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  1. Posted

    20 hours ago, h4wek said:

    not organic but maybe in whole evoluition chain this is logically next step in all worlds in universe so we are only some step of evolution of intelligence andmost of humans are terryfing by this vision

    Not at all what I was getting at but if one is looking at the world through the lens of Hollywood rather then reality, then yeah, that's the line of thinking.

  4. Posted

    Hi,

     

     

    1 hour ago, Rexroad said:

    Is there someone among you who shares my passion for Arma 3 and has the expertise in SQF coding that I so desperately seek?

    There's plenty! Not me personally though, I'm on a bit of a break but as far as these forums go, you're best of just presenting your exact problem and people will help you out with it. If you have issues with a script or you have some specific script in mind but not entirely sure how to go about it, head over to Mission Scripting & Editing section and make a thread about it.

    Over the years, we compiled plenty of resources in every section for people to teach themselves, such as pinned Scripting Guides & Tutorials Compilation List in editing section. It's author Günther compiled a masterlist on variety of subjects here. Also, check his signature (footnote of his posts) for any additional links.

     

    1 hour ago, Rexroad said:

    I'm searching for guidance, mentorship

    There is a Discord server for Arma, a chatroom basically, so that may work better for that sort of thing. I'm not a part of that but you may want to be.

     

    This place has been around for over twenty years and there is incredible amount of information around. If you want to do something, chances are very high that someone already did it and there's a thread about it. However, search function is a bit... inconvenient with it's cooldown. Therefore, you can perform domain specific searches via your favorite search engine. In this case, simply enter the following into the search bar: 

    site:https://forums.bohemia.net <whatever you are searching for>

    You can take a look at various syntax on how to use advanced search here, for example.

     

     

    Welcome and good luck!

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  5. Posted

    9 hours ago, froggyluv said:

    Pretty crazy that he went and spite googled me to find a comment I made back in 2016. Honestly Harzach I'd thought higher of you

    Well, let's give the man the benefit of the doubt, maybe he just came across it but making a thing out of it is certainly not cool.

     

    9 hours ago, krzychuzokecia said:

    Funny thing is that no one would really care that much if it was just another update to free Unsung. But since it's a paid product that advertises singleplayer content - well, financial investment makes clients care more

    Yeah, that's just it, once monetary transactions are involved, you become a client opposed to just enjoying something that someone made and shared because they like it, wanted to make it for themselves or some other reason. Once you put a price tag on your work, your work then also needs to approximate a certain standard. BI seemingly deemed it unreasonable to uphold CDLC to vanilla standards, which is fair enough, I guess. I don't have to and I didn't purchase any of it but in this case, initially Apex campaign also got hammered for the same reason iirc.

     

    Btw, good to have you back in the mix. 🙂

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  6. Posted

    On 8/6/2023 at 11:10 PM, Gunter Severloh said:

    Whats really neat if for those of you who own Arma Reforger is, in that in the options you can not only adjust your

    FOV but also adjust the FOV of your weapon zoom

    Woot, Reforger has FoV settings? Maybe it's not so bad then... heh. Lame jokes aside, yeah, I used to love that in Battlefield 3 and 4 introduced some additional options. Then later, CoD adopted bunch of settings and these days you have something like Insurgency Sandstorm which is just FoV settings galore. 😄

     

    Edit: Insurgency actually has bunch of sensitivity settings in regards to various FoV levels instead. Totally different thing but very useful nonetheless.

     

    On 8/6/2023 at 11:10 PM, Gunter Severloh said:

    Ideally what i'd like to do and this was asked in the past on my other zoom versions is have the option where you can adjust the zoom

    to different settings via CBA.

    Yep, that would be dope. Good luck!

  9. Posted

    9 hours ago, Harzach said:

    That's not going to happen

    Yeah, that's the part that confuses me. I initially concluded what you wrote but since you liked his post, I went to reconsider and thought that maybe it was a typo - take down, instead of took down. Would still be a bit awkward wording but perhaps it was meant he went and blacklisted everything he considers cheater mods on his server somehow or something along those lines.

    He can explain himself of course but you summarized it perfectly if that truly is the case.

  10. Posted

    36 minutes ago, kibaBG said:

    You can make the player to not take damage for testing purposes with a simple command, teleport and spawn whatever in eden.

    Or you can have a set like this mod and not have to copy scripts or enter commands in debug console over and over for different missions. Maybe you wonna do something in already packed mission or skip to broken part even in official missions *cough Old Man, cough*. I use my own set of course but this could still be useful to someone for all sorts of things. Or maybe I just wonna straight up cheat my ass off in single player for my 10th playthrough of whatever.

     

    1 hour ago, kibaBG said:

    But I still think this is NOT for debug purposes, I have tested a lot of missions without this cheating plague.

    Therefore it is or it can be. There sure is a plague of cheating out there for many games, including Arma to some degree but this is not a part of it, at all. Running a public server without verifySignatures is just crazy. It's like connecting to internet without a firewall. Copying those keys for mods you wonna whitelist works well.

    It is very important we have nuanced discussions about these things and to also not equate single player fun with multiplayer cheating or griefing of any kind. Back in the day, we would even unlock various cheats and mutators for turning the game. This has since been replaced with microtransactions that are ironically not micro in terms of pricing but in value, however.

    Like if I was to say, why didn't you just implement CHVD script version into every single mission you guys play then instead. It's just simple copy-paste job, right. That would also not be very nuanced even if one could make that stretch using logic of your post.

     

    1 hour ago, kibaBG said:

    That cheater could easily destroy the whole base and messed up a many hours long effort in Liberation.

    Hah, well yeah, you can enable debug console and Zeus after all. 🙂

     

    1 hour ago, kibaBG said:

    Just take down cheater mods from the forum and the Workshop.

    I assume you meant you blacklisted them.

     

    1 hour ago, kibaBG said:

    I am sure he will come back complaining he has all the mods "and nothing else" and he cannot join the server.

    There's a fair chance of that happening, heh. I'm glad you sorted it out in the end nonetheless. You guys will be better off.

  11. Posted

    @kibaBG yeah, so there are these things called keys, file extensions .bikey and .bisign. You should look into that if you're running a server. In case of joining a server, you should join servers that only allow verified files if you don't want players to be able to use random stuff. Most actual dedicated servers do that. As you can see, this mod is not even signed and it is a mod, bunch of scripts that we usually use for debugging purposes. It's not some sort of hacking suit and it is indeed harmless. Basic server setup is a separate matter entirely.

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  12. Posted

    3 hours ago, Fred1988 said:

    There is no being "the better man" with these zombies, all we from the older generation can do is to remember the better times that was in the far past.

    Well, to summarize Solomon's proverb on Wisdom and Stupidity: "don't correct a fool for he will only insult you, teach a wise man to multiply his wisdom".

    But then again, to summarize Mathew 19: "with men everything is an issue, but with God all things are possible."

     

    Personally, I don't and never did engage in PvP that is called, among other things, social media. Sometimes though, I do browse through comment section on YT if I see something based and that's about the extent of it. So, if one does decide to subject themselves to that, I suppose I'd refer to the above. While we're here though, we outto avoid broad generalizations. Imagine someone on console that got into tactical stuff through Reforger and is possibly looking into switching to PC space at some point, you'd want this place to be inviting, no?

     

    4 hours ago, Fred1988 said:

    And even if the future for the arma series is looking bleak, at least we got all the good old games that can still be enjoyed.

    I'm not sure everything is such doom and gloom, I mean BI did put out that blog post not to long ago, detailing some challenges in regards to vehicles in MP. It is obvious that they have their work cut out for them, that's for sure but I certainly agree with your sentiment, definitely and not only when it comes to Arma or gaming or tech in general. But in regards to Arma, I still have those DVDs stored in a box somewhere. 🙂

  14. Posted

    4 hours ago, jakeplissken said:

    Xbox players are useless.

    There is no need for this, get a hold of yourself.

     

    4 hours ago, jakeplissken said:

    They just want CoD gameplay.

    While there is a huge market for CoD there, there is also a great starvation for tactical games on consoles and there are plenty of groups trying to make it work similarly to all the sir-yes-sir groups we have on PC.

    We've had these exact same discussions back in ~2010 with the platform being PC only. Nothing new here, these tryhards simply have no consideration for us weary of MP folks. 🙂

     

    Bit hard to play when the servers keep crashing.

    That we can agree on.

     

    1 hour ago, kaject said:

    This is the new Fortnite-induced generation of players who have never lived without internet, have never played a game offline and, therefore, they don't know what is an offline / SP game, even.

    That is a part of it, sure but as I pointed out, generally it's this PvP mentality. Even CoD that a lot of people buy it mostly for it's campaign has their fair share of MP people looking down on it. Some of the Battlefield campaigns were so bad, that general consensus was that DICE outto focus on MP only. Unfortunately this did not materialize into what many were hoping MP to be for 2042 because of course, resource allocation does not work that way in this age of parasitic management.

    I somewhat understand the premise of playing "regular" games against bots (i.e. CS MP maps with bots) is kinda lame even if I enjoy it from time to time, this doesn't really apply to Arma games. So there seems to be some overlap of different mentalities going on and therefore, if possible, we outto educate and inform these newcomers instead of labeling them with something unproductive, otherwise... (on to the next segment below)

     

    1 hour ago, kaject said:

    They're spoiled to the current state of technology, accordingly.

    Aren't we all? Spoiled to technology, spoiled to pleasure, spoiled to institutions to do what we outto be doing, while signing our God given rights away.

     

    1 hour ago, kaject said:

    Some brains are strong enough to resist the pop culture influence, but they're few and far between.

    And here we are. It's a bit hard to do that when your parents and your whole surrounding are also glued to their phones, scrolling through utterly stupid things. Therefore, let's not do that here as well, try to foster healthier environment for those who don't know better. Be a better man and all that.

  18. Posted

    24 minutes ago, Gunter Severloh said:

    Vars stands for virtual arsenal

    Hmm, I assumed it stands for variables. While Virtual Arsenal Loadouts are indeed saved in there, it contains a lot more then that. Such as debug console entries for example and some community made missions even use it as a saved games system. I'm pretty sure that file existed since Arma 3's release, way before VA was even a thing.

     

    Last time I checked, there was no options to clean history in debug console itself. I would like to do that without wiping out everything else by deleting the whole file. Or maybe some mission glitched out and need to wipe those variable. Therefore, I would also be greatly interested in this.

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  19. Posted

    16 minutes ago, ozzbik said:

    What do you mean by Ads?

    Aim Down Sights (of a rifle).

     

    8 hours ago, p-rick said:

    I'm on Xbox and play on darkgru server. When I ads my night vision shuts off. I've tried reinstalling the game and mods to no effect.

    I dunno whats the deal there per se but NVGs are generally incompatible with most scopes. That is why you have NV and Thermal scopes in vanilla Arma 2 and 3 as well.

  21. Posted

    20 hours ago, Gunter Severloh said:

    What your actually doing is just bringing the gun closer to your face to look down the sights, the zoom in general

    Not exactly, it's a function to mitigate the fact that we're using rectangular screens. So it's either realistic distances or wide field of view. Our eyes can do both, our screens cannot. If you'd want to have realistic perceived distances, you'd have to play with FoV around 45-50°, which obviously makes an FPS game unplayable. Such FoV values can work well in some racing games though, even on flat 24" Full HD screen.

     

    20 hours ago, Gunter Severloh said:

    imo shouldn't happen until you raise your gun to aim down the sights.

    Maybe, I'm a bit conflicted about this. On one hand, it's a nice tool, on the other, you're forced to constantly spam it. Zoom Out action is also generally completely useless apart from weapon systems with more then two magnification levels, i.e. tanks, or things like binoculars where you have to hold keys to zoom in and back out. There is a bit of OPF legacy mess interlaced in all this, perhaps things could be streamlined and uniformed a bit in future titles to only use two staged magnification for everything and free up one button on the already limited mouse and make iron sights (that includes general 1x red dot sights) have maximum FoV by default, as if one already held down Zoom In key. Default iron sights FoV, which is the same as regular afair, is only maybe useful for extreme CQB, like doorways type of situation at which point you're probably better of firing from hip, weapon likely blocking less screen too.

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  22. Posted

    On 6/23/2023 at 1:29 AM, jakeplissken said:

    Fixing all of these above issues is needed before any more content can be added, this is a fact.

    Maybe, maybe not. I imagine artists and such have to do something as well in the meanwhile.

     

    Let's tone this whole thing down a bit, everything goes both ways and if one goes through the history of this forum alone, one can gather that this thing we have goes a bit beyond customers and product manufacturing.

    It's good that this article was published, now people don't have to fill in the blanks as much and as per article, there is a clear way forward.

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    Having weighed the pros and cons of each architecture, we believe this is the right choice. We are aware of its shortcomings and have a clear path towards improvement.

    I trust you guys know what you're doing but more importantly, there is a LOT smarter guys then me in modding and editing sections that might have some worthwhile ideas.

     

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    We also want to be transparent about this big change with our community. Please try this implementation when our upcoming update is released and let us know what you think.

    Great, that is very much appreciated, hopefully there is more of this to come. I for one, love learning about one's struggles on the path. It always reminds me of Catastrophe at Baikonur Cosmodrome and how not to handle things.

  23. Posted

    3 hours ago, shifty-afc said:

    Try Reforger ppl, its OFP all over again with better gfx

    Well, not quite... yet, maybe. There was this thing called campaign which was the heart of CWA, one could even argue that was the game, and I'm not sure that will ever be a thing in Reforger. It does look great though and the tools seem dope so far.

  24. Posted

    4 hours ago, Joshua Gullion said:

    Where do you enter that at though? Command Prompt? or something in the game?

    It's a startup parameter. Couple of options here but setting it in Steam should be the easiest for you. See Set Launch Options section of this article:

    https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/7D01-D2DD-D75E-2955

    and put -addonsDir D:\DownloadedMods in the field. Obviously, make sure the path you enter there actually exists on your hard drive.

     

    Alternatively, you can make a shortcut of ArmaReforgerSteam.exe, right-click on it >> properties and add that to the end of Target field. You may need to put the path or both in quotes.

     

    Finally, you could also use a batch script to run the game with startup parameters. I made a post about it not that long ago for Arma 3, you can try to adopt that for your needs.

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