Comments on: Bloody Hell: ArmA 2 Vids

By: Ozymandias

Ozymandias — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 20:50:33 +0000

@Oceanclub: Bohemia say they are making 1.02 (or it’s being released soon)

Don’t worry about patches, Bohemia continues to support their games. The bug-ridden Arma at release is now a playable game after many patches, one of them being the beta 1.16 patch which was released a while ago (keeping in mind -while- they were working on/finishing ArmA2)

I wouldn’t worry about it. Though, if you’re so worried about bugs I would wait a few months before getting the game.

By: oceanclub

oceanclub — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:37:45 +0000

Hmm, was looking forward to this, but the AI bugs are making me think I should wait for another patch; is there any announcement from the devs that such a patch is in the offing?

By: Ozymandias

Ozymandias — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 05:02:16 +0000

Surprised Dslyecxi was the only one here that picked up on “secondary explosions = death” bit. Also, enemies you do not see but can see you are going to shoot you. I am pretty sure it is like this in other games with the exception that shooting you only results in losing some health so you can go hide behind a wall or wooden box to regenerate your health, presumably using some regenerative nanobots that all main characters seem to be getting these days.

Normally you would have other squadmates with you, and they will (or should) be looking in the directions that you aren’t, so as to take out enemies to the flanks and such. If you’re alone either something’s gone terribly wrong, or you’re stupid, and you’re going to get shot, especially if there’s hundreds of enemies closing in on you. What do you expect?

@IdleHands: The demo is scheduled to be released either the 15th or 16th (that’s pretty much today or tomorrow if it’s late)

By: DennisK4

DennisK4 — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:56:52 +0000

By: Kadayi

Kadayi — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 21:54:55 +0000

Impressive, but all the talk of bugs makes me think I’ll wait until they’ve been ironed out.

By: Weylund

Weylund — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 04:03:26 +0000

@Dominic: those mini-campaign missions you describe… I’m buying ASAP. Lovely.

By: IdleHands

IdleHands — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 02:32:16 +0000

Ooh curse you RPS now I want this game. I could stop myself before because I thought ‘well you know you’d never run it on your computer’ but now I hear people with similar specs running it decently. I hope there is a demo so I can see if my comp can run it and how low I have to turn my graphics down.

By: El_MUERkO

El_MUERkO — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 02:08:51 +0000

apologies for the delay, had to go to a wedding :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7jCGvlkXW4

By: Dominic White

Dominic White — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 17:53:49 +0000

@Jason – It’s not CoD4, but it might be Ghost Recon. After the first couple of missions, you end up as leader of Razor Team, a largely independent force recon unit. A few of the missions are effectively mini-campaigns, where you’re given an objective like ‘Find this insurgent leader’ and are given several possible intel leads, a civillian contact, and a transport chopper on call and are left to your own devices.

It feels pretty authentic for the most part, but you’re not a faceless fodder grunt like you were in OFP.

By: Turin Turambar

Turin Turambar — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 17:47:02 +0000

Slippery Jim, cool video. But i think the video’s author is wong. The AI didn’t suicide, the black smoke trail is a clue that the plane was already damaged.

By: Jason Moyer

Jason Moyer — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 16:46:49 +0000

For those wondering, the ArmA2 campaign is actually more reasonable in difficulty than OFP, and way easier than ArmA1.

Is the campaign based around plausible military situations? The thing I hated about ArmA was how the missions were straight out of something like Call of Duty 4, which doesn’t work at all in a simulator.

By: Slippery Jim

Slippery Jim — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:59:21 +0000

Totally unscripted, just happened to this guy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EN1Y-SpcI1s&hd=1