CJRamze

Now, I'm sure this topic will be deleted/moved or locked but I thought I would voice my Un-biased personal opinions on this game and give you a little back story. I'm 22 years Old, I'm from South Wales and I love computer games. For a while I've dabbled in the Xbox 360 and PS3 realm but PC gaming is the only true gaming platform for First person and Third person shooters, Accuracy with a mouse cannot be replicated with a gamepad. I've been PC Gaming since the age of 7 or 8 and I've enjoyed almost every moment of it, I sold my PC 6 or so months ago as there was a large gap of exceptional games. Then I heard about Arma 2 and was very excited, I remember playing a Demo of Arma 1 and to be honest I was quite disappointed with what I saw, I thought I'd wait for the Second in the Series. I mean after all its technically Operation flashpoint with better graphics and more modernized. I started playing this on a mediocre Media PC I had, and after realizing it just looked too crappy on this machine I moved it to my dads gaming rig. It ran like shit even on a I7 with 6gb of ddr 3 and a GTX285 I put up with the piss poor performance just because I was so excited to play! I started to save up and buy parts for an I7 Core machine to deal with this game, thats how excited I was by the opening levels and videos I'd seen on youtube. I played it very, Very sparsely since its initial release date and I finished it a few days ago, Your probably not going to want to hear this however this is one of the most disappointing games I've ever played. The concept (like Operation Flashpoint) is amazing, however I feel that a game that was made... 6 or maybe more years ago was better polished than this god aweful game. Oh by the way when I said that I'd finished this game, You can replace that with "Cheated my way to the end" I could of completed this game in under two days if it wasn't for the bugs that would render the level un-completeable that would then force you to restart. I cant even remember all of the bugs I came across but To this day I've not been able to complete Badlands across all patches with various methods tried. The latest patch Made One of the AI a civilian and killing him would force the level to end and say that civvie casualties are unacceptable. No offense however they must have literally released this game without playing it through, Sometimes you see bugs that are a pain in the arse. But bugs that occur on EVERY SINGLE LEVEL that prevent you from completing the level are unacceptable and I've never felt so conned out of my £29.99 in all my life. I got to the badlands mission and it was so bugged that I had to type "ENDMISSION" literally there was nothing else I could do, Every route I took to complete this would mess up in some way and the AI would freak out and then it would never complete. Of course typing end mission spawned me with Razor Team in a field full of AI who would then kill us straight away, So I end mission that one and Holy crap I finished the game. So... I never really got to try any of the Vehicles, I never saw a single plane and I went exploring. Vehicles I could find were locked so that I couldnt get in. I'm sorry, This game is one of the buggiest and most unplayable games I've ever SEEN yet alone owned! I LOVE the Mil Sim genre but this has literally put me off ever buying an Arma game ever again. I played the Multiplayer once, it was so Unstructured I didn't know what I was doing so I gave up! It was the Single player I bought it for anyway and its diabolical, If there was a court case against you for this game I'd jump on the bandwagon because I'm that annoyed. Problems I've experienced across varying machines: Terrible Performance - I've tried this on a Dual Core Athlon, 4gb of ram, Nvidia 9800GTX Core2Quad machine 4gb ram Nvidia 8800GTX 640mb I7 machine 6gb of DDR3 Ram Nvidia 285GTX 1GB They all performed very badly, FPS anywhere from 0-40 across all machines on vary graphics settings AI Team Bugs - My team ignoring orders, My team standing still, Ignoring commands and even firing on me Landing in trees Helicopters randomly exploding, AI Squad Members running me over Squad members refusing to use anything except a pistol, Then getting stuck (This list is literally endless) AI Enemy Bugs - Enemies spawning randomly all around me, Enemies not attacking me when inside a vehicle but insta killing me once I leave, Regardless of my location Myself sniping someone over 1000m away missing and the enemy firing back with near perfect accuracy Enemies not spawning at all when they should Invisible Soldiers Invulnerable Soldiers AI either being Incredibly stupid, or Incredibly intelligent. (This list is endless too) Missions: The bugs here rend the game unplayable, I restarted one mission (And I tallied) just over 63 times until I worked out the "Correct thing to do" and for a game thats meant to be open and "Approach and Kill how you want" this is the worst example of one. One mission because I got to the house before the troops arrived the game bugged, Or how I wasn't REALLY supposed to escape. Thanks for letting me know. Missions where If I didn't capture things in the right order I would be teleported to an area with another solider, Like a cut scene was supposed to happen but it didn't... So I'd have to restart the whole level? The fact theres like 10 missions, And if they were bug free could probably be completed in a day, Two at most. Maybe the bugs are there to lengthen the experience? I'm sorry but this is no dig at the mods or at the staff but this game unfit for release, It should never have been released and instead of gearing people up for your future releases you've turned people away. I'm 99% sure I'll be downloading your future titles before purchasing them. I feel conned, Disappointed and enraged.

Great, I worked out that I was basically getting TOO FAR to electro whatever, So it was spawning a missle solider to take me out. Its cheating. Bullshit, So basically I waited till 5pm and went for napa instead. Done, Easy didnt kill a single soldier

Cheers I'm 99% sure thats what I did last time however I think I didnt kill the last guy UNTIL I went inside (He was hiding) I'll try it again. Thanks for the help

The problem is I was very excited about this game. I wanted to buy Arma 1 but never got round to it as my pc was terrible. Now that my fathers got a pretty good machine I was looking to play this. I'm looking at an I7 system but I hear their being replaced with new kit by the end of the year (Possibly a rumour) but the number of bugs in this game have made it unplayable single player and I hear that Co-Op performance is straight up terrible I dont know what I should even do. I dont like capture the flag/Team death match situations I'd rather work with a squad and kill some dudes not die...respawn...die....respawn.

I've had exactly the same problems, I think its just that mission (The one where you have to find the CHDKZ Leader/Base Fuggin Nightmarish.

I dont know if anyone else has reported this however I thought I'd created a topic as I couldnt find anything thats relevant to what I'm experiancing... although I'm sure someone will link this and then close it off. I'm having problems that make this game near unplayable in single player. I'm currently doing that mission where manhattens being dismantled, I wont give anything away but for the first 15-20 mins of gameplay everythings Hunky dorey. The AI are blasting enemys, I'm whizzing around in a Jeep everythings smashing, And then as quick as it goes right, it all goes wrong. Early signs of the AI going MENTAL are singular members stopping... pulling out their side arm and then refusing to move! Normally playing as them pulling out their normal weapon, going prone and then swopping back to the leader sorts it but its only the start. My example is this, I was hitting about 100 on a road in the HumVee when I spotted something in the distance, I disembarked everyone and then made them walk ahead whilst I used the 50 cal, They walked all the way down and saw nothing. I saved the game thinking something suspicious was up, I disembarked, InstaDeath from gun shots, Loaded again, Looked around made sure no one was there, Disembarked ... instadeath. Whats happening is I'm disembarking and someones spawning next to me with a gun to my head and kills me. So I stay in the jeep. Then I notice one platoon of people, Then another... Then Another Then another, about 6 squads of 6 or so people all swarming around the humvee.... all enemys, None of my AI team mates did ANYTHING, None of them could see these people other than "MAN" and not hostiles. They wouldnt attack me but I could attack them and when I got down to killing the last two in the squad (From my mounted 50 cal) they would dissapear.... Step outside and they all recognise me as hostile and the shit hits the fan, My AI however still wander around not registering anyone as hostile, Sometimes obeying my orders sometimes ignoring them all the way Ignoring ALL of the 30 or so hostiles in my area. I've restarted this mission three times now and I've tried all but the hardest difficulty level. The AI in this game is bonkers. Both my squad and the enemy are oblivious to each other, I'm having AI spawn all around me and invisble missile soldiers blowing up my humvee when I try to pass certain points? Is this some some of Joke? Am I alone in this!?! Also the game runs like crap on my dads machine, its a Quad Core 2.66ghz with 4gb of DDR2 ram and a 9800GTX ---------- Post added at 06:20 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:19 PM ---------- By the way the AI are totally useless it other campagns too, Sometimes their killing machines. Othertimes they get jammed in crouched positions with their pistols out (Not a euphamism)