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Guardian mentioned it as well, Putin simply refused, saying those troopers are supposed to surrender. He also attemped to set ceasefire week later, most likely to give not-his-boys enough time to take town. I'm not even suprised. It's pure gamble to accept. Why Ukrainians would trust them to actually honor this deal, and not change yet again their minds, once soldiers are disarmed?

oxmox, do you actually understand what "ceasefire" means? It means sides refrain from shooting each other or preparing to do so, nothing more. It does not mean one side surrendering or abondoning their positions. If Ukraine decides to keep their units in Debaltsevo they can, as long as they will not attack Separatists positions. If they decide to abondon it, the only thing involving Seps is conditions at which Ukrainian soldiers pass through Sep controlled areas. And even that assuming Separatists actually surrounded it, since maps show they do not control mainroad and it vicinity.

First time I hear of ceasefire that requires capitulation. Must be a Russian thing.

Actually Putin outright said these soldiers are supposed to surrender.

Like equipement unique to Russia beign used there? There's plenty. Interesting fact. About 1 year ago wikipedia listed Russia and Kyrgyzstan as sole users of VSS rifle. After photos of separatists with these rifles were released, suddenly there's 5 new users, obviously none having a linked source When soldiers with new uniforms and AK-74Ms, complete with grenade launchers, took controll over Crimea, Russia claimed they are local boys armed in milsurp shop. When photos showed AA systems entering Ukraine, Russia claimed they are just security for convoy. When "separatists" posed to photos with VSS and KSVK rifles, Russia claimed they could get then anywhere, despite arms not beign sold or used outside Russia. When proof were shown that Russian soldiers fight in Ukraine, Russia claimed they're on vacations When satelite photos shower MLRS shelling Ukraine from Russia, Russia claimed it's rebels who crossed borders. When Russian soldiers were captured in Ukraine, Russia claimed they "just got lost" If Russia gets caught red-handed, will claim it's not hers

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/13/ukraine-service-personnel-killed-minsk-ceasefire Separatists just rush all they have to cut-off and destroy Ukrainian forces holding Debaltseve, because Minsk talks ended much faster than expected. They were promised a week more to do so.

Because there are always jurnalists who don't care about honesty as much as about getting views/beign paid. "Terrifying images from Donbas". Except actually from Chechenya, but who's gonna notice?

I's say little creativity to keep morale up, like this plate [edit] translating from Cyrillic: PTN PNH - PuTiN Poshel Na Huy - Putin GTFO

If only that, point 4 is actually very one-sided. "No foreign militians" means Ukraine is not allowed house foreign bases, troopers, or accept foreign aid in training, while Russia beign "officially not involved" doesn't really have to follow it.

Pictures sometimes speak louder than words

Draft in Ukraine will be problematic, because there was no real conscription there since fall of Soviet Union. Even when military service was mandatory vast majority would simply pay off officer in charge and go home. To quote my co-worker (Ukranian) draft evasion was so easy that "only those willing to go, and idiots, end up in military".

Side mission are now unlocked as you complete scenario missions, and you can no longer choose their sequence. There's no point starting scouting untill you at least complete Blackfoot Down, due to how fast it starts. Other than that, briefing/armory section of mission starts by walking close to mission squadmates.

I'm suprised you didn't at least loot one in Common Enemy as it's nighttime mission. But I'm a hoarder by nature, if not for limited space in trucks I would take to FIA base anything that isn't bolted down :D. My biggest disappointment was how you can't bring back more than one vehicle full of gear, as ones driven by subodinates don't count.

More like BI expecting people do do at least some side-missions in this episode. Or at least loot one from dead CSAT guys in second mission.

Once you reach FIA camp (after next mission if I remember well), sandbox mode (Scouting) is avaliable, where you can do side missions. Equipement and vehicles brought by you back to camp will be saved, though I'm not sure if spawned vehicles are saved too. Anycase there are 2 mods that allow to manipulate SP all you want Support Call and The Super Soldier Module, first one has unlocking feature for sure, though it hasn't been updated for almost a year.

Engine cannot support rate of fire highier than framerate. If you have serious perfomance driop, and try fire a machinegun, you will notice lowered fire rate, and different recoil due to that. Back in ArmA2 every shot of mnigun would consume 4 rounds and deal 4x damage of 7.62mm, I didn't look at ArmA3 configs, but I guess there's some workaround there for it too.

Sway is indeed quite large, but mannagable. Things that are good to know: stamina affects sway (might want to use ShackTac stamina bar, at least untill you can estimate it on your own) health affects sway First Aid Kits restore health only to 75%, so if wounded your sway will be stronger untill medic takes care of you sights will be unstable for a while, after you stop moving there's key to stabilize sight for few seconds (by deafult holding RMB, I suggest rebind it) Also aiming deadzone is pretty bad compared to ArmA2, turning it off might be the best choice

Skill 1.0 for AI is ballanced (or unballanced, if you like) to be considerable threat to squad full of OFP vets, and be just as effective at killing things as they are Lowering AI accuracy in difficulty menu is a good start. For people playing solo I highly recommend getting AI mods, that make AI more human-like and forgiving. Personally I preffer ASR AI 3 mod, due to its simplicity. No elaborate tactics that can break mission design, or heavy scripting that will go straight to hell on perfomance drop. Also there's config file that alows turning features on and off, or adjust AI skills one by one.

NATO command didn't know about the Device, so for them CSAT simply packing their bags and leaving was the most desired outcome. They wouldn't bother them doing so.

Good point. Maybe lowering damage treshhold when AI informs human leader about injury would be enough. Other solution would be making autoheal optional, with adjustable values (damage and distance to enemy) via userconfig, leaving it up to player to decide.

I guessing so, because game appears to "see" progress in Adapt and Win (resume and replay buttons are avaliable, just don't work), but I'm locked out of them because game does not recognise Survive as completed.

Oh yes, this one alone would make a world of difference when managing AI. In ArmA2 they would call for a medic over a scratched knee, but in ArmA3 they do it only if they're damn near dead.

I think campaign progress is still there, it's just game does not recognise resume autosaves, for both mission and campaigns

It seem to me something more than missing campaign progress, after update it seem to be impossible to resume mission, no matter if was started in old or new game version To repro: set new profile start Drawdown 2035 get through flying cutscene to first savepoint go back to menu click "resume" see loading screen get kicked back to menu without any error message

Easy, go to data\config.hpp and put // in front of #include "\@YQ_MOD\data\cfgMoves.cpp" //no weapon sway to disable it