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Hope you fixed this mate :), I couldn't find anything on this other than making a new account and copy pasting it over :/

Offtopic: I wouldn't jump too hard, if you take a look at any company they have been hacked, the fact that it happened to hetzner means nothing as unless they are on a LAN they will get hacked multiple times in the future. The fact that such a good hacker has done it to hetzner means that they are doing something right. Also the hackers took personal information and robot account information (a server browser control panel), give me one company today which doesn't sell your personal information for money to third party members, so hackers got only what they could get anyway if they paid for it. In regards to the bank account information they got the last three digits of my bank card, I wouldn't count that as a victory tbh. If you make your decisions on who's been hacked then count out anyone with any credibility of having a good service, as thats primarily why people would hack it, including bohemia interactive studios. Good services or systems are hacked because they are good, not because they are bad. http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?150766-WARNING-Bohemia-Interactive-web-pages-affected-by-Java-insecurity-at-18-03-2013

this is awesome stuff, ill be trying this weekend for sure, thankyou to everyone who provided insight ill give you the results of the tests tomorrow :)

ah ok thanks :) just tried it out this doesn't fix the issue but it does enlighten me.

would be cool tbh if BIS can get a thunderish sound in the game and add it to the explosions correctly, with a certain amount of time passing between explosion and sound reaching you, then it will sound like the movie clip.

An extended barrel (suppressor or silencer) will give the ammo the same amount of damage and maybe extended accuracy, but a lot of people think that it completely silences the weapon, which it seems to in Arma 3 currently. Even if you remove the bang of the bullet being fired you still have a large amount of mechanical parts in the gun making large amounts of noise (especially automatic guns).

Yeah basically you need an invisible helipad and the heli should try to land on the helipad.

As before with other games for example Skyrim you have steam workshop and then you have a more advance Nexus, the same will be the case here, it just means that those who want to easily upload a mission will be able to. Addons on the other hand will always be through Six, its just so much more simple than steam as its more linked in to Arma 3 (i.e. server lists), so I do not feel that this will be in anyway a loss to the community because even Foxhound im sure will be able to find a way of releasing the steam missions on armaholic.

aye ill send via PM :) @SnR are you sure you are using paa? you need to convert a png to paa using TexView2 Another issue could be that you have missed a piece of code in the squad.xml? <picture></picture> <<<it needs to be exactly as thus

We recruit people usually 20+ come check us out!

I can do it and send you the link via pm.

You can't get singular servers atm (e.g. http://www.gameservers.com/) as its an alpha, the only way to get a server is via having your own dedi server which this is (Hetzner), otherwise im pretty sure you'll have to wait a while. Best way to get your own server if there is a large group of you is via the dedi server route, of course you could "rent" server space off of someone, but thats always risky. edit: did a quick forum search and found this american hoster http://survivalservers.com/ try these guys.

Hetzner will provide good servers which are cheap. http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_rootserver/ex4s Weve got lots of Canadians and Germans/Austrians in our group so I can vouch for our dedi, a solid stable dedi server with low ping and hardly any desync. How ever theres lots to do if you want it to be the best, from mission choice and design to config optimization, its all there to be worked on.

there might be an issue with the sizing then, it needs to be exactly 512x512

I still can't get two servers running? is this issue something to do with running the server off the same exe? Also im not sure what the steam ports actually do, sorry about being such an idiot over this but its one of those days, I can't find anything to do with what the steam ports function is. the only thing which springs to mind is the ability to join through friends on steam? Edit @tankbuster: because you have say 2302 2303 and 2305 all performing functions such as server voip and something else (can't remember what) if you set them up in such close range its likely some ports won't work such as voip.

GunGame has always had teams. From Counter Strike to Arma 2/3.

is it showing up on vehicles? If not then its possible you haven't changed the either the file name and the xml file name, its also possible that you haven't converted the file into a paa format.

http://www.grif-touch.com/2967/arma-3-template-pour-le-squad-xml/ Once you have gone here go down the page till you get to "Vous pouvez le télécharger ici:" the link on the end of that is the download. If you need help setting it up just ask and ill do my best.

you can't basically, if you leave it blank I believe it doesn't show anything, so you could just leave it blank and place the tag in front of your name manually.

It's the most innovative idea they've come up with, rather than closing the game off to a select few people theyve opened it up to the masses, and in doing so we can finally have a say in the product before its released. Im sure most of you have forgotten but Arma and Arma 2 releases were absolute crap, its nice to finally see a company that cares about its customers and get them involved. Ive been a part of open and closed alphas and nearly at all times open alphas win out over closed ones, the reason for it is that a closed alpha just doesn't pull in the number of hours required from gamers, and usually has certain security measures so it can be quite laborious. instead the Arma 3 Alpha has brought forward large amounts of issues, and has also allowed for the community to provide insight on where they want things to go, this is good on many levels as now we won't get features in Arma 3 which would have been suggested by 50 people in a closed alpha only to find that those features are crap on release date (as has happened in the past). Regarding the server and only having one: If you build your house while the foundations are still being built then your most probably going to have issues, and currently the foundations are more important than your house, so stop whining when your house falls apart! sure its a shame that we can't have multiple servers, but at the end of the day I would rather have 1 server full than 5 servers empty, and currently the focus is on improving the game not running your community. And whoever says "if it ain't broke don't fix it" your an idiot, its's clearly broken because every server was infected with this hack, and the devs need your server running even if its one otherwise this alpha is going to be pretty dead. Try thinking on a larger scale than whats immediately infront of you, hey it might make you think twice before buying expensive servers for an Alpha game, just might.....

We are still looking for like minded players for Arma 3 :)

Try our server if you want :) we currently have 30 slots (the most stable amount of players) and we have admins on often, we also don't run unstable missions (unstable being they last more than six hours) and we clear out a lot of the stuff in missions to make it more stable. The fussion wasteland although colourful is one of the most unstable wasteland missions out there, so currently we are clearing it up and hopefully will have a stable variant by tomorrow. Best Regards Dale

We have the same issue on our server, start up the first and I can connect, start up the second and get stuck on the arma 3 alpha screen before the lobby.

Yes but I think to make it to a standard which isn't crap it may take too much time, for example you wouldn't want an anchor which just appears or one that isn't even seen at all.

As long as 3D editor and 2D editor are compatible without having to use a program or function to change them Arma 3 will be a lot easier to edit. Hopefully we get the 3D editor. In regards to making it easier I think making systems more simple to understand and maybe having some way of fast tracking a mission would always help those who just want to get in and go, I see no reason why not to, maybe even like Teamspeak 3 whereby you can select how complicated you want it to be in the options menu (permissions btw).