SubJeff on 14/6/2009 at 11:08
Those "ARMA 2 huge battle 1000,000,0000 AI" videos are so dull. I can't see the millions of AI they are talking about so why should I believe there are a gazillion self-aware supercomputer whatever whatever AI in them?[/rant]
Aside from the massive air battle one which is pretty spectacular.
Having said all that I am looking forward to this and it does look very impressive. It will be a major time investment to get into this game though.
DaBeast on 16/6/2009 at 02:16
By most accounts Arma II seems quite bugged, especially the join in progress in multiplayer. Hopefully it gets patched by the weekend for the 505 release.However it has been said that it is 10 times better than Arma.
I'll see for myself on friday (hopefully)
Thirith on 16/6/2009 at 09:46
Am just playing Cold War Rearmed (the OFP TC) for the first ArmA... and realising that this is one of those games that I can obsess over quite easily. No idea why, because I'm definitely not a military-head - but there's something about the bleakness of this game's warfare that makes even small victories very satisfying. I'm very tempted to get ArmA 2 ASAP, which would be stupid, because the developer's games always take a couple of patches before they're playable enough.
Scots Taffer on 26/6/2009 at 00:25
Demo is on steam. I'll give it a whirl at some point.
Paz on 26/6/2009 at 00:40
this is the only game in history to ever combine the horror of mass graves with a chicken doing an obstacle course
Fafhrd on 26/6/2009 at 06:39
Jesus christ. The helicopter controls are worse than I remember them being in OpFlash. Here's a thought: If you've mapped the mouse to turning one vehicle type around a horizontal axis, do that for all of your vehicles. And making the rudder actually work wouldn't be such a bad idea, either.
dvrabel on 26/6/2009 at 08:19
Be aware that there seems to be a bug where switching to a different team member will cause all the support calls on the comms menu to disappear.
Thirith on 26/6/2009 at 08:27
I love how German games magazines (and especially Gamestar) go very lenient on buggy big-name titles (GTA4, to name one recent example that had an extremely shoddy start) but then come down hard on buggy but arguably more unique games from smaller developers (especially from Eastern Europe - STALKER is another example). Case in point: ArmA 2. Not only did they tear the game a new one (arguably the German launch version was pretty much a bugfest), the Gamestar website has just put up an editorial about how the die-hard communities are dumb enough to act as enablers to those producers of bug-riddled games.
These mags are completely oblivious to their own hypocrisy, mind you...
