I am not gonna lie here... I bought Arma 2 CO when I saw and article about DayZ and all the hype arround it.
After playing DayZ for a while I decided to give the actual game behind DayZ a try and this is what I found:
- A buggy Arma 2 campaign with missing/dissapearing bodies and items, almost imposible to play through.
- A slightly better OA campaign but still with the same unresponsive Ai, sometimes so stupid that would stay frozen and standing while I am taking shots at it while also somehow being "smart" enough to snipe me from across the map with an AK-47.
So I Said: Ok if SP has this manny bugs and feels this outdated I should't even try the multiplayer.
But then a few days later I spoted version 1.2 of this mod on Armaholic.com... A brand new rebuilt version it said... more versatile and yet combining some of the community's already amazing offerings into one single package so I said to myself, "If this mod doesn't make Arma 2 more enjoyable then nothing will"... but it did just that!
This mod is everything the game should've had from the start:
- Amazing UI, I didn't even knew I needed some of the changes in the UI and now I can't live without them.
- Surprisingly human like Ai, making decisions (good or bad but making them not just standing there), reacting to gun fire and adapting to each situation in different and unpredictable ways... it was life if the world came alive!
- Balanced weapons that feel like the real thing yet require strategy and smart planning to take full advantage of.
- Immersive atmosphere that catches you and never lets you go...
- Huge mod with no impact on performance, my FPS haven't drop a thing while playing this mod.
Having said all this... there is one question I would like to ask:
Since I installed the TrueMods and TrueUser mods my default zoom was reduced which I found quite nice for reality's sake... but now it is harder for me to spot the Ai before they start shooting at me. So my question is: Out of all the mods that alter the Ai, which one do I have to edit to reduce the Ai's Spot distance. It is only fair to reduce their sight as the True mod did to me :)