highwayhigh

Okay, so I've played first person shooters throughout the years. I am a big fan of more "tactical" first-person shooters. Examples are Rainbow Six Vegas series, and Modern Warfare 1 and 2. Obviously there are vast differences between these and such a hardcore milsim such as ArmA 2. But I am having an awful time trying to play this game. I have mainly dabbled in SP mode for now, until I get more proficient and move on to MP. I play on Regular, for reference. But the VAST majority of time I get smoked by the enemy before I even remotely calculate where they are. I always scan hilltops, trees, rocks, and buildings. But it seems that they can see through 100% opaque shrubbery, trees, building, etc. They always know exactly where I am LONG before I can ever determine there is even an enemy. I have played the regular campaign and the SEAL Team SIX mod campaign. On both, through hours of frustrating play, my tactics have been reduced to: Stay standing, run in the open, get shot at and spin around trying to find the target 400 yards away prone behind a tree, die, reload, crawl back out and try eliminate said target. Rinse and repeat. I have tried staying prone, I have tried being insanely tactical, I have tried everything. Is this just the nature of the game? I mean, I am a US Marine, so even somewhat attempting to use the tactics I've learned through real life training, leads to nothing but failure. I just don't understand. Even hitting prone and going as slow as possible in to a known hostile situation leads me dead, 9 times out of 10. Not to mention the friendly AI is just god awful. I was doing the sniper mission (mission 2) on the Seal Team SIX campaign and my spotter is standing tall at the crest of a hill, catching enemy fire. It just seems there is absolutely no possible way to use stealth and catch the enemy off guard. No matter what they see you before it's even physically possible for you to see them. And they usually decimate you before you can even actually see them. So enough rambling. Mainly, am I missing something? Is this just a "learn to play" sort of situation? Or does SP just suck? Anyways, thanks in advance for the help.

Still getting lockup at difficulty selection screen. I've checked and rechecked mods. Got all required. Only using required. No ACE. Using the SJB_SAS mod. Anyone still having this issue?

Wow, a great deal of positive feedback. Thank you all! I am pretty impressed by the community of this game. I expected a lot of "l2play newb." I suppose it just is an entirely different style of game and I need to unlearn all the old bad habits. I suppose I just need more patience and situational awareness. I suppose in time I will begin to adapt. Thank you all a ton. I definitely will do a lot more tweaking with team commands. I guess I haven't even begun to explore that aspect of the game. Thank you all again for the advice and help. I suppose tonight I'll give it another go and hopefully avoid the constant die/reload cycle. Obviously MP is a whole new animal that I'll probably wait to tackle until I'm better at other aspects. Would you guys reccomend that? Also would it be wise to tackle the original campaign before moving on to user campaign's such as Sick1's? Thanks again guys. I look forward to getting out there on the battlefield with you guys. Also Walker, I'm not new in the Marines. Wrapping up a five year enlistment next month. Served time in Iraq and Afghanistan. The only thing is I am an avionics tech, not a grunt. Granted, I still learned a lot of the basics and fundamentals of infantry and small-unit tactics through early training, it was never advanced much past the fundamentals. Still more than your average joe though.