The "Questions for people with ArmA2" thread |
The "Questions for people with ArmA2" thread |
May 31 2009, 14:35
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Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines. Group: Moderators Posts: 2,037 Joined: 13-November 06 From: Wales Member No.: 155 |
Evenin'.
Starting a thread for people who want to ask questions for people who have ArmA2. I know some people here have, so I'll start Please remeber to use spoiler tags: Soylent Green is People, when posting information about the campaign. How are the factions set up in the editor? Is it the classic East/West/Resistance/Civilian, or do we have 6 distinct factions? If the latter, is there a way to set up alliances without using the setfriend command? -------------------- The Rules - Nothing too complicated, follow these and we'll have no problems.
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May 31 2009, 15:00
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 25 Joined: 19-July 08 From: Germany Member No.: 3,676 |
How are the factions set up in the editor? Is it the classic East/West/Resistance/Civilian, or do we have 6 distinct factions? If the latter, is there a way to set up alliances without using the setfriend command? Hi,it is the classic setup as known from ArmA1 (and OFP).I guess there are different ways for tweaking alliances but I have to dig and find... In general you can set up alliances in editor by editing Resistance/Guerilla is friendly to...East / West. For just one group b.e. east soldiers have deserted and should attack other east soldiers and/or support west or guerillas you have to set a leader for those soldiers from west BUT with presence of 0% - then you have an east group with properties like a west group and they will attack all enemies of the west. -------------------- |
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May 31 2009, 16:39
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Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines. Group: Moderators Posts: 2,037 Joined: 13-November 06 From: Wales Member No.: 155 |
I see...
Who's on what side then? -------------------- The Rules - Nothing too complicated, follow these and we'll have no problems.
Moderation Feedback Thread - Tell everyone how much you Site Issues Thread - Complain about site issues here. We might even fix them! Community Chatter Thread - Furthest Mud-sling gets a free subscription to "JdB Monthly". QUOTE(Major Mike Shearer) We can categorically state that we have not released man-eating badgers into the area. QUOTE(Brace Belden) A machine gun is like a woman, I don’t understand it, I’m afraid of it, and one day I’ll accidentally be killed by one. |
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May 31 2009, 17:02
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 20 Joined: 2-December 06 Member No.: 359 |
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May 31 2009, 22:48
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Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines. Group: Moderators Posts: 2,037 Joined: 13-November 06 From: Wales Member No.: 155 |
Shame... I was hoping to have some 5 way Warfare
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Moderation Feedback Thread - Tell everyone how much you Site Issues Thread - Complain about site issues here. We might even fix them! Community Chatter Thread - Furthest Mud-sling gets a free subscription to "JdB Monthly". QUOTE(Major Mike Shearer) We can categorically state that we have not released man-eating badgers into the area. QUOTE(Brace Belden) A machine gun is like a woman, I don’t understand it, I’m afraid of it, and one day I’ll accidentally be killed by one. |
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May 31 2009, 23:22
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ArmA.info Sarcasm Society's Mr. Argentina 2012 Group: Newshound Posts: 498 Joined: 20-October 07 From: Argentina Member No.: 1,502 |
Still I remember a Editor screen where it said:
SIDE: FACTION: UNIT: Etc. Is like that? EDIT: Look at this video an tell me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tFOWKvjWH0 There is FLIR? How is the UAV thing? You can load bikes in a LAV? The thing I don't like about the light system is that it shines what shound't shine, look at the helipad from where the V-22 takes off... This post has been edited by Benoist: May 31 2009, 23:35 |
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Jun 1 2009, 00:49
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Gentleman Usher of the Coffee Stain Group: Site Team Posts: 677 Joined: 5-November 06 From: C18.3#C77.2#G63.1 Member No.: 19 |
If heard of two people now whose ArmA2 crashes right to the desktop every once in a while. Can anybody confirm such an essential problem?
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Jun 1 2009, 00:58
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 25 Joined: 19-July 08 From: Germany Member No.: 3,676 |
@CTD:
After installing the beta patch on the German Arma2 version I started creating a singleplayer mission and after the 4th preview when I wanted to verify if everything will work as intended I decided to spectate the action from the view of a female civilian and as I got close to a Russian unit I had a CTD... While playing some of the singleplayer missions that came with the game,everything was fine. This post has been edited by AndreAce: Jun 1 2009, 00:59 -------------------- |
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Jun 2 2009, 11:37
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Group: Addon Maker Posts: 1,148 Joined: 4-November 06 Member No.: 13 |
- I heard in one ArmA II video where CDF soldiers were speaking some foreign language and it didn't quite sound like English or German. Sounded slavic to me. My question is, which language exactly Chernarussians speak? In the chats it's named [Chernarussian], but that doesn't tell much because the country is fictional.
- How are bullet dispersions in ArmA II? In OFP and ArmA I you'd always hit exactly where you aim, even with an inaccurate AK-47. - Are one-shot rocket launchers really one-shot? - How do the shotguns perfom? In OFP they were technically just machineguns which would fire long bursts... |
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Jun 2 2009, 14:21
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Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines. Group: Moderators Posts: 2,037 Joined: 13-November 06 From: Wales Member No.: 155 |
What are the UAVs like? How easy are they to get working?
-------------------- The Rules - Nothing too complicated, follow these and we'll have no problems.
Moderation Feedback Thread - Tell everyone how much you Site Issues Thread - Complain about site issues here. We might even fix them! Community Chatter Thread - Furthest Mud-sling gets a free subscription to "JdB Monthly". QUOTE(Major Mike Shearer) We can categorically state that we have not released man-eating badgers into the area. QUOTE(Brace Belden) A machine gun is like a woman, I don’t understand it, I’m afraid of it, and one day I’ll accidentally be killed by one. |
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Jun 2 2009, 15:21
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~Established April, 2004~ Group: Former .info Serviceman Posts: 800 Joined: 12-November 06 From: Sussex, England Member No.: 34 |
QUOTE - I heard in one ArmA II video where CDF soldiers were speaking some foreign language and it didn't quite sound like English or German. Sounded slavic to me. My question is, which language exactly Chernarussians speak? In the chats it's named [Chernarussian], but that doesn't tell much because the country is fictional. - How are bullet dispersions in ArmA II? In OFP and ArmA I you'd always hit exactly where you aim, even with an inaccurate AK-47. - Are one-shot rocket launchers really one-shot? - How do the shotguns perfom? In OFP they were technically just machineguns which would fire long bursts... - Czech I think - Less accurate than before, but still too accurate to be realistic - M136 is still reloadable - Shotguns are single shots, like rifles, unfortunately.. QUOTE There is FLIR? How is the UAV thing? You can load bikes in a LAV? - Yes - UAV is pretty cool, you can control it from a station in the campaign and tell it where to orbit while viewing the camera and placing markers by pressing a button which then appear on the map. - Yep, bikes can be loaded on top of the LAV (It's in a mission, not sure how it works outside of it) Hasn't CTD's once for me yet, and I can play it on High - Very High with my system: E6700 Dual core 2.66 Ghz 8800GTX 2GB RAM XP QUOTE Still I remember a Editor screen where it said: SIDE: FACTION: UNIT: Etc. Is like that? Yeah, you choose the Side - Blufor, Opfor, Independant, Animals, Empty then the Faction, so if you chose Blufor you would get the option of CDF or USMC, or Opfor you would get Russia or NAPA |
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Jun 2 2009, 19:38
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New Member Group: Members Posts: 6 Joined: 9-April 09 Member No.: 5,509 |
For everyone who's played it what bout the "Shaky Cam" effect you get while running. Does this give anyone else a headache? I just finished watching a preview video and every time the person would make his soldier run the shaky cam effect just gave me a horrible migraine.
Has anyone else experienced this problem? And can it be dialed down in the settings? I'm not going to buy a game that practically induces a seizure when you play it. This post has been edited by Alphanumeric: Jun 2 2009, 19:39 |
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Jun 3 2009, 17:43
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New Member Group: Members Posts: 1 Joined: 2-June 09 Member No.: 5,854 |
Hi, I have a Quick Question.. How is the RCO/Acog scope in-game?
Just curious cuz i haven't seen any video's or pic's of it being attached to m4/m16. THX |
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Jun 3 2009, 18:17
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Group: Addon Maker Posts: 1,148 Joined: 4-November 06 Member No.: 13 |
Some more questions that came into my mind:
- How is the vehicle steering in ArmA II? In ArmA it would automatically try to center the screen when you steer, unlike in OFP, which was really really annoyning. - Do static weaponry still have any recoil? - How will enemy AI behave when you run very close up to them? There probably isn't any hand-to-hand combat abilities (I'd also like a confirmation on that), but will they at least try to shoot you? In OFP and ArmA they'd run away like chickens or act very stupid - you could even run circles around them and they'd be too slow to aim and kill you... |
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Jun 5 2009, 17:28
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 25 Joined: 19-July 08 From: Germany Member No.: 3,676 |
- How is the vehicle steering in ArmA II? - Do static weaponry still have any recoil? - How will enemy AI behave when you run very close up to them? There probably isn't any hand-to-hand combat abilities (I'd also like a confirmation on that), but will they at least try to shoot you? -The steering is kind of odd depending on the vehicle velocity,for me it is very hard to drive through the streets in a town without killing innocent bystanders or hitting a wall...at faster speed it seems to react better.And yes - it tries to autocenter - but not all the time.Feels like there is a delay. Tracked and wheeled vehicles have the same steering behaviour. -The howitzer has a recoil.All vehicles with big guns (except the machine guns, grenade launchers&mortar (which is useless currently)) have a recoil. -The AI behaves often different at the same situation, depending on their skills & position (up/down).It will be possible to get killed of a short distance.AI does what AI does -------------------- |
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Jun 5 2009, 18:24
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Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines. Group: Moderators Posts: 2,037 Joined: 13-November 06 From: Wales Member No.: 155 |
How well does the attachto command work with object geometry? Are collisions between the objects ignored?
-------------------- The Rules - Nothing too complicated, follow these and we'll have no problems.
Moderation Feedback Thread - Tell everyone how much you Site Issues Thread - Complain about site issues here. We might even fix them! Community Chatter Thread - Furthest Mud-sling gets a free subscription to "JdB Monthly". QUOTE(Major Mike Shearer) We can categorically state that we have not released man-eating badgers into the area. QUOTE(Brace Belden) A machine gun is like a woman, I don’t understand it, I’m afraid of it, and one day I’ll accidentally be killed by one. |
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Jun 5 2009, 19:16
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Group: Addon Maker Posts: 1,148 Joined: 4-November 06 Member No.: 13 |
Thanks Andre.
I also have another question about the attachTo command, after discovering it. Is it possible to attach humans into vehicles' cargo so they'd be able to shoot while traveling? |
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Jun 5 2009, 21:52
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 25 Joined: 19-July 08 From: Germany Member No.: 3,676 |
Is it possible to attach humans into vehicles' cargo so they'd be able to shoot while traveling? You're welcome I have not seen this by default nor in the missions.Maybe it is possible by scripting but I have to find out...but I do not think so. But the BMP3 has multiple gunner seats,it is called "left gunner" & "right gunner" and you can use a stationary PK at an angle arround 30° to 40° -------------------- |
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Jun 7 2009, 14:35
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Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines. Group: Moderators Posts: 2,037 Joined: 13-November 06 From: Wales Member No.: 155 |
Has anyone seen Chernorussian Bigfoot yet?
EDIT: Has anyone killed Chernorussian BigFoot yet!?!? This post has been edited by D@V£: Jun 7 2009, 19:11 -------------------- The Rules - Nothing too complicated, follow these and we'll have no problems.
Moderation Feedback Thread - Tell everyone how much you Site Issues Thread - Complain about site issues here. We might even fix them! Community Chatter Thread - Furthest Mud-sling gets a free subscription to "JdB Monthly". QUOTE(Major Mike Shearer) We can categorically state that we have not released man-eating badgers into the area. QUOTE(Brace Belden) A machine gun is like a woman, I don’t understand it, I’m afraid of it, and one day I’ll accidentally be killed by one. |
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Jun 9 2009, 13:18
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ArmA.info Sarcasm Society's Mr. Argentina 2012 Group: Newshound Posts: 498 Joined: 20-October 07 From: Argentina Member No.: 1,502 |
I also have another question about the attachTo command, after discovering it. Is it possible to attach humans into vehicles' cargo so they'd be able to shoot while traveling? Seems to be that way, in the front page there are some scripts made by Norrin where you can shot and reload. Shame that BIS didn't make the cargo positions as "attachTo" per se (get it? Attach to... the seat, the cargo seat ). But this is not a complaing, because I have to know how does it works in MP, maybe is (and please, I never wanted to be so wrong) laggy as hell. |
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