Arma 2 multiplayer arranging thread

Bah, two nights in a row where I will miss the fun.. may get on later tonight and I have the added bonus of now being a trained Fire Marshall..
 
wOOt! Its here. My TrackIR5 and Trackclip Pro just got here!
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Look at the size of it on the top left of my monitor, its teeny weeny lol
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This is the contents
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Honestly, buy one, sell a child, rob, beg, busk whatever. Best £150 i've spent!

Simple install. Download latest beta driver and profiles form the link you get in the box. Run installer, copy the updated profiles to the install directory, put the device on the top left of your monitor (for track clip pro) or in the middle for the standard (baseball cap clip). Attach the pro clip to your headset (left) You simply plug the track clip into the detectors USB lead (both devices only use one USB port)

Plug it in, after detection run the software. It might look a bit funky to start with, mine seemed to flash all over the place. Basically i changed nothing apart from select the 'track clip pro' in the top left. (You leave the software running)I then ran Arma2. Still doing funky things in the game for around about 5 mins, then i noticed 2 lights on the detector went green and it instantly worked perfectly! I never done anything apart from plug it in, run the software and change the selection to the track clip pro, must be some kind of auto calibration or something, 2 solid green must mean the setup is complete or something. I didn't even need to change anything in Arma2 either. It all worked out of the box!

Played around and although it feels slightly weird at first you soon feel the emersion blow you away. After 30 mins of playing it's still blowing me away with the ease of it, flying, running around makes an awesome difference to spacial awareness. Why on earth wasn't this kind of device out before now? You all need one of these. If i were to review it in full i'd have a hell of a lot of things to say about it and i'd give it 98% The -2% is the fact the boom connection on the track clip pro arrived broken but they are sending me a replacement tomorrow.

Sorry for the short bitty info, i'm in a rush to get out to work. Just thought i'd give you lot the juicy info! I can't wait to get in later this evening! :D
 
XysteR said:
snip......Why on earth wasn't this kind of device out before now?.....snip
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It was, those of us in flight sim land have been using TIR for years now ;). You're right though, playing without it just doesn't feel right. It's a real pity more games don't support it.
 
Eddie182 said:
It was, those of us in flight sim land have been using TIR for years now ;). You're right though, playing without it just doesn't feel right. It's a real pity more games don't support it.
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Over 100 games supported at the mo. I think Arma2 is gonna be the thing that gets the TrackIR5 word out bigtime, lots already have one, few in here too.

I just tried loading Arma2 to without the TrackIR plugged in.. It feels, weirdly unnatural, like i'm on a self laying train track or summin' lol
 
Ewanb75 said:
Looks sweet Xyster, been looking at them on fleabay.

Now all you need is another 2 dells :)
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Your not wrong, i think i may invest in another 2 of these 24"ers. I had my heart set on a 30" Dell, been thinking about it for a while but i think maybe i may be better off just getting 2 more of these, cheaper too. :p

right, i'm seriously late for work, laters peeps. I'll be on the server later as 'Lee'. Somehow can't change my default profile name?
 
XysteR said:
Download latest beta driver and profiles form the link you get in the box.
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The non-beta (v4) software doesn't look as pretty but it is much more stable, gives less tracking errors, no random flickering and doesn't break windows cleartype!
 
XysteR said:
right, i'm seriously late for work, laters peeps. I'll be on the server later as 'Lee'. Somehow can't change my default profile name?
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You have to create a new profile within arma, the default one is linked to your windows username.
 
cHk4 said:
Looking forward to trying the player vs player maps to be honest... That could be interesting...

I wonder if you could have player vs player vs AI, like 2 teams, a AI village and you have to capture the village via a flag or something, not sure if thats possible.

Yea Aion is a WoW type game :D
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i highly recommend we try this map http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=77709

make it a 20v20 at least if your server can handle it
 
Lee,
Missus just got in, showed her a youtube of your new toy

Guess who's getting one off santa !! ole mr me, i'm a good boy i am :)

Anyways ......................

Am i ok using the [OCUK] nick prefix or is it a club/clan i have to join to use it ??

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Ohh, the catalyst 9.7's i'm trying seem to of upped my fps slightly

The vista x64 i use, i had too for some strange reason use the -winxp line in shortcut, now i don't have to to get crossfire working

Cheers

Def
 
Sleepless said:
I dont know, had a moment yesterday where I flanked a town and caught a group of enemy out in the open. Mowed down 16 of them with my ACOG rifle, but rather than feeling elated (my biggest k/d ratio since i started playing) I just got a bit annoyed. The problem with the AI is that theyre, well AI. All they could do was crawl round in circles and be targets. duck shoot.

Last night the general gameplay was - new target identified, cobra goes in and kills the armour and starts mowing down the infantry, harrier bombs the centre of town, choppers pick up the MHQs and infantry from last job, drops them at target, by then most enemy dead, mop up begins with infantry who have arrived now and bam, another town gone. Even the large town (lag-ville) didnt put up much oppo to what was an exceedingly well executed combined arms attack. the biggest danger to the choppers was flying into each other.

The good players on the server are getting very good and the ai stays the same. I think my ideal would be for the ai to be controlled in some way so that surprises could happen, reinforcements made up of more than 5 guys jumping from a chopper, a counterattack of more than 1 tank and an apc.

Ah nevermind, see you on tongiht.
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Issue you have is simple, AI has no air assets to keep us in check in planes or cobra,

however we did make sure we didnt go mad we offered support to our ground forces made sure youw as all safe :) but AI needs auir assets, su and hinds

also im buying a IR tracker 5 tomorrow thou in gibraltar so :( will have to order from over seas and none of my suppliers can get it.. and then wait :(
 
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