ARMA 3

[MetalCraze]

Was meant to post this in CDS thread lul

Shit.

I guess I had one too many indeed

 

[AstroZombie]

3D SCOPES!

 

[AstroZombie]

HOLY SHIT! THEY'VE FIXED THE STUTTERING THAT HAPPENED WHEN YOU DID FAST MOVEMENTS WITH YOUR MOUSE!!!11!!!!!

 

[Corporate_Jew_Master]

News at 11

Dean Hall makes it clear which game is the real flagship for Bohemia and which game gets shafted

fucking cocksucker zombiefags ruining everything.

HUUUUUR MUH ZOMBIE ITZ DURR MUH NECKBEARD SURVIVAL SKILLS I HONED IN THE BASEMENT

 

[MetalCraze]

Bro now film the same when you are on your belly

Also you are a giant faggot for using 3rd person and is a cancer that is killing ArmA

 

[DragoFireheart]

Isn't that COD and not ArmA?

 

[AstroZombie]

Bro now film the same when you are on your belly

Also you are a giant faggot for using 3rd person and is a cancer that is killing ArmA

I didn't make that gif, I'm a retard that can't use paint without breaking some essential part of my PC. But at least I don't use 3rd person camera on ArmA.

Isn't that COD and not ArmA?

 

[DragoFireheart]

 

[AngryEddy]

News at 11

Dean Hall makes it clear which game is the real flagship for Bohemia and which game gets shafted

This faggot is angry because the DayZ fad is over, and it aint coming back. No more cash cow fantasies for him, and his toxic staff

 

[AstroZombie]

This faggot is angry because the DayZ fad is over, and it aint coming back. No more cash cow fantasies for him, and his toxic staff

You're quite wrong, I'm afraid. Even that shittier rip-off managed to sell 1 million copies, they'll be rolling in dough as soon as this garbage launches.

 

[CreamyBlood]

Don't we already have a DayZ thread here? It died a year ago, in August 2012 when the morons learned how to make basic scripts in the A2 engine. Maybe rocket will build a game by December 2012, we'll see.

 

[thesoup]

Some glitch pics.

Spoiler

 

[Zewp]

Which ArmA 3 SP missions are worth downloading? My internet connection is a bit flaky at the moment so MP is out, but I'd like to play some ArmA3 seeing as I haven't played it in more than two months.

 

[Konjad]

Which ArmA 3 SP missions are worth downloading? My internet connection is a bit flaky at the moment so MP is out, but I'd like to play some ArmA3 seeing as I haven't played it in more than two months.

beta comes in 2 or 3 days, better wait for it anyway

 

[CreamyBlood]

As anyone that's interested in this stuff already knows, the Beta came out the other night. I was making my own mission to test everything out but Jester made a video and a mission. Here's a quick look at some of the new stuff.

Too bad about the new machine gun not having any kickback, seems cheesy.




The mission file (goes in your x:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Arma 3\MPMissions directory)

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11546627/A3 Missions/Jesters_Beta_Showcase.Stratis.pbo.7z

 

[Corporate_Jew_Master]

Did it break everything again?

 

[Volrath]

Can the AI cross bridges yet?

 

[potatojohn]

 

[CreamyBlood]

Can the AI cross bridges yet?

Sort of. I planned on doing a convoy mission and decided to test. The vehicles do okay although they sometimes get 'confused' trying to navigate through Agia Marina (the only place I could find any bridges). They seem to cross the bridges without issue.

The infantry tend to only cross one or two at a time and sometimes clump up at the beginning of the bridge. I couldn't get them to march across in a staggered column. Once a guy stopped almost after getting to the other side and started spinning in circles indefinitely, preventing everyone behind him from getting over.

I'd say it still needs work.

 

[CreamyBlood]

Now that we're all on a (possibly) clean vanilla beta install, I thought I'd post some links to the very few mods that should be installed if playing CDS. You don't technically need them to play with us but I consider them 'essential'. Namely, CBA, Shacktack Hud and ACRE.

I liked the content pack that thesoup posted earlier but who knows what versions of what it's installing at this point. I can't find a new version so these need to be installed individually.

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CBA
==========

CBA is used by other mods, so how it works or what it does isn't important unless you're a mod creator. At this time it's CBA v4 for the the Arma 3 Beta but that will change in the future.

Direct Download from dev-heaven.net:

https://dev-heaven.net/attachments/download/20793/CBA_A3_beta4.7z

BIS Forums Page if you're interested in updates, etc:

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthre...ARMA-3-Alpha&p=2422849&viewfull=1#post2422849

Installation:
---------------

Unzip with 7zip or whatever and copy the @CBA_A3 into your Arma 3 directory:

x:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Arma 3

If you already have an older @CBA_A3 folder in there, delete it first. Should look something like this:

http://

Go to your Steam Library and right click "Arma 3 Beta". Then Properties->SET LAUNCH OPTIONS... and add:

-mod=@CBA_A3

I like to add -nosplash -world=empty to speed up loading the game.

If you don't want to use LAUNCH OPTIONS or a .BAT file you can enable it in-game from Options->Expansions.

Verify:
---------

When you load the game you should see the CBA icon under the Info Box in the top-right corner and a version number in the bottom-right:

http://sadpanda.us/images/1703024-NEARUZ5.jpg


======================
ShackTac HUD (STHUD)
======================

This is used for orientating with your fire team members. Here is a video on how it works:



Direct Download from dev-heaven.net:

https://dev-heaven.net/attachments/download/20270/130307_sthud_a3_v1.7z


Installation:
--------------

Unzip with 7zip or whatever and copy the @sthud folder into your Arma 3 directory:

x:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Arma 3

If you already have an older @sthud folder in there, delete it first. Should look something like this:

http://sadpanda.us/

Go to your Steam Library and right click "Arma 3 Beta". Then Properties->SET LAUNCH OPTIONS... and add:

-mod=@sthud

Verify:
--------

I don't see anything on my load screen showing it's there but go to:

PLAY->SHOWCASES->INFANTRY

Once the game starts you should see this in the bottom middle of your screen:

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TEAMSPEAK 3
==================

Most people should know what it is, we need it to use ACRE (next section). Make sure you have this installed and configured properly before installing ACRE.

Download and install the appropriate client for you machine:

http://www.teamspeak.com/?page=downloads

Verify and configure that it works. There's plenty of guides out there, here is one of them:



Just make sure your mic and speakers are working. If you don't have a mic you can use in-game chat but it makes you a lot less effective as a player. Buy a $4 microphone if you have to.

=================
ACRE
=================

Advanced Combat Radio Environment (ACRE) allows players to communicate over several types of radios on different channels. This isn't officially supported on Arma 3 yet but works for some people.

WILL ADD NEW POST WHEN I VERIFY IT'S WORKING

Here is a tutorial on how to use it:



If you have CBA v4 installed (above) then this version will probably work for you.

Direct Download:

http://raceriv.com/arma2/acre/ACRE_V1.4.10.500.zip


Installation:
---------------

(I'll be brief here as I'm not sure it works for sure at this time)

Unzip with 7zip or whatever and copy the @ACRE @JayArma2Lib Keys and userconfig folders into your Arma 3 directory:

x:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Arma 3

Add this to your steam LAUNCH options : -mod=@ACRE -mod=@JayArmA2Lib

Copy the DLL (32 or 64bit) into your teamspeak\plugins folder.

That should do it. But I haven't tested yet. If you can connect to a Teamspeak 3 server then you can load up the game and if you get the error "can't connect to TS Server" then it isn't working. But I don't have that error so we'll see.

 

[thesoup]

Btw you don't have to add shit to your launch options. You can enable all mods via ingame options -> expansions.
I'll post some other mods I'd recommend later.

 

[CreamyBlood]

Yes, I mentioned that already. I prefer batch files myself to keep the vanilla clean as in Arma 2 at least, if you accidentally start making missions with mods enabled they'll be dependent on them for anyone who joins your server even if they aren't used.

 

[potatojohn]

 

[poocolator]

Iran... you will too.

 

[MetalCraze]

Thank you, Dean Hall, for DayZ!

Nobody played ArmA before DayZ came and saved it!

 

[AstroZombie]

Is the vehicle pathfinding still borked on the editor?