NIKO MY CUZIN

I'm a long time OFP fan and i've been struggling with ARMA3. I struggle with finding good missions and content which require no mods/addons (or at least a reasonable list) I know there's lots out there, but filtering through the masses and masses of content is off putting after sifting through a few pages on armaholic/Steam Workshop. I enjoy dynamic infantry based missions / battles with pre-programmed support (e.g friendly tanks rolling in). Another problem which takes the fun away is most missions are Squad leader based; I enjoyed being a grunt and taking orders. Another big enjoyment factor of this were the on-screen markers the squad leaders made for me (TARGET THAT RIFLEMAN). I have a hard time acquiring targets now thanks to the amazing graphical fidelty of todays games, if there was some way to allow for on-screen indicators for squad leaders that would also be great. The teammates shout of vague directions and bearings I have no idea what to shoot at. I enjoy Whole Lotta Altis but I feel like i'm the only one doing anything? Other than random enemy APCs rolling up and blowing up our light infantry squad there's no sense of progression/friendly forces? I know this is a community mission and not a game issue though. I enjoy dynamic stuff and small skirmishes. Also my AI mates walk around instead of run which drives me nuts! Lastly, not sure if i'm doing something wrong but the sights are totally broken for me? There's a crazy deadzone-sway (like Red Orchestra) on all sight based aiming. From what I can tell this is fatigue and this new weapon inertia business? edit: Altis is a HUGE map, i'd love a mission to keep coming back to - even if it's exploring (no combat, maybe orienteering?), or with random battles on the map to make use of the many locations.

I agree it's not 'hard' as such, but sometimes it's nice to watch lots of friendly ai just duke it out, aswell as being part of that. I'm willing to put asside realism in favour of a short burst of tactical-action :D

Easy for us players to ask and request things but; Any chance of an easy/showcase version? Bigger squads, more friendly respawns and more random friendlies. Sometimes I just want to fire it up and steam roll the enemy, but it seems like i'm always scrimping with 4-5 friendlies and the odd stolen Ifrit. Perhaps some sort of godmode too? *shrug* just me :p

0.96 is much better SaOk! Not being mauled by Ifrits now. But I find some of my squad guys just get stuck, and ignore all formation and move commands, they just stand around like fools :) PS - I am also RANDOMLY blowing up in my Ifrit which I acquired, and it's really really annoying!

Hi SaOK, Love the mission so far, I am playing the SP edition, but I am finding it too hard. Am I doing something wrong? My squad always gets killed by the roaming Ifrits, and the reinforcements never arrive (due to being mowed down by multiple Ifrits). My AI guys never use their AT weapons and the game always ends up with me surrounded by enemies in the first camp you have to capture, and 9 times out of 10 the mortars get me. Shouldn't more random friendly units start spawning? A friendly helicopter would be a blessing when i'm cowering from enemy soldiers and APCS! :)

What are some good missions which DON'T force you as squad leader? I prefer being a rifleman for instance and letting the SQ leader do the work, the 'target that man' reticules really help my enjoyment of firefights. Being SL I don't know where jackshit is!

I like the Flashpoint Takistan/etc missions, but I feel they lack focus. I enjoy it when we have missions where you go to X and pretty much kill all the units. Not just rifleman squads, but especially so when both sides have reinforcements! I have been using the mission wizard thing to preview a patrol mission, HQ gives you different basic tasks which is quite nice, but again only has about 5 different things. Looking to scratch the 'random' itch I know ARMA can handle so well, so i'm after something which is (you guessed it) different each time. I want my squad to get blown up by a platoon of tanks we didn't know would be over the hill, and the same time, I want a mechanised platoon of friendlies to roll on some rusty BMPS. Gotta be something that generates something like this?

So I ended up buying Arma 2 again! (I bought it on release, but sold it due to my old PC running it like crap). So now I have a2, OA, and BAF :D Couldn't play Grim reaper without ARMA, now i can!

Thanks for the info, I got BAF on Sprocket, nice easily integration. Not too fussed about PMC, I enjoy the grunts :D The garrison mission is so hard, f*** that M113 :D

Oh I thought RFT was just the DLC packs together. Doh!

Thanks for the suggestions, I like mainly infantry scenarios. Not too fussed with tanks or vehicles (unless they are supporting or inserting). Was hoping for suggestions before I hit Armaholic! What with addon mix-matches and generally 'poor' ones, I thought i'd get the scoop first :) Silly question. I have a retail disc of ARMA OA. Can I buy the disc of 'Reinforcements' and add it to my game? Just wondering how merging the DLC with the base game works. thanks

I bought ARMA 2 and OA, after coming from OFP which I loved. I love the graphics of ARMA2 but I find the missions / SP missions are not upto par. So i've not really experienced what ARMA:OA has to offer. What are some good campaigns or SP missions for OA? I did have a mod which generated random battles with random units, but there was not really any end-game. Maybe I should re-try this with patch 1.60? Outside of me trying to make some basic missions in the editor, i'm not sure what else to do with this game :(

Look at all the videos of epic battles on ARMA2, the lush graphics and such. Think of all the people that can run ARMA2 nice, and all the people who can barely run it nice. But go back to OFP, everyone can run that. How epic can the battles be with our specs we have today? I remember it being quite laggy, now with my specs I bet I could max it out and have a stupidly epic battle. Anyone played around with OFP these days? Infact I got ARMA..but am tempted to install OFP...weird huh

I have postprocessing effects disabled however, Im still having a hard time looking at things in the distance, the trees and stuff still look blurry / bloomy. I call it GTA4 syndrome. Cant I just disable bloom? I was playing Battlefields (remade for arma2 :) ) and I killed one guy because I could barely see targets and such. Infact I just stood back until the second wave come, and even then I didn't know where targets were. It's very hard going. Thoughts?

nice that worked perfectly, thanks!