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  1. Posted

    I have posted this in another thread but it applies here aswell

    1) Bad advertisement.

    I Have never heard of anyone but myself that knew what arma 2 was before mentioning it to them. Nobody knows what kind of game it is, what platform what style. Sure BI may not big as other companies and rather not spend money on advertisement, which I am Okay with, but there must be a way to get it more known. Maybe youtube or facebook or other gaming sites where they can show off what arma 2 can really do

    2) You need a very good PC

    Your standerd Joe pc gamer cant play arma 2, hell my friend who just bought his new gaming pc cant run arma 2 with more then 30 frames, imagin back when arma 2 came out. It requires way to much and it is a real pain to run this game with more then 40 fps. When I first got arma i was focusing more on improving FPS then actually playing the game. Sure given time dedication and money you can make arma 2 running like charm (and when you do the game looks beautiful) but there are not many people who are willing to put much hard work to make just one game run

    3) Not user firendly

    So you found out about arma 2 and you got it tweaked to your perfrence now its time for you to learn the ropes of this game, which is much harder then it seems. The game has so many diffrent controls most that you will never really use. This can be itimidating for the new player looking to enjoy the game. When I first got arma 2 the first thing I started was training missions. On my very first one, while listening to my instructer a insurgent out of no where came and shot him in the face. I had no idea if this was scripted or a bug. I later found out the last part was to kill (or tag) these 3 men. Arma 2 can be very frustrating to learn.

    4) Many bugs

    So you got used to the controls and your ready for some action. Chances are you going to be riddled with bugs of some sort. When I first started harvest red on one of the first scenes one of the character dissapeard from thin air. It sometimes skips over dialogue or triggers not reacting properly. Some missions are just unbeatable because of the bugs and you cant progress in the story unless you restart everything over. This can be real annoying.

    5) Multiplayer

    When you first go to arma 2 multiplayer looking for simple match you will constantly get "missing mod....., missing island". You do not know what you need to do to get these things and when you finally do join a match everybody is usually doing there own thing leaving you to do what you have to do. The multiplayer the first time you play it is very unwelcoming. Once I joined a clan that all changed, arma 2 became the funnest game I have ever played, sadly being in a clan takes a lot of your time with scheduled events and training sessions and with manny real life issues I find it hard to keep up (that is why I had to leave )

    Don't get me wrong I love arma 2 but not many people are going to go the extra mile to play a fun game. Arma 2 can be amazing when dealing with community addons and fun online clans but not many people are going to take the time and figure out how to do it. Most people say you need phD to play it and who am I to say they are wrong

    I am a new player and agree with this post above.

    I think the game is awesome, but it needs to get streamlined to get to these awesome features.

    i am trying my best to get friends involved and help them see how much fun this game is.

    1 or 2 might try it now, they actually bought the game, but i'm actually worried that they are goign to get frustrated with the above mentioned points and then drop the game and this is going to have a DIRECT AFFECT in them NOT purchasing ARMA3...which at the moment they want to get.

    I'll try my best though. I think to start the co-op missions online with a password, will ease them into the game.

    If BI can do the following with ARMA 3 they will have a winner.

    Improve accessibility

    Improve Gui

    Improve addon installation (not even updates) this can be a manual process. Copy it into a global "Addon" folder. Then as in O.A have the player be able to activate and deactivate the addons where they are browsing the MP games. The MP games list addons in use or needed. then you can click activate addons and it will be enabled before joining the game.

    The versions of the addons should not be BI's responsibility. If the addon is incompatible it will just say so. If i already placed the addon in the folder, i would know I can just download the addon and replace the content. This is a cool way of doing it as i can then do that, play another mission while the addon is being downloaded with a download helper etc in the background. I can also easily distribute those addons to my friends without issues and just tell them. "Dump this directory into your addon directory".

  3. Posted

    I just want to add to this interesting thread.

    I'm new to ARMA2 - as in 1 day. Bought Combined operations on Steam yesterday.

    Played the training missions and 1 Mp mission and I'm hooked. i have been wanting a game like this since the old DeltaForce landwarrior games.

    just to add.. I am a BF3 player on PC...I like the game but it gets boring after I played them on console ( 1943, BF2, Bad Company, Bad Company 20 then i got back into PC gaming and got BC3. I don't like CoD. I was browsing around and found some ARMA3 footage on youtube. Then i decided to look at the devs and found Arma 2. looked on Steam and found A2:CO.

    The main reason why I am now an Arma 2 player is BECAUSE of the Sandbox, MIlsim and type of gameplay it offers. It's a damn breath of fresh air in this stale game industry. I seriously hope BI doesnt want to the BF3 / CoD etc etc type gameplay. That market is catered for and saturated. BI has a GEM here.

    yes make it a little more sleek. for goodness sake add a Mod Updater/packager type tool to make the installation easy to do and you will have MATURE, audience that actually spends money on your products here.

    i tell my friends (All of whom are 26+ and more towards 30) of ARMA, i show them stuff and i have 3 of them lining up to buy it.

    1 problem... seriously complicated to get mods going and find out what to do on servers cause they use this or that pack. So Google is needed to look for info. 1 or 2 of them will go through the trouble. We are serious Milsim Airsoft players... so they love the idea of ARMA but the others will lack the patience and technical skill/time to go through all of it.

    Don't change the milsim and sandbox (modding) stuff!

  5. Posted

    Also brand new to ARMA2. Bought Combined Operations from Steam and doing the training now. Loving it!

    I found a MP match and joined - was kinda cool but a very limited user created map on a carier. Was only 6 of us but I found it fun.

    However when trying to join most co-op games I found password protected games - fair enough but now my question is:

    Where is the best place sign up with teams to join them later in co-op?

    Also given the fact that I'm from South Africa the time difference might be an issue to US etc. to EU it should be fine. We had quite a thriving ARMA2 community quite a while ago but find the servers empty now.

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