ARMA 3

[CreamyBlood]

Finally, the situational awareness thing is now back. We can do away with the arrows and stuff and start using our 45 metre quest compass.

 

[thesoup]

That has been available since day 1 or 2.

 

[CreamyBlood]

The post is for Koni, not die-hard Arma players like yourself.

 

[MetalCraze]

Underwater combat is majestic. But incredibly hard. I guess because I have zero idea how to command or fight there.

When I'm on land everything is 2D. Enemies can be to your front, left, rear, right. You can spot them dashing from concealment to concealment hundreds of meters away. You can see all the terrain so you can plan your approach and retreat ahead.
Underwater you can't see shit, enemies come at you from everywhere. We had enemy divers come at us from directly above. They were also hiding in between rocks below. A dude 5 meters away from you sees a different picture than you so he can see an enemy diver but you can't. That and we didn't manage to keep a proper spacing and formation (a "mommy" syndrome all OFP/ArmA newbies have - trying to stick to leader as close as possible like that will protect them better). If we at least kept 5m spread we could've seen much more. And if we had a proper line formation - more firepower to the front. That and alpha bugs too (trying to rearm underwater drops all your weapons and ammo and you can't pick them up anymore).

Still one thing I like is how 3D combat feels. It's absolutely nothing like ArmA was before. BIS won't stop there, they will also add SDVs in beta.



Also
http://www.greecevirtual.gr/en/north-aegean/agiosefstratios


And

http://alpha.arma3.com/spotrep-0001

 

[LundB]

Man, with an interesting seabed full of rocks, sunken ships, seaweed, etc., you could create some really interesting gameplay situations with that.

I can already see a fanmission of competing to gain control of an underwater wreck with X desirable thing in it.

 

[Joghurt]

I haven't played with the underwater stuff but it sound like an unnecessary gimmick... They could have allocated those resources to something else although I don't know what could that be.

 

[MapMan]

Are there any good tuto... I mean guides on how to effectively play this game? How to command, how to approach objectives and what not? I downloaded a fan SP mission called Whole Lotta Stratis (the objective is to simply recapture a bunch of objectives from OPFOR). I start with 6 soldiers at my side, a bunch of equipment and two armored vehicles. Here's how it went for me:

1. I ordered my squad members to get into the vehicles. Took me like 5 minutes to properly set it up and so that the other car follows me (I was the driver of one). I drive up on the road and suddenly I get shot at from pretty much every direction. It appears that my spawn point is pretty much surrounded by OPFOR. The gunner in my car opens fire from the mounted grenade launcher, wrecks OPFORs shit, chaos ensues. I leave the car and get instantly shot down. Game over.

2. Okay so the car's a NO GO. I decided to try an approach that is a little less noisy and not to stay out in the open like that. I take my squad members and just run uphill on foot, taking out any opfor. We noticed some guys up ahead, I lay down and open fire. Unable to take an enemy down from a guard tower I switch to the grenade launcher. After few tries I seem to have finally hit the target. But he's still there. I decide to take my chances and sprint uphill to cover with my squaddies. I peak from behind the cover (inb4 popamole) and empty a clip at the enemy. He doesnt go down. I say fuck it and just walk up to him. It appears those are two enemies stuck in each other, unwilling to die. I turn around and get shot in the face from somewhere. Game over.

3. I decide to take a more or less stealthy approach. I divided my squad into two groups, red and blue (god only knows why I did that since I don't know how to utilize it any further anyway). My squaddies and I take an alternative route, through bushes and forest, from another side up hill. I ordered my quad to be "silent" or whatever that means or does. We slowly move forward, step by step. From a bush to a bush... *BAM* Suddenly one of my members noticed some OPFOR (a car and some infantry?) like a kilometer or more away. They instatly started spraying bullets like mad men. Bullets whirling everywhere, rockets flying like there's no tommorow. Even the calm, black dude went all MAC on me. I took a screenshot:

Spoiler

Moments later when those fuckers calmed down and I wanted to move forward with my super stealthy COVERT OP, I got shot in the back of my head, from uphill. The noise must've attracked the fuckers. Game over.

Feel free to share your ARMA moments.

 

[Runciter]

Man, with an interesting seabed full of rocks, sunken ships, seaweed, etc., you could create some really interesting gameplay situations with that.

And then add turn-based combat and you'll end up with X-COM: Terror from the Deep.

 

[MetalCraze]

Here you go MapMan
Does not deal with commanding though

 

[MapMan]

Stop shitposting faggot. Go to GD.

Thanks skyway. I need to look for more detailed guides like that one.

 

[CreamyBlood]

3. I decide to take a more or less stealthy approach. I divided my squad into two groups, red and blue (god only knows why I did that since I don't know how to utilize it any further anyway). My squaddies and I take an alternative route, through bushes and forest, from another side up hill. I ordered my quad to be "silent" or whatever that means or does. We slowly move forward, step by step. From a bush to a bush... *BAM* Suddenly one of my members noticed some OPFOR (a car and some infantry?) like a kilometer or more away. They instatly started spraying bullets like mad men. Bullets whirling everywhere, rockets flying like there's no tommorow. Even the calm, black dude went all MAC on me.

http://members.tacticalgamer.com/~strag/arma/armacontrols2vh3.jpg

I printed it out a year ago and still have it on my desk for when I'm testing out missions.

I don't really like SP Arma anyways and mostly play it online. Try joining a group like ShackTactical, CIA, UO or SixthSense. Much more fun as you only have to think for yourself and not a bunch of retarded AI (usually).

EDIT:


This is the new Familiarization course from United Operations, I haven't watched it yet as I took the course but it might help. There'll be some ACE/ACRE/UO specific stuff but should give you some good info that will help.

 

[potatojohn]

Throwing two grenades shortly after each other crashes the (dedicated) server you play on. This is a dev build issue that made it in the 0.52 release yesterday.

Too bad I already deleted it...

 

[Clockwork Knight]

CreamyBlood, that's one fucking filthy keyboard.

 

[MapMan]

Was about to say that... That's fucking nasty... Other than that, thanks for the tips.

 

[MetalCraze]

My keyboard is white and is ~12 years old and it's cleaner than that.

 

[Zewp]

I pop out my keys and wash them once a year. Nasty shit breeds on a keyboard.

 

[Konjad]

I pop out my keys and wash them once a year. Nasty shit breeds on a keyboard.

That nasty shit is your children, why would you want to kill them

 

[Zewp]

I don't know where the hell you live, but in my country we've got Kleenex.

 

[MetalCraze]

Kony lives in Germany's early autumn resort.

 

[CreamyBlood]

Geez, it's just tobacco and ashes, who gives a shit? I wipe it down once in awhile and have a stack of ten more if I'm too lazy. I'm certainly not going to get out the windex and clean it up just for a codex picture. What are you guys a bunch of OCD neat freak hypochondriacs?

 

[potatojohn]

Have you considered investing in a vacuum cleaner?

 

[MetalCraze]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfCNGtLXZzM#t=8m00s

shut the fuck up and watch some proper PvP gameplay.
UO is moving to ArmA3

 

[CreamyBlood]

One day I was watching my aunt play Tetris and I decided to cut off my dick. I didn't know anything about video games but for some reason I did it.

Many years later I was playing Arma and looked into the sun and saw huge multi-vagina. I just knew I had to have at least one of them so I pasted all of them onto my groin and called myself a girl.

For some reason, nobody liked me for who I was, so I started ranting about it on the internet and got lots of people to agree with me. I've been told I'm self absorbed, shallow and only think about myself, but it's not true.

Now, all things are as I like them. Because I'm special.

Sometimes, in retrospect, I think I should have just stuck with Tetris.

 

[LundB]

I'm not sure what I just read and saw, but I approve.

 

[Corporate_Jew_Master]

I would fuck that goat. 5/5 goat.

When my glorious xerxes- and kebab-removing ancestors first fucked their goats I bet those specimens weren't even as shapely as this goat is.

Also, Arma 3 still freezes and doesn't update game cache. Is there a non-steam version I can try?

 

[Surf Solar]

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