Project Reality : Arma 2 - Released at 6pm Tonight
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I bought the retail verson bog standard it think when it was released, will it work?
They turned on more servers now. But i think theres gonna be a lot more players tomorrow. A guy a share a dedicated server which just switched on a PR server that seems to be stable with 80 players. Caught a hacker to who fired gbu bombs from gun ^^
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You need both. I also had to reinstall to mod it, my version is from amazon.
I believe you can combine all sorts of different versions of Arma2, a game launcher might help make it simpler try six updater maybe and I used "ArmA II Launcher" at one point also
When you buy arrowhead it accesses the arma2 files like a map pack and just adds them onto the arrowhead game running
I bought arma 2 on release for the PR mod, over 2 years ago! Since then you also have to buy the arrowhead pack otherwise PR wont work
Its actually worth buying arrowhead because its runs faster and with much better graphics even though its supposed to be the same engine, they did a lot of upgrades
Also there is other packs but none of those have to be bought to run PR. British forces models are included with PR I think
Last I heard was 130 players on one server. They then setup a new 100 player server to split the player load but that filled up before anyone could switch
Never heard of 130 players in any game working out ok so I will be amazed if thats the case
I believe you can combine all sorts of different versions of Arma2, a game launcher might help make it simpler try six updater maybe and I used "ArmA II Launcher" at one point also
When you buy arrowhead it accesses the arma2 files like a map pack and just adds them onto the arrowhead game running
I bought arma 2 on release for the PR mod, over 2 years ago! Since then you also have to buy the arrowhead pack otherwise PR wont work
Its actually worth buying arrowhead because its runs faster and with much better graphics even though its supposed to be the same engine, they did a lot of upgrades
Also there is other packs but none of those have to be bought to run PR. British forces models are included with PR I think
Last I heard was 130 players on one server. They then setup a new 100 player server to split the player load but that filled up before anyone could switch
Never heard of 130 players in any game working out ok so I will be amazed if thats the case
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played a bit of it. cant see the difference. its good but its stil arma 2 and dont make pvp that much better. i'll have more play on it during this week
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I still not got the stupid thing working, trying another windows install to see if its any happier
If its only 0.1 then I would expect it to be small still. I actually played their 0.1 version on bf2 and it was laughably basic.
Wondered round with a pistol and what was supposed to be a javelin on a giant dam nicked from kubra
If its only 0.1 then I would expect it to be small still. I actually played their 0.1 version on bf2 and it was laughably basic.
Wondered round with a pistol and what was supposed to be a javelin on a giant dam nicked from kubra
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I think it's overrated, I'll try it again in the future when they add more features ect.
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i can get it to work. like i said i had a quick go and the major difference i can see from arma 2 and PR is the UI. thats it lol. Their was a far bigger difference on BF2'S PR imo as it changed the actual gameplay of bf2
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There is a reason for that, arma 2 is close to PR anyway... BF is a retarded 100mph shooter.
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Yea it makes sense. So how come PR mod took this long to make then?
Anyways i will give this more time later this week. what server do u play on?
Played quite a bit so far. Good with a decent squad but it still has the issues of Arma 2 in there that meant most people don't bother with large scale pvp like the awful netcode and general glitchiness when you have so many people on one server.
Also while playing last night every server i went on got hacked at one point or another.
Also while playing last night every server i went on got hacked at one point or another.
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PR for BF2 was a very small mod when it was v0.1. Thats where they are now, you are a beta tester and not in a fake way like EA does or whatever
They can exclude those hacks now just by demanding all mods have signatures but apparently this would stop steam players joining for the moment
I managed to play, my install problem was because I forgot to move arma 2 files over
I need to read the manual and redefine the key conflicts properly but the whole teamwork element seemed to be alive though struggling!
Their BF mod was much less advanced at this point however I got lots of error messages and eventually the game crashed
The main idea of joining a squad in game and going ahead with an active game, thats alive and well. Im not a fan of all the faffing about arma2 has most games to the extent you talk about guns more then ever actually see the enemy
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Right now, all it really adds is one communication menu, I'll be honest I know it's an early beta but I was expecting some custom built maps or something. And the devs themselves are waiting on a patch to the game from the devs to fix the appalling netcode anyway.