Soldato
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Thanx Draeger
*******Official Armed Assault 2 thread of official officialness*******
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No probs.
Buy it?. Yes- Purchase it legally via download or off the shelf in DVD form.
Not sure if you know but quick "heads up" - Don't mention anything here about downloading a how shall we put it? - "Test" copy of the game?.
Otherwise the dons will notice and your stay here will be rather short lived. Forum rulez and all that.
Just read this on the Arma 2 forums and a bit dubvious of my purchase; we'll see, hopefully tomorrow.
"I really looked forward to Arma 2, got a new GFX card, pre ordered, watched the vids. Now i have the game im not that impressed.
Its like Arma for the x-box. Just everything about it stinks, not just the bugs and poor performance and jerkiness.
The gui just looks like it was designed for console kiddies, and the towns all seem to be on one level, perfect if you have an x-box controller. Because of this it really lacks the character of arma, just flat plain and dull.
Some things i do like, such as certain sound effects, but the main sound which dominates is the sound of your player running. To me it sounds like i am perpetually running in a puddle.
Once you get out of breath, you get the heavy breathing, thing is it sounds more like the guy is having a w@*k.
This game has been over hyped.
The vehicals are a complete nightmare to control, even worse than arma, especially the bikes, which make me feel sea sick.
The game does run smoothe most of the time, but there is just too much that you would wish to get rid of. Head bob - disable that for a start. Bloom and blur - worse than waking up the day after a beer drinking session - disable that. Grass, oh so verry pretty, but god i cant see s%$**.
Ugly trees and shrubs, drab brown, boring uninspired.
Ive been playing FPS games since the genre evolved, I have collected over 150 titles, I so hoped that this game was gonna be the one, the one you might dream of being utterly fantastic.
Instead I feel cheated, what I got was X-BOX ARMA, no major extra aditions, and nothing new that wasnt done better in an old arma mod.
Whats ultimately gonna happen is that people are going to port over the old arma stuff, Sahrani map, vehicals. And maybe we will end up with a great mod, Arma 2 arma mod. Better graphics (slightly) but the same familiar gameplay.
Im off back to Arma PC and leave u X-box fiddlers to it. "
"I really looked forward to Arma 2, got a new GFX card, pre ordered, watched the vids. Now i have the game im not that impressed.
Its like Arma for the x-box. Just everything about it stinks, not just the bugs and poor performance and jerkiness.
The gui just looks like it was designed for console kiddies, and the towns all seem to be on one level, perfect if you have an x-box controller. Because of this it really lacks the character of arma, just flat plain and dull.
Some things i do like, such as certain sound effects, but the main sound which dominates is the sound of your player running. To me it sounds like i am perpetually running in a puddle.
Once you get out of breath, you get the heavy breathing, thing is it sounds more like the guy is having a w@*k.
This game has been over hyped.
The vehicals are a complete nightmare to control, even worse than arma, especially the bikes, which make me feel sea sick.
The game does run smoothe most of the time, but there is just too much that you would wish to get rid of. Head bob - disable that for a start. Bloom and blur - worse than waking up the day after a beer drinking session - disable that. Grass, oh so verry pretty, but god i cant see s%$**.
Ugly trees and shrubs, drab brown, boring uninspired.
Ive been playing FPS games since the genre evolved, I have collected over 150 titles, I so hoped that this game was gonna be the one, the one you might dream of being utterly fantastic.
Instead I feel cheated, what I got was X-BOX ARMA, no major extra aditions, and nothing new that wasnt done better in an old arma mod.
Whats ultimately gonna happen is that people are going to port over the old arma stuff, Sahrani map, vehicals. And maybe we will end up with a great mod, Arma 2 arma mod. Better graphics (slightly) but the same familiar gameplay.
Im off back to Arma PC and leave u X-box fiddlers to it. "
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och no
hasnt Z site said 'awaiting dispatch' since the moment it was ordered. dispatch date start of june apparently
That guy tries to make a point of it being aimed at the console market more then PC. He is so wrong, most of the things he talks about have been in since OFP
BIS are so amature sometimes, Im happy with ArmA2 because I knew what to expect. BIS are masters at delivering potential. If BIS released a turd in a box the modding community would polish and develop it into the best turd it could be.
Heres my current, and ever growing list of things I would like changing/fixing/adding to the game.
- A vegitation layer like the one in armed assault 1, at the moment all the pretty grass does is block your view when prone, it doesnt provide visual cover from enemys (AI maybe, I dont know, but other people can see you fine).
- Vehicle headlight texture cone things, kind of like the Left4Dead friendly torch floating texture thing.
- HDR toggle option in settings menu.
- Bloom toggle option in settings menu.
- Motion blur toggle option in settings menu.
- Tiredness blur wave toggle options in settings menu. When you sprint and get out of breath the screen goes slightly blurry and there is a wavey effect passing over the screen, the person who decided this should be in the game should be kicked in the nads.
- More in depth sound options in the audio menu. Speaker setup options, EAX options, VOIP options etc.
- At the moment you hear the gunshot before you hear the bullet crack, so sound travels faster then bullets, I think this is a bug to do with surround sound though, another reason to expand the audio options.
- Cars are to hard to control, remove the auto-centre steering or bring back the automatic head turning from Armed Assault 1.
That said there is no other game out there that will offer the same experience Armed assault 1 and 2 do. With the editor it is a true sandbox, you can make any mission you want if you know how to. It will provide almost unlimited replay-ability.
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Soldato
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A guide to the game has come out for those who are interested
http://ttp2.dslyecxi.com/
Edit: already posted I see
http://ttp2.dslyecxi.com/
Edit: already posted I see
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Strange rant. I mean grass getting in his way? No **** sherlock!Just read this on the Arma 2 forums and a bit dubvious of my purchase; we'll see, hopefully tomorrow.
"I really looked forward to Arma 2, got a new GFX card, pre ordered, watched the vids. Now i have the game im not that impressed.
Its like Arma for the x-box. Just everything about it stinks, not just the bugs and poor performance and jerkiness.
The gui just looks like it was designed for console kiddies, and the towns all seem to be on one level, perfect if you have an x-box controller. Because of this it really lacks the character of arma, just flat plain and dull.
Some things i do like, such as certain sound effects, but the main sound which dominates is the sound of your player running. To me it sounds like i am perpetually running in a puddle.
Once you get out of breath, you get the heavy breathing, thing is it sounds more like the guy is having a w@*k.
This game has been over hyped.
The vehicals are a complete nightmare to control, even worse than arma, especially the bikes, which make me feel sea sick.
The game does run smoothe most of the time, but there is just too much that you would wish to get rid of. Head bob - disable that for a start. Bloom and blur - worse than waking up the day after a beer drinking session - disable that. Grass, oh so verry pretty, but god i cant see s%$**.
Ugly trees and shrubs, drab brown, boring uninspired.
Ive been playing FPS games since the genre evolved, I have collected over 150 titles, I so hoped that this game was gonna be the one, the one you might dream of being utterly fantastic.
Instead I feel cheated, what I got was X-BOX ARMA, no major extra aditions, and nothing new that wasnt done better in an old arma mod.
Whats ultimately gonna happen is that people are going to port over the old arma stuff, Sahrani map, vehicals. And maybe we will end up with a great mod, Arma 2 arma mod. Better graphics (slightly) but the same familiar gameplay.
Im off back to Arma PC and leave u X-box fiddlers to it. "
Yeah, I dont think the Arma games are quite for him...
Just read this on the Arma 2 forums and a bit dubvious of my purchase; we'll see, hopefully tomorrow.
"A strange rant from a troll"
That guy is a tool who has NO Idea what he is talking about.
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are you kidding me?
Soldato
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oh this is released at Game tomorow, might pop in and get it
from eneydown.co.uk forums?