ACPL Jon

Reeves, You've had me laughing for like 5 minutes :) And if I'm already here, I'm gonna give it a shot. Bear in mind - these were funnier in my native language. First off, when the things get heated, we like our insults immature enough. And ArmA related all-right. "Your moms ACRE won't start" "Ur mum has that CBA Macros not found" "Yo mommas so fat, she found the CBA Macros" (all related to the game integration issue, when the CO set wasn't working how it should, the game would spit out "CBA Macros not found". We've been getting that a lot after many folks bought the Steam version) ...and some others ("Ur moms ass is 300 rounds per minute, noob", "Ur mum shoots volkswagens") There was a time we had a female player. First encounters are always messy. One of the guys: "Bro, do You even pretty?" Secondly, sometimes when You get into Your milsim combat boots, You're pretty tired, say, after a long shift. And Your brain as well. And You get to mess some stuff up while giving out orders. June 1944, between the hedgerows... Ragnar, medic: Who should I go with? Jon, CO: You, Ragnar and medic go with Mustang. (whole squads starting to laugh out loud, half-asleep Jon is still like "o_O uhh, what?") Jon: First Fire Team, left side of the road, aaand... Jon: Second Fire Team, You guys get the other side, left side of the road. ("the other left") Stiber, ordering a Palladin fire mission: ...HD type munition... Szajder: "All Dense Refound" (All-Round-Defense) - Weapon stash. Engineeeeeer! Where's the Engie?! Who's Engie? - Uhhh... Stiber. He's the... uhhh... the, ummm... the... (some question in the background) yeah, Satchel. (one guy goes the TEEEE ENNN TEEE, IM A POWER LOOAAAD, ppl loled) watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xe7ZISUllW8 And then... the noobs. Oh god, the "I know how to do stuff, even tho I don't" noobs. Gosh. Guy was fighting like a lion to get the sniper slot. Of course, he knows how to do stuff, oh come on, what do You think Jon, that he's a noob?! Blah blah... We were planning, doing initial recon and setting the assault on the factory complex for almost 30 minutes. 14 men ready to go in proffesionally deliver pain and violence. To get into action, Alpha and Bravo had to take out the lookouts (with silencers) and then breach through the wall (we needed about half a minute to get into bearching positions) All the sniper team had to do, was eliminating the visible sentries and making sure the enemy faced the snipers position, so we can stick the silencers right into their ass. - Zulu (sniper team), You sure You ready? - (with that annoying, bored-CoD-Kid tone) Yeh. - ALL SET. ZULU, take care of that MG on the rooftop. Steady. Fire, Fire, Fire. *shot* (silence) - Alpha, Bravo, commence the assault, I repeat, ASSAULT IS A GO. GO, GO, GO. (while Alpha and Bravo rushes to the wall to breach it, You hear the snipers starting to shoot again) *shot* *shot* *shot* *shot* (silence) - Set. - Alpha, Bravo, blow it! BOOM, BOOM, BOOM. (C4's brings the wall down, flashbangs explode, teams get in the backyard, taking cover behind buildings and trash... they get a very brutal response) - Zulu, what the fuck? These guys were supposed to be dead! (silence) - ZULU, ARE YOU ALIVE? I don't hear Your damn rifle! - Uhh... wait. - (mad amount of gunshots, explosions and shouts in the background) WHAT? - (totally chilled) Uh... guys... anybody remember what to do, so the bullets fly further? I died a little inside. Needless to say, the guy haven't been seen in our sessions any longer. Realistic Soviet war simulation from AD 2010: Guy was assuring us he's the best pilot we can choose, even tho the mission was pretty big (30 players on the server). He was rather OK so far, so hey, why not. He gets a pretty fresh gunner, but hey, what can You screw up having an FCS'ed automatic lightsaber in a flying tank against a bunch of ragheads? Afghanistan, eighties. A lovely valley, east of Sar-e-sang pass. Soviet convoy gets into a nasty ambush. Platoon got shot to shit, but our (players) squads manage to survive the initial wave of heat and flee under fire from DShK and few other angles in every possible taste (PKM, AK's, SVD\SMLE, RPG Frag rounds...) to the valley's "entrance". The people start to panic as it starts to seem as ragheads surrounded us, cutting out our only way of escape, and the Mi-24's are nowhere to be seen or heard. When we get "cornered" under the hill and the situation gets really messy (lack of medical eq, lack of ammo, really a fierce, epic firefight; a lot of people bundled in small amount of terrain and the fact that the survivors are still fleeing from the remnants of the convoy) we see the familiar shape above the hills. Urraaaa! Sssshhhhhhh-BOOM! First Mi-24 is going down... Well, crap, happens, but we still have the second one. Seems it took out the launcher and the DShK. - Eagle, report! - Eagle, coming in. - Eagle, listen! We lost that convoy! Too many assholes chased us, they got into that column. Burn that shit! Burn that shit to ashes! Rocket run, grid S0M3T81NG, I repeat, grid S0M3T81NG, fast, run from east to west. Empty that damn rocket pods! CAREFUL! FRIENDLIES LESS THAN 200 METERS WEST FROM THE CONVOY! I REPEAT, DANGER CLOSE, 200 METERS WEST YOU HAVE FRIENDLY UNITS. Eagle, do You understand? - Yes. - Eagle, make sure You don't hit the friendlies. We don't have the smoke shells to... Eagle? At this point I look up to the chopper from the woumded I was taking care of, during the radio chat. And I see this beatiful russian beast, unleashing its rage. It's pure power. On my fucking men...! - EAGLE, WHAT THE HELL?! Eagle, You were supposed to (voices of panic in the background, I get distracted)... Calm down, those who can move, just RUN! (First portion of unguided missles stop, followed by few bursts, one of those hit close to me. And to the radio, once again...) - Eagle, You're shooting OUR OWN FUCKING GU... (I "see the flash", body flies away and I become a beatiful butterfly) And if You don't find it funny, wait, it's not the end. Pretty much the punchline, that last minute told by the gunner, after the game: - You know, I was busy trying to find what was shooting at you. Somehow the zoom wasn't working... I found the dots at the end of the valley, thought you were behind that slope... Konrad set us on course, he said I should shoot. I heard You said something on the radio, So I asked Konrad - "What did he say?" - I don't know, just shoot those again. Ladies and Gentleman - The Pilot. Applause! There were also some of those "blonde" moments which just happen. (we had few new guys with us, mkay?) Night op went south. 3 Fire Teams get streched out inside the forest, so we don't sit on each other during necessary ARD (All-Round-Defense), to heal up and reefill. Needles to say, enemy follows us. Lots and lots of enemy. Flares. Dogs. Mi-17. And nowhere to run. They went on us all-MW like, and damn, some of them even had silencers! So it's gets more and more panical, as people just go "silent" (a.k.a. SpetsNatz'ed) without warning and the enemy randomly pops out in between the teams. People start losing orientation, TLs mow down the happy trigger guys, to make sure no FF happen. In such circumstances, people were very happy when they were able to confirm they see the actual enemy, usually followed by few bursts. And so... (lemme remind You, we're fighting inside THE FOREST) - ENEMY! - Where?! - Behind the tree! ... And the last one, our pro pilot team, in beatiful MH-47E by Konyo, night over Sangin, fully-Ranger-loaded cargo. Complete silence, until You hear perfectly chilled... Psycho, Crew Chief: Kamex, when we run out of ammo, punch them with that stick in the front of the chopper. Kamex, pilot: Yeah. Like goddamn Hussars...

Dunno if it has been reported, but Your kevlar vest seem to offer no protection. It's usually 1-shot-KO after getting shot. I don't think I have to mention it's a big disadvantage, esp. if You don't use the "high damage" config by Lao Fei Mao?

Thanks Eric!

Great mod man! Btw, any chance we'll see a new version with randomized walking animation? (I heard it was in one of the alpha\beta versions of the game, btw)

Hello. Nice mod! I'd like to ask tho, any chance to drop the TMR Autorest requirement? Our team is already "set" with VTS Weapon Rest (these two seem to be equally popular), and it'd have no sense whatsoever to bring another addon of that kind. I'm not sure if -nologs will solve the problem fully (eg. if we won't get code fuckups or dedicated server mission launching problems), so I'm just asking in the name of the people who've been wondering the same thing. These SCAR's are sexy as hell.

I'm with Adanteh on this one. But srsly, lighting was always an issue for some of the ArmA islands. (and like I always said, better released islands with "meh" lighting, then no islands) And if we are on topic, I would also like to express my disapproval towards one of the things that was suggested earlier. Someone claimed that on the desert maps, lighting should be more... yellow. You know, just because it's the desert\middle east. And that it would be more realistic. And that, @STR_GuyIdidNotRemember, that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. I don't know what would make You sound such a statement. And in case You'd find any excuse, to say something like that - I've been to few countries in my life, including African and Scandinavian ones. And somehow my eyes wasn't invaded with the stupid yellow tint in Tunisia for example (and I was in the - literal - desert, I've even cut through a desert-storm in a "HandOver") nor with the desaturated bright white in Norway. Because, Y'know, we all live under the same sun and the average temperature doesn't change how the light looks, mkay?

You rock guys. This is beatiful. Lemme just: watch?v=6YMPAH67f4o

We are crying ourselves to sleep now

Hey man, great job, thanks. We really loved Your earlier jungle map. Two small questions tho: 1) Could You maybe place some of Mondkalb's African Buildings in the next update? 2) You could try talking with guys from updated Sahrani - they modelled the interiors for some of A1 buildings. And those are cool, so having them on this map too, would be a blast. Any chance? The more variety and open buildings, the better.

I almost jumped from happiness seeing You wrote a new post. Aaaaaand... towing tractor. Damn :D Looks good, never the less.

Hey PenguinInATuxedo. I do agree the non-clickable version would be nice and I already asked for it. Yet, sadly, Peral said he has no plans of doing one so far. Tho, You don't need TrackIR for cockpit interaction\head navigation. (Mouse) Freelook (moving head apart from moving body\vehicle) is built in the game and can be activated by one key. The more You know... :P ;-)

Cheers Ratszo, I'm happy its helping You guys! @Ckrauslo - I suggest You should just run Steam in offline mode to play the singleplayer until BI\Steam fix this shit. That should do the trick, as the things mentioned in here are the things that happen to the less "nooby" guys who used workshop or kid around with Community service. If You haven't messed around with downloading stuff off Workshop and\or disabling Community service ingame, these tips aren't for You.

Ignore this post - my video card is dying.

Just a wild guess, but in ArmA world, stuff just happens. Backup and delete "ArmA 3" and (if present) "ArmA 3 Other Profiles" folders in Your "My Documents" folder. Also: - Did You overclock Your GPU? - Do You have any other games and any problems with them? and basically: Cannot create pixel shader, error 887a0005 DX11 error : Error creating pixel shader : DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_REMOVED DX11 - device removed - reason: DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_HUNG http://answers.ea.com/t5/Crysis-3/DXGI-ERROR-DEVICE-REMOVED/td-p/1118490#13886030798221 Check ~3rd post from the top, and also the whole discussion. One of the guys: "I activated antialiasing and vsync and it stopped."

(not) funny thing is, the rest of the Steam services work rather well, bro

Not even BI, I'm afraid.The Offline solution fix it for the SP guys, at least. Added to the Solutions "tab". Someone in the Steam Forums wrote that he never disabled the Steam Community In-Game option nor even browse Workshop and he still got the problem.

Steam Workshop integration is the problem. Check the Steam forums - many people had the same problem, sadly - Enabling\Disabling Steam Community not always works.

Peace man and Merry Christmas none the less.

Ah, ok. But, next idea - doesn't the license allow You to make a config mod of this?

Merry Christmas man! Thank You very much for the beta!

Why don't You guys simply unpack the right .pbo, un-Rap the config file and read off it the faction name? Not a smart-ass tone, just a reminder, mind it :) Merry Christmas!

Great news, can't wait. May I ask, which buildings You plan to use?

Ok, I misread the last post, disregard this anyway. PS: Tuna, You're very wrong if You think I have never done any creative work for the ArmA world.

@CyclonicTuna - With such approach, ok, then why would You waste your time on ArmA when You can just launch DCS? Go play DCS and stop acting like an ass. What Tonic said. ArmA is about options. And it doesn't take zillion hours to strip one more editor entity out of all the extra stuff. Also, I never said I'm not going to learn all the extra controls so stop putting that into my mouth. I just said it's nice to have an alternative, for when You don't feel like going "all realistic". I've already ported A2 stuff, but the tex are low-res for some reason and I have all the right in the world to make the simplest suggestion which will make the addon satisfy not only ME, but also a lot of other people - the addon will be more popular, which I guess many authors would like: so that there's more people who will appreciate their work. It's not the case of how "elite" YOU would like to feel. So please stop being selfish. PS: Peral, ok, I'll take it as a "no". I see at least one person knows how to do that without getting all... You know what. Cheers man.

Water-hit particles still kinda bugged after the patch