dissaifer

Before we go any further, I honestly just want you to take a breath before you read any more. Like in through your nose and out through your mouth. Go on I'll wait. And again... okay feel better? Good. Now, BIS has released the "last" dev branch update before the official release. And whoa has it ruffled some feathers, which is understandable. I would say it's the weakest dev release as there have been much more issues in this one than before. But I'm going to say it's okay. Now, the reason I'm saying it's okay is because this is pretty standard M.O. for BIS, and software in general. You create software, there is a deadline, you get it out, there are bugs, and you fix them. It's just how software is done. The way I see it they have about a week to fix the stuff they put in the dev branch before it is considered "released." Does this mean that the game is completed? No, hardly. We know there are at least 3 patches coming out with campaign stuff and I'm sure some of the content we've seen will be in there. If you are new to Arma then don't worry, just because it is not there now, doesn't mean it's not coming. When I first played, and I use that term loosely, Arma 2, I was getting like 10 FPS. Now look at it... pretty good right? Sure they could have not fixed it and left it how it was but they didn't. That is what you need to remember. They are not going to stop fixing or adding to it. They don't want their new and old customers to go away over some minor things. Yes, I said minor things and I'm not trying to be combative or a smart ass. Can you load the game up? Most of you... probably. Can you shoot or fly or drive or run? of the group that can start the game up... I'd say yes. That is enough to play it right? Then you have a game. If you can't load it up, I'm sure they are working on it. Please don't take this a an all out defense of BIS either. I had grandiose ideas for a mission, like we all do, that required women be on the island... and I was disappointed there are no female models in the dev branch. Instead I got the "Ancient Greek" form of Altis, if you know what I'm saying. So, I took a breath and said "Okay, it's coming." Hopefully, it will come soon (fingers crossed) or one of the excellent modders will create them (double fingers crossed). And (shoulder shug) that is the good and bad thing about Arma. If you don't like how it is now, you can either post a bug/feature and convince people to vote on it, you just bite you lip and deal with it, or you just walk away for a few months and come back. Sure, it sucks at first and you want to rage out, but in the long run it will be there.

Fulcrum, Here is a boiled down point. There are a great deal of threads of people's "criticism" and very few posts of please help me fix this game by voting up a ticket. My grandfather bestowed some wisdom to me when I was younger and I'm going to give it to everyone here: "Opinions are like a$$holes, everyone's got one."

Relax-just-breath Please read this. Thank you.

Haha, that almost makes want to rename the thread Arma Zen.

Windies, criticism and rage are different things, this is where I stop agreeing with your comment. The attitude you mostly see about "BI can do no wrong" is from people who've been around Arma for a while. The reason that attitude exists is because BI doesn't stop developing the product once it is released, that isn't a common trait amongst computer developers, just look at myriad of games that come out that never have bugs fixed. Can BI do no wrong? No, they can be wrong a great deal. They are just people like you and me, but they still keep working on issues regardless of what these forums say. If you don't think some of the statements are rage... please go read the beta forum. Someone asked for his money back, another claimed all they did was copy and paste. Ask yourself if all BI was copy and paste, is that based in fact? Criticism, I openly ask for. Open up a well written thread, one that was thought about after the initial emotion was invoked with a link to the ticket to vote on - no problem here. If it's good, I'll vote on it and we can get your issue in the pipeline to be fixed.

Sorry you feel that way. This was my attempt to address the growing rage of the dev branch release.

Ran into an issue Civs can't get in empty civ vehicles...

Is it just me or are there no female characters at all? I mean not even as civs.

Ran into a wall with the repost - there is a limit on the number of pics you can have one 1 thread... determining what to do. Cool finds!

It was single player. It was a civilian not a predefined unit. I have a few mods running, but I don't believe they should interfere. I can retest later without the other mods.

Having a bit of problems with this on the dev branch ( 0.77) Quiver gives infinite explosive arrows, can't get any arrows out of the backpack or on your person. I do have CBA on so I don't know if that is causing the issue. Not sure why but you can't put items back in the box (side issue).

New find updated on the first post.

Hey all, I'm pretty new to the display/dialog/resource situation. But I understand that the in game gui is probably a display that you should need to access via a control (if I understood Deadfast's explaination of it). Does anyone have any examples of accessing the in game gui's that I could learn from?

Got update 4 up!

The bottom pic looks like it give it away.

@Westonsammy - well go out there and get a pic and I'll give you credit. @Call_911 - I'll need some grid coords please.

That's a pretty sweet fishing boat wreck. Where is it?

Thanks Worldeater updated first page with the find.

Updated the first page with the current findings. I split the credit on the skull at the chruch on Agios Panagiotis as one person found it, another gave me the coords, and the last gave me the pic. I'm counting the skulls and the skeletons differently now, so I know the full counts. For those who are wondering, a skeleton is the body and the skull. Here is a pic to explain:

3instein/Mick - credit will go to you for that one. ProfTournesol - That's cool, where it is? But it's not a skull or skeleton... keep searching!

Xotodazo - you might want to just post it so I can give you credit for the find!

wow, that is a really big map. I'd like to help but I'm not sure how I would...

The infected pics look really good.

Hi mike, really liked the mod - so I did a review of it. People can get a showcase of it from steam at : Steam link or just go in game and search steam for "HotshotMike's AK showcase".

Really good map. Had an issue with the shadows of some buildings in Tottah. Some of the black spots in the ground are a little off putting, but the amount of effort of the over all map really shows. :) I realize you didn't make this for AI, but it would be a nice addition to allow the ALICE module to function in the towns. Again, really amazing job.