ArmA 2 Megathread

[Boba]

Copy pasta:

ARMA 2 is a tactical shooter with significant vehicle and aircraft elements. The player is able to command AI squad members which adds a real-time tactics element to the game. This is further enhanced by introduction of the high command system, which allows the player to command multiple squads using the map. ARMA 2 is set primarily in the fictional Eastern European nation of Chernarus, (meaning "Black Russia"). The Chernarus landscape is based heavily on the Czech Republic, the home country of the developer. The original Operation Flashpoint (OFP) was developed by Bohemia Interactive Studios (who own the Real Virtuality engine) and published by Codemasters (who own the Operation Flashpoint brand).Basically, it's a bigger, more serious Battlefield, which is used by the USMC and Australian Defence Forces to train soldiers. The game is very well optimized, and depending on the server, is able to have ~250 human players (aloing with dynamic AI) in a game. The range of what you can do extends from infantry soldier to a pilot in 6+ factions. A map editor is also expected to be released.

Pics:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f0/Real_Virtuality_Comparison_Humvee.jpg
http://www.arma2.com/images/stories/gallery/ARMA2_ingame_screenshot_0209_2.jpg
http://www.arma2.com/images/stories/gallery/ARMA2_ingame_screenshot_0209_4.jpg
http://www.arma2.com/images/stories/gallery/ARMA2_ingame_screenshot_0209_6.jpg
http://www.arma2.com/images/stories/gallery/ARMA2-Boot-Camp-Screens_18.jpg
http://www.arma2.com/images/stories/gallery/ARMA2-Boot-Camp-Screens_04.jpg
http://www.arma2.com/images/stories/gallery/ARMA2-Boot-Camp-Screens_16.jpg
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http://www.cubeupload.com/files/b90200arma.png
http://www.cubeupload.com/files/918a00armaagain.png

Videos:
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Minimal PC Requirements



CPU: Dual Core Intel Pentium 4 3.0 GHz / Intel Core 2.0 GHz / AMD Athlon 3200+ or faster
RAM: 1 GB
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 7800 / ATI Radeon 1800 with Shader Model 3 and 256 MB VRAM or faster
OS: Windows XP



Optimal PC Requirements



CPU: Intel Core 2.8 GHz / AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ or faster
RAM: 2 GB
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT / ATI Radeon 4850 with Shader Model 3 and 512 MB VRAM or faster
OS: Windows XP or Vista

[Roostervier]

Getting this as soon as it comes out !

We should form a squad :3

[343guiltymc]

Reading the PC gamer review, heard it has pretty buggy AI and outrageous system requirements.

[Roostervier]

Look at the 1700 AI video and you'll see why it has high requirements. : |

[sdavis117]

Fuck it, according to Wikipedia the bottom of your post my computer doesn't even meet the minimum requirements to play this game.

Edit: Oh, by the way, my processor meets the requirements (and exceeds it slightly), and my memory just meets it. My Video Card though is just one model below the required card. I could probably run it, but just barely, and I would have to force the video settings down as much as possible to get a decent framerate.

Edit2: Didn't the first ARMA let you have as many people as your server could handle play at once? I wonder how big the games get on the first ARMA these days.

Edit3: Yeah, my computer is just a giant bottleneck when it comes to my processor. I don't think I have actually used my processor to it's full potential. Ever.

[343guiltymc]

Look at the 1700 AI video and you'll see why it has high requirements. : |

So, why is it in the video it looks all smooth in the video when the game can barely get 20 FPS on a 4870? Also what's difference between this game and OpFlash 2?

[Boba]

Operation Flashpoint 2 is for stupid kids who really want to play a military simulator, but are too immature to work as a team. :downs:

[sdavis117]

So, why is it in the video it looks all smooth in the video when the game can barely get 20 FPS on a 4870?

Crossfire maybe?

[Syuusuke]

He oc'd his CPU to something higher. (Description)

[Trinx]

Buying this when I get the money for it.

[Roostervier]

http://games.on.net/file/27690/ArmA_II_Demo

ARMA 2 DEMO !!

[Con]

10 hours to completion fffffffffffffffffffffffff

[Trinx]

1 hour here. Can't wait to play.

[Pyong Kawaguchi]

This game is friggin confusing :S

[Needles]

I might try it, if I can play on 1440x990 at the mid settings and get more than 35 fps.

[DEElekgolo]

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HOLY SHIT

[Warsaw]

My PC is at the EXACT minimum specs...=O

This means I can't play it...=(

Looking at the 1700 AI video, it looks like this game would be amazing for some WWII or even WWI mods...

[rossmum]

somehow i feel like i just witnessed the end of the universe

[DEElekgolo]

My specs go way beyond the requirements.
I have 4289 mb of video ram and 4gb of normal ram.
Not so sure about my CPU though. It is a 64 bit quad core with 2.2 Ghertz.
More info on my PC info page.

[Warsaw]

So you have 2GB of RAM on each 9800GT? That means you still only have 2GB effective of VRAM, since SLI and Crossfire both use the lowest common denominator, and the RAM doesn't add up. Besides, this game is very CPU-intensive, meaning unless you OC that Phenom a hel of a lot, you aren't going to get smooth frames on huge battles.

[DEElekgolo]

We will see. I get good frame rates in crysis on super high so I shouldn't have any problems here.

[Warsaw]

Well, what resolution are you running at? Juding by the designation of your primary monitor, I'd say it's a 17" which means 1280x1024, and that isn't very demanding by today's standards. However, I may very well be wrong, since names can be misleading. :p

[343guiltymc]

Well, what resolution are you running at? Juding by the designation of your primary monitor, I'd say it's a 17" which means 1280x1024, and that isn't very demanding by today's standards. However, I may very well be wrong, since names can be misleading. :p

I though 19" monitors display at 1280x1024, 17 inchers are 1024x768? At least, my 19 inch monitors's max resolution is 1280x1024.

[DEElekgolo]

My max is 1280x1024. But I also have a 1024x768 duel screen connected if that changes anything. Also, I never like to play games in fullscreen. I usually like my games at 1280x720 in windowed mode or something.

[Sel]

Looks fucking horrible.

Get Company of Heroes instead kiddies.

[Warsaw]

ArmA isn't an RTS...CoH is.

Be a man and get Red Orchestra if you want a realistic first-person shooter...not as good looking as ArmA, but it gets the job done very well. =D

343: 19" monitors used to be maximum of 1280x1024, but they now typically go up to 1440x900 due to the widescreen proliferation. 17" have always been 1280x1024, that was the advantage of it over the 15" of the time and was even an advantage over earlier 19" since it was less pixellated.

DEE: What is going to slow you down then is CPU. Even with less graphical intensity, ArmA will bring your PC to a crawl in huge battles due to the numbers of AI that the CPU has to keep track of all at once. A game that had a similar issue was Starship Troopers.

[DEElekgolo]

Played the game, went in a huge battle, no big frame rate drops. But the game its self sucks. They dont give a good overview of the controls. Every time I join a server I am playing as a fucking crow or the camera would go over my positions and I cant do anything.
Uninstalling now.

[Warsaw]

Huge battle in ArmA 2 means at least 750 AI man...

Also, yes, the game is indeed lame. The only thing it's really good for honestly is setting up your own battles and playing them out, and at that you need to give yourself an initiation time or you'll be killed in the opening shots.

[rossmum]

Looks fucking horrible.

Get Company of Heroes instead kiddies.
fuck that noise get soldiers: heroes of ww2 or men of war or something

coh is arcadey to fuck

[343guiltymc]

How is the mod support for this game? I heard mods from ARMA 1 will work with the sequel as long as it doesn't need any assets from the original.

[Cortexian]

Looks neat, tryin it.

[sdavis117]

Any games out there like ARMA 2 when it comes to number of people/AI in a single server?

[Sel]

fuck that noise get soldiers: heroes of ww2 or men of war or something

coh is arcadey to fuck

banned

also this game still looks fucking horrible from these screenshots.

Like a low res crysis knock off or something.

[ultama121]

Reviews are decent... I might buy it after CoH. But that won't be for a very long time. :)

[Cortexian]

banned

also this game still looks fucking horrible from these screenshots.

Like a low res crysis knock off or something.
Because your computer could run Crysis with 1500 players in a server just fine! This game is obviously focusing on support for huge amounts of players in a server, while keeping performance optimized for different hardware.

[Sel]

playing with loads of people is a gimmick, and nothing more.

I like gimmicks, but if it makes the game look this shitty I think I'll stick to games that play fine with 20 people and don't look like shit.

Thanks~

[Sel]

...on the other hand, theres some clever DRM in it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FADE

[rossmum]

playing with loads of people is a gimmick, and nothing more.

I like gimmicks, but if it makes the game look this shitty I think I'll stick to games that play fine with 20 people and don't look like shit.

Thanks~
welp

this is a military sim, not a hurf durf twitch shooter

the graphics are pretty decent, especially for a sim, but in any case you're on a halo forum so why are you complaining about arma's graphics being shitty

by the way it has a lot less gimmicks and a lot more actual features than 90% of the newer lot of shooets anyway, hth

[Sel]

the graphics are pretty decent, especially for a sim, but in any case you're on a halo forum so why are you complaining about arma's graphics being shitty


Because halo is a game from 8 some years ago? :|



by the way it has a lot less gimmicks and a lot more actual features than 90% of the newer lot of shooets anyway, hth

Re-read my post baby.

[rossmum]

shut up i've been awake for about 23 hours straight twice in a row

in any case it's not like it looks terrible, it's no crysis but it looks better than plenty of fairly recent games (and again, that's not even the point of a sim)

[StankBacon]

yah this game is garbage.

[rossmum]

no wonder we use vbs for training!!!

if you go in expecting a game, just uninstall it right now, you're not going to like it and it's probably better for the rest of us that you stick to something like cs or halo or whatever. if you can actually handle the fact it's easy to die, aiming is fairly realistic, and it's complicated, then good.

the engine was developed for the military, arma is basically just a public version released so people who aren't in the army (or who can't get enough of it) can play soldiers.

[Syuusuke]

I can barely run it. =/