[Game] The Armed Assault thread

[SiC-Disaster]

ArmA needs moar death screams (like the in RO )

I don't like sound mods seems a bit unnecessary but this one is really good make sure to read the description .

I am waiting for historical mods (WWII era etc.) to make ArmA more like RO, hehe

ArmA needs better death animations. Honestly, OFP's death animations are better then ArmA's, wich look just really lame.

 

[KrazyKraut]

ArmA needs moar death screams (like the in RO )

Actually I find RO's new death screams annoying as hell.

 

[The Hamburglar]

I think ArmA death animations are much better than OFP.

And its confirmed, exactly 100 .50 cal rounds=flaming shilka.

 

[SiC-Disaster]

I think ArmA death animations are much better than OFP.

And its confirmed, exactly 100 .50 cal rounds=flaming shilka.

What i dont like about ArmA's death animations is that it doesnt seem to give the effect that they have been shot.
it looks pretty much like:'oh, ive been shot. well, i'll go lying on the ground carefully now'. There is little to no impact to be seen on characters that are getting shot up, While in OFP sprinting characters would fall to the ground, and in other positions you could see that they have been hit by something hard and fast and they dont go to the ground so 'carefully'.
It's the lack of impact i miss.
Also, proning characters in ArmA who get killed take to much time getting their head to the ground IMO. I allways get the feeling that they arent dead yet, while they are but their animation is taking so long i'm wasting ammo to kill people and be sure they are dead.

 

[Ska Wars]

While in OFP sprinting characters would fall to the ground

Yeah I loved the sprint death animations, really look like someone had just pulled their feet out from under them. Made it strangly satisfiying to use the M21

 

[The Hamburglar]

yeah the prone death animation freaks me out sometimes, especially when you are playing one life only and most of the enemy is prone....

 

[Lt_Kettch]

I always thought the ArmA death animations look "real" and therefore a bit creepy like a real human was shoot.

But I see your points they are not perfect and I think there is a Animation Mod to be released.

EDIT: The new patch is huge

 

[Col. John Matrix]

Yeah. Only 927mb unzipped. Only shows how unfinished ArmA was when it was released. I hope I can run it now with decent fps without setting everything to low-medium (C2D@3,2Ghz / 8800GTS here).

 

[Divinehammer]

So is this game worth it? are there good mission development sites up yet? Will they be able to port over OFP stuff? How many full servers are people seeing?

 

[The Hamburglar]

OFP editing center is by far the best mission place ever. Most other webpages don't bother with mission development because OFPEC is that good.

OFP stuff is being ported (AEC island should be interesting to play on once I update)

As for servers.....in the USA I usually see one 64 server with close to 64 in the evening and night. I can't get in the Euro servers so I never check them. I imagine once the USA gets 1.8 patch the servers will be filling up.

 

[Soviet]

The situation post 1.08 is a lot better, fewer players than RO maybe 50% as many. But like RO you can always find a nearly full server and a good fight.

The patch has resolved most of the show-stopping issues ( there are still quite a few cosmetic bugs that interfere with suspension-of-disbelief ). This game is even *more* addicting than RO, which I never thought possible. Coop is an awesome game mode. I'm truly sorry to say it but RO feels like a twitch game in comparison.

 

[The Hamburglar]

I havn't played ArmA in a while...I get bored of making missions, also the squadmates who have ArmA havn't been getting on so there is no sense in making a co-op no one will play. If I do play I go play the Berzerk maps and I IED people, quite fun! Especially when the person is like "wtf?"

 

[Lt_Kettch]

Can somebody recommend any missions sp/mp? I also would like to play as Russian ( don't like the US Army too much).

Hmm got a bit bored of this game ...

 

[Kenza]

russians? no russians in arma, only the Sahrani Liberation Army

as for missions, have a look at the mission section on the BIS forums or over at the mission depot at OFPEC

 

[Lt_Kettch]

The only SLA I know is the Sudanese Liberation Army (or was it Somalian ...?)

 

[Makabi]

it's not a real military organisation, just like the RACS or the island of Sahrani itself. (at least not with that name)

 

[Lt_Kettch]

It was a I am serious joke

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudan_Liberation_Army

 

[MkH^]

I don't know what's wrong, but the performance on my rig is so awful I can't play the game at all. I updated it to the most recent version, and set everything to low (except the resolution, which is 1680x1050) and it runs like ****. The mouse lag is so severe, that it's almost impossible to hit anything.

8800GTS 320Mb
2Gt DDR2 667Mhz
C2D E6600
Abit AB9 Pro
Integrated sound card

 

[Murphy]

Jesus. Lower your resolution!
And make sure to turn of AA and AF.

Framerate > visual quality

 

[Shepherd]

What Murphy said. To run ArmA smoothly you need to tone down graphics until it almost looks like OFP.