Got everything for under $30. Downloading now. Anybody have some links to the WWII mods?
http://invasion1944.info/
Again, if anybody needs some help with mods and so forth, just send me a pm and I can walk you through.
Can any of you ARMA vets put together a little essential mod list with links? I'm not sure where to start.
EDIT:
Also if you guys can fill me in on any setting tweaks that'd be awesome. So far I've got this for my rig (C2D 6700 @ 3.3ghz, 2gigs DDR2 RAM, ATI HD4850):
Set post processing to low or to nothing (low gives a decent motion effect, anything more just blurs everything)
Set AA off (kills performance)
Set AF to very high (lower settings don't seem to extend too far)
Set Shadow Quality to very high (read it runs better for some reason and seems to be true)
Turn off mouse smoothing (gets rid of that sluggish, low fps feel)
Lower head bob (less chaotic)
Video Memory to high (512mb setting?)
All other settings are on Normal
Overall, seems to run much better than even the OA demo so far. After tweaking the game options you feel much less like a robot but it could still use some work.
Can any of you ARMA vets put together a little essential mod list with links? I'm not sure where to start.
But what do you wanna play? Single player (which is cr*p) or Multiplayer? For MP all what I can suggest is to find bunch of people or clan and ask them what is needed to join. Most public servers usually doesn't use any mods.
I have been brought to my knees with the latest DLC, my machine as well. Ramming like a Cambridge boatswain in dry dock......
I have been brought to my knees with the latest DLC, my machine as well. Ramming like a Cambridge boatswain in dry dock......
Thoughts after a few days with ARMAII...
Pros
-mature community
-amount of options
-scale of maps
Cons
-performance (only acceptable when in the middle of nowhere with no buildings)
-bugs (vehicles and players frequently skip around the map for instance)
-graphics (on a rare occasion it looks brilliant but more often it appears terribly outdated)
-voice acting
-servers (coop is basically the only option)
-AI
Playing some of the coop missions with friends was pretty fun but other than that I'm still not sold. It's not at all the fact I'm not getting immediate action or anything like that. I want to like the game and I'd enjoy heavy realism but I still don't really see the appeal. It fails at being a game and its too buggy and performs too badly to be truly realistic. It seems like it has all the right ideas but its just horribly flawed around every turn.
I'm also surprised to see player vs player completely absent, especially since the AI is nothing special. Two large teams with squads of tactically minded realism players on such a large scale could be really special but all you see is 3, 6, 11, or maybe 22 people here and there in a server all playing coop.
There's been a PvP surge in ArmA recently actually. List the browser by players and search for "Valhalla" and "AAS", they're usually the most populated ones. One server usually has around 80 players. It's pretty good.