AmmokK

Oh okay, thanks Raptor. Bit sad you didn´t reset before going live but then again, a challenge is nice. 300 is maxed anyway and we´ll all be there one day.

So i like the game and downloaded it the day i got the email about it. I was wondering thou: how come there are so many high levels already? Pretty sure they didn´t all just spent thousands to be among the top.

I have a strange problem. All keybindings work perfectly fine except firemode. It´s bound to F, however, pressing F doesn´t do anything at all. What does change my firemode though, is looking up and down, which is pretty annoying, since every time i look around, i changeit. -.- Another strange thing, probably related to this, is when i use my binocular and i look up or down, i switch to another weapon or simply unequip it. Any ideas on this? Thanks.

They are as they should be - mousemove. Okay, i just deleted the entire ArmA 3 forder in User/Documents and now it´s working again, for whatever reason.

It´s obvioulsy an alternate universe. So it´s not that hard to explain ;)

Just asking but: wouldn´t it be easier if i would be fixed in the middle of the map and the whole map moves instead of me? I think this would be even more useful than the current version.

Don´t worry, i get you. Better complain now, while they have the time to change it/implement it "right" instead of when it´s done and then BIS tells us "noone complained, so we thought you like it".

While i am sure there are CoD & BF players around here that would like ArmA to turn into another direction, like "BF in even bigger", i have never (and will never!) said such a thing. It´s 2 pair of shoes, obviously and it would be a shame if BIS would give those people what they wanted. Sadly we already have that here, at least if the healing is final as is. Again, please: -> I <- would never want to make ArmA a bigger BF or change the CQC into CoD style. That would be a waste of potential and turn ArmA into something it isn´t (and shouldn´t!). Yet i guess we all have to agree that there are already some points that have turned more arcade. Like mentioned fast healing, the really easy flying (tbh, i find it harder in BF3 than here) and other small changes you can read about here and there. Now this might just be coincidence, as ArmA is getting more "fluid" or it is BIS´s way of trying to appeal to those other players out there, trying to get a bigger userbase. While it is too soon to tell, the danger of angering long-term ArmA players is existing and BIS really should think twice, if they are indeed heading that direction. Now, to get back to the original thought of this thread: immersion. Well, i do certainly hope for getting things like being suppressed (also) into ArmA III and hope it´s just not yet there. For now, it´s like all those soldiers are just on Cocaine and act like they don´t care for bullets all around them. Although i have no idea how you act like a real war vet, i do think you would at least react to it in some way, no matter how trained you are. But feel free to tell me how it really is. Anyway: peace! ... Narf: war!

Oh sorry, because i can distinguish between CoD and BF, i am not elite enough for this community or what do you intend to say by that? Oo Geez, some people here act like DotA players behave, when they smell a LoL player. Didn´t read in ArmA´s rules that it isn´t allowed to like other shooters as well.

As someone who likes both games, such comments make me sad and do actually only show even fanboys of ArmA are just fanboys, talking about the "enemy product" without knowing it and just talking random bullshit! - CoD with tanks (aka BF3). CoD and BF are 2 totally different kind of games. Sure, both are arcade, yet BF isn´t going that way so hard as CoD is. In CoD you are like 5 seconds away from the action on whatever map you play on. Mostly due to the retarted random spawn, killing any decent tactics. BF is way slower and since you have bases, it´s much more tactical yet far away from ArmA of course. - hate complex gameplay because it stops them from just frag grinding in a random TDM Interesting theory and again showing how you have no idea of the games you critisize. Let´s take BF3 and rip your statement apart. "Frag grinding" in TDM in BF3. Hm, that won´t work. Know why? Because there are no fixed spawnpoints in TDM ( Dice´s sad approach to lure CoD players [and btw the less played gamemode!]). So, you can try to frag grind, sure. Won´t help much though... - BF3 [...] do a noscope headshot from 100m Omg, please, show me those skills. If not just some lucky hit (at least if you play it for real, meaning hardcore mode), it´s quite impossible to do this "on command". Sure, in normal mode this might be pretty doable but not in any decent rounds. Btw, you can also do this in ArmA if you have crosshair and some skill. Maybe not as easy as in BF normal mode but still possible. So please, next time you bitch about other games that are oh so bad in your eyes: at least know what you are talking about, because this random hate is just lame. Whatever side is using it!

Thx for the update.

Wasteland isn´t PvP it´s "camp the spawn" combined with "camp the gunstore".

Greetings. I´m a 32 years old german gamer with a wide variety of games - mainly FPS and MMOs. Here some of the games i played more frequently: - Battlefield 1942 - Battlefield 2 - Battlefield Bad Company 2 incl. Vietnam Addon - Joint Operations - Battlefield 3 incl. all Addons (still active) - Guild Wars incl. all Addons - Aion - EVE - Tera (still active about every second day for some time) - Final Fantasy XIV: ARR (currently Beta) - Lineage 2 and of course many singleplayer games as well. Personally i rather rely on tactics than on fast action in FPS, which is the main reason i don´t like CoD. Random spawn just ruins all tactics. I feel comfortable with all infantry roles except when it´s getting to CQC. I like it once in a while but most of the time i dislike it, because in every game people act like their virtual life isn´t worth a dime and just jump around the corner and end up flaming me because i don´t do alike... But it seems these kind of players are a bit harder to find in ArmA, so that´s good. I have no problems with following orders and doing as told, although the perfect squad would be one where orders aren´t needed, except for directions. However, this doesn´t mean i want strict silence when gaming. It´s a game after all and - unless some big scale events or "wars" - i do think you should be allowed to chitchat once in a while. Well, actually it would be ideal when everyone konws when he can talk. So if you are walking for miles to evaq or some target, talk, why not. Just not those people starting a chat when there are 5 people around you. That´s a part i really hate. So baseline: discipline when needed! I am looking for a (preferrably) german squad that fits me and with which i get along well. I do like all gametypes for now, except "Camp the gunstore" (or was it called Wasteland?). Looking forward to hearing from you, AmmokK

Direct download of all files needed by a server to play there would indeed be the perfect solution to a lot of things. Let´s hope for that.

What a silly question months before the release! It could turn more buggy than it is, it could even get cancelled if a bomb drops on the wrong building, the whole team could get arrested for espionage and arma 3 will never finish, it could become the most gorgeous and perfectly fine working piece of FPS ever made! We just don´t know! So the question is way too soon to be asked.

Thx again for the answer. I do get your ideas of getting discredit to some point, i do for sure. (I once wrote a guide to something i can´t talk about here, that took me several days to work on. A few weeks later i saw that same guide on a site, without credits or at least some "stolen from ..." thing. Guess if i take that and multiply it by 100 i will be where you are now). Also, as you realised, i AM pretty new to ArmA, at least to the modding part that is. Didn´t realise there were so many private releases. So far i am looking in about 2-3 other sites about ArmA modding and well, they all offer the same thing anyway (with maybe a day or two delay). Sure can´t talk for anybody else, but if i would make some mods, i would want everybody to have them and feel cool if i came to a server having my mods running. Then again... yeah, no credit sucks. Got to admit that. But i guess there isn´t anyone/any site that can prevent you from that, after all. I can still download it from any non-steam site and upload it to steam if i wanted to. After all, if someone wants to be a dickhead, he/she can. There is always a way. Yet i hope you agree when i say that it would be nice to have one site where all mods unite. It would be perfect. Even for the modders. Have you ever contacted them about their license directly? Or are there maybe other site like eg. the nexusmods.com or something like that where most modders unite? I mean, if it isn´t steam but some other place, i personally wouldn´t mind much. But for now there seem to be many places and nothing really "big". And something as comfortable as an autoinstall to folder hasn´t come to my sight neither. Then again, i am new and have no idea - yet! ^^

Hm okay, makes sense. Yet, another question rises: Why care? You are making addons for everyone for free, you don´t gain anything by it, except some level of worshipping by some, of course. So, let´s say User x stole your work Y. Developer Z thinks "Wow, we should hire that dude, he rocks!". The only thing that will happen is they realise he/she isn´t the real developer and start looking for the real one. However, this will maybe happen in 0,01% of the cases. In about every other case, someone else gets credit. Sure, it sucks but then again: What is your loss? Don´t be mad, i just try to understand the issue.

Gaming & Laptop in one sentence... Funny. Anyway: +1 for 64bit support!

You tell your ArmA to use 4GB RAM yet you only have 4GB RAM? Oo

I would like workshop support as well, at least from the end user part. Makes things much easier. Addons go where they need to be, no reason to move, copy, whatever your things around. But a little question about what i read: So these arguements are brought up against the workshop. But, what does prevent people from doing that if downloaded from any other source as well? I can go to armaholic, DL some stuff there and make my own collection as well. Don´t see that as a downside of Steams workshop. It´s rather an advantage because if everything is gathered in one place, such things are realised much faster!

Hi, nice AddOn. Sadly the flickering map seems still an issue, at least for me. While i was passenger in a car and we reached the border of the shown map, it didn´t change to the next part and started flickering. Please tell me what additional info you might need, so i can help. AmmokK

Like this - should be basics actually, not a mod.

Glad i could help at least one person ;)

So i tested a bit again after the patch and - for me - it was better. Still, i wasn´t satisfied so i went to the editor (you don´t get killed there^^) and tried every single setting until i found the 2 settings that were killing my FPS. Object Quality Terrain Quality Setting these 2 to only high instead of very high/ultra doubled my FPS from about 20-25 to 45-50 or more with just a minor impact on visuals. Most other settings are still very high/ultra (like eg. texture quality is on ultra, which is about the most eye candy setting anyway), view range is at 2600, object range same and so on. Really glad i found those 2 killers - for me. Try it out, maybe it will help some others as well.

Will try after new patch soon but so far my feedback: So while running a decent machine i thought i would at least run fluid @ 45 FPS fixed on very high. Sadly this wasn´t the case. I hit those 45 FPS only when looking at the ground and that´s about it, the other times i was somewhere between 15 and 25 with mixed settings high - ultra. Yet the strangest part is the fact that while i tried to optimise my settings, the FPS didn´t change at all. High, very high, ultra, it didn´t matter. Only gain in FPS i got was when putting it on low. And even that only gave me about 5 FPS - mainly because of view range i guess. Another interesting point was that in single player FPS seemed to be locked at 30 (which i had all the time, no drops there). Hope this helps anyone to determine the "problem". Will give feedback after the patch again.