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Worth it imo.

I visited Lemnos (Altis) last week and I was very impressed. It is so cool to see the comparison where some parts of Altis are different for esthetic or gameplay reasons (BI made some good choices there) and some parts are so a-like that you get weird deja-vu feelings. In real life, I got surprised in the dark by the sharp bend in the road west of Agios Dionysios! A memory never to forget is to explore the Ghost Hotel in real life! For a long time I thought it was a fictional addition to Altis. I highly recommend visiting the Island if you have the chance. If friends and family object to visiting your 'game island' just mention the charming capital, the beautiful beaches, the historic sights and the famous surfing area. :-) https://imgur.com/a/NA4oG5J

Mortar in direct fire mode, aka hip shot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cB-r352j2FI

The instruments with 'eyes' far apart are called rangefinders.

I did buy the whole HOTAS setup specifically for Arma. I don't have the time to invest into the serious sims, Arma is a nice middle ground for me.

Yep, I think it got added with a recent update. I have it in Vanilla Arma under the AAF faction.

There is a special thread for wishes and ideas, you should have posted it there: :-)

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It is one ship and it will never be pilotable / walkable, because it's impossible in Arma 3, because of the big size and problems with movable units on movable units. So you have to wait until possibly Arma 4. :-) That said, I like the previous creations of hired studio B01 a lot and I'm happy they are working with BI again. I trust that they will use the time and resources that they have for this to the best of their abilities. The fact that 'fully detailed interior' is mentioned so prominently perhaps indicates that B01 themselves might have wished for more time to work on interiors for the USS Freedom and this is a second chance where interiors are a prominent feature from the start! Anyway, I didn't expect anything of this sort so late in development of Arma 3 so I'm looking forward to this!

No, it's a static ship, meaning it is like a building at sea. You can walk on it and in it and it will have nice interior spaces. It is perfect as a launch base for weapons and vehicles or as a target that has to be secured :-)

When you join a forum, maybe do some research first and get acquainted with the community and not start immediately with criticism and know-it-all attitude. I think it's the polite way to go. To answer your question: - It is because of game engine limitations that it is currently impossible to spawn thousands of bullets per minute, especially when multiple vehicles or soldiers are in a scene - I think besides the true in game firing rate the game is already using a trick with spawning one bullet, but deducting three from your ammo kind, to fake a higher firing rate. - Arma 3 is not supposed to be a simulator, it's an entertainment game with some realistic aspects. BI calls it an 'authentic game', not simulation or realistic. All current 3D games are full of tricks and inconsistencies to make us believe we are in a real world. When you look closer at almost any aspect, like the minigun in this case, you will begin to see flaws.

The best way to kill a tank with explosives is to put the explosives inside the tank and then detonate them. ;-)

Can it be that your problem is actually due to mods? I play SP a lot and with me (no infantry related mods) the numbers stay consistent. Nr 3 is the AT guy, and will remain nr 3, even if nr 2 gets killed. This is very useful if you see a tank lumbering around the corner :-)

Why is the spawn part included twice in the script?

With each Arma game, I think BI gives priority to the gameplay and the assets to see what is interesting for players and what is do-able for the company. After that/ in combination with that, they tie in the game/assets with the lore. Although this sometimes can lead to some weird or surprising story aspects, personally I like it because it add to the distinctive quirky Arma feel. Some parts are realistic, but you should never take it too seriously. Examples: - I like the main campaign, but it is a lot of Rambo-ing, mainly, I think, because combined arms warfare was too hard too integrate into the campaign - Some of choices for military hardware are dubious, but I am one of the fans of the vanilla assets! BI always tries to insert a little twist in the options that we have. For example the mini-tank (Nyx) in the tank DLC. So the marines are just not there, because it's basically NATO vs CSAT, whereby NATO is US and UK for recognizability and convenience. To make further distinctions in different US army (OOPS, military) branches would not yield extra benefits for most players. Like others said, fortunately we have modding to cater to people who want more authentic details in the game.

Since I firmly believe there is a reason for everything, let's categorize this one under eye-hurting outdated coding architecture. ;-) Some speculation: the vehicle seems to be grouped to the other one and desperately tries to reach his place in the formation and cannot see the obstacles preventing it, even if it's a house. Some of this behavior is probably intentional, as it is more efficient to let units follow their leader than to let them scan and adjust individually. I believe some of the AI structure came from the older games such as OFP (2001) which had less dense maps with fewer obstacles. There was also a time (still is?) that tank formations acted like infantry formations, which is very inadequate as well. You can't expect a tank to slide a bit alongside a building like an infantry guy can get away with. Point 1: in my missions I almost never group tanks and just control them separately to give them some more space and put them on different hills and roads and such. Point 2: it hurts my eyes and soul that tanks (my favorite!) need so much babysitting. One of my dreams for driving AI in the future is scalability, meaning that if you use only a small number of vehicles (let's say 10), they all automatically get a lot of processing power to navigate their environment with high accuracy.

Well, sometimes I try to replicate examples, so If you say you put them on safe, I expect them to be on safe. I don't mind at all to tweak the vehicles a bit with behavior modes, speed limits etc if necessary. I have some good results with mixed convoys on CARELESS mode and with a speed limiter. The big obstacles I encountered where bridges and sometimes stopping an intersections. These can ruin the whole setup and I hope are fixable. Your video hurts the eyes of course with regard to stupid driving behavior but there are some alleviating factors involved regarding the AI. For example, what is the vehicle, or vehicle group trying to do, what did you tell them? following the road or driving cross country (not in safe mode)? Did they encounter an enemy? Is the second vehicle (stuck behind the house) part of the group of the first vehicle? If this is the case it might influence the driving path. What kind of driving formation did you tell them to assume. It is very easy to create examples with stupid looking behavior but a lot of these will definitely not be fixed due to outdated AI coding architecture. On the other hand, I think reasonable driving / convoys can be achieved with some configuration on our part and the most glaring errors fixed by BI.

Is it truly set to safe? I don't see any crew turned out (or is that not possible with this vehicle?). I usually put vehicles on careless, in my experience that will relieve some (but not all!) of the problems. In careless mode, they will stick to road and shoot at enemies.

I'm pretty sure they will fire the AA rocketlauncher at Black/ghost hawks. ;-)

Did you make sure the code only runs on the server?

I think the devs made their understanding very clear; they are aware of problems, but they never had a good amount of programming resources to fix this once and for all. Besides that, at this stage, programming resources are limited even further as development of Arma 3 is closing. BI never steps back, just like Stalin ;-) Besides that, BI does not know how reversing works ;-) My guess is that stepping back is not as simple as: newDriving = false; oldDriving = true; Reverting driving also requires programming resources. I share the feeling that driving could have been a lot better at this stage. IMO BI nailed a lot of aspects of the game in the 80% awesome range, whereas driving is stuck at a much lower level. It becomes a blemish on an otherwise excellent game. Because they didn't say super-duper-hard that they are not doing anything in this area anymore, I have a tiny bit of hope that resources can be invested to polish the blemish away a bit. Hopefully some internal negotiations / awaiting certain developments is going on.

Yeah I think when you do an animation, they can get pretty hard locked in them. Suggestion: _unit switchMove ""

So basically my experience of helo KOTH is a couple of youtube videos: this is a popular one: From the comments on the video it seems, this is a most impressive style of helo play you can do in KOTH. And fair enough, there are some cool stunts to be seen. However, with this style of play you're not really flying a helicopter, more like a spaceship that looks like a helicopter. From the video and the comments you can see he plays 3rd person with default fly mode. There are no gauges to be seen, because you don't need them with this type of play. He's flying nap-of-the-earth in good weather so his orientation is very clear. Default fly mode of course has 'rough landings allowed' on by default. As you can see in the vid, there are other measures in action preventing his helicopter from being destroyed. The helicopter, especially the rotors, seem to be partially indestructable (it's a server script, he's not cheating). In the comments he says he's playing m&kb. 1. This style of play requires very abrupt memorized movements that are easier to implement with m&kb I think, the keyboard gives digital input and the mouse has a very rapid input (small movement), but with high resolution (gaming mouse) 2. The technology for good joystick axis is complicated compared to the simplicity of a mouse. You need a good joystick to give accurate input (good axis that don't wear out). For example my joystick has different springs that you can put in to modify the movement resistance. 3. Most importantly, I think there is still a little lag between joystick and arma (google it on the forums for more information). It's an Arma 3 problem.

I agree, IMO Arma has the *ambition* to also be helo simulator, but does not reach that level. This is indeed probably what D. means: if you want simulation, buy DCS. However, for a player like me it's perfect. With advanced you get a more 'real' feel, but it does not take the amount of time and effort as a more advanced simulator like DCS. Because of Arma limitations, some parts of flying are (from what I've heard) actually a bit *more* difficult than DCS/RL. For example the stability of helicopters is not properly modelled in Arma, which can make flying sometimes a bit more difficult and less realistic, so again, not a true simulator. I am not convinced that you have more control with AFM in every sense (I also used mouse and default fly model before AFM existed). I do not play competitive (KOTH for example), but what I've seen of it in videos, my guess is that they use default fly model with mouse, to be able to pull of ludicrous/impressive stunts like super-sharp flaring combined with 180 turn and landing on a tiny platform. These game modes sometimes use scripts that give partial indestructability to the helo, because in Advanced mode/RL you would totally wreck the engine and/or blades with these kind of maneouvres. Of course it looks spectacular and requires a lot of training to pull off and you might put yourself at a disadvantage if you used HOTAS and AFM for this. And it's probably time I should buy a trackIR as well.. everyone is always so exited about it :-) I have a SAITEK X55 HOTAS with pedals and just using the 'equipment' is already cool as hell with the real stick and throttle and dozens of customizable buttons (which are really needed!)

Some bugs have become a tradition of the Arma series. It would be weird without them..