Zixinus

Fine Marcus, apology accepted. But: It's not about you. It's about what you wrote. I don't know you and ergo, I don't give two bits about you. But I read your post and I found it stupid and pointed it out as such with a point-by-point basis. This isn't a personal attack on you and all you believe in. This is what people do. I presume you're young so here's a bit of advice: before you click the post botton ask yourself "Is there something wrong with this post? How could it be improved? Do I imply something that I didn't intend to?" Try to always think trough what you're trying to say. Any really, look up a touch-typing program because your appearent inability to use the shift key doesn't exactly fills people with confidence about you. And? People argue all the time. People settle things and agree on things with arguments. It's when arguments become a fight (emotionally if not physicall) that's a problem. Thinking that we should all get along all the time without arguing is saying that we should always stick our heads in the floor whevener we have a problem. In other words, you call yourself untouchable, which I myself find childish. Why do I find this childish? Adults deal with confrontations, they don't hide away from it. If you do not want to be open to an argument, then don't join it. If you do not want your statements to be judged, don't say it. If you want to express something, be prepeared that it will be judged by your audience as they please. So everyone is entitled to have an opinion about an opinion. The moment you express an opinion, that opinion is free to discussed, validated and even dismissed by others as they please. Opinions are not holy. They are not sacred. They're definitely not property that other people are only allowed to touch with permission. They are free to picked apart, analyzed, validated, dismissed or even mocked and ridiculed. Implying that this shouldn't be tells me that thought policing should be in order. The letter A? Point A? How does that have to do with anything? Not everything is about machoism, you know? If you see a neo-nazi express his disgust with you for having multi-racial friends, calling him a racist bigot isn't excatly about making yourself feel like a real man (woman tend to express their superioty with slightly more subtle ways). Likewise, if I see something stupid, then I call it out.

You do realise that directly writing after my reply and directly replying to my points, stating quite clearly who you are talking to makes you look like any less of a spineless cowards? I don't like to throw around insults, but seriously, what was I supposed to think? Do you think that by starting a reply by telling that you are not going to mention names and then replying to specific points will make me respect you? Make me respect your argument? Boy, you have lost when you forgot to use the shift key. No, seriously. Does your keyboard lack a shift key? Are you suffering from some form of mental sickness that allows you to write words but not allow you to capitalise? Because a quick glance on your specs tells me that you are not from inpoverished, third-world nation where your family is so poor that they can't afford a complete keyboard. Do you lack a hand or some fingers? How are you able to play Arma2 then? Even if you were, I saw a woman who has only three fingers on each hand type properly. The moment I didn't see a capital letter in complete sentances took my attitude to you from reasonable way down below most gutters. Why? Precisely because if you don't bother to write a reply to me properly, then I won't bother to give you any ground. Here's a hint about arguments: expressing spite and insulting your opponent will not make him see your point. Of course I do. It is a game meant to give a realistic (as possible) and open-ended approach to play a game about modern warfare. Glad to hear that you enjoyed it but why do you think that just because you liked it, I should? Who are you? Why should I think that if you like it, I should do too? Implying that I must be hallucinating to think that Arma2 is bad is not exactly an honest tactic and frankly, you've done it so badly that it wouldn't have been good if it were. Because its not made by developers who's previous game was buggy as hell if not outright broken? And no, not all of us know what you mean. I have watched developer walktroughs of OF: DR and as far as I can tell, its not dumbed down, if anything, its smartened up. The only thing that possibly be called "dumb down" is the interface, which is stupid, because it appears to be simplified. Simplifying the interface so that the game could be played by a controller does not mean that the game itself is stupid or dumbed-down. Besides, even if OF: DR turns out to be bad and just as bug-ridden, it would't excuse Arma2 from its own bugs and failures. There is no competition going on you know. By the end of the year, relatively few people will really care wich was the better simulation and a few years from now, no one will do perhaps except the developers who will be moving on to another project. That would be a better argument if the bugs were related to the simulation of the countryside, civilians, animals and not general gameplay. But it still wouldn't be a good argument. Why? Because bugs are not a necessary burden: they can be found and deleted with playtesting and debugging sessions. Players should not experience bugs. A lot of other games also attempt very complex things, but I did not experience this amount of bugs on say, Crysis (both original and Warhead). Yet when Crysis came out, it simulated an entire island with soldiers and wildlife too! So did Far Cry 2! Or how about Fallout 3 or Oblivion, or to out-geek you, Outcast which simulated an entire population! These games were no where as bug-ridden as Arma 2. Even if they make the game unplayable? I didn't buy a game in the store just so I can play it six months afterwards, one all after-release patching is done. If I buy a game in the store, I expect to play it, let it be either a 2D arcade shooter or a 3D simulator. Yes, I do and I saw it all, but I also see (or at least, guess) the profound lack of testing. I'm not saying that Arma 2 is bad all because of itself. I am saying that its archivements are overshadowed by its lack of polish. I have only played a few hours or so and I'm already finding bugs. Hey, markushaze! Would you like to know what makes someone stupid on an online forum? - A lack of proper capitalization and grammar even though the subject should be capapble of it. - A complete inaptitude to argue, solely relying on tribalistic emotional appeal instead of any sense of logic or rational thought, and even a particular failure at even that. - Bad reading comprahension. - Trying to dodge the imminent angry reply by avoiding the subject's name but still replying to a subject's specific points. - Tribalistic loyalty to a video game brand. - Deliberate ignorance of costumer expectation, which is easy when you're not the one earning the money with what you buy your video games with. - Ignorance on the history of the very same video game brand one's loyal to, even though a quick wiki on Operation Flashpoint: Cold War crisis quickly reveals that it was originally released for the PC! - Trying to demostrate brand loyalty by bemoaning a competing brand! Markus? Grow up.

I'm going to ask again: did you read my post? I tried the same mission several times, once even doing the rocket course before I entered the MOUT. I have finished this level in the demo. I can't finish it in the full game (well, I'm going to go and give it another try anyway). I did. I even stood in the middle of the town, throwing grenades and shootings things to get any enemy's attention. Nothing happened. I also counted six corpses. EDIT: I tried again and went my way trough. I've gone in and killed all of team SABRE, I repeat, I have killed and hidden the body of all six SABRE team members! Two rifleman, one machinegunner, one grenader, one marksman in a gillie suit and one dude in a brimmed hat with a makarov and a binocolours. Yes, I have done the rocket course beforehand. The game is bugged. Again. I am happy to supply my save file if it would help some.

I decided to get Arma 2 after I got a new video card (a 4850HD) as it supported DX10 and I wanted to take advantage of it. I have heard bad things about it: horrendus voice acting and unstablility. I got it anyway. I've played the first Arma and got fed up with not only the bad patching process (horrendus size and several of them! for some many editions, you'd think it would be possible to create a united patch) but the insane missions (seriously, you expect a sniper to take out the entire convoy's worth of soldiers? from a clearly visible position? then sneak into an enemy base, alone, place by single and only C4 charge and then take out the rest of the tanks I can barely see with a rocket launcher? something that will tell all the enemy units below exactly where I am?). I started the game right up with the patching it as I heard it improves it. My first impressions were rather good: the bloom was turned down and I can actually see something else than blur. My performance was also better. Then I discovered the bug in the boot camp, which annoyed me. So I went to the armoury and discovered that the poacher mission is bugged, then that the turret challanges are a bit insane (seriously, you expect me to hold of all attackers while in the middle of the field, clearly open to any well-shot bullet?). So I just started Harvest Red and discovered that the very first mission has bugs if I try to swich between various shooting practises. Above that, the squad management is a bit of a mess and very hard to do in the middle of a confused firefight and I can't tell whether I am hurt! I hear groaning, look down and see no blood, go to third person and still see no blood. This is a process that takes a bit too long. Arma 2 is a very typical (Eastern?) European game: the voice acting is done by relatives (I bet) and while the whole thing is ambicious to show us "new" things (I don't view it that way, but rather that Arma2 is the proper version of Arma1 which was a contiunation of Operation Flashpoint which was miles better than Arma1) and while it succeds in creating those features, the entire product fails due to bad QA. If only a month or two more debugging and testing would have been done, the entire game would be have been much better and I wouldn't feel regret for my money. In summary, I like Arma 2 but am disassapointed that it keeps its track record of high amount of bugs and I cannot help but think that there was a lack of playtesting and a lack of debugging. I'm much more looking forward to Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising. Everything according to the videos published shows that it will be a much better than Arma 2 (for example, its trying to make the interface better) and I really don't care all about the "IS GONNA BE AVERAGE SHOOTER!!1!1" talk. Average shooters don't make a point of taking sounds of actual stuff of the USMC by actually going to the USMC!

Are you trying to annoy me? Read me post!

Did you read my post correctly? It has nothing to do with rockets. I did the MOUT course and was not able to finish it. I've tried it another way as well, and the game does not appear to register that I've killed all of SABER team. And to confound the anti-tank training: in one game I went for the MOUT first, in another I did the tubes first and then the MOUT. I'd like to complete the boot camp missions. EDIT: A minor clarification.

I have a: Asrock 4DualCore-SATA2 mobo Intel Duo E4600 2 gigs of DDR2 ram XFX 4850HD with one 1 gig of VRAM SoundBlaster Audigy SE 5.1 Maxtor 6YO80L0 ATA SAMSUNG HD250HJ ATA LG DVD-RW Windows Vista Home Basic Every driver is up to date and every service pack is up. My problem: Complete all pre-driving tasks (I scored high on the shooting range), and engaged in the MOUT (or was it MOUNT?) course. I took the M16 with scope and grenade launcher (even though I never quite figured out how to aim the d*ed thing) In a moment of sheer stupid bravado, I took the car I came in , driven up to the lighthouse and shot every soldier that could be seen in the town. I've waited for a shot to crack but appearently, I've killed all six members of Saber team. So, I go down to the waypoint and I get a messege to no leave the mission area. So I run. And I get a messege that the training is over and the screen showing that I've failed the MOUT course. What's weird, is that I also have appearently a double killcount or at least far more than six people Oh and "survive the poacher" missions (goat, the second map): what am I supposed to do, aside not dying? I ran 2 kilomteres away from the waypoint but nothing happens even if I speed up the game 4x. I run back and find two guys with guns. I thought they were friendly forest people because they have not yet shot me. I brush up against them and ignore me. Still nothing. Then I walk away a bit, only for one of the guys to turn and shoot me. What is going on?