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Orv posted:Ran into my first hacker a minute ago. Spawned 20 GMG Hunters on a a hill I was watching and shelled the spawn point. Yeah they're out there.. can't wait till the dedicated server software to come out. The last few nights we've had way too many people wanting to play for our shite connections.
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The single player definitely seems promising. I want Milsim Grand Theft Auto/Far Cry 3 where I can spend the whole game blowing up Iranians (who are hopefully not still voiced like PFC. John 'Bubba' Wilson from Georgia) with lots of nifty gadgets while I follow some non-intrusive story about shitloads of Iranians everywhere for me to snipe from eight hundred meters away and maybe even a more Day-Z type survival system that you can turn on or off (see NV's Hardcore mechanic) that would require the player to go hunting or buddy up with locals to have enough supplies. There's really a potential for a hugely engrossing customizable single player open world experience here on top of all the multiplayer antics and modding potential. Been trying out all the showcases but I think I am misunderstanding something with the Hunter GMG's optics. I can see the screen in front of me with the Picture in Picture but its very pixellated and hard to see anything at range. I've seen in images/previews a full-screen view where it's clear as day. How the hell do I get into that view? I've tried tapping right click like you use in infantry to use the full scope but it doesn't seem to work. Is my mapping hosed up or am I just missing the point entirely?
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Chief Savage Man posted:Been trying out all the showcases but I think I am misunderstanding something with the Hunter GMG's optics. I can see the screen in front of me with the Picture in Picture but its very pixellated and hard to see anything at range. I've seen in images/previews a full-screen view where it's clear as day. How the hell do I get into that view? I've tried tapping right click like you use in infantry to use the full scope but it doesn't seem to work. Is my mapping hosed up or am I just missing the point entirely? Press your "Optics" key, the default is numpad 0 I think.
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Chief Savage Man posted:Been trying out all the showcases but I think I am misunderstanding something with the Hunter GMG's optics. I can see the screen in front of me with the Picture in Picture but its very pixellated and hard to see anything at range. I've seen in images/previews a full-screen view where it's clear as day. How the hell do I get into that view? I believe it's 0 on the numberpad by default. Bonus info: Once you're on the gun cam, press N to toggle between regular, nightvision and Black-HOT/White-HOT.
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Thanks, will have to retry that showcase later, keep running out of ammo because I have to carpet bomb the general area of the enemy to kill them because I can't see anything with the optics.
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Just bought this because I'm a schmuck who gives into goon hype. Having not played ARMA2 since only a few months after its release, I'm not looking forward to relearning all the old and new controls. I am looking forward to going sightseeing and diving though! 
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Chief Savage Man posted:Thanks, will have to retry that showcase later, keep running out of ammo because I have to carpet bomb the general area of the enemy to kill them because I can't see anything with the optics. One other thing for using the grenade launcher in that mission. Near your crosshair you will have a rangefinder, at the top right of the screen you will have the range you are zeroed in for - use page up and page down to adjust this so that your grenades land relatively on target.
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Google Butt posted:Try putting -nobenchmark -winxp in the steam launch options. This works. Had -nobenchmark since before but the -winxp did it, whatever it is. Thanks!
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Finally scrape together enough money to get a wetsuit and a rebreather on a Wasteland server, drive a pickup truck into the ocean at 100KPH and swim to the air base, slowly rise up out of the water, take careful aim at the guy who has been camping the air base, and crash. 
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Mar 10, 2013 22:29
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Orv posted:Finally scrape together enough money to get a wetsuit and a rebreather on a Wasteland server, drive a pickup truck into the ocean at 100KPH and swim to the air base, slowly rise up out of the water, take careful aim at the guy who has been camping the air base, and crash. Wasteland has many experiences like that. I like to think its about the journey, not the destination.
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PSA: On three separate servers today, playing Wasteland, I drove off the roads into the wilder areas of the map, away from roads and buildings, and within 5 minutes each time I found a little bird. I guess helis are spawning like crazy but you have to leave the action to go find them.
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That PVP was fun, the bug that makes you die before you spawn each time got old though.
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Orv posted:Ran into my first hacker a minute ago. Spawned 20 GMG Hunters on a a hill I was watching and shelled the spawn point. That's the only way you know it's a true Arma game.
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The only thing I'd blame DayZ on for plausibly ruining any Arma sequels is the new and hilarious trend of using security exploits to gently caress with the playerbase. I've been seeing scripting idiots from DayZ migrating to actual Arma servers and making the game unplayable. I'm hoping that maybe, someday, if the developers were feeling really ambitious- they could fix some of the horrible security exploits built into this game. Players SHOULD NOT be able to upload scripts to hosted servers.
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LP97S posted:For everyone wanting to know their stance, there's a mod for it now. Needs CBA to work. Are there any useful addons besides this and the ShacTac HUD? (these should go in the OP) Any good missions made yet? \/\/\/ Got a link to the GPS mod? That sounds like a good change. Galaga Galaxian fucked around with this message at 01:18 on Mar 11, 2013 |
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Galaga Galaxian posted:Are there any useful addons besides this and the ShacTac HUD? (these should go in the OP) There's a couple stance-indicator addons, and an addon to move the GPS window to the upper right, just under the ammo indicator. Having a stance indicator is really helpful.
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Might be a dumb question, but can I just use the stance indicator mod and fireteam HUD when I play Wasteland, or is that something that only works in, say, CO-OP mission environments?
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Kraustofski posted:The only thing I'd blame DayZ on for plausibly ruining any Arma sequels is the new and hilarious trend of using security exploits to gently caress with the playerbase. I've been seeing scripting idiots from DayZ migrating to actual Arma servers and making the game unplayable. I'm hoping that maybe, someday, if the developers were feeling really ambitious- they could fix some of the horrible security exploits built into this game. Players SHOULD NOT be able to upload scripts to hosted servers. For what it's worth, the community manager's preferences for development as voiced in the weapon rest thread at the official forums: Dwarden posted:firing from vehicles is less important than weapon resting IMO kloa posted:
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Please put this in the OP for new people: Addons: Required - CBA: http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=18767 Tao Folding map: http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=18963 Enlarge compass and gps: http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=18944 Stance indicator: http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=19017 Weapon collision: http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=18796 ShackTac HUD: http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=18949 kloa fucked around with this message at 02:11 on Mar 11, 2013 |
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Nenonen posted:How do I get to the Optics mode when flying helicopter? The tutorial says Left Ctrl+Mouse 2, but that doesn't do anything. Neither did the button that I mapped for it. It didn't work because there isn't optics for the two helicopters, as it isn't necessary as they're pilot fired and aligned off their nose. Just use the crosshair
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Badly Jester posted:Might be a dumb question, but can I just use the stance indicator mod and fireteam HUD when I play Wasteland, or is that something that only works in, say, CO-OP mission environments? Whenever you have mods active through Steam -mod=@ commands, any servers that disallow those mods will have the dot on the far left side of the browser red. If it's green, you're good to go.
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Mederlock posted:It didn't work because there isn't optics for the two helicopters, as it isn't necessary as they're pilot fired and aligned off their nose. Just use the crosshair 
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Just posting that Cops & Robbers was awesome last night. We should set up a dedicated server to that or the Urban fighting we had going before the server went 'derp'.
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Nenonen posted:I guess the second question is how do I use the crosshair attached to my helmet to see where the helicopter's nose is pointing - or do I disable FreeTrack whenever combat starts?  is the case.Bind something to pause and center in FreeTrack. Edit: Or have a big enough dead zone that it stays pretty centered.
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Nenonen posted:I guess the second question is how do I use the crosshair attached to my helmet to see where the helicopter's nose is pointing - or do I disable FreeTrack whenever combat starts? Make sure you have a 'look' button bound, it should make it so that it snaps to the default head position. Also, make sure you have a confortable deadzone set up in freetrack, so your in game head doesn't wobble around when you're just looking forward, as well as a center freetrack key bound through the freetrack interface
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Is there still an ArmA2 thread around here somewhere? Just wondering because my friend decided to buy a bunch of copies of the game for some reason, and I'm wondering if there are any recommended/awesome co-op missions/packs that are good for around 3-4 players. Preferably stuff with more instant action or stupid fun involved.
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I can get FaceTrackNoIR to work and track and everything is peachy, in fact, finding out about FaceTrackNoIR is what got me to get ARMA2 in the first place but for the life of me I can't set the curves in any fashion that doesn't just hurt my neck while having my character spin around like a mad man. I figure that conceptually I would want a solid deadzone and then rather snappy movement once out of that zone but I just can't get it to work. Is there any recommended calibration guide?
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Gwyrgyn Blood posted:Is there still an ArmA2 thread around here somewhere? Just wondering because my friend decided to buy a bunch of copies of the game for some reason, and I'm wondering if there are any recommended/awesome co-op missions/packs that are good for around 3-4 players. Preferably stuff with more instant action or stupid fun involved. Well there is one thread way back in Games somewhere, otherwise there is the ACE Goons that sorta acts like a quasi-Arma2 thread at times.
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kloa posted:Please put this in the OP for new people: There's another stance indicator out there that I prefer, because it lets you know when you're in a stance that leaves you immobilized (i.e. low prone and high prone). Also, I just like how the bars look. http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=18999
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Gwyrgyn Blood posted:Is there still an ArmA2 thread around here somewhere? Just wondering because my friend decided to buy a bunch of copies of the game for some reason, and I'm wondering if there are any recommended/awesome co-op missions/packs that are good for around 3-4 players. Preferably stuff with more instant action or stupid fun involved. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3342764 Not exactly the most active thread in the world, but there it is. emanresu tnuocca posted:I can get FaceTrackNoIR to work and track and everything is peachy, in fact, finding out about FaceTrackNoIR is what got me to get ARMA2 in the first place but for the life of me I can't set the curves in any fashion that doesn't just hurt my neck while having my character spin around like a mad man. I tried FaceTrackNoIR once and it was more like an Autism Simulator than anything else, so as far as I know, being spazzy and spinning like a madman is expected behavior. Maybe I just have a weird face, though.
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Orv posted:Whenever you have mods active through Steam -mod=@ commands, any servers that disallow those mods will have the dot on the far left side of the browser red. If it's green, you're good to go. And for those of us that are complete idiots, how do you activate multiple mods at the same time? -mod=@modname,@modname or -mod=@modname@modname?
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Wicaeed posted:And for those of us that are complete idiots, how do you activate multiple mods at the same time? -mod=@modname1;@modname2
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Wicaeed posted:And for those of us that are complete idiots, how do you activate multiple mods at the same time? -mod=@modname -mod=@modname etc etc etc Just spaces. Or ^^^.
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Just bought the Alpha and I had no idea it was coming. I really hope this is the ARMA that makes it work, I've loved them all but the series has suffered from "It's almost great" since the beginning but always ends up shooting itself in the dick. Crossing my fingers.
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Jimb, to quote someone who was testing graphics settings: "Oooh, it plays a lot more like a shooter now!" 
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Chortles posted:Jimb, to quote someone who was testing graphics settings: "Oooh, it plays a lot more like a shooter now!" And thank gently caress for that.
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hailthefish posted:I tried FaceTrackNoIR once and it was more like an Autism Simulator than anything else, so as far as I know, being spazzy and spinning like a madman is expected behavior. Maybe I just have a weird face, though. This was also my experience, facetracknoir is just pretty bad. Either spend the 30 $ and make a headtracker thing and use freetrack, or nut up and pick up a TrackIR +trackclip pro. You can even get a 20 $ discount and just pay 160 $ for both by picking it up through Dslyecxi's referral on his website.
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