DavidO

It's a bit of a coincidence then. I was venting my frustration earlier and my friend mentioned a major hacking site released their arma 3 aimbot and scripting bypass today and he blames that on his server being unplayable because of this. I'll ask him to change to LAN and join him in a game and see if it happens there as well.

Since it's alpha things are supposed to change and get updated frequently and it might be difficult for any anti-cheat to keep itself up to date alongside. I'm sure that's the reason why. As mentioned there's still fun to be had if you somehow come across a public server without a hacker (I haven't been able to all day, today) or play on a private server with some friends, or a tight knit community that's trustworthy. For me, having had so much fun since the alpha was released now having invested 38 hours in it, it just saddens and angers me to have these people ruin it all in just one day.

Let me put it this way. Yesterday it was fairly okay, but today I've tried 11 games in a row, different servers. At the most I got 10 minutes on enjoyable gameplay until some scripter turned us all into seagulls. This happened on each and every server I tried within 10 minutes. There's no anti cheat right now. So unless you want to be a sitting duck for the hackers that test their scripts in this alpha I'd hold on to my money until you can actually test it.

I'll borrow the thread a bit so as not to create a new topic about it, in case someone who knows is looking here. With ArmA 2 I could use arma2p to get all the arma 2 content to p:/ca. Is there something similar available for ArmA 3, or do I have extract all the .pbo files by hand and put them in p:/a3 (or wherever it is supposed to go).

Yeah it's been said before that this is because you get too close to a demolished building that keeps outputting damage even afterwards. So stay away from houses that have been blown up. Definitely don't run over the ruins. The damage and death doesn't seem to kick in immediately either, but happens a while later which makes it even more confusing.

Is this really a problem? We've been playing countless of hours on a 404games Wasteland Takistan server and no one has ever been confused by the food and water models in the buildings (never seen anyone mention it in chat either). The 60 player server is always packed with people hammering to get in, and it's great action being had on that map. We'd rather play a Sa-Matra version because of the groups and overall better balance. 404games are trying to implement groups, and are testing it, but I don't have faith they will be able to pull it off properly, by the look of how things are going right now.