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  3. Posted

    I want to know, if BIS is working on a prach, when it's going to be released? There must be a time schedule (I'm software developer myself, there is always a time schedule!).

    Publishing release candidates is one thing, but publishing pre-betas...

    @mods: you can delete or close this thread, you can even ban me... I will ask the same question again and again, until I get an answer. Even if I have to spoof IP-addresses and create new logins every single day.

  4. Posted

    Hello.

    First time purchasing a BIS product needless to say im less than impressed, now I could go ahead and swear pointlessly about the countless hours ive tried to actually get this shoddy piece of codding nightmare to run, instead im going to intelligently ask a question.

    Is it now, or is it becoming, a general trend for software developers to release completely substandard products early for the sake of monetary gain?

    If so, I believe this ARMA 2 to be a shining example of this kind of practice. At first when I booted up the title and managed to retreive around 11 - 15 FPS on a machine boasting an overclocked 3.6ghz Q6700 and gtx 295 I was slightly dismayed. After countless hours of reading the forums, guides, and trying every GPU NVIDIA tweak ive come across, im downright shocked. To date, ive gotten it to "run". I use that word loosely because it seems that my multiplayer experience becomes a choppy bloody nightmare when in any sort of situational combat. Add this to the numerous graphical glitches, CTD's, and other horrendous bugs, and youve got yourself a winner! Dont even get me started on the voice acting.... seriously guys?

    This comes on the heels of purchasing "Tales of Valor" another wonderful example of the kind of ridiculous hyped up, over sold, kind of marketing that ultimately leads to consumers wasting their money.

    I just read a post where a user actually intelligently, albeit fascetiously reccomended virutally space aged 16 core technology to run the game, and was immediately and visciously attacked/flamed. Am I to understand that the following of this Bohemia interactive studio defend this practice, rather ENDORSE a system where users purchase a title and simply wait for patches to make it playable? To be blunt im shocked. Im not one for perfection, but I certainly cant abide this kind of idiocy. Despite every red flag I red, every instinct that said "dont buy this title" I purchased it anyways as I LOVE the BF2 genre simulation combat. Im also a big fan of Company of Heroes, recently hilariously buggy patches ultimately annihlated the game play experience post Tales of Valor release. 5 months later patches restored THE ORIGINAL GAMEPLAY. I figured it was a phenomenon unique to Relic and their bumbling Q and A team.

    What a dissapointment to learn that ive fallen, yet again, victim to what I can only assume to be an emerging policy in software development.

    Release Now

    Patch Later

    I would offer my copy of the game, for free, to anyone who would have it. But ultimately I purchased it off steam and this is not possible.

    I guess this is where you cue the followers to jump in and tell me to be patient and humble, awaiting the glorious patches to follow. Frankly you can keep your patches, this has been one of the most infuriating and disgusting pieces of software ive ever been tricked into purchasing. Part of me still hopes that patches WILL follow and I might actually see some of what the others are talking about. However this only serves to frustrate me further as it reminds me that I can only sit on my hands and wait as others, who paid the same dollar, enjoy the title I cannot.

    Full Ack!!!

    I have as well spent countless hours, trying to get that crap running...

    In fact it is quite common, to release software before it is really finished. Most of the games are released, when there is a release candidate, that is working fine in most cases. But ArmA2 is pre-beta! BIS is ripping off their customers.

    I will not buy a BIS game again. Never. I have learned my lesson.

  5. Posted

    Considering this, they are not even working on the CTD and freeze issues?!? WTF? I would have expected this to be the first item on the list (even if the list is incomplete)...

    And what is listed there... Well let me put it this way: A single developer should be able to do these fixes in less than a week, including lots of testing. So obviously, all developers have been moved to the OFP2 team. This leads me to the assumption, that there won't be a major patch, before OFP2 has been released for a couple of weeks...

    Joe

  6. Posted

    I can't find a post about the next patch in the news-section?!?

    Actually I just came back, after waiting for a reasonable time, to download the latest patch. But I had to realize, nothing has happened at all. I'm sick of this. I received my copy of ArmA2 5 weeks ago. I spent almost 50 Euros on it! Meanwhile it is 20 Euro cheaper! So I have already wasted 20 Euros. And if I consider, how many hours I spent reading here and trying to get it running, we are talking about another 2000 Euros at least.

    Joe

  7. Posted

    Since I couldn't get ArmA2 running, I decided to wait for the next patch... This has been a couple of weeks ago, but still there is no new patch?!? Considering the fast growth of the troubleshooting section here, I am not the only one having big problems getting ArmA2 running.

    So I have paid money for a pre-beta-software and now I have to realize, that BI is not interested in at least fixing the stability issues?!? Thanks a lot, BIS, I have learned my lesson. You took my money, but all I got is an very expensive beer coaster...

    Joe

  8. Posted

    What is the DPI setting of your mouse? Try to lower this.

    With my Lachesis I had to lower the DPI setting from 4000 to 1000 and set the sensitivity to 2 (of 10). In ArmA2 I set the mouse sensitivity to almost the minimum. Not perfect, but playable...

    Joe

    ---------- Post added at 10:06 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:03 AM ----------

    You need to install the drivers, to be able to configure your DeathAdder at all...

    Joe

  9. Posted

    I also found a way to play ArmA 2 now.

    I play as crCTI commander of one side. I look always down to my legs and use only the command menus. That avoids massive streaming and makes crashes a little bit more seldom. Cool right?

    Still I would consider ArmA2 unplayable. I am not gonna wait for months to get it patched to a playable state. I have paid money for it and I want something for my money.

    I am a software developer myself, but I wouldn't dare trying to sell something in this pre-alpha state... Actually my boss would fire me for crap like this.

    Joe

  10. Posted

    I'd probably love it - if it wouldn't freeze every 20 Minutes... As far as I read, there are lots of users having this problem. As well the perfomance is extremly poor. I'll get an average of 25 fps (Multiplayer mode) - on a rig, that I consider to be high end.

    In Germany we call this 'Bananensoftware, reift beim Kunden.'

    Joe

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