ArmA 2 Hype

TurinTur · 2010-11-02T08:05:54.000Z

Invasion 1944 D-Day Mod.

http://www.armedassault.info/index.php?game=1&cat=addons&id=1576

Soldiers
German, British and US ground forces - (Heer and FsJ for the Germans), (British Commandos), and (Army and Rangers for the Americans).
15+ infantry weapons

Vehicles
20+ German vehicles - including tanks, recon vehicles and troop carriers.
10+ Allied vehicles - including tanks, recon vehicles, troop carriers and landing craft.

Aircraft
P-51, C47 & Bf109

Amphibious
LCM and LCVP landing craft

Missions
7 MP Missions
5 SP Missions

Soundtrack
Over 30 minutes of original music by SFG

Other
Ambient Environment objects - ships and aircraft for atmospheric purposes, not actually playable.
Ballistics coding

Just linking it here, i don’t have time to come back to Arma 2 right now. I just reached the Strip :).

ElGuapo · 2010-11-02T08:32:25.000Z

Sounds awesome. Are they ever going to release this for the 360? Arma2 and Oblivion are about the only things I play on my PC anymore.

schurem · 2010-11-02T08:45:49.000Z

ElGuapo:

Sounds awesome. Are they ever going to release this for the 360? Arma2 and Oblivion are about the only things I play on my PC anymore.

Heretic begone! ArmA on an xbox, ptah, the thought! This game belongs on a console like mutant goldfish belong on bicycles!

TurinTur · 2010-11-02T08:53:37.000Z

Given the time has passed since the original Arma 2 release, and zero news in that front, i think the possible console version was scrapped ages ago.

Btw, i think there will be another patch for the game in a few weeks, coinciding with the second DLC.

jpinard · 2010-11-02T09:04:55.000Z

ElGuapo:

Sounds awesome. Are they ever going to release this for the 360? Arma2 and Oblivion are about the only things I play on my PC anymore.

Ughhh that would be horrible. We’d up with another Dragon Rising type game that satisifies very few. Way too many sacrifices would have to made for it to go console.

KevinC · 2010-11-02T09:11:04.000Z

Arma would… not work on a console. At least not without significant changes.

TurinTur · 2010-11-02T09:15:01.000Z

There was the other day some news about the AU Army using videogames to know the terrain of where going to be. Of course, the videogame platform was VBS2, the militar grade version of Arma 2.

Kotaku Australia – 1 Nov 10

Army Sim Is Short On Graphics, Big On Steering Wheel Peripherals

Everybody knows that armed forces around the world train using what are essentially advanced video games, but it's rare we actually get to see one in action up-close like this....

(fake edit: mmm from the graphics looks like VBS1, the equivalent to Arma 1)

schurem · 2010-11-02T12:06:46.000Z

Completely unrelated but funny story this brings to mind:

The ozzie army was lookin into buying themselves a couple of them snazzy new gunship helicopters that everybody was building at the end of the cold war (apaches, cobras, tigers, rooivalks, havocs and hokums to name but a few). So to sell the ozzie brass on their particular brand of choppery deathmachine, Boeing made some outback terrain in their whiskey cobra sim, complete with kangaroos and such.

The ozzie pilot was having a great time, yelling things like crikey and whoa! at all the authentic scenery. And then the 'roos surprised him with a volley of manpads, bringing him down in flames and cutting the demosntration short by a fair bit.

The Boeing boffins had cut a corner, and put the kangaroo model on the infantry object. In effect the bunch of kangaroo were a deadly east german infantry squad!

In the end the ozzie army bought the eurocopter tiger. But if you are going flying over the outback, be shure to keep your finger on the flare button, because them 'roos pack shoulder launched heat seekers!

Anti-Bunny · 2010-11-07T10:44:14.000Z

Wasn’t Dragon Rising released on Console?

I mean, that game felt like a console game. I don’t think ARMA 2 could be made for console without making those kinds of concessions.

jpinard · 2010-11-07T15:04:27.000Z

Anti-Bunny:

Wasn’t Dragon Rising released on Console?

I mean, that game felt like a console game. I don’t think ARMA 2 could be made for console without making those kinds of concessions.

Yes, PC/Console and they made a lot of bad sacrifices to make it consoluable.

Soapyfrog · 2010-11-08T11:10:47.000Z

schurem:

Completely unrelated but funny story this brings to mind:

Snopes.com

FACT CHECK: Were Kangaroos Added to a Military Simulation Program?

Mutant Marsupials Take Up Arms Against Australian Air Force

Partly true! ;)

Alistair · 2010-11-08T12:45:41.000Z

I don’t think Dragon Rising had to be bad, it just didn’t work out all that well.

I wonder if there’s scope for Kinect in section-level infantry sims. You do spend a fair amound of effort swithcing between prone, kneeling and standing, and you give hand signals to the rest of the section… not sure how the movement aspects would work though. Perhaps infantry segway sim!

jpinard · 2010-11-08T13:29:49.000Z

Alistair:

I don’t think Dragon Rising had to be bad, it just didn’t work out all that well.

I wonder if there’s scope for Kinect in section-level infantry sims. You do spend a fair amound of effort swithcing between prone, kneeling and standing, and you give hand signals to the rest of the section… not sure how the movement aspects would work though. Perhaps infantry segway sim!

You know, with a pistol type controller + Kinect, it sure could be an amazing idea. Good thinking.

TurinTur · 2010-11-11T12:32:01.000Z

Patch time
http://www.arma2.com/latest-news/arma-2-titles-enlarged-by-new-pack-of-patches_en.html

For Arma 2, Arma 2 OA and BAF.

datter · 2010-11-11T15:25:08.000Z

zx81-Amd64:

…
For me the new ones remind me of training(like the much more eloquent Joshua Casteel).

I’m 80% certain that is part of their reason for being. I have a hunch that some of the funding for these games comes from parties with vested interests in ensuring the ‘hollywood fantasies’ of modern war are being passed on efficiently to the next generation etc. I find them all very distasteful in their deception around this, so i don’t buy them(but the ‘kids’ love them it seems).

Seriously.

TurinTur · 2010-11-13T04:00:37.000Z

It seems the new DLC will include a MP version of the armory, procedural challenges included

TurinTur · 2010-11-25T07:34:15.000Z

Launch Trailer for PMC DLC

You know how i am not a native english speaker, do you? The nice thing about that it’s that i don’t notice mediocre english VA as much as you guys.
Well, this time it’s not the case.
(but still seems an interesting campaign)

zx81-Amd64 · 2010-11-25T08:05:21.000Z

datter:

Seriously.

Was that a question or agreement? This is the thread for the game America’s Army you realise?

TurinTur · 2010-11-25T08:08:05.000Z

zx81-Amd64:

Was that a question or agreement? This is the thread for the game America’s Army you realise?

Irony?

Fugitive · 2010-11-25T08:18:38.000Z

zx81-Amd64:

Was that a question or agreement? This is the thread for the game America’s Army you realise?

ArmA 2 != America’s Army.

ArmA 2 is partially funded by militaries since the engine is used in military training simulators, but Bohemia Interactive also packages it into this retail game probably because they like money, not because of any nefarious hidden agenda.