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Sorry this going to sound really basic (:o) but I'm trying to learn to script and I was wandering how the _ syntax is used? For example _num=player countEnemy list _triggerN1 What is the significance of the underscore there, as opposed to just "num=player"? Many thanks in advance

This is looking great guys, thanks for all your hard work. I look forward to the end result :D

Sounds like a hugely ambitious project, good luck mate :D By the way, have you tried Namalsk Island? It's also (EDIT: heavily) inspired by S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and really captures the atmosphere brilliantly (it uses filters to make everything look grey and barren I believe). It also features the only underground bunker I can remember having seen in Arma 2 (called AII), by cleverly placing the bunker object/s in a hole in the ground and creating a fake floor above using more objects: it works surprisingly well, although the bunker seems to confuse the bejesus out of the AI :)

I have Arma 2 OA (EDIT: Combined Operations) installed on my F drive (a SSD) rather than my main drive. I have downloaded ACR's setup but it keeps telling me that Arma 2 is not installed. I have tried running the setup from the F drive but still no luck. Anyone got any ideas? Many thanks.

I should be okay mate, I used regedit to change every registry destination relating to Arma from the C drive to the F drive when I first moved Arma onto the F drive. Thanks again.

Thank you mate- the answer is that both Arma 2 and OA need patching. The exact error message was 'this product requires Arma 2 Version 1.11 to be installed first…' Not realizing that Arma 2 and OA (can) have different versions even when merged, I loaded Combined Operations and saw that it was version '1.59', so I presumed the error message must mean that ACR's installer couldn't find Arma 2 at all. Confusion sorted, thanks again. Will do, thanks.

Sorry I didn't make that clear: I have Combined Operations installed (with all DLCs), so the whole Arma 2 directory is in the F drive.

Only 10 minutes in, the learning curve is quite steep (the manual in the installation folder is useful) and there is cleary a fair bit more work to go, but my initial impressions are really very positive :bounce3:, I love what BIS have done so far. The atmosphere is fantastic and the gameplay is very enjoyable. This game has a lot of potential, if BIS keep doing what they're doing Carrier Command is going to be one heck of a good game :D BTW I've also found the mouse action to be oddly weighted in the main menu- the menu is still perfectly usable however, so no biggie.

Now downloading 1286MB 350KB/s 1 hour to go...

Thank you- I was worried it was just me not able to download, but evidently not. Guess I'll have to join the F5 club... :)

Has anyone managed to download it yet? My CD key has now appeared but I'm still getting this message when I attempt to download the beta:

I've heard good things said about using , if you want the next level of immersion that's probably the thing to try.

I generally don't like playing pre-release builds but I couldn't resist signing up for this one, Carrier Command looks great. It's a shame the release date is now so close to Arma III- with two massive drains on my time I may have to give up work for a few months... :D

Now that I've managed to stop sobbing :D, I must admit that it seems sensible of BIS to defer the release rather than sell a half-finished product. We can only hope that the world doesn't end first :D

I like the new layout :). That said the old layout really was excellent, so the new look isn't really an improvement over the old one, just pleasantly different :D

Dear God, it's like listening to the campaign pledges of a 9 year old boy. What a ludicrous and utterly irrelevant idea. Only a Republican could be this plainly absurd :D

Another great mission mate, love the idea :D

I've had this problem for ages- when I place a vehicle in the editor it has a driver but there is no gunner and in some vehicles no commander. As far as I'm aware I've only ever encountered this problem with land vehicles. This problem isn't just in the editor either- I can no longer play the campaign properly because none of the vehicles have gunners. It really saps the life out of a tank battle when all the tanks can do is drive into each other :D In the editor I can create a crewman and use moveingunner in the unit's init, but clearly this isn't a full solution. I have hundreds of addons installed and am convinced one of these is causing the problem. Many thanks, SW

I'm jealous mate :D , it will be interesting to see how well Arma 2 scales with this next generation Crossfire setup, I think it may be time for me to get a new system sometime this year ready for some silky smooth Arma 3 goodness. Have fun...

It would run Arma 2 happily on high, and very high should also be playable, depending on your monitor's resolution. Whilst the CPU is great (as is the Corsair memory), the graphics card is the weak link in the system. Something more powerful like a HD6950 1GB or a GTX 560TI 1GB would offer more FPS and ensure very high runs (more) smoothly.

If you think there is a reasonable possibility that you will upgrade in the future then it may be worth getting a bigger PSU than the current system requires, but buying an overly large PSU is not just wasteful due to the spare capacity which is sitting there doing nothing, it's also inefficient. A (good) PSU is normally most efficient at around 60% load and then efficiency remains fairly constant up to 100%. However beneath peak (~60%) load, efficiency goes down as load goes down. Thus a 600W PSU with a 300W system power draw (50% load) would be more efficient than an 850W PSU with a 300W system power draw (~35% load), assuming the quality of components making up both PSUs is roughly the same. I suppose that's being pernickety though :D

@Sled88 this looks really great, especially the screenshots above (in #48) which look brilliant- Conspiracies at its best :D. The community should wait to play it before they come to any premature judgements.

Perfectly capable CPU, you've just got to hope it will survive two years with that healthy 4.3GHZ overclock :D

Alienware M11X R3 i5 2467M 1GB GT540M 8GB 1333MHZ RAM Vanilla Arma 2 (Arrowhead NOT installed) Averages about 30fps on high settings @ 1366 x 768 With a minimum of 18fps in the most demanding moments Playable. Just thought I'd post this information regarding my laptop in case anyone is interested in buying an Armatop.

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