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http://gamestar.de/news...._2.html I only found it on the german gamestar site, there's nothing I found in Codemasters' official press releases. Well, according to these news they plan for a release in 2008. It's designed to be a single- and multiplayer war simulation, the gameplay should feel as realistic as possible. There are different classes one can choose. edit: Well, the title should say "Operation Flashpoint 2", sorry. If a moderator could edit that, I'd be very glad. Thanks.

Man I enjoyed the CiA coop nights back in OFP. I'll write you a pm, don't know if I'll join tonight though... I should do quite a lot for university.

Codies were responsible for Red Hammer, the not-so-good expansion imho. Resistance is BIS' thingy.

Oupsie, I misread it and didn't read "Singleplayer". *editing*

If understand your feeling. My comp runs ArmA only on low settings, that's really disturbing. So... Life is Life http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvRhOpqZO7I

Everyone knows rock n' roll attained perfection in 1974. - Homer Simpson I'm following Homers attitude and I've been listening to Uriah Heep for the entire last week. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v....search= Gosh, that's music.

http://www.gamestar.de/community/gspinboard/showthread.php?t=255576 Someone claims that in the new edition of the german gaming magazine "PC Action" there's a SP Demo of Armed Assault. Armed Assault Single player In our exclusive singleplayer demo of the tactical shooter Armed Assault you do two missions. In the first mission you perform a cleansing operation, in the second you learn how to fly a chopper in ArmA.

Thanks a lot for promptly fixing the issue.

so do i... changes nothing. or maybe it has problems with both my drives... but i also wouldn't count on it being the securom protection. i don't see the drive being accessed while playing the game. if it is securom it's probably conflicting with the game engine somehow... btw... that statement is a little exaggerated... in one of the single missions where you have to clean a town of OPFOR soldiers i get VERY playable FPS with very high details. in another single mission however it's totally unplayable no matter what settings i choose. it always depends on where you are and in what direction you are looking. I removed the Disk while playing and it neither let the game crash nor did it improve the performance a bit. So it's probably not the protection checking the DVD all the time, but maybe something colliding game engine - protection, as you pointed out.

BMP highjump still works. http://img399.imageshack.us/img399/7269/arma2006112900563126zy1.jpg http://img366.imageshack.us/img366/9602/arma2006112900563660gx1.jpg http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/7978/arma2006112900563792cx6.jpg http://img366.imageshack.us/img366/7018/arma2006112900563939tx2.jpg http://img364.imageshack.us/img364/2544/arma2006112900571618nr4.jpg SATCHEL-ACTION!

Oh, I thought that the Mi17 was also referred to as "Hind", not only the Mi24. See, I still learn something in ArmA. Thanks for clearing that up.

That was no Hind? What did I blow up then?

Some new stuff. I played with the settings and now I'm running on these settings smoothly most of the time. I've got the german version, so Securom most likely kills my performance. http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/2646/arma2006112816215898uk7.jpg Niedrig = low specs: XP2000+, 9600XT, 768MB RAM http://img144.imageshack.us/img144/6864/arma2006112816244435ic2.jpg http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/2620/arma2006112816252432dg1.jpg Here I'm pursuing a little bird with a Sopwith Camel. http://img292.imageshack.us/img292/8323/arma2006112816322420rw3.jpg AI vs AI. USA: 4 squads of Infantry + 1 stryker. Guard waypoints SLA: 4 squads of infantry + 3 T72. Search & Destroy waypoints The amount of units had no noticable effect on the frame rate imho. Group 1 and 2 are staying in the wood, while 3 and 4 sprint to the little farm, attacking the SLA. The AI can perform something sometimes. http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/2039/arma2006112816375287xg5.jpg http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/921/arma2006112816380067pr0.jpg http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/9725/arma2006112816383618rh1.jpg http://img272.imageshack.us/img272/6153/arma2006112816384692so4.jpg http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/1944/arma2006112816385846ri7.jpg Those cutscenes are very well made in my opinion. http://img473.imageshack.us/img473/6545/arma2006112816414456pj5.jpg http://img234.imageshack.us/img234/8420/arma2006112816415342xr4.jpg These two show the effect when taking on/off the night vision. http://img67.imageshack.us/img67/4555/arma2006112816421450ba7.jpg An enemy ammo camp, 3 soldiers. http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/5040/arma2006112816431531ah9.jpg http://img57.imageshack.us/img57/2681/arma2006112816441257qh2.jpg Getting in stealthy http://img57.imageshack.us/img57/8538/arma2006112816450467fg2.jpg http://img53.imageshack.us/img53/4661/arma2006112816490493hd1.jpg Nading http://img57.imageshack.us/img57/4573/arma2006112816494745kc9.jpg http://img53.imageshack.us/img53/405/arma2006112816504012xy9.jpg Another SLA thingy to be taken care of http://img235.imageshack.us/img235/5302/arma2006112816540554bv6.jpg Niiice, a Hind. http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/2673/arma2006112816550746vm4.jpg http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/1451/arma2006112816553535ag6.jpg http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/3586/arma2006112816553710ps8.jpg You remember what we do with Hinds, when we cannot steal them, right? http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/595/arma2006112817083707mv6.jpg http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/8118/arma2006112817095943ww9.jpg Here's where I've finished.

I know someone who already bought the german version last week. I've got it since yesterday.

It runs so-so. 1280x1024 is unplayable for me, 1024x768 is ok. I also discovered that the parameters \ArmA\arma.exe -maxmem=700 -dxlevel 8 -nosplash hugely improved my performance. maxmem for using more RAM and dxlevel 8 for using DX8 instead of 9. Now I can run some things on normal with no lags. Screens willl follow. "-dxlevel 8" does not do anything. Test with and without it and I'm sure you will see no difference whatsoever. OK, I just read it in the performance thread, so I stand corrected. Then it's just the maxmem-parameter I guess. Works fine though.

It runs so-so. 1280x1024 is unplayable for me, 1024x768 is ok. I also discovered that the parameters \ArmA\arma.exe -maxmem=700 -dxlevel 8 -nosplash hugely improved my performance. maxmem for using more RAM and dxlevel 8 for using DX8 instead of 9. Now I can run some things on normal with no lags. Screens willl follow.

http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/6448/arma2006112722580206fj6.jpg http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/8345/arma2006112723034826tt9.jpg http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/2425/arma2006112723164059sl1.jpg http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/4528/arma2006112723314335jt4.jpg http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/6195/arma2006112723390275rj8.jpg http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/1011/arma2006112723404681xp6.jpg http://img359.imageshack.us/img359/9161/arma2006112723440593mo1.jpg http://img359.imageshack.us/img359/8501/arma2006112723561053tz3.jpg http://img359.imageshack.us/img359/6498/arma2006112723583568se9.jpg http://img359.imageshack.us/img359/4784/arma2006112723585509qz2.jpg http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/3564/arma2006112800081443np2.jpg http://img364.imageshack.us/img364/1817/arma2006112800085907gk0.jpg http://img92.imageshack.us/img92/6303/arma2006112800092621uj3.jpg http://img352.imageshack.us/img352/8039/arma2006112800114364mc6.jpg http://img352.imageshack.us/img352/4227/arma2006112800120490xp5.jpg All those screens were taken from the lowest to low settings, as my PC is a little outdated (2ghz, 9600XT, 768RAM)

Go play ! Enough of playing for today, I've got a test to write tomorrow. Damn that university.

I don´t go ok with that. While testing Arma I was talking to the reviewer of Arma for german Gamestar magazine, who´s an old OFP fan and certainly was delighted about the "new" OFP she had to test. She took her time doing so and we ended up in a darkened room with the test-computer running debating Arma in detail. She knew what she was talking about and certainly had a huge pile of knowledge about OFP, Arma, pro´s and con´s and wasn´t just talking about something she had no idea about. Infact I was very surprised how much she knew about OFP and Arma and how split she was on the product Armed Assault. I learned my lesson, I also had thought that reviewers are some guys and girls jumping from one game to another hastily. It was not the case. The opposite was the case. She took her time, plenty of it and after me testing Arma we both talked about the same bugs in Arma that really disappointed us. In her words: I love it, I hate it. Sums it up best. Don´t be so fast with prejudice gentlemen. You might be proven wrong, as I was. There are things in Arma that can be debated, but there are things that simply don´t work and things that have to be fixed. I´m tired of debating bugs over and over again. I will sit back and wait until the german guys will show up here after the release. It´s not about personal likes, it´s about solid bugs that have to be adressed and I´m sure they will be adressed. Still it´s a miracle to me who all that bugs didn´t surface during beta. I already have the german version, bought it today at a store in Vienna. And I agree with the german magazines.

My first impressions: The game has still its edges and BIS would've needed some more months to polish the game. The game is not optimised, there are a few bugs here and there, the flight model is utter crap imho and a few other things. But as an OFP fan I'm still in love with the game. I only need a better PC, my PC (XP2000+, Radeon 9600XT, 768RAM) has serious problems on the lowest settings. :/

What a video. Really astonishing.

Hmmm...Am I the only one who sees those as positives?? Not if they add to the depth, realism and functionality of the game, as they'll likely do. I'd like to add this also to the not necessarily negative things Maybe I misinterpreted: They say it's negative that you don't have individual characters no more like in OFP, but rather anonymous soldiers.

I've got info on the pro and contra of PCPP's test: + grandiose Schlachfeld-Atmosphäre + Vielzahl an Waffen und Fahrzeugen + riesige, detaillierte Spielwelt + viele Möglichkeiten zur Squad-Kontrolle + mächtiger Missionseditor + von Grund auf mod-freundlich + abwechslungsreiche Kampagne + KI-Soldaten, die zwar alles können... - ...aber nicht so richtig gut - unnötig umständliche Vehikel-Lenkung - schwammige Steuerung - anonyme Soldaten statt Bezugspersonen - für Einsteiger zu schwierig - vieles unfertig (Texte, Missionen, Physik) + terrific battlefield atmosphere + heaps of weapons and vehicles + huge detailed environment + lots of possibilities to control your squad + a mighty editor + modfriendly + a diversified campaign + AI soldiers that can do everything... - ... but nothing really well - vehicle control is unnecessarily complicated - the controls are too cumbersome - anonymous soldiers rather than individuals - too difficult for newbies - a lot of unfinished things (texts, missions, physics)

I just read that german magazine PC Powerplay rated it 76%. graphics 8 sound 9 controls 5 atmosphere 7 multi 7 "battlefield atmosphere"

Congratz, Bals. I actually thought about you when posting this on these forums, glad you and thus a member of the community could get in. Have fun. And greet the GS crew from the community.