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I only tested it in SP. If it's working fine in dedicated server, it's not a problem for me, as that's what the end use would be for my unit. Hey Delta, this is BigMac btw.

I didn't see this in your list of known bugs, and I skimmed over this whole thread and didn't see it mentioned... When you spawn in an AI squad and select the option for having them randomly occupy buildings, their markers don't disappear off of the map like they should. So the end result is that if you use this option, all AI who take up positions in buildings are marked on the map for all to see... Any plans on fixing this? Or is there something I'm missing here?

Or you could group the trigger to the unit you want to activate the trigger, and select "vehicle" instead of "opfor". This probably works the same as triggerattatchvehicle.

I don't know the syntax of how it would be written, whenever I need to write a script I always have to heavily browse the com ref at the biki, but I'd do it like this... Have a trigger with the condition of checking if all of your sector control triggers are true. In the on act, execute vehicleunlock.sqf. In vehicleunlock.sqf, have a sleep command of however long you want them to need to have all the zones before the vehicle is unlocked, then have it check the status of your zones one last time. If all the triggers are still true, unlock the vehicle. If not, exit. That's how I'd do it. Like I said, I can't help you on the syntax. I'd have to browse the biki. But I'm fairly sure that method would work.

You could set up your own event handler for healing, instead of using the default one. That'd be easier, if you ask me, than trying to detect when someone is being healed.

I've been searching in the wiki, and these forums, but I can't seem to find it. I think this sam battery object has just been added in 1.08 (though I could be wrong, but I don't remember seeing it before then). If you go into the Armory, you'll see a Sam Battery available to use. What is the name of this vehicle exactly so I can call it up in the editor?

I did a search for countSide in both the ArmA Mission Editing and Scripting, and in all BI forums, and only came up with 1 match both times, and it didn't help at all. I'm making a pretty simple search and destroy mission. The goal is to liberate Somato. There is about a platoon's worth of SLA in the town. I want to have the mission end when there are less than 5 left. I figured the best way to do that would be with a east countSide command. But I don't know how to do it. A secondary objective of the mission is to limit civilian casualties. There are 20 civilians in the town. If more than 10 of them are killed, the mission is supposed to end. Again, I think civilian countside would be the best way to do this. But again, I don't know how. The Wiki was a little vague on this command. It's example was not very helpful. Some help would be appreciated.

Thanks Buhbye, that looks like it could work.

I'm using Pinnacle Studio right now, and I don't recommend it. I don't know if other programs are the same, but with Pinnacle studio, you get the software, and suprise suprise, you need to purchase and download most of the effects at around 80 bucks a pop. I got Pinnacle studio free with my camcorder, and I've bought/downloaded a couple different effect packs, wasting money in the process, and still don't have all the effects I want. If vegas has all of the effects in one package, I'd say go for that. Stay away from Pinnacle Studio, unless you're willing to put out 80 bucks everyt ime you want a new effect or two. Waste of money.

Why do people even want woodland camo? Â This is a modern game, woodland is so yesterday. Â I want modern ACU's, not woodland. Â Personally I'd like to be able to pick between arid and temperate marpat. Â Arid marpat is only useful in like 10-20% of the island. Â Most of the island is grass trees and bushes. Â Very little of it is arid. Â So why did the US ship their boys off to Sahrani with the wrong camo? EDIT: Oh, and btw, unless the Atari box ships with a picture I'm not aware of, they're not fast roping. I've not seen the Atari box, but I assume it uses the same picture as what's shown here on the atari site http://www.atari.com/us/games/armed_assault/dvd_rom (I'm talking about the small picture middle right, with Armed Assault Combat Operations at the top.) I'm 98% sure hey're not fast roping. The chopper that the camera angle is shot from is on the ground, with 1 trooper in the door and one on the ground getting in the blackhawk. And the blackhawk in the background is definately not doing any fastroping maneuvers... So where did you get this fast roping from?

I only read the original post, so this has probably already been said, but 200m is not an unreasonable distance for iron sights. 300 and 400 are even doable. The bush thing, yes, that's annoying. But if you are within say 500m of any enemy infantryman, AI or player alike, magnified optics or iron sights alike, you're in the danger zone, just like in real life. 200m is definately not an impossible shot.

I have the sprocket version, haven't had any trouble with it at all. Some people just like to complain, methinks.

Heh... Good luck with that one. Once a CS kiddie, always a CS kiddie, I've found. Personally I don't want their kind in our game.

One time I was advancing through Paraiso with a couple squaddies, and we came up to a condo complex. The concrete was raised 1, maybe 1 and a half feet over the surrounding terrain. We started moving towards it to clear it, and found ourselves stopped in our tracks, cause we can't lift our legs 1 foot to clear the concrete. I don't know if I would support scaling walls like those 7 foot grey or red brick walls, but clearing obstacles that are only 2-3 feet tall? Heck yeah.

In open areas, a sniper will always have the advantage over a regular soldier, with iron sights. And as such, a squad of snipers (something you don't see in real life, as it's usually just 1 sniper and 1 spotter) will decemate a squad of regular troops. The solution is, as you said, to limit the number of weapons available in the mission. I hate it when there are too many snipers, and I hate it that everyone who isn't a sniper usally has a M4/m203/acog and a M136/Javelin. More people need to release missions with realistic loadouts. If the map is made for 10 players per side, a realistic loadout would be: 1 M249 1 sniper 1 spotter (m16 and binocs) 1 leader (m16 of M4, iron sights, or maybe Acog, binocs) 1 grenadier (m16/m203, or m4/acog/m203) 1 medic (m4 or m16, iron sights) 2 AT specialists (M16/M4, M136) 2 riflemen (m16/M4/M4Acog) Compared to the usual 10 man squad we have nowadays 3 M249 5 snipers 2 M4AcogM203/ Javelin or M136 Realism FTW. Limit the types of weapons available in missions.

I vote yes for jumping/scaling. Not BF2 or CS style jumping, however. No bunny hopping. If they add jumping, they should make it similar to the running slide to prone. Y'know how when you hit the prone key when you're running, it takes a while before you finally hit the dirt? Jumping should be like that. Something that isn't instantanious, and is a little akward. It could easily be used to get up over small inclines that we can't get over now, but it would never be able to be used as bunny hopping. The moment anything that resembles BF2/CS bunny hopping enters ArmA, is the moment I start looking for another game. My 2 cents.

Heck, it's been available to download for a long, long time. I don't understand why US players didn't take advantage of the digital download months and months ago. The internet is a wonderful thing, you don't have to wait for a boxed version to be out in the US if it's available for download in europe you know. I'm from Canada and I've had the game since it was released for download in German. Seems like lots of people don't like downloading games though (not legally, anyway). People like to have the box, the manual, and the CD/DVD. The box, usually ends up in the garbage in a week. The manual, you flip through once or twice, and quite often ends up in the trash as well. And the CD/DVD, you can burn one with the downloaded version. Really, there's no reason to buy it from a retailer anymore. Download online, FTW.

I'm having a hard time setting up AI defensive positions. It seems as though any time my defensive AI are set up within a few meters of a sandbag, regardless of if the sandbag is even in their cone of fire, they will not fire. I've set up a roadside checkpoint on the edge of a town. Sandbags on both sides, with 2 SLA soldiers on each side behind the sandbags. I can NEVER get them to fire on the incoming enemy. I've tried many different things. I've tried leaving the SLA soldier's AI completely unrestricted, nothing. I've tried disabling move to keep them behind the sandbags, nothing. I've tried disabling target, nothing. I've tried lowering the sandbags by half a meter so maybe they could see over them better, nothing. I've set their position to up, and to middle, nothing. Worst part is, the advancing US soldiers have absolutely no problem spotting and picking off these guys behind the sandbags. But the SLA won't fire back. I've watched them closely, and the SLA soldiers are tracking the enemy. They'll go from safe, to aware, and track the US soldier's movements with their guns, but they won't fire! I did a search for "sandbags", and didn't find anything related to this issue. Please let me know if you've ever gotten the AI to fire over the sandbags, cause for whatever reason, I can't.

Those of us with TrackIR already have freelook when in iron sights. It's very useful when using non scoped, iron sight rifles, cause the zoom when zoomed in on iron sights is much more powerful than the regular zoom, and you can lower your rifle out of the screen entirely and scan for targets. TrackIR FTW.

I must say I'm kind of puzzled about the idea of releasing two almost identical games, that are not compatible with eachother in multiplayer. I have the patience to wait, but I'm still confused why they would do this. I would have expected 1.6 to be available for download today, so both versions would be compatible. Oh well.

I don't really like this idea. It's not common for a soldier to carry more than 1 rifle into combat. Not even 1 rifle and 1 SMG. Perhaps the special forces, but even then not often. If they did implement this, I would suggest heavy movement penalties for anyone with more than 1 rifle. Even more so than for a soldier with a rifle and an AT launcher. There would have to be a penalty for carrying that much firewpower. It just doesn't make sense to see a soldier going into combat with one rifle in his hand, and another slung over his shoulder. Besides, like was said earlier, it would seriously unbalance things. Who wants to see someone with an M107 sniping from a KM away, then closing in and finishing everything else off with his M249? Just simply unrealistic.

If tank damage is anything like OFP, sometimes your cannon elevation can be damaged. You can still turn the turret, but can't elevate the barrel. That could be why they weren't engaging. Just a thought.

Can you elaborate on what the "spec ops reinforcement" is?

Personally I'm not entirely sure I like the idea of the MH6's respawning. I like having to go out to the crash sites to repair/refuel the choppers. Makes people fly more carefully, or they have a long repair mission ahead of them. Personally I would have liked to just see a respawn on helos lost at sea.

I'm experimenting with a voice recognition program, so I can speak to my squad instead of hitting keys. For example, to tell 2 to advance, instead of hitting F2, 1, 2, I would simply say into my mic "Two, advance". The problem I'm facing is the voice recognition program I'm using doesn't seem to want to let me assign the F keys (F1, F2, F3, etc) as a macro. This poses a problem when trying to issue orders to my squad. So I'm wondering if there is a way to re map the F keys? I have no doubt it's possible, it's probably just a file I'll have to modify, but I don't know what one. I know it can't be done through the in game keymapper, or at least I haven't found a way to do it.