By James Carey on August 12th, 2010 at 9:30 am.
Oh for heavens sake, yes we know they’re not strictly tanks but… anyway, want a chance to win a copy of ArmA 2 expandalone, Operation Arrowhead? Want to play a big old co-op ArmA 2 game with fellow RPS readers and writers? If “yes”, then click the digital King’s Shilling below to find out more.
Join us!
We’ve not covered Operation Arrowhead in too much depth, but only because we were worried about the monster squid of arcane complexity that lurks inside in any game from Bohemia Interactive. Nevertheless, now is time to wrestle that squid and for us to investigate the game as a team. That means we need you guys.
Idea Games have air-dropped twenty (20!) copies of Operation Arrowhead into the reinforced RPS hyper-bunker (we left a window open so we could hear the birds arguing) and we thought there might be no better way to test drive this particular Hummer than to let you lot have at it in some kind of cooperative battle-event-thinger. So this is a recruitment drive. RPS needs soldiers. But more importantly, RPS needs YOU to be AVAILABLE! We’re going to dish out 20 keys, but only to those happy few who promise – cross fingers and hope to be poked in the eye by Quinns – to be around for our own little D-Day on Sunday 22nd August at 2pm BST. If you really can’t make that date and time, please don’t bother applying. Winning a war involves being there in the first place.
To help with this, we’re limiting this giveaway to registered folks. To have a chance of winning you need to be registered to RPS so you can receive private messages via the forum, and you need to leave a comment below. Give us a reason why you should win. The best twenty reasons why – as judged by the hivemind – will win the keys, and join us for a special mission on the 22nd.
We’ll be doing a detailed After Action Report of the battle-event-thinger, so acts of extreme bravery are encouraged and will be rewarded with Fabulous Glitzy Prizes, just like in real war. In this case the Fabulous Prizes For Excellence will be 10 copies of the as yet unreleased British Forces DLC, only given for Victoria Cross levels of Stiff Upper Lipness Under Fire. Other, less heroic (or downright suicidal) acts during the event could earn you a map/poster or T-Shirt. We may even be able to make room for those of you who’ve already got a copy of OA! Stay tuned for details on the server and so forth, which are yet to come.
Also: see competition rules for, you know, the rules.
12/08/2010 at 09:38 Antilogic says:
Because suicide runs are my specialty ;) Can you strap explosives to players in this game? :D
12/08/2010 at 09:39 AndrewC says:
I will be busy! Damn you real life, my old enemy!
Have fun. Play as goats.
12/08/2010 at 09:40 Dyst says:
22nd of August? I’m free! LET’S DO IT!
12/08/2010 at 09:44 Chizu says:
I’d ask for one, but the graphics card from my games capable machine is visiting its parents right now, Because it has been bad.
And I’ve no guarantee it will be back by the 22nd :/
12/08/2010 at 09:46 HexagonalBolts says:
I’m an ArmA virgin who was at first scared away by the complexity of the demo, but in what I’m going to call “the dwarf fortress phenomenon”, that complexity has a strange sadistic lure which keeps tempting me back, gently and evilly seducing me to give it a go. And this seems like a fantastic opportunity. I guess you guys are the same. I’m free that sunday and just about every other hour of the week as I’m a smelly english literature student with long holidays and then only 6 hours a week of actual contact hours. I have also been commenting this site forever and a day, which is hopefully some small affirmation that I’m not an utter knob…
12/08/2010 at 10:12 Sarlix says:
Hmm I’ve never seen you before.. (raises eyebrow in suspicion)
Also your gravatar looks like Mr Jelly http://www.themistermen.co.uk/mr_men/mr_jelly.html?jelly/mr
12/08/2010 at 10:36 HexagonalBolts says:
Well maybe now you’ll finally remember me!
12/08/2010 at 11:09 Sarlix says:
Indeed I will Sir!
12/08/2010 at 12:00 HexagonalBolts says:
heheh.
12/08/2010 at 09:46 Zone says:
22nd of August? I’m free! LET’S DO IT!
I repeat, Lets do it!!!
12/08/2010 at 09:49 Senethro says:
Hello, I can be there! I’m ready to join the doomed youth in the warzone.
12/08/2010 at 09:51 darkrei9n says:
I can be there.
I am a wonderful pilot with suicidal tendencies, I love flying planes 50 feet or less from the ground and I can fly helicopters upside down.
For about 5 seconds, then the gravity kicks in.
I’m up all day and all night so I’m available. So would you kindly pick me.
12/08/2010 at 09:56 Antilogic says:
Can you do a barrel loop in a chopper?
Because that would just be awesome.
12/08/2010 at 10:02 Allandaros says:
I believe that the Westland Lynx can follow Peppy’s instructions and do a barrel roll, which is Pretty Awesome.
12/08/2010 at 11:55 darkrei9n says:
Yes, I can do a barrel roll in a chopper if I’m high enough.
12/08/2010 at 20:37 Snubber says:
I, too, must be stoned to attempt such ridiculous rotocraft hijinks.
13/08/2010 at 05:23 darkrei9n says:
I do it sober, you put me on any kind of drug and let me fly I might just break the game doing something. Triple barrel roll in a helicopter anyone?
12/08/2010 at 09:53 mlaskus says:
Oh, that’s extremely nice of you.
I don’t have OA and I will be available on the 22nd.
Now why would you want to pick me? I’m a good medic!
Are there any medics in this game? I don’t know, but there damn well should be.
Oh, and I loved the original Flashpoint and as much as I would love to buy OA, I’m a poor student and have to choose between it and food or beer. Though I’m a hopeless drunk so cutting into my beer expenses is quite unrealistic. Thus if I buy the game myself I will have no money for food and starve to death.
12/08/2010 at 09:57 Usul says:
Nice, I will be there.
12/08/2010 at 09:57 Turin Turambar says:
I have 200+ hours of experience with Arma 2 / OA, i will be there to help the noobs. :P
(i don’t need another copy of OA, don’t count me for one of the 20 copies. But one copy of the British DLC would be nice :))
12/08/2010 at 10:57 Turin Turambar says:
Also, check out my thread of the game in Qt3 (yep, i am Naeblis in that forum)
http://www.quartertothree.com/game-talk/showthread.php?t=50514
12/08/2010 at 09:58 AJ says:
What time zone is that?
12/08/2010 at 10:21 mlaskus says:
British Summer Time, UTC + 1.
12/08/2010 at 09:59 RiptoR says:
I’m free the 22nd, and I’m ready to get virtually raped by Kieron…
If I had to play any virtual war, it would have to be one where I can blow little bits of the RPS gang.
12/08/2010 at 09:59 Meatloaf says:
Curses! I think I’m moving back to Uni that day! Ah, confounded education! Well, someone record it, please.
12/08/2010 at 09:59 Man Raised By Puffins says:
Not strictly tanks? Now that really is taking the MICV.
12/08/2010 at 10:26 robrob says:
They are angry houses.
12/08/2010 at 10:42 PrepareToMeetThyGod says:
robrob should win all 20 for that comment.
12/08/2010 at 10:45 Man Raised By Puffins says:
Nah, Bradleys are more like mildly perturbed bungalows.
12/08/2010 at 13:00 robrob says:
Like miffed maisons.
12/08/2010 at 10:07 necromental says:
Because I could Flip a ChinHook in operation flashpoint. Because we once got a laser guided bomb through an attic window (after 30 tries). Because I can drive one of those boyracer’d volvos like a motherlover. and because I am completely and utterrly crap at flying planes and could never figure out how to fire the bleeding Scud launcher! That’s why you need me. Also, I’m Nigel and I’m nice.
12/08/2010 at 10:07 Mac says:
22nd of August? I’m free! I like blowing shit up too … bonus !
12/08/2010 at 10:08 Usul says:
Ah yes forgot to mention that, I too have Arma 2 / OA. British units caught my eye.
12/08/2010 at 10:09 JB says:
I can make it on the 22nd. I’ve been playing OpFlash for donkey’s years. Last few months I upgraded to ArmA (the first one) and myself and my main gaming partner have been cranking out more missions to amuse ourselves with. I’m happy to take a support role like medic, or arm me with a laser designator, I enjoy lasing things =)
Equally, I’ll cheerfully drive a Humvee/Stryker into an enemy base and go down in a blaze of glory!
Forward, RPS army!!!!
12/08/2010 at 10:14 Heliosicle says:
Poo I’m on holiday!
12/08/2010 at 10:17 Vague-rant says:
Buggrit. Busy on the 22nd. Oh well. But if I had to give a reason:
Because winning isn’t everything.
12/08/2010 at 10:18 Brumisator says:
Oh baby! Playing my favourite game of the last 2 years with RPS folks?
Sign me up!
12/08/2010 at 10:22 scott2100 says:
Hellz yeh, sign me up for the 22nd!
12/08/2010 at 10:27 Duoae says:
Huh…. i don’t have the original. I guess i can’t be included in this expandathon :(
12/08/2010 at 10:29 Duoae says:
Ah, ignore that. I misread expandalone!
Haha!
12/08/2010 at 10:29 SteveTheBlack says:
Count me in!
Every good war needs a HERO SQUAD, the men who do all the extremely dangerous and downright daft things that the regular soldiers won’t do.
Need a tank punched to pieces? There’s a SQUAD for that. A three kilometre bayonet charge? There’s a SQUAD for that. I can get you that SQUAD.
(It’s mostly just me.)
12/08/2010 at 11:46 Petethegoat says:
Three kilometre bayonet charge made me lol, genuinely.
Alas, if only I could enter.
12/08/2010 at 10:37 Dave says:
I suck at the original and dont have time for any games other than Eve plus my computer died and i dont think my backup machine will run it. Thats why i should get a free copy of modern warfare 2 expansion standalone bolt-tip
12/08/2010 at 10:37 WTF says:
I am most definitely free then and would love to take part – my only concern is that I am one of the luckless types who has never gotten ARMA2 to run very well on my rig. I have it installed now and it is, by virtue of being more or less the only game on there I suspect, working quite well but the FPS are still terrible.
Is this new fangled expandalone designed and coded any better? What are my chances of actually seeing the people as they shoot me in t he head a lot?
12/08/2010 at 10:40 PrepareToMeetThyGod says:
I can make it. I’ve been waiting for this moment for 33 years, I’m pretty damn sure I can make it. That’s reason enough right? If not, well, as an added bonus, I’ll kill things with a suicidal lack of skill. BUT I WILL SUCCEED!
Oh, and I’ll also join Steve TheBlacks’s HERO SQUAD. Splendid ^_^
12/08/2010 at 10:42 Code Monkey says:
I’m an ArmA noob, and am free on the 22nd. I should get a copy of the game because I’m a complete loner with no social life who rarely leaves my bedroom for things other than food and need something to stave off the long hours of boredom.
12/08/2010 at 10:45 SF Legend says:
I can almost definitely make it at that time, and I can fly a chopper to the extent that I won’t immediately crash and explode. I can even land them safely most of the time! So while I may not be the best player, I’m definitely reliable.
12/08/2010 at 10:45 Demon Beaver says:
I’d love to join, but sadly, can’t promise to be there on time.
Too bad, I have real life army experience, meaning I could yell contradicting commands which no one would follow, and then crash my helicopter into a bridge.
12/08/2010 at 10:47 AJ says:
Thanks
12/08/2010 at 10:49 lostrootpass says:
I’m available and ready.
Always wanted to try ArmA 2 since I have a bit of a thing for tac-shooters.
12/08/2010 at 10:58 UW says:
I’d love to join in. I’ll definitely be available.. and quite frankly I look for any opportunity to shout things like “FALL BACK!” and “COVER ME!” at people I don’t know.
Sometimes they even listen.
12/08/2010 at 11:03 klumhru says:
Shame that I and the wife already own copies of A2 and OA, or we would have entered for this.
Are you thinking about having a very large bash, ie with room beyond the 20? Would love to blast me some RPSies. Oh wait, coop. Heal me some RPSies then :)
12/08/2010 at 11:04 Bobzer says:
Because I enjoy punishment and Arma 2 is the only game out there that can give me a decent spanking….
12/08/2010 at 11:04 Fringe says:
I can do it! Sunday afternoon gaming is my favoured time.
Also, I’d like a copy because Operation Flashpoint was my favourite game for ages but I haven’t bought Arma II because I thought I’d never find a decent bunch of people to war alongside (Flashpoint was at it’s best played in coop). The RPS folks on the TF2 server are awesome so I hope the same or similar people dive into this too.
OpFlash is the only game to have tempted me into a clan too. I remember my trial where I had to destroy a roaming BMP as part of a special ops team at night. I managed to crawl right up to the vehicle without even MY team seeing me, set some satchel charges in place and then retreated to a nearby garden before blowing it sky high. They were impressed, I was accepted, and the moment was fixed into my mind as one of the greatest and most enjoyable gaming moments I’ve had.
12/08/2010 at 11:09 Thatidiot says:
Tonight… you pukes will sleep with your rifles! You will give your rifle a girl’s name! Because this is the only pussy you people are going to get! Your days of finger-banging old Mary Jane Rottencrotch through her pretty pink panties are over! You’re married to this piece, this weapon of iron and wood! And you will be faithful!
With wise words like that, and the assurance that I will be there, it is obvious that I will teach you maggots how 2 ARMA2!
12/08/2010 at 11:12 ninjapirate says:
I can make sure that I’ll be at home and completely undisturbed (save for nature calls) on August 22nd!
I spent years playing and replaying the original Operation Flashpoint, ArmA 2 finally sounds like a game that could bring back the good old times!
As it would be too bourgeois to say “pick me, I’m an RPS subscriber,” I will instead point out that everything is better with pirates. ;o)
12/08/2010 at 11:13 Gbroderix says:
i can do i as well, but i suck at it, but i love arma so much, i keep trying and trying it is best game ^^
12/08/2010 at 11:18 Phinor says:
I’m a two-year World War 2 veteran with plenty of experience in the following arts of war: holding the front line for twenty seconds, falling in the front line, not communicating with my team after the enemy has snuck behind our lines and of course once a year (so twice during my career!) miraculously killing the enemy team guaranteeing us a victory. Oh yes, I’m talking about the original Day of Defeat. I’ve seen my share of middle-European towns like Caen and Ramelle and I’m ready to move on to Takistan!
On the plus side, I guarantee to be among the worst if not the worst player on the server so no one else is put to shame. On the negative side it won’t make a very good movie if one guy keeps dying all the time. Just give me orders, point the direction and I’m off!
Well ok, I’ve played other games (damn that buggy ArmA 2 campaign) besides DoD but I thought it made a fairly average story so I decided to try it out. If Kevin Smith has taught us anything, it’s to aim to be average and talk a lot.
12/08/2010 at 11:18 Nimic says:
Why, because I don’t own it from before, of course! Also, I’ve been through hell to get my PC in order. We had a lightning storm this summer, just about the first one I can remember since I was 4. First, it took my internet (and only my internet). Then, a day later, my computer shut down. I figured it was the PSU, so I bought a new PSU.
Turns out, right, it wasn’t. It was the Motherboard. So I bought a new motherboard, which means I bought a new everything. Except the DVD-burner, because that couldn’t possibly cause any problems. Oh, it probably didn’t, in the end, but I’m just below the level of tech-savvy that made me capable of figuring out why it didn’t work when I removed my final IDE HDD. So I went out and bought a new one. And it worked!
Of course, now I’ve got a computer actually able to play the game, so really, it’s fate.
Yes. Definitely.
12/08/2010 at 11:25 Romanx says:
I’m definately interesting in this because I don’t already own it and my computer definately needs the test of this to challenge it’s awesome prowess.
Also i just want to shoot Quinns for an great big cock during the Solium Infernum journal =D
GIFF!
12/08/2010 at 11:32 Emphursis says:
Pick me because I’m more bad-ass than Lando Calrissian!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NATeU-r0GDU&playnext=1&videos=eEFCO24jTS0
12/08/2010 at 11:40 Emphursis says:
Oh, and because I’m an idiot and spelled ‘hotmail’ wrong, my forum name is Emphursis1
*facepalms*
12/08/2010 at 11:33 Swanky says:
I am both willing (oh, free copy!) and able to fight for RPS. Just point me at the enemy. ARRRRRGGGGHHHHHH!
12/08/2010 at 11:35 Web Cole says:
I wish to own OA because I am a BF2: Project Reality player, and PR is coming to ARMA 2: http://www.realitymod.com/forum/f380-project-reality-news/77777-project-reality-arma2.html
If the amount of hours I have put into BF2:PR in just 6 months (700+) is any indication, then there will be very few people who will get more of a time effective use out of OA than I. So by giving me a copy you’d be supporting the mod community ;-)
12/08/2010 at 11:36 Kid A says:
COPY. NUMBER. 20. MOVE TO. KID A’S. HOUSE. AT. FULL SPEED.
Knowing my luck with ArmA games it’ll move at about 15fps and get stuck on a bridge, but still.
12/08/2010 at 11:45 frenz0rz says:
You damned well want me there gentlemen. Why, you ask?
I am a mindless peon – a subservient nothing willing to fight and die for our glorious RPS overlords. I will charge ten thousand mounted machinegun posts on command when there is no hope of success; I will leap from the highest plane with no parachute, supported only by the vague chance of landing on an unfortunate enemy to secure that 1:0 kill ratio; I will run, climb and swim my way forward and onward like a glorious one-man army until I am unfortunately gunned down by a chap sitting in a tree two miles away. You want me, RPS! We can win this war damnit!
12/08/2010 at 11:45 The Tupper says:
Hi there.
I’m rather late to this party, but I’m doing nothing except gaming that day and love all things free; if there’s a copy of the game still available I’d love you all forever if you sent it my way.
One caveat: I’m not very good at the ARMA games, but I write fantastic war poetry while soiling my cyber-fatigues in a cyber-ditch.
Go on: gie’s a copy. Go on….go on….
12/08/2010 at 11:55 Haggai Elkayam says:
I can make it! And you want me there because I pwn noobs. Some of our opposition will, undoubtedly, be composed of noobs, which I can pwn.
I might be pwned by people who are not at all noobs, because I’m probably an ARMA noob myself, but you should pay no attention to this tiny, tiny flaw.
12/08/2010 at 11:59 PatrickSwayze says:
I. Should. Win. A. Key. For. Operation. Arrow. Head. Because. I. Talk. Like. One. Of. It’s. Soldiers.
*DING*
I. Played. Operation. Flashpoint. Religiously. Nearly. A. Decade. Back. But. Have. Yet. To. Sample. ArmA.
*DING*
Free. Copy. Yes. Please.
*DING*
12/08/2010 at 12:09 Montecristo345 says:
I’m totally down for this, I’ve got that day off and can be there all day. Plus I love ArmA 2. IF there are any spots left i’d love to join
12/08/2010 at 12:23 dartt says:
Sgt. Dartt, HERO SQUAD Logistics & Tea corp, here.
We’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Dropships on fire on the coast of Oshur, we watched ANTs running in the dark near Hossin warpgate. All these things were lost when our planetside subscriptions expired.
In 2009, this crack legend unit stopped playing planetside. These men promptly went back to playing Team Fortress 2. Today, still unwanted, they subsist as gaming’s untermensch in the gutter of the internet. If you have a problem, you can shove it up your arse. If you don’t have a problem but you feel like you need one, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire HERO SQUAD.
If you need us, HERO SQUAD will heed the summons: No mission is too foolhardy, no plan too far-fetched. The bigger they come, they cooler the explosion will be when they destroy us. Amongst our middle names, there are such concepts as ‘Danger’, ‘Fear’, ‘Nunchucks’ and ‘Martin’. Our main weapon is suprise. Just suprise. We are hungry like the wolf. We dance with the devil in the pale moonlight. We are the champions. We are just a band.
We are HERO SQUAD!
12/08/2010 at 12:32 dartt says:
I heroically forgot to log in to post that.
This is me, heroically logged in.
12/08/2010 at 12:48 Sarlix says:
I don’t have a problem but defiantly feel that I need one. I would like to hire HERO SQUAD!
Do they undertake domestic furnishing removals?
12/08/2010 at 13:04 dartt says:
Well. This depends on the type of furniture Sarlix.
If there is significant risk of the loss of life, limb, sight or sanity then HERO SQUAD are interested; If the furniture is not poisonous or highly toxic to the touch, razor sharp, supremely dense and precariously balanced, antimatter, cursed, demonic, possessed, explosive, radioactive, built from organic or semi-organic matter created using illegal science, or, if the destination is not wartorn, crime ridden, natually hazardous, mythical or non-existent… then HERO SQUAD probably won’t take the job.
12/08/2010 at 21:14 Sarlix says:
I have a demonic three seater that thinks it’s a Chaise Lounge. It’s had quite a colorful history that dates back to the 18th century. It was first used by a Victorian cult to summon other-worldly beings but ended up being given to the womens institute were it went on a rampage and ate all the biscuits. Later it fell into the hands of an eccentric scientist that tried to harness it’s demonic powers and use it as a 4th dimensional time traveling device. However he neglected to factor into his calculations a rich-tea biscuit that was stuck behind one of the rear cushions, thus throwing everything out of balance. This resulted in a quantum singularity forming which in turn created a localized black hole which rendered the sofa so dense that one cushion weighs the same as a Volvo estate. As for delivery, it needs to be taken to a right wing paramilitary called the ‘black helmet’ I know it probably doesn’t have the danger factor that HERO SQUAD are used too, but I’m hoping they’ll make an exception. :-)
12/08/2010 at 12:24 cRaZy says:
I’m available that day and I really want to fight for RPS. I love tactical first person shooters and I love Operation Flashpoint. Just point me in the direction of the enemy and I shall slay them all.
12/08/2010 at 12:28 Poppis says:
This sounds like a blast. I’m free on 22th and even though I can’t fly choppers(except into trees), I would gladly get in to the driver’s seat of one of those wannabe-tanks.
12/08/2010 at 12:28 LemonyTang says:
Because, not even joking, the 22nd of August is my birthday.
Yes, you would be giving me a birthday present. Fantastic!
I feel writing a paragraph of why I would like Arma 2 after that would be silly, because it just wouldn’t compare to the fact that you’d be giving me a birthday present. Don’t know if I mentioned that.
12/08/2010 at 12:30 trooperdx3117 says:
I’ve been playing Operation Flashpoint since 2002, i’ve played Arma 1-2 and been well versed in the combined army operations required of those games, although alas due to the wonders of our recession the money that I would have reserved for buying Operation Arrowhead had to be spent on such trivial things as food, clothing and paying just enough rent to stay out of a cardboad box under a bridge
12/08/2010 at 12:33 Lobotomy Lobster says:
I’m in. All operations need a lobster
Proof, if any were needed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szhJzX0UgDM
12/08/2010 at 12:37 Lobotomy Lobster says:
Heroically logging in also
12/08/2010 at 12:33 MrMud says:
I never got around to playing any big multiplayer games in vanilla Arma2 so this sounds really interesting.
If I got a game I would definitely be around on the 22nd for some soldiering.
Now I just need to set up my trackIR again.
12/08/2010 at 12:35 Lobotomy Lobster says:
Wasn’t logged in ._______.
12/08/2010 at 12:47 Kelron says:
I would like to play. Please may I have a key if I try my hardest not to shoot any friendly soldiers?
12/08/2010 at 12:47 jackflash says:
I should win because I am a lawyer and hate my life.
12/08/2010 at 12:49 CloakRaider says:
I hopefully can make that date providing my PC doesn’t catch fire.
A good reason that I should be gifted it? I once flew an Osprey, upside down, under fire into enemy territory to rescue a friendly squad in a train yard, and escaped with only a few scrapes, while shooting out the window with a sidearm and playing a kazoo (and those two weren’t in the game).
I also played ArmA 1 and 2 quite a bit, and a bit of ACE mod.
12/08/2010 at 12:57 Alexander Norris says:
I’ll be around on the 22nd at 2pm BST, so I’d like to enter my name into the list of many people who want a copy of the game.
I should get one because I am possibly the most rubbish ArmA2 player in the world. Need a chopper crashed barely off the ground? I’m your man. Need a jeep to go racing across some sort of flat terrain only for me to get sniped out of the driver seat and the whole rickety thing to go tumbling into the closest tree as if powered by extremely suspicious magnets that are out to get me? I am also your man. Need someone to sit around with the only gun with no proper scope, peering down the barrel at distant pixels and wondering whether they’re about to kill him or just some sort of particularly stumpy tree? I am your man too.
Alternatively, if you’d like me to not hit a single enemy in the mission and then blow you up in a hilarious friendly fire incident involving backblast and a low-ish rock outcropping, I am definitely your man.
12/08/2010 at 13:01 Dinger says:
Why? Because my voice sounds a lot better calling in fire missions than the ArmA 2 robovoice does, so you won’t mind when I screw up and drop a load of HE on the general staff’s motor pool.
12/08/2010 at 13:05 Dexemplu says:
I’ll be free.
I wanna join you guys because I just finished Crysis, which takes up half the real-estate available on the keyboard. I think I’m ready for a shooter that takes up all of it.
12/08/2010 at 13:20 Archonsod says:
I’ll be available. I’m not too great at the fighting, but if you need some ablative body armour or simply someone to run around in circles doing a chicken impersonation to distract the enemy artillery I’m your man/poultry crossbreed.
12/08/2010 at 13:26 Geloman says:
So that I, a weak and feeble gamer, may stand like a blade of grass on a mountain, able to see the glorious heights by being held aloft by things which I cannot see and can barely understand.
12/08/2010 at 13:29 Sam says:
22nd is the day before my birthday, I can’t imagine anything more fun to do on the day before my birthday than playing this with RPS. I own ArmA 2 but I had many technical issues with it so never really played it. I tried the demo of the new one, and it all worked great., so I’d love to try and get into this game again :D.
12/08/2010 at 13:43 El_MUERkO says:
I’ve already got the game, it is awesmoe!
Looking forward to the DLC :D
12/08/2010 at 13:43 Feet says:
I am lodging a late late bid for a key. I am a doughty medic, I come equiped with sticky plasters and head ache pills in case you are shot! If you are killed I will mourn your death in exceptionally dramatic fashion, and I’ll promise to take the token of love\letter\words\jewelry to your designated loved one back home.
(I am also free on that afternoon, I own a mic, I won a phat pipe and I own some skillz that I do not use to pay the billz.)
12/08/2010 at 14:09 iakrana says:
I would like to win a copy of the game to shoot the people who won. Those lucky bastards.
12/08/2010 at 14:14 Nullkigan says:
Long time lurker registered and reporting in.
I should win a copy because, damnit, I haven’t got nearly enough play out of ARMA2 yet.
Here’s the precis of my compat readiness report:
1/ Available on the date.
2/ I have and enjoy the base game (but not Arrowhead). I’m fairly rubbish at it. I’m passingly familiar with the command interfaces for ordering AI at both the squad and high command levels. Possibly useful to have someone give opfor some direction?
3/ I can just about fly a chopper. When not under enemy fire. I can even land it on occasion! If I fail to do so, at least the enemy will laugh themselves to death. Parachute deployments are more cinematic anyway.
4/ I can probably fireteam lead for some complete newbies. Otherwise, I make a good medic. Especially if the medical modules are enabled. I’m also reasonably accurate with anti-tank weapons, but horrendously bad with sniper rifles and grenade launchers.
5/ I can provide 12 man teamspeak 3 server, as well as set up and host a squad .xml so we have matching patches like it’s the 80s again. I *may* look into expanding the TS3 server capacity if requested.
6/ PONYO.
However, I have yet to play with ACE2, ACRE or any of the other external mods that seem to pervade the general ARMA community. I’m also obviously not familiar with any changes made by Arrowhead. I will bone up in advance if my transfer is approved.
Hooray for lunchbreaks to post in.
12/08/2010 at 14:20 Chiablo says:
I’d love a copy, I’ve had an interest in ARMA II but always afraid to drop $20 on it. And I know the real reason you are giving them away… you need some new recruits to act as cannon fodder!
Well, sign me up!
12/08/2010 at 14:31 Webster says:
God damn it, not only am I denied a chance at winning a game I want anyway but I am also denied the honour of fighting with the RPS ultro-squadron. Why? Because I work Sundays. Every Sunday. From 1100 to 1700.
Bah.
12/08/2010 at 14:32 harvb says:
Absolutely gutted that I cannot make it, especially as I love OpFlash and ArmA. I’m literally gutted. Gutted.
Please do another one, even if it’s just for fun and frolicjs. Pretty please?
12/08/2010 at 14:54 UncleSmoothie says:
Ready and willing.
12/08/2010 at 15:18 Frantics says:
Pick me i’m around and have maximum arma skills. judged on the demo and arma 2 i’m good at making missions where i play as many extremely confused soldiers for a few seconds each before dying to someone i can’t even see. i also have a strage fascination with
flyingcrashing attack helicopters. finally a realistic taste of war in my videogames. Multi does sound like it would be fantastic though, chance to see for myself would be great.12/08/2010 at 15:22 Sweedums says:
22nd… should be free…
pick me because I don’t really know what I’m doing in the game and feel way out of my depth when I join a random server…. so I’m the perfect squad member as I will happily do ANYTHING I am told to do…. that’s right, anything….
12/08/2010 at 15:33 Dr. Evanzan says:
Why me? Because you may have a lot of heroes for HERO SQUAD but you also need an officer to lead them. I am such, a true blue British Officer with a stiff upper lip. A man of whom it could surely be said, his men would follow him anywhere, if only out of curiosity.
I’m also available at the appointed hour. Although I wonder how long we expect D-Day to take? (Will we be home for Christmas?)
12/08/2010 at 15:44 Bluebreaker says:
I’m your father. Won’t you give your father a coppy? :S
12/08/2010 at 15:45 Bluebreaker says:
I’m your father. Won’t you give your father a copy? :S
12/08/2010 at 15:46 DOS4GW says:
I would like you to tell you a tragic tale.
I played Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis for the first time about a year ago and loved it very much. After expressing my excitement to forum buddies about the upcoming OpFlash 2, they told me that I shouldn’t be excited for the game at all. Arma 2 was the game I wanted, they said. Since I always trust internet people completely, I bought a copy of the game from Steam without question.
Remembering OFP1′s wonderful campaigns, I booted up “Harvest Red” and went to war with the buggiest experience I’ve had since Splinter Cell: Double Agent. Unreasonably bad frame rates, tough drill sergeants who were apparently voiced by 15 year old drama club kids…it was all so unbearable. For about a year, I would keep re-installing and uninstalling Arma 2 (seriously, it was at least a dozen times.) I wanted so badly to experience this one-of-a-kind masterpiece that everyone kept raving about, but every attempt to do so was met with frustration and discouragement.
Then, about a month a go, something wonderful happened. I reinstalled the game. I tried multiplayer. I spent hours with the map editor. I played EW. I learned to love Arma 2.
……and then it burned up my video card.
I’ve got the replacement card arriving today, after a good two months of saving up…all I need now is a game to play. On Sunday. The 22nd.
I deserve a free copy of Arma2: AO because I spent a solid year subjecting myself to frustration and disappointment again and again, only to have my beloved 9800 GTX taken away from me when I just began to see the light at the end of the tunnel. It is the only way the world can be right again.
12/08/2010 at 16:11 Nilokey says:
The camera pans under the pristine forest, birds chirping away their merry songs, sun breaking through the leaves to scatter the ground with its happy rays. In the distance a cow can be heard moo’ing.
The camera spots a wild rabbit, nibbling away at the emerald grass. It focuses in on it, capturing its innocent charm. Suddenly, its ears perk up, head twists around towards a low rumble.
In the camera’s background theres movement, coming fast towards the rabbit. The audience has no clue what its about.
The rabbits gone, the camera pans up. A crackle of an onboard megaphone gives hints to what it is.
A Russian BMP-2 comes crashing through the trees.
“Where the hell did that rabbit go?” Says the commander.
“I don’t know, infrared says it headed east again.” Replies the gunner.
“Alright then, follow it!”
They move further into the forest crushing bushes and saplings and ramming through trees at full speed. Only to find the tracks disspear into a hole.
“Dammit!” Exclaims the commander. “Hold here.” The tank stops and powers down, “Deploy the smoke grenades, mabey we can choke it out.”
A dull thump, and six smoke canisters pop out of their capsules, releasing thick grey smoke for a rather unusual job.
Silence takes hold of the valley, not a chirp, the commander holds his breath. The other two following suite.
The smoke starts to dissapate, then out of nowhere a faint whistling noise can be heard.
The commander looks up knowing whats going to happen, 105mm lands squarely over the rabbit hole.
“Get us the f**k out of here now!” Shouts the commander, too late though as a second and third shell land disabling the vehicles tracks. Two more land on the intended target end their short and altogether fruitless hunt for the rabbit.
This is pretty much the dramatisation of when me and 2 friends decided to hunt rabbits down in a game of arma 2, I fired a smoke launcher to try to confuse the rabbit… unfortunately it didn’t work, and just acted as a massive flare for the enemy to home their arties on us.
12/08/2010 at 16:12 Nilokey says:
Also, I just registered for this like the games whore I am. And I have no idea how the system works, but the names Nilokey on the forums.
12/08/2010 at 16:14 y2rich says:
I would like to win because I can be there and I am more than willing to throw my ample frame in front of bullets/shotgun shells/friendly fire to save the hivemind.
12/08/2010 at 16:26 Tim says:
I can be free to do this. I’m gonna go home after work and practice on regular ARMA II.
12/08/2010 at 16:32 Tim says:
Whoops forgot to log in. This is the account I meant to send that from.
12/08/2010 at 16:35 Tim says:
Also I will do crazy insane stunts in the air vehicles for everyone’s amusement.
12/08/2010 at 16:46 CreepingDeath says:
Why does it have to be during the day on a weekend? The ONE time I cant play games… bah! Make it after 9pm and I would’ve jumped right in :/
12/08/2010 at 16:52 jonfitt says:
I can be there!
I can promise to provide some human drama in this terrible war. I have only two weeks left until I return home, but have been asked to perform one last mission. Then I’m gong to marry that girl I got knocked up and buy a house in the country.
What can possibly go wrong!
12/08/2010 at 17:11 Joseph says:
I deserve a free copy of operation arrowhead so i can find an afghan rebel that the moscow bullets missed and ask him what he thinks of voting communist.
Additionally, with the upcoming expansion, i’d like to stop any british mercenary and check the british bullets in his armory.
Lastly, i played operation flashpoint religiously when i was a lonely little kid, and i think the pronunciation of ‘tacky-stan’ is absolutely adorable
12/08/2010 at 17:29 Amarak says:
I need a copy of ArmA2:OA
After what Codemasters did to me with Dragon Rising, SOMEONE OWES ME!!
No, really, I would like a copy please.
12/08/2010 at 17:30 Glendening says:
awww. 22nd, wish i could join in but thats my birthday so i doubt i would be close enough to the computer to get in and play.
12/08/2010 at 17:38 Red Goonda says:
Because I have an arrow stuck up my arm and need an operaton to remove the arrow and hence need to attend the operation on Sunday for the aforementioned op :D
Oh i will surely make it too…if that counts for anything
12/08/2010 at 17:41 elyscape says:
Normally I wouldn’t be awake then, but if I get a code I WILL BE THERE in all my sleep-deprived glory. Which, if you think about it, probably makes it even more realistic.
12/08/2010 at 17:51 orranis19 says:
I’m a bit of a war-gamer and I really don’t warrant a copy if you want people who are going to perform phenomenally and have been playing ARMA for a long time, but I am a dedicated RPS follower and annoy you on a semi-regular basis through the subscribers e-mail drop-box.
Getting free games is cool, as I’m sure we all agree. I’m available at that date and time, and It would be delightful to play ArmA 2: OA with “those British guys wot write good stuff about PC stuff.”
Sincerely,
A man who wants ArmA 2: OA
P.S. I’m also a Yank, if that counts for anything. If it doesn’t, I never said that. Forget it forever.
12/08/2010 at 17:56 radarhead says:
I can make it.
Fun fact: As you can see my nick is radarhead, my brothers name is arrowhead. What are the odds huh? My dad (the CEO of bohemia interactive) named this latest expansion after him, even though on its release date it was my birthday….. Daddy loves him more, blatantly :( , hell he didn’t even let me have a copy! Utter batard…
To this end I think I should be given a copy, with which I can then personalise to say operation radarhead, that and the sound of me weeping openly on comms as we play will help enrich the warsim experience.
Disclaimer: non of the above (apart from “I can make it”) is at all true.
12/08/2010 at 17:57 TV-PressPass says:
Because I have flight sticks and a shotgun within reach of each other. This is my gaming station :
Also, because I overdosed on arma2 with 300 hours on steam and many more with mod-time.
Because I design missions based on real events in the
Because I’ve bought Arma2 four times over to give out to my friends and try to ween them off Left 4 Dead and the like.
Because I have flight of the Valkyries in broadcastable quality over my mic.
12/08/2010 at 18:10 Ubiquitous says:
Hey, I like shooty shooty games!
I can guarantee my presense on said date!
Also I’m sure I’ll pick up the game really fast, as I try this and that, and put bags of sand under my wrists and stuff.
12/08/2010 at 18:25 Jockie says:
I should totally receive a copy of ArMa Operation Arrowhead because if I do, I totally promise to roleplay in character over the voice comms for the duration of the battle event in the style of the Hiveminds choosing.
I could be a gung-ho brainless psycho (think Adam Baldwin in FMJ), a weedy mummys boy who just wants to get home or perhaps I could just do an inner monologue throughout, the possibilities are endless..
12/08/2010 at 19:12 ostolero says:
I should win a copy of Operation Arrowhead because [this is an artistic rendition of my fervor for Bohemia Interactive]:
a: SHARIF DON’T LIKE IT (he think’s it’s not kosher)
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1031108/swf/swaggalikeus_legit.swf
b: NO ONE ON THE CORNER HAS SWAGGA LIKE US
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1031108/swf/swaggalikeus_legit2quit.swf
c: is my favorite emoticon
12/08/2010 at 19:18 TH0TH says:
I can scare anyone with my skimming of trees, or otherwise deadly gambit which could kill everyone, as well as having studied “How not to be seen”; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltmMJntSfQI
12/08/2010 at 19:46 dethgar says:
I should win, because I want free stuff, free stuff are nice.
12/08/2010 at 19:47 Luckylad says:
I would like one… I will be free on the 22nd because I don’t have anything better to do. And I would like one because I am a battlefield 2 veteran who is saddened by the lack of tactics in the game and desperately have been wanting to try arma but lack the funds to buy new games due to college. I would really appreciate taking pity on a small time gamer with no money but lots of free time such as me.
Also I hate Jim Reynor and all of his terrible acting crew
12/08/2010 at 20:03 Sardaukar says:
I should win because, you mewling House scum, unfettered by the harshness of raising a true army, your only hope for victory is to have the might of the Emperor on your side. Twelve men died delivering my morning coffee, and it will be a score by the time I’ve secured my toast. Do not make me tell you how many will be so much bleached calcium in the sand if I have to personally acquire Operation Arrowhead.
12/08/2010 at 20:10 hexapodium says:
Well, if you request HERO SQUAD, I suppose I have to volunteer. I suspect I’ll make better target practice and sarcasm-man than soldier, but then, there always has to be one sarcastic and jaded one in every military story. They’re the first one to die there, too.
12/08/2010 at 20:11 Greg Wild says:
I would be ever so gracious to win because, as a staunch pacifist with no access to firearms, I could seriously do with more practice for when World War 4 arrives. My muscles might be weedy, my aim piss poor and my knowledge of battlefield first aid will only stretch as far as mousewheeling on someone’s decaying coporeal figure, but at least I’ll be able to pretend I know squad level tatics. I will be the one shouting at people to lay down covering fire in the middle of the night giving away my fellow soldiers positions. I will be the one leading the hopeless suicide charge without adequate support. I won’t just be a soldier. I will be a soldier who thinks I’ve seen it all before. Even though I haven’t.
Plus, I’ve had the world’s worst migrane today, and it would make me super happy. Super happy!
12/08/2010 at 20:40 Snubber says:
I’ll have to try and play with you over-the-pond chaps sometime. But this Yank is west-coats based, and I fear the pings. I did play on a new CTI server last night, UGO something-or-other (not-affiliated), and it was a grand ol’ time. Good team work, communication, etc.
12/08/2010 at 21:28 Gibius says:
I should win, because I have no money to buy it due to some real life events, and my friend says that if I don’t start playing war based games online with him again, he will kill me. He said he wants to play this next. He’s crazy, guys. If I don’t win, I will die!
12/08/2010 at 21:50 Shoeless Mason says:
I feel like I should be chosen because-… SIX IS DOWN. THIS IS TWO TAKING COMMAND.
And I will wear a Rock Paper Shotgun balaclava in-game for the battle.
12/08/2010 at 22:18 Ozzepopolus says:
Because I will cross timezones to fight on the battlefield, to prepare for my world domination beginning with a little town in a little valley in Afghanistan. Because I would go out and fight a feral vicious baby-eating bobcat if I could find one in Hawaii, just to play this with all of you. Eleven hours is no obstacle for world domination, or bobcat fights.
Those are some of the reasons as to why I should get a copy out of those twenty.
P.S. If anyone finds a bobcat in Hawaii, let me know.
12/08/2010 at 22:22 wat says:
Already own ArmA II, just ordered OA. Not sure if I can make it to the coop match or if there will be any slots left at all, but I’ll try.
@RPS peoples: Please make sure that you set / announce an official patch level well before.
Nothing is more annoying than having 30 people and they all run different (unpatched / regular patches / beta patches / community patches) versions of the game, especially with ArmA 2
HEY OFFICIAL RPS PERSONS, READ THE PARAGRAPH ABOVE. Thank you.
12/08/2010 at 22:24 Buttshark says:
Hell I’m in, I’m in the PST timezone but I figure I can wake up at the crack of dawn and play.
That is if I can get a key.
12/08/2010 at 23:04 Leaderz0rz says:
I LOVE co-op tactical games like this. I have played every Rainbow Six to death and the original Op-Force. I passed on Op-For 2 and never really got to try Arma so I would very much enjoy playing it :D
12/08/2010 at 23:08 Hensler says:
I should win so that I can be the official Military Advisor for the Rock Paper Shotgun Battle! I’m a retired Marine and Iraqi Freedom infantry veteran with experience using most of the equipment that is in this game on the battlefield – and I’ve love to see if it’s as realistic as everyone says. Now that I’m a poor college student trying to make ends meet on my GI Bill while I study game design, I can’t afford it on my own, so help me out Rock Paper Shotgun!
It’s bad enough that you guys are taunting me with all those drool-worthy Starcraft 2 ads, if I win ARMA II, it can keep me busy until I scrounge up enough cash to get my hands on Blizzard’s latest masterpiece.
13/08/2010 at 01:12 FRIENDLYUNIT says:
I’m free! Pick me!
Why me? Well, I’m Australian. My ping will be terrible but I’ll be the perfect candidate for you RPS officer chaps to send walking slowly direct into enemy fire.
In seriousness. I’ve had experience with the Battlefield series and while I’m not an uber1337 twitch gamer I tend to do ok because I’m actually interested in teamwork, winning, and following orders.
Also, did I mention I’ll stand next to you RPS guys and catch bullets for you?
13/08/2010 at 02:47 Eli Just says:
I want to make things go boom. I will probably just go splat though.
13/08/2010 at 03:15 Buceph says:
I have also entered the PC Gamer competition, so I am using this to judge who is more awesomer, kinder, sweeter, tenderer, lovelier, moustachioed and in a strangely but manly provocative way better bearded.
Of course Bohemia has already decided who is more awesomer, kinder, sweeter, tenderer, lovelier, moustachioed and in a strangely but manly provocative way better bearded (also writerers of enlightening britpop era music (I snuck that one in for Kieron, more musical comics please (for my third parenthesis I have to say I thought the second volume of Phonothingiers, with the girl dancing to the music was really nice, properly uplifting, made me want to listen to music))), eh, all that has already been decided by Bohemia as they have given you 20 copies. Of which I would like one so I can rifleman for you on Sunday week.
Lots of love,
Buceph.
13/08/2010 at 03:31 EBass says:
Ive already got the game, but can I still join you for said special mission?
13/08/2010 at 06:38 -Trase- says:
I just NEED to win operation arrowhead because it’s the only game of it’s kind. No other modern game have such realistic gameplay. And for me – realistic gameplay is fun. And what is fun? Fun is the meaning of life ofcourse! So please, In my current situation, I do really need a meaning of life…
…that I can install and kill things in it.
13/08/2010 at 06:39 Awcko says:
I should win a key for Operation Arrowhead, because being a person lacking any form of social life, I will not only be able to attend the event, but I will likely be a great asset to the team. I will also offer services of other kinds…
Baking. I’m talking about baking.
13/08/2010 at 07:14 ROCKFISH says:
Alright, I need a key for this game. My buddies got this and rant all day about how tactical they are and laugh and laugh while I sit here playing Plants vs Zombies(not that bad). So let me join in on the fun.
13/08/2010 at 07:22 gildron says:
Friends, Trolls, Forum Men, lend me your ears;
I come to bury noobs, not to train them.
The evil that men do lives until they respawn;
The good is oft remembered in frag videos;
So let it be with Assassinkool12.
The noble Mastakill33 Hath told you Assassinkool12 was a haxxing nub:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Assassinkool12 answered it.
Here, under leave of Mastakill33 and the rest -
For Mastakill33 is a total pro;
So are they all, all total pros -
Come I to speak in Assassinkool12′s funeral.
He was my friend, faithful and just to me:
But Mastakill33 says he was a haxx fagnoob;
And Mastakill33 is a total pro.
He hath brought many headshots to his stats
Whose points did the achievement list fill:
Did this in Assassinkool12 seem ambitious?
When that the poor have lagged, Assassinkool12 hath wept:
Hackers should be made of sterner stuff:
Yet Mastakill33 says he was haxxlolfagnoobnoob;
And Mastakill33 is a pro.
You all did see that in Chernarus
I thrice presented him a ventrillo admin rank,
Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?
Yet Mastakill33 says he was ambitious;
And, sure, he is a pro.
I speak not to disprove what Mastakill33 spoke,
But here I am to speak what I do know.
You all did love him once, not without cause:
What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him?
O judgment! thou art fled to trollish beasts,
And men have lost their headsets. Bear with me;
My heart is in the coffin there with Asssassinkool12,
And I must pause till it come back to me.
What if Shakespeare was a gamer?
13/08/2010 at 11:36 Sardaukar says:
Gildron, that was a magnificent reworking.
13/08/2010 at 22:53 gildron says:
Thank you kindly my good man!
13/08/2010 at 23:00 gildron says:
I never gave a compelling reason as to why I should receive a key. I mean, I would like to think that my love of Shakespeare and my supposedly clever writing speak for themselves, but that may not be enough. I’m poor, I’ve got enough free time to re-write one of history’s most famous fake speeches- just to prove how much I love shooting fake people.
I’ve also contributed several fancy TF2 style links in the past, as well as some lovely Minecraft art, which must count for something.
… This is the only PC gaming blog I read… I love you all. Oh god, please don’t do this too me…
13/08/2010 at 14:02 ylenol says:
damn you RPS and your competitions that require talent to win :(
13/08/2010 at 21:22 Slippery_Jim says:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJs6x9Oti5U
13/08/2010 at 22:49 Beemination says:
I should get a copy simply ’cause I’m the most tactical person alive.
That and I can drive a tank in these types of games like nobody’s business.
Also, if I don’t get a key you may have to keep an eye out for my army of monkeys. Monkeys and lasers, of course…
14/08/2010 at 15:15 krikey says:
I was an officer in the army, at least, until they booted me out. I was driving a truck. At first, I rammed it into a tree by accident, but that’s okay because the rest of my section got out of the car automatically and continued running towards our objective. Then, I saw another car being driven by a fellow officer, so I stood in front of the car and forced him to stop, then got in and forcefully removed him from the driver seat. But the turning point of my career was me deciding that driving over grass > gravel road, and accidentally running over friendly soldiers.
That’s why I should get a copy of the game.
15/08/2010 at 14:24 SvDvorak says:
I should be part of the RPS ArmA 2 Super Elite Squad (TM) because you always need a helicopter pilot. I’ve been practising a bunch in plain old ArmA 2 and I can 100% guarantee* that im your man. And if I do screw up, then atleast it will end in an hilarious explosion.
*guarantee not guarenteed
20/08/2010 at 18:11 Jaffo says:
This still open to entries?
Anyway, after the week I’ve had, I think I deserve a copy…
Last Friday: Wisdom tooth out resulting in perforated sinus
Monday: Mum fractured her rib, took her to A&E
Tuesday: Into dentist to have gum sliced open and sealed to repair perforated sinus. Later, Mum reacted to painkillers, threw up all over car
Wednesday: Ambulance into A&E + 4.5 hour stay with Mum
Today: Wisdom tooth out which had three roots rather than usual two so took more gouging out.
All in all, not a good week, especially for the finances of the NHS.
Assuming I don’t drown in my own blood tonight, I can make it on Sunday.
Over and Out