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Flaky posted:Did everyone see the new fog mechanic on dslexci's channel Absolutely amazing, isn't it? 
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Combat Pretzel posted:Interesting island in that video. It's Stratis, the island that comes with the A3 Alpha.
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Apr 24, 2013 01:01
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Chortles posted:Those were the only two ever announced for Arma 3, even before the Greek incident and before Altis was renamed from Limnos; there is no ETA on when before final release (ETA Q3 2013) Altis would be added. Zargabad and Desert (as well as Takistan) were with OA, PMC was just Proving Ground.
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May 3, 2013 03:27
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Chortles posted:Good news for mission-makers: editing individual unit loadouts in the Editor "will be present in later versions/final version of the game." But without dozens of complicated loadout scripts how will I ever survive?!@?!
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May 10, 2013 07:36
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Conot posted:That scroll down menu of support you call in strikes a bit too close to Operation Flashpoint for my tastes, what I always liked about ARMA 2 (with mods) was that your CAS, your Artillery, could be other humans, could make human mistakes, it wasn't just a tool to call down. That will exist in A3 just like the automated-tool-that-you-call-down artillery strikes are an option in A2. To clarify, I'm not claiming A3 will have ACE2 style arty by default, but rather saying nothing about that supports menu makes ACE Arty impossible, because that supports system is ported straight from A2. I suspect vanilla A3 will have the same limited manual arty options that were there in vanilla A2. hailthefish fucked around with this message at 10:34 on May 17, 2013 |
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May 17, 2013 10:29
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Yeah, it's a tidied up UI for the A3 equivalent of the Simple Support Module in A2. You can drop it on the map and monkey with the inits and access it through the 0-8 menu. There's a DIFFERENT call support option under 5.. I think it's 5-5, that one is, I believe, for groups operating under a "support" waypoint type which relies on units from the various support unit menus (fuel, repair, ambulance, etc) to come and assist.. Would be nice if A3 unfucked the multiple in-built support methods a little but from that screenshot it looks like they've made the menu a little easier to read but not significantly simplified which... I dunno. It's fine. On the one hand, too simple and it loses depth, but on the other hand, do we really need two different menus named "Call Support" which use two different but vaguely similar things. And Chortles, that little automated task generating script is kind of neat for generating MP support objectives on the fly. Seems like it would be handy for some missions for a UO/GoonTac sort of an environment.
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May 17, 2013 11:01
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Selklubber posted:Take On: UN Security Council. Are the possibility of chemical weapons in Iraq reason to invade? Choose from 15 countries and engage in hot, sweaty meeting action! Take On World War One. Authentic trench warfare action! Charge headfirst into No Man's Land in this forgotten chapter of military history! Compatible with TrackIR and Natural Point's new SmellSense immersion enhancement peripheral (mustard gas scent cartridge sold separately).
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Jun 8, 2013 22:13
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Roshnak posted:They should totally take this advice. SQF is awful. SQF is awful, but it's better than literally nothing. It's also way better than OFP's SQS  Supposedly A3 is going to get Java scripting support at some point but they haven't said much abut that lately.
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Jun 19, 2013 11:01
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Paper Diamonds posted:I nailed down the problem with Arma2OA that I've been having. Anytime I launch the game from steam offline mode the game loads very slowly and stutters badly in game. In online mode it's fine and at least 20-30 fps faster. Due to where I live I can't be online very often. Any ideas? Have you tried not launching through steam?
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Jun 20, 2013 04:02
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Pez Ez Dispenser posted:Is Altis not in the beta yet till the 25th? I don't see it on the editor or the showcases. I was probably wrong in thinking it's in now aren't I? minchar posted:Altis is not coming until release, was confirmed on the livestream pre-E3. Meh, not like we're stuck on Utes or something. Stratis is large enough that personally, I don't mind waiting for Altis even a little bit. They can have all the time they need.
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Jun 21, 2013 23:23
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  A3 is pretty loving sweet so far. (those are divers with attachTo'd chemlights getting into a helo, in case it's not immediately obvious)
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Jun 24, 2013 06:25
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Praseodymi posted:Are you thinking of the different Turn Left/Right and Left/Right Pedal controls? I still have no idea what the differences between them are, but I rarely fly. Turn Left/Turn Right are auto-coordinated turns where if you're going fast it properly coordinates bank and yaw, and if you're going slow just yaws. It is the most annoying loving default keybinding ever. No idea about Left/Right Pedal, an analog option for rudder pedals, maybe?
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Jun 24, 2013 23:20
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GateheaD posted:I hosted a co-op map on my Gaming PC (i5 @ 4ghz, 8GB, New VGA) on a lovely Australian ADSL connection. It's probably your connection, just as a guess, though poorly made or very AI-heavy missions (particularly poorly made missions that are very AI heavy) can bog quite badly.
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Jun 28, 2013 08:24
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simosimo posted:I got stuck in BAF when you had to defend a little compound in a canyon and armoured cars came ASWELL as mortars, god it's like the 3rd mission in give me a break. Yep, that was the moment I gave up on the BAF campaign. Illuminati by Nature posted:I didn't realise that many people played the campaign This was my reaction to the all the garment rending about the campaign being released later. Personally, I'm happy as can be. People who don't care about the campaign can have all the other stuff sooner, and they get more time to finish the campaign and maybe it won't be quite as glitch-prone and broken as previous campaigns. Far better than everything waiting for them to finish rushing out the campaign.
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Aug 2, 2013 22:52
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Gromit posted:You can get rid of one by adding it to your game list. It goes away and nothing ends up in your library. But it knows after that, and the other two will refuse to be added. I just gifted mine to people.
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Aug 10, 2013 00:24
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Flaky posted:If anyone has been following the discussion on improving midrange textures, there appears to have been some movement in the last few days, with a mapping dev Googlava taking NordKindchen's improvements to the project lead for inclusion in an upcoming development build, probably after launch. This is fantastic news, as it means essentially that mid range textures will now be logical mapped in a similar way to the close range textures, significantly improving the overall visuals of the game, with theoretically minimal FPS impact. Take a look at the screenshots to see for yourself. This is currently available for testing on dev build as a mod if you hunt through the thread. Will they be fixing the part where it completely ruins dirt runways and beaches as part of its inclusion in the dev branch?
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Aug 29, 2013 11:46
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Yeah... it runs pretty decently on my upper-mid-range comp. Most people were reporting better framerates than A2. High playercount multiplayer is still.. um.. 'unpredictable'.. but, it runs on anything that ran A2 at a playable level.
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Gold Dust Gasoline posted:It runs better on SP. Yeah, there are some places that just murder your framerate, but in single player a rig like yours should chug along at a good 50-60 on high/medium-high settings. Multiplayer is still a bit of a clusterfuck but that's kinda par for the course for Arma games at/around release. Badly scripted missions, bad hosting, and too many players will all absolutely slaughter MP performance right now, having absolutely nothing to do with the specs of an individual player's computer. Stick to small playercount things for now, I guess? Also: Don't run shadows on anything lower than high. On lower settings, shadows are done by the CPU rather than the GPU, which is kinda dumb. hailthefish fucked around with this message at 08:47 on Sep 2, 2013 |
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Bondematt posted:Whelp, it appears grass + FSAA is a culprit for me. Even when just set to 2x it drops my frames from a solid 60 to 45 with a scope full of grass, and down to 40 at 8x. This is with ATOC disabled. Maybe try PPAA instead of FSAA?
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Considering there was an A2:OA patch as recently as July 2012, the chance of BIS plopping out a turd on A3 release day and then abandoning it are pretty low. Terrible launches that get fixed over the following months are kinda BIS's thing. Though the whole 'we need more money right now' part is important too.
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Turin Turambar posted:I remember when we believed this stuff would be fixed with the Physx implementation... It was fixed, to be much, much more hilarious.
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I just wish there were more buildings you could do rooftop insertions on. That and it's sort of lame that all the little houses are fully enterable and each has a dozen rooms but the few big office buildings and hospitals basically have one stairwell and that's it, everything else is a fake door.
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Sep 16, 2013 01:05
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Galaga Galaxian posted:I'd rather be the autorifleman. I always preferred it in ARMA2 because A) I am a mediocre shot, more bullets mean I'm more likely to hit B) IF I miss, I can just claim to be suppressing them C) DAKKA DAKKA. 
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The simplest mission you can make for 200 people is going to be 100 people on each of two teams, placed somewhere on the map, and they go shoot eachother. Echoing the 'do it in A2 because A3's not ready' advice. It's doable in A2 but it will take special precautions as far as connection hygiene, script stability, and, on the game design front, spreading enough action around that everyone has something fun and important to do without turning it in to a server-melting Michael Bay \/\/\/ 100 is far more doable, into the realm of 'mildly annoying' rather than 'insane', at least for A2. A3 still tends to eat a dick and die even at very reasonable numbers, but eventually that will probably be fixed. hailthefish fucked around with this message at 03:07 on Sep 25, 2013 |
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So, it's not your imagination, the Arma 3 AI really does have issues: http://feedback.arma3.com/view.php?id=14905http://feedback.arma3.com/view.php?id=14905 posted:The AI retains a max knowsAbout value (4) for targets even after going prone and losing line of sight. It can spot an enemy easily through the edges of a bush, go prone behind that bush, then very accurately engage through the dense base of the bush, killing the target without ever being visible to the victim. They will then report that they have killed the target even though they have no way whatsoever to know this. When viewing this behavior through the AI's "INTERNAL" camera, it's clear that the AI is keeping full position and movement knowledge even when it clearly has no line of sight.
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Elendil004 posted:The first mod I want is to reduce the amount of panting and wheezing my character does. I get it, I'm carrying gear and I get tired easy...I hate clearing rooms to a constant stream of noise from my idiot character. Yeah, wheezing like a fat, asthmatic goon gets old really fast.
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Thump! posted:Yeah, with a machine gun, rocket launcher, and ammo for both, you're looking at like 45kg, which comes out to around 110 lbs. That's a shitload of loving weight to carry for any amount of time. ACE2's fatigue system feels like an exponential effect, while A3's vanilla fatigue modelling feels linear, but seems to kick in a lot sooner than ACE2's. With ACE, lightly equipped enough, you can jog for loving ever, but with too much gear or too much running, you literally fall on your face and black out. A3, even naked, you start wheezing and panting after a fairly moderate jog, and while more gear and more running makes it worse, it never gets as bad as ACE gets, just loving annoying to listen to.
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OwlFancier posted:I... honestly never thought of that. My experience with a 360 controller is that it was significantly better than keyboard and mouse with no TIR, but not as good as keyboard and mouse with TIR. If you don't have a TIR, it's a decent in-between. Also, confirming that TIR purchase instantly turns you into a dad-gamer.
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GuardianOfAsgaard posted:Screenshot from the first campaign part. BRITISH FORCES! The British dude's in some weird digital pattern, the US forces get Multicam, which is very similar to MTP: Multicam doesn't have any black in it, unlike MTP, and the blotch shapes are a little different.
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warcake posted:MTP doesn't have any black in it, the colours are identical the pattern is just slightly different. Ah. The wikipedia example is inaccurate, then. Looking at some actual pictures, you appear to be correct. The shapes are more DPM-y but the colors are like Multicam.
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K8.0 posted:The idea that it's easy to find people to play with is laughable. The fact that your best suggestion is to try to schedule play several days ahead or to "find" people (lol yeah right) shows how bad it is. Sorry it's not Call of Battlefield 
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Ralith posted:This also explains why I can never kill anything when shooting through windows with 6.5mm. Why glass never breaks in this game I'll never know. A3 has a lot of breakable glass. Just Murphy's Law that the rare occasions you find yourself needing to shoot through windows, they're the old-style transparent unobtanium windows.
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DSauer posted:
Yep. http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/setObjectTexture Toss the image in the mission folder like you would a sound. Might take a little bit of fiddling around to find out which one of the textures in an object's texture array is the one you want to replace, but definitely possible.
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Nov 2, 2013 09:08
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OwlFancier posted:I mean it's basically impossible to be an effective AT or MG trooper at the moment because you can carry three missiles or five MG belts if you're lucky, and even then you can hardly move. If they're putting even more punitive measures in, well, what's the point? What kind of machinegunner can only carry 450 rounds of ammo? You really think someone will come along to be my ammo carrier? Have you played multiplayer ArmA ever? Yes. Just not on public servers.
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Maybe fatigue-imposed loadout limits in the base game are a good thing that will spur the community toward creating more thoughtful and interesting missions instead of 'everyone grabs as much poo poo as they can carry and kills everything they see'. More likely everyone will just keep playing Wasteland and CTI and complain about fatigue.
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The only thing that really bugs me about A3 stamina currently is how obnoxious the sound effect is.
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Illuminati by Nature posted:Can't watch the video yet but: horrible performance for Arma or horrible performance for any other game? I suspect if you were to leave out the slowdown imparted by FRAPS, it would be on the medium-low end of performance for Arma. If you've played on Fallujah in OA, my guess is this runs a bit like that. Probably goes all to poo poo if you add AI to it though.
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DSauer posted:Its hell trying to find effective documentation for the mission editor and scripting language for this game. The moment you include the word 'mission' in a google search it just starts dumping BI's Arma PR material and Amraholic links to missions. https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Main_Page quote:Trying to figure out if I can embed 3D assets into a mission or campaign file. The game currently doesn't have a large cargo ship or LCAC type vehicles in it for a World in Conflict type over the top mission. I'd rather distribute just one file rather than having to include a bunch of additional addons. Pretty sure you'd have to create it as its own addon. You might be able to embed the addon in the mission file but the amount of work required would be the same and it would cause the mission file to be HUGE and take forever to load.
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DSauer posted:Yeah essentially a cliche surprise landing from cargo ships. But now that you mention it an airborne invasion would probably be pretty impressive as well. Also infinitely easier, since there's example scripts everywhere and multiple missions that use various versions.
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Vahakyla posted:Has there ever been any ACRE-like functionality to Mumble? I haven't heard of it for Arma. I would assume it's possible, but most likely the ACRE people started back before Mumble became as much of a ~thing~ and are now too set in their ways to change.
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