sometimes in domination mode, a group of armor will move to a field just southeast of our base. in this group of armor is a tunguska, a BMP, and a tank. So, having iron balls, I parachute over the forest to the southwest of this armoed platoon and I manage to land in a tree. I wiggle myself free and break my leg, but I still manage to take out the tunguska. The BMP spots me and fires a burst and it kicks the dirt up right in front of me. I manage to reload and take THAT out too. By now the tank is angry and lonely and I am calling for help when out of nowhere GOOMBA appears in a chopper. He lands a few hundred meters away from me and I am dragging my mutiliated junk across the landscape desperately trying to get to him. He lands closer, picks me up and we head back to base which is about 1.5km away. Goomba then flies over the tank that shot at both him and I.
THE FUCKING TANK FOLLOWED US. IT FOLLOWED US BACK TO BASE AND PROCEEDED TO BLOW THE EVERLIVING SHIT OUTTA EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE. goomba managed to even piss off the AI.
eventually though the tank exploded but not without scaring the hell outta goomba and reminding us that the AI is set to "vindictive shitfucker".
Well, I just played domination mode, on and off, for most of the day, and I gotta say I liked that quite a bit. Shooting from distance takes some getting used to, and I think I like ambushing people at close range to be honest. Managed to take down a squad of four infantry that had invaded our base around the hangars. [The first of many invaders.]
Another highlight was actually coordinating to move a mobile HQ into position, and bringing down a radio tower via satchel charges. Granted, it was an unguarded radio tower, but it was still awesome. 8-)
Kinda hoping there's a chance to do sneaky close range combat in this game...or, heck, just more demolitions.
I think changing the time to night made it easier to sneak around, or at least from my perspective it was much easier to remain unspotted. Earlier today when we were playing as the russians I almost managed to blow up the radio towerby sneaking to it, but got shot because someone caught me in a flare
I think changing the time to night made it easier to sneak around, or at least from my perspective it was much easier to remain unspotted. Earlier today when we were playing as the russians I almost managed to blow up the radio towerby sneaking to it, but got shot because someone caught me in a flare
I believe, depending on the difficulty, the enemy may not be equipped with NVG.
Hey guys, so I picked up an ATI4850 today and ARMA2 runs awesome. I'd love to get in some games with you sterling chaps, as well, because my limited multiplayer experience has already sold me on this game so hard.
In fitting with the theme, I have come up with a ridiculous callsign and quote:
Edit: check the sig for the callsign!
A PM has been dutifully sent to Sonar (or will be, shortly). Right now, I'm basically a bullet sponge as I learn the basics of movement and shooting.
Edit Part Deux: I have no idea how to send a message in Steam. Someone want to tell me how?
I might have to join in on this PA Arma 2 business. Going on a couple servers filled with pubbies has given me a rather negative view of Arma's multiplayer in some aspects.
To be fair, I am weak and totally drawn into how well the 50 player multiplayer games work right now (ok they aren't perfect, but Arma 2 seems to be a pretty amazing improvement over Arma 1 for multiplayer). I got shot in the face by different teammates 5 times on a "realism server" before deciding to give up on the game for the night.
The campaign is pretty cool as well.
The demo does the game absolutely no justice if you're wondering if the singleplayer campaign has any depth. That voice acting in the scenario in the demo made me want to run a cheese grater over my wang. Oh I'm going to collect some scalps and just rant on and on about inane bullcrap before the squad leader acts like a psycho and tells me to shut the hell up.
The voice acting is a little quirky with all the broken up speech, but I can forgive that because I can reload my weapons while running around like a dork now. I can also stand up while using my RPG now. This makes me unspeakably happy.
Also, if you're a n00b without a joystick/skills don't fly a chopper or I'm going to reach through the internets with a sharp knife and castrate you.
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acidlacedpenguinInstitutionalizedSafe in jail.Registered Userregular
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seriously, to begin on the road to success you actually have to have trigger discipline. Don't fire until you have clearance from your squad leader AND you have a positive ID on the target.
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Well, if you dont want to be shot at, then dont hide in the bodies of the enemies!!
Well, if you dont want to be shot at, then dont hide in the bodies of the enemies!!
This is wrong, friendly fires are always the shooters fault, period. Do not fire until you are 100 certain enemy. There are a myriad of reasons that I would be forced to take cover by enemies bodies, or hop in an enemy vehicle, or appear to be attacking towards friendlies.
Well, if you dont want to be shot at, then dont hide in the bodies of the enemies!!
You were 6 feet away from me! I was inside a mounted enemy metis launcher! Then I got out, standing up, and you shot me! I really wonder what the dead body of the OPFOR you thought I was looked like.
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Casually HardcoreOnce an Asshole. Trying to be better.Registered Userregular
edited July 2009
or appear to be attacking towards friendlies.
That means you're running away and the Commissar is teaching you a valuable lesson.
You were 6 feet away from me! I was inside a mounted enemy metis launcher! Then I got out, standing up, and you shot me! I really wonder what the dead body of the OPFOR you thought I was looked like.
Correction, I was 4 feet away from you and when you were in the metis launcher you were completely clipped into the dead enemy soldier who was also prone and appeared to be in the launcher. If anything I saved the world from a zombie infection.
AI can spot the M1A1 behind hills from around 1500m, so the moment you see them, they've already got their shot lined up and you're already dead. Not kidding, tonight we climbed a 400m high mountain with the tank, and both a T90 and T72 that were about 1100-1500m away, at the bottom of the valley HIT US 3 times, they didn't kill us, but even though we were behind the hill the were still shooting at us pretty accurately, they were arcing their shots.
I was talking about our 3rd run, since we had lost both Humvees in the 2nd try, we were sorta scared of getting them too close.
Also, the video is up, still processing though. Gotta go to bed!
Whoever that was on the right, Your shoes are styling on the battlefield.
Good game tonight! I'm really considering setting up my own freetrack system for ArmA 2 for piloting.
I wonder how expensive it would be in the end compared to TrackIR http://www.free-track.net/english/
Edit Part Deux: I have no idea how to send a message in Steam. Someone want to tell me how?
I just add them to my friends list. That seems to be the only way to be able to send somebody a message, which is weird. There's probably something really simple we're both missing.
Good game tonight! I'm really considering setting up my own freetrack system for ArmA 2 for piloting.
I wonder how expensive it would be in the end compared to TrackIR http://www.free-track.net/english/
FreeTrack doesn't work with ArmA 2
There is a hack, but my understanding is that it doesn't work with MP, has to be updated for every patch, and possibly triggers the FADE protection.
Whoever that was on the right, Your shoes are styling on the battlefield.
Good game tonight! I'm really considering setting up my own freetrack system for ArmA 2 for piloting.
I wonder how expensive it would be in the end compared to TrackIR http://www.free-track.net/english/
Haha yeah that was me.
War ain't no excuse to look bad.
I have no idea why my avatar felt like his trainers would be the best option to head to the fight in...
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The Black HunterThe key is a minimum of compromise, and a simple,unimpeachable reason to existRegistered Userregular
edited July 2009
Well if it is a short deployment in nice conditions they probably are the best choice :P
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Edit Part Deux: I have no idea how to send a message in Steam. Someone want to tell me how?
I just add them to my friends list. That seems to be the only way to be able to send somebody a message, which is weird. There's probably something really simple we're both missing.
Well.
In the steam client.
Click the friends tab.
double click the name of the friend you would like to message.
Edit Part Deux: I have no idea how to send a message in Steam. Someone want to tell me how?
I just add them to my friends list. That seems to be the only way to be able to send somebody a message, which is weird. There's probably something really simple we're both missing.
Well.
In the steam client.
Click the friends tab.
double click the name of the friend you would like to message.
Edit Part Deux: I have no idea how to send a message in Steam. Someone want to tell me how?
I just add them to my friends list. That seems to be the only way to be able to send somebody a message, which is weird. There's probably something really simple we're both missing.
Well.
In the steam client.
Click the friends tab.
double click the name of the friend you would like to message.
Good game tonight! I'm really considering setting up my own freetrack system for ArmA 2 for piloting.
I wonder how expensive it would be in the end compared to TrackIR http://www.free-track.net/english/
FreeTrack doesn't work with ArmA 2
There is a hack, but my understanding is that it doesn't work with MP, has to be updated for every patch, and possibly triggers the FADE protection.
can anyone corroborate this for the north american release?
I'm waiting on a blutooth dongle so I could use freetrack in Arma2. . . it would suck if it didn't work out :_(
Oh man, ARMA II last night was so so much fun. Unlike serious business where I just felt lost, confused, and like I was liable to screw us all over horribly, Domination was way more fun.
I figured I'd hop on and screw around for a couple of hours and the next thing I know I've been playing for like nine straight hours. Nine! Haven't had that much fun with an FPS in a long time now.
Yeah I bought a game server to test something. I've been curious if the weird lag I get at random on the servers jdark runs were the servers themselves or me so I bought a defcon server to try out. So far it seems to work well and we can use the actual ingame voice chat.
EDIT: Digito co-op really isn't the best thing to start with. While its fun in its own way it requires much more serious thinking and planning to do stuff. Domi is more run somewhere get shot and do it again.
How are the patches for this so far? Fix a lot of crashes?
I haven't noticed any crashes at all, honestly. The main thing right now is performance; a lot of people get issues when loading textures and so on. For me, this is mainly an issue when I teleport in Domi or when I'm flying/driving, since new textures get loaded in big chunks. The next patch is a "performance patch," so hopefully some of this will be ironed out.
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THE FUCKING TANK FOLLOWED US. IT FOLLOWED US BACK TO BASE AND PROCEEDED TO BLOW THE EVERLIVING SHIT OUTTA EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE. goomba managed to even piss off the AI.
eventually though the tank exploded but not without scaring the hell outta goomba and reminding us that the AI is set to "vindictive shitfucker".
Another highlight was actually coordinating to move a mobile HQ into position, and bringing down a radio tower via satchel charges. Granted, it was an unguarded radio tower, but it was still awesome. 8-)
Kinda hoping there's a chance to do sneaky close range combat in this game...or, heck, just more demolitions.
And not even on purpose.
I believe, depending on the difficulty, the enemy may not be equipped with NVG.
In fitting with the theme, I have come up with a ridiculous callsign and quote:
Edit: check the sig for the callsign!
A PM has been dutifully sent to Sonar (or will be, shortly). Right now, I'm basically a bullet sponge as I learn the basics of movement and shooting.
Edit Part Deux: I have no idea how to send a message in Steam. Someone want to tell me how?
Knowing the bad guy standing perfectly still is 1000m away and hitting the perfectly still bad guy 1000m away are two different things.
I am pretty awful at spotting the bad guys in this.
It just goes on and on my friends
Somebody started playing it
Not knowing what it was
And now we keep on playing it because...
edit: Wait, I think "Almost as much fun as CQ!" is better.
To be fair, I am weak and totally drawn into how well the 50 player multiplayer games work right now (ok they aren't perfect, but Arma 2 seems to be a pretty amazing improvement over Arma 1 for multiplayer). I got shot in the face by different teammates 5 times on a "realism server" before deciding to give up on the game for the night.
The campaign is pretty cool as well.
The demo does the game absolutely no justice if you're wondering if the singleplayer campaign has any depth. That voice acting in the scenario in the demo made me want to run a cheese grater over my wang. Oh I'm going to collect some scalps and just rant on and on about inane bullcrap before the squad leader acts like a psycho and tells me to shut the hell up.
The voice acting is a little quirky with all the broken up speech, but I can forgive that because I can reload my weapons while running around like a dork now. I can also stand up while using my RPG now. This makes me unspeakably happy.
Also, if you're a n00b without a joystick/skills don't fly a chopper or I'm going to reach through the internets with a sharp knife and castrate you.
This is wrong, friendly fires are always the shooters fault, period. Do not fire until you are 100 certain enemy. There are a myriad of reasons that I would be forced to take cover by enemies bodies, or hop in an enemy vehicle, or appear to be attacking towards friendlies.
You were 6 feet away from me! I was inside a mounted enemy metis launcher! Then I got out, standing up, and you shot me! I really wonder what the dead body of the OPFOR you thought I was looked like.
That means you're running away and the Commissar is teaching you a valuable lesson.
Correction, I was 4 feet away from you and when you were in the metis launcher you were completely clipped into the dead enemy soldier who was also prone and appeared to be in the launcher. If anything I saved the world from a zombie infection.
by the way body massage wasnt the pilot, i was
Good game tonight! I'm really considering setting up my own freetrack system for ArmA 2 for piloting.
I wonder how expensive it would be in the end compared to TrackIR
http://www.free-track.net/english/
I just add them to my friends list. That seems to be the only way to be able to send somebody a message, which is weird. There's probably something really simple we're both missing.
FreeTrack doesn't work with ArmA 2
There is a hack, but my understanding is that it doesn't work with MP, has to be updated for every patch, and possibly triggers the FADE protection.
Haha yeah that was me.
War ain't no excuse to look bad.
I have no idea why my avatar felt like his trainers would be the best option to head to the fight in...
Well.
In the steam client.
Click the friends tab.
double click the name of the friend you would like to message.
A text box pops up.
???
Profit.
Resident 8bitdo expert.
Resident hybrid/flap cover expert.
I mean messaging somebody who isn't your friend.
Welp.
Add them to your friends tab.
Resident 8bitdo expert.
Resident hybrid/flap cover expert.
Team deathmatch / deathmatch are probably the worst modes for it and feel the most out of place.
Play Domination, Warfare, Co-op etc :P
Of course its more late night dying... but I suppose corpses don't care all that much...
can anyone corroborate this for the north american release?
I'm waiting on a blutooth dongle so I could use freetrack in Arma2. . . it would suck if it didn't work out :_(
I was 0811 in the Corps, but I either fly helos or or just shoot things in ArmA2. Not as much fun being arty.
I figured I'd hop on and screw around for a couple of hours and the next thing I know I've been playing for like nine straight hours. Nine! Haven't had that much fun with an FPS in a long time now.
Yeah I bought a game server to test something. I've been curious if the weird lag I get at random on the servers jdark runs were the servers themselves or me so I bought a defcon server to try out. So far it seems to work well and we can use the actual ingame voice chat.
EDIT: Digito co-op really isn't the best thing to start with. While its fun in its own way it requires much more serious thinking and planning to do stuff. Domi is more run somewhere get shot and do it again.
I haven't noticed any crashes at all, honestly. The main thing right now is performance; a lot of people get issues when loading textures and so on. For me, this is mainly an issue when I teleport in Domi or when I'm flying/driving, since new textures get loaded in big chunks. The next patch is a "performance patch," so hopefully some of this will be ironed out.