5punk

to be honest, the SP is good to get used to the controls a bit, but fairly horrible, far too much use of the UI.

It has the whole 5punky game thing going on, y'know, crap unless you've got 5 pissed idiots trying to assault a town with a stolen tank and a landrover with flat tyres.

But, as pete has said, it's not for everyone, and I reckon it's vastly improved by joining in when a couple of people are on, and on TS, otherwise it's a walking sim and pretty meh, at least until you get the hang of it.

Just waiting on friz to fettle a few little things, then the 5punk campaign will start again, play that, not the SP.

Mr. Johnson wrote:I'm *this* close to actually buying it, it does look like it's better with some community made stuff, and I guess I'll get used to the horrid amount of buttons to remember.
HOWEVER. When I played the demo it ran like utter crap on anything higher than the lowest settings, and it doesn't even look that pretty, have they fixed that yet, as I can't afford to upgrade right now, even though I should.

it does run a lot better now. to test would be my suggestion.

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:Just waiting on friz to fettle a few little things, then the 5punk campaign will start again, play that, not the SP.

very much that

I had a fun couple of hours with Friz, Berk and a couple others on Sunday evening running around killin'folks. Once you have been hand held a little through the more usefull things (how to parachute is kinda useful as the map is mahoosive) then really there aren't many buttons that you use on a regular basis and most of them do the usual. The map is very sparse between hotspots and the hotspots aren't populated in the way they would be on COD4, but then you don't have medpacs either so one shot and you're pretty much done for the respawn. I like it.

as for srs bznz maybe one of you code monkeys could get funky with some addons. This is definitely the sort of sim that would benefit from ABBA costumes and an A-Team van. The costumes we could maybe take on tour? (or do they need to be supported on the hst server)

friznit wrote:http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=8531

Link for future reference (new island with Domination on it for a change of scenery perhaps).

That new island is ace, would love to play a game on that.

But a bit big to dowload. I want to steer clear of too many addons until all 5punkers who want to give the game a go have done so, otherwise it makes an already fairly daunting game harder to get into. We'll fire up the new Island & modified map in due course once we've had a few more play throughs.

That's not to say we can't shedule one night from time to time for a different map / mission / whatever. We're slightly restricting ourselve to just Domination at the moment (it does admittedly cover pretty much everything there is to do in game mind you), but I'd still like to run a Warfare map sometime, I like building bases and RTS style command

wtb medick abilities

2 Options: lose your ghillie suit and play a medic or one of the retarded US FUCKING MARINE CORP dudes. Or I'll fettle it some more so snipers can drop medical tents.

New patch out, includes the AH64 Apache! I'm looking forward to flying that baby into some trees.

http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_2:_Patch_v1.05

I hoped they would put that in. They've also 'fixed' (finally actually added in) the Suppressive Fire command, which has been missing since day one. I'd really like to see that working.

Sadly I'm not back until after the New Year so our current server map won't get updated with the Apache until then.

The automatic loading of addons through .pbo association looks interesting, I wonder how it works and what it actually does?

Arse, server crashed out after me and sherf made epic progress yesterday.

Found a 5punk 1.22 one with spec ops doods in it, so we're trying that.

Yep, 1.22 is the latest fettled but untested version. I removed some of the crap and tried to add more Medic types - the spec ops may be able to heal, need to test that - and more of the sniper types should be able to drop medic tents.

There's also a load more options in the server setup bit which I've not looked at

Future reference: Zeus AI Update is an addon that seems to fix many of the crappier bits of AI. It can be run server side only so no addon updating annoyance for casual players, but any AI people who join your team won't benefit from it.

Spec ops healing works, medic tents from snipers works.

3 towns in to 1.22, no bugs I've noticed yet.

Okay, I just bought this, since play offers it for the low price of 15€! Oddly enough no shipping costs...
I must admit that my wish is to fly airplanes and choppers around, since I got this new joystick which seemed to work really well in the demo. Apart from landing, I'm not good at that yet.

Autohover makes landing rofflecopters easy until you get the hang of it.

oh, and arma2 patch 1.04 is currently preferred.

They've not released the server for 1.05 yet, so it's mostly completely useless to us.

I'll try to unfuck the server tomorrow.

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:Autohover makes landing rofflecopters easy until you get the hang of it.

Well, I can do it, but in the training bit of the demo you have to restart if you do so much as *touch* the ground.

Training and Single Player is brain fuckery, unless you're a masochistic fanboi like me who can overlook the brokeness. Soon as Berk fixes the server we can fire up the Domination map again, which pretty much provides everything you ever wanted to do in game in one place, which is handy.

server's 1.5'd now. utterly untested, will look at it later and post stuff.