Manhattan: Safe House problem

[Manhattan: Safe House problem]

When I attacked the house, the guys ran and I shot them all. Cooper said something like, "Jeez, they could have got away with the intell!"

Luckily one of them had it on their body.

[Elektrozavodsk till 5PM]

I think if you do reach the ship by 5pm, the game would just crash with an unexpected error and then it will format your hard disk.

And in true Arma2 style it would give you options. It will say, "Do you want hard disk to formatting!?" And your options will be:

1) Yes

2) Da

3) Ok

[Was the campain even bug tested?]

There are other things you can do I suppose, like the multiplayer and the armory and mission editor and stuff. But the campaign is usually my favourite part of these kinds of games, and it really is poor in this game. It's the kind of game where it would pay to just ignore it for about 2 months and then come back to it when it has some patches.

[[Possible Spoil] Need Little help for a new guy]

Yeah this sucked.

I couldn't get any help from Boomerang, and I had no HE artillery option either. I thought about going back to the main camp to get a tank or something but I was scared that Boomerang might die or something and the mission might fail. In the end I just killed all the guys really slowly and painstakingly with lots of dying and reloading.

When they were all dead, I found rocket launchers on the dead bodies and I peaked out from behind the stationary APC type thing, and I shot the tank and the enemy APC that was patrolling the area. With those dead it was mission over. It's a shame because it could have been fun if it was... a bit different.

[Red Harvest too short?]

Here is my feedback.

Yes I agree, the campaign is short, buggy, not very enjoyable, and VERY restrictive. I didn't get to drive a tank or fly a chopper or plane. It's extremely poorly thought out really. I have vaguely enjoyed it but it was just so messy and so poor in general. I enjoy the scope of this game, being able to "play war" in an enormous area the size of a small country. I can jump in any number of vehicles and drive to places, on road and off road. I can also call in the chopper and I can hand pick pickup and landing locations, or I can just make journeys on foot.

It's very impressive.

The missions themselves were really poor though. The first mission never registered that I blew up the radar, and I found the whole thing a bit underwhelming and I didn't like my welcome to the game being a night time mission really. The second mission I ran out of ammo in the first 20 seconds and the AI failed to give me more ammo so I spent the rest of the mission trying to cap people with my side arm because I didn't want to replace my campaign rifle with an AK or something, in case I never got it back. The third mission was a freakin nightmare because of the sniper. I just got killed over and over and over and over and over because I just couldn't find him and I didn't know where he was. When I finally figured out where he was, I could then complete that entire mission in about 10 minutes, but that was a seriously tedious mission for me at first. The next mission, Razor Two, has a scripting bug or an AI bug and for me it was basically impossible to complete successfully. I attempted it 7 times :( In the end I got lucky because I stumbled across his second in command and I killed him and it allowed me to continue. That mission alone almost spoiled this game for me, because I spent probably 20+ hours on that mission alone... so it really made me start to tire of the location which unfortunately seems to be one of only 2 locations this game has. The mission after that (Manhattan?) was quite good at first, but at the end it was extremely frustrating. First off, the support chopper burst in to flames for no apparent reason, and after escorting the woman, I must have been close to the final objective location because it triggered support coming in to aid me. I didn't want to go back to base in case it screwed up and the support died or something, so I was forced to go in and attack the main enemy location with basically no gear. I basically did it by dying and reloading the game about 70,000 times. :(

I painstakingly sneaked and leaned around the corners to kill all the guys after learning their positions from the million die and reloads. Then I miraculously managed to take one of the dead guys rocket launcher and I then managed to take out the tank and the APC with that and it was mission complete thank god. That was a real crappy experience for me which is a shame because the rest of that mission I quite liked. Also it probably wouldn't have been too bad if there was some kind of support, but I had no support at all, artillery or otherwise for this entire mission.

The mission after that I tried to drive south and I got blown up. So I tried again 4 more times, each taking different routes, sometimes even driving through a remote forest... and I STILL got blown up. Then I tried making a note of where I was blown up, and I tried to scout the location on foot and tried to find who or what was blowing me up. There was nothing there... In the end I was forced to quit and come to this forum to read what was going on. It seems that it's a cheap trick in the design of the mission and it's basically impossible to get through. So I had to drive all the way back to the main base where I found the guys who give me another option. I then drove all the way across the map to find them.

The next mission, you are forced to jump in to a truck controlled by a drunk AI driver. He drove really stupidly and then your convoy gets ambushed and the game saves. Every time I jumped out of the truck I would instantly get sniped to death, so I had to start the mission again. I then travelled to the new location directly and I think that was all this mission had, which was really boring.

Then I get a mission to capture an enemy town with the aid of this little militia army who all look up to me. For some reason though, they seem to do nothing and I can't control them, and the direction they chose to assault the town from is the worst direction possible. So rather than dying over and over, I decided to run all the way around and assault with my crew from a different location. Sadly, I captured the two outside positions and I was excited about then doing a proper assault on the town from the inside, but the mission ended because capturing just those 2 outside positions was deemed enough to capture the entire town even though I only killed one guy and there were about 50 guys remaining in the town....

I am now on the mission where I have to capture 4 towns, and it's been the most tedious mission of all. I somehow wasted all my "money" that they give you to buy units and base defences and stuff, so by the time I was trying to take on the second town, it was basically me and my sidearm against about 4 armoured vehicles and about 30 guys. It was another die&reload situation where a potentially fun situation was turned in to a tedious and boring reload fest that took me several hours to get through. I finally found a guy with a rocket launcher and that let me blow up the BMP, then I found another to take out the APC, and then I painstakingly managed to take out the rest of the guys in the town. Just one dead guy and I have to reload again and again and again and again.. Maybe I'm just not very good, but it's no crime to be a newbie. I suspect the problem is just that the missions were buggy and not well designed in the first place. I have taken 2 of the 4 towns now and I had lots of cash which let me build a bunch of cool stuff which is one of the only happy moments for me in the entire campaign. So I now just need to finish those two towns and then whatever else is left of the campaign.

At this point I'm happy to see it end. I find the armory to be a lot less tedious, but I just wish the "survive for 3 minutes" missions were hour long missions and there was lots of those instead of the messy campaign. I will probably start doing multiplayer now but I hope there are some fun skirmish type missions that are more fun and playable. If not, I might have to make my own missions whcih I would rather not do.