CidCaldensfey

thanks for the replies. I wanted to avoid changing the difficulty but it seems I have no choice lol. I appreciate the responses :)

Heya, I'm new to Arma2. I'm trying to get past the Red Harvest mission but I can't. Every time I do it, someone in my squad gets shot because I suck at this game. I can't see where the enemies are unless I look at my map, and even then I don't know where they are on the field. As for my squadmates, I keep telling them to engage at will but they just do really stupid crap. Like I told them to run to a house, and they did just that, but each one of them strolled on over and ended up get picked off by a guy laying down behind a wall. So I don't know what to do. I just want to play this game and have fun but it's extremely frustrating. And this squad interface is the worst I've ever used before (it's probably get once you figure it out). It's just very counter-intuitive to have to press nearly 3-4 buttons in -just- the right order just to tell one guy to do something so simple like take a shit. Seems like a really awesome game and worth getting into. It also just seems extremely overly complicated. But yes, is there a way to just let the bots squadlead? I tried switching to a different team member on Red Harvest but nothing happened.

Made an account just to say that this multiplayer experience for the night has been absolutely abysmal. It's the equivalent of trying to play San Andreas multiplayer, buggy and laggy. I'll break it down for you. Of the 100 or so servers listed, only about 50 of those have people. Of those 50, only about 20 of those had more than 4-5 people on the server. Of those 20, only 4 or 5 had actually good server pings (lower than 100). Of those 4 or 5, only 2 or 3 of them were actually playable. Yes, the game wouldn't finish receiving data. And of the remainder, the servers were so heavily modded and used custom maps to the point where the game was practically non-sensical. I don't even think people were playing, instead they seemed to just be driving T-72s around an airfield while someone crashed a helicopter into the ground repeatedly. And I stood there in my little sniper outfit trying to make sense of it all before being ran over by said T-72s. So yeah. Really, really, really, bad multiplayer. But the single player is fun. Kind of. I mean, it's not bad but...kind of annoying when your squadmates stand around staring at a wall while you're being shot at and keep telling them to move their asses. Phoenix Soldiers looks like fun though...