TechnoTerrorist303

Defraggler works for me

The tac-nukes weren't the scariest bit it was the strategic ones that were the issue combined with the "you launch, we launch, everyone dies" thinking behind the doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction. The whole attitude of the North Koreans is scary to be honest, if they engaged in a war with the South and only South Korea they'd probably win but the only way they could possibly win against SK's allies is to use their nuclear weapons. Everyone knows this and NK know they know so there really isn't anything to be gained from being international wankers unless they really really do want to start a war.

Now that would be an awesome TK punishment...

It should work with no problems at all. Make sure there is nothing forwarding ports into stupid places on your router. If you are still getting problems then PM me and I can help you find a solution. If necessary I can remote on to your PC desktop and fix it.

Defrag should indeed be the first thing you try. Shelling out for an SSD just to run Arma2 is a bit extreme, that said I'm seriously considering it :) It's worth pointing out that the built in Windows defrag is useless compared to some of the third party applications out there. I use Defraggler, Arma2 usually ends up about 25% fragmented after patching.

I find this pretty funny. There's a huge difference in content between the two methods of distribution and BIS are refusing to say why. Maybe we should start taking bets on what's going on? I reckon they've decided to punish Steam users to force them to re-buy everything on Sprocket in the future. In all seriousness these events could be viewed as exactly that and without any official word on the subject it just makes everything look even more fishy (not in a good way). If it were me I'd be jumping on the damage limitation machine asap before trading standards and the ECC got involved.

If I sold you a box of toys for £10 and then gave the person standing next to you the same toys for free you'd probably be pissed off. Even more so if I told you that you'd actually paid money for the box and not the toys inside.

I have this problem, it happens round power lines too

When you put it like that I'm wondering if I should be more pissed off about the free campaign than I already am... In any case I hope BIS take note of posts like this and don't go down the "we sold many units, a large percentage on pre-order so it must be a success" route.

Bushlurker, the proving ground is made using "new models and textures" so it follows that it will be blurry and horrid with PMC Lite.

Well, there's a problem there then. Either they ballsed up making the steam patch or they never meant to include the campaign in the DVD one. I would prefer to believe the second of these two options but without any comment from BIS management on the issue it's hard to figure out which is the answer. You're entitled to a few major fuckups every so often. There is a third option of course, BIS have chosen to punish Steamers for their use of Satan's bloatware.

This I'm actually wondering if there has been a big balls up here. There's people complaining that the campaign isn't included in the Steam patch... Is this actually the case?

Not really. If they made it so only those that bought the thing could host the co-op missions then it would be absolutely fine and they wouldn't have had to give out paid content for free.

You didn't pay for that content though, it's all included for free in 1.56 along with the PMC campaign which is the whole point of our complaints.

To be fair I don't know for sure but judging by the way Steam updates its games I would expect you'd need to wait for an autoupdate to avoid problems in the future. Don't take my word for it though, I might be talking out of my hairy crack.

Basically that's pretty much where I'm coming from, hell if BIS put a request for donations up on the forum saying they really really needed the community to give them money to continue developing games I'd probably do it.

You need to wait for Steam to patch your OA before you can install the DLC.

True but then surely the campaign has to be the same quality as the paid for version or it just wouldn't work. It's not like you can produce a "lite" version of scripting. As I said, it's all about what was implied. You don't sell a car to someone and say "oh by the way this doesn't include the optional extras you haven't paid for" do you?

The law is the law. Misleading advertising is misleading etc.

Whether you would or wouldn't isn't the issue. The DLC was advertised as containing the units, campaign and map and that there would be a "lite" version included in the patch for mp compatibility. Now it seems that BIS have provided content for free when the implication was that it would only be available to those that paid for it.

Me too.

Yes. Dwarden or anyone in the know, is there a box that contains the PMC stuff? If there is, what is the classname for it? I want to try different ammo types in my aa-12 and I don't know where the ammo is hidden. If there is an actual PMC ammobox then why isn't it in the editor?

There are some really really bad spelling errors on that page!

The "special weapons" ammo box doesn't appear to be the PMC one. The XM8s in there are the ones from Arma2 surely? In any case there are no aa-12 shells in there, who nicked them?

Can someone from BIS please tell me where I can get more ammo for my aa12 in the editor?