trickster1982

Ha ha see what happens when you start something! :p good to see it drumming up a lot of interest & support though!

Just noticed while having a mess about in the armoury that the RPK-74M 1P29 is untextured, dont know if you guys know about that one? on my game its all there but its just black & grey. Also i got an error message that I should have jotted down that said something about acex couldnt load a texture, if I see it again i'll make a note of it. Other than that good work as always guys

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Another good thing for this map, especially if its the present day setting, would be to have some detritus from the previous war littered around the place, ive seen a fair few recent photos of the falkland islands with rusty plane wreckage & artillery guns dotted about, & even a couple of argentine field kitchens that still sit at the peak of tumbledown :) And dont forget the wrecks of old whaling ships that are half submerged on the coast. I know it wont be an inch by inch reproduction of the islands, but a few touches like that would be cool

Obviously if some modern missions in the Falklands are going to be happening we're gonna need this bad boy porting The Argentine version of the Hummer that they seem quite fond of at the moment!

I think the Westland Wessex would be a good one for the Falklands add-on being discussed in here at the moment!

Very little in the way of trees to slow peoples systems down either, I guess port stanley would be the only part that would cause any real problems! Ive got visions of the last mission of a campaign showing the white flag flying over stanley after you take tumbledown :)

Nice work Pathy! Hows Goose green looking on there? :) I wonder if anyone has ever made a Westland Wessex for Arma or Arma 2? Got to have one of those for an '82 mission, although Im still very much liking the idea of a modern campaign featuring these islands!

Yeah it was taking up a fair bit of that thread, hopefully the mods wont close it now work seems to have started & plenty seem interested in this mod! As stated before I have no programming skills whatsoever but plenty of ideas & will be sure to put input in to this thread if things take off! :cool:

Ah nice one im glad to see this Falklands stuff is taking shape! definitely a decent addition to the game! :cool:

I have to say since I downloaded the ACE mod, this campaign is a lot harder, on my first vanilla playthrough I stormed the town where you take the woman hostage on the force recon mission with no casualties & no real problems, but in ACE you have to approach slowly, use cover & chip away at the defenders rather than storm in! The campaign is awesome with or without ACE, but seems a lot harder (but good) with it!

Nice screenshot! I can imagine the AI doesnt like it as you say though, I have horrible visions of AI tanks trying to get through that lot unless you can meticulously script them to stick to a set path until they are clear of the obstacles?

I quite like the armoury just for flying around in planes & helos with nothing shooting at me to check out the scenery & practice my flying, or for having a play about with new additions to the vehicle list, especially with the ACE mod which has added bloody loads to it! Sometimes I do the challenges for a bit of fun, namely the ones where i have to eliminate someone or attack a small camp, but im not really bothered about the ones where i have to reach a certain point or do a 180 degree turn etc

And the beauty of it would be that if someone created the Falklands maps, we could have both the modern day setting that I mentioned, as well as the 1982 conflict if the community put some '82 units together, im sure the SLR would go down well! :)

Im glad my thread started a discussion on this! (my apologies for posting in the wrong place to start with) I was reading about the latest Argentinian sabre rattling in the news today & the idea came to me that a modern version of the '82 conflict (fictional of course, I dont want to trigger any angry debates about overblown media reporting etc) using Arma 2 would be pretty cool, ive no mission making skills myself but if somebody else made it I reckon it would be an enjoyable campaign, and would let us play with some British gear as well as Argentinian if you were able to play it from both sides :) I know a version of the Falklands was made for the original flashpoint so im guessing someone in the community maybe has the maps already?

The demo is crap, but im not particularly into online gaming anymore anyway, but I am interested in having a go at the single player campaigns if they are worth a play through?

Last time I played that one it didnt finish, but early on in the mission when we started firing on the village a couple of insurgents went running off towards the forest on the other side & never came back so I think that may have been why the end didnt trigger after we cleared the village. They were too far away to shoot so i just let them go, although sending that LAV up that hill would probably have stopped anyone escaping...

Make sure when telling them to move you dont set them to "seek & destroy" & also set their movement speed to limited & in danger mode, that usually keeps them in better formation ive found

Really looking forward to your new campaign Bardosy! keep up the good work, Chesty seems to have pleased the whole community so this one has plenty to live up to! :cool:

Well, I was playing the game when it died so kind of :p ive had this PC a couple of years now & my 8800GTX finally gave out last week after loyal service & some damn long hours! there I was playing Arma 2 & the next thing I had a screen full of artifacts, half of the scenary vanished, the game locked up, then my whole PC BSOD'd :butbut: I havent been able to start the PC past bios since! Anyway my GTX275 arrived today (fancied a faster one but budget said no), ive got it plugged in & im now back for my Arma 2 fix! has anyone else managed to kill their PC with Arma 2 then?

I went to see Rammstein last night in Manchester & they were unreal, I'd definitely recommend them if you like a bit of heavy stuff. personally Im into all sorts of music from 70's rock to Hard house, the only things I dont like are jazz,swing,opera & RnB

Heres a pretty good video of world war 2 in colour for you guys to take some ideas from :) im not sure how much of it has just been touched up into colour on computers,probably most of it, but they've done a decent job regardless! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFYSVLIUtcA

I play guitar, ive got a strat & an accoustic but im not that good yet, ive just got the hang of the basic chords & being able to switch around them so I can put a tune together even if its not particularly complicated! Everything ive learned so far has come from chord books or the web, some proper lessons may speed up the learning process for me at some point! I have friends who are in a band that I can jam with, but im a long way off being able to play to an audience like they do! This is the band my friends are in, have a listen :) that particular track is very pink floydish but they mostly play indie stuff

Liking the watchtower mission, came across a couple of AI bugs in there but when I reloaded my last save point they didnt happen again. The first was when the squad disembarks from the truck, two of them stayed put & wouldnt move! The second was in Zelenogorsk, the squad got about a third of the way into the town, then stopped & wouldnt move anymore!

I think they're ok, I dont spend a lot of time scrutinising them so they just add a nice backdrop. If they werent there I dont think it would look as good,especially in chernarus where they give the impression of rolling countryside & wide open spaces!