Lostlogic

Bah! It works? lol, guess we did something super n00bish. "Insert diety of choice here" knows that we tried for hours. Edit: Nevermind, apparently it does not work when you have two human commanders. See the next post.

Where is the MHQ build radius? The AI does it immediately as commander. When I am the commander, and in the exact same place, I have no such option as deploy? The AI Commander does it from the starting position, he does not move the HQ vehicle an inch but somehow deploys it and starts building the base.

In the "Utes Welcome to War" mission the AI commander will vote himself in (if you don't have your team vote you instead,) and will deploy the HQ literally within 1 millisecond. He then starts to build the light vehicle factory, barracks, etc. If you take over from the AI post-deployment, then you can build whatever you want and have the "Defense" and "Base" options. If you vote yourself in first though before the game starts you only ever get the "Defense" option to build structures. How do you deploy the HQ so you can get the "Base" options? We had 8+ guys on last night trying to figure it out.

We were the commander (were trying on both sides.) You have no option via the spinner menu to deploy the HQ. The only time it every worked (we tried the mission over a dozen times) was when we let the AI commander start the base and then we took over as commander. Do you have to let the AI start the base first?

Does anyone know that when you are the commander what key or action you use to turn the mobile HQ into a semi-permanent one (aka deploy it)? The AI commander can deploy it in 1ms if they are the commander so I know there are no pre-requisites required. I (we) tried the action spinner, the communications panel, every option on the map, etc. All the instructions say are to use your action spinner. Via that all you get is "Lock HQ" and "Unlock HQ". There is nothing present about deploying it. Ideas?

Ok, on the Utes Welcome to War mission we tried for hours to deploy the HQ vehicle. You can lock it, unlock it, and drive it around but can't seem to deploy it. If you vote the AI in as the commander (which it does by default,) they deploy the sucker immediately. So, there has to be a way to deploy the HQ, but how? I tried every key on the keyboard.... I also tried the Communication window and the action spinner, both to no avail. The most we could ever do was drive the HQ next to a captured area and build defenses. Thanks!

Yeah, I am doing that, see #8. ;)

I did that, in step #4 actually. I checked for both software and game updates and restarted just in case (even though it didn't have me restart on the software update check.) Any other ideas? I've also tried creating a profile just for Arma2 and setting it as the exclusive profile. Still no dice. In game I see a yellow light on the top. Does that mean anything?

I have a TrackIR 4 Pro (the clip is on my headset) and it's not working in Arma2? 1. I can see the heads moving around fine in the TrackIR software 2. I uninstalled and reinstalled v4 of the software 3. I'm on Vista-64 4. I updated the game files and see Arma2 in the profiles 5. I enabled the controller in the controller screen in Arma 2 6. I also have a XBox controller present in there 7. I can see the TrackIR shortcuts in the customize controller screen (for leaning, looking, etc.) 8. I run both Arma2 and TrackIR software as administrator 9. I am playing the Steam version of Arma2 10. I used to play Arma1 all the time with this rig (bought TIR4 for it) Nothing happens in game with the above. I have no blue light either? Any ideas what is wrong?