Retired Arma 2 thread

friznit · Post by **friznit** » January 19th, 2010, 21:25

Fettled v1.27 and stuck it on the server. No new addons included and still not got around to putting vehicle ammo in just yet (maybe tomorrow). Changes seem to be minor tweaks to patrol spawns and some fixes for ACE, but we're not using ACE so meh.

To clarify: you don't need to change anything client side to join. The new mission will synch automagically when you join the server.

There's also a completely unfettled Ruski version on there. In Communist ArmA2, missions fettle you.

Not gonna fuck about with Mando for regular 5punky games - it's cool but adds an element of complexity to missile firing that might scare average 5punkers. Same deal for ACE. Maybe we'll run up a second server with these (and the Wargasm map, which looks awesome if a little scary)

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » January 22nd, 2010, 8:17

http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=6123

is pretty good, makes the NVGs a lot less unpleasant to wear, just throw the .pbo in your @5punk\addons or @5punkoptL\addons folder

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » January 22nd, 2010, 9:01

As I mentioned last night

TFM wrote:__AddToExtraVec(ddvec)
Macro
Will add ddvec to extra_mission_vehicle_remover_array which will remove all extra mission vehicles after the mission
is finished. You have to include x_macros.sqf for that (#include "x_macros.sqf")

Which seems to live towards the end of the side missions like so:

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[snip]

if (isServer) then {
	__Poss
	_vehicle = "Land_telek1" createvehicle (_poss);
	_vehicle setVectorUp [0,0,1];
	#ifndef __TT__
	[_vehicle] execFSM "fsms\XCheckSMHardTarget.fsm";
	#else
	[_vehicle] execFSM "fsms\XCheckSMHardTargetTT.fsm";
	#endif
	sleep 3.21;
	["specops", 1, "basic", 2, _poss,50,true] spawn XCreateInf;
	__AddToExtraVec(_vehicle)
};

if (true) exitWith {};

I'm thinking removal of __AddToExtraVec(_vehicle) will stop vehicles despawning after the sidemission is complete, double edged sword, obviously, as missions that get ninja'd will present a lasting threat.

I'm wondering if there's a similar thing for patrol vehicles too, as those despawn after about 20 minutes if you rob them

bomberesque · Post by **bomberesque** » January 22nd, 2010, 9:49

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=6123

is pretty good, makes the NVGs a lot less unpleasant to wear, just throw the .pbo in your @5punk\addons or @5punkoptL\addons folder

gonna give this a go, but is it just me or is the contrast and brightness on NVGs borked to hell and back? I understand (and rather like) that they take time to adjust when you're looking around and get a lit area in your FOV but while the intent is there it doesn't seem to .... well .... work very well and often last week I found I went for long periods all but blind and no apparent reason.

Or perhaps that was the beerz

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » January 22nd, 2010, 9:55

Yeah, NVGs can be problematic sometimes, I think there's a bit of realism > usability there, too much light makes them unusable, too little makes them useless.

friznit · Post by **friznit** » January 22nd, 2010, 10:09

bomberesque wrote: is it just me or is the contrast and brightness on NVGs borked to hell and back?

Unfortunately that's because they're modelled on the real thing, but are rather better because there are fewer light sources in game.

And Berk: if you want to go through all 50 side missions removing that line, feel free

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » January 22nd, 2010, 10:11

http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=6251

that addon appears to be pretty decent, removes all the HDR stuff from the NVGs, so you get a fairly consistent brightness, still blinded if you stare at illum flares through a cloud, but if you look away, you can see again.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » January 23rd, 2010, 4:00

Looks like the new 8k default view distance is possibly causing crashes. Drop it back down to 6k if you're finding it keeps falling over.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » January 24th, 2010, 9:34

I've been trying to clean the base up most of the night, but the AI appears to be pissed, so I'm not getting far, down to 1 Cobra, 1 Apache and 2 Kiowa dead now.

I did accidentally manage to duplicate the Apache though, so we have 2 of them, which is nice.

Post by **Dog Pants** » January 24th, 2010, 9:47

I jumped in to see if it was working and everything was on fire. Did you leave the gas on Berk?

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » January 24th, 2010, 9:51

did you get the fire bug? (massive fires in the sky)

Appears to be caused by some wrecks sometimes, not quite worked it out yet.

Post by **Dog Pants** » January 24th, 2010, 9:55

Well the sky was on fire, yeah. Glad it's a bug. I thought it was strange.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » January 24th, 2010, 10:03

Yeah, It's an annoying one, mostly fixable by restarting the game.

friznit · Post by **friznit** » January 24th, 2010, 12:54

Server bombed. v1.27 back up, view distance defaults to 6000m again which should hopefully prevent so many texture memory overloads.

Incidentally, I noticed there's a -maxmem command line param. Would this prevent the game chewing up your entire RAM until it assplodes?

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » January 24th, 2010, 13:06

friznit wrote:Incidentally, I noticed there's a -maxmem command line param. Would this prevent the game chewing up your entire RAM until it assplodes?

Possibly, maybe.

I'm running

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-winxp -maxmem=2047 -nosplash -mod=@5punk;@5punkoptL

As far as I'm aware:

-winxp = multiGPU support in Fista/7
-maxmem = most memory allowed to use, 2047 is hardcoded max (possibly stops it running out of memory, or might just cause problems, suck it and see.
-nosplash = no splash screens, faster loading.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » January 25th, 2010, 1:25

That was an epic one, Made good progress, and game stability appears to have returned, which is nice.

Gvozdno: Captured, Resistance present, 2 BMPs and many doods.
Krasnostav: Captured, Safe.
Berezino Harbour: Mostly clear, radio tower down. Requires clean up and camps captured, Left unfinished for easier staging for Berezino proper.

Broke Toys: (in base, CBA to fix them myself)
2x AH64
1x AV-8
1x Kiowa

Sheriff Fatman · Post by **Sheriff Fatman** » January 25th, 2010, 18:52

All toys un-fucked.

3x Apache
3x Harrier
2x Kiowa
1x A-10

Plus the filthy Commie T-90 and BMP 3 that are in the base.

There is also an unnamed "wreck" in the water off the SE coast. I tried to lift it, but I suspect it might be a bug.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » January 25th, 2010, 19:02

It's a placeholder thing, we think.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » January 28th, 2010, 0:37

Found the missing thing in Berezino Harbour.

There's a Vodnik under the north pier somewhere, tried satchels with no luck

Pnut · Post by **Pnut** » January 28th, 2010, 13:53

A SMAW did the trick, Berezino Harbour now taken