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@ jakerod nope, if you shoot him point blank the round will probably stick to him for a bit before falling to the ground. It's pretty funny. That SHOULD hurt like a bitch though :D

ACE2 Any mods that increase FPS.. stuff like the lowplants/etc. After this latest patch trees and smoke seem to be the real killer for me. Also maybe redo the tree LODs so that people playing on low don't have to look like they're fighting in a watercolor painting...

Wow BIS is starting to enter the mainstream. This type of stuff is all over EVERY big game out there, OFP and ARMA have just been too "fringe" Congrats BIS!!

don't need to be on a bike it can happen with the alt look. Scared the bloody balls off of me. I was in the middle of a firefight and just started screaming for mommy :(

Streaming more noticeable here. FPS is huuge improvement! I don't know how or why!!! HDR turns itself on even when it says "disabled" I have to put to high, then back to disabled everytime I start the game LODs are a bit messed up now. It is my low-settings but zooming in with a sniper rifle I only see the "far" LODs, like cheese-wheels and stick figure men.... Before it would stutter and load the close-up LODs, now it doesn't seem to take the zoom into account as much?...

I think this issue is why they love their HDR/bloom/etc crap. It definitely works to hide the engine/texture limitations. I play on a res higher than I should and lower my other settings to low, so I get this a LOT (but I can at least nail them crunchies hiding off in the bushes 600m away!) I think bis needs to look at the core engine and see what they can do to help this- it's a huge problem with modern weapons because of long ranges and high speeds. If this were "ARMA2: Teh Civil War", they'd have no problems at all!!!

Was gonna post this in techsupport but my HDR turns itself on whenever I put some FSAA via config. The graphics option in-game say HDR is off, but it definitely is on (as my bleeding eyes can attest to) I've tried different config settings.... maybe has something to do with the noblur mod?

WOah! turning on the AA (any setting) messed with my screen. Now there's some crazy filter over (or under) everything!! it looks like as if my screen had cracks in it?!?! Weird, will try to post a screen after trying a few things to fix it. Looks nice despite the weirdness... lol THANKS BIS EDIT: deleting the profile and making config non-read-only fixed it... weird

Recent deployment I got stuck at our HQ for a refit. One of my fellow team leaders was there too and we were always screwing with each other. I cut and pasted official email headers from our secure network and edited a little fake one for him: Dear SSG X, We regret to inform you that your order of "Butt-Dildo, pink, 25 count" has been delayed due to distribution errors. We will rush your order to you as soon as possible. In the meantime please print this voucher for a free set of anal beads. We appreciate your business! --BoyToys.com after typing this out with all the proper internet-junk at the header I "accidentally" printed it on our unit's primary shared printer, left it there, and headed to lunch... I wasn't expecting any backlash, being that our unit had its fair share of thiefs, slackers, scammers, and former devil gerbils (yeah I went there) but I did get an earful about it from the senior enlisted. Definitely was hilarious though...

Heh, you first

The truth is that chopper warfare is freaking brutal. You're talking about flying tanks with crazy anti-tank and anti-everything capabilities here. Why do people rush to these things? Simple, because a good pilot can spam their air-to-grounds off and wipe out a heavy tank platoon. An unprepared armored BATTALION can just disappear with proper attack chopper use. On the other hand, the simplest countermeasures- If deployed properly- are able to stop them. Everyone hears their rotors coming and your recons should be alerting you of their positions/vectors/etc from miles away. Basically it's an extremely high stakes game of "who sees who first" and "who spams the trigger first" which, though not sexy or hollywood-esque, is very accurate. I know plenty of people whine when they lose their chopper, but I also hear those same guys crowing on about the 25 AVs they just whacked (as if they have a lick of talent...) I'm not against CMs in any way, I just want people to realize that with great power comes great freaking risk. Choppa'z aren't just an IWIN button. We developed those strategies using the recon birds like Kiowas, and cooperation with ground units for a REASON. Too bad arma2 doesn't let you lase for a fellow pilot... If you're interested, I enjoyed reading Clancy's Red Storm Rising for its brutal accounts of how long a sexy attack chopper regiment really would last on the "front."

It's Armed Assault's demo not ARMA2- 875mb file size

Will this run on my curve 8900? I'd hate to get an Iphone just for Arma2...

So wait... Is there gonna be a demo for this?

lol @walker. Somkebody h8s l33t-b0bs even more than I do... Is this moddable though? Or hardcoded?

The fear of death (popularly and unfairly labeled as cowardice) is what kept me alive through real deployments and it's what keeps me alive in ARMA/OFP. For you to survive in these games it takes one of two things: "gaming" the AI (which is like winning the special olympics), or hiding like a leetle baby... It takes a while to go from the mindset of "zomg I r teh hero of the gam3, i must sh00t 300AIz! i r rambo!" to slinking through the levels, paranoid as a crackhead, checking corners, cooperating, and being lucky to take out even a few enemies. I would play games like evolution or other large-scale coops and stay bullet-hole-free for almost the entire match with "only" a dozen kills or so as opposed to the "l33tb0bs" who were running around with a 5/1 k/d ratio, dying every 30 seconds, sniping for 5 minutes straight from obvious spots and banzai charging all our hardware into the hotspots. I'd usually only respawn if my chopper support left me while I was unselfishly cleaning up some remote objective :p This game shines when you realize that you are but a cog in the "green machine" and not the action hero, so embrace the suck, keep your freakin nose in the dirt, and don't be scared to call for mommy-- we won't tell anyone! :p

QUIT TROLLING YOU! GO BACK TO BF2... wait, what's going on? What is this thread about?

As anyone who bought Empire Total War through Steam knows--a buggy game requiring many patches (E:TW, ARMA1, ARMA2, for example- nothing personal..) will cause many a nutroll on Steam. Steam doesn't let you choose your running version, or which patch you want- it simply updates to the most "up to date" patch. So if non-steam using mod makers release things that only work on specific patches, or if a patch "breaks" the game, then the steam-community will be screwed, until a hotfix comes in (days, weeks, months) or they reinstall (annoying). So if we have any similar issues as in ARMA1 with 8 different beta and non-beta patches running around the community will split up badly, and if you're a steam user you'll spend half of your life re-downloading the game and trying to prevent it from updating past where you want it to... BIS it would be nice to know that you're keenly aware of Steam's shortcomings, and what you're doing to make things go smoothly. Can Steams patching system be disabled and BIS only be allowed to patch the game through their own distribution? I think that would be the best choice... This may seem like it isn't a big deal, but with Empire: TW, each patch has made the game COMPLETELY unplayable for a whole new set of people while fixing it for others. Myself for example couldn't run the base game, could run patch 1, couldn't run 2, can run the most recent with annoying bugs, and these patches were all a month apart... If I could CHOOSE which patch I wanted it wouldn't be as much of an issue, but even if you turn off Steam's auto-download it will turn itself back on sometimes and update you completely without you knowing.

This post serves two purposes: 1.  To see if anyone here has tried the browser-based nation-simulator "eRepublik".  I have just started it as I am deployed overseas, sick of books, and in desperate need of an online time-sink. 2.  To shamelessly plug the fact that I have 5 invites to the eRepublic beta and will send them out if you PM me an email address-- the alternative being that you wait in a queue for the developers to let in more testers. (oh yes.. I get in-game money for anyone who signs up woohoo! I honestly don't know if this "game" will be any good or not, but I've definitely got the time to test it out  If anyone has had any experience with this game or any similar ones please post here.  My bandwidth can't handle anything but these dumb browser games so if you know any good ones please let me know! erepublik Main Page

I have a T7700 with an 8700m and I'd consider it the bare minimum for enjoyably playing on a laptop... take the advice and build a desktop smart!

My review of bugginess: Any Arma1 player will LOVE it. Nobody else's opinion really matters... :)

Mah laptop: t7700 @ 2.4 8700M GT 2gb ram All settings as requested ~1529 Lowering resolution to the 12x7 or 12x9 I get 2200ish Dunno what I could do to speed her up. HD is full working on slimming it, can't add more RAM... I don't like the low res, but textures and LODs freak out at 1600. I can have major urban carnage going on at the lower resolutions, normal settings, and filter up to 133%, still fun!

someone has GOT to mod a minigun onto the back of the dog. BEAST WARS!!!

Also, asked a civilian once about enemies nearby and he said "there have been a lot of CIVILIAN, MAN seen around X town lately!" wtf?

Surrender option needs a gamelogic and seems to work pretty well. Bodies flying everywhere in a 30marine vs 30 ebil terrorist fight and at least one of the baddies gave up. However, one the squadleaders called all clear a marine put a few rounds through him Falluja style...