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I always find it amazing that arma players come out and actually argue AGAINST this sort of stuff, as if BI awards loyalty points based on not criticising the current game structure. The fewer barriers to players being able to perform any reasonable action inside a game, the fewer moments of gamebreaking immersion there are and the more realistic the game is as a result. In a combat situation, there are situations where it is prudent for those inside a transport helicopter to provide covering fire without being able to dismount. Therefore ingame in those circumstances sitting rigidly like some kind of embalmed mummy stuck in your seat while someone is 50 metres away trying to light you up with AK fire comes across as being somewhat retarded and breaks the immersion. Therefore, YES omg YES please at last give us the ability to provide fire from vehicles without having to force modders to go to unreasonable lengths to simulate the experience. The modders have better things to work on and as a military simulator the last thing Arma3 should do is lag behind ANY other military game in terms of what you can do. Whats the point of a sandbox Milsim if you can't get realistic military action under fire?

Can I just quietly squeeze in a quick LOL at the overwhelmingly positive response to the negatively skewed poll! ;) I honestly welcome physics, i mean its not like it could make the performance worse...

Ok regardless of what was I presume after reading the first few pages, a fairly lengthy slagging session between embittered ATI users who don't like/understand the idea of Physx running on a CPU rather than GPU and those who think people should just upgrade to an nvidia card. I feel that it has come time to say this. BOLLOCKS to any of this crap arguing! THIS IS GOING TO BE THE BEST FEATURE TO EVER BE IMPLEMENTED IN THE OFP/ARMA SERIES! The idea of the game now having a decent third party animation and physics system is incredibly exciting. I'm an ATI user myself and have no plans whatsoever on going back to Nvidia for this. IF there is a significant advantage in having GPU based Physx it is possible with newer motherboards to run an ATI card as your primary and an nvidia card as secondary and to do Physx, honestly I don't think this will make squat all difference if you have a decent PC anyway. Unless there's significant optimisations the performance will kill your pc from textures alone so the Physx stuff wouldn't make much difference. Regardles of any downsides. Having a good physics engine at last is something to be wildly celebrated!

AWESOOOOOME! :D Finally some ANA units! This may be exactly what I need to get me back into playing OA...

Despite the cheese this trailer has to rate as one of the best I've seen produced by this community!!! Nothing like a bit of faux news, hell, it was disturbingly believeable... :rolleyes: Also the map looks awesome! ;)

ZOMG! Those screens are waaaaay too farken nice! And those green zones are massive! :D

I'm with Stagler on this one. I'd be well happy with a 10x10 green zone/villages map, 20x20 is huge!

That MOP suit is looking damn fine. Always good to see good new units with new models out there! Also that M12SPRSD looks pretty elite. :) Any word on the Afghan Army/Commando units there were pics of some few pages back? :)

Firstly, awesome units! Cheers for putting them out to the community, it always provides a good boost to everyone's enthusiasm to keep playing Arma2/CO. :D Secondly, having had a gander at the Lingor Army units, they VERY closely resemble Afghan National Army commando units... all that would need to be switched is the faces to the Takistani ones, and the voices also... and perhaps the flag on the sleeve of the soldier model changed and the illusion would be complete. I tried having a crack at getting the units to use the beardy takistani faces and takistani voices, but my configging skills are... well I don't really have any, so i couldn't get it to work and just gave up. Anyway, obviously this is just a take it or leave it suggestion, but they could make some good ANA units. :)

Wanted to also second those recommending wheat fields... having some agriculture built up around settlements really does add that believable edge to the maps... :)

If you're willing to do this, it would be freakin awesome. As one of the few nations which might actually end up a war zone over the next 10 years, it'd be nice to have the DPRK Army represented in Arma2/CO. Plus having seen the awesomeness of the Iran mod, I'd selfishly love to see the DPRK getting the same treatment... :D Not only that, but you could release both together in one pack and call it the 'George W Bush Edition'... ;)

Super-fuckin-awesome! :D Downloading now, the latest update looks amazing! Can't wait to get some editor fun set up with the chechen rebels...

That looks farken sweet!!!! Very nice looking map, always wanted some larger green zones to make missions in, the ones in the Takistan map always felt a bit too constrained and corridor like... basically the opposite of the ones in this map!!! :D

It might be possible to run if you're running the CAA1 project files which basically allow the use of a lot of Arma1 content. There could be bugs however as in my experience its not 100% perfect, but it might be possible.

Absolutely amazing work on the textures for this mod, Lennard! Already using a personally re-equipped version (using g3a3's and ak47s from the ACE mod) to stand in for the Pakistani army in some missions i'm playing in the editor! Very nice! :D

Welcome to the party, there are other established threads going over this issue though.

Well even after running the latest beta patch I'm still getting the memory leak. Damn I haven't been able to play for more than about 2 minutes without getting a memory leak, freeze and then CTD. Woo.

^^^ Wish I knew how to help, that's exactly the same error I keep getting... Goddamnit, its been unplayable since the update! :(

I seem to be getting something similar to this, and it certainly wasn't happening until after the latest round of updates for Arma2/OA. Wasn't sure if it was patch or mod related (running ACE and a bunch of other mods), but its basically broken the game for me...

Well since updating Arma2 + OA I'm now getting a freeze/memory leak thing which primarily seems to occur when a big explosion or something takes place, but I can't pinpoint an exact cause. Admittedly I'm using ACE and a variety of other mods, but everything was playing nice till the update. Anyone else seeing anything similar? :confused:

If it was possible to reskin some of the Arma2 civilian models they could do a fair impersonation of the Chechens in the photograph...

Good answer! ;)

The conscripts look awesome! Very nice to have some new CDF talent to rock out on the battlefield. The only query I have is whether the Marine helmet should be painted green? It seems like if you're going to the effort of wearing woodland camo, you'd at least slap a bit of Khaki and or brown paint on the helmet. That said, this is nitpicking an awesome mod... The thing is, now I just wonder where the regular marines have got to? ;)

^^^^^^ SECOND! They're just about perfect now, ok, off to restage some epic Chechen vs Russia battles with new ACE AND new Chechens!

Fantastic addon! Nice to see some serious insurgents to pit the Russian forces against! I would second others in saying that maybe the woodland camo on the uniforms uniforms could be a tad lighter (more faded) cause they seem very dark... and perhaps a little dirtier. But this is merely nit-picking, as its just great to get some chechen style insurgents to play with in arma2. :D