300 @ 667mhz HDD: 2 x Raptor 35GB @ RAID-0 MoBo: Asus P5N32-E Graphics: Asus EN7950GT w/ 512mb... No problem! Â

Dont laugh just yet, just because we experience some problems with the latest Arma beta patch... maybe we are not seeing all that our cards could pull out of Arma but i've been playing Evolution with an average of 50 FPS in mostly high settings. I dont think there is much proven technology that can handle high shadows, textures, AA, AF, etc... with a reasonable frame rate. 20'ish is just not smooth for me.. and future proof beats proven any day, i'm very happy with my G80 . The thing is, you paid a buckload of money for your advanced graphics chip, and weren't able to advantage of it right away... If you only had bought the card by the time the bugs are ironed out and the drivers are all ok, I bet it would already have been cheaper, and then of course I wouldn't have that much reason to laugh, of course...

You know, when I upgraded my PC to one day play ArmA, I chose a Geforce 7950 GT over any new-gen card... I think I could still today be laughing my ass off at all those who bought these 8800's and whatnot, paying the heavy price, but moaning just about everywhere about how they're not "pwning" everything although that's what they should be doing... Serves the lesson to better invest in proven technology than rather jumping the gun and buying the latest and newest...