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This man speaks the truth. Make mods easily accessible and hassle free, we have the technology.

I'm loving the concept, will check out!!

I love all the improvements to Arma 3 , it just feels and looks so much better. Sadly I'm still playing Arma 2 most of the time because the multiplayer is more fun in Arma 2. :( I just can't seem to get a captivating game going in Arma 3?

I played a bit Last night. It's a great little PvP mission all it needs now is more players!! Get online boys, there are good times to be Had by all!! 1rst person + Capture the island = Big FUN!! :D

I'm liking your idea!!! That sounds like fun :)

LoneCrow66, I'm sort of in the same situation as you. I love the mechanics and the game in general it's just the multiplayer games are getting very slim and it seems the servers are in decline. Agree that wasteland is just not as fun as on Arma 2. I wonder if the game will bounce back or is actually going to flop on the multiplayer end. Not interested at all in comp stomp,, wayyyy too easy. I've gone back to playing Arma2 for the time being. Not blaming the devs, it's just how the game plays out on multiplayer.

Interesting test, thanks for the discovery. I'm also wondering about cas latency, I'm thinking it might effect fps as well as it is related to overall ram speed in a way.

I've started to loose interest in the game. It runs fine and mechanics and general game is great but , it's the gameplay. Here are my options: Comp stomp: I don't think I've actually been killed by an ai yet , yet I've slaughtered maybe 30 units, they are clueless from 200m out.. This is hopeless but I don't expect ai to be any better, it is Artificial Intelligence so what to expect? I like the teamwork effort though, and wish it was team on team. Wasteland: Far too spread out with nothing really going on, no team play at all. Just waiting around listening to crickets camping the gun store with random global childish spamming. ( Had loads of fun on arma 2 wasteland with big epic teamplay battles) Altis Life: Actually had a couple fun moments on here but is still too spread out and slow. (stratis was much more fun) Sector control or CTI: (or any good team based PvP) This is what I want to play but there are no servers populated, or at least none with decent enough ping in north america. The game is great despite it's glitches and foibles but there is nothing to play. I don't think "you need to join a clan" is a valid argument for being able to have fun on a game, you shouldn't have to. Almost none of my friends play games, yet I had a blast on Arma 2 with good team play? Not blaming the devs about gameplay, it's just the way it played out and what servers people are interested in populating on Arma 3. also: 1rst person only servers: has great support at least from the people on this forum but I can't find a single server that is playing 1rst person only with more than 3 people playing :( the community has spoken: comp stomp and wasteland for arma 3. Not mad, just kinda sad t

This is such a good point , I really hope that something gets implemented. It seems like half the awesomeness of Arma is lost to confusion and hassle. And before you say: "hey man you are kinda slow, it's not that hard to install and uninstall these mods manually, it's been that way since operation flashpoint" .. yeah thats true but in this day and age should we really have to fiddle with unarchiving and installing? >see dayz commander and such. There should be one cohesive application to handle all that., and please don't say six launcher cause that's years away from prime time (no offense I applaud the effort and hard work) T

Yeah thanks for that but just vote up iceman77's ticket as my ticket is tainted and not as clear as it could be. I swear someone ticket stuffed, as I got 12 down votes as soon as it came out in one day then only 3 down votes in the two months history since with 41 upvotes. I should have not put the word "unrealistic" in.

Flowa91: I see have the 3770k and a closed loop corsair cooler. What speed are you running your CPU at? It could be slowing down in combat due to processing all the players and gunshots. But still even 3770k stock should be fine. Also if single player is fine at 80fps, but multiplayer less then it could actually be the server fps or server lag.

This is a very important statement and needs to be addressed. It keeps coming up but gets swept under the table. I think too many people from the good old days are hanging on too tight to old ways of doing thing becuase they are used to it so they think everyone else is used to it. It needs a fresh look from an uninterested source. (only interested in money) Hire an outside source to revamp the gui in every way. It's archaic and plays like it was designed as an afterthought by a game code programmer, not a gui designer, which I'm sure it was way back in the infancy of OP flashpoint. The problem is: it apparently hasn't changed much since then. T

But why wouldn't it use up as much processor and gpu as it possibly could since it is a resource heavy application? Also why does a "simulator" have to operate at a lower frame rate? The reason people like the OP are frustrated is because they spend good money to get the most out of their games. When a guy like the OP drops 2K € on top of the line GPU's and it rips though any other game on the market yet it lags on Arma 3 , well that says something about the optimization of the game. Yeah his power bill is too low but he doesn't care , he wants smooth fps and should be able to buy his way into it with top of the line hardware. I think overall A3 is much better optimized than A2 (I get better graphics and settings at about the same framerate) Fyi My Rig: 3770K @ 4.4 6870 x 2 cross fire 16gig 1333 7-7-7-21 I get about 40 -50 fps on multiplayer. Settings all about high or very high. So I think there must be something seriously wrong with OP's settings , version of game, or hardware (bios/gpu). When I look at GPU usage it maxes out at about %65 but usually at %50 , the CPU doesn't seem to be working very hard at all. So yeah I'm wondering if there could be a way to stress my system harder and give better fps.

There is the "BF3 Real Life Mod" /hack that takes out much of the flashy neon hud and other graphical nonsense that seems to make the game look a lot more immersive and playable. I think a fully moddable BF4 could be pretty decent. I don't really get the idea of blocking a game from becoming moddable, to me the worst that could happen is more people would be interested in your game. I'm sure EA has their reason though.

Try lowering your view distance. It can really help in some cases. Also I'm sure you could squeeze a few more Mhz out of your CPU , that 930 should be able to clock to 3.8 with even a modest after market cooler. Every chip is different and no guarantees, but from what I gather Arma 3 is fairly cpu intensive so it might be worth a try. Close all other running programs.

Thanks for that I will try. I didn't mean to imply that your mission was broken. I'm just shocked at how messy the custom mod and custom mission management system is on this game.

Since the update, I hard crash after about 30 min of play no matter what type of multiplayer I play.

I cannot play this mission. I downloaded from armaholic and unarchived the file to reveal 2 .pbo files I placed them in the Steam/SteamApps/common/ArmA 3/MPMissions folder and activated all mods in the mods folder in the expansion settings in Arma 3 configuration. When I try to join it fails and says I'm missing many pbr files? Pmr files mabey? I go back to the expansion and now I see like 10 additional pmr files unchecked, so I check them all and restart Arma 3. Same thing says I'm missing all the pmr files? Where is then cohesive, simple mod/custom mission launching system for Arma 3? Can I find this mission on Six launcher? If so how?

I have been hard crashing a lot more since the patch. Not just wasteland but other multiplayer missions as well.

This Sounds great will try!

What makes you say that? The actual mechanics and such seem much better in Arma 3 . Arma 2 feels more skittish and glitchy. As far as I know the ballistics are the same.

My requests deal with gameplay usability and ease. Comprehensive mod / game launcher: A central hub where all servers and required mods can be browsed downloaded and launched. I know there is six launcher which is a step in the right direction but it needs a lot of work as far as usability and logic. So collab with to make much better, or design a whole new system. 1rst person filter: Controversy aside, there is a fair population that desires to play in 1rst person only servers. There needs to be a way of filtering. Control and customization over what is displayed by the scroll wheel. There has been much talk about this but not much implementation. The ability to customize what is seen in the scroll will alleviate a lot of UI issues. I never want to be able to select my pistol or other weapons ever from scroll or space bar, yet I am continually presented with this option. many thanks T

I totally agree with your reply. It seems frustrating for me because I know there are mods out there and I plan on downloading some but when I download and install a mod I can't join regular games until I uninstall the mod. Does this sound right? If so that must change. There needs to be central application where mods can be installed or ignored easily. As it sits now it's just fragmenting the community and really quite sloppy. The mods unlock the awesomeness of arma but unfortunately they split up the player base. There needs to be something like six launcher or dayz commader that has everything single arma 3 server listed and which mods are needed for each (call it "Arma Launcher" ) . Then the player can download what they need (through the application or launcher) if they want to try out a mission / mod style. The server only takes up what is needed for the particular mission, so you don't need to uninstall mods just to join a server. If I remember correctly this method was implemented years ago for the battlefield 1942 system.

Lev , I agree, That would be a type of cheating, ok my reasons for wanting to dig up audio files and and change the sounds manually is the disgusting breathing noises flogged unto the woeful 1rst person infantry user. Enough to make My GF think I am watching male porn. (unfortunately not joking either :( )

Yes the server browser could use a revamp. Also when people say just play with good people /groups and such are they talking about some secret private pvp servers that are not listed on the regular multiplayer browser?