Mirudes

We could have 100% security when we would take out the modding capability. Nobody wants that. BIS as a company could sell more licences due to the fact that more people gets banned - think about it. More profit for a weaker protection. That's just wrong. Same with official DLCs: BIS could sell more of its own DLCs with digital signatures. Leaving the unofficial Mods to Steam - monetizing.

Uh - I think that was a bug in A2, when you respawned while you had been a gunner with max zoom in. I am sure it was fixed in A2 (Edit: Was probably related to the 3rd person view, too). This happened to me sometimes in A2 when I was gunner in a Blackhawk or Chinook, both was somehow bugged. Generally these toggles (for max zoom in and out) works in vehicles but not in infantry mode. May be dependant to difficulty settings, too. Besides that: By using the win-systemsettings for mousewheel up/down by assigning (for example) PageUp/PageDown to it, you are able to use the pageUp/pagedown function of the mousewheel in Arma, too.

Since ArmA3 is contributed with Steam, this would be valid of course also for the Steam-Network and VAC. Where one can only presume it for BattlEye...the proof is missing.;)

Am I posting in the wrong thread? Is this about to have to less online missions, or what? Why don't you start to participate in the discussion that is going on here?

Yep, count me in! I would love to set my mousewheel in the keyboard shortcuts-options to this. I would also like to see a integrated (optional) indicator for the positions.

When a driver drives over a friendly player, it is not considered as a teamkill - why not? When I am commander in a vehicle, i get a negative score when the gunner is teamkilling? Another example: __cur_mp.pbo Do you know what that is? Do you know how old this leak is? Will I still come across cheaters just playing missions with this name? How long will we do have to deal with teamkilling? Yes, I agree with the topicstarter, BIS need to do something against teamkilling at the respawn, but not only relying on the 3rd party anti-cheat-tools.

You need an update! The new multiplayer is: FREE2PLAY AND PAY2WIN. What games are predestinated for this? Right! Games on Steam. Modable games. Games like ArmA. Time has changed, BI made a step to Steam. They will loose a handful of players but will sell millions of new licences there. I don't want to come over like a troll but you better start to deal with it. You can reach the new alpha/beta/demo-testers or the Free4Play-players now or you loose them later to the standalone DayZ on Steam. Requirement: MP function! DealWithIt.jpg

Well, the limits to manage and start your mods is basically the same anyway, either for MP or SP. This is going to be offtopic because the Alpha-Light comes without mod-capabilities for a reason. - ArmA3 lacks of a modstarter, that recognizes already installed mods. - There needs to be a updater for all installed mods, let there be it community-mods or official DLCs. - The mods needs to follow common conventions and must have digital signatures. - Auto-mod-start for singleplayer (It's just a restart) - Acting like a online-filter for missions you want to play (with already installed mods) or -- Missing mods you need to update/download first before you can play the multiplayer-mission. - The capability to assign keystrokes and recognize conflicting shortcuts in mods. - ...you can add more. I am sorry to hear that. This is actually the first time that I hear from a A3-alpha-light-tester that the game doesn't run. Your hardware-specs looks so nice! Have you ever run the A2-benchmark missions?

Well, that's a practicable idea, probably even for the upcoming beta or the demo (*). - The players with the license is automatically Admin on his server. - Same restrictions: No mods allowed, limited editor and so on. (*) By the way, I believe that a demoversion of A3 should be the same like a restricted "A3play4Free" what we have seen in ArmA2. It is just to complicated to create a standalone demo, what will be outdated after 2 weeks. Let there be a Free4Play version with multiplayer and keep it up to date with the usual A3-Patches. I agree, but I have to say it one more time: It's actually only the licensed Player who have access to the multiplayer. And starting the release of the A3-Alpha without BattlEye (or any Steam-protection) appears to be unbelievable to me.

Dude, you didn't even tried to read!

Generally, I don't think that BattlEye meets the requirements of Steam. Edit: How can a poll be closed when it is still the alpha-phase? Lol!1!!11!

I wonder who else, participating here, has bought a license for ArmA3?

So, you are not satisfied with the overall situation? :p

Good work! I don't understand how this was be achieved and I wonder how hardware-hungry this can be. All pictures look more natural and beautiful, I hope that the developers agree!

I am still curious how a alpha-version with the tiny island can ever be a free A3 full version, only by adding MP-functions. Before you judge the A3-community@Steam you should take a look on what Dwarden(Developer) had just said over there: Does the Lite version have multiplayer to it? http://steamcommunity.com/app/107410/discussions/2/828933455701036170/#p1 Alpha Lite Multiplayer? http://steamcommunity.com/app/107410/discussions/0/828933455800551005/

+1 Especially mousewheel!

Are you trying to brainwash me? When you are talking about cheaters in the A3-Alpha-Multiplayer, you are actually talking about players who bought the game, not about Alpha-light players. Next you are saying, A3Alpha comes without protection. Go and blame someone else here in that forum for the failures in the software, but not the Steam-players. When you want to test the alpha, you need a multiplayer with a protection. When you want to test your cheats, you need a multiplayer without protection. It is as easy like that. You cannot imagine the reaction of the normal steam user when they hear that A3 Alpha light is SP only. Because that makes no sense at Steam. If you think you can test a singler player mode at Steam, something is wrong with you. If you want to abuse the ArmA-Community for to test a steam-powered singlerplayer-mode, you are also wrong.

They will probably look like how the bandits in DayZ-standalone will look like ;)

I would like to show my support for this proposal. NordKindchen did a impressive job here. The more I look at the artistic impressions he made, the more I want it.

- No matter if the Alpha runs on your system...you will need new hardware for the fullversion. - By talking about cracked CD-Keys and such: This is in fact a weak protection and could be considered as bugs. - The actual alpha is without BattlEye or Steam-protection. Fact is that the cheaters are actually working on the new ArmA3-cheats. These are all things that used to be fixed in the final version. If the Alpha is made for testing, it is surely made for online playing with Steam, otherwise it is only a (false) advertising for BIS. BIS could get a better reputation on Steam with a cool Multiplayer-patch for the alpha light.

I am somehow undecided between the first 2 answers. That's why I voted for the first option. Because i want all female models in game capable to do everything. I don't ever want to see a civilian woman standing on a motorbike again. Never more.

This is not about me, not about the support I give or my capabilities. At least I did made all of my three invitations, 2 of them to ArmA-veterans and one wanted to check his hardware with the A3-light version before he buys. (Probably he wants to trade the key - I don't care). Testing is in fact the purpose of a alpha, beta or even the demo. The normal ArmA-player is conservative. They still love to buy their game in a box. Now the players are forced to use a download from Steam. This is what the present customer fears most: A Steam-protected singleplayermode in ArmA3. On the other hand you have the enormously large Steam-Community. Steam is THE very big opportunity right now. The first steps have a signal effect to new customers. Do you really believe you make new friends at Steam with a singleplayer-mode?

When I first heard about the capability of making invitations to other players (who didnt have bought the game yet) I was thinking about: One can join a server and in the lobby there are a few (light-)player lurking around. And when they become invited, they automatically belong to my fireteam. As a sideeffect, the new players could receive orders and learn a bit about roleplay and communication. B-but in the reality it is different. It is just a standard behaviour for a commercial. OK - the players use to talk to each other about the new game and the new players came in touch to the "old" ArmA Community. I think the limited function for mods is just fair but BIS can receive more feedback from more players out of the multiplayer. Steam is generally a online-thing. I hope that BIS can still use the proposal of a fireteam consisting of Alpha-Light gamers. Not only after the release of the first DayZ-mod we all know about how hard the learning curve in ArmA can be for newbees. So: BIS, please make a patch that all the A3-Alpha-Light-Invitations can join the multiplayer.