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Hi All. Im creating a multiplayer mission where I want it to start with the players in a helicopter, and they get dropped off, and then the first spawn starts from there and then later on they have choices of new spawn points. the problem I'm having is that when I select in the editor "select respawn position" I start in the bottom left corner (south west) of the map. Only when I take the the tick box off does the player start off where I have him in the editor. Is there a way to have the player start in position you have him in the editor, (in the helicopter beling delivered) and still have selectable respawn points? Its driving me mad a little as I only just looked at this and my mission is nearly finished. I have tried on player init to put "this incargo heli1" but it still ends up in the middle of the sea. As a background I have done everything in eden editor and no scripting, I don't know how to do that..... Thanks for your help James

Hi Guys. Im new to mission making, not very good at scripting, but i am using the eden editor. i want to try and stay in there, and have a trigger that activates the end mission when a certain number of civilians are killed in an area. Is it possible or do i have to make little sqf files and all that wierd stuff that scares me. can i do it in eden or is it impossible? this is for a multiplayer coop scenario. Cheers for your help in advance.

Hello BI ARMA3 forum members. I cant see player names while in game and hovering my cursor over players (The real profile name of the person controlling that player). I know its only me because everyone else can see my name, and can see other player names also, but it doesn't work for me. It shows up just with a number and a role. so if i hover my cursor over my friend i just have "1. field medic". this is making it really hard to use peoples names while communicating. Also, another problem, is when i type text in a channel, it doesnt show up on the screen. im guessing there is something wrong here? i use to get these names show up. I did in alpha install the mod for mid range textures, but thats been deleted since alpha i belive so no mods. I also deleted my config settings in the my documents folder, and then uninstalled and reinstaleld the game, but still don't get player names come up. does anyone know how to fix this? Sorry for the long winded nature of the description. Its just that its getting in the way of my gaming enjoyment. I have to ask "number 3 medic can you come here" which usually meets with no response as they are unaware they are number 3 and its not helpful for my team. this is a shame as im really wanting to become a regular player and its hard to make gaming buddies without names. Your help will be super appreciated. Thanks in advance

I'm not sure. I thought someone might know why, but I will add that as a bug and we will see if that's the case. Thanks for your reply.

Hi Guys. I am having trouble getting the sound FX in CUP to play in my editor with triggers (flies, crow and cow for example) I have CBA installed, but not even sure which "CUP" project the sound FX fall under. Is it MAPs? I am interested in why this isn't working as none of me or my friends can get it working. L ove the project by the way, all my friends now have it and we are having a blast with it. Thanks guys

Hi Guys. I cant find any info that says if i can have the end game revive only in my multiplayer mission. im a complete noob here, so maybe im missing something but i have just spent an hour watching spawn vids and stuff and want to just quickly use the eden editor to set it to Revive but not respawn, but i have to select respawn for the revive to work.... i see there is a tickts option and thougth about setting tickets to 0 to disable that and be left with only reivive, is there a way to do this in the editor? Another retarted mess i made was when i was trying to get a taskt o compelte if i had player 1 or player 2 in the chopper, i put in player1 in heli1 or player2 in heli1 and it didnt work.... in the end i used isengineon heli1 to activate hte trigger, but knowing why the or operator doesnt work would be helpful also. sorry to be a plonker. cheers.

i guess thats saying that the vehicle the player is in is equal to heli 1, and the brackets are needed to seperate the or operator :D makes sense. thanks a lot. Anyone know how to get revive working without respawns from eden editor? Cheers james

Hi. Are there any players out there that are left handed (in real life) and have a set of decent keyboard bindings? I have a friend who will not play Arma, because there are too many controls (like having to hold ctrl to change stance, grenade type etc etc.). he usually uses the arrow keys.... I wonder what other left handers have adopted to as keyboard binds to make the game "playable", or what they find hard about being left handed and how the solve it. I would of thought it would be a case of painstakingly finding something that works for you (which i would of done) but it seems he doesn't have the patience, and i know that he would really enjoy the game if he could get over it. Thanks in advance left handers....

Hey BI I understand you have an official Google plus page, but you don't seem to use it anymore...it hasn't had an update in 1 year. Can you confirm if you have stopped using it? Social media is a great way to update your audience on whats happening but some of us don't actually like facebook although i understand there is a larger user base there, it would be awesome if i could keep up to date on all official updates without periodically checking the forums. (although these forums are brilliant for in depth discussion and help. thanks Arma Community)

So, those who played...can we get a "Harbour Games" description?

Hahahaha. This was actually more a question for the devs, to see if they have abandoned it (i would delete it from my circles if so) but still an interesting conversation has occurred. I will chuck in my 10cents (or 10pence as im actually English and in England). @longjocks, @SwiftN7 Not religious, but people tend to give up things for lent in my country. . . just because its something to do i guess..... a few girls giving up chocolate or cake, thinking they might get thin, that borderline alcoholic proving a point by giving up warm shitty lager. I chose to give up facebook as i too see it as a bit of a plague. All that happened was i didn't really get invited to any events, and didnt know where my friends were going, as they are now using this as their only means of communication. Its almost robotic. Sometimes, i woudl be like "why didnt you tell me about it" and they would say "but i put it on facebook". Its sad, and i have moved away from it, because there is too much shit to filter also. Its such shite information. Google+ i like more. Its easier to manage what you see, and they also have discussion groups on interesting topics, where you can ask anything to similar interested people (i joined an ARMA3 discussion group actually which was easier than logging into a forum all the time, but not as knowledgable). i know google is slowly taking over the world, but to be honest. their stuff is pretty awesome. for me (suppose it helps that most products are intergrated with my android phone). I like that i can manage what i see on G+ better and (partly because of the small user base) i don't get 1000's of pictures of peoples kids,read how (and they post this every bloody week) much they are looking forward to the weekend, or how upset they are that they dropped there dinner on the floor. When we have a LAN party we block the facebook page from the FB junkies. Ironically facebook is a social tool that is killing real life social interaction. I would love it to die. Oh and dont get me started on Uplay.....i bought trails HD on steam, and now i dotn watn to play it because i have to log in to Uplay. After the nightmare of getting splinter cell to work i hate it. Steam is amazing though. (i know there are haters, sorry i love it)

749, with 1000+ plus1's which to me means, there are more people that were following and it dropped because it wasn't updated. quite a number of people though for what is basically a copy and paste of whatever they put on the facebook page.... up to the devs though.

Hi guys. So i heard they released the library content or something like that of Arma2 for Arma3. Now this doesnt mean that we have all the arma2 content in our arma3 game, but what exactly does it mean? does it mean that if we own the games we can use the content? or is it seperate (said something about differnet licences). what i want to know really is, 1.does it mean i can load arma2 content to Arma3 without all in arma's bugs? 2.do i have to own arma2 to get any of this future content 3.do i only have access as a modder? 4.what does this mean going forward and in the future i really dont understand it all because im not a modder. any clarification would be great.

Hi Wipman. I think your reply does bring up a good few points. I understand that 1 big pack means if there is a break, then you lose everything possibly. The installation of mod folders puts me off abit, and like you said making 100 mod folders is probably going to be a pain which is one of the reasons to me, someone who hasnt installed a mod, these "big packs" would be a good idea. But, you know i have a feeling that from previous dev posts, that the integration of these mods is already being looked at. Lets hope that they bring a steamworks integration into it where we just subscribe, and unsubscribe for content..... this way, for us that want the big packs we chose the pack of all the mods, just one install, you chose the individiual packs you want. everyones happy and we all have a picnic with some cream tea (im English so thats what might happen) Also, as a non modder or knowing anything about this, your insight into the difficulty's in welcome also. I think from my original post that the answers to the questions are this. 1.does it mean i can load arma2 content to Arma3 without all in arma's bugs? NO 2.do i have to own arma2 to get any of this future content NO 3.do i only have access as a modder? Currently yes, but things will become available in a steady stream as people create there own mods with the content 4.what does this mean going forward and in the future It means that we will be getting a lot of content modded quicker, due to players having a blueprint to work from as a starting point. However choosing what we have is going to a laborious task. with so many varients. I suppose what i wonder now, is how will this affect some bugs that All in arma has which are putting me off? will All in Arma benefit from the release in any way whatsoever? to make it a more reachable mod? im really unsure of how it works, and im very tempted to install it but hearing that it causes duplication in showcases audio, and things like that puts me off..... Thanks again, and any one else with some insight is well appreciated.

Well, thats great news. I bought OA just incase they required it for the models to be used, but i guess that wasn't very smart. However im happy to give BI the money in all honesty. I have seen this thread here http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?169302-What-is-going-to-happen-when-Arma-2-s-content-is-released-Problems-and-solutions Some person was planning on having a community effort to have a all content in one pack from various modders. I thought for a noob like me that would be great. One of the devs mentioned something about distribution being improved, so maybe this will make it easier. I think if i had to install 30 mods for the content, i probably wouldnt be interested in getting them all which is a shame. However i know you can have packs to subscribe to in the workshop like in L4D2 (i hope i don't get flamed for playing that game). which might make distribution easier. Also AIA seems to be a bit buggy still. would these releases mean the same sort of thing as AIA but with less bugs? (on the website he mentioned that there were something that wasn't is fault, so guessing its a engine problem, but im only speculating, hell thats why im on the forums to find out stuff) Also, your little dig at the end about the negative nora's. . . Have to say i agree with the post mentioned above. I obviously have no idea about modding, or even how it works, but some guy comes up with an idea and they start flaming him. The all in one pack he suggested would make ARMA3 a bit more accessible to me. something im sure the devs want and are aware of. If the idea doesnt work, well fair play, point out the problems but the idea (maybe a utopian one) of everyone wanting to work together to create a awesome pack for noobs like me is nothing but charming to me.

As soon as i pressed escape the same happened. had to reconnect, not very handy really. Is it confirmed fixed in dev build? does anyone know the feedback tracker ticket or something like that which shows this? i cant seem to find one :S What a shame. Im guessing it's a really simple problem to fix (probably).

well it fixed it, but whenever i press esc, the same thing happens (pressing escape loses player names and subtitles). this is fixed in multiplayer by reconnecting. I hear the bug is fixed in the dev build, but im having trouble finding this on the feedback tracker to confirm.

Didnt switch to dev build, but what did do it, is creating a new profile...... dont understand why, and what in my profile was removing them. it would be good to konw so others can fix it without having to make a new profile. (i dont know what the difference to making a new profile is except that you have to rebind keys and settings....)

That fixed it. thanks mate....but what was wrong with the original i wonder......

Your mad at the bug or me for being a noob? Anyway, when it was said its fixed in beta, i didnt think that meant dev branch. but looking back, yeah that's obvious. So im guessing if its fixed in Dev build, all i have to do is wait for the Main branch update for it to be rolled out? (im not updating to dev build) Shame, i just looked through the last 2 weeks of dev build updates to try and find if something had been mentioned but didnt see it. Anyway, bohicafool, thanks for posting, and letting me know. much appreciated.

I have looked in all the options, and my subtitles are turned on, as is everything else. Does anyone know a fix? or if this is a bug that's in the tracker that i can upvote? Really i would love to have this sorted finally. its making it nearly impossible to communicate with people if you don't know their name. :(

Hi Guys. Well after waiting patiently for someone to read my post here http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?168948-Player-names-not-showing-for-me-Cant-communicate-in-game-because-of-it its seems you have a similar problem. . . I have it all the time, but can you confirm you also have no player names etc? To fix it i deleted my config file in my documents, uninstalled the game and reinstalled....and it was still there. If this is the same problem, could we maybe merge the posts? and would someone be able to point me to a ticket of the "known problem" so i can upvote it or something. I kinda stopped playing because of it. Thanks for your response.

I cant believe that i must be the only person ever in ARMA3 with this problem? im also sure there is a simple solution out there....anyone that can help? ---------- Post added at 09:36 ---------- Previous post was at 08:58 ---------- i have also worked out that subtitles are not showing up either, so i think there is an overlay option not showing or something simliar. can anyone help?