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  1. Posted

    I hate steam for games that i plan to mod. Because most of the time it resulted in a lot of problems. But that doesn't stop me from getting them if they are steam exclusive, after all it's the game that i care about the most, not the launcher. Good games are rare, i can't afford to be picky if the next similar game will be released in 3 or 4 years (with the possibility of beeing steamexclusive as well) =P

  4. Posted · Edited by Fennek

    That sounds nice in theory, although i don't think the aerial recon/ FO /Snipers or Logistics would work for AI like you would expect from a "real" unit... Unless you do some hardcore game redesigning (i guess). I wouldn't want to rely on an AI Team with AI commander that is the only one with support trucks (fuel, ammo, repair). Commanding them directly can be frustrating enough (road? what road? i'll take a shortcut and climb that freakin mountain with my truck... whoops flipped over because of a pebble. Propably best if i don't tell the boss.)

    How about giving Field commanders the ability to build a small outpost/commandpost - for money -(Bunker or something) that gives the Teamleaders of that Fieldcommander the option to spawn there. That way the Teamleaders could get closer to the action if the "frontlines" have already advanced quite a bit from the mainbase without relocating the mainbase. Perhaps some conditions to prevent abuse (i.e. not within 500m of a Town, not further then 3km from mainbase,...) and an appropriate amount of buildtime, similar to basebuildings. Should be destroyable of course. Only one such post for each Fieldcommander, the old post has to be demolished before a new one can be build. If a post is demolished/destroyed it takes xyz seconds until that FC can build another one.

    Edit: Hm ok, just noticed that it's not very helpfull if only the Teamleaders can respawn there. What if the Teamleader could respawn there and buy Infantrie units at this post. They get built by the closest mainbase. After the buildtime it takes some more time until the units spawn at the oupost (to represent the transportation), depending on the distance to the mainbase. This would make playing Infantrie alot less of a pita if you want to get back into action.

  7. Posted

    How do i set up a dedicated server on my PC so it can run with the client as well? I've seen numerous "there are plenty of guides" in plenty of answers, yet all they do is link to long gone sites and dead ends...

    I'm searching since 2 hours and haven't found a single guide that covers the important details.

    What parameters do i have to use for the executables? how do i command my dedicated server (i used the server exe that comes with the game), is there some kind of console for commands?

  8. Posted · Edited by Fennek

    (I think it should be only takistani units)

    Combined Operation mission version-> combined units.

    Edit:

    About the "too many town spawns if many AI pilots" - how about a larger extra radius around the town? If a unit wants to trigger AI in that town (and enable capture mode), it needs to be in that large radius for a certain amount of time. Only then it will trigger town units (if the attacker is in normal town spawn range as well). This will prevent townspawn if someone just boosts above a town with jet/heli.

  9. Posted · Edited by Fennek

    Oh and another bug - i shot a T80BVK in the rear hull, 7 hits with RPG-7VL When i entered it, all parts of the tank showed status red, but it was still fully operational.

    And a minor thing - if the select UBR ammo in the BMP, it still shows as HE on the ammo counter.

    Would be nice to have an indicator of what ammo you have loaded in the T80 too

  13. Posted · Edited by Fennek

    Isn't South Asia in Take On 100x100k already?

    Quantity isn't Quality. I don't think playing infantry in take-on would be very pleasant, unless you want OFP charm. For Take-On it's sufficient, it's a flightsim after all. But not for Arma3.

  14. Posted

    the game starts looking awfully awful ! compared to sims like DCS and Lockon.

    guess why! because it's not a dedicated flightsim. To make it look like in the vid above you would need 1000's of km² of landscape

  15. Posted

    Here's John Carmacs behind-close-doors E3 demo. Very impressive, would actually enable me to finally use 3D. The current technology is just either not convincing or gives headaches. Giving support to the unfinished product is obviously not possible. But once this is out, it would be awesome to have it

    (copied from the other thread, just because i think it is very interesting to hear carmac's explanation)

  18. Posted

    AI is the last thing you want to fix with patches, given the complexity, the deep-in-engine code and potential to break random things.

    *takes a look at 1.60 and 1.62 patchnotes* ... what did you just say?

  20. Posted

    Transportmissions should be in, yeah. Would be a good exercise for Multiplayer if you are new to the game. The player should be tought that those vehicles are valuable - instead of the battefield tactic: fly above targetzone, eject.

    As long as TAB exists don't expect to have a lot of jet mission,because simply you will get bored after TABbing two target ... it's just so arcade to be played.

    Well, then give the player more then 2 targets so he has to use his board weapons too =P

    They could make the Jets faster.

    From a gameplay perspective you wouldn't gain anything from that imo. Even if the island is bigger, the action will still be only in a small zone

  22. Posted

    Hunt area missions are lame imo. If you want to have fun in the air in SP you need real action on the ground too - shooting convoys that just travel a certain route is boring target practise. But if you have to support your ground forces in the battle, the targets are not always predictable in their movement, you have to take care about not shooting friendlies, approach in a good direction, etc etc. It only gets interesting if you can see the ground forces struggle from above, and most important: hear their radio reports. Otherwise it's just point, shoot, "you won", without atmosphere at all - like in the arma 2 armory.

  23. Posted

    So one could assume that the AI is indeed being looked into.

    well, we got quite some patches for Arma2, with many AI issues beeing fixed. I don't think it was just because they felt like it, but because they wanted to improve it for Arma 3 - and decided that it was fair to share it with Arma 2 customers since it's the same AI more or less.

  25. Posted

    And then the video showed that AI doesn't try to use any cover or concealment ever, like we are back in OFP again where AI sometimes knew that there are bushes and trees in the world.

    E3 didn't show a plane in action, does that mean they can't be manually controlled? ... seriously dude

    the showoff was supposed to show off (surprise!) action and not the full game. What's the point in showing how good the AI can hide behind bushes and having the visitor crouch through the hole village for 30min in order to find the damn AI, with 10 other people waiting behind you to play. They were certainly set to aggressive and attack to enforce action.

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