JohnKalo

Something we are all expecting for.... Adding new helicopters via a DLC would also mean some more missions and a great enhancement in multiplayer action by combining these great helicopters with all of the TOH elements. I mean I would really like to fly a Chinook. It should be something unique and an astonishing experience indeed. The Hinds was very good and exceptional but it was just for a portion of the TOH players. it had some extremely advanced weapon systems and you should be really into it to try it. And also there was no campaign as far as I know. But ok. That is not so stressing. FSX is not a helicopter game but it has got a lot of helicopters. Something which should be done here with the appropriate flight models and graphics. But after the TOH Hinds there wasn't any other TOH release. Something I believe was due to Arma 3 by means of shortages in man power. There have been a lot of troubleshooting threads there and a lot of work to be done. Something that I firmly believe shouldn't mean no more upgrades for TOH but sadly that seems to be happening. In fact even the moderators of these forums aren't so active. I mean ok there aren't so many posts but you know... Some clue of if there will be any other TOH upgrade.

Some good news we have got here. After much time there really seems to be some future progress to take place. Taz9123 good luck with your scripting and I hope that you will soon be able to build missions, even simple ones. The majority of us know nothing about scripting so you are already having a great advantage. Now I would like to ask you something please. Can fast roping occur in multiplayer by online players?

Well there has been some discussion a while ago about adding some weapons to TOH. I have managed to find a way of accomplishing this goal without extra funds. Everything happened because I wanted to play missions with extra weapons such as Convoy_Attack or Shapur_Revisited_100. I found it a bit off to buy Arma 2 OA so as just to take some of it's weapons since I am not interested in the game so I made do with what I had. The steps are quite simple and I would like all players of TOH to have access to them. What you do is download Arma 2 free version and install it following the instructions. After this is done you should go to the game directory: ...\\Program Files\\Bohemia Interactive\\Arma 2 free version\\Addons. There you shall find some specific files. These are: Ca.pbo, Weapons.pbo, Weapons2.pbo, sounds.pbo. Just copy these to your TOH addons folder and there you have it. The weapons shall be available for missions. TOH will state some errors but it will not affect your game-play by any way. Hope this helped. Any posts with other "suggestions" or experiences would be much appreciated.

Well I looked at your issue a bot more thoroughly and the CD seems to be very problematic. I mean look at the installation procedure. Mine took five to ten minutes. And as it seems you won't be able to fix this issue alone and since there is no support you should buy the English version. Send them a request, Bohemia Interactive, for an exchange. Give them the German version and take an English one. By this way everyone will be ok. And if all works out TOH will give you the unique flight experience that you always wanted, that is for sure.

NO problem. Great news these are. And now that you can play TOH take a look at this one: http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?161548-An-Invitation Hope you would like to join or whoever.

Well it must be the german version since in other versions nothing as such has occurred. And something else if you get it installed by any means, you should first apply the patches and then play TOH. That could be the reason for the campaign not working.

I wish that this would be the only thing unrealistic about helicopters. No flight models, no fast roping, and so many more. That would be great since there would also be more team work when multiplayer gets involved. But that would also mean that smart enough AI should be established for single player functions.

Sad sad sad. Well then maybe Bohemia Interactive could transfer some missions from Arma 3 to TOH after they make them compatible. Even without all the Arma 3 content. It would act as a painkiller.:)

Oups. Sorry. I thought that you sent these emails just before you posted so. Big mistake. Yes in that case it is unacceptable.

Well as for the support you should have to wait some time to have a response. There are dozens if not hundreds of emails being involved. This goes on and on for every company. It is logical though, in a sense.

Thanks but I believe that this is too much. I haven't got that much time.

It must be really difficult if not plainly impossible sadly to find a specific post in the Arma forums. It's like a needle in a haystack. Nicely played. So there was specific and accurate reports of the TOH flight models being in Arma 3. Now that is some piece of information that I was neither aware about. Thanks for the heads up RushHour.

That is so true. I mean, I am a TOH fanatic and I have played the campaign twice and it's challenges and multiplayer missions more than a dozen times but having also played Arma 2 OA, demo, too many differences have come up. Arma 2 OA is by no means realistic compared to TOH. When you fly in TOH there are so many more flight effects that you must consider. And if you get used to it flying in TOH, OA will be really frustrating. My point is that a helicopter pilot shall need some serious experience in order to participate in Arma 2,3 missions without crashing. It is hard to participate in fast extractions, fast roping and air assaults effectively. But I believe that there are enough TOH pilots to fill this gap. Well Rearmed did indeed give TOH players more missions but it's content alone, without OA, is not so sufficient. Not so many weapons or vehicles sadly. But it still is great fun. I really don't know how these things work exactly with Arma games development. In another thread some said that moders could be able to transfer the TOH flight models to Arma 3 whereas others said to forget all about it. Frustrating. Just so frustrating.

Just perfect. Really looking forward for the release of this mission. And I hope that enough players will be gathered. It should be pretty cool. You know helicopters taking heavy fire and autorotating to the ground and emergency evacs being necessary. Really astonishing. ---------------------------------------------------------------EDIT-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now there was a breakthrough. I have managed through some add-ons to have access to specific weapons. -M4A1 RCO M203 -M16A4 Aimpoint -M249 SAW -DMR marksman rifle -M136 AT launcher I shall explain the add-ons later in another thread so for other players to participate. So if you want to include these weapons in the mission it will be ok.

So I have come to realize that more guys are buying TOH and there is now some serious action on the TOH servers. This fact has produced much fun and so why not try to have a wider experience? What I mean is that we could arrange a time and date and go online to play a coop mission. My suggestion is Co12_Shapur_Revisited_100. I know that there is some kind of issue as to the re-spawning of this mission but we can sort things out. We can gather up and organize a serious mission. The reason for choosing this mission is because the players that haven't got much skill when it comes to helicopters can be gunners or participate in the ground assault. We need all the help we can get. This mission takes about an hour and a half so it is not too long and we could even record it to upload it and attract even more fellows to our community. It would be something special and maybe unique. Now as for the time and date we can sort things out by visiting this site.......................... http://www.worldtimeserver.com/current_time_in_UTC.aspx ......................................... We can have up to 12 players which is very good in my opinion. And no we don't have to be elite. Mistakes tend to happen sometimes... So if anybody is interested in such a thing I would really appreciate it if they posted it here. Let's have some fun!:cool:

I was a bit off there. And yes unfortunately I haven't got A2CO. It crossed my mind to buy it, but buy it just for some of it's content? I am not at all interested in playing this game since after downloading the Arma 2 OA demo I didn't find it worthwhile. And also without the flight models piloting is not an option. I tried but I was way disappointed. And as for the equipment I think that we can use Ak-47s, M14s, pistols, grenades, smoke bombs, some rocket propelled grenades and more. I know that they ain't as much as in Arma but whatever. I tried to transfer the weapons from Arma 2OA demo to TOH with the Rearmed patch but nothing occurred. Is there a way to combine the two games without having to buy the Arma one? So that I can have the weapons at least? Looking forward to play the updated Convoy Attack version.

I totally agree. New features and maybe graphics. Nothing more. Really hope that such a thing will eventually be proven... A dream indeed...

Well then maybe we could just stick to the non Hinds version, if that is possible. It will be a bit hard for ghost like players moving around. It would be terrible for such accidents to happen. Someone exploding by some unseen force.:) And if I understand correctly TOH:R stuff is if we are using mods or anything? Personally I haven't got any and neither has my friend here but I don't know. You shall know best for these things... That is a great idea indeed. By enhancing the infantry by means of equipping them with heavy weapons a lot could be achieved. I am really looking forward for such a breakthrough. Another breakthrough indeed. Hope that enough players will turn out. Although these clan things is not something that I am quite used to so I would prefer posts and maybe private messages through the TOH forums. Thanks for the tip though.

That would be a great idea indeed. More enemy vehicles would really be helpful if enough players are gathered. We could organize an air-assault which will be followed by an extraction so as to take down the remaining hostiles. Maybe we could organize an attack on the building where the convoy starts. That is if there is a possibility to place some hostiles in and around the building. Till now we are three. You, a friend of mine and myself. Personally I have enough skills to fly every helicopter in TOH quite good, whereas my friend is a new player and hasn't got such skill. But I believe that more TOH players will soon come up. Have you got to know any players that would be interested? And as for the time no problem whatsoever. Now sadly I haven't got Hinds since I am not so fond of so sophisticated weapon systems so I can not start a Hinds server. I really don't know if I can even join one. I hope this won't be a big problem. I don't know. Maybe I should buy it. If it was in a CD version I would already have it.

I shall have to agree with the first post on the most part. Not keen on swearing before you know best, at least in the forums,:) but whatever... What I mean is that especially the flight models are way off bounds. Arma 3 should be a game that combines people who are interested in infantry units, tanks and guys who just like piloting airplanes and helicopters. I really thought that, that was what it was about. And now I am disappointed. As an apparent hello fan I expected real flying models on Arma 3 and now I know that there is little chance of such things happening. I really appreciate the different modelers since they are the makers of so many great things but they can't do everything. I mean the game on it's release should have many things, as aforementioned in the first post, that it just hasn't. It really is a shame. The fast rope extractions, the air assaults will all end up like games that might have graphics but are far from any kind of sim...:confused:

Sorry but no solution seems to come from this thread. Maybe you should just contact with Bohemia Interactive directly so as to find a solution.

Now that is disappointing indeed. Why would Bohemia Interactive leave all of these things behind? It is supposed to be something like a simulator!?!? And if not the TOH flight models entirely, fast-roping? Especially fast roping is a key to quick extractions and so many more. It can not be dismissed like that. It ruins much of the fun. It is ARMA 3. I used to regard it more highly... I mean come on... Nevertheless I still hope that something, even a later mod release, will patch things up. There are some experienced programmers out there. You can never know, can you?

Not to mention. Glad to help!:)

Well normally you shall have to "fix" your controls. What I am saying is that you must tell the game what it should do for example when you increase the throttle. That should be possible by going to the controls section. You should find where it says collective raise [analogue] and collective lower[analogue]. Then you should click on it and then increase or decrease the throttle on your controller. The collective raise [analogue] is for increasing the throttle and the later is for decreasing the throttle. That should do it. Then you should do the same thing for the rudder pedals. Go to right pedal. Click on it and then press your right pedal on your controller. Go the the left pedal. Click on it and press your left pedal on your controller. And that is just it. While you are doing all these things you shall see, after you have for example pressed your right pedal, some phrase appear, like Z axis, on the right window. That should mean that you have achieved your goal. Hope this helped because this is how you work on Take on Helicopters. I haven't got Arma 3. But since it is from the same company it should work fine.:) P.S. Currently the flight models of Arma 3 are far from realistic sadly. The Take on Helicopters flying models, a game which is 100% a sim, might be installed later on by a mod of some sort. Nevertheless I suppose that Arma 3 will be a great game in general.

Good news then. We have something to hope for... Fingers crossed.