Jason Moyer

Do you need someone to send you some campaign pbo's? I have the OFP-1.96 versions of 1985.pbo and resistance.pbo as well as the ones that come with the final version of CWA. Someone looked at the 1985.pbo missions and found this specific case where the CWA and 1.96 versions are not the same. This is the early mission where, in the CWA version, the second helicopter tries to land in the forest and kills everyone on board. This is reproducable and usually causes the mission to hang: http://forums.bistudio.com/showpost.php?p=1967098&postcount=76 Also, the file sizes for the campaign pbo's are different between 1.96 and 1.99, which makes me wonder if 1.99 doesn't have an earlier version of the campaigns or something.

It's a shame that 1.99 is apparently the final patch because the campaign files it comes with are far buggier than the GotY versions. I'm surprised there hasn't been more mention of that, to be honest.

If anyone picks this up on Steam, I'd be interested in knowing if it's using the broken 1.99 version of the 85 campaign.

It's $60 for: Operation Flashpoint Operation Flashpoint: Resistance Armed Assault Armed Assault: Queen's Gambit ArmA II (20% off ArmA X if you own this on Steam) ArmA II: Operation Arrowhead (another 20% off if you own this on Steam) ArmA II: British Armed Forces ArmA II: Private Military Company If this is the real version of ArmA Gold with the cutscenes (and not the terrible Atari flash animations) I might pick this up at the 40% discount.

I haven't opened the resistance.pbo to check, but it has a different filesize from the 1.9.6 version. I backed up the CWA ones to be safe and replaced both 1985.pbo and resistance.pbo with the 1.9.6 versions and haven't seen an issue in either campaign through the early missions (aside from the things that were already weird like the soldiers running randomly around the obstacle course). Also, and I couldn't replicate this in 1.9.6 but maybe it happens, I've been able to reproduce another bug in the 1.9.9 version of that mission. If you get out of the helicopter at the moment 'get out' appears in the command list, the helicopter will take off with your squad still onboard and the last few guys will fall to their deaths. It's kind of funny actually. I wish I had all of the old OFP patches laying around, because I almost wonder if the campaign files included with CWA aren't from an old version or something.

I was getting those same errors (phone, helos crashing) in CWA until I copied my 1985.pbo and resistance.pbo from my 1.96 install. It now works perfectly fine. Whatever is causing that first mission in CWC to bug out is in the campaign file, not the engine changes or system settings.

Tried playing the latest build and the 1985 campaign is still buggy in the first mission after training. If you get out of the helicopter before the rest of the squad, the helo takes off and the last 2 guys end up falling to their deaths or severe injury. Meanwhile, the second helicopter with troops flies right into the trees and usually explodes with the other team onboard. This is consistently reproducable. I copied the campaign files over from my 1.9.6 install (which are a different size than the ones that come with 1.9.9) and it fixes the issue. Dunno if anything else changed in 1985.pbo or resistance.pbo that using the 1.9.6 versions would negate though. The files are definitely not the same as the ones that come with CWA.