ArmA 2 Update

[Panda with issues...]

Don't think this really applies to anyone but ghostwolf and myself, as it seems we're the only ones who bought it, but the first major patch has arrived for ArmA 2. Fixing stuff including enemy infantry having better hearing than Daredevil, numerous problems with campaign triggers and soforth:

Major AI tweaking and balancing (especially AI infantry can hear much less)

Improved multiplayer and cooperative campaign (saving games, connection issues)

Numerous fixes and improvements in the Harvest Red campaign

Maybe this may encourage a few more people to give this game a shot, which it thoroughly deserves.

The orders interface still needs to feel my boot up its ass though.

 

[Ronin Storm]

I'm actually pretty interested in ArmA 2. Just haven't had opportunity to check it out, yet. Keep the posts coming and I'll hopefully get a look sometime in the next couple of weeks.

 

[elDiablo]

Piacular, Bambi and I were pretty disappointed with it. MP was laggy as hell, meaning everyone (even your) movements were jumpy. Just made it unplayable, in my eyes. Coop would have been awesome too

Still, might see if the patch has done anything for it!

 

[Panda with issues...]

That's interesting el, we haven't really had any particular issues with lag, but i suppose it may depend on what servers we've been playing on.

The ideal situation would be to get a group of ~6 or so and do some of the pre packaged missions as a squad. Those are a good laugh as long as the APC is killed early and often.

 

[Ghostwolf67]

I havent noticed much of a difference since the patch. Though i guess the game never really had major issues on my computer since i started running it in windowed mode.

The saving multiplayer game wise is a must really. There just arent enough hours in the day to play through some of the missions with one or more ppl.

Lag and stability is still a problem in multiplayer though. Especially doing the co-op campaign missions. In a game when one bullet can kill you lagging out isnt really the best way to enhance the gaming experience.

 

[Ronin Storm]

Is the lag a problem even on LAN?

 

[Panda with issues...]

Dunno Ronin, we haven't been able to test that yet.

 

[Ronin Storm]

A new patch (1.04) is allegedly being released today. The download links aren't yet available so I suspect that they've accidentally uploaded the update page but the dates are quite specific.

The beta change log notes indicate the following:

(current patch candidate)
[59002] Fixed: Soldier were walking on non-existant heaps of debris from destroyed buildings.
[58998] Fixed: Autocoordination caused rudder oscillation in high speed flight.
[58990] Fixed: Crashes in VoN when many players were speaking simultaneously.
[58972] Hotfix: Possible crashes in VoN when many players were speaking simultaneously.
[58961] Fixed: Immortal freezed soldiers occured in MP.
[58943] New: Added mouse smoothing to game options
[58931] Fixed: Broken kill scoring in MP (two points for unit kill).
[58924] Fixed: Input key actions are no longer active while chat mode.
[58901] Fixed: Diag_log used with long text argument caused crash.
[58897] New: Enabled multiple parameters for MP mission.
[58873] Mouse filtering strenght adjustable using mouseSmoothing=NNNN in user config.
[58868] Fixed: Mouse scrolling in diary.
[58837] Mouse smoothing disabled for fast movement.
[58831] Mouse smoothing can be disabled in user profile file using line mouseSmoothing=0;
[58816] Fixed: Enemy kills made by player using stolen enemy vehicle are no longer considered as friendly kills.
[58806] Fixed: Switching to Utes from Chernarus caused Utes to contain infinite landscape.
[58798] Fixed: Time of day synchronized on client after connection to server.
[58789] Command line argument -cpuCount=NNN to override cpu count detection.
[58730] Fixed: Simulate speed of sound
[58728] Fixed: fire from rifle distort sound
[58705] Fixed: Crash by malformed input to a diag_log scripting function.
[58702] Fixed: Muzzle flash was seen dark in some weapon optics.
[58699] Improved: Audio volume settings
[58667] Fixed: MP: Ships and boats used excessive bandwidth and CPU power.
[58655] Fixed: Players are no longer forced to reconnect after MP Load on server.
[58644] Fixed: bike rider can be no longer healed
[58626] Known issue: Players are forced to reconnect after MP Load on server.
[58609] Fixed: no particles effect when hit object with destructNo
[58601] Fixed: Player connected to loaded game was sometimes frozen.
[58590] Fixed: Game crashed when launched on a system with more then 8 CPUs/cores.
[58580] Fixed: Possible crash with laser designator active.
[58571] Fixed: Sometimes crew of a near vehicle was visible through the vehicle.
[58552] Fixed: Infinite looping of commands 'Stop' in radio.
[58537] Fixed: Leaning 'limits' do not work in TrackIR
[58536] Fixed: Clients were often endlessly stuck in 'Receiving...' window after MP Load.
[58495] Improved building destruction
[58488] New: Functions getPosATL and setPosATL to allow controlling position relative to terrain.
[58487] Fixed: Rainbow could be visible even with sun below horizon.
[58481] New: command line option -showScriptErrors introduced to show errors in scripts on-screen
[58472] Fixed: missiles should pass through vegetation
[58414] Fix: 3D editor - civilian and resistance units did not work correctly
[58405] Fixed: grenades may explode only on the final impact
[58405] Fixed: when a grenade bounces on a ship deck, the proper particle effects is shown now
[58357] Improved: Better airplane HUD visibility both night and day
[58349] New: Direct analogue throttle and brake for airplanes now available.
[58305] Optimization: Reduced frame stutter near map borders.
[58291] Improved: better handling of gravitation for shots (esp. for grenades)
[58251] Fixed: Sea surface was not rendered in NE area out of map.
[58245] Fixed: terrain surface was sometimes using wrong parallax map.
[58240] Fixed: grenade could destroy a building just by impact
[58237] Fixed: Radio messages sometimes echoed
[58212] Fixed - Team switch did not work when player died
[58207] New: More flexible configuration of Flares in the config (brightness, size)
[58199] Fixed: Reduced AI detecting slowly moving enemy vehicles by ear.
[58190] Fixed: Prevent killed units reporting who killed them.
Patch 1.02
[58147] MP - when unit is respawned, its tasks, diary content and skills are transferred to the new entity

Of particular note:

Fixed: Clients were often endlessly stuck in 'Receiving...' window after MP Load.

 

[Panda with issues...]

Great! Only a billion and one others to go...