Arma 2 multiplayer arranging thread

Went to join everyone last night but securom wanted me to re-activate and its now telling me my key is invald after playing for nearly a week, speaking to securom and sending photos still they saying its not in there DB, got to sen more photos tonight, so if its sorted ill be playing tonight, if not ill prob chuck it in the bin......
 
enjoying arma 2 a tiny bit last night. i was playing with two people o know in two servers and both times we couldnt make out what to do and what our objectives are.

Online seems to be a hit and miss atm. i enjoyed it when bockster1st hosted a simple coop game where us two plus swanny i think was trying to attack a village near by our respawn point. we diddnt have to walk/drive 100miles for some action, we was respawned right next the hot zone and it was fun.

The problem with most servers i have seen is that no1 seems to know what the objective is and what to do. no one is communicating and working as a team and no one knows where there squad members are or who the commander is.

The commander is suppose to give orders to us yet most of the time im awaiting orders all the time and just stuck on the air field base doing nothing.

I headed over into the OCUK server which is a domination coop game with humans vs AI and it was boring for the same reason i stated above. if we can get 3 or 4 of us guys in one squad i reckon we can get something going. we need someone who can fly and drop us into the hot spot so we can begin our attack but atm not many know how to fly a plane/heli.

I also feel that we need some tanks and armoured vehicles around the hot spots as going there by foot is a no no. Just like in a real war(as far as i can see) you dont just walk towards a hot spot and start blasting your way through, you normally have air support that levels the are if there are no civilians and also have armed vehicles at present creating open paths for people on foot to go in and attack.

Overall this game needs teamwork and communication for it to be fun online. i have not tried SP mode as im hearing awful things about the friendly ai being rubbish so i will stick with MP mode as i dont have to deal with retarded squad members in SP mode.

like i said before, Xfire needs to be enabled so whenever i see you guys online i can easily join whatever server your currently on and also message u in-game as people seem to ignore the global in game chat system in arma 2
 
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I will re-post this again as it seems to escaped the notice of some complaining about a lack of communication ..............


Voice comms is something I have always used to help people work together , with
that in mind I suggest everyone gets a copy of teamspeak , its FREE.
Download it here http://www.teamspeak.com/?page=downloads ( top link 5.59Mb)

Install teamspeak , plug in your mic and configure your device settings for input / output devices and your volume levels.

Server: I have access to a high bandwidth server , heres what to do
Start teamspeak to to connection menu -> Connect
In the local address tab , right click menu option ADD SERVER , give it a name eg frag
Click on it and add the following details

Address: ts.fraghaus.com:8767
Nickname: Enter your game name here

Hit connect , you will connect to the lobby ( as a new unregistered user )
Click on the SELF Menu at the top , then select REGISTER WITH SERVER
A new window will open Enter:
a login name
and a password twice
Hit Ok and you are registered

Now to store your details ,
Go to Menu Click Connect go to address book again and click on the server name
Add your login name in the login name box
do the same for your password

Click connect to test your details.
 
Good work tonight Boys

Working well together and pilots did a Brilliant Job

Fast in and out deployments

Some Knobs still entering the server

"Never Has so many been Banned by so Few"

Might be my new sig :-)
 
Was on the server for a bit last night, was real good fun, think what helped a lot was a guy called Hammer(not sure if hes from here??) Basically said pilots do this, you lot do that, and it all worked so much better, people actually had an idea of what they were doing! Were still a few idiots though, but they didnt last long :)
 
Gimpymoo said:
What is the inbuilt VOIP like?
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I think Hammer was using it last night. Seemed alright, but we're on TS as mentioned.

Last night was good. Loving flying.. just gotta remember never to go too high. As soon as you reach any altitude they all look up and destroy you.. just as I was about to do a strafing run. :mad:

Also I loved "even up the choppers.. if this one crashes everyone dies.. nah it'll be fine.. just go.. <crash>". :p :D

Wasnt impressed when I clipped the top of the church in the middle of town though.. womb were you frapsing events?
 
gord said:
I think Hammer was using it last night. Seemed alright, but we're on TS as mentioned.

Last night was good. Loving flying.. just gotta remember never to go too high. As soon as you reach any altitude they all look up and destroy you.. just as I was about to do a strafing run. :mad:

Also I loved "even up the choppers.. if this one crashes everyone dies.. nah it'll be fine.. just go.. <crash>". :p :D

Wasnt impressed when I clipped the top of the church in the middle of town though.. womb were you frapsing events?
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No sorry I wasnt ( pity)

You looked damn impressive as your burning chopper streaked across the sky
on your way to your doom
 
Good games last night guys enjoyed it a lot more :) Shame I couldn't get my microphone to work with TS, it works with everything else but selecting it in TS options and playing with the levels/settings it just didn't want to play. I'll pick up a new one as it'll be much easier than keep typing in game, and sometimes typing doesn't get noticed in time!
Still quite annoyed at the MP bugs, makes it difficult at times. Even though I was a fire team leader my squad controls randomly appeared and dissapeared throughout the game, and my action/order menus do not actually do what they say (i.e. If I select 'where are you' it'll say 'I'm running out of fuel' over the radio etc?!)
 
was good fun last night, can't believe how quick the night went tbh, apologies again to Knightstalker for the TK :-(
Still a tough game even with most of us that were in the server on TS too, hopefully a few more sessions like that though and the newbs (that's me btw) will be upto speed and be able to offer more assistance.
Not around tonight, but hopefully be back for some more over the weekend.
 
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