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  1. There is an AI feature that can explain some cases of shooting through foliage: AI doesn't lose knowledge about enemy immediately after it broke LOS. I believe that knowledge decreases gradually over a certain amount of time.

    This is 2015. Please put this fairy tell to bed.

    The only knowledge the AI retain is the target's speed and heading, so they have a chance of shooting you through a bush if you don't change direction or lie down. It also lets them use basic logic to anticipate where you might appear again.

    As for the question, 'do AI see through tree tops?' No, they don't. Tree tops block AI vision.

    But of course, there are no absolutes. This is like the question of, 'how long is Australia's coastline?' The answer is always different depending on how finely you measure, down to miles or micromillimeters.

    Tree tops have an invisible blob-like shape that blocks AI vision, but since this isn't a perfect world and limitless processing power doesn't exist, the viewblock object doesn't correspond 100% to the thousands of little leaves that you see on the screen. So on the edges of tree canopies there will always be little disparities between what is visible to you AI vs humans.


  2. How the hallucinations of an eccentric KGB psychic influence Russia today

    Investigators: MH17 shot down over Ukraine by air-to-air missile not made in Russia

    http://tass.ru/en/world/808930

    Lol, how many times can they possibly change their story? For a whole year all the experts on Russian TV have sworn up and down first that it was a Ukrainian R-60, then a Ukrainian Buk. Now it's a mystery NATO missile. Perhaps by the anniversary we will go back to the initial theory of the passengers already being dead and the plane blowing up as planned.


  3. Is back blast currently disabled in version 3.1.1 ? Cause I've been testing back blast but there does not seem to be any (tanks do give over pressure however).

    I'm asking because I can't find any ticket opened up on the tracker about it but I think I remember seeing somewhere that it might have been disabled, but now I'm starting to doubt myself and wanted to make sure :p.

    Loving ACE3 so far, It'll be hard going back to vanilla.

    I've hurt myself slightly by firing an RPG-7, but the AI don't seem to be harmed when I point the tub in their face.

    Anyways, are the ACE tracers supposed to work after you use the PBO? Or do I have to enable them somehow? Still stuck with vanilla lasers.


  4. Which makes it any less suitable for a "milsim" scenario how, especially when for some groups "ambience" is key to their immersion?

    Groups with no imagination or ability to download mods, maybe.

    The tropics have seen more than their share of warfare over the last 50 years, so I see no problem.

    US troops are still deployed in the Philippines, and a proxy war in the Pacific with China is standard fare for near-future fiction.


  5. Geopolitics

    Again unknown Cited by Russia's Zavtra nevspaper. A cursory examination which is immediately obvious that this is an pro-west point of view newspaper. And there is no reference to the source. In general a very dubious source.

    The problem is that almost all of your sources are sources reflecting western point of view.

    Relative impartiality have Vice news, but there is also a bias towards the west.

    Western point of view? Yes, we cite Western points of view because the 'Eastern' point of view involves denying obvious facts with a smirk, out of loyalty to the Kremlin's hybrid war tactics.

    At least usually:

    «СпуÑковой крючок войны вÑе-таки нажал Ñ. ЕÑли бы наш отрÑд не перешел границу, в итоге вÑе бы кончилоÑÑŒ, как в Харькове, как в ОдеÑÑе. Было бы неÑколько деÑÑтков убитых, обожженных, ареÑтованных. И на Ñтом бы кончилоÑÑŒ. ...практичеÑки маховик войны, ÐºÐ¾Ñ‚Ð¾Ñ€Ð°Ñ Ð´Ð¾ Ñих пор идет, запуÑтил наш отрÑд».

    -Гиркин

    «Мы вÑе знали, на что идем и что может быть»

    http://www.novayagazeta.ru/society/67490.html

    Now, even if you believe that Strelkov and that Buryat танкиÑÑ‚ is lying, the fact remains that Russian invaded Crimea. No reasonable person, who is familiar with the facts, can deny that without the annexation of Crimea, there could have been no war in Donbas. Even in an alternate universe where Russia provided no support, no personnel, there would have been no rebellion. But once Putin provided the example of Crimea, and gave that hope to the tiny group of nationalists, communists, Orthodox fascists and Chechen mercenaries in the Donbas, conflict was inevitable.

    Say it Yugoslavia, Libya, Iraq..

    For the hundredth time, there is no comparison between the invasion of Iraq and other US interventions.

    The US started the war the in Iraq. The US had nothing to do with the roots of the conflict in Libya and Yugoslavia, but intervened in response to the actions of dictators who were responsible for some of the worst atrocities since WWII.

    How would you like it if foreigners treated the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and Finland as if those actions were the same as the Soviet invasion of Serbia or Germany? Oh, those evil Russians, always sending their tanks into places like Grozny and Bucharest and Zagreb!

    You can't just ignore historical context, unless you just want to spout bullshit.


  6. Wow, I guess speaking out works after all.

    It helps when your community has one of the strongest identities in all of gaming, with an ethos built up over a literal generation.

    Put another way, when the community defends its dogmatically-held beliefs with an ardor that surpasses religious fervor, tempered by a deep cultural tendency towards drama and prima donna behavior.


  7. Crimea was a part of Ukraine, but Sevastopol had a special status, and was part of Russia as a federal city, so the Black Sea fleet is technically in Russian theritory.

    http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sevastopol

    You know what I mean. And Russian forces are all over Crimea, obviously.

    When the negotiators signed the 'foreign forces and mercenaries must leave Ukraine' clause, this obviously was not meant to refer to Crimea or peaceful parts of Ukraine where there has been no conflict.


  8. Earlier this month, about 300 US paratroopers arrived in western Ukraine to train with Ukrainian national guard units.

    --> One of the key points of the Minsk deal stipulates that all foreign armed groups, weapons and mercenaries should withdraw from Ukrainian territory.

    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32425602

    So, how should the other key points of the Minsk deal be respected if aswell western troops and military gear are deployed in the Ukraine.....

    Okay, let's all put on our stupid hats and read the Minsk agreement, translated into stupidese.

    Crimea is Ukraine, so I guess Russia just agreed to move the Black Sea fleet at Minsk.

    Minsk obviously refers to combatants in the conflict zone. A sovereign country has an unimpeachable right to invite foreign trainers, and no one considers them as 'deployed' military forces. Nor are they probably even armed. I saw a bunch of Mongolian soldiers in the St. Petersburg metro. I wonder why the press wasn't screaming about an invasion from Genghis Khan II?


  9. maybe Putin wants to avoid crisis that will come to Europe in 2030 when we really have big chance for civil war because of religious extremism inside , because we are more and more weaker,

    if in 2030 we gonna have civil war in EU due to "sharia" lovers, maybe we will say that Putin was right :/ i am afraid that in 20 years because of his politics Russia will be only superpower and will "take care" about us here

    maybe it is "NWO" plan, to make here mess in EU and convince people to beg for dictatorship in sake of safety

    You just drag your vicious little biases into every thread you can, don't you.

    Didn't you notice what Russia's response to the Charlie Hebdo murders was? In Russia the cartoonists were the criminals for hurting people's feelings. And Putin's greatest ally is Ramzan Kadyrov, who is forcing women to wear the veil.

    So tell me some more about Europe being the weak one.


  10. this idiot (boss of FBI) should learn by hard those tables from Wikipedia who the fuck was in Waffen SS: Germans, Romanians, French, Dutch, Belgians, Ukrainians and A LOT OF Muslims from Croatia and several USSR republics, Muslims were very large number in SS, add Croats, Azerbeijan, Tatars , other republics, there were more Muslims in SS than Benelux , France together

    MAN, are you a class act. Going and trying to shift blame on every nation but your own.

    Sure the FBI director's article had ambiguous wording that suggested an insupportable position. But that doesn't change the fact that many Poles didn't need to join the SS. In some places they massacred all their Jewish neighbors before any German even suggested the idea.

    http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-features/new-case-study-explores-role-of-polish-peasants-in-holocaust-atrocities.premium-1.503742

    Yes, everyone knows that the Poles suffered perhaps more than any other nation in the war, and that many of them helped Jews to escape. A plurality of Righteous Among the Nations are Poles. But that doesn't wipe away the deeds of those who did the reverse. Quit playing the victim contest.

    Who knows maybe Mr Comie probably has "shares" in Jewish-American extortion groups that enforce this kind of historical revisionism.

    Yeah, because anti-Semitism is a magical curse inflicted on the Germans by Hitler, invented out of nothing by him in 1939, and totally absent in all other nationalities.


  11. I wouldn't report anything to do with ACE3, JamesSaga. The stage of development is so early that it's not even relevant. When I run ACE3 with the Night showcase I only get about 12 fps, and the fault is obviously not with BI's mission.

    By the way, concerning the selling bug, it would occur with loot from dead enemies, rather than in loot boxes. And the bug would prevent all the other non-magazine items from being sold as well. It happened with AAF and CSAT troops, so I'm pretty sure vanilla gear was involved.


  12. I can't be certain, but I think this was the error.

    20:42:59 No owner

    20:43:02 No owner

    20:43:33 Error in expression <A = [];

    _ammunitionC = [];

    {

    _mag = _x select 0;

    if not (_mag in _ammunition) t>

    20:43:33 Error position: <select 0;

    if not (_mag in _ammunition) t>

    20:43:33 Error Generic error in expression

    20:43:36 Error in expression <A = [];

    _ammunitionC = [];

    {

    _mag = _x select 0;

    if not (_mag in _ammunition) t>

    20:43:36 Error position: <select 0;

    if not (_mag in _ammunition) t>

    20:43:36 Error Generic error in expression

    20:44:24 No owner

    20:44:26 No owner

    It crops up occasionally when I press 'Sell Content,' interspersed with hundreds of 'no owner' and 'no speaker' RPT entries.


  13. A well-deserved contest winner, this one. Such a simple, brilliant, idea. Made a long, procedural, full-map ArmA mission (usually a long, buggy slog) feel more like an epic narrative experience than anything else I can remember.

    The loot-selling system was also very clever.

    I did get occasional script errors that prevented me from selling loot. The only mods I used were CBA, ShackTac's fatigue monitor, and RHS Russian units. (The error affected vanilla loot as well.)


  14. Been playing around with configuring some swedish frag grenades with ACE3 fragmentation simulation. It's really cool stuff! The amount of fragments that spawn seem to be kind of low though. I can understand if there's some consideration of performance, but is there any way for me to increase the amount of fragments? One of the grenades (in the real world) sends out about 1100 splinters and 230 steel balls at the same time.

    Right, but most of those 1330 pieces don't go very far. They fall inside the lethal radius, and at short distances the damage is represented by vanilla Arma AoE. The frag system is only supposed to model the outlier projectiles that fly much farther*, and actually come close to hitting someone. No need to model the 952 fragments that never came near a victim.

    *For instance, the chunk of tail fin from an RPG-7 round that somersaults 250m and smacks you upside the head. Lights out.


  15. So what features have people found so far, besides action menu stuff, deafness, ragdolls, the Spike ATGM, medical system (wow!), explosives and frag (causes serious stuttering atm)?

    I've had some interesting results with the medical system so far. I had an RGO grenade go off 20-30m away and I escaped serious injury, but my screen took on a hazy grey tint. The next grenade made me start bleeding, but in no particular body part, so I couldn't bandage it.

    Edit: Silly me, there are already loads of new items and features. It's amazing how much of ACE 2 has already been recreated. You guys are incredible.

    And not just recreated, but recreated must better. The new interaction system is revolutionary for all these little features like map tools and DAGRs. We all went through so much pain trying to keep all those keybindings straight, with the system always getting screwed up by updates and player profiles. But now it just works .

    Anyways, anyone know the keys for the Spike and sniper scope adjustments?


  16. I know the rest of the update got bipods, new sounds, virtual garage etc. etc. but I would have had those regardless and while I'm not dissatisfied with my purchase I really don't think I or anyone else who got the DLC really got their moneys worth in a raw consumer comparative sense. And I am having a really hard time recommending the DLC to my squad outside of the whole "Support the guys who have made this great platform" speech.

    So what you're saying, is that you're an ingrate.

    Let's be clear: to people who care about improving core ArmA gameplay and the continued progress of realism in the series, the weapon resting, bipods, new sounds, suppression and engine updates ARE the DLC. The weapons are just fun extras.

    BI is being a class act by giving us all the best stuff for free. Buying the DLC isn't a donation to BI. The reverse is true. BI giving us the engine updates for free is a donation TO YOU. Absolutely class-act corporate behavior that shows a lot of faith in the company's relationship with customers.

    At the same time, BI probably couldn't have justified releasing such an enormous amount of groundbreaking content without the prospect of new revenue. If no one was going to buy the DLC, none of the engine updates would have happened. And the new engine features are worth lots and lots of money in my book. It's a win-win, so quite picking at it. Or just don't buy the DLC. I didn't, but that's more because I have a personal 'no paid DLC, no buying full price games ever' rule.


  17. This has nothing to do with corrupted savefiles and nothing to do with game or scenario updates.

    These SP stop recognizing the existence of savefiles instantly and consistently, without any game or mission updates. It happened three times today with one mission. Every time I had a CTD, the issue appeared again.

    I started save-scumming after each shutdown of Arma, and the savefiles are 100% fine. This proves that there is zero corruption going on.

    This is a problem inside ArmA itself and its reading of workshop files. And because of the nature of the glitch, the devs should really be on this.

    Using latest dev branch.

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