Pics from the ArmA frontline

[Captain_Wolf]

Just thought I would start a thread where we can post up some pics from the ArmA frontline for all you ArmA fans and non believers alike.

http://i245.photobucket.com /albums/gg55/WC_Captain_Wolf/arma2008-06-0516-32-31-78.jpg?t=1212733333
Setting out on a dawn raid.

http://i245.photobucket.com /albums/gg55/WC_Captain_Wolf/arma2008-06-0517-06-34-56.jpg?t=1212733331
Regrouping at the Schnell service station.

http://i245.photobucket.com /albums/gg55/WC_Captain_Wolf/arma2008-06-0517-03-16-34.jpg?t=1212733333
This guy tried to leave without paying for his fuel.

http://i245.photobucket.com /albums/gg55/WC_Captain_Wolf/arma2008-06-0517-04-45-03.jpg?t=1212733332
Out on a nice morning drive.

[LordWyrven]

Heh. I'll be getting ArmA tomorrow -but what are you PC's specs Wolf (assume thses pics are all relatively high graphics shots)? I've got a Dual Core 3GHz, but it didn't appriciate the ArmA demo at high settings.

[Aresnik]

Do you play with the AEF boys Wolfy? That's my old BF2 clan, well technically I'm still a member.

[Captain_Wolf]

@Wyrven, actually those pics don't do ArmA justice I seem to be loosing a lot of quality from the game to the screen shots I'll see if I can get some better quality ones.

I run ArmA on 1280 x 1024, max everything and still get very good frame rates. You will find the latest version runs much, much, much better than the demo.

I have a E6600 dual core, 2 Gb RAM, and 8800GTX OC.

I am still clanless as far as ArmA goes but the AEF guys are usually good to hook up with for some teamwork, though some are a bit insular sometimes (only want to play with other AEF members). Nothing beats teaming up with the BigD boys for some A grade teamwork.

[AllYourBase11]

The demo frustrated me with the clunky interface fopr ordering NPC trops around etc. Is it better with real folks? (of course it is, what Im asking is: is it as good as PR?)

After playing the demo, I prefer PR by a mile but I'd love the impressions of someone who actually plays online.

[pogoman]

hey im just trying arma out online right now on the gsa coop server, but its all really laggy, not fps lag but like internet lag, even tho my ping is 40. when ppl use voip it stutters and all the pplayers stutter and teleport around. is this how it nomrally is?

[daveee]

Anyone up for a game tonight? :P

[pogoman]

well im on so yeahhh

[Captain_Wolf]

@Pogo no not at all. Are you sure it is not your PC? Were other people on the server having the same problems?

@Base IMO ArmA is better than PR and worse at the same time lol.

Better:
Graphics, draw distance, map size, MUCH MORE REALISTIC, coop with some decent teamwork can be better than sex.

Worse:
High system requirements, small player base, PvP "can" have a tendency to turn ugly. (Imagine PR with no weapon restirctions, a huge map, and heavy vehicles (Cobras, Tanks, A-10s) coming out of the daemon hole. Again this depends on the mission setup, it is not always that bad lol.

[AllYourBase11]

Hmmmmm. If I can pick up a decently priced copy, I'll give it a go methinks...

[pogoman]

no my computers fine. its not fps lag, it just seems like ive got a ping of 300 when its only 40. i keep asking if anyone else gets the lag or if its server lag but no1 responds. plus whenever ppl talk over voip its all disjointed and broken up so i cant hear them.

[ACC1]

no my computers fine. its not fps lag, it just seems like ive got a ping of 300 when its only 40. i keep asking if anyone else gets the lag or if its server lag but no1 responds. plus whenever ppl talk over voip its all disjointed and broken up so i cant hear them.

gsa servers have been having lag issues over the last few weeks for me even while reading 40-80 ping. Server problem I assume, quite annoying but there are some other aussie servers you can try.

[pogoman]

i tried internode and its the same. fortunately the players there were more helpful. they said the teleporting players and ai happens a little bit in arma but they made it out to sound not as bad as what im getting so im still peed. atm its still unplayable :(

[Aresnik]

@I am still clanless as far as ArmA goes but the AEF guys are usually good to hook up with for some teamwork, though some are a bit insular sometimes (only want to play with other AEF members). Nothing beats teaming up with the BigD boys for some A grade teamwork.

The maps and details i could give you, phenomonal. AEF are one of the most professional clans in Australia. Infact, they are a registered sporting body. Sedular true, but mature to the end.

[Ablack77]

Wow Captain ARMA certainly doesn't look that good for me

Jolly good show

[AllYourBase11]

i tried internode and its the same. fortunately the players there were more helpful. they said the teleporting players and ai happens a little bit in arma but they made it out to sound not as bad as what im getting so im still peed. atm its still unplayable :(


this could be a stupid question, but you're not capped are you? When im capped it lags like a bitch despite having good ping...

[pogoman]

nah yet that was my first thought, as yesterday was the day b4 my usage resets, but i still had about 400 megs left plus i tried the gamearena server (i get free badnwidth with) with 0 players and just bots and they all lagged the same.

[Captain_Wolf]

Considering you have tried 3 different servers and they are all the same Pogo I am inclined to think that it is definitely something on your end unfortunately.

[pogoman]

yeah your probably right, as today everythings fine! :D (except for voip, it still stutters) maybe it was my net usage restarting. really need a proper match with you guys to figure stuff out. some of the gamemodes get really long and tedious without teamwork.

[AllYourBase11]

Bought this yesterday (just in time for uni exams :( ) so i'll have to pwn u all in future.

[Retribunator]

I'm holding out for No. 2

[pogoman]

Bought this yesterday (just in time for uni exams :( ) so i'll have to pwn u all in future.
lol my exams are in a week too. which uni do u go to? uwa?

[Bahlye]

So.....Wheres all the pics.....?

[pogoman]

yeah sorry i kinda hijacked the thread. while i'm at it, can anyone list some essential mods which will work with the gsa servers? currently im using arma effects and the aacf sound mod.
also is there any way to fix the thing where if you look at the ground the screen gets brighter? cause its getting really annoying and sometimes i find my self looking at the ground to see better when it gets too dark, which is idiotic.
also is there any fix for the bug where all the ambient noises and foot step sounds dissapear and you can only hear gun fire and engines? cheers :S

[Captain_Wolf]

Mods allowed on the GSA servers ATM: http://www.gamingsa.com/forums/showthread.php?t=444 2

Never had either of those other problems but I imagine you could google it.

[pogoman]

hey another question. i was just on the pvp warfare server and got an A10, yet for some reason when pressing tab no targets were coming up when they were there. i had to go 500m from a tank b4 i realised it was there cause nothing was coming up on my hud. anyway it made things extremely difficult and whilst scratching my head as to what was going on i got shot down by a ka-50 (i mean wtf do they have aa missiles or something? cause the cobra doesnt). so i respawned and this time bought a cobra, but the same problem with no enemy tags coming up to lock onto, and i got shot down by the enemy ka50 cause apparently cobra's have nothing to shoot air with but the ka50's are flying tanks :(.

so basically is no lock on squares when flying a server setting or was it a bug? cause last time i flew on that server everything worked fine and plus i tried disabling everything in veteran and flying in that mode and i still had the lock boxes for enemy vehicles.

and also wat the hell is with ka50??!!!

/rant over :disgust:

[pogoman]

ok i just replicated the problem in the armory while flying various choppers and jets. its seems that if you fiddle around with the difficulty settings the option to lock on will dissapear but after that you cant get it bak again. so god knows what happened when i was on the server but maybe the settings got fiddled with. definately seems like another very MAJOR bug, although i cant find out anything about it on the net. maybe arma just hates me :(

[Captain_Wolf]

1. Could be a bug.
2. You cant establish a lock if you don't have a good line of sight, was your target in an urban environment?
3. Ka-50 is a single manned attack heli which makes it easier to use, but it's weapons are not as good as the cobra.
4. Helicopters don't have AA weapons but just about any of them can take you out regardless, if they can hit you.
5. It is quite likely you got hit by a ground AA and didn't notice it. Espesially in PvP many infantry have MANPADs which will take you down in one hit.
6. There are no countermeasures in ArmA for some retarded reason, so it is very difficult to stay alive in a AA populated environment, though this does do alot to ensure the aircraft are not completely overpowered.
7. ArmA hates you :P

[pogoman]

i tried flying the ka50 and as it turns out the missiles (which it has 12 of) can lock on to air or land which imo is terribly unbalanced but probably realistic. the locking thing was like sometimes when you load a game you cant lock on to anything even if you have direct line of sight on it as you are 500m away etc, othertimes it works fine. i *think* i you can fix it anyway as theres a way to manually lock on things, and after you do that it starts working again.
btw randomly joined a game of Warfare and got $100000 when no1 else did :D. good times.

[Bigsmokeee]

Not a good time to turn your back :)
http://www.imagehosting.com /out.php/i1782350_arma1.jpg (http://www.imagehosting.com )

Hell fires anyone ?
http://www.imagehosting.com /out.php/i1782349_hell.jpg (http://www.imagehosting.com )

[Captain_Wolf]

Ok I took some higher res pics last night so hopefully they turn out a bit better, sorry for those of you who may be on slower connections :P

http://i245.photobucket.com /albums/gg55/WC_Captain_Wolf/arma2008-06-1021-53-15-70-2.png?t=1213156579
Our pre dawn raid begins.


http://i245.photobucket.com /albums/gg55/WC_Captain_Wolf/arma2008-06-1021-56-31-51-1.png?t=1213156579
They never saw us coming.


http://i245.photobucket.com /albums/gg55/WC_Captain_Wolf/arma2008-06-1022-23-44-43-1.png?t=1213156074
Later that day we did some mountain climbing, it was hard work but the view was worth it.

[pogoman]

ok heres some pics of that same night assault cappy posted about except just before the initial assault, when we deployed flares:

http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/wmplayer2008-06-1209-17-12-68.jpg
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/wmplayer2008-06-1209-17-34-98.jpg
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/wmplayer2008-06-1209-17-41-81.jpg
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/wmplayer2008-06-1209-17-43-37.jpg
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/wmplayer2008-06-1209-17-44-54.jpg

[Sgt.trip]

okay im convinced ill get it should run fine on my new laptop.....! jus gotta wait till payday next week :(

[SmOOvDoGG]

Hey Sgt Trip, what sort of latop do you have? specs etc... if it works fine on your lapton should be great for mine as well

[Sgt.trip]

t7700
3gig ram
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600

[VisOne]

ArmA hates you :P

Yeap I have it and it righteously hates me and my pc its currently uninstalled until I finally get my new pc ... which is about a month away HURRAH for tax return.

[pogoman]

more incentives for you to get arma:
Captain wolf bombing my laser designation on a tank:
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/Screen05.jpg
result of a10 strafing run:
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/Screen03.jpg
a side mission where we had to take out an officer in a hotel surrounded by T72's and skillka's; cappy took the easy option and bombed it from 2km up while i lased it :D:
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/Screen04.jpg

Oh, and we started this mission in the morning and played practically to the night. great day, although now i feel a little guilty lol.

[Rhodesy_77]

ok im geting arma.... or should i wait till arma 2?

and how would my pc with a 8500, 2.5 gig ram and 2.8ghz duel core run it?

[pogoman]

your 8500's probably the weak link, though i'm not sure it matters too much in arma. arma is a more cpu intensive game so assuming that duel core is intel you should be able to run it very well (im on a 2.66 ghz dual). Arma's fps depends mostly on the view distance you set, running everything else on full doesnt require much, so you should be fine.

EDIT: oh and if your interested in buying arma i can recomend these guys: http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ArmA-Armed-Assault-PC-NEW-IN-STOCK_W0QQitemZ23025 9901597QQihZ013QQcat egoryZ3606QQssPageNa meZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZV iewItem
with shipping it comes to about $24 and i got mine in perfect condition in about 9 working days. theres only 1 left tho ;)

[Shotgun]

Captain wolf bombing my laser designation on a tank:
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/Screen05.jpg


no offense but im never going to get ArmA untill they learn that very far meters is not a measurement

[pogoman]

that just means greater than 2000m, the developers musta got lazy and not bothered with distances greater than that. and no offence but thats a really lame reason for not getting arma :P

[Psyrus]

ok im geting arma.... or should i wait till arma 2?

and how would my pc with a 8500, 2.5 gig ram and 2.8ghz duel core run it?

Radeon 8500 (http://ati.amd.com/products/radeon8500/radeon8500/index.html)?! You phail at everything, forever. Oh right, you probably meant the Nvidia 8500M/GT... let's be a little specific shall we :)

2.5 gig of ram: Didn't know numbers > 1 could be classified in as singular [Sorry I didn't have anything better for that one]

2.8ghz duel core: Well when your two cores aren't busy fighting each other (http://www.wsu.edu/%7Ebrians/errors/dual.html), and are a T5400 or above [memrom core] it should be ok... and I stress OK as the upper limit :)

EDIT: oh and if your interested in buying arma i can recomend these guys: http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ArmA-Armed-Assault-PC-NEW-IN-STOCK_W0QQitemZ23025 9901597QQihZ013QQcat egoryZ3606QQssPageNa meZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZV iewItem
with shipping it comes to about $24 and i got mine in perfect condition in about 9 working days. theres only 1 left tho ;)

Done! I'd like to give it a go and considering I'll be throwing a few hundred bux at the comp next week (new HDDs and maybe a new case)... and I have a paypal account with $50 which I can't get back into my bank... $25 seemed well worth it :D

[pogoman]

ok now that psyrus has snapped that up the next best is: http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ARMA-Armed-Assault-PC-NEW-FREE-SHIPPING-AUST-SALE_W0QQitemZ320260 760146QQihZ011QQcate goryZ3606QQssPageNam eZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZVi ewItem
at 29.95. though i havent bought from these guys and they've only got 67 sales they've got 100% positive feedback, plus a cool video :) .

[Bigsmokeee]

Ooo sounds like tuesday night armas are gonna be alot more fun... :( to bad im joining the local firebrigade and thats our training night lol

[Captain_Wolf]

We have been playing a lot recently actually just look for us in the "other games" TS channel.

But yeah Tuesday night is the official unofficial BigD ArmA night.

[daveee]

I need to format my PC and start from scratch and also give it a good clean before I get back into ArmA.

Blue screens of death, arma locks up sometimes when I die. Really annoying.

[Rhodesy_77]

@ pogoman, yer i know im planning on upgrading later in the year but have a tonne of other stuff i have to save for (schoolies!!) so yer. and yes its intel. is it worth buying? i think i got the demo b4 and the clunky-ness of it all sorta pushed me away. but ive been looking at some screenshots and hearing some stories and have got me thinkinbg of buying it again.

btw cheers for the link will have a look.

[pogoman]

yeah all the links i posted unfortunetly have been snapped up by other forum members lol (think the last one was krazzyb yay!).
I originally tried the demo and it really put me off too, plus i had a really terrible system back then so the graphics didnt look that great, but since the first release there have been sooo many patches, the game has actually turned out quite well, theres still a couple of issues where the game is clunky compared to bf2, but the shear scale of arma and the number of things it has that pr can't do eventually nullifies its problems.
considering your processors an intel i think you should be fine, though i dont know much about 8500 you should be able to get reasonable settings with that as well.
oooah and fortunately the last ebay store i posted has put up a new arma for sale for the same price of $30, so it looks like they might have quite a few copies for anyone else interested. heres the new link:
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ARMA-Armed-Assault-PC-NEW-FREE-SHIPPING-AUST-SALE_W0QQitemZ320262 844850QQihZ011QQcate goryZ3606QQssPageNam eZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZVi ewItem

[Rhodesy_77]

cheers mate but ill think ill just pop downtown and grab a copy today haha.

after seeing pics like these

http://i271.photobucket.com /albums/jj123/Rockyrhodes_77/142b.jpg
http://i271.photobucket.com /albums/jj123/Rockyrhodes_77/79e8a058c222.jpg
http://i271.photobucket.com /albums/jj123/Rockyrhodes_77/ArmA_441.jpg

i just had to get it as soon as possible haha.

[Rhodesy_77]

also does anyone know of any arma skinning tuts? im keen to get into skinning with arma

[daveee]

Oh but it is...

[pogoman]

lol, i didnt realise we could do hand signals... are those just glorified screenshots or can you actually do that in game, anyone know?

[Bigsmokeee]

i only know how to salute :P

[Captain_Wolf]

You can only salute, sit down, and lower your weapon AFAIK.

Those screen shots are either photoshopped or it may be from an early version of ArmA 2.

[pogoman]

yeah true actually the soldier's camo is different. must be arma2

[Rhodesy_77]

nah IIRC they are al;l part of a mod. the skins are a addon and i "think" that its been done with an animation addon. but im 90% sure its not arma 2. mainly cus only 10 or so pics have been released of arma 2 (that i know of) and that this was all found in the offical arma section of their forums.

[Bigsmokeee]

could allways be leaked operation flashpoint 2 screenies... who knows ??? im waiting for thart insted of arma2

[pogoman]

apparently ofp2 is made by a different company to that which made ofp and arma etc so it'll probably be completely different. dont know if thats a good or bad thing lol.

[Bigsmokeee]

i think ofp2 is licenced by codemaster and developed by them which ofp was licenced by codemasters and made by bohemia . either way im just hoping they arent as bad as bohemia that released arma which was appaerntly in a beta state for full price.

[pogoman]

yeah. that way people wont be instantly put off the game like with arma and the playerbase wont be so fricken tiny. i mean arma is pretty good after 2 years of patching, but its already been made notorious as a buggy unplayable game so it doesnt matter.

[Wokeye]

I got ARMA, will install and play SP for a week or two, then come on one Tuesday to PWN U N00Bz. Don't need Queens Gambit, do we?

[Rhodesy_77]

im geting ArmA tomoro. the gold edition so ill have Queens Gambit also

[wolffy.au]

I'm in tomorrow night for sure!!

[Captain_Wolf]

No you shouldn't need QG for the servers/maps we play on.

[pogoman]

do many people play QG? like is it worth getting (cause i wouldn't get it if it was only good for SP)?

[Captain_Wolf]

It just has a new small island, some skins and vehicles (technicals, transport plane), and a new SP campaign.

[pogoman]

Captain wolf gets massive air:
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/untitled.jpg
but seriously this was from one of the PR maps for arma (40 player one (a small bug we found when you airlift light armored vehicles and drop them from high up, nothing serious)) and let me tell you we tried it out and its really cool. theres 24 player map sizes to 70 player map sizes (of which there are Sea and air verse land versions or just land verse land (in terms of assests and starting locations)) so we tried out the 24 size and it turns out if your a squadleader you can request one ai soldier for every player you have missing from your squad, so essentially the maps are playable with 1v1, although it would obviously only get better with more players.

AAS and kit limiting works really well too, it actually makes pvp fun cause you dont have access to every weapon so armor stands a chance against human infantry.

Its also quite fun too to send your ai squad members to different flags and for them to have engagements when your somewhere else. my entire squad minus me met up with CW's squad, killed him first but then his squad eventually wiped mine out anyway lol. all we could hear was gunfire, and our troops going, oh no (number) is down, or riflemen is history etc. was actually quite cool.

theres numerous other features such as vehicle/supply requests etc and all the rest ive talked about in other posts. fantastic mission anyway, so if TOG eyeball still occasionally reads these forums then props to you :hi:

[Aestabjoo]

I'm gunna purchase ArmA this afternoon and give it a go tonight.

[wolffy.au]

Yeah, as usual I didn't make it - again - last night. Will try again tonight... (heard that one before)!

[champsky]

my system is a media center m8170a intel pentium dual core E2140
1024MB DR2 , 320GB 4G HARD DRIVE
NVIDIA GEFORCE 7500LE
SUPER MULTIDRIVE WITH LIGHTSCRIBE

is that swt for aa

[Rhodesy_77]

woot just got the gold edition today!

[pogoman]

yeah we should try devastation tonight if theres enough people. if we can get like 4+ ppl on the other games channel in ts we should be able to hijack the PvP server and change the map by voting numbers.

@ champsky, that system is pretty low end, but you should be able to run arma with decent fps all on low, but it wont look as pretty obviously :S

[pogoman]

something random: we were kicking a lot of ass with this fella on our side lol:
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-06-2020-18-59-91.jpgi think i'll go get myself a custom face now :)

[Captain_Wolf]

Lol sweet, he just needs terminator arms too.

[pogoman]

well tonight fortunately the server hogger wasnt on, and the people i was playing with were sick of warfare so we tried something new. first we did a bezerk pvp mission, which was pretty much just like vbf2. i then suggested we do devastation, and so we did. basically we didn't stop playing for 5 hrs and there were still like 5 ppl on when i left, but my eyes were getting sore lol. battleeye was spazzing too so people kept getting kicked but we still had a fair few and it was great. didn't think to get too many pics and cause it was infantry and light armour there werent that many speccy moments, but the teamwork was almost like PR, almost because no1 else was using mics, but everyone was still chatting like crazy anyways so it was all good, good players on both sides too cept cause i was more clued in about the mission and so built bunkers and stuff we won in the end.
The plan:
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-06-2321-15-10-81.jpg
overseeing the bunker creation:
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/wmplayer2008-06-2400-24-35-82.jpg
moving in:
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/wmplayer2008-06-2400-23-57-34.jpg
Contact:
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-06-2321-40-00-76.jpg
and the result :D :
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-06-2321-40-20-75.jpg
more assaulting or wateva lol:
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/wmplayer2008-06-2400-22-26-29.jpg
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/wmplayer2008-06-2400-21-11-84.jpg
and finally:
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-06-2322-45-27-93.jpg
took a long time too. for sum reason it was set on cap all flags and hold for like 1 minute unopposed (a ridiculously difficult requirement to win lol). in the following rounds we changed it to a timelimit.
all in all good night, and proves arma does have decent teamplay in pvp, not just coop. hopefully i can do it again tomorrow night with you guys :)

[SmOOvDoGG]

I hate you all ...........

[Captain_Wolf]

Sweet!

I'll be there tonight.

BTW I had to make a slight alteration to one of your pics, hope you don't mind.

http://i245.photobucket.com /albums/gg55/WC_Captain_Wolf/Owned.jpg?t=12142752 58

[pogoman]

lol. and he surely was owned too :gun2: :D

[AllYourBase11]

What mods do you guys use? (sound mods, skins, whatevs). Anything to improve my ArmA exprience.

[pogoman]

i use a few of the truemods such as trueNV(better NV goggle fov) trueingameUI (cleans up the hud), and trueui(cleans up the menues etc).
i tried using arma effect but i found the smoke effects to be far over the top (like shooting a wall or something would release ridiculous amounts of smoke lol.)
i also tried aacfsounds for a bit but then took them off and cant remember why, so im not sure if they're better or not

[Captain_Wolf]

There is a mods thread here: http://www.bigdgaming.net/showthread.php?t=267 2

But I suggest:

For graphics:

Arma Effects or DM smoke effects.

True mods, there are a few different ones that do different things depending on your preferences.

For sound:

AACF sound mod or FDF sound pack or Chammy's sound mod.

Once the new version of ECS gets released it will own every other mod around. I made a post about the current version in the above mods thread. But in short ECS makes everything in ArmA better.

[Rhodesy_77]

i run with arma effects, Chammy's sound mod, Truemods sometimes SLX and several skins.

[-=Delta723=-]

These are just some of my screenshots of me and some with Rhodesy leading squads with me:
http://img205.imageshack.us /img205/8438/00a1069a62bf450c7295 821zk7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://img205.imageshack.us /img205/6108/0e38f9edf7ed8f9edb5b cd5or0.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://img383.imageshack.us /img383/6534/1b29fbebe23b58a061d0 caauz6.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
Aussies in a RAF Chinook
http://img108.imageshack.us /img108/3241/3cfd10d6ed8286499466 575mg2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
Patroling a dead street that got hostile moments later.
http://img205.imageshack.us /img205/4548/448d1fa45d21fc30385a 77aao6.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
A convoy heading for a hot street fight!
http://img205.imageshack.us /img205/1113/320d0e8c8aa71b49d80f 710rw5.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
1st Infantry Division troops heading into a fire fight with SLA troops.
http://img383.imageshack.us /img383/5641/15032c9bd44cc20cc0d6 d9dou2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
After a Bitter strugle, a mosque is taken by 1st ID troops.
http://img108.imageshack.us /img108/7946/9571843d4938323161d4 d18jz9.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
A Vehicle Checkpoint under assault by militia from the nearby towns.
http://img108.imageshack.us /img108/1235/198691352d3fc9a41294 36fja8.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
An Australian Infantry soldier fires a HAT at a target tank.
http://img108.imageshack.us /img108/7892/28560953b6d7b9878421 befnt8.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
A convoy enters friendly streets.
http://img205.imageshack.us /img205/1106/a5bf68779bbab952ce78 f92oi5.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
A pilot drags his crew mate to safty after a crash landing.
http://img383.imageshack.us /img383/2835/ad9b13bbfd7b91950884 8f9wh0.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
RAC's can't fly...
http://img383.imageshack.us /img383/1802/d884e4fc6f673a9f09cf 38dwy0.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
A shocking site of a destroyed abrams tank during a heavy engagment with sla troops.

[Rhodesy_77]

heres some more of myself and delta on that same mission.

http://i271.photobucket.com /albums/jj123/Rockyrhodes_77/arma2008-06-2420-43-34-73.jpg
Patrol after 20min firefight with 2 squads of SLA troops.

http://i271.photobucket.com /albums/jj123/Rockyrhodes_77/arma2008-06-2420-33-37-26.jpg
Sq1 (Delta) and Sq2 (myself) along with a Stryker w/Mk19 engaged with SLA troops.

http://i271.photobucket.com /albums/jj123/Rockyrhodes_77/arma2008-06-2420-33-48-15.jpg
Delta covering the street as our squads advance.

http://i271.photobucket.com /albums/jj123/Rockyrhodes_77/arma2008-06-2420-42-15-67.jpg
Delta posing by tank :P

http://i271.photobucket.com /albums/jj123/Rockyrhodes_77/arma2008-06-2420-31-42-32.jpg
:hi:

http://i271.photobucket.com /albums/jj123/Rockyrhodes_77/arma2008-06-2421-07-16-53.jpg
Myself and delta at a observation post scouting ahead for our armour.

http://i271.photobucket.com /albums/jj123/Rockyrhodes_77/arma2008-06-2419-29-27-23.jpg
dont ask (lol)

[Captain_Wolf]

That SLX mod looks pretty sexy. Pity they haven't gotten it sorted for dedicated servers yet though.

You guys should really get in on the online ArmA experience with Pogo and I.

[pogoman]

well the arma devastation night was a huge success, though once again i kept forgetting to take pictures until some of the later rounds, still here are some of them (once again nothing speccy but yeah):
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/players.jpg
you'll notice we had eyeball on, who is the missions creator, and he said hes working on a new version to come out soon, and we helped identify some bugs too to help the beta testing process :)
enemy helo assault:
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-06-2419-14-47-37.jpg
enjoying the warmth (it was freezing ;)):
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-06-2421-20-03-89.jpg
dawn is breaking:
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-06-2421-18-22-39.jpg
taurus the sniping bastard :P:
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-06-2421-40-09-51.jpg
me taking a photo while captain wolf gets shot lol:
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-06-2421-36-55-01.jpg
and thats basically all i got. missed out a fair few maps there cause i was having too much fun to take photos, but yeah. good times :)

[pogoman]

tried out the ECS mod today in singleplayer. its very cool. the ai are tonnes smarter to a point where you basically cant play the same as b4 (ie, if a bot sees you he doesnt take 5 secs to aim so you cant rambo it up) the sounds are also great, although by default it replaces the sonic bullet cracks etc with whizzes, which you can turn off but i only realised after making some videos. damaged vehicles may also explode randomly and wrecks randomly shoot off sparks etc. cant wait till they get the new update out so we can play with it online.
couple of videos showing it off (soz for poor quality):
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/th_armapart.jpg (http://s276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/?action=view&current=armapart.flv )
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/th_armamix.jpg (http://s276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/?action=view&current=armamix.flv)

[pogoman]

My armour column on warfare (lots of tanks got left behind tho:
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-06-2717-16-53-55.jpg
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-06-2717-16-50-08.jpg
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-06-2717-16-55-72.jpg
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-06-2717-17-01-76.jpg
CAptain wolf's armor column:
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-06-2717-35-18-04.jpg
and his by comparason crazy bots:
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-06-2717-35-21-40.jpg
the carnage:
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-06-2717-32-52-62.jpg

[Rhodesy_77]

a bit of photography in arma :P

http://i271.photobucket.com /albums/jj123/Rockyrhodes_77/arma2008-06-2619-25-57-69.jpg

http://i271.photobucket.com /albums/jj123/Rockyrhodes_77/arma2008-06-2619-27-11-18.jpg

http://i271.photobucket.com /albums/jj123/Rockyrhodes_77/arma2008-06-2620-05-35-63.jpg

http://i271.photobucket.com /albums/jj123/Rockyrhodes_77/arma2008-06-2620-15-45-46.jpg

http://i271.photobucket.com /albums/jj123/Rockyrhodes_77/arma2008-06-2620-18-47-54.jpg

[AllYourBase11]

I've been playing a bit lately, im not enjoying it nearly as much as I enjoy a good round of PR - would there be a reason for that? Im mostly playing SP (which is fraught with bugs and stupid AI) so maybe thats it, but Im just not feeling it.

Halping?

[Rhodesy_77]

i havnt played a single mission of sp yet so i cant jugde on that but making your own mission then playing it out with a mate or two on coop is sooooooooooo good. ive had arma for 10 days and i havnt played another game during that time. give the editor a shot (its pretty simple), find some mods you like (skins add a nice touch) and grab a mate and give it a shot.

[Captain_Wolf]

Base get online and find Pogo and me we will show you how ArmA is meant to be played. SP is pretty damn hard BTW, I only really play MP because it it just soooooo much better than SP. As for bugs make sure you get the latest patch 1.14.

[pogoman]

yeah i noticed you came on last tuesday for the devastation night for awhile, but u weren't there long. wateva the reason, everyone should always try to make it on tuesdays, as ive decided thats the official devastation night. for every other day of the week theres warfare which is quite good, except its just majorely overplayed. tho we should probably try to fit in some coop again somewhere as i havent done any in ages.

[Rhodesy_77]

yer, i prolly rather coop as its just more action. ive never been in a PvP server with more than 12 people...

[pogoman]

well warfare gets alot of players (20+ prime time) and plus cause theres so much bloody ai everywhere you'll get craploads of action no matter what (tho it can get a little laggy). other than that devastation is still pretty action packed as thanks to the AAS all the fighting occurs in condensed areas. coop in comparason is more tactical and far less action imo, tho theres nothing wrong with that and i quite enjoy it.

[pogoman]

played a zombie coop match. bloody hilarious lol:
ammo was scarce, and the zombies numerous:
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-06-2813-50-54-34.jpg
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-06-2813-53-14-79.jpg
we made our escape via an old bus:
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-06-2813-54-54-23.jpg
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-06-2813-55-27-85.jpg
but it was futile :D :
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-06-2813-57-24-75.jpg
down to my pistol:
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-06-2813-58-05-12.jpg
then finally out of ammo, where i died and became a zombie:
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-06-2814-01-48-95.jpg
hunting the bastard Resistance soldiers:
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-06-2814-02-07-62.jpg
variety of interesting ppl on the mission with us:
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-06-2815-50-50-00.jpg
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-06-2815-52-57-53.jpg
posing:
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-06-2816-58-17-43.jpg
but foolishly as:
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/wmplayer2008-06-2818-56-20-28.jpg
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/wmplayer2008-06-2818-56-14-42.jpg
did a quick night mission too, but my SS didnt come through half the time so i only got this one:
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-06-2817-09-29-70.jpg
PS: anyone who hasnt played the zombie mission has to, the dialogue is fricken hilarious lol.

[Rhodesy_77]

where do i download it from?

[pogoman]

well had a good couple of rounds of arma coop at night with rhodesy until my download usage went over the limit (means no more arma for me for 8 days).
there was a certain mission where you didnt start off with NV goggles, and they were also hard to come by plus faulty at times lol, so everyone got carried away with using the flares on m203 launcher:
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-06-2822-11-55-93.jpg
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-06-2822-12-03-98.jpg
our troops advance under the cover of.... broad daylight lol:
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-06-2822-13-35-90.jpg
retarded green flares lol:
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-06-2822-14-47-20.jpg
nuclear explosion? :D:
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-06-2822-31-38-93.jpg
long range javelin (not hard but hey):
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-06-2822-09-14-23.jpg
shots from a different defence mission:
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-06-2821-36-16-62.jpg
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-06-2821-36-26-31.jpg
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-06-2821-36-37-51.jpg

[+SiN+headhunter345]

WhatThe hell.
This game looks awsome.

Can i by it?

[AllYourBase11]

Sure can. Check Ebay, dont pay any more than 30 bucks. My tip - import it from the US for like 10 quid.

[Shotgun]

yes...

[Rhodesy_77]

yer that was some good games.

some pics from my point of view.

Pogoman the bus driver :D
http://i271.photobucket.com /albums/jj123/Rockyrhodes_77/arma2008-06-2900-22-57-31.jpg

.................... .
http://i271.photobucket.com /albums/jj123/Rockyrhodes_77/arma2008-06-2900-23-50-23.jpg

the light, it burns!
http://i271.photobucket.com /albums/jj123/Rockyrhodes_77/arma2008-06-2900-29-20-33.jpg

Helo extraction after a successful mission
http://i271.photobucket.com /albums/jj123/Rockyrhodes_77/arma2008-06-2900-59-35-39.jpg

On the lookout
http://i271.photobucket.com /albums/jj123/Rockyrhodes_77/arma2008-06-2822-50-16-84.jpg

Ambush! (we actualy all got killed here, 2 strykers and a m113.....)
http://i271.photobucket.com /albums/jj123/Rockyrhodes_77/arma2008-06-2822-51-25-22.jpg

and this is from when i had a go at the sahrani life mod thing, at a police check point :D thank god i left my drugs at home:animblush:
http://i271.photobucket.com /albums/jj123/Rockyrhodes_77/arma2008-06-2816-11-13-73.jpg

[pogoman]

oh yeah i forgot to send u the link last night rhodesy cause of my internet screwing up but go here to get custom faces:
http://www.ofpec.com/ed_depot/faces/
and a link for a tute to using the faces is given on that page.

[Rhodesy_77]

Cheers mate

[Rhodesy_77]

hmm i cant get them to work. it says to put them in your user/profile name folder but i dont have a user folder :S

[pogoman]

oh yeah it was different for me too. this is where i put mine: mydocuments/ArmA Other Profiles/pogoman/face.jpg and it comes up in arma under custom face.

[Rhodesy_77]

yer i thought of that to, tried it but insted of just the normal profile name it had a folder named this Rhodesy%7c7%7c tried it with no luck, going over file names now

[Rhodesy_77]

nvm i got it :D

[pogoman]

had a game of sahrani life tonight on the OGN theme server. realllly funny stuff. i was a cop with Adarad and then there were 5 AEF guys who were civvies. had some really embarassing moments stopping civies and checking their cars, and forgetting to lock my car and them driving off with it lol. also unfortunately cause my internets capped all their mics sounded stuttery, but i managed to pick up a bit of convo anyway. Angel was the biggest crime culprit, and he gave the lamest reasons when we came to stop him.

the first time i followed him for about 5km to a boat hire place, where he bought a boat which he was obviously gonna use to go to a terrorist island. i questioned him and he didnt respond lol but i was too new to know what to do about it.

later on we caught 3 AEF guys at a terrorist vehicle shop, one of them being Angel who was currently wanted for being a terrorist lol. i got there and was at a loss at what to do as Angel had a gun. he shot me anyway so Adarad shot him and fined the other two for being accomplices, which they protested to by saying they were in the wrong place at the wrong time lol (as if being at a terrorist shop is innocent)

later still angel turned on his radar blocking thingo and dissapeared from our map, but we found him in the woods in a hideout he had built with some other guy and they had guns. Adarad hid in the bushes and i walked into the camp, asking what the guns were for. Angel said they were hunting and then lit the campfire. so i said i'd joined them for a bit lol. angel got peed at me after awhile and asked me to leave.
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-07-0221-14-49-64.jpg
i said i didnt want to and he shot me lol, so then Adarad came in and told him to the drop the weapon, which he didnt so adarad shot him and arrested the other guy lol.

i left at that stage anyways cause i could barely hear what they were saying on the mics, but it looks like awesome fun. will be sure to play it properly when my internet resets :D

[Rhodesy_77]

theres an OGN server with it??? :blowup:

will have to have a game on there soon. never been a cop b4

[Captain_Wolf]

Sounds like awesome fun Pogo.

I couldn't make it Tuesday night because we had [WC] training but I am looking forward to getting in some games on this map soon.

[pogoman]

yeah i always thought being a cop would be boring buts its actually pretty fun, especially if u take the role seriously. unfortunately for sahrani life everyone needs to communicate via mics and so while my internets capped it made things a little difficult.

yeah wolf i didnt do anything on tues either, but definately will next tuesday. my internet usage resets nexts monday.

[Sgt.trip]

do guys have the expansion queens gambit???

[pogoman]

do guys have the expansion queens gambit???
nope.

[Sgt.trip]

okay

[Sgt.trip]

i think ill go buy it today

[pogoman]

wooo! our numbers grow stronger :ninja:

EDIT: oh and btw Rhodesy i'll join u on the sahrani life american servers some time, as u dont really need that great a ping to play considering theres not much shooting. when u were on could u hear what ppl were saying on the mics? and how bad was the lag in general?

[Rhodesy_77]

yer i got it. i think its worth it. pretty nice.

[Sgt.trip]

i bought it off ebay should be here by the 9th... i rang around all the local shops and none had it... its discontinued! :(


cost me $32 plus $9 postage


i got the 1.14 patch is there any othe mods ppl recomend?

[Captain_Wolf]

i got the 1.14 patch is there any othe mods ppl recomend?
Check out post #81 of this thread.

[Rhodesy_77]

i just got the gold edition (original plus the expansion) for just $62 from EB games. and yer there are tonnes of good mods out there.

[pogoman]

pfft. i bought my copy for $14 bucks, you got ripped off :P (not inc postage heh)

[Sgt.trip]

i rang all the stores in the ACT and no one had it... even the second hand resellers.... so i figured i buy the best brand new unopened box off ebay.....


and i did! be here next week!!! dam it will probably come after tuesday! lol oh well week after...!

[Rhodesy_77]

nice, btw if i was you id do wat i did and download the patches you need now so you can just install it and run em and ya good to go!

[ozpainman]

do guys have the expansion queens gambit??? I just bought Armed Assault Gold Edition (ARMA and the Queens Gambit) from EB Games (Sale on now) for $79.95.
They had the Queens Gambit for $49.95. I'll probably get it installed this weekend and see how I go in single player before I join a game.

[pogoman]

dont forget to patch first ;). the games terrible in its 1st release state.

[ozpainman]

i just got the gold edition (original plus the expansion) for just $62 from EB games. and yer there are tonnes of good mods out there.Did your Gold Edition have 2 DVD's in it?
Mine only has the one DVD in it and there is nothing on it that looks like an install for Queens Gambit. Looks like I'll be going back to EB Games to get the other DVD.

[Rhodesy_77]

no it only comes with one mate. queens gambit is more of an addon rather than a expansion in the sense of another new game. it just adds a few more features and units and maps. you dont need to really do nething for it.

if the server is running QG then the game willl run it. and you can pick which missions to run. so dont flip out you only get one cd lol.

[pogoman]

BIGGLES ATTACK!!!!:
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-07-0616-27-54-17.jpg

[Rhodesy_77]

haha i love those planes... hey pogo you said the other day that OGN has a sahrani life server? i cant find the bloody thing and im keen to give it a shot with a ping thats under 100...

[pogoman]

yeah its more like they have a server which has the sahrani life mission on it heh, as does GSA. so occasionally people vote for the mission and play it, its not like a 24/7 server :(

[Rhodesy_77]

aww damn... but dont you have to have the addon for it?

[Captain_Wolf]

Tuesday night if enough of us get on we should be able to vote whatever we want in. :)

[Sgt.trip]

well it came today in the mail 2 days earlier then expected :D



will load it sometime today and i got the 1.14 patch already d/l....

jus still no sure wat mods ppl run and if i need to get any maps/content b4 joining u guys on tuesday night???

[Captain_Wolf]

You don't need anything but the 1.14 patch, all the mods we are running are optional sound/graphics mods. Maps will auto download to you as you join a game.

[pogoman]

no yeah Rhodesy the GSA servers have v1.32 running and OGN 1.25. i tried to find them the later versions but i couldnt see any DL links that worked for sahrani life versions later than 1.25 (like i know 1.41 is out but fat chance of finding a link to it). it seems they keep the latest releases exclusive to their servers :(. doesnt matter anyway, gameplays still sweet and i assume witht he later versions they just keep adding more confusing crap so.

hey yeah trip just hop on TS later on today and i'll try and join you (Wolf you should come too, havent seen ya for a week :P). i gotta go out job hunting now but im not sure how long it'll take, but should be back in 3hrs or so.

[Sgt.trip]

yeah i will do i gotta go for a driving lesson at 2.30 so i better get dressed and outta bed! :P

havent installed yet being working on my adf map for PR.

[Captain_Wolf]

Ok I'll try to get on tonight.

[pogoman]

Pics from last nights game of warfare. it was me an Daniel vs about 10 other people, so we resorted to dirty tactics heh. built about 100 barracks so they could never destroy all of our base lol (gonna get fixed in the next version).
here's an example of some of the barracks and walls etc (reminds me of a paintball field i went to once lol:
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-07-0623-14-19-43.jpg
the enemy sent all kinds of expensive thinks at us :D:
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-07-0623-15-05-57.jpg
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-07-0623-13-36-39.jpg
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-07-0622-58-10-98.jpg
but to no avail:
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-07-0622-58-56-26.jpg
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-07-0622-59-02-82.jpg
they even trialed biological warfare :S:
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-07-0622-57-11-35.jpg
(really i just spammed lotsa flares heh)
in the morning we had enough money to launch a counter attack (which failed :( but still got a couple of them :)):
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-07-0700-30-00-07.jpg
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-07-0700-30-07-34.jpg

[Rhodesy_77]

haha nice

[Bigsmokeee]

just droppin a note ima be on Arma from now on in that daniels warfare server or what eva it is haha GSA somthin :P

[Rhodesy_77]

ill be on later tonight

[Psyrus]

I'll try to get on later tonight as well! (around 7pm WST)

[Sgt.trip]

so thats 9AEST ill aim for that too... still doing updates and getting very frustrated with my map making!!!!

[Bigsmokeee]

Heap of sh!t fraps and vista = No sound in arma *Cry* got some good stuff tonight all to find out it had no sound... :( gonna have to go get 64bit xp sometime this week.

[Bigsmokeee]

Oh and just a lil clip of hmm well andrew and what happend to a our blackhawk Extraction after capping a zone.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJQbtICtZi4

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJQbtICtZi4)
*edit*
it only go's for like 30's not the 2:41 it reckons lol its all black after that

[pogoman]

Elol andrew was terrible. and he kept tryng to fly over and over too :S. shoulda got a video of me genade launching the mi17 full of our troops from 500m away and taking it out :D

EDIT: some pics:
a car that got sent sky high by arty:
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-07-0720-17-50-59.jpg
and some shots of me flying with a 10km view distance (and getting about 20fps :)):
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-07-0722-34-48-51.jpg
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-07-0722-42-04-84.jpg
u can see in the distance it looks like the max view distance is reached, but in actual fact that area around the mountain is just like always covered by fog lol.

[Rhodesy_77]

these are from that night also. have to say that night was one of the best ive had on arma. cheers for the game guys. ill be on tonight again to :D

http://i271.photobucket.com /albums/jj123/Rockyrhodes_77/arma2008-07-0720-57-09-82.jpg
our attack on the hotel while it was underway, pogo paradroping onto the roof to begind to clear it, myself was providing sniper cover.

http://i271.photobucket.com /albums/jj123/Rockyrhodes_77/arma2008-07-0721-03-18-81.jpg
mission complete called for an extraction.

http://i271.photobucket.com /albums/jj123/Rockyrhodes_77/arma2008-07-0800-32-06-82.jpg
Pogo the jet whore lol

http://i271.photobucket.com /albums/jj123/Rockyrhodes_77/arma2008-07-0722-16-15-50.jpg
Edit: lol a Ka-50 that was shot down and landed 2 meters from me. scared the SH!T outa me!

http://i271.photobucket.com /albums/jj123/Rockyrhodes_77/arma2008-07-0722-54-41-54.jpg
Extraction again :D

http://i271.photobucket.com /albums/jj123/Rockyrhodes_77/arma2008-07-0800-36-04-39.jpg
lol this one was funny. there was a Ka-50 over our airbase pissin us off so some decides to get a AA onto it. all good except it ended up taking out our hangers haha. well... was funny at the time...

[Rhodesy_77]

heres a quick little movie i made just to get myself used to the script and camera features of the game. nothin flash mainly was just bored lol.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ixXFZGBKa0

Cheers

[Bigsmokeee]

not bad. just needs some in game sound or what eva ive just started mucking around with it too since ive got fraps to record sound on arma with vista.

[Rhodesy_77]

yer i have xp and fraps dosnt like my system and dosnt want to record sound... so yer..

[Bigsmokeee]

yeah gutterd i cant record sound if i wanna use teamspeak :( so im gonna have to wipe the dust off my old comp and used that for ts and record on this :P

[Rhodesy_77]

yer i used to beable to record sound a long time ago. but then i must of messed around with my sound settings and now it wont work no matter wat i do!

[old1]

I loved opreation flashpoint series & this looks the part...are there as many bugs as OF had?...it took a lot to sort the game out but the end result was great. I'll try to buy a copy.

[pogoman]

ugh. that video makes me want to puke :P
nah its just cause of the ai's response to being shot at: prone dive in the middle of the street and crawl around in the open like retarded Alsatians suffering from dementia. worst piece of coding there ever. thats one of my biggest gripes with game and if arma2 has ai of the same intelligence it will make me cry.

[icehollowpoint]

ugh. that video makes me want to puke :P
nah its just cause of the ai's response to being shot at: prone dive in the middle of the street and crawl around in the open like retarded Alsatians suffering from dementia. worst piece of coding there ever. thats one of my biggest gripes with game and if arma2 has ai of the same intelligence it will make me cry.

This is what happens when people don't experiment with mods. ArmA's default unpatched (and even in some cases patched) AI is horrible at movement in an urban area under fire. However there a few good AI and other mods that fix this so that within a certain distance of a certain density of buildings, the AI will only crouch or stand.

[Rhodesy_77]

yer i hated that too but was to slack to go back and refilm and find the mods/scirpts needed to get it looking right. as said b4 was really just a test to get used to the camera and script system of arma (which bloody blows my head too) i got another film planed out already which should (should!) be alot better. night bombing ne1? :D

[AllYourBase11]

The best fix for the AI is to play with pwners like myself online...

[pogoman]

This is what happens when people don't experiment with mods. ArmA's default unpatched (and even in some cases patched) AI is horrible at movement in an urban area under fire. However there a few good AI and other mods that fix this so that within a certain distance of a certain density of buildings, the AI will only crouch or stand.

yeah i know, mods like ECS etc. however i dont play arma singleplayer and ECS crashes servers at the moment so they all run with the default ai which is very depressing. cant wait for ECS to release their new version tho, that'll be the day to play arma :)

[pogoman]

just a few examples of how the truemod fov changes the weapon position:
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-07-1415-00-10-04.jpg
and some random shots from hostage rescue on domination:
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-07-1417-59-43-23.jpg
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-07-1418-01-00-40.jpg
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-07-1418-01-16-59.jpg
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-07-1418-01-28-95.jpg
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-07-1419-32-00-93.jpg

[pogoman]

Wolf uses his neck extension hax to peer over obstacles, such as myself:
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-07-1515-19-39-48.jpg
uber high flying:
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-07-1513-48-00-14.jpg
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-07-1513-48-07-28.jpg
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-07-1513-48-17-93.jpg
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-07-1513-50-10-73.jpg
to assault the uber high radio tower:
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-07-1513-45-31-31.jpg
superspecops cove sneaky assault operation :D:
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-07-1516-06-11-48.jpg
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-07-1516-23-34-03.jpg
job done:
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-07-1516-00-54-84.jpg

[Captain_Wolf]

I haven't uploaded some in a while so here are some more, again they are high-res so sorry if you have a slower connection but it just looks so god damn pretty.

http://i245.photobucket.com /albums/gg55/WC_Captain_Wolf/arma2008-06-2423-22-32-78.png?t=1216195972
Dawn attack in Devastation.


http://i245.photobucket.com /albums/gg55/WC_Captain_Wolf/arma2008-06-2423-30-13-90.png?t=1216195972
Cruising, watching the sunrise.


http://i245.photobucket.com /albums/gg55/WC_Captain_Wolf/arma2008-07-1420-24-35-12.png?t=1216195973
Returning to base after a successful mission.


http://i245.photobucket.com /albums/gg55/WC_Captain_Wolf/arma2008-07-1515-49-32-70.png?t=1216195973
Ready to roll out and give Pogo some air support.


http://i245.photobucket.com /albums/gg55/WC_Captain_Wolf/arma2008-07-1515-57-57-04.png?t=1216196057
Splash one SU-34.


http://i245.photobucket.com /albums/gg55/WC_Captain_Wolf/arma2008-07-1516-07-16-43.png?t=1216195976
On station for air support at Bagango. (Pogo is my SL/spotter and is marked with the circle BTW)


http://i245.photobucket.com /albums/gg55/WC_Captain_Wolf/arma2008-07-1516-06-46-42.png?t=1216195976
Me waiting to see the bomb impact after dropping ordinance on Pogo's laser target.


http://i245.photobucket.com /albums/gg55/WC_Captain_Wolf/arma2008-07-1516-10-20-96.png?t=1216195977
Flying inverted over Bagango checking out the situation through the top of the cockpit.


http://i245.photobucket.com /albums/gg55/WC_Captain_Wolf/arma2008-07-1516-20-34-79.png?t=1216195978
Get down low and go go go!


http://i245.photobucket.com /albums/gg55/WC_Captain_Wolf/arma2008-07-1518-23-52-35.png?t=1216195980
Insertion by boat to assassinate an enemy officer and steal some documents.


http://i245.photobucket.com /albums/gg55/WC_Captain_Wolf/arma2008-07-1518-37-40-35.png?t=1216195981
Securing a concentration camp with our patrol boat.


http://i245.photobucket.com /albums/gg55/WC_Captain_Wolf/arma2008-07-1518-39-00-39.png?t=1216195982
Mission complete, heading for the extraction point.

[Captain_Wolf]

http://i245.photobucket.com /albums/gg55/WC_Captain_Wolf/arma2008-07-1921-21-25-60.png?t=1216538007
Heading out on a dusk raid.


http://i245.photobucket.com /albums/gg55/WC_Captain_Wolf/arma2008-07-2001-30-55-68.png?t=1216538008
Please don't park your blackhawk in the middle of an active runway.

[Rhodesy_77]

god damn it. why did school have to start back up so early... so keen for a day of ArmA...

[sittingduck911]

awsome....
im so keen to get in on some of this arma action.
would it run ok on my machine.
Q6600
2 gig ddr2 800 ram
6800gt 51mb

[Rhodesy_77]

hmm you may be pushing it with that rig, but may get it on low. worth a shot.

heres some pics from last night. was one of the best nights of arma ive had for a while.

Roll out
http://i271.photobucket.com /albums/jj123/Rockyrhodes_77/GGrollout.jpg

Indirect fire with the Auto GL, with capt'n wolf as spotter.
http://i271.photobucket.com /albums/jj123/Rockyrhodes_77/GGbombard.jpg

oooh the purdy colours
http://i271.photobucket.com /albums/jj123/Rockyrhodes_77/GGrain.jpg

Wolfs fancy flying :P (minutes b4 he gets blown outa the sky :D)
http://i271.photobucket.com /albums/jj123/Rockyrhodes_77/GGwolfpilot.jpg

Evil and Wolf, medics....with heavy MG's.... giving awesome cover though
http://i271.photobucket.com /albums/jj123/Rockyrhodes_77/GGmeds.jpg

Squad holding the bunker from a heavy counter attack including 50+ troops, AA and APC's
http://i271.photobucket.com /albums/jj123/Rockyrhodes_77/GGdef.jpg

BOOM goes the AA :D
http://i271.photobucket.com /albums/jj123/Rockyrhodes_77/GGboomgoestheAA.jpg

it also has to be said that these wernt your run of the mill AI, these were super ass kicking AI, you leave your flank open they will cut you down in no time. was a very challenging mission and was good fun. just wish i didnt have school the next day (well turned out i didnt seeming im posting this now, our driveway is flooded :D!) so i could of stayed and played longer!

[sittingduck911]

:( my new quad core wont handle it???

[Rhodesy_77]

more ya graphics card mate.

[sittingduck911]

crap, dyslexia playing up again its a 8600gt

[Rhodesy_77]

ahh haha k should be fine then mate.

[pogoman]

yeah you should be good. arma is more cpu dependant than you'd think, i just overclocked my processor and got up to 30fps extra in some places. also i reached 130fps all on high/veryhigh with 2km VD in the desert. who can beat it? :P

[Rhodesy_77]

prick............... .. :P meanwhile here i am geting 30 fps in the desert on med and 15 in the woods... i hate you...

[pogoman]

i think i'll rub it in more, i even get a constant 30fps in corozol, and that place is laggy as :P

[daveee]

What specs you got pogo?

[pogoman]

GA-P35-DS3 gigabyte motherboard
conroe E6750 intel dual core clocked at 3.2ghz
Asus 8800gt 512mb
2gb of some random ram

[daveee]

Ahh k. Same as mine minus overclock and my 8800gts 320 then.

blergh, i get like 60fps, some on medium some on high.

[Captain_Wolf]

I'm running:

E6600 dual core
8800GTX Factory OC

I run everything maxed out and get mostly between 30-60 FPS depending on the map/area.

Quick question is there a program I can run that will show me my CPU usage when I am playing ArmA? I figure my CPU is bottlenecking my ArmA performance but I want to check it before I get into overclocking it as everything else on my system runs great already.

[pogoman]

just use NVmonitor which is in the nvidia control panel. once its open enable event logging and make sure in the settings u've ticked the monitor cpu usage box. leave it running while playing arma then check the event log file to see how the cpu went.
mine was constantly maxing out before and now it doesnt, so it gave me an idea of when to stop OCing.
the other thing to watch is your cpu temperature once u've OCed, which i use speedfan for. u can also enable logging in that too. both my cores sit around 50C while playing so its all good.

[Psyrus]

I'm running:

E6600 dual core
8800GTX Factory OC

I run everything maxed out and get mostly between 30-60 FPS depending on the map/area.

Quick question is there a program I can run that will show me my CPU usage when I am playing ArmA? I figure my CPU is bottlenecking my ArmA performance but I want to check it before I get into overclocking it as everything else on my system runs great already.

You don't have a G15 by any chance? If you do, the latest coretemp will show individual usage and temps while in-game.

Alternatively, if you'd like another way to quantify the bottleneck, get 3dMark06 and run it at stock speeds. Then run it again with your CPU overclocked ~20+%, and look at the graphics (SM/HD) scores and see if they increase... if your graphical scores increase when you overclock the CPU then it has been bottlenecking the GPU. If only your CPU score goes up, then obviously it wasn't a bottleneck.

Alternatively you can try overclocking your graphics card a little while your CPU is at stock speeds, and if it is bottlenecked, the graphical scores/FPS won't go up [much].

Edit:

Rivatuner with the CPU plugins and OSD enabled will give you all the info you need about how your components are faring during gaming sessions.

[pogoman]

its much simpler to see whether your cpu is the bottleneck if you just check the usage. ie if its maxing at 100% or 50% if you've got 2 cores :P

[ACC1]

I been playing alot of arma latley, lots of fun with the c-5- guys on there team server playing alot of C&H.
I have to many screens/ vids to post :( and I hate hosting else where then posting them.

[pogoman]

i just knocked my dual core up to 3.64GHz from 3.2GHz (and from 2.66 b4 that) so thats quite a hefty OC of about 1GHz :D
however while playing arma the cores reach temps of 67C tops. anyone know if thats safe?
EDIT:well i got a blue screen just then so i guess its not, winding it down to 3.4GHz, though i think the voltage may have been too high.

[Rhodesy_77]

hmm who do you do all this? cuis atm i have a duel core and its at 2.8GHz (i think) and wouldnt mind geting a bit more outa it. is it hard? i dont want to do it if theres major risk of FU**ING it all to hell... am no where in the position to be geting a new comp...

[pogoman]

its pretty difficult to stuff your comp as if the voltages are set too high it just wont boot, or if it does boot and the voltages are too high and you put the cpu under load when it gets too hot the computer will just turn off so.
currently 3.4Ghz with 1.3V (which was the standard voltage) seems to be working fine. funny thing was when i had 3.2Ghz before i was using 1.225V and it was stable, and that was lower than the default voltage for 2.66Ghz lol.

[pogoman]

had an organised round of arma Desert warfare with the aacf guys. it was basically 4 terrorists vs 8 Blufor, where the terrorists only got 1 life and the blufor get infinite. its sounds unfair but we (the terrorists) were defending an objective so the numbers worked out pretty well, we usually just had to hold a point for a certain amount of time. funnily enough it was also iron sights only for the terrorists as we were meant to be a real ragtag bunch, but we still handed their asses to them and i got very good at using them :)
protecting a prisonar in the hotel in chantico:
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-07-2417-20-37-01.jpg
here we were just basically trying to survive till the time ran out, and it was where i kicked their ass majorly, even against their scoped weapons :P:
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-07-2417-52-56-06.jpg
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-07-2417-55-10-32.jpg
we had to protect a captured chopper in this mission though we didnt do so well, our iron sights weren't so good at such ranges:
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-07-2418-25-19-04.jpg'
me getting suppresed by literally terrifying mg fire lol:
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-07-2418-25-20-90.jpg
as it got darker we didnt have NV goggles, so i lay in wait to ambush them:
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-07-2419-01-51-45.jpg
i let them all run past then nailed them in the back with my grenade launcher :D:
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-07-2419-03-26-42.jpg

[Captain_Wolf]

lol, Pogo the bush ninja!

[pogoman]

yeah it took a remarkable amount of restraint not to open fire on those guys lol.

EDIT: hay check this out: http://community.bistudio.c om/wiki/ArmA_2
the recommended sys requirements for arma2 is a quad core! :( man i wish i got one instead of a dual core. also apparently they're gonna be utilising the extra cores soley for smarter ai, so there is hope! also some websites have put a release date: of 16.10.2008! no official word yet but thats pretty close anywho :)
some of the websites:
http://www.dvdes.ch/product_info.php/manufacturers_id/100374/products_id/1000308844
http://www.amazon.de/HMH-Hamburger-Medien-Haus-Assault/dp/B001BDUTXI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1216743687&sr=8-1

[S.O.P]

So they will alienate 95% of their market for better AI?

While noble, I doubt the marketing department will allow that to happen!

I wonder how it will operate on dual-core then. Stupid AI I suppose.

[SmOOvDoGG]

also apparently they're gonna be utilising the extra cores soley for smarter ai

Would be great if they also made the one of the cores to utilise Physics instead of having to get one of those crappy aegia physix cards

Arma 2 screenies (http://www.arma2.com/news.html) are looking good though, lets see how the OFP2 (http://www.flashpoint2-game.com/) and Arma 2 (http://www.arma2.com/) battle it out

[pogoman]

So they will alienate 95% of their market for better AI?

While noble, I doubt the marketing department will allow that to happen!

I wonder how it will operate on dual-core then. Stupid AI I suppose.

err no your obviously not gonna have dumber ai if you only have a dual core, it just means you wont be able to run it as good most likely. i for one think its good that games will finally be utilising multiple cores, as most of us have them but dont use them so. and it may still run fine on dual cores, who knows. we've never actually played a game which utilises multiple cores so we dont know what will happen.

[Captain_Wolf]

I just hope it runs well from the get go and we don't have to wait 6 months+ post launch for them to actually try and optimise the game/net code.

IMO that was ArmAs worst fault. I'm so sick of games being released in a shoddy state.

Its still a massive system whore compared to most other games on the market ATM, and still could be optimised a lot IMO, lucky for ArmA there is no direct competition for them in this genre ATM.

This will be a very big deciding factor in whether I get OFP2 or ArmA 2 if they come out close enough together to be comparable that is.

[Rhodesy_77]

some pics from the mission im working on atm. hehe just perfecting all my chopper scripting :D

in the actuall mission it will be night, just had it day for ease of testing.

http://i271.photobucket.com /albums/jj123/Rockyrhodes_77/arma2008-07-2523-05-12-34.jpg

http://i271.photobucket.com /albums/jj123/Rockyrhodes_77/arma2008-07-2517-10-43-54.jpg

http://i271.photobucket.com /albums/jj123/Rockyrhodes_77/arma2008-07-2517-09-24-50.jpg

http://i271.photobucket.com /albums/jj123/Rockyrhodes_77/arma2008-07-2517-45-06-26.jpg

http://i271.photobucket.com /albums/jj123/Rockyrhodes_77/arma2008-07-2518-41-58-32.jpg

http://i271.photobucket.com /albums/jj123/Rockyrhodes_77/arma2008-07-2517-02-59-51.jpg

http://i271.photobucket.com /albums/jj123/Rockyrhodes_77/arma2008-07-2517-00-17-89.jpg

this is the time of day it will be
http://i271.photobucket.com /albums/jj123/Rockyrhodes_77/arma2008-07-2600-17-10-18.jpg

Cheers!

[Rhodesy_77]

and a few more

http://i271.photobucket.com /albums/jj123/Rockyrhodes_77/arma2008-07-2608-57-14-92.jpg

http://i271.photobucket.com /albums/jj123/Rockyrhodes_77/arma2008-07-2518-43-07-15.jpg

http://i271.photobucket.com /albums/jj123/Rockyrhodes_77/arma2008-07-2518-04-56-31.jpg

http://i271.photobucket.com /albums/jj123/Rockyrhodes_77/arma2008-07-2517-44-08-25.jpg

http://i271.photobucket.com /albums/jj123/Rockyrhodes_77/arma2008-07-2517-00-13-36.jpg

http://i271.photobucket.com /albums/jj123/Rockyrhodes_77/arma2008-07-2513-32-45-51.jpg

http://i271.photobucket.com /albums/jj123/Rockyrhodes_77/arma2008-07-2512-39-00-64.jpg

http://i271.photobucket.com /albums/jj123/Rockyrhodes_77/arma2008-07-2512-37-28-00.jpg

http://i271.photobucket.com /albums/jj123/Rockyrhodes_77/arma2008-07-2512-32-42-37.jpg

http://i271.photobucket.com /albums/jj123/Rockyrhodes_77/arma2008-07-2511-50-21-84.jpg

Cheers

[pogoman]

http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/ARMA2_IN-GAME.jpg

[Captain_Wolf]

"Who's gonna get owned by that cobra, that's right you are" :)

I like the subtle hint that you will be able to drag peoples bodies from the battlefield though. I hope this can be added properly to ArmA in the next patch courtesy of the community coding program they have for it.

[AllYourBase11]

I was playing on the ogn theme server a few nights back with pogo and the AEF guys, they had a thing where you could drag people back into cover so a medic could revive. It rocked. Pulling somebody back into cover while tracers whip overhead is cool fun.

[Flanker15]

I was playing on the ogn theme server a few nights back with pogo and the AEF guys, they had a thing where you could drag people back into cover so a medic could revive. It rocked. Pulling somebody back into cover while tracers whip overhead is cool fun.

Yeah it's in the SLX mod probably turn up in more mods later.

[Rhodesy_77]

yer the SLX mod has some very nice features, its right up there with ESC

[Rhodesy_77]

just a little thing i put together last night when i didnt have the net for a few hours.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46das9z1SZw

i want to work on it a bit more, im looking to add some sound from war reporters in the field that are maybe under attack or a large explosion happens close to them so their voice is all panicy. also maybe change the music, ooh and i may add another 2 min in there of the allies taking "revenge" on the insergents. so if you got any songs you think would be good or seen ne footage i could use for the sound let me know.

Cheers.

[Captain_Wolf]

Yeah it's in the SLX mod probably turn up in more mods later.
It is a different custom script that is on the servers ATM, not as good as the SLX one. However the SLX mod is not dedicated server compatible so we have to make do until they fix it.

[Sgt.trip]

nice

[DarkMellie]

Can someone with 1000+hours in bf2 and a few hundred in PR tell me about Arma? The screenshots look fantastic as does the gameplay, but I aint buying it without further assurance!

[ACC1]

Can someone with 1000+hours in bf2 and a few hundred in PR tell me about Arma? The screenshots look fantastic as does the gameplay, but I aint buying it without further assurance!

I have many hours on pr, but doubt i did 1k hrs on vanilla. The game is cheap, Under $50. Its not as snug as pr, you gotta go out and work. you wont get many chances of using that HAT at under 500metres. dont cry about running 500metres on bf2 from 1 end of the map to the other, arma you could end up with over 2k for a walk. everything depends on mission, mods etc.

sure it has its downsides, but what game doesn that has SO many land, air, sea, assits and weapons/? with realistic ballistics.

I say its much better then PR. Its 100x more realistic. maps are 100's times bigger (seriously).

Maybe you should watch some of our vids from bigd nights if you wanna have a look before spending $50.

I have pics/ video etc. Not alot of video but lil funny moments, other wise check youtube.

BTW, incase u were interested, ive had arma for about 12months, about 1 month less then ive had pr.

Yes my spelling, layout, and writting doesnt make much sense, im tired, freezing cold, just finished arma night, just left the room after playing from 5.45pm till 5am with some fellow pr ppls, alot were arma noobs, i suggest you ask them 1st timers we had tonight what they think, they will give you the best report you could ask for, as many of them just had there first game ever!

Mediace, old1 and some other ppl? i believe was both there first games? ask em what they thought.

HOORAH.. Soldier has done his duty, now going for hard earned sleep..

zZz..ZzZ...:guitar: :blowup:

[Rhodesy_77]

holy crap you lot went till 5am?!?! damn i wish i didnt have school...

[AllYourBase11]

The Crazy ones went till 5am... The rest of us have commitments lol. But respect to you guys at any rate. And respect to Rhodesy for checkin the forum before school lol.

[Noddy]

only played one game so can't really base an opinion on that aside from these initial comments:

. Team Work required - lone wolf tactics will get you nowhere
. AI are pretty switched on
. Steep learning curve - even simple things like joining a squad took me a while (and three different mice) to get it right.
. WTF no rallies or firebases? haha.. if you die and can't be revived it's back to main base to start again. This leads to my only gripe (and again this is based on very limited game time so not a criticism in any way) - if you don't have a couple of medics in your squad - can lead to a breakdown in the squad work as you get separated easily.
. It's not a game you can play if you only have an hour or so to play - be prepared for 2+ hour missions.

I'll be back next tuesday for another bash.

Cheers to pogo, rooter, Wolf, ACC1, Darth, Rhodsey and everybody else for helping such a noob out

[+SiN+headhunter345]

Can someone with 1000+hours in bf2 and a few hundred in PR tell me about Arma? The screenshots look fantastic as does the gameplay, but I aint buying it without further assurance!

1600 hrs in BF2 http://bf2s.com/player/65931086/
about 400 hrs in PR after i add alias's http://www.gametracker.com/server_info/203.13.37.40:16568/

Hello mellie.
Solo got the demo monday night and we could not catch him for 5 mins all night lolol. he kept coming into IRC saying 'this is crazy the gauge's work on the vehicle's' Or 'I got a watch and compass'
Its so REAL LIFE its unbelievable.

U get pritty much every wepon there is out there on the battlefeild to choose from. U can swap your wepon for a diferent one depending on what mission u choose.

Missions. There are your normal missions of going to a town and clearing all the enemy out But the key is to take down there comunications so they cant call for support ( they cant respawn)

Wen flying the choppers there is hostile CAS and ground to air missle launchers to be carefull of so u gotts fly reall low and reall fast or u'll get a warning '
MISSILE INBOUND
DEPLOY FLARES
BEEP BEEP BEEP.
then your chopper get cooked.

Mate for 50 bucks its worth it.
ANd wen there is 10 ppl online it is so awsome u stay up till past your bedtime playing it.
But u have to got 10 nice ppl. Not 10 snobs who keep saying join TS and drive of on you.

Its just normal standard ArmA with patch 1.14.

Mellie get it.


Lol i took mediace and krist on a mission with 2 AI. they loved it but i lost conection half way threw it.

[pogoman]

yeah i feel like i should appologise for last night cause i was feeling a little grouchy after the scrim and then when i finally got back in to arma, cause there was so many of us it was hard to get everyone organised which resulted in my tking of peeps due to frustration lol. i guess when you have the greater numbers things are always less likely to go to plan heh

[Noddy]

only wanted to show you what the shovel is for and to tell you 'you're doing it wrong' :P

[Captain_Wolf]

XRogerMellieX, simply put ArmA is the most realistic warfare game you are going to get you hands on. A heavily modified version of practically the same software that is used to help train real world military soldiers (including the ADF).

People either love it or hate it generally. If you are a realism whore you'll love it, if you prefer more spammy fast paced games you won't like it at all.

HH, I'm sorry if we came off snobby, it is just very hard to coordinate when we can't talk to you quickly/easily.

We were all on TS except for you, and we were so busy trying not to die and shouting at each other on TS, that it left very little time for us to keep up with where you were and what you were doing, and because of this (and only this) you were not really as involved as you could have been in the game.

I highly recommend everyone downloads TS for these games, it is free and easy to use. While it is not a requirement obviously it really really really helps, if you get my drift.

Now for some screenshots:
http://i245.photobucket.com /albums/gg55/WC_Captain_Wolf/arma2008-07-2918-01-03-71.png?t=1217399817
I got into the game early, and literally watched the sunrise. That is the sun about to come up where the pink clouds are.

http://i245.photobucket.com /albums/gg55/WC_Captain_Wolf/arma2008-07-2918-01-39-51.png?t=1217399817
It got pretty overcast as a storm front moved in thanks to the realtime dynamic weather system. (Note that it was pitch black but the lightning strike has lit up the entire area).

http://i245.photobucket.com /albums/gg55/WC_Captain_Wolf/arma2008-07-2921-59-21-50.png?t=1217399818
I was so surprised at the great turnout that I SS it.

http://i245.photobucket.com /albums/gg55/WC_Captain_Wolf/arma2008-07-2922-03-14-39.png?t=1217399818
There is no more fun to be had in ArmA than what can be had on the "Fun Bus!"

http://i245.photobucket.com /albums/gg55/WC_Captain_Wolf/arma2008-07-3004-07-59-21.png?t=1217399818
Evil went for some practice in the ground attack harrier with me lasing targets for him. A squad of troops was stationed in what was a hilltop estate.

Evil: "Ok, I'm dropping bombs"
Wolf: "Bombs? How many?"
Evil:"ummmm... ... ..."
Evil: "All of them I think"
Wolf: "Ummm, I think that was a little overkill, lol.
*Seconds later the hilltop mansion evaporates in a huge column of fire, blanketing almost half the city in smoke and dust*
One bomb would have been plenty Evil :P

EDIT: Oh and next time there is to be no teamkilling at all please, yes some times it can be funny, but not only does it wreck the "reality" atmosphere of the game, but it causes far to many problems. Deliberate TK'ers will be kicked form the game in future.

[ACC1]

So it looks like he got suckered into buying it i see? As he mentions in another thread.. he is hiding it from us...
rooters gets man of the match for most friendly air assets wasted hehhee i loved picking on him about it, and he was giggling like a school girl everytime i taunted him about crashing another chopper or jet, so i know he was loving it lol.. I think we had lots of noobs learning lots of new things which is good as for next week they will be able to help the next set of newcomers.

[Captain_Wolf]

...i taunted him about crashing another chopper or jet..
You better watch out, when evil has both feet on the ground he is a real ass kicker :P

[pogoman]

did some Evo on the sakahakaidkhowtospel lit map (vgood btw) and watched some of the evo guys use varying types of arty on cities:
biological:
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-07-3020-20-04-81.jpg
tactical nuke (costs 200 points):
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-07-3021-05-09-29.jpg
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-07-3021-05-14-14.jpg
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-07-3021-05-19-31.jpg
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-07-3021-05-38-14.jpg

you guys should all get the Desert Warfare mod, so we can do this more often, its good fun. avail at GSA here (node have it too):
http://www.gamingsa.com/forums/showthread.php?t=207 1

[ACC1]

holy crap you lot went till 5am?!?! damn i wish i didnt have school...

We sure did lol, just the 3 of us left at that time then we all made the call to all leave it at that untill next time! Was good fun, but had a ruff start off with no organization, we will be much better prepaired now that the new guys have learnt the basics IE how to use a MAP and compass to find THEM SELVES LOL!! I know it is hard at first, but you get use to it.

You missed our rain of terror! I was using the jets ALOT towards the end, shooting down alot of enemy jets and ka50's as well as blowing up alot of land enemys with it :)

So I say next time we have PRE-organized, MAP/MISSION, Rules, start/arrival time (6pm was good and when most people were there) and maybe who is and isnt gonna show up. That way when we get in game it wont take 1hr to get the mission startet properly, we just get in there, take 15mins and off we go into action untill really late again :P


Few screenies from Tue Night/Wed EARLY-morning.
12 hr game.. not bad lol



http://i514.photobucket.com /albums/t346/who_stole_my_user_na me/Arma/BigD%20Nights/arma2008-07-2922-38-18-05.jpg

^
Evilrooter practicing in a heli.. nuff said lol


http://i514.photobucket.com /albums/t346/who_stole_my_user_na me/Arma/BigD%20Nights/arma2008-07-2923-59-34-22.jpg

^
Close fit between AA territory flying in 2x AH6 with our group.


http://i514.photobucket.com /albums/t346/who_stole_my_user_na me/Arma/BigD%20Nights/arma2008-07-3000-12-02-66.jpg

^
Pogoman thought he was still doing well flying around the AA territory..
WRONG we had gone well off course!!! INCOMING FIRE!! 2nd pilot who I think was headhunter (is new to arma and learning haha) at the time simply followed us into the danger zone lol


http://i514.photobucket.com /albums/t346/who_stole_my_user_na me/Arma/BigD%20Nights/arma2008-07-2922-10-39-83.jpg

^
Everyone has something in there mind tick over when they see this.. We had alot of trouble from them early on in the game, and i mentioned when it happened several times how shocked I was to see them target and bomb us in light transport such as humv and personal trucks! They gave us hell and made it a mission just to get 300-400 metres away from base without dieing from falling bombs!


http://i514.photobucket.com /albums/t346/who_stole_my_user_na me/Arma/BigD%20Nights/arma2008-07-2923-27-49-50.jpg

^
We learned that having 1/5 guys as medic wasnt enough, as with 10 players that only gave us no more then 2-3 medics and as soon as we ran into trouble, we had any were from 3-4 guys go down at once to some times our whole group dieing. Next time i think we might use a 1/3 ratio! lol
At least we kept our medics working ;P


http://i514.photobucket.com /albums/t346/who_stole_my_user_na me/Arma/BigD%20Nights/arma2008-07-2923-28-03-62.jpg

^
Protect the injured while awaiting medics ( medics almost never stoped working hehe )


http://i514.photobucket.com /albums/t346/who_stole_my_user_na me/Arma/BigD%20Nights/arma2008-07-2923-29-06-98.jpg

^
As you heal one, you can garantee another one asks for a medic within seconds.


http://i514.photobucket.com /albums/t346/who_stole_my_user_na me/Arma/BigD%20Nights/arma2008-07-2923-22-58-49.jpg

^
Flying into AA territory towards mission = Chopper taking incoming fire = engine stall = gravity takes affect = Were jumpin OUTA THERE! lol I think this is the time someone might of asked how to use the parachute as we said to jump before we are shot/ crash into ground. I bet they were stressing.

Have lots more including a hand full of videos but photobucket sucks and wont upload them all without problems.. Also wont take videos over 100mb.. Grrr
http://www.bigdgaming.net/%3Ca%20href=%22http: //s514.photobucket.com /albums/t346/who_stole_my_user_na me/Arma/BigD%20Nights/?action=view&current=arma2008-07-2922-38-18-05.jpg%22%20target=% 22_blank%22%3E%3Cimg %20src=%22http://i514.photobucket.com /albums/t346/who_stole_my_user_na me/Arma/BigD%20Nights/arma2008-07-2922-38-18-05.jpg%22%20border=% 220%22%20alt=%22Phot obucket%22%3E%3C/a%3E

[pogoman]

lol i cant believe i flew straight into that town with the mh6's. it was like a major brain fart lol, cause i thought we were fine even though i had my GPS out showing our chopper submerged in an enemy AA zone lol.

EDIT:ACC1 use virtualdub to reduce the size of the videos. you can get em down quite small while still leaving them watchable

[pogoman]

its vietnam!!!
http://www.gamingsa.com/forums/attachment.php?attac hmentid=350&d=1217355088
http://www.gamingsa.com/forums/attachment.php?attac hmentid=352&d=1217355134
http://www.gamingsa.com/forums/attachment.php?attac hmentid=353&d=1217355350
http://www.gamingsa.com/forums/attachment.php?attac hmentid=354&d=1217355373

[ACC1]

lol i cant believe i flew straight into that town with the mh6's. it was like a major brain fart lol, cause i thought we were fine even though i had my GPS out showing our chopper submerged in an enemy AA zone lol.

EDIT:ACC1 use virtualdub to reduce the size of the videos. you can get em down quite small while still leaving them watchable


I use to have that.hmm

Just tried it again, but no codec apparently..

Gonna get the new divx pro and see if it will do the job.

[pogoman]

had a stuff around with some silly ctf missions. trip you left just b4 the disco one which was hilarious lol. they had like disco flashing lights and disco sounds going in the background :D
the racing map:
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-08-0121-38-06-56.jpg
deathbowl:
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-08-0121-49-03-31.jpg
more awesomeness:
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-08-0122-19-05-90.jpg
with ctf :D:
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-08-0122-20-11-85.jpg
and of course, disco :
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-08-0122-36-12-57.jpg
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-08-0122-36-32-64.jpg
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-08-0122-37-04-06.jpg

[ACC1]

Mucking around flying in hanger - very tight space!
Last week tue night

http://i514.photobucket.com /albums/t346/who_stole_my_user_na me/arma2008-07-3003-24-58-74.jpg

No, it wasnt lucky.. Just skill. Always MANUAL landing to.. No auto pilot here! ;)
Last week tue night
And ofcourse I rearmed/ repaired and was back in the air in minutes mercing fools on the ground :D

http://i514.photobucket.com /albums/t346/who_stole_my_user_na me/arma2008-07-3001-59-42-60.jpg

Last week tue night.. The bango bus is coming and everybodys jumping la la....

http://i514.photobucket.com /albums/t346/who_stole_my_user_na me/arma2008-07-2922-00-39-59.jpg

Last night (all the next lot of pics are from last nights tue night arma) Lots of motorbike hooligans! I spent long time on the bikes lol

http://i514.photobucket.com /albums/t346/who_stole_my_user_na me/arma2008-08-0601-18-47-26.jpg

Wolf and my self wheelie, flag extraction on side mission. Winnahhh! lol

http://i514.photobucket.com /albums/t346/who_stole_my_user_na me/arma2008-08-0601-49-10-97.jpg

http://i514.photobucket.com /albums/t346/who_stole_my_user_na me/arma2008-08-0601-49-14-88.jpg

Mediace jealous theres only 2 seats on a motor bike.. No room for you mediace, start walking.. lol

http://i514.photobucket.com /albums/t346/who_stole_my_user_na me/arma2008-08-0601-41-27-15.jpg

[icehollowpoint]

Hmmm, for me to buy it and play again, I'd have to see the Australian ArmA community start playing with some more mods, vanilla ArmA just didn't cut it for me after a while. Desert Warfare is a nice compilation of mods however.

[ACC1]

Some more from last night

This is how our first mission started.. Dark! And started with VET mode, no tags/names etc.. Lol single line formation, follow the leader and dont get lost in the woods!

http://i514.photobucket.com /albums/t346/who_stole_my_user_na me/arma2008-08-0518-44-37-39.jpg

Enemy shooting up flares to find us :p

http://i514.photobucket.com /albums/t346/who_stole_my_user_na me/arma2008-08-0518-57-12-49.jpg

I think this was evilrooter? Decided to jump out the chopper about 2klm short of land... lol I dropped off all the guys then came back to pick him up. Talk about finding a needle in haystack.

http://i514.photobucket.com /albums/t346/who_stole_my_user_na me/arma2008-08-0520-09-39-06.jpg

It seemed to happen alot with people jumping out early in water, or people just trying to swim accross a river lol.. Ask old1 how much fun it was when we parachuted into a mission and he managed to land in the river and got "caught in a RIP" lol!!! he spent a few minutes fighting the water trying to swim out as we laugh at him over TS trying to get help, he is going backwards in the water.. Eventualy it washed him up on the other side.

http://i514.photobucket.com /albums/t346/who_stole_my_user_na me/arma2008-08-0600-09-26-44.jpg

http://i514.photobucket.com /albums/t346/who_stole_my_user_na me/arma2008-08-0521-39-29-10.jpg

Captain and one of his mass TK's of the night.. lol Chopper tail hit a tree..

http://i514.photobucket.com /albums/t346/who_stole_my_user_na me/arma2008-08-0522-10-04-56.jpg

We found the prisoners.. And decided to kill them all after having trouble getting em into a chopper.. But I at least got to run over 2 of them first :)

http://i514.photobucket.com /albums/t346/who_stole_my_user_na me/arma2008-08-0522-29-24-68.jpg

http://i514.photobucket.com /albums/t346/who_stole_my_user_na me/arma2008-08-0522-29-51-32.jpg

Everyone bows to there knees in my motorbike pressence.. lol

http://i514.photobucket.com /albums/t346/who_stole_my_user_na me/arma2008-08-0522-35-01-11.jpg

And again when I go onto heaven.. Actualy what happend was I kept racing around everyone on my bike untill they got trigger happy and started to try shoot me/ my bike.. After missing so much its like almost everyone joined in and killed me with a rain of gun fire.. lol then got revived.

http://i514.photobucket.com /albums/t346/who_stole_my_user_na me/arma2008-08-0522-38-31-78.jpg

Abit of bike mafia :)

http://i514.photobucket.com /albums/t346/who_stole_my_user_na me/arma2008-08-0522-46-56-70.jpg


Ahh.. very relaxing ride.

http://i514.photobucket.com /albums/t346/who_stole_my_user_na me/arma2008-08-0600-00-36-30.jpg

Spoke to soon... Man down, reviving another road statistic!
Bikes are dangerous mkay.. You fall off easily.. and get hurt.. Almost every few hundred meters lol..

http://i514.photobucket.com /albums/t346/who_stole_my_user_na me/arma2008-08-0523-56-34-26.jpg

In comes our heli lift.. We were ready to retire the bikes after we had enough road rash for one highway.

http://i514.photobucket.com /albums/t346/who_stole_my_user_na me/arma2008-08-0600-06-42-46.jpg

The convoy heading home after a big mission.

http://i514.photobucket.com /albums/t346/who_stole_my_user_na me/arma2008-08-0523-15-54-43.jpg

http://i514.photobucket.com /albums/t346/who_stole_my_user_na me/arma2008-08-0523-21-22-87.jpg

[Captain_Wolf]

Good SSs there ACC1, I forgot to turn FRAPs on for the night :(

Oh and RE: the chopper crash I said it before and I'll say it again "That tree just jumped out in front of my chopper, and it was a stupid place to have a tree anyway".

Seriously who puts trees in forests anyway :P

[DarkMellie]

Definitely am more interested in the missions. The whole 'clear the town and blow up the radio mast' bot-spawning hell is crap. That picture above of the NVG's with everyone single file, vet and not tags is what made me buy ArmA in the first place.

What server do I find that on and whose teamspeak are you in when you do it?

[Captain_Wolf]

Personally I prefer vet as well as I am a realism whore.

That SF mission is called "Black Sword" BTW, it is great fun but it is very very hard.

The problem with the single missions is that they are usually heavily scripted and therefore they don't have very much replay value.

Where as missions like EVO and Domination aren't that engrossing storyline wise but because they are randomised every single time they have much more replay value IMO. Also very few missions allow you to have access to the whole combined arms feel that you can get in EVO and Domination with tanks supporting inf and jets/choppers providing proper air support.

The key however is always teamwork without teamwork even a great game turns to crap.

Black sword can be found on the GSA bookable server. And we now have a permanent ArmA channel on the BigD TS server so you will find us there if we are online.

[ACC1]

I like vet however I DO NOT like it when theres no name tags on a player when I point at him, as I like to know who is who so I can use there name. I dont mind not having any name tags on map, Im good with the map and compass etc but No name tags I disslike.

ANd if your asking when and where, you should have been checking the arma threads where we posted hours before hand what TS we were in, then you can sign in and ask what server.

[pogoman]

thats why every1 needs to get custom faces, then we wont need nametags :D
anyway some pics from tonight, did a really cool and difficult mission:
moving out:
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-08-0620-30-42-85.jpg
getting in position:
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-08-0620-31-16-46.jpg
flanking/engaging:
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-08-0620-32-57-65.jpg
entering the city:
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-08-0620-20-56-14.jpg
covering the main street:
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-08-0621-04-43-90.jpg
extraction to some ACDC courtesy of wolf ;) :
http://i276.photobucket.com /albums/kk20/pogoman979/arma2008-08-0621-58-23-70.jpg

[ACC1]

Is your monitor set way to bright since I hosted that DARK jail break game on my pc tonight lol? I know CW has his monitor so he can see at night, but looks like urs is also to bright.. Or is it suppsod to be like that for the mission? If so.. dodgey lol

[AllYourBase11]

Its dust, its must be a new feature with QG. It makes it harder to be sure, but pretty cool at the same time. That mission was freakin impossible, I cant believe you did it after we all left! Kudos!

[pogoman]

nah yeah i turned down my brightness later. i found when i first got arma i needed the brightness on full, thats the only mission where its been too much lol.

[Captain_Wolf]

...I know CW has his monitor so he can see at night...
No my monitor is not set too bright, that mission was very very dark for me too, you're just jealous that I was racking up the kills with my stolen PKM. :P

Pogo your monitor however is too bright, I was getting a bit of galre on that mission but yours looks like a white out, lol.

[ACC1]

No my monitor is not set too bright, that mission was very very dark for me too, you're just jealous that I was racking up the kills with my stolen PKM. :P

Pogo your monitor however is too bright, I was getting a bit of galre on that mission but yours looks like a white out, lol.


Id like to see you play with my screen settings lol.. I couldnt see anything unless a shot or explosion went off, and each time Id run closer to the NVG box!

It was to easy caz we did it to fast, enemies spawn and the first time we did it with 3 of us there were 20x more bodies on the ground! lol

Its a good little mission, would be good to see an updated version with a bigger jail!

[ACC1]

So finally we got a game of sarahni life in with the PR team.. I think almost everyone was new and learning it .. As those who were there new I wasnt learning lol and keept rampaging and killing everyone and anyone with random out bursts of violence, gun fire, and theft.
Heres a very limited number of screenies.


Sussing the area, waiting to pounce.. Little did they know I was carrying some heat ;) I think pogo wanted a loser look at me? lol
http://i514.photobucket.com /albums/t346/who_stole_my_user_na me/arma2008-08-0801-40-49-46.jpg
Gotta make sure timing is right or you get killed ;) Note, I stole this 50cal humv minutes later as the cops stoped to gear up at a village lol
http://i514.photobucket.com /albums/t346/who_stole_my_user_na me/arma2008-08-0801-40-53-94.jpg
Stalking my prey, waiting to murder fools on the open streets that disrespect me! lol Gangstahh!
http://i514.photobucket.com /albums/t346/who_stole_my_user_na me/arma2008-08-0802-42-47-92.jpg
im always packin heat ;)

http://i514.photobucket.com /albums/t346/who_stole_my_user_na me/arma2008-08-0802-43-58-46.jpg
Assasin is ready to kill!
http://i514.photobucket.com /albums/t346/who_stole_my_user_na me/arma2008-08-0802-44-07-88.jpg
POW, busted knee cap for CW, how you like them apples punk, He was standin to close to my car so I gave him one in the leg lol.
http://i514.photobucket.com /albums/t346/who_stole_my_user_na me/arma2008-08-0802-45-18-16.jpg
Mediace steppin up on my wheels, checkin under my hood? He dont know why I just capped CW for?
http://i514.photobucket.com /albums/t346/who_stole_my_user_na me/arma2008-08-0802-45-23-88.jpg
POW, How you like that. .. poor mediace.. he had a hard start lol.. I tried to mug him.. I accidently killed him a few times (he got all edgey on me when I had my gun out and ran away, so I popped him lol)
http://i514.photobucket.com /albums/t346/who_stole_my_user_na me/arma2008-08-0802-45-28-68.jpg


That was funny times, so many good parts I didnt capture, when I mugged mediace but he had no money lol.. When I shot up a car full of CW,evilrooter,mediac e and someother guy? And it blew up/ cought on fire = they all died lol.

They were disrespecting my town. (I was mayor and they were talking of voting me out!) Not when Im around! :) hhehe

I say next time we do a C&H pvp, whos up for it?

We will need at least 6-10 players for it which shouldnt be a problem. Will be lots of fun.

[pogoman]

next time we do sahrani life i think every1 will be a little more careful about who they vote in major, and since im getting the hang of things i'll make sure i arrest you more often and give you large fines, to keep your firearm expenditure down :P

[Captain_Wolf]

Lol that was some good fun last night, we should do it again now that we know what we are doing.

[pogoman]

i've downloaded and uploaded the latest version of sahrani life, and have requested aussie to upload it to the theme server so fingers crossed.

[ACC1]

next time we do sahrani life i think every1 will be a little more careful about who they vote in major, and since im getting the hang of things i'll make sure i arrest you more often and give you large fines, to keep your firearm expenditure down :P


Never fear my young padawon! I shall roll as a hard ass gangster cop next time ( depending on who plays ) to show how its done :)

That way I wont be killed without warnings and stuff. I also enjoy gunning down run away cars ;)

I should of ran recording of video for every time I rammed your tiny little ute with my stolen 5t truck lol.

[ACC1]

A few screens from afew days ago, hosting jail break on my pc.

http://i514.photobucket.com /albums/t346/who_stole_my_user_na me/arma2008-08-0618-58-22-98.jpg

http://i514.photobucket.com /albums/t346/who_stole_my_user_na me/arma2008-08-0619-00-52-16.jpg

http://i514.photobucket.com /albums/t346/who_stole_my_user_na me/arma2008-08-0619-01-10-89.jpg

http://i514.photobucket.com /albums/t346/who_stole_my_user_na me/arma2008-08-0619-08-27-83.jpg

http://i514.photobucket.com /albums/t346/who_stole_my_user_na me/arma2008-08-0619-53-09-48.jpg

http://i514.photobucket.com /albums/t346/who_stole_my_user_na me/arma2008-08-0620-11-55-98.jpg

http://i514.photobucket.com /albums/t346/who_stole_my_user_na me/arma2008-08-0620-06-19-33.jpg

http://i514.photobucket.com /albums/t346/who_stole_my_user_na me/arma2008-08-0620-09-33-49.jpg

[AllYourBase11]

Heres some pics of Rhodesy abusing his police powers after a random stop. Lol. Just lol.

http://i149.photobucket.com /albums/s67/imhomerjnr/Rhodesyabusing.png

[Rhodesy_77]

well you shouldnt of left it in the direction im going.... you know i dont like to steer, GOSH :P

[-=Delta723=-]

Here are some of my screenshots of us BigD boys playing Arma...
http://img187.imageshack.us /img187/268/4eb7f68e18ec3a8b2bec afbxt2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://img411.imageshack.us /img411/8004/42ff1b2a32480d9e2813 e25ub7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://img187.imageshack.us /img187/567/79dc5dfd6c71a5fab2a1 f24on5.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://img411.imageshack.us /img411/2994/273c571d80fc622ed35f d2bza7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://img528.imageshack.us /img528/8154/d37074638298eefe5bff 3f3ty4.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://img411.imageshack.us /img411/2968/fd1eb91d7bf6173b127c bddbn9.jpg (http://imageshack.us)http://img187.imageshack.us /img187/1066/cdc1d6ed8117fd3beebf 5cdnl9.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[Rhodesy_77]

haha im in all thsoe photos cept the first 2.

[DarkMellie]

I went to join you on that RPG server AllYourBase, but it was password protected.

So far I've still only seen evo domination so I'm not overly thrilled... I am desperate to see some proper squad tactics and especially some NVG action. Hoping Tuesday is still on?

[Rhodesy_77]

yer mate tuesday is the best time for proper play, we may have to skip SL just for you...... nah thats just crazy talk :P

[pogoman]

NVG action is overrated. what you need is a pitch black operation without NVGs and just flares and spotlights :D
yeah i dont think we'll ever stop SL, specially if the addons for SL reloaded get uploaded, shotguns, uzi's, ferrari's, tonnes of new aircraft, weapons and vehicles etc :D

[Rhodesy_77]

yer how did you and wolf go last night pleading with them?

[Rhodesy_77]

ok some pics from SL.

delta's ugly mug (see you where but ugly fool)
http://i271.photobucket.com /albums/jj123/Rockyrhodes_77/arma2008-08-0820-41-34-98.jpg

oooh EvilRooter is in trouble
http://i271.photobucket.com /albums/jj123/Rockyrhodes_77/arma2008-08-0901-20-33-36.jpg

Delta converted to a cop, but he was still a terrorist on the inside. he was our arms dealer, got us watever we needed when we needed
http://i271.photobucket.com /albums/jj123/Rockyrhodes_77/arma2008-08-0900-47-07-18.jpg

our super sneaky hide out... that was discovered 30 seconds after we made it -.-
http://i271.photobucket.com /albums/jj123/Rockyrhodes_77/arma2008-08-0823-56-00-28.jpg

we got sick of our abusive government, so we held up the bank
http://i271.photobucket.com /albums/jj123/Rockyrhodes_77/arma2008-08-0901-37-26-12.jpg

the cops just kept coming, and i just kept blowing them up
http://i271.photobucket.com /albums/jj123/Rockyrhodes_77/arma2008-08-0901-36-13-87.jpg

now some with me as a cop :D

who put that there?
http://i271.photobucket.com /albums/jj123/Rockyrhodes_77/arma2008-08-0917-15-08-98.jpg

my car checkpoint that kicked ass
http://i271.photobucket.com /albums/jj123/Rockyrhodes_77/arma2008-08-0922-15-10-12.jpg

me stacking out the weed sell point
http://i271.photobucket.com /albums/jj123/Rockyrhodes_77/arma2008-08-0919-36-28-23.jpg

me about to ambush (and scare the hell out of) pogo as he comes to the weed sell point, and yes that is a .50 hummer
http://i271.photobucket.com /albums/jj123/Rockyrhodes_77/arma2008-08-0922-03-14-06.jpg

[AllYourBase11]

You coppers were bad ass. We should try and play on a US server that saves your money etc, so we can be real kingpins. Also, we could use TS so our comms would be completely private.

[ACC1]

I went to join you on that RPG server AllYourBase, but it was password protected.

So far I've still only seen evo domination so I'm not overly thrilled... I am desperate to see some proper squad tactics and especially some NVG action. Hoping Tuesday is still on?

Dunno how many times we have to tell everyone, you have to get in TS and ask us where we are and what is the password.

It seems your the probably the only one out of about 5-7 PR players that have bought the game this month and isnt addicted/ very happy with it.

[Captain_Wolf]

I went to join you on that RPG server AllYourBase, but it was password protected.

So far I've still only seen evo domination so I'm not overly thrilled... I am desperate to see some proper squad tactics and especially some NVG action. Hoping Tuesday is still on?

Mellie in order to get the password for that server, please sign up to the OGN forums: http://forums.ogn.com.au/forumdisplay.php?f=8 86 as that server is supposed to only be for OGN members. You don't need to do anything special, just get an account on their forums and we will then give you the password, we will get in trouble otherwise.

Also IMHO it is the players and teamwork that make or break the game not so much the maps. Get in some good games with the BigD crew and you can't go wrong.

The problem usually is finding us. We often play on different servers and are in different TS channels sometimes. You can either trawl the server listings for names you recognise in game or you can try looking for us on TS. However the best way to find us would be to get on X-fire and add us, then you can easily see when we are online and where as well as communicate quickly with us as you would in MSN or similar.

[pogoman]

hey rhodesy with that last satellite cam pic how did u do that? when ever i watch a civ im restricted to a close in top down view which tells me jack **** about where they are :(