smokey6

Wow, this is going to take a while to get used to. At least you clarified a lot of my confusion. Anyway, we start tomorrow at 10am so I hope I can pull a rabbit out of the hat. ;) LAN PARTY!

Hey guys, Our LAN party is Saturday. I fired up the game and have been trying to figure out how things work for setting up a server and some game features. I did figure out the different game modes and tried out a few but there are a few questions I could use some help with. First off I only attempted the map wizard editor once so thats still pretty confusing. I ran about 6 already build in games and just played around with the controls. Anyway these are my current top questions. 1. Vehicles, where are they? I saw a few jeeps, a tank looking think like a Bradley and thats about it. Where are the jets, helis, boats, M1 abrams, etc. 2. AI just standing and not moving. I figure I need to give them a command but haven't figured it out yet. 3. Can you kick the AI players out of the vehicles? If you've played Battlefield games you know what I'm talking about. You click your enter function the AI is booted out of vehicle. 4. MAP, is the map just for overview to see whats going on or do you actually command from it? 5. Weapons and classes. Are there different loadout options for these? I always seem to start as assault. Ok, thats the top of my concerns. If you can answer any of those to give me a leg up that be awesome. In the meantime I'll get back to trying to figure it all out. thanks!

Ok, its a go. I convinced them to give it a try at our next LAN party in November. That is the free version. If all goes well then everyone will buy Arma2:OA So the free version will let us do practically everything multiplayer related that the full version will? I already bought Arma 2. If I host will the free version work with it? Also I bought Arma 2 through a digital download. If I buy OA retail (box) will it install ok with the digital version? Also thanks for the tips getting started. Definitely appreciated and will be used.

Very very good. I'm really excited now. I will propose this game to our group. As far as fun most of our members are tired of the frantic run and gun games like COD. ArmA 2 looks like nice change of pace.

Hi all, I was led here after finding out that BF3 will not have local LAN play and wanted to find out more about ArmA 2. I have a number of questions if someone wouldn't mind answering. I did some searching online but I just need concrete answers and not having to go to 20 different sites to get it. I'm in a LAN party group of about 12 players on average. So here goes. - Does Arma 2 have local LAN play and is it listen server or dedicated server? The key here is local play. One of our venues doesn't have good broadband connection but we can authenticate there and then play offline. - Is this a fun game for LAN parties of our size? How much harder is it to get familiar with this game compared to games like BF? Guess what I'm looking for is estimated time on average to get fimiliar and the fun begins? - Online authentication? Online all the time play? - Can we all go co-op against the AI? - Is there deathmatch? - Is ArmA 2: OA the best version for us to buy? - Are there any highly recommended mods we should also get? Ok, that should be a good start. thanks