It's that time again...

[Druzil]

to play ArmA! Myself, 'whack, and 'dinko have been playing the shit out of ArmA these last few days and each time we sit there wishing we had more people to play with.

We're running 1.14 and use missions that don't need any addons - if they do, it's a minimal amount. We have a ventrilo server but you'll need to PM us or get in touch with either 'dubs or myself on steam for the info. OTF tags would be required and any trolling will leave you being banned fairly quick :lincoln:


OH NO, ONE IS DOWN!
THIS IS TWO, TAKING COMMAND!
FIVE, SIX, ENGAGE T-72, 200 METERS!
OH NO, FIVE IS DOWN!
SIX IS DOWN!

[BattleWhack]

Once I figured out that you could turn the faggoty "floating zone" off and have the game behave like a normal FPS, I fell in love.

[BAS]

http://www.armedassault.info/ftp/pics/sotw/SOTW%20%202008%20-%20Week%2045.jpg

[Discobird]

Is the steam version moddable? Imma get in on this when I get my new laptop next month

[Scraps]

I could reinstall it but meh.

[BAS]

as far as I know the steam version is exactly the same except its installed to your steam folder

[Moe_Rahn]

maybe in a couple weeks when i get my new computer together so that hopefully it won't run like shit

oh who am i kidding, it'll still run like shit

[BS87]

http://www.armedassault.info/ftp/pics/sotw/SOTW%20%202008%20-%20Week%2045.jpg

What the fuck if you can re-inact videos like this in game i am IN LOVE

[BAS]

its staged. a guy named Modul has created dozens of animations and poses that you can set up and get cool shots like that.

[Pltcl Sniper]

That looks like Arma 2. Buts its been awhile since I played I may reinstall dudes.

[Lord Kelvin]

I'm still waiting on some more stability patches before I play my copy again. I'm stuck on several single player missions until someone fixes the bugs that keep it from being crazy difficult or simply impossible to progress at all.

[Druzil]

1.14 seemed to fix a lot of the multiplayer stability issues, a lot less crashing now and it even seems to be a bit less laggy. The only crashes I get now are video card/driver related now I think because everything starts to artifact and then it just freezes.

Like 'dub said, playing ArmA without the floating zone shit makes it feel a LOT less clunky. I can actually hit multiple targets in rapid succession now without getting my shit pushed in.

[SWATJester_os]

I have it installed. Come holler at me.

Plus what the fuck is that Floating Zone shit you're talking about?

[Moe_Rahn]

Plus what the fuck is that Floating Zone shit you're talking about?
freeaim

[Mystrick]

I played online today and it was really fun, except for the fact I have no idea what the fuck to do. It's so fastly slow paced it's confusing. I do like flying in people in the MH-6, but it's too hard to chat and the whole 30 people on the server with 400km^2 of map kind of sucks.

Other than that it was pretty fun, no-free aim = lots of more kills

[BattleWhack]

I've been dabbling with the mission editor.

I have a rough draft. :D

[Druzil]

yar, we both made missions but can't get the stupid fucking revive script to work yet...RAAAAAAAAAAAAAGE!

once we're done our missions will be AWESOME though

[theknightsofni]

zombie mssions yet?

[BattleWhack]

Does anyone have any experience with scripting in regards to Arma here?

[Matt]

ArmA?
wat?

[SWATJester_os]

Arma with FlamingPotato and Battlewhack the other night was awesome. Battlewhack has a very nice custom mission that he's doing that is coming along nicely.

Basically, you start on an small island, with two Little Birds and an inflatable boat. You have to insert your team onto the main island, and accomplish various objectives (snipe an officer, blow up an armored column, etc.); except first you have to raid a storage facility and steal fuel because you're given almost none for your helos at the start.

Highlights from the playthrough include:

*Us wiping the first time we went after the fuel dump because we got flanked.
*After clearing the fuel dump, a dismounted patrol was moving in on the direction but we didn't know it. So of course, we're running our asses to the chopper under fire and it fucking leaves me. So I'm screaming "Where the fuck are you going, come back" and it circles around, and picks me up right as like a hundred bullets come flying at me, and we make it out.
*Swat, can you fly the helo back to us? "Uh, I literally don't know how to fly in this game." Oh this is going to be good....
*Ok Swat, snipe the officer. "Where is he?" He's walking toward the road. "Where?" In front, just by the palm trees. "Where, I don't see him." Potato: "Fuck this - pew pew (OBJECTIVE COMPLETED)" Swat: Oh! Now I see where he was.
*The armored column. We shot the fuck out of it with TOWs and Javelins and somehow it just wouldn't die. I was the only one left in ambush position over the ravine that it was in, no AT weapons whatsoever...just me and my SAW. So I open fire with the SAW on the tanks. Tank #1 flips out and rolls over, crew hops out and I kill them. "What the fuck? Really?" Tanks #2 and #3, flipped them and killed the crew the same way. "Uh guys, I killed all the tank crews with my M249, so you can just walk in there and satchel them" Everyone else: "WTF?"

So yeah, it was a fun game in general.

[BattleWhack]

I'm making massive changes to the mission right now, last night was a great source of info for me :)

Glad you enjoyed, I look forward to showing off the completed mission eventually.

[Mystrick]

When are you guys playing? I would like to join you. Are you using vent?

[Druzil]

We're using vent, I'll pm the details to you...just hop on with OTF tags and look for any of us

[Splitlip]

caution: may encounter live Australians and the occaisional Finn.
(not kidding, our vent is the shady nightclub of the whiteguy third-world)

[SWATJester_os]

Haha second time doing the officer mission, BW kept swearing up and down that I could see the officer's foot through the window, and it just wasn't there when I looked. So BW shot an AT-4 into the window.

Third time we played it: "Oh btw SWAT, the officer DOES move around inside." See, I fucking told you!

So, Slug and I went into the building (he had an M4 and I had a M249) to kill the officer, while BW covered us from the top of the ravine, and Potato went to go get the extract chopper ready. When I shot the officer (Finally!), the T-72's freaked out in front of the hotel, and ended up killing Slug. So I'm like "Fuck, I can't get out of this hotel" so I get to the roof and wait for extraction. Meanwhile, BW managed to disable one of the T-72s, so I popped over the side of the wall and started spraying the crew. I told BW to come run down to the backside of the building and cover me, since that's where we'd be getting extracted from, so he ran up and joined me on the roof. BW starts shouting holy shit, cause he's taking sniper fire from the opposite side of the ravine, while I'm taking automatic fire from the other direction. We returned fire and killed/suppressed the patrol that was up on the rooftop, but when Potato came in, one of the T-72s ended up shooting him down in the ravine. The second extraction helo got shot down too, it took a third to finally get us out; and right as we were leaving we took fire again and barely made it out.

It was pretty fucking epic.

Oh and the final mission to survive long enough at the lighthouse until extraction, I was the only one left alive, and I was out of ammo, trying to hold off about 3 dozen infantry. I was like "Well, fuck it, I'm going to take the chopper and get out of here". So I barely got it out, brought it back to the starting island, picked everyone up, we reloaded everything we needed onto the bird and went back to the lighthouse. Except, Potato came in WAY too fast, and we got our engine shot out by the T-72 over the water. Battlewhack jumped out and died, the rest of us lived but lost all our gear in the water. We climbed back up to the lighthouse, and started taking out the assaulting infantry with the weapons off our dead bodies (someone picked up a makarov from the officer in the lighthouse, and I had my M9 and thats it). We ended up winning.

[Druzil]

BW, through either pure genius or...well, pure genius... managed to figure out the revive script that was giving us so much trouble. Our missions are about 500x better than they were now that it's working properly - a lot more teamwork is involved and there's a lot less traveling to do.

The more people that join in, the more fun the missions are. So get your shit together and come play :3

[GrosPoisson]

Shit, man. Do you think you guys will still be playing later this month and into January? My ArmA DVD is sitting in a box some 900 miles away, so I can't get to them until sometime during my upcoming winter break.

This sounds like exactly the kind of thing I always wanted to play in ArmA but never could.

[BattleWhack]

Yeah, I'm sure I'll be working on Arma (and the ArmA2 eventually) for quite some time.


Doog tiems

[Pltcl Sniper]

Fuck I guess I need to reinstall, I dont have voice though :-\

[GrosPoisson]

Yeah, I'm sure I'll be working on Arma (and the ArmA2 eventually) for quite some time.


Doog tiems

Good to hear. I remember reading the posts you guys would make about the epic Flashpoint games you played and wanting to join in, so this is something I really want to do :D

[BattleWhack]

Fuck I guess I need to reinstall, I dont have voice though :-\

It costs 10 bucks for a semidecent microphone. Vent is free.

Do it nao

[BAS]

I have a stealth mission I made last year if you guys wanna play it sometime.

[Denwad]

OMG IM REDY 2 PLAY RIGHT NOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

AIM @ COKESWILLER

gimme a shoutout + pm vent

[Splitlip]

Post all yer mods, i want to un-homo the default game.

[Scraps]

1/2way through patch downloads and they both freeze. WRYYYYYYYYY

[BAS]

at least you guys can connect to dinkos server

[solidsnake]

Bump?

[Denwad]

I'm in vent RITE NOW anyone wanna play?

[solidsnake]

So like wtf i bought the game on steam and it gives me an error before i can even boot the game :\

[SWATJester_os]

So like wtf i bought the game on steam and it gives me an error before i can even boot the game :\

I'm not using the steam version, I don't think BW is either.

[solidsnake]

I'm not using the steam version, I don't think BW is either.

Well i just had to reinstall the patch and its working. But it doesnt actually go through steam i just bought it off of steam.

[Tuulos]

Post all yer mods, i want to un-homo the default game.

RobertHammer's AK (http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=2862) and pistol (http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=2109) packs. And go here and get what you want (http://www.armaholic.com/list.php?c=arma_addons) :D

[BattleWhack]

I'm not 100% sure how mods work, but so long as EVERYONE doesn't need 'em, you're good to go.

Anyway, I've been at work past couple days, I'll try to get some gametime in tonight and tomorrow night.

I'm lookin forward to having you guys play my mission :)

Also BAS, fix yer shit =(

[Mystrick]

I wanna play some online ArmA right now :(

[solidsnake]

Just PM the vent info and ill be up to play tonight.

[Tuulos]

I'm not 100% sure how mods work, but so long as EVERYONE doesn't need 'em, you're good to go.

Only the mods that the server uses are usually required. Most of the mods the client has can't be used in multiplayer if the server doesn't have them.

You should really look into those packs I linked, especially the AK pack. They are great looking weapons and lots of fun :D

[solidsnake]

Ill be down for some more ArmA tonight.

[Moe_Rahn]

how serious are you guys when you play this

i mean i won't ever do any full on retarded shit like drive a truck into everybody on purpose, but i at least like to have fun when i'm playing

should i reinstall arma to play with you guys if i don't want to be a super-serial operator man

[solidsnake]

how serious are you guys when you play this

i mean i won't ever do any full on retarded shit like drive a truck into everybody on purpose, but i at least like to have fun when i'm playing

should i reinstall arma to play with you guys if i don't want to be a super-serial operator man

Yes you should

[BattleWhack]

how serious are you guys when you play this

i mean i won't ever do any full on retarded shit like drive a truck into everybody on purpose, but i at least like to have fun when i'm playing

should i reinstall arma to play with you guys if i don't want to be a super-serial operator man

Eh, it varies. There's always a lot of laughs, but I personally get a little irked if people fuck off too much :p

but yes, you should.

[Moe_Rahn]

okay so i found my arm. ass. dvd, installing now

Eh, it varies. There's always a lot of laughs, but I personally get a little irked if people fuck off too much :p

but yes, you should.
sounds good enough

i used to play opflash with a bunch of guys from another forum and we always tried to do missions, and sometimes we actually did them, but you know once in a while things just sort of fall apart, like maybe someone (not me) blows up the truck we were supposed to be using with a satchel charge that they placed as everyone was unloading (really, not me) and everybody flips out and thinks it was part of the mission that was supposed to happen and then shit just gets real

[BattleWhack]

We're getting ready to play right now

get on my vent

[SWATJester_os]

Sorry BW I probably can't play again until the 18th or so.

[Mystrick]

Eh I can't play tonight, flight leaves tomorrow and I need to pack/sleep

[Splitlip]

hah! Epic.
Thats one of the best last-stand situations I've played BW, good mission.

[Druzil]

awesome-sauce....at the end of that one we tallied up damn near 300 baddies with a good amount of them getting behind our line of defense

[Moe_Rahn]

hell yeah we ride out in the bus

too bad i was getting like frame per second at the end there, looks like i need to fuck with my settings (as if that will actually help)

[Splitlip]

I went through 4 boxes of 556 for the m249, then scooted out and grabbed a PKM, meanwhile Tato is ripping off javelins at tanks as fast as he can, till that last fuckin tank was IN our supply section...lulz

[Moe_Rahn]

i think somewhere in the middle of it all i killed a guy

[Splitlip]

Tato has a bus fetish.

[Pltcl Sniper]

I may not be able to play with you guys, I just installed and and rembered it all so has Queens Gambit on it.

[solidsnake]

My internet cut out mid way through the mission last night for the second time so i went to bed and missed some lulz :\

[BattleWhack]

Yeah, I think everyone's FPS was dying, especially during the last part. I know I was getting about 4 at best. I think that may have to do with the ~400 enemy units there are on that map, I dunno.

Was a hell of a lot of fun though.

[solidsnake]

Yeah, I think everyone's FPS was dying, especially during the last part. I know I was getting about 4 at best. I think that may have to do with the ~400 enemy units there are on that map, I dunno.

Was a hell of a lot of fun though.

Especially when Druz crashed the chopper lol and had to lay here dead for like 15min while we killed the officer.

[Moe_Rahn]

Especially when Druz crashed the chopper lol and had to lay here dead for like 15min while we killed the officer.
seriously fuck that part

[Druzil]

Well....we had been in a good holding pattern circling around the officer up at around 700 feet(meters?) going around 60 knots, or whatever units they are. All I did was make a sharp turn to drop some altitude and get going the right way - I've done crazier shit in a little bird at like 10 off the deck. Anyway, they killed the officer and needed an extract...right?

Not ours.

In the turn we lost about 200-300ft in altitude and ended up plummeting toward the ground at about 250mph/knots/kph. I sat there pulling up for the entire time and finally managed to get it upright at around 100ft, only for inertia to smack us skids first into the ground at a good 200mph.

[solidsnake]

seriously fuck that part

lol it was funny for everyone else.

[Pltcl Sniper]

When you guys playing next?

[BattleWhack]

eh, I'm going to work for the next 3 days, so sunday night at the very earliest for me.

[Moe_Rahn]

my schedule right now is fucked too, the next good times for me are like saturday night or monday night

[solidsnake]

i can play tonight but probaly wont be able to play again until sat.

[SWATJester_os]

I'll check online Sat. and Sun. nights.

[Splitlip]

protip: fuck swiming.

[Druzil]

gunning down t-72's and shilkas with the A-10's GAU-8 is fucking WIN... rocket runs on the enemy base is pretty sweet too

[BattleWhack]

Mehhhh I want to play.

Fucking work.

[Pltcl Sniper]

I cant fly worth a shit since my Joystick vanished while I was gone, but I can gun the shit out of people in the AH1Z and using the Hind addon all armor fust fucking fear me.

[Medlar]

This game looks awesome but I think I want to wait for OFP2

[solidsnake]

Me and swat were fucking up a base using a M1 until the danger close friendly arty killed us lol.

[Splitlip]

I managed to TK Pulsar with my suppressed M9. In my defense, I was pretty far away and he was using a Dragunov instead of the m24 he had before....

[Mystrick]

Fuck, I can't play until Jan-11 :(

[Tuulos]

I think I'm going to compile some awesome mods so if someone wants to spice up toying in editor he will have more fun.

[Mystrick]

Make sure you have that SDP mod, the one that allows you to utilize both miniguns on the little bird and all 4 guns on the shilka

[Tuulos]

I'll probably just link them from Armaholic or similar source because I can't really host stuff.

[Mystrick]

Well, yeah, I'm just saying make sure you include it

[solidsnake]

I managed to TK Pulsar with my suppressed M9. In my defense, I was pretty far away and he was using a Dragunov instead of the m24 he had before....

Everyone shoots pulsar so its ok. And i got off of work early today so im down to play for a few hours.

[SWATJester_os]

Oh god, now we have to make a "Desert Bus Attack Mission".

[BattleWhack]

i trying to think of a new mission atm

[Tuulos]

This might be a funny toy for multiplayer action.

http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=4000

[Pltcl Sniper]

I have come across a few really good addons, and who ever suggested the RH AK/PISTOL pack that was fucking awesome, You see mags drop, and on the pistols the slides move and lock back. BW you should check out Johnny's Marines and Johnnys Army spec op, to add to it get the SCAR weapon pack those are just down right insane.

[Pltcl Sniper]

i trying to think of a new mission atm

Raid a SLA Ammo dump?

A UH60 get shot down and you have to E&E from enemey lines while you lost all your gear in the crash and all you have is the M9 so if you need to scavange your equipment.

[Mystrick]

You should make a Helicopter/Jet Strike/CAS mission, I think that would be bad ass. I love flying the Cobra of Little Bird on CAS

[SWATJester_os]

You should make a Helicopter/Jet Strike/CAS mission, I think that would be bad ass. I love flying the Cobra of Little Bird on CAS

We already have that with Warfare.

[BattleWhack]

FYI - The mission I've started working on takes place on a seperate addon island, which you'll have to download.

http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=3566

It's fairly easy to do it though, and it's really nice.

[Mystrick]

We already have that with Warfare.
I still want to do it though :(

[SWATJester_os]

For the love of god, make your mission have a segment involving an assault using a bus.

[BattleWhack]

assaulting.. WITH a bus, or assaulting a bus?

[solidsnake]

assaulting.. WITH a bus, or assaulting a bus?

With

[Druzil]

Both

fix't

[Moe_Rahn]

i trying to think of a new mission atm
nothing against your last mission but could you please make it take place during the day

between opflash and arma i've played far too many custom missions where the only thing i saw was black and green

[BattleWhack]

Yeah :)

[solidsnake]

fix't

Ramming speed?

[Pltcl Sniper]

So I just installed the SLX mod and I must say it fuckin rocks, Captives, draging wounded people back to exfil and body armor works. I was suprised at how much it changed arma.

[BattleWhack]

It is fucking HARD to do a blackhawk down-esque scenario.

Arma is a system hog like a mofo, on top of that.

[Tuulos]

I have come across a few really good addons, and who ever suggested the RH AK/PISTOL pack that was fucking awesome, You see mags drop, and on the pistols the slides move and lock back. BW you should check out Johnny's Marines and Johnnys Army spec op, to add to it get the SCAR weapon pack those are just down right insane.

That was me. IIRC they are Jonny's, not Johnny's, damn foreigners :lincoln:

You should look into getting a replacement pack (http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=4155) for them so normal ArmA infantry uses their skins. SLX mod is great too.

IIRC if you use setdammage 0.7 it should damage both the rear rotor and the gas tank, because ArmA don't have the ability to make it with a proper script like OFP had.

Of course, assault with armored tractors (http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=3551) is bound to be funny.

[Pltcl Sniper]

I really like SLX mod but it crashses at random times for some reason, and it doesnt like RH's AK and Pistol pack.

[Tuulos]

it doesnt like RH's AK and Pistol pack.

IIRC you can fix it by removing the parts that affect weapons.

[Pltcl Sniper]

How in the world do I do that..

[Tuulos]

Original post of the mod (http://www.flashpoint1985.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard311/ikonboard.cgi?;act=ST;f=70;t=73192;hl=slx)

It's been some time since I last used SLX, but the information is either in that thread or the readme-file included in the zip.

We've tried SLX in combination with The.D's list and liked some of what we saw while disliking other parts. The part we liked most was the addded AI behaviour and therefore sorted through the pbo's in order to isolate this component and add that to our server.

Here are the files we use:
slx_ai_dispersion.pbo
slx_findcover.pbo
slx_gl3.pbo
slx_wounds.pbo
slx_ecs_xeh.pbo

At this time We've placed them in a seperate folder on the server and load them at the end of the command line:
...\Armed Assault\beta\arma.exe" -nosplash -profiles=Profiles -mod=DBE1;beta;@ECS;@General;@Replacements;@SLX

Works perfectly in multiplayer!!

[Tuulos]

Here's something awesome. Mod about CSLA (Czecho Slovak People's Army) (http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=4366), perfect when you want to kill some good old fashioned commies. And it looks great too!

And a little different thing, a realtime holomap (http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=4372).

[General Bordinko]

Is there anyone else having problems with the server i've setup besides BAS?

Im going to have to do some maint. this weekend on it and i want to get a headcount to see if it is an isolated incident or something broader.

[BattleWhack]

Besides the massive desynch or whatever the fuck it is, it's fine :E

[solidsnake]

I have not noticed anything. maybe its hard to tell with my shitty fps :P

[Splitlip]

Is there anyone else having problems with the server i've setup besides BAS?

Im going to have to do some maint. this weekend on it and i want to get a headcount to see if it is an isolated incident or something broader.

Sometimes its hard for me to shoot Pulsar only in the legs, and I hit him in the face, neck or testes.

That might just be windage though.

[SWATJester_os]

I've noticed something wrong with it.

T-72's refuse to shoot me when I charge them in a bus, but rage on my shit the second I hop out.

Also, doing so makes Pulsar a sad sad guy.

[BattleWhack]

Fuckin' pulsar, lol

[SWATJester_os]

BTW busses are fucking awesome, except when they die.

[BattleWhack]

You know whats fucking awesome? Playing the end of my mission with 20 fps with every setting maxed.

Considering I was getting 5 fps before, I'd say its an improvement. :p

[SWATJester_os]

You know whats fucking awesome? Playing the end of my mission with 20 fps with every setting maxed.

Considering I was getting 5 fps before, I'd say its an improvement. :p

What would be awesome would be not dying at the end of your mission.

[BattleWhack]

What would be awesome would be not dying at the end of your mission.

Hey man it's not impossible, I've seen it done... well, twice.

You just gotta survive for 10 minutes or so, how hard can it be :p

[SWATJester_os]

Hey man it's not impossible, I've seen it done... well, twice.

You just gotta survive for 10 minutes or so, how hard can it be :p

Yes but I've only ever played it with 3 other people, 4 at most. 90% of the time those people are you, Pulsar, Tater, and SS. That mission is not meant to be survived at the end with just 4-5 people.

[solidsnake]

Hey man it's not impossible, I've seen it done... well, twice.

You just gotta survive for 10 minutes or so, how hard can it be :p

Just have to take out the uber BMP that survived a fucking jav shot first then we will survive a bit longer :|

[BattleWhack]

I've noticed that manning the 50 in the two humvees is a deathwish. There are, apparently, a SHIT LOAD of enemy rocket troops out there. Very cinematic though.

[Splitlip]

I live longest prone on the left side, partially behind the sandbags. All praise to the m249! I died every stinkin time i went to get more rockets though.

[Tuulos]

FDF-mod is out!!!!!!!!!!!1111!!!!42!! (http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=4403)

[solidsnake]

I dont have queens gambit so i cant play the evil Finnish mod.

[SWATJester_os]

I've noticed that manning the 50 in the two humvees is a deathwish. There are, apparently, a SHIT LOAD of enemy rocket troops out there. Very cinematic though.

Yeah but it's worth it cause the .50 on the humvee gave me 56 kills in around 75 seconds.

[BattleWhack]

Yeah it's fine as long as you have back up alive to revive you as soon as you explode :p

[solidsnake]

Yeah it's fine as long as you have back up alive to revive you as soon as you explode :p

Well it sucks more being the guy shooting the Jav because once you fire it you have a wall of lead and rpgs coming at you.

[BattleWhack]

Hey, someone's gotta do it :p

[Ch33zy]

Should I get myself arma for a crimmas present?

[BattleWhack]

Yes, yes you should. You should also get on vent more often and start getting back into gaming, devildog



;)

(ran my very last PFT today, btw)

[solidsnake]

Hey, someone's gotta do it :p

True although it is very epic sitting there for 15 sec with the tracers and and RPGs exploding around you until you finally take a rpg to the face :\

[Ch33zy]

Well, I'm stuck in 29 for the leave block so why not.

[SWATJester_os]

Should I get myself arma for a crimmas present?

YES you should, I haven't played with you and BW since fucking BF2Combat days.

[BattleWhack]

Man, BF2Combat sucked me like a 2 bit whore.

I was hooooooked.

[Ch33zy]

Yeah, bf2combat was the shit.

[Col. Psycho]

fuck dudes, why do i always miss these threads? fucking holla at me, i play this all the time online! :D im an ace driver, if it has wheels, i can drive it, if it hasnt got wheels, i'll still drive it. and im not half bad with anything from assault rifles to the M82. so speak to me dudes, i'll be more than amped to join you guys.

oh, and if you need any tips on scripting in arma, give me a shout, i did some work on the Zombie maps for OFP and have a bit of experience using the OFP / ARMA scripting system. :)

[Col. Psycho]

It is fucking HARD to do a blackhawk down-esque scenario.

Arma is a system hog like a mofo, on top of that.


i put something together a few months back, involving the crashed Blackhawk in a small village in south sahrani (cant remember the name.. but a good location, near the sea) which had a team of up to 6 humans and 18 AI (6 x 4 members per team, using a couple of custom addons) assaulting the town to secure the blackhawk. the teams would come in via helicopter, on foot, and with humvee support. they had to secure the town (using a marker that would trigger if the town was clear of AI.. but also trigger a reinforcement wave of enemy AI to assault the town) at which point a huge column of friendly trucks would start on the way to evac the good guys out of the town. i set the chopper to have a script that allowed you to detonate the blown up BH. by this time you should have loaded all of the AI and players into the trucks, because they leave once the explosion is triggered. roughly as you leave the town, the convoy is assaulted by the enemy AI reinforcements, a huge battle ensues and you have to either make it back to the base (with a win trigger) or annihilate the enemy. it was pretty awesome, but laggy, and i couldnt get some of the scripts to work reliably.. but when it did work, it was poetry in motion. :)

[BattleWhack]

scripting is a pain in the royal ass, considering I've never done any of it before

[Tuulos]

If you want a truely awesome map for Blackhawk down-type of scenario try Avgani (http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=3525)

[Ch33zy]

Awesome. When running in SLI the game flickers so bad I feel like I'm going to seizure. And it runs like shit without SLI.

[Moe_Rahn]

it runs like shit
welcome to armed assault, enjoy your stay


god i can't wait for opflash 2 and armass 2 to come out and be on real engines instead of just hacked up opflash engine

[BattleWhack]

really looking forward to ofp2

[Splitlip]

Wasnt a bad run tonight, but need moar support on the ground heh.

[Walnut]

so i got this game

it is operation flashpoint with slightly better graphics

it is not a different game.

???

[redgun]

so i got this game

it is operation flashpoint with slightly better graphics

it is not a different game.

???

no its not. OFP is better in several ways:

MOVEMENT: ArmA's animations suck > you can't "run - stop - fire", you can only "run - stop - wait 0.5 seconds -fire" which sucks huge cock
leaning....makes the whole cornering only worse.

Stuff: When I want to pick up a new rocket-launcher or just a couple of mags, i want to do it *quickly*, i don't care about any sophisticated gear management interface. OFPs 'action-list' was just fine.

Helicopters & planes: seriously, wtf....the new controls suck.

and many others that i cant remember right now.
conclusion: ArmA might be better for Coop because it has a few new features that are cool, but in Human vs Human OFP is *way* better because its more fast paced...

[BattleWhack]

I have no problem flying choppers like a pro in arma :E

[Tuulos]

Me neither. It takes some time to learn it (especially if using keyboard like me) but you can fly them pretty good. I've tried flying one fighter jet with a joystick and had a blast, barrel roll etc.

[Col. Psycho]

so whats the plan? after christmas dinner tonight i want to fire up ArmA and give it a bash - who's up for it?

[redgun]

me!

[SWATJester_os]

I'm out of arma until mid january when I get back to DC.

[BattleWhack]

I'll be at work for the next for days =(

[Col. Psycho]

Aight well if any of you are up for a game, pop into #otf_games on IRC and PM me, i'll try host (although my hub is a bit of a bitch.) a game. or, add me to xfire: colpsycho

[Tuulos]

I completely forgot this awesome mp-mission. You guys should try it out.

Operation Sakah Freedom part 1 (http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=3420)

[General Bordinko]

Ok, so were starting to play alot again.

Druz and Dubs are working on a few new missions. I'm going to start on mine this week. These new missions will be using these new toys so download them all

http://www.projectracs.armaholic.eu/load.html

http://www.projectracs.armaholic.eu/photos/PRACS1.jpg
http://www.projectracs.armaholic.eu/photos/PRACS15.jpg
http://www.projectracs.armaholic.eu/photos/PRACS3.jpg

[Splitlip]

That transport chopper that just went down and shat a great cloud of dead guys was the best part of the day. Druzmap holds great promise.

[SWATJester_os]

Druz and I spent a good hour showing off the new aircraft.

Highlight: popping into the civilian Puma, and going over 1km from the airfield while Druz nuked it. I was hovering and suddenly POOM, the shockwave slams me back at -30 knots, and I'm now spinning, at 40% health, and my fuel is rapidly draining (about 10-15 seconds left). I'm trying to set her down but I was up at 150 feet, so I only got to about 30 or so before the fuel ran out, and I coasted onto the ground. Landed somewhat nose down and the inertia tipped the bird straight up onto her nose, right as I hopped out.

Fucking RAD.

[General Bordinko]

Heh.

I was going through the plane's when I saw that one. Druz and das were playing with me. I got in and was like holy shit and started laughing to myself. I taxied and took off.

Here's how I remember it going.

Me: "This is Fozzie Bear 1-9 Broken Arrow, I say again, Broken Arrow. Get Clear."
Druz: "What?"
Das: "Oh no, that's not what i think it is."
Druz: "Do it, Sandy. Do it now. I'd do it for you."
Me: "That's a rog, - - . Alpha, Mike, Foxtrot."
Das: "No... no."

The world turned white.


I laughed for a good ten mins.

[SWATJester_os]

Hahaha my version went like this:

Me: Damn that one has a giant bright red ass bomb
Druz: That's a thermonuclear warhead
Me: No way lol
*hops in*
*drops bomb while parked*
Whiteness.....
Respawned 10 minutes later and the entire map area was in flames.

Oh shi-

[BattleWhack]

I sent dinko a (hopefully) semi workable version of my latest map (Operation: Fuck My Life)

If you guys could do a play through or two and give me some feedback whilst I'm at work I'd <3 <3 you.

[redgun]

Druz and I spent a good hour showing off the new aircraft.

Highlight: popping into the civilian Puma, and going over 1km from the airfield while Druz nuked it. I was hovering and suddenly POOM, the shockwave slams me back at -30 knots, and I'm now spinning, at 40% health, and my fuel is rapidly draining (about 10-15 seconds left). I'm trying to set her down but I was up at 150 feet, so I only got to about 30 or so before the fuel ran out, and I coasted onto the ground. Landed somewhat nose down and the inertia tipped the bird straight up onto her nose, right as I hopped out.

Fucking RAD.

crash-jumping was a risky but fairly common technique to quick-take CPs in OFP. Nowadays you don't see that anymore because only camper and tank-noobs are playing :(

[BAS]

installing now

now that I have a new computer maybe I'll actually be able to join your fucking server

[SWATJester_os]

crash-jumping was a risky but fairly common technique to quick-take CPs in OFP. Nowadays you don't see that anymore because only camper and tank-noobs are playing :(

Wasn't a crashjump. The bird actually landed but due to some terrain function and strange center of gravity, she tipped on landing.

[BAS]

well that was fucked up, I finnaly got to play and I fucking blue screened

[BattleWhack]

Yeah I think everyone bluescreens sometimes with Arma :p

[General Bordinko]

I never got the mission.

[Splitlip]

ITT: BW accidentally mails Arma map to real russian general. Espionage ensues!

[BattleWhack]

I never got the mission.

I sent it to the genbordinko address, not the gmail one, sorry :E

[BattleWhack]

ITT: BW accidentally mails Arma map to real russian general. Espionage ensues!

And they'd probably hire me as some sort of strategical (yep) advisor because of my awesome war knowledge.

[General Bordinko]

Oh god, you didn't send it to GenBordinkoN@19MRD.58Army.NCMD.Mil.RU did you?


Great, now I have to talk to Sergey Makarov. The last time this happened he invaded Georgia.

[BattleWhack]

Oh god, you didn't send it to GenBordinkoN@19MRD.58Army.NCMD.Mil.RU did you?


Great, now I have to talk to Sergey Makarov. The last time this happened he invaded Georgia.

Shit.

I'll get on the hotline to our side.

[SWATJester_os]

Fuck, I was having problems trying to play Kej's map today, but it must have been a sign from God reminding me not to skip class today; I was on call for IP and Cyberspace and forgot about it.

[Tuulos]

Because SWATJester is a flaming faggot :gun:

Posted here instead of OTF games cause most ArmA players are here.

I need people to help test my mission. It's a pretty fun little hilltop defense survival mission. Requires 3 mods:

6thSense WeaponPack: http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=1656
Aimpoint Desert Weapons Pack: http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=2127
Vilas US Weapons Pack: http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=3933

The gist of it is, you're at Alcazar on the hilltop, being attacked by a mixed OPFOR company. They start 200 meters out so you might want to rotate immediate defense and hitting the ammo boxes, so as not to be overwhelmed too quickly.

You'll be facing several UAZ squads, several line infantry squads, weapons squads, and SF teams from all sides, coming at varying times. It's a lot of firepower being thrown at you (I'm trying to work the balance right now, I'll add/delete units as needed), but conversely you hvae lots of firepower in response

For example: M107's can now load HEIAPT rounds; you can have SPR-SDs, several new pistols, HK416/417 in various optics, suppressors, SCAR-L/H variants, M21/M14 variants, and some others. Many of the weapons will allow you to alternate between supersonic/subsonic ammo, or mount a small reflex sight on top of an ACOG or longer optic. Also....Para SAW. Need I say more? Nay.

Plz download the mods, and test if you catch me online. Also, as a cool note, the Aimpoint Desert Weapons mod has replacement files you can install that are much sexier than the normal ones.

MISSION FILE V 1.0:
http://forums.otfnation.com/showpost.php?p=825273&postcount=6