Herbal Influence

Signed. Had hours of multiplayer gameplay now - wonderful new AI intelligent behaviour, wonderful graphics, big number of coplayers! Sometimes I said unto them (about a 75 cogamers in there and it wasn't too "social" of me): "Guys, if you game here for hours - how do you find the time to go lamenting about this crappy game in the BI forums?!" .... and got some laughs ... ;-)))

The largeness and the reality and the freedom ... I love it. When you happened to be left alone somewhere: Do what you would do in real life - ask for help / transport or - find yourself a jeep or a bike in the next village - there are stunning possibilities you only find out, when searching them. I really don't like those killpoint-runners who kill themselves for easy respawn in base etc. They are missing the point of this game completely. Maybe the problem has already been raised and disccused 200-times above, but my 2-cents: What whisper said is correct. And it's most important to repeat this again and again. You gotta have trustful co-gamers or lock the server to have real exciting combats. How to get trustful co-gamers without being in a clan or only play with friends? Be a harsh or correct admin! Kick whenever someone kills friendly without serious excuse. But warn him before - communication is all! The one who got killed should also ask for an explanation! I personally cannot understand something else: I open server and start mission, someone enters and starts fighting. He doesn't even say: "Hi", "Hello" ... or wtf ... like an autist! As if I would be an AI or a robot! Happens all the time! One reason for this might be the new "speaking AIs" - you simply don't know at first whether an AI greeted you or a cogamer! :( But soon things get sorted! The school holidays will end and instead of minors we only have to deal with drunken or drug inspired cogamers then ... :D

Everything is fine in the BETA for me I, like whisper and some more, like the new mouse settings even better. Aiming is more fun and (!) not unrealistic now! Sure, there should be something done about the probs people seem to have with it. But - people - you sure have an old mouse around somewhere? Please try with that old mouse? By the by: I do use a 10-Euro-mouse here ...

Sure I do play it! As I do play AA2. The community has to transfer crCTI@DVD and BWMOD that I can stop playing OF ... ! ;-)) In earnest: There is still a lot going on with OF (multiplayer) and it's a different environment etc. so I don't see no reason not to enjoy it. As I do enjoy ArmA 2 ! Edit: Today I did OF, AA1 and AA2 ... ;-)

Turn off "postprocessing" - I was so happy after I found out how this increases fraps and(!) gives a better view!

A two days ago I had a multiplayer game with at least 36 vs 35 persons (Berzerk) ! Another big wow !

Sorry, richiespeed, here I go completely with Placebo. He quite simply showed that you were quite badly misinformed. And, yes, multiple intentional forum rule breaking shouldn't be tolerated. I am having had rule-ignoring-kids too much on multiplayer servers ... I am fed up with these "kids", like many of us are. I am going to hate summerholidays in Germany! Lez stay a mature forum. ---------- Post added at 08:24 ---------- Previous post was at 08:13 ---------- Ok - u got me on that very point! I never did/do the campaign thing. I am quite an exclusive "multiplayer".;) But you can be sure that OF has had tons of bugs in the early stadium, like AA1 and AA2. And I don't blame BI too much for it for it's an open game, an extremely complex one. That's why we love it, don't we? One very simple example why bugs cannot be burned out completely: In this games you might visit places no developer ever did actually visit. You might do things they didn't do. Sub-example: Placing a motobike into a woods cabin or trying to land with motobike on the roof of a house etc. etc. etc. You might create situations even big battles in an instant that noone ever did before. Because it's so uniquely open, it's so uniquely open for bugs. One depends on the other.:j:

There is no reduction of quality. OF (and AA1) were quite buggy during the first three patches too. This is due to the extreme complexity of these unique type of games. They cannot be compared to other games because of their openess and use of artificial intelligence.

Do you really need an explanation for why I don't like someone to use the original name for something he has lost all connection to? CM - as far as I know - only (!) has the trademark and sells a product that hasn't a trace of the original game but can only be an attempt of a copy. It might be correct in legal terms - CM sure has had a sharks lawyers office at hand. Or do you see any other plausible reason a whole team of genious, innovative developers left/has to leave without the name of their own developed game?

And never forget: Codemaster rides on the back of BI ! BI invented Operation Flashpoint twice: the game and the name ! (as far a I know) Codemaster is just using the trademark to sell something like a bad copy of BI products. Without the genious,the idealism and the philosophy of BI.

I don't know about bugs in OF. Seriously. Maybe you left OF too early. If you play OF today, especially with big mods like bwmod, you don't step upon any bugs - which is quite remarkable for software in general. ArmA2 1.03 has so little bugs that I can do games of hours with 30 vs 30, once with 60 vs 60 multiplayers online in Berzerk. So why are you playing alone?:confused:

:o ... dream on !

Why don't you just join a session and hereafter copy them from the mpmissionscache unto your desktop or whereever ?

I am so happy with the new strategies and intelligence of the AIs in AA2! They hide so well ... in shadows, behind bushes and trees, leaning only ... just to take a look, creeping up from behind the main combat line ... etc. etc. So I am quite happy with this "new" OF being AA2. So if BI develops a new idea or "machine" which is as unique and genious as OF and the AA2 is I would be happy, but nobody can rely on something like that happening. Don't ya get used to genious acts ... ! ;-))

Sorry - to answer the topic I ask one simplest question: Assuming that a. Codemaster was left by BI. b. But Codemaster is quite a commercial enterprise - so their lawyers placed a hook into the flesh of BI: They held back the name, the trademark "Operation Flashpoint". This is quite a routine for the more powerful contract partner. Holding only the name of the game, Codemasters tries now again just to make money of it - without having a game, - without having the code, - without the developers, - without the idealisam and ideology of BI. For WHAT reason and HOW shall the outcome of this be a good game? It's not just like roulette. Believe their professional marketing or don't. I don't.

After doing about a five hours in the last five days with 1.03: Should be a fraps plus of a 20 - 30 % with 1.03 for me. Love it!

No problems with the patch; things that BI said to do, have been done! ps.: I just saw that my fraps are about a 48 fraps +-5 when I play in windowed mode

Hi Shooter McGavin, sorry for not reacting sooner, but I have been abroad for some time. Firstly thanx for the explanation on the 9800-need of two pci-slots! I think the reason that you have far lower fraps is that my 9600 has twice as much RAM as yours. Herbal I.

Please let us gather knowledge and experiences with the mentioned cpus here. Please always give (at best in your signature text, see below) also the solution you use. My experience: AA1: nicely playable with "normal", a bit slow with "high" AA2: playable only with "low" quality settings EDIT: pls note I upgraded hardware later - all fantastic now !

Lol ... and this was simultaneously a demo to the demo-only-user of the quick-helping-BI-forum! Nice one!

Please get used to put your specs into your signature. There are threads like this tooooo often: - Ah. Well - and whats your cpu? (fourhundred posts later) ... - .... Ah. Well -- and whats your grahpic Ram ? (fourhundred posts later) ... - ... Ah . Well -- and whats your graphic card .. ? (fourhundred posts later) ... - ah ... well ... what's your screen resolution ?? (fourhundred posts later) ... - ahh ... well ... and what's your RAM ? (fourhundred posts later) ... - ahh .well .... and what's your powersupply ... is it enough for that graphic card ... ah .(fourhundred posts later) ... .. well ... so .. (fourhundred posts later) ... I recommend to invest in a better power supply .. your graphic card needs alone 200 Watts your power has only 400 W ... so ... wtf

Oopps - the above scenario can be much more intensive with using "waypoints" for the to sides in editor. Just tell them to meet in the middle and you have a nice fight. Find easy waypoint-description in new video from BI on Arma2.com or here http://arma2-editing.blog.de/2009/06/13/fallschirmabsprung-flugzeug-heli-6295473/

Mmm ... I never said that crcti was made by BI.:confused: But that it's one mission I love best.:) But thanx for the background information. I was always wondering indeed where Mike Melvin has gone ... Offtopic: But what I don't like on warfare is the unreal easy respawn in towns.

Please do not forget to restart game after changing "graphic options". Completely - whole game. Maybe, in some cases, which I don't know, even Windows. I am just telling from my own experience "the other day" - fraps results did change. The need to do this is not always clearly shown, but I recommend to do it as I experienced that some settings were only "noticed" by the game, when I did it. :eek: Not need to deliver fraps or other data when you did not do this! :p

Completely happy since OF, with AA1 and AA2. Though I didn't invest too much in the rig - see below. BI - games, especially crcti-ones, have been exciting like hell and four hours and hours, whether done 1 vs 1 or 20 vs 20 ... And not to mention their openess for scripting gamers. It's a web2.0-culture-game at it's best: users deliver content. I think this thread is mostly run by troubleshooting-gamers and not by those I meet in the evenings online. But don't get me wrong: Errors have to be dealt with! And they do ... since 2001 ... that's also a good reason to love them! ;-)))