[Game] The Armed Assault thread

[Nimsky]

Well, I don't have a server Just my machine that functions as the "server" while I play at the same time. Works great for just the two of us, but I think it will get rather laggy if we try that with more people

If we get more people playing, I think some Evolution or something is best... for now at least.

 

[SiC-Disaster]

Well yeah thats what i mean
Evolution could be best perhaps. We need to contact the DBDUK guys if we could use their server for a night or something, but unfortunately i dont know the guys personally.
So, any volunteers for that?

 

[Pharnakes]

Hi people, just got arma a few days ago, and found the sp to be... disapointing, to say the least of it.

As cooop seems to be the way to go, and I don't really have the time for a full blow clan, I was wondering if I could join you guys once in a while.




BTW: I absolutley suck at it, so feel free to kick me ot

 

[The Masta]

Does anyone here have Queens gambit?

 

[SheepDip]

I got Gold Edition, so, yes.

 

[SiC-Disaster]

Hi people, just got arma a few days ago, and found the sp to be... disapointing, to say the least of it.

As cooop seems to be the way to go, and I don't really have the time for a full blow clan, I was wondering if I could join you guys once in a while.




BTW: I absolutley suck at it, so feel free to kick me ot

Your welcome to join mate, no obligations whatsoever. We purely play for fun. Join the co-op social group here on the forums and on steam for more info
For the steam group: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/RO-ArmA


Btw, Masta. I have QG.

 

[The Masta]

is it good (worth the money)?

 

[SiC-Disaster]

Meh. They dont really add any new addons to the game, only 2 campaigns both rather short i've heard.
But the SP remains sucky so i havent played through them.
So unless you really really want 2 new campaigns and a couple of vehicles, i'd say dont get it. I bought it only to support BIS.

 

[Pharnakes]

I got the gold edditon, so I have it. However, as this is the first time I have had arma, I'm not really in a position ot comment on it compared to the original.

 

[Lt_Kettch]

Yeah the support thing was a buy argument for me too and of course you get the latest patch so you save 700mb HD space. But Queen's Gambit is ok not the REd Hammer kind of addOn but ok.

And Pharnakes on the last coop seesion we literally ran into an enemy convoy we had no chance because they had a BRDM only SiC survived

 

[Britney Federline]

If only I had been able to join you guys, I would've saved you with my awesome pistol skillz. BDRMs are vulnerable through their small thermal exhaust port, right above the main port.

 

[DraKon2k]

What's actually wrong with ArmA(well and OFPs) 1st person animations? I remember someone once told me that they are using 3rd person animations for 1st person as well, is this true?

 

[Murphy]

In OPF definately. You are playing a third person game from a perspective where the camera is at the eyes of the model.

ArmA felt like that too when I played the demo so I guess it's the same, but others should answer that.

 

[Reddog]

In OPF definately. You are playing a third person game from a perspective where the camera is at the eyes of the model.

ArmA felt like that too when I played the demo so I guess it's the same, but others should answer that.

It is, but the animations leave a lot to be desired.

Like there's only one bog standard rifle reload animation and such. Which really annoys me, like if you free look downwards with your head and fire you can see they animated the finger pulling the trigger. So they go into detail totally superfluously there yet they couldn't make custom reload animations for different guns, or even different hand positions for holding them (eg. when you hold an MP5 your left hand is at the muzzle...)

REALLY half arsed...

 

[DraKon2k]

Man now I know what always bothered me so much about ArmA/partly OFP. It wasn't the free-aim but the half-arsed 1st person animations. Hopefully they'll change that in ArmA2.

 

[Profe]

They won't. To be honest, ofp and arma never had visuals going in their favor, apart from the large viewdistances. Well ArmA has some nice models too I guess, but the animations have always been robotic. At least that's in BIS' games, we'll have to wait and see if codemasters(or rather whoever the devs are) can deliver better anims. For ArmA, we'll have to wait till the community starts releasing some good mods with custom anims.

 

[Pvt.pile]

If only I had been able to join you guys, I would've saved you with my awesome pistol skillz. BDRMs are vulnerable through their small thermal exhaust port, right above the main port.

I normally shoot the tires out and they bail then if they don't shot me i shoot them .

 

[SheepDip]

I normally shoot the tires out and they bail then if they don't shot me i shoot them .

I normally pray to god someone has an RPG.

 

[SiC-Disaster]

They won't. To be honest, ofp and arma never had visuals going in their favor, apart from the large viewdistances. Well ArmA has some nice models too I guess, but the animations have always been robotic. At least that's in BIS' games, we'll have to wait and see if codemasters(or rather whoever the devs are) can deliver better anims. For ArmA, we'll have to wait till the community starts releasing some good mods with custom anims.

First let them get the gameplay straight, then we can talk animations

 

[Coey]

Some sound, such as shouting during a firefight, needs to be improved aswell. Playing some CoD4 and then playing ArmA it didn't seem right that all my team mates were saying were things like "OH NO...6...Is down" and "2 go to...tree...10 o'clock'. Makes a huge difference from the shoutyness of CoD4 and other games.

On the other hand though, some parts of the sound are amazing. I was playing a custom mission, and crawling through the long grass, the way it sounded as I moved through it and the background noise of the insects, and the really quite realistic graphics, took me back to playing Armies as a kid. First time I've felt that feeling of nostalgia/immersion from a game, TBH.