Hyp3rdyn3

You are categorically wrong, Rocket. You make it sound like radical code changes are required but it is merely an additional code unit that controls the camera, it can be disabled by default so there is no risk of it breaking anything. By adding it in a patch the retail version is clean and only people that apply the patch are affected. Many games had TrackIR support added in a patch, like GRID, TOCA Race Driver 2, LockOn, Ship Simulator 2008, Nitro Stunt Racing, DiRT, IL2, Richard Burns Rally, Warbirds and many more. Also, since Arma2 already has provisions for TrackIR, adding an alternative interface would be incredibly straight forward.

People were used to using FreeTrack in ArmA and were surprised to discover it was blocked in ArmA2, so it makes sense that this caused some frustration. The real disappointment lies in NaturalPoint's belief it is necessary and justified to block homebrew head tracking.

BattleEye would stop FreeTrack from working. :/

Delta Force's voxel grass can't be beaten. Grass needs to work first and foremost. Stuff the animation, density and rendering of individual blades. The current grass situation wreaks of eye candy over functionality which is completely at odds with the ArmA philosophy. Stupidly, instead of immersion in grass improving your odds of survival, it only serves to reduce it by obstructing your view.

It would be nice if the petition had the option to leave a comment.

Don't you dare kill bigfoot! No wonder he's hiding.

Can't play without head tracking!

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I lost all respect for them when they decided to glorify killing by using slo-mo cinematics. They kept banging on about historical authenticity yet they think it's ok, normal even, to visually admire someone being torn apart in the midst of battle, like some sort of twisted gore perverted serial killer. I would think even people that way inclined, in such a situation, would be more interested in trying to keep their head down and in one piece than jerking off to the demise of a fellow human being. Have some freaking respect. I'm all in favor of gore and dismemberment in a war sim like Arma2, as long as it's as authentic as possible and restrained, not glorified or exaggerated.

x64 needs signed drivers which free software probably can't afford ppjoy is a pain to setup and joystick emulation less precise anyway And you can't make concessions and be satisfied with an inferior alternative when the industry standard interface is being unfairly and possibly illegally blocked. I mean, if joystick emulation is not good enough for TrackIR then it shouldn't be good enough for FreeTrack either.

"Requires signed license agreement" = contract

The legal contract that BIS needed to sign to get the TrackIR SDK. The one that Eagle Dynamics signed that stopped them from adding FreeTrack support to Black Shark and also stopped them from exposing their own 6DOF interface. That legal contract.

No no no. It's a feature. What's new in ARMAII? #1431 Updated TrackIR interface. Now with more TrackIR. :P

That doesn't look like a very professional recording to judge from, it really needs to be recorded with proper equipment to get the most accurate sound spectrum possible. I would guess that the low frequency boom exists but is being lost/transformed in the recording.

Battlefield Bad Company has some of the best sound in the industry, if only it were an industry standard. Sound is almost always treated with a low priority and, sadly, it really shows in ArmA2.