Was out of ammo yesterday and decided to loop round to a squad i’d killed a few mins previously, as i got out my vehicle and walked over to the solider he just disappeared, right in front of my eyes, that kinda broke the illusion for me

The ‘broken’ parts i encountered were purely AI related, i had an enemy solider standing point blank with his AK in my face and he couldn’t fire, when he did he aimed right over my head.
Had another example where my team had just destoryed a comms antenna and we were pulling out to get to the chopper (GET DOWN!!), told the team to follow me, we legged it to the chopper, mounted up and found that Pvt.Spakker was stuck by the objective, a friendly gunshot to the leg didn’t help but a a headshot later and the mission was over.

I’ve been a while since i’ve played a game where the enemy felt real, basically not an aim bot or a dribbling excuse for a combatant. After getting pinned down in long grass by 2 machine gun placements i felt my heart rate going up and thats when i knew this game really has something.

Hopefully Codemasters will get the AI patch sorted soon as they’ve promised and when they do i think we are looking at a few sturdy fun game on a powerful engine, the true meat will come from the community though IMO

Played coop all day today, and this happened to me with spectacular consequences.

“There’s a mission editor bundled with the package too. I’ve had a bit of play with it and was sadly baffled by the process”

This is strange, it’s been one of the easiest editors I’ve ever used, nice and simple to use.

Been a weird releases this, probably due to it’s predecessor expectations were high, reviews are mixed, there are people committing sepuku on the CM forums, and then there’s the arma2 factor. But I think CM have done a good job here, it’s a good solid tac shooter and for once I’m genuinely chuffed. Today has been a blast.

“It’s funny you don’t see Americna soldiers in TV walking around with AK-47s they took from dead Taliban, uh yah because they get re supplied in the field!”

Well they won’t show it on TV but it does happen, in vietnam, US soldiers would often ditch their M16’s for the Veit-Cong AK-47, as at the time they were more reliable than the M16’s.

As stated in Army Training, taking and using an enemies firearm is an accepted tatic but one that should only be used if necessary.

On to more minor things: the first-person animation and the camera manipulation, particularly during stance changes are…. rather poor, actually. Secondly, the interface (i.e. weapon/ammo changes, etc.) is a little on the clunky and unresponsive side. Thankfully, this is a slower pace shooter, so it isn’t too big of a deal.

Most glaringly, however, I think my AI teammates might have violated an article (possibly several) in the Geneva convention by shooting two downed Chinese soldiers in the face. Several times.

Guess I’ll have to go wait for those patches, then… As it is, The current version of ArmA2 is a fair bit more enjoyable than OF2.

My squad-leading skills are obviously leaving something to be desired right now.

Obvious plant is obvious

Interesting reasoning. I like a game you don’t, so I must be a plant. It’s obviously impossible for me to have an opinion that differs from your own. Is trolling really that much fun?