TovarishMimino

Wow.... I love the general idea. The details and all that are extra and can be worked out, but overall this sounds pretty awesome, especially if you can include pvp in there somehow. Never played Merc 2 but I played Farcry 2, and it was pretty fun.

got mine of SP Rocket, always worked fine expect one day I got that error, wtf?

Not sure if this was mentioned, but maybe there should be lots of promos with free DLs handed out in order to increase the player base and spread the word via mouth. I definitely think that more players playing more different kinds of maps and modes would greatly increase the online quality of the game.

Thanks for the links... I almost got a heart attack lol

uhmmmm......... I just came back from a two week vacation, and I got the same message, wtf? Was there a new patch that switched from Gamespy hosting to another one or something?

Allright, either I am blind or for some reason BI removed the Toggle crouch and prone options in OA. Whyyyyyyyy???? I hate using up three bindings when it can be done with two. Especially in a game where you need to bind a zillion things. Second, if the above is correct, is there any way to customize controls even further using a word editor or something... There are some things that I am also unable to do using the ingame interface such as using say Left CTRL + Mouse wheel up/down to zero in sights. Please help, as I am a fanatic when it comes to using personal custom controls and want to play the game very much but will not do so until I got my keys all figured out... Thanks!!!!

If you can afford it, spend 10$ and get both. I know I did even after having Arma 2 already. It was just too good of a deal. I gave my original Arma 2 to my friend to try out. Hopefully he likes it and gets OA too. ---------- Post added at 03:22 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:17 PM ---------- Well it could be a bug, but you need to keep in mind the distance, stealth, health, weapon range, and whether or not you were just sprinting for a mile. Arma2 is very different in the regard that the shooting is very realistic. It's not so much point and shoot as suppress and flank. There hasn't been a single game out there that leaves me dry on ammo like Arma does. I can often unload whole clips over long distances not killing a single thing, but doing a lot of damage to the enemy by buying time for my bots to run ahead or flank them. And I love it... except when ur down to the last bullet and have to use a pistol at 600m >.< You could also do the same vise versa, orders ur AI to suppress fire and run ahead yourself, but I like to play it safe :-p EDIT: Actually there was another game, Brothers in Arms... that was a damn good game, but unfortunately only good for SP campaign

Don't think so... I think the only stance you have the ability to hold instead of switch to is Lean.

That method works fine.

Well to be honest when I played the Demo before buying Arma2 (which was about 4-5 months ago) I was so blown away by the whole concept and the gameplay that I really ignored the bugs and shortcomings. From my experience the demo was a lot more buggy than the full version, but nevertheless there are times when you will encounter them. If you really like the game, and are the kind of person that can overlook things I'd defintely say get it. If you get easily pissed of and frustrated when something that is suppose to work a certain way and it simply doesn't and you want to break your computer because of it, then save your computer. But I'm just a noob... so yeah.

Haven't put in too many hours, but right of the start gonna tell you much smoother on much higher settings than I had on Arma 2

Theres a 3*x functionality? Wow, nice to know. Although I wouldn't use this system as I like the toggle better. I was wondering if theres a guide to all those crazy keybindings. I tried searching the forums but couldn't find anything relative. Stuff like Evasive Forward, and Bulldozer??? If anyone knows any posts or sites describing them in detail I would greatly appreciate a link. My step over is Space*2 Muahahaaha. P.S. ARROWHEAD IS SICK!!! So far I love it, and much better experience than my first time with Arma 2. Good Job BI!

Well I guess there is no way to bind a button to alternate mouse wheel up/down, which would've been perfect. I'll use TAB+E/D for zoom. Thanks for the suggestions and answers.

As I am starting to realize, my usual binding habits are really horrible for Arma. Most of them I carried over from Americas Army and other FPS. My Left CTRL is crouch, my Left ALT and Windows buttons and Lean Right/Left, and my Shift is Temp Walk/Run. That leaves me with no keys that I can use for alternates like you mentioned :( Although.. I think I noticed that you can use any key for that role.. like say V+E, and V+D as long as V is not taken? Am I right? Gonna check it out.

Yes you can, I just tested. You can go from any position into the other two using those two bindings. Awesome! And I was getting upset. Now I just need to figure out what to bind the Zero In/Out to.... hmmmm

Well... I feel stupid :) I think in Arma2 they had those controls named "Toggle Crouch" and "Toggle Prone" and when I didn't see those I panicked. In any way, thank you very much Greez, much appreciated. ---------- Post added at 07:30 AM ---------- Previous post was at 07:28 AM ---------- What he linked is the same thing. Basically the "Up" key is apparently a toggle for crouch. Go figure :-p

Sorry of topic, but have to get this of my chest .. the narator is a complete idiot. He might be high though, I dont know, maybe both?

I was also trying to decide between SProcket and Steam. I went with SPRocket for this reason + it's cheaper. Downloaded at around 1mb/s, I think Steam has slightly higher download speed but it mostly depends on your connection. I dont like the fact that Steam forces you to use their client every time you launch the game, even though there's ways to go around it.

wth is a .p3d?

Did you ever finish this mission? I'd love to play it!

speaking of terrains. What about mountains? I mean sure theres plenty of hills in Arma 2, but I mean real mountains, such that cannot be passed by vehicles, and maybe a tunnel or two to go through them?

If the Supply Truck AI is too much bother to fix, or even if it isn't, these might be interesting replacements or add ons to them. Obviously if these are to be implemented the supply origins would need be switched from HQ to either towns, or deployable structures. 1 - Railroads. Railroads connect several major cities, so why not run supply trains, I would assume it would be much easier for AI to navigate on the tracks. 2 - Shipping lanes. There are several coastal cities with docks, and shipping is the most popular way of doing commerce, so why not use ships to transport goods and supplies? 3 - Airports. Might not be worthwhile as there are only a few airfields on the map, but just throwing it in here for discussion.

Current setup is fine, but wouldn't it be more fun and realistic if the type of buildings and the locations would be limited? For example, a Heavy Factory can only be built in a larger industrial city. Barracks could be built around any town. Etc. etc. Although this might change the game play and the strategy greatly, and I will probably get flamed right now >.<

Well, I see your point. Maybe allow them to be built in any town without the base limit. I just think it's kinda silly when ppl hide all the factories kilometers away from civilization in the woods. It is possible to select groups on the map by left clicking on them, or dragging a box around them, but the selection and orders are very unnatural to an RTS player. Maybe left click to select and right click to move/attack. But then again I'm just a two week old player and maybe those who have been playing this genre for a long time are used to the way it currently is set up.

These may sound a bit silly, but I think it'll add a nice and funny touch to it. If you can salute, sit down, surrender, and fly as a crow, hell, why not these? When you do these things in real life, you could set your soldier to do these things in the game, to let others know that you're afk, or just for fun. 1 - Smoke break... pretty obvious 2 - Bathroom break ... your soldier starts pissing. (altho this might turn into a pissing on the dead enemy, and if thats a problem, you could make the soldier go to nearest cover such as a tree or a building before pissing) 3 - Lunch break ... your soldier sits down takes out a sandwich and starts munching on it In any case, just sharing my thoughts :p