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Yes. It's too bad it was never as popular as BF2. It had TONS more potential.

My brother plays A2:CO on an Athlon II X2 and it runs rather fine. It's a bit choppy but definitely playable at 1-2k viewdistances. I had an Athlon II x4 which ran even better. Chernogorsk and Zargabad would get a little laggy but the game ran quite well in general.

bigshotking, Overclocking will not fry your CPU as long as you don't let it overheat or raise the voltage too much. If you raise the CPU frequency too high, the worst thing that will happen is a blue screen of death in which case you'll just have to reboot, go in the BIOS and either increase the voltage (only if you want to push the overclock) or lower the frequency and leave it at that. I have a 960T which is very similar to your CPU, just with four cores (it's even the same kind of architecture). I was able to achieve a stable overclock on air without much difficulty, and I imagine you will be able to do the same. Basic overclocking isn't difficult, it just involves rebooting your computer and slowly bringing frequencies up, then running prime95 to test for stability. Raising voltages is more risky but should be safe as long as you stay within your CPU's specifications (I think maximum recommended voltage for you would be 1.4, that's what it is for me) I can walk you through procedures for overclocking AMD. PM me if needed. Contrary to what some of the people here are saying, a Phenom II can run ArmA 2 fairly well. Heck, I ran it on an Athlon and it was still playable.

Actually, I would argue the opposite. Chernobyl didn't even have a containment building, not to mention the fact that it was an obsolete RBMK design from the 50s. At Fukushima, however, the problem was that the backup diesel generators were flooded, making it impossible to cool the reactors (which were also obsolete). All the Japanese had to do was put the generators in a watertight building like they did at Fukushima II and the disaster would never have happened. The best way to guarantee safe nuclear power is to decommission all obsolete reactors, replacing them with new ones operating on the thorium cycle. Additionally, a centralized international code of safety standards should exist to ensure that all future reactors are built taking these things into consideration. The problem (I hate to play the "blame corporations" game here) is that the oil and coal industries find it very profitable to keep people in fear of another meltdown. Oh, and nuclear waste is actually handled very responsibly, believe it or not. "Just bury it" is working as a solution here, the waste is actually transported quite securely and there are numerous precautions to ensure that it is not compromised. And once it arrives on site, it can remain undisturbed for thousands of years. France gets a large percentage of its electrical energy from nuclear reactors and hasn't had any major incidents. I think other countries should follow in France's footsteps regarding safe implementation of atomic power.

I've seen 250 player servers in the Joint Operations International Conflict tournament already and that was over five years ago so I think BIS can definitely make that number possible in ArmA 3. It'll still require an uberserver to run though.

The truth is, all this paranoia about nuclear disasters makes one more likely to happen. By placing excessive regulations on nuclear companies you encourage them to operate obsolete reactors instead of building newer, safer ones. Also, on a side note, I'm not a nuclear engineer so I don't know the answer to this: why not simply build the plants deep underground, away from subsurface water? That way, if something happens you can just evacuate that "chamber" and fill it with concrete or something. If they're deep enough then there shouldn't be any radiation leaking to the surface.

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A multirole fighter like the F-35 makes more sense for a small country as it can perform a wide range of roles without the need to specialize. However, having a dedicated A2A machine like the Raptor means that you can gain control of the sky more easily. I don't think we'll be seeing 6th Generation fighters for a looong long time. The other generations are the result of the NATO/WARPAC arms race as well as experience gained in proxy wars such as Vietnam and Korea. Currently there is nothing Russia and China can put up that comes close to the Raptor (J-20 and PAK FA won't be entering service for a while). The US will develop new planes once it feels threatened again.

Oh yes, let's alienate everyone! Screw convenience, screw gamers, clearly if someone doesn't want to wait 30 minutes for a multiplayer game they are stupid CoD kiddies who wouldn't know a good game if it bit them in the ass!In order to continue making games, BIS needs income, and that income needs to come from game sales. Your individual purchase doesn't do jack shit for Maruk's balance sheet, in fact, if everyone on this forum bought a copy of OFP (I couldn't find sales figures for ArmA 2 so I used that), we would still account for only 4% of its total sales. We, the regular forum posters and BIS's most loyal fans, are a small minority. What does this mean? ArmA's - and by extension, Bohemia's - success depends on the developers' ability to attract new players. No, I'm not talking about going the way of OFPDR and making an arcade-shooter, but about streamlining the non-gameplay elements of the game such as multiplayer and mod support. ArmA is a very hardcore game, but that doesn't mean BIS shouldn't make it more accessible to pick up and just play. There's no need to make players jump through hoops to do that.

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Fun for you = shooting with 100% accuracy while feeling no regard for your virtual life whatsoever. ArmA fun = having to deal with actual stress and having actual difficulty shooting This isn't battlefield.

A large city could work, but only on a small scale. If it's a huge map then it'll just turn into a colossal clusterfuck, both performance-wise and in terms of gameplay. I don't think ArmA's engine is suited for it, though it would be quite cool to see ArmA-style gameplay in a Counter Strike-style map. I think it's a cool idea but not really workable.

No. Hell no. Achievements, Leaderboards and pointless shit would just invite more arcade shooter noobs and K/D whores to crap on our game. Steamworks is fine for Team Fortress 2 and Left 4 Dead, but please, let's keep it out of ArmA.

Where is RobertHammer when we need him?

I would not recommend the 550Ti, it's slower than the GTX460 series. If possible, you should look at a 560 at least, or, if that's beyond your budget, a 6850 or the like.

According to Xfire, I have spent 154 hours playing ArmA 2 and 502 hours playing Arrowhead (Combined Ops), 656 in total. That amounts to 27 days and 8 hours of nonstop play. As I am 17 years, 7 months, 2 weeks, 1 day old, which is 6438 days, this means that I have spent 0.4% percent of my life playing ArmA II. I'm still new here, is what I'm saying.

This whole argument started when someone posted a picture that basically said Russia has tons of achievements against America's only one, the moon landing. I wanted to disprove that. NASA is extremely good at pioneering. That's why they're the only ones to send a man-made object out of the solar system for example. I do admit that the Russians did some things better, for example Energia-Buran was far superior to the Shuttle, however the Shuttle actually accomplished more than Buran ever did. Russia is good at flying routine flights but has fallen behind on the high-profile stuff.My argument seems this way because it's in response to a very heavy-handed Russia > USA argument. ------------------------------------------ To address some other things said in the thread: Regarding Wernher von Braun, it is actually a misconception that he's responsible for the whole Apollo program. He helped conceive the idea of a lunar landing but his ideas as to how to do it were actually ignored in favor of the more conservative Lunar Orbit Rendezvous mission profile. While he designed the Saturn rockets used to launch Apollo missions, all the spacecraft were designed and built by North American Aviation and Grumman. As for the lack of a manned US space program, that is not a failure of NASA or American technology, but of Washington bureaucracy which failed to create a short-term plan. Not that it matters since Soyuz was going to be used as the main crew vehicle for the International Space Station anyway, as it's much cheaper to launch and operate. The Shuttle was used to build the station, crew rotation and resupply was handled almost exclusively by the Russians (with infrequent exceptions). For the record, I am not an American.

Well if that's where Megaupload was hosted, then yes, they can.

I just looked it up and it does seem like they indeed are supporting it. I don't think it's "amplified" and official, but I would expect Bobby Kotick to support this piece o' shit legislation.

Number one to take a number two?

Except major game publishers don't want to stop SOPA/PIPA. Hell, I bet EA and Activision would like nothing less than to shut down all the torrent sites for good. This goes further, in fact. Indie developers are a powerful presence on the market (with games like Minecraft selling millions of copies) and SOPA/PIPA would destroy indie developers because under SOPA/PIPA, parties alleged to be violating copyrights (even if they actually aren't, or even if they don't know about the violation) will be automatically guilty and will have to go to court AFTER they get shut down. Obviously many indie developers can't afford huge legal teams so this means we'd see a decline in independently developed games. In essence, the major publishers support SOPA/PIPA not only because they want to stop piracy but also because it will give them a serious edge over competing indie developers. Besides, E3 is in like June. PIPA is going to be voted on in five days.

Hey Bon, first of all I want to say that I absolutely love your mission. I even play it by myself on LAN as the sandbox-type gameplay is incredibly fun. I've been wondering what your policy on modifications is. I've wanted to port the mission to CAA1 Sahrani and want to make sure you're okay with that.

Two of my youtube videos are banned in Germany. I don't think it has worked :mad: