Archamedes

you really haven't taken a moment to check the forums to see that there are already like 300 posts about campaign bugs

I got around the transport vanishing off the support menu. Now this is a spoiler but it also gets you the use of both transport and barrage and recovers transport if it vanishes from your menu

Hey, I was loving arma 2 up until i got to the delaying the bear mission in which all soldiers are unresponsive "well done picking that one up before selling it bohemia." anyhow, i noticed there was a 1.02 patch out, i installed it and that was it. The game becomes unplayable, there is a terrible lag, wen you turn your head its terribly slow which isnt helped by the motion blur, you cant really move very fast and i ended up having to uninstall arma 2 and starting again without any patches applied. My pc was just returned last week after getting £600 worth of upgrades and it handled arma 2 with all the settings to very high and played very smoothly so i have no idea why the patch caused a huge drain on the pc to make it lag so bad.

I feel silly now. Just had to upgrade in order to play online with my cousin and his mates and it turned out my 3D resolution in video options was up at like something stupid 3200 no wonder it killed the system. problem solved, just check your resolutions in graphics menus

Ok, I have timed it right on capturing the female, once she was extracted safely with no incident. The second time we where ambushed but luckily we wasted the enemy from the safety of the apc and she got rescued again, the third time we where ambushed and the helecopter never turned up and she ran off. However I know the next awkward task of being at the right place at the right time is getting the smugglers, I have read on here about what village to find them in but i cant seem to capture them. Where and when is the best time to catch them?

not really a bug but when you meet the officer at the beginning and he asks you if you want him to fill you in, say no and he still stands there for 5 minutes explaining the same thing, and even has the stupidity of saying "outstanding, you just saved me some time" then tells you everything anyway. So its a bit pointless having the option if you have to go through it anyway

As stated, arma 1 had bugs, but you could still complete the campaign with it. Arma 2, dreadful bugs that should have been picked up haven't and you cannot complete the campaign. It seems like they where working on a deadline, hit it and said "its not finished but we are at our deadline so what do we do?" "Simple, sell it and worry about it later." "But what if there are bugs and issues with the game?" "Who cares, when the money roles in I may extend your contracts to fix them or start on Arma 3, if thats the case you have 3 weeks." But yeah. If anyone said they tested "delaying the bear" they need to be fired, its clearly obvious that there are problems right from the start, could you imagine getting this on the 360? absolutly no way of fixing it if thats the case. They have to realize that not everyone who buys arma ofp games uses communities like these or even have the internet and these people will play it, think "what a load of crap." and take it back probably not even bothering to buy any further releases. Its all about the money and how quickly they can rake it in, probably why the deadlines where too soon.

Thats the point i agree with. Flashpoint alough now pretty obsolete as far as graphics go, it still has very powerful replayability to it. I had gigs and gigs of addons, mods extra campaigns (ffur was my absolute favourite mod) and none of it will every get boring or old. I do hope that within time arma 2 will get this way too when all the bugs are fixed and people start working on mods and add ons, but its early days at the moment

I have browsed the forums quite a bit and from what i can see the 3 biggest annoying bugs are in manhatten the artillery coming off the communication menu for no reason, the non responsive soldiers in delaying the bear. and the immediate attack on your troops on the final mission when you have no way of fighting back. I know sod all about scripting and i haven't worked out how to use the mission editor yet, but waiting for an update patch is like waiting for christmas, so is there anyway we can fix these 3 particular bugs. if so is there anyone that could give a step by step guide?

I found that when using the chopper as soon as you board and try to use the map for some reason it brings up the artillery menu which is probably the reason why soo many people have complained its not in the support menu because regardless of you selecting one of the artillary options or cancelling out the menu, this glitch cancels artillery all together so if you want to use this option make sure you bomb a town BEFORE using the chopper. However this doesn't always happen the first time you use an extraction but there is a fair chance it will happen within the first 3 call outs

In manhatten I found that when using the chopper as soon as you board and try to use the map for some reason it brings up the artillery menu which is probably the reason why soo many people have complained its not in the support menu because regardless of you selecting one of the artillary options or cancelling out the menu, this glitch cancels artillery all together so if you want to use this option make sure you bomb a town BEFORE using the chopper. However this doesn't always happen the first time you use an extraction but there is a fair chance it will happen within the first 3 call outs

I am not happy I had to endmission the final 3 levels to which i fell cheated and the game was completely spoiled due to bugs. Its unforgivable that this was released for sale withot picking up the no responsive bug in delaying the bear. did they just test the first few missions and just got lazy? Its incomplete and you are not getting the quality you are paying for. You don't go out and buy a BMW only to find that it has half an engine, so why buy a game that hasn't been finished? What about the people who owna pc and dont have the inernet to get a patch and yes there are surprisingly a lot of people out there that dont have internet. They will play this and take it back to the shop.

When it comes to realism in games you have to draw the line somewhere, i mean signing for vehicles and weapons may push the realism but isn't really neccessary in a game, I mean if there are hardcore gamers out there that just are not satisfied and want ultra realism, join the army.

definatly not, very big on the original flashpoint when it first came out i still play it now

If any of the bohemia staff read this, will you please take this into account when updating to 1.03 the irony of a bug in a patch to fix bugs makes me laugh

Flashpoint, oh what a golden game that was, if you where in command and you dropped to the floor, your men would all do the same. so yes i noticed this one too. The character called out "bmp, front, close" I dropped to the ground at the safe side of a hill. and one of my men casually strolled over the brow and got killed, sorry but special ops my ass, more like special needs. There was one time when i got injured and one of the men came over to help me and his head was proper twitching and swinging all over the place like he was on acid in a rave, not really applicable to this post but in a real life situation I wouldn't want him messing with wounds when doing that

i dont think you can because i have played the dreaded manhatten level before and I had 3 seperate themes each time i played it. I am certain the level changes every time you restart it. One time i had a call from base to rush in and rescue a downed helicopter crew. this incident never came up again when i replayed it. secondly in this same theme there was an enemy outpost in the woods just by the village where the weapons cache was, when i replayed this, there was no base at all, so the even change the location of the bases each time you replay as well. as for the doctor and woman hung in the village, i got that one too, but when i played it again it was just a "friend" so to answer your question i dont think you can save them