kororas

I do like Steam, but I don't think Arma really suits Steam. BIS does a good job without requiring the use of Steam's services (such as Steamworks) and i personally would prefer if Arma was kept standalone only so BIS could concentrate on one sole platform - their own.

I almost totally agree with op. The foundation of A3 is essential for both BI and modders to add features to it in the future. Also to a lesser extent battalion vs battalion but i think this is challenged greatly by the hardware aspect.

Are you a shareholder or something?

So how did Microsoft abuse and forget about OpenGL? It isn't their standard and never was. And it appears to be doing quite well actually. And what makes you think BI is going to go to the immense trouble of ripping out the current gfx engine and replacing it with DirectX 10/11 version? Thats going to be Arma 3. :j:

I find explicitly stating what mode you want your men in before or just as a batlle starts increases the life expectancy of the squad loads. Ive seen various posts a while ago stating that the ai is not improved from Arma but i believe this is somewhat down to not having the right mode selected + a good stance as stated above. Numerous times when i started playing Arma 2 with my men set to aware all the time I'd walk/crouch/prone into various combat situations and my squad would get WTFPWNED. They do seem to temporarily gauge the situation as danger but it is sketchy.

I was under the impression from another thread on this forum that the AI is using sound rather than vision to pinpoint enemies. The problem with this was that they have superman stlye hearing capability which more often than not causes crackpot shooting. In MP i usually end up waiting for some other poor sod to attack first then whilst the ai is distracted i go in for the kill lol Chance of suvival is a bit higher that way.

This happened to me also, and funnily enough it was domination as well. I took a bunch of suggestions on this forum, applied them and its seems to have gone way and not come back. Firstly im running a ATI 4870X2 just for the record. These are the things i did, i cudnt narrow it down to any specific one so heres the lot: -Used the -winxp commandline parameter -Turned FSAA from medium to low -In the catalyst control panel i set the Catalyst AI to high -Also using the control panel, i setup some profiles that alter the GPU fan speed manually as the automatic just wasnt cutting it at the time (hot weather).

I agree with the guy above, irritated the hell out of me in Arma 1 when I had to do that all the time. The new interface is much better