end_of_life_arma

[molten heron]

that's just extra function/fsm loop in theirs AI

you can do that with arma too

[potent sleet]

Yeah and it's impressive

I think it needs mods for it to be a standard feature in ARMA

but it's standard without having to actually set them to get in a vehicle in DR.

[molten heron]

also in Arma , the squad leader can actually decide to other his squadmembers enter vehicle and move with it to distant target

[potent sleet]

Also bandging yourself/weapon jamming were cool feautres.

[molten heron]

so it does exist even w/o tinkering

[potent sleet]

I am still heavilly annoyed they forgot to give you the ability to tell your squad "Hey, pick up that Rocket Launcher."

Extra in Red River since unlike DR you never get at least AI that start with a anti-tank weapon so you literally always have to do it yourself.

They did add the loadout menu back at least which was appreciated.

Even if Red River decided to "Game-ify" the guns to an obnoxious degree

Like the Full Auto-MP5 having the spread of a call of duty shotgun

Because yes, clearly, spraying full auto with an MP5, under 50 meters, my shots should land on the far left/right of my screen far away from my sights.

DR had some arbitrary weapon spread but Red River overdoes it.

DR at least feels like it only really stops you consistently sniping with an unscoped rifle while RR makes the shotgun/MP5 able to consistently miss while aiming center of mass at close-range.

[sick mauve]

Well DR did do something right with launcher reloads.

Reloading AT/AA launchers in Arma has always been way too fast which makes vehicles too easy to take out.

[potent sleet]

Yeah I did like how it felt like you were using a big heavy launcher in DR.

I did like how weapons like the Stinger had you actually properly assemble them.

With you unfolding the Antenna

[quaint oxide]

the antenna is not necessary to operate the weapon, but i know what you mean. It should take some preparation to use an AT/AA weapon

[potent sleet]

I do think it would be nice if we got "Light" (I think ARMA 3 removed them?) Launchers like the LAW that aren't as effective at taking out armor but they could have a faster equip time.

So a full missile Javelin is more powerful but it takes more time to ready, let alone the weight.

[sick mauve]

RPG-7 is more or less A3's "light" AT launcher.

Everything else is either medium or heavy.

[dreamy vigil]

you talking about MAWWS

its still ingame

Light AT for Nato use MAWWS

[potent sleet]

Ah I never saw it before.

I only really have experience with the CSAT ones

[radiant wedge]

yo , whats with the Arma 2 OA on windows 11, it works fine without battleye launched but when u launch it with battleye it hangs and stops responding then crashes, plz lemme know if someone got a fix for it.

[weary stirrup]

You need to use the beta branch on Steam

(Of Arma 2: OA)

[radiant wedge]

Have tried that , but it still didnt work hangs and stops responding as soon as launched with battleye, without battleye works

[stable matrix]

@obsidian agate OFP 0.36 Demo on M1 Macbook. i386 -> x86_64 -> arm64

[obsidian agate]

waw!

[sacred shale]

I am playing Arma 2 superpowers by myself and I have decided I will be a pacifist this run through and drive supply trucks and salvage trucks instead. I will update with effectiveness

[sacred shale]

It is effective and is profitable. The garrisons of the towns are super big now with some having tanks

I think it is a hard time for the AI missing a squad though

[winged walrus]

https://youtu.be/EHOBzf5vtwE

does anyone know how can I fix Apache night vision in arma 2 OA? it's flickering and wasn't happening before

I have Ace mod by the way

when I turn on night vision it's rapidly and constantly switching between DTV and NVS

[obsidian agate]

try without mods?

[winged walrus]

without Ace there's no problem but I need Ace to control gunner as pilot :'(((

[obsidian agate]

heh, so it's an ACE problem I guess 😬 try asking on their Slack perhaps?

[winged walrus]

Slack?

[obsidian agate]

from #channel_invites_list
ACE3 https://slackin.ace3mod.com/
https://ace3public.slack.com

[winged walrus]

oh I see, thanks

[spring mica]

Hi, if anyone is interested I've created a subreddit for og operation flashpoint, here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Operation_Flashpoint?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share it's not a lot, but it's something heh

[summer pulsar]

hello, I would like to play arma 2 again with all campaigns, is there any mod or setting that can cancel the weight effect of the weapon making it more like arma 3? something that makes movements less "woody".

[heady hollow]

AAF/FIA use a Mk 4 Mod 0 which uses a daytime optic with ballistic stadia out to 1 km (in 200 m increments) while NATO/LDF have the Mk 4 Mod 1 which combines these with a built-in laser rangefinder and nightvision mode... and it's 84 mm 'vs.' 72 mm (anti-personnel)/105 mm (anti-armor) for the RPG-42, the CSAT 'light' launcher

[sick mauve]

So uh...has there ever been any clarification on whether Tactics will ever be made playable again? Namely the ERR_REGISTRY_EMPTY issue that doesn't allow you to boot the game at all?

[mystic plover]

So I was banned from a server (Miksuus Warfare) in Arma 2 for "Hacking". But I never did hack or cheat. The admin doesn't want to show evidence because of "security reasons" and says that even if I was detected by accident theres nothing they can do. What are the possible explainations for such a thing? It's reallly mind boggling.

[eternal wadi]

Maybe the admin just didn't want you there

[mystic plover]

That crossed my mind but I don't really want to believe that. Maybe there is a technical explaination. A broken script or something

[weary stirrup]

[Note: I'm the server admin] Our Battleye log files show quite clearly that he was running cheat scripts. If he didn't actually cheat, well, maybe it's possible but I would find it very weird and uncommon. But I have to act based on evidence – if we unbanned every possible script kiddie that told us that they didn't cheat despite of logs showing otherwise, our servers would be unplayable

[eternal wadi]

Cheaters always try to say they didn't cheat (myself included :D)

[mystic plover]

I didn't run scripts. Show the evidence please

Why would somebody even cheat. It gets detected eventually and it makes no sense. You want a challenge/fun while gaming or not?

[weary stirrup]

Like I told you in DM and above, there might a small possibility that you indeed didn't cheat but I have to act based on evidence and not what people tell to me

[mystic plover]

There is no evidence unless you show it somebody

Wait. What people tell you?

Was I reported by another player?

Sorry i misread. I'm very annoyed by this. Such things make me sad

I have enough experience with computers to know that the security reasons argument is nonsense. You could redact portions of the logfiles if there was something sensitive in it. I just want to know whats going on.

[weary stirrup]

Anyways, apart from the possibility of some weird Arma bug that'd have caused a false flag, I think we're drifting offtopic here. We chatted in DM quite a while already, and again, the case is closed. I wholeheartedly apologize if you actually didn't cheat, but like I said, I have to act based on evidence. Thanks for understanding

[eternal wadi]

argument is nonsense
Its not.
If all anticheats would show hackers their evidence and show them how they detected the hacking, that makes it EXTREMELY easy for hackers to just change their stuff to circumvent the detection and continue hacking.

Thats why all major anticheat thingies never tell you how they know, just that they do know.

In the end, its the server owners server and he can do what he wants, if he wants to ban you he can just do that with no need to explain anything

[mystic plover]

I kinda get that. But you could give something

I assume its no offical anticheat and it could be broken. I think such things are more annoying than cheaters. Because this ruins the game for legit gamers

Thats why I care. I fact I don't even want to play on this server anymore because of this. The trust in the admins is gone

[weary stirrup]

Battleye is the official anticheat for Arma

[mystic plover]

Yes

So it was battleeye which reported this? Thats even more disturbing

There is one explaination I can think of where its kinda my "fault". I made a mod for my non public arma server that includes admin scripts that are called from the init.sqf there. Is it possible I forgot to unload this and the server for some reason did not reject the mod? Normally it should.

[weary stirrup]

Battleye didn't take a stance on whether you cheated or not, it just logged very unusual activity on your end. When it comes to the said mod, it's not possible since we have signature check on on the server.

[mystic plover]

Yes thats why I said it should've rejected the mod. Normally its enabled. Like on my server

I only enable it when I want to debug something there

[ripe rune]

Hackers are not welcome, that's the end of it. We have evidence of you hacking before.

[mystic plover]

Before? WTF

[weary stirrup]

Technically speaking bypassing the server signature check is even deeper hack than running arbitrary scripts on the server, so it doesn't change things/our decision much if at all. @ripe rune I believe we can continue in DM if necessary, I don't think this is the right place for this

(Apart from possible game bug which I find unlikely in this case)

[ripe rune]

Perhaps an different server but same admins ;)

[mystic plover]

It's just a mod for my testing server. The server never went public. Lost interest. Now you're accusing me of even more. I'm done with this shit. Believe what you believe. I know that I didn't do anything wrong.

But this shows thats there's something wrong with either the Anticheat or the server

I bet its 2) beause i NEVER had any problems on other servers

[ripe rune]

Also I find it ridiculous that instead of complaining it on our discord server/DM:ing admins, you complain about it here.

[mystic plover]

It's not ridiculous because you made it clear you wont do anything in the DM. I wanted to know what's going on. Thought maybe somebody here has an idea

Because theres developers here

But I'm done now. I'm sorry for the spam. I see that it's no use

[weary stirrup]

Update on this: we switched from the AMD R5 3600 server to i5 12500 one, did exactly the same optimizations and the server and client FPS dropped dramatically as result of the change. We're extremely confused now

The i5 12500 should have about 40-50 % better single core performance compared to R5 3600, so I got no clue what's this about

[winged pollen]

you are not going to squeeze alot more performance out of the a2 engine by switching cpu

didnt see any difference between 4790k, 6700k en 9900k

but it shouldnt be lower

than something is majorly wrong

[weary stirrup]

Maybe not, but I don't get why the FPS dropped dramatically after going from R5 3600 to i5 12500

Yeah

[winged pollen]

could be alot of factors

hetzner uses custom motherboards for most servers

dont know for alder lake

maybe bad implemention

no idea

have you verified actual performance with raw benches

[eternal wadi]

how about ram speed?
better CPU same ram? or worse ram?

[winged pollen]

im pretty sure the ram speed on hetzners alder lake is 3200 cl22 and ryzen 2933 cl something

[stable matrix]

at full turbo maybe, but the base freq is quite a bit lower

[stable matrix]

hetzner's amd 3600 box use 2x32GB configured at 2666 MT/s

[winged pollen]

oh ok

my mate has 2933 in his ryzen box at hetzner

but thats not the 3600

[stable matrix]

the (current) AMD boxes with the exception of 3600 (AX41, not SX64) use ECC memory

[winged pollen]

alright

[weary stirrup]

We always run the server in high performance mode, the pure turbo clocks are at least on par with the R5 3600

[winged pollen]

They really upped their cooling game on the Alder Lake boxes

so should be fine

Even the 12900k boxes stay semi cool on full load

Guess they learned from the 9900/6700k boxes

[stable matrix]

AX101 (5950X) is also configured at 2666 MT/s

[weary stirrup]

If you mean the stability issues on 9900k servers, it was caused by rare firmware bug and not heat

[winged pollen]

no

[weary stirrup]

Aight, thought you were referring to those 🙂

[winged pollen]

the 9900k boxes ran hot like hell

[weary stirrup]

Well yeah 😄

Ok, for some reason the server is sending over 10 Mbps outbound, there are hundreds of AIs and about 35 players online atm though

But it didn't have such amount of outbound traffic before

[winged pollen]

the 9900k boxes still have bios problems they never fixed it

rare linux bugs

but i pushed a fix for that for debian kernel

[weary stirrup]

I find it very weird because I literally copied the mission PBOs from the old server on the new Alder Lake one

[weary stirrup]

Yeah, they were unusable with Windows Server too... Crashed every hour or so 😄

[winged pollen]

yeah you had to disable a couple C states in the bios

or disabled it in linux kernel

if you were running linux

[weary stirrup]

Hetzner didn't want to return my cash either, instead they sent the bills to debt collection. I refused to pay and told them to take me to court if they wish to have their money for a faulty server and sent evidence of the instability of their servers, at which point they canceled the debt collection 😄

[winged pollen]

Currently pushing 5mbit outbound with 69 ai and 45 players.

[weary stirrup]

Yeah, that's really the upper limit that we had previously with populated server

[winged pollen]

but thats also including forum/teamspeak and admin panels

but that shouldnt be that much for the count

[weary stirrup]

Yeah

I can't think of any (usual) reason related to hardware that would increase the outbound traffic that much, so it's a full mystery for me

[winged pollen]

Have you mucked around with your basic.cfg settings

or forgot to copy them

[weary stirrup]

No, copied it too

[mystic plover]

Hardware shouldn't increase traffic. Seems strange to me

(If it's the same software)

[weary stirrup]

Also regarding this, there's another fix too https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/166902/exchanged-server-has-exactly-same-issue

That's how I got the server to work

[winged pollen]

thats about the amd servers

i was on about the intel boxes

i dont know about the amd boxes if they had issues

i suppose they had then

[weary stirrup]

Oops, meant to link the thread in the reply (https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/160310/kernel-power-41-error-restarts-hetzner-dedicated-server)

EX62-NVMe

[winged pollen]

ah yeah

in earlier linux builds this was kernel patched

but that does not have a realtek chip

i dont know how this could be related to ex62

The ex62 had problems on linux only with networking because linux had driver problems with certain intel nic's; not hetzners fault

but that was patched officially

a long time ago

[weary stirrup]

Hmm

[stable matrix]

https://docs.hetzner.com/robot/dedicated-server/troubleshooting/performance-intel-i218-nic/

from experience with multiple different communities servers the NICs will eventually crash and reset which takes a little while. meanwhile any arma session will just be frozen (for obvious reasons) until the card is back online

easy to spot in kernel logs

[winged pollen]

yeah like i said its been fixed years ago

atleast 5

shouldnt even have come across that, the 9900k servers were released later than that fix

[stable matrix]

even with later fixed kernels the NICs still reset sometimes

I think it was noted in one of the patches that issues still remained

[weary stirrup]

Jeez... Netlog was enabled on the new server and disabling it made the clients' FPS (and server's too) like it should be, it seems like everyone does have higher FPS than before now 😄

[ripe rune]

Yeah and server FPS was kinda insane like 47 after running Warfare mission for 3 hours with 20 players. It is possible that netlog runs on the same thread than the server, and causes insane performance degredation when there’s hundreds if not close to thousand AI in the match simultaniously?

[winged pollen]

i dont know what netlog is

you should try and run epoch and have fun with the server fps

server fps on stock epoch with 40 people on high end hardware is around 4

[tacit spire]

A chicken or the egg question... which came first? Shapur in Arma 2 or Shapur in Take On Helicopters' South Asia? Regardless of release dates, which one was in development first? Just wonder which one of them got pasted or converted over to the other release/terrain, if anyone happens to know

just generally curious

I'm leaning towards assuming the heightmap was fetched initially for South Asia, and a cut was made from it to make Shapur in Arma 2, and that then all the objects/compositions then later got copypasted over to the South Asia version - given that there is roads nearly everywhere in South Asia but there's no roads for Shapur which otherwise would be one of the few landmarks of the terrain

[stable matrix]

Which came first, Hind in Arma 2 or Hind DLC for TOH? 😄

[wintry dagger]

Is it possible to play through the arma 2 campaigns with ace?

love the features ace adds, but I'm not sure if it's like arma 3 where it totally breaks the scripts

[tacit spire]

South Asia was part of the campaign before the Hinds DLC came out for TOH

[sick mauve]

ACE2 was somewhat better at integrating itself into Arma 2's vanilla gameplay so campaigns like Harvest Red or Operation Arrowhead should be alright.

Outside of Silver Lion (which is a buggy mess in of itself), the other campaigns should run normally too.

[stable matrix]

You said not to count release dates but development 😉

[tacit spire]

oh I don't know what the development dates were so I thought that's what you were getting at haha :P

[ember bay]

After so many years of having weird errors Arma 2 has finally installed and opened correctly...

But. While all previous HR missions went pretty fluent I have an issue in Manhattan, basically me and my team go dead after one shot, the wounded mechanic is just gone, everyone dies no matter how and when is being fired at.
I would live with it if AI wasn't sniping me from the other side of Cherno, being shot in the leg causes my guys to instantly die and mission ends, a bit frustrating.

Is there any debug console mod or something that would let me make myself and my team invincible so I can go through that mission without skipping it? Trainers have little features and the only console on BI Forums doesn't really work.

[sick mauve]

Pretty sure the semi-official Debug Console still works. Just run BIS_cooper allowDamage false (and the same for BIS_sykes/BIS_rodriguez/BIS_ohara).

Link:
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Category:Community_Tools#Debug_Console.2FSystem

Specifically the one made by Karel Mořický (Str).

You could also just use Loki's Lost Key. Pretty sure that still works just fine if you can find a place to download it from.

[ember bay]

Loki's mod is on BIdentify but noone is seeding it, so impossible to download at the moment. I'll try the Str's, thank you

[wintry dagger]

Yea, for some reason I don't think any mods are being seeded on BIdentify

[ember bay]

ok I thought Harvest Red (A2) was bad, but man I reverted the Good Morning Takistan (A2OA) mission over 12 times already because all my teammates get own3d right after they manage to get out of the helicopter, no matter what I do sometimes something does not "trigger" I think, so vehicles meant to be destroyed in the beginning are just driving around killing every marine.

Do I need less than 60 FPS to not break the campaign, or maybe play with lowest settings? because all old walkthroughs seem to be easy as they should be, and I'm stuck with my hoorah morons being tapped in first 10 minutes.

[wintry dagger]

I haven't had any problems, how do they even die after getting off the heli?

[sick mauve]

Either you have a mod interfering with gameplay or your AI settings are way outta wack.

GMT is pretty much the definition of an on rails mission...you can't fail it unless you go out of your way to do so.

[ember bay]

I have no mods, and I even changed difficulty to Recruit.

I thought friendly AI was pretty much invincible in this mission, all I do is just stay behind the squad leader, and somehow they always end up dead either by some big explosion on where the Heli drops them or due to the tanks/apcs rolling to counter the Americans.

[sick mauve]

Your squad members aren't invincible but they're not supposed to get mowed down upon landing either.

Did none of the tanks (that Herrera is a part of) destroy the Takistani QRF?

Same goes for Pierce; his Apache is supposed to destroy most of the vehicles that roll in (or at least draw fire from the M113s).

[ember bay]

the tanks roll really late. When the player's heli goes away Takistani vehicles start driving along the airstrip and if the AT soldier reacts quick enough he takes out one with his launcher, but it happened only twice, the rest of the time opfor just drive where the infantry is and then friendly tanks show up.

I've been gunned down two times by the Shilka on a hill that is meant to be destroyed somewhere after it takes down one of the helicopters, but most of the time it is just intact and fires at whatever is on the strip. Two times I managed to kill its crew before they jump into the vehicle.

[ember bay]

when friendly vehicles come, I usually end up with 2-3 people in my team or all are dead and I have to restart.

[sick mauve]

Yeah, definitely something wrong with your game. I can hazard a guess that Herrera's platoon is getting stuck somewhere early on (AI driving at its best...).

The event with Graves blowing up the ZSU is also supposed to happen automatically before you land.

...and I wouldn't be surprised if Pierce probably crashed somewhere early on.

[ember bay]

😕

[sick mauve]

But high FPS shouldn't be the cause of this either.

[ember bay]

I'll just reinstall Arrowhead and see if anything changes

[sick mauve]

Probably should help. If not... 🤷‍♂️

I don't recall CCP/CorePatch changes breaking anything for the campaigns so this shouldn't be happening.

[ember bay]

I've installed everything in one go before, so Arma 2 + OA and addons, then I installed ACR so maybe something went nuts, I'll try "clean" Arrowhead now. If it doesn't help I'll just skip and watch some walkthroughs but man I was counting on this being playable

[ember bay]

ok, installing just the Operation Arrowhead seems to do the job, I had to clear both villages alone anyway but at least most of my team survived

[ember bay]

nevermind I think I'm about to give up, now I'm getting some errors like missing G36 paa file, when I die I get No entry 'bin\config.bin/CfgMusic/Track06_Abandoned_Battlespace.sound' and upon loading last save the game says that mission is dependant on addons that I don't have loaded, and of course all of them are the basegame stuff (ca_) which is of course downloaded.

Everytime I try to verify files, it says one couldn't be verified and downloads it, but another verification will always show the same thing and redownload it, and it will loop forever.

When I get the no entry error upon dying, if I play in English (by default game chooses Polish language) the game crashes, with PL enabled it will throw out the dependencies.

If I won't find any working torrent of this game I think I'll just skip it all and live a happy life without playing OA, because it already takes so much time just to wonder wtf has Steam done to this game.

[potent sleet]

It worked fine for me about a year or two ago

This sounds like it simply hasn't installed properly somehow I guess

[ember bay]

I reinstalled the game four times now, with and without the base Arma 2 and with and without PMC or BAF, always the same outcome

also if it didn't install properly I wouldn't be able to play the game at all right? Missing dependencies show when I try to load a save, if I restart from the beginning it works

[potent sleet]

There's been games you can play not properly installed on steam sometimes where it's glitches

you can play them but the game bugs out

Still four times is a bit much

Did you Completely Delete your ARMA 2 folder manually?

Not just steams uninstall

That's the best advice i can give

[ember bay]

I deleted all folders that had anything to do with Arma 2 including thoose inside steam directory, documents and appdata

[ember bay]

@molten heron have you ever received any reports about Arma 2 OA issues I'm experiencing?

[narrow bough]

hello!

for any CWA players

I'm watching paulalex19's YT tutorial on how to use the mission editor

and when I place down a waypoint

I don't see it

is there any way to make it visible when playing?

sort of like how it is in-game: "MOVE [12m]"?

[obsidian agate]

it depends on difficulty settings

[narrow bough]

oh

[weary stirrup]

I wish Battleye would whitelist xtbbmalloc... The performance gain is nothing short of huge when we run it on server with large pages enabled, would love to see similar effect on clients

[winged pollen]

spam execute the dll

with a large group

[weary stirrup]

I've emailed them multiple times too but with no luck

[mystic plover]

I guess they get too much mail. most are probably from cheaters or the like. but i bet they're very sorry for any other mail that doesn't get answered.

[winged pollen]

yes so just spam the dll

[final night]

What was the improvement? Was it server side only? Have you tried it on client? I thought the day of custom allocators are long gone

[weary stirrup]

Our server FPS basically doubled, in some situations tripled even when hosting very heavy mission (Benny style Warfare with hundreds of AI and quite many players). The malloc doesn't that do much when you run it without large pages enabled, but with it and the large pages combined the difference is huge

[craggy wind]

I've molded ARMA 2 a lot and for some reason and somewhere along the way, I broke the Czech voice acting for the ACR. It doesn't seem to work anymore and it just defaults to the same voices as the US troops.

Any ideas on how to fix it?

[abstract stag]

Can anyone please explain to me how to get ARMA2OA dedicated server running under linux? I tried everything but I never got past the point of "wait for host" and being kicked afterwards as no missions load.

I also tried the docker version but I failed miserably in understanding docker.

[stable matrix]

arma2oa linux server is not up to date with windows server or client

[abstract stag]

So thats why i cannot connect as the Versions differ? I hoped that 1.64 could be compatible with older 1.64's too

[fallen flare]

Does anyone happen to have the old coop zombie missions for arma2? Looking for any of them online lead to nothing, all download links are dead. The creators name was Celery I believe. DM me

[ripe rune]

Did you check this repo? https://forums.bohemia.net/forums/topic/234949-bidentify-a-community-driven-open-file-index-utility-for-usergenerated-content-for-bi-games/

[fallen flare]

yeah but i couldnt check if the torrent was up, are the torrents active on much of those? @ripe rune

[ripe rune]

I do not know, best way to is to try out. I haven't used the site, I just know that it exists.

[wet mortar]

anyone playing arma 2 encounter a weird bug/glitch where you type in MP chat and can't shift-click to type question marks and whatnot? With chat open, pressing shift will briefly freeze any input.

[wintry dagger]

Anyone know how bidentify works? It seems that they give torrent files to old files found on armaholic, but noone seems to be seeding.

[ember bay]

That's how it works, you can download them from torrent if anyone's seeding. If there's no source the record will be there until someone shows up with the files. Look for alternatives of mods that are not seeded

[blissful talon]

How to make AI more active in warfare oa? made 8 for 24 squads but the battle is still not active enough.

[potent sleet]

So anyone know why Armed Assualt takes so long to load?

It takes longer to load than ARMA 2

And Operation Flashpoint

I think even slightly more than Arma 3

Like sure it loads faster after the initial long load but is there some really unoptomized Graphics setting I can turn off to remove it or something?

[sick mauve]

It's only Sahrani/United Sahrani/South Sahrani that are the ones that take a long time to load.

Probably something to do with how A1 handles loading assets initially since it's slow even on an M.2.

[winged walrus]

Does anyone know how can I convert a wav file to wss by WaveToSSS

I dunno how it works and Bohemia commands are very vaguely explained

it's an Arma 2 tool

[obsidian agate]

did you google it?

[winged walrus]

yes, https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Sound_Tools
no command for converting :((

[obsidian agate]

indeed

I believe you can use Arma 3 Tools on Steam - it has a GUI

[winged walrus]

Does it work for arma 2 as well? it only mentioned Arma 3 compatible

[obsidian agate]

wss should, I believe not much changed here

[winged walrus]

thank you :D

[winged walrus]

https://youtu.be/-Xvn9Pdch3k

Thank you Lou sincerely. It's now working just need add some eco to the sound

[potent sleet]

Well turns out Czech Republic really isn't finished is it?

I failed the chopper mission

Except instead of properly counting the mission as "failed" it basically just ends it.

but doesn't unlock the next misison

so I lose my saves

But yeah it's not very fun

Bohemia thought another Helicopter mission where you're entirely reliant on your AI gunner to kill stuff would be a good idea like that one PMC campaign

But now it's an escort mission with a second defenseless transport chopper following you.

[ember bay]

that's a typical bohemian tomfoolery and you're a victim of it

I gave up after the mission where you look for fugitives, don't remember why exactly but I had enough of the bugs

[potent sleet]

I managed to clear that mission

Shame the Czech campaign seems thrown together as I love the new faction

[obsidian agate]

if you mean CSLA, it's not BI-made 🙂

ah wait, #end_of_life_arma - so I take "Army of Czech Republic" in Arma 2

[potent sleet]

Yeah Army of Czech Republic

I beat those first missions and currently on the helicopter one.

I do wish ARMA had more campaigns for non-American factions

[potent sleet]

Oh god

I lsot my save data midway through

because for some reason, if you park and get out of your helicopter

it counts as failing the mission

WHY

I need to do that to use the repair and ammo trucks at the base if my Helicopter's so damaged it does't fly straight

[potent sleet]

So do you lose dialogue if anyone dies in Queen's Gambit?

I was told that but looking at walkthroughs shows the dialogue is unchanged even if a merc dies and he's replaced by a generic.

[ocean canyon]

Funny how community made free mods are better than official CSLA DLC

[quaint oxide]

how come?

[ocean canyon]

I think CSLA was actually not made by the same people who made arma

however the Czech army community mods are made by people who actually care about the mods quality more than the people who created CSLA did

and the czech army community mods are actually made by people from czech republic and slovakia

[dreamy vigil]

CSLA was made by the community itself

[ocean canyon]

huh

[merry briar]

I have no idea what czech army community mods means

If you mean the mods you mean is A2ACR DLC, that's a DLC, obviously

[ocean canyon]

workshop

[merry briar]

What

You must talking about the wrong game, then. We're talking about Arma 2

[ocean canyon]

oh

that makes more sense

I am fucking reatrded I should read the channel description first

well nevermind

[winged walrus]

http://www.armedassault.info/

armedassault is back online thanks to WGP and KAI Community WarGamingPlus
they are bringing back most armaholic missing mods

https://forums.bohemia.net/forums/topic/238109-armaholic-armed-assault-others-a2a2oa-filesaddons-not-sorted/

here's the WGP's thread in Bohemia forum

[obsidian agate]

now that's mad crazy - KUDOS!

[stable matrix]

nice NSFW ads on the site as well

[potent sleet]

Cool if mods are coming back

I hope to eventually find some good ARMA 2 Campaign mods using the KSK since they're never used in missions

(or playable RAFC in Armed Assault.)

[wintry dagger]

I have a question about caa1, is there a remake of the arma 1 campaign for it? Some people have told me that there was and I don't know the name of the addon

[dreamy vigil]

arma 1 or cold war assault?

[wintry dagger]

Arma: Gold edition

[summer pulsar]

for arma 2 or 3?

[wintry dagger]

arma 2

[wary current]

afaik no

but for Cold War Assault there is Cold War Rearmed 2

[stable matrix]

https://forums.bohemia.net/forums/topic/188569-arma-rearmed-2/

Arma Rearmed 3 on Steam Workshop (https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=873567401) contains a link to Arma Rearmed 2 download as well, https://1drv.ms/u/s!AjwV19paNn-Vql0GONxCwH0tQ_pq

[stable matrix]

see above

[ember bay]

https://twitter.com/ArmaMobileOps/status/1521823984760856576 sad ending of a sad game

oh, it doesn't embed here

Dear Commanders,

We have a rather sad announcement to make. Due to a lack of internal resources, we are unable to update Arma Mobile Ops to meet the required standards on a mobile platform, therefore we have decided to discontinue the game’s support for good.

[dreamy vigil]

well gotta boost the development of Enfusion

[wintry dagger]

awesome thanks so much!

[winged walrus]

was there an arma for mobile!?!?!?

[merry briar]

Yes

[winged walrus]

Wow!!

[sick mauve]

...a mobile game that BI pretty much threw in a dumpster after 2018.

[wary current]

well

there were three mobile Arma games

so far

Mobile Ops, Tactics and the rather obscure Arma 2 Firing Range

Tactics was later ported to PC aswell

Arma 2 Firing Range was just a little game for Tegra devices where you could inspect and fire weapons from Arma 2 at targets etc.

[narrow bough]

a quick question relating to CWA

when I beat a level in campaign I get

Casualties: 2 (total 3)

what does that mean? what is the total supposed to be?

[stable matrix]

https://www.bohemia.net/blog/bohemia-interactive-history-3

[dreamy vigil]

Everon 2035 would be sweeet

[gilded zodiac]

hello

[narrow bough]

yoo

[umbral zenith]

makes a comfy bed

arma 3 its time for you to join this channel 🥰

[woven dagger]

N o

[dreamy vigil]

Ah Welcome ARMA 3

[wintry dagger]

Goodnight sweet prince

[dreamy vigil]

update the channel info to include ARMA 3

[winged walrus]

Arma 4 hasn't come out yet :|

[dreamy vigil]

Reforger is here

[grim vector]

so arma 3 is now for this channel

[mighty yew]

Hey, keep ARMA 3 out of our ARMA 2 channel! 😡

[pure prairie]

I disagree

The end of life for Arma 3 was a long time ago, but its not dead.
I doubt it will be dead. (I'm taking an insane amount of copium)

[lyric jewel]

I think the same thing it’s fine

As far as I’m concerned arma 3 is not dead until 4 arrives

I hope 😭

[pure prairie]

It wouldnt die even after Arma 4 arrives

[lyric jewel]

True

I don’t think it’s dead because I’m pretty sure A3 was doing well with sales because I kept interacting people who were just buying A3

[pure prairie]

I'm just sad that I joined the Arma 3 community late.

Even if the game dies the day Arma 4 launches, there is still a ton of Single Player content

[lyric jewel]

Ye same

I’ve had it for a year because I’ve only had a computer that could-run it for a year

[orchid silo]

There's still Arma 2 milsims so.....

Lot of people won't buy a4 for a long time

[molten heron]

well there were people who refused to accept A2OA was better variant of A2 engine even after Arma 3 went out and then argued Arma 3 can't do what A2 can (even after recent update A3)

[winged walrus]

I'm far too late in the party, first in 2020 I discovered arma 2 and OA which I had no idea what it was, then arma 3 with all dlcs now arma reforger. it's too much for short amount of time I can't take it anymore 😭

[pure prairie]

Honestly, just play the ones which you bought first. Dont have to keep up with the latest game unless you want public multiplayer sessions.

[winged walrus]

I keep switching between these games. I spend most time in editor, slowly trying to learn SQF

but I have zero idea if Arma reforger is going to use same scripting language or not

[pure prairie]

yeah

[weary stirrup]

Benny style Warfare works better in Arma 2 (CO) than Arma 3 in my opinion... But Enfusion will fix many issues regarding that I think 😛

[weary stirrup]

Reforger uses different language called Enforce Script. It's quite different from SQF

[winged walrus]

it should be okay as long as the developers make a good tutorial page like official bohemia website that categorized all script commands.

[weary stirrup]

They should have the documentation up soon

[obsidian agate]

working on it

[weary stirrup]

Any ETA? Not like I'm impatient or anything... 😄

[winged walrus]

I'm being paranoid right now, if arma 4 comes out, will they remove all previous tutorial about SQF from their website? 😨 I don't like this kind of surprises

[raw oasis]

they are updating it as we speak go check #biki_changelog

theres already some very useful info there

[weary stirrup]

Yeah, I'm just waiting for actual language command references/pages atm 😛 Thanks for the tip though, didn't remember that channel 😄

[eternal wadi]

You can watch it in #biki_changelog

ARGH, I'm slow schmoo brain

[weary stirrup]

Thanks anyways 😛 I added the channel on my Discord server so I get a notification when something changes

[molten heron]

glad that works

[gleaming finch]

you're in luck

it's actually everon 1989 but whatever

[mighty yew]

A2OA AI > A3 AI in my opinion, though both are good and I do like some of the behaviour improvements in AR AI... despite them not being able to climb stairs (oh, for AI that didn't climb stairs in A2 or A3 😍 )

[weary stirrup]

Actually no, the last two updates didn't get updated/added to my Discord. Or are they just minor updates and don't get added because of that?

[topaz anvil]

Which one and which dlc has the best campaign from all old armas

[merry briar]

A2PMC

[potent sleet]

The original Cold War Crisis

Was the option to "Put" weapons/ammo into vehicles a thing in Opflash pre-resistance? I know dropping them on the ground wasn't.

[dreamy vigil]

Ah gem from the past
https://youtu.be/4Ero_qkfyNk
ARGO

[potent sleet]

So how hard would it be to make a simple mod that forces pistols into the original campaign? (Such as handguns in Officer's Inventories by default like how they forced smoke shells into them with Resistance.)

[quasi cedar]

Is this where we talk about arma 3 now?

[odd citrus]

no there are Arma 3 specific channels

[turbid urchin]

Argo talk goes here, right?

[obsidian agate]

@eternal wadi no,it's not an Arma game 😄

(I believe it has its own (dead) Discord btw)

[molten heron]

ye that discord was discontinued

[dreamy vigil]

Is Argo sets in Armaverse?

[obsidian agate]

Not AFAIK

[midnight heart]

<--- CWA soundtrack fan club right here

[safe tangle]

If you want to start in "R e a l i s t i c" Military Shooters, start here. This game is old, runs smooth, and its controls are easy to learn. I may have 17 Hours now, but when i got used to the controls, i had only 3 Hours played. If you're gonna work up to ArmA 3 (Not Reforger, its easier than this), then play Cold War Assault. This game also comes with the DLC "Resistance" which has a great story. Single missions are fun to play aswell, but when starting out, wait to do Helicopter missions, as the controls are very touchy. (Tips : if Right handed, set your Interaction key for items and such as "Tab", it will help alot. | Dont play on highest 4 resolutions, as it widens the display too much. | Dont worry about your graphics, as highest settings possible still runs at 60 FPS on my terrible laptop) Otherwise, 11/10, chef kiss is love this game to death, get the game even for money, its worth even 60 USD.

My full review on Steam

[merry briar]

Resistance is not a DLC, but Installable External Disc 🙃

[dreamy vigil]

Expansion

[merry briar]

Well... Technically Apex and Contact are also Expansion but nobody calls so so...

But yeah, CWA is a great game

[merry briar]

Da da da duuuuum

[midnight heart]

Secret > every other track

[winged walrus]

i = 0;
while{i <= 8} do {"RU_Soldier_GL" createUnit [ getMarkerPos "spawnPoint", grp]; 
systemChat str getMarkerPos "spawnPoint";
i = i + 1;};```

I just want to spawn enemies on trigger, but it doesn't do anything. can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? :((

it works if I'm on the same side

[obsidian agate]

so it's a trigger condition issue, not a code issue 😉

[narrow bough]

hello

here's a question relating to OFP

how do you control from how far you can hear sounds?

class CfgSounds
{
    sounds[]={myvoice};
    class myvoice
    {
        name = "myvoice"
        sound[] = {"\music\mymusic.ogg", 1, 1};
        titles[] = {
            0, "blablabla",
            2, "blobloblo"
        };
    };
};

here's my description.ext

and my soldier is initialized with this say ["myvoice", 1]

but there's no gradient in sound, if I got some specific distance from him, there's no sound and no subtitles

but event at relatively large distances, I still hear the audio at 100% of the volume

https://imgur.com/a/qp5CGXh

[narrow bough]

this doesn't look like a distance from which I should be able to hear someone with the maxTilesDistance parameter (the second parameter for say) set to just 1

also, on a sidenote, the sound doesn't continue from where it should when I unpause, anyone else experienced this?

[obsidian agate]

use db-40, 1 }; for sound value definition
and this say "myvoice"

@narrow bough

[narrow bough]

alrighty, will try! thanks :)

also, the soldier's mouth doesn't lipsync at all

weird

[obsidian agate]

OFP needs .lip files yes 🙂 see wav2lip in Arma 3 Tools

[narrow bough]

oh, I found it on OFPEC, tysm :")

[obsidian agate]

anytime!

[potent sleet]

Yeah CWA is great. (Someone linked me how to decomplie the files, so once I finish the game "vanilla* fully I'm going to make a simple "Handguns" mod that puts them in "regular" inventories for classes that use them)

Granted I am profoundly incompetent at codding so I'll probably need to still ask around for a simple thing like that.

I actually just need to finish War Cry and I'll have done all of ARMA CWA then.

Though I feel like playing Resistance again, I've already beaten it before but Resistance good

Co-op Resistance when

[real estuary]

Not sure If this is the correct channel but does anyone still play arma 2?

I want to get back into playing OFP and arma 2 and would be cool to find people to play missions with. I used to make missions for both

[merry briar]

This is the correct channel, yes

[winged walrus]

Yes, I do!. I mostly spend my time to create potato cutscenes in editor like this
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2814210134 or create singleplayer missions to play by myself. :D

[velvet folio]

but why arma 2 tho

[obsidian agate]

the environment, the gameplay, the assets, plenty of reasons 🙂

(performance, storage space?)

[real estuary]

Cos it's good

[pure prairie]

is arma 3's player base dying?

[obsidian agate]

We all die, at a different pace

[pure prairie]

not literally but that works

[ember bay]

open google, type "Arma 3 Steamcharts" and check the numbers for yourself.

[pure prairie]

seems like it is dying

[ember bay]

to me it seems like there's no difference for the past two or three years, more players during holidays and steam sales and then steady 12k for most of the year

[ember bay]

is Arma Mobile Ops canon?

[sacred shale]

I found this editing guide for warfare https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Warfare_1_-_Editing_Guide#Evolving_the_editing_guide

[narrow bough]

guys is it possible to have global vars in CWA?

[obsidian agate]

Yes

[narrow bough]

do you have any docs on the matter?

[stable matrix]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Variables#Global_Scope

[thorn hawk]

is arma 2 still popular?

[ember bay]

not as popular as Arma 3 but there are people playing it, main reason is because it keeps high FPS on modern rigs

[dark plank]

https://forums.bohemia.net/forums/topic/226276-karjala-flashpoint-mission-pack-for-fdf-mod/?tab=comments#comment-3461695

End of life Arma? Didn't think so :D

If anyone still rocks OFP here are some missions for the FDF mod

[narrow bough]

I do but I'm mainly on Vanilla, might try it out :"D

[dark plank]

FDF is one of the best and highest quality mods of OFP, I truly recommend it.

[narrow bough]

Sounds dope, honestly :"))))

http://www.fdfmod.org/

This is it, I'm presuming?

[dark plank]

Yup

[narrow bough]

Oh this is for ArmA2

oh nice

they have it in the Downloads tab

[dark plank]

It is for OFP, arma 1 and 2

[dark plank]

My forums page has all the necessary links

[narrow bough]

I'm playing the MacOS/Linux version, so I'd have to use the CD version of the game rather than the Steam version

since the Steam version for Windows doesn't play nice on Linux

[dark plank]

FDF mod comes with lots of Finnish Army vehicles and units and it has a cool campaign as well

[narrow bough]

nice, I'll try it out on my Windows rig in any case

[dark plank]

👍 👍

[narrow bough]

on the topic of campaigns, OFP:Res is so difficult, it's insane

I'm stuck on the mission with a platoon of Russian tanks marching into that big open field

[dark plank]

The tanker missions were the best :D

[narrow bough]

They're immensely fun, but wish me luck on beating them! 😭

[dark plank]

Here's an advice; disable their guns first before destroying them completely so that they can't kill you first

[narrow bough]

dang, that's good, gotta have good aim tho B")

[stable matrix]

You can use macOS/Linux version with mods and multiplayer

[narrow bough]

true, I have a drawback of multiplayer being exclusively LAN

but since Internet is a non-existent category, that's not an issue

xd

Also, I can use the installer through Wine, that's been tried and tested

I've used Chris' OFP Editor like that, too

[stable matrix]

No, Internet works as well

The browser doesn’t work ootb but you can direct connect to an IP

https://files.ofpisnotdead.com/files/browser/

There’s list of servers with IP and Port for direct connect

[eternal wadi]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/584777193574498324/985918760772853811/unknown.png

👀 whats dis old gem

[ember bay]

it took me longer to properly install this game and make it work than to finish the entire campaign, it is indeed a gem

[eternal wadi]

Indeed I had to find out how to manually insert a cdkey into registry because I don't want to destroy my steam "not played since 2016" stat

It was my 5th ever purchase on steam, on 27th june 2012.
10 years sure went by quite quick

[stable matrix]

Which of the two app ids do you own? 🙂

[eternal wadi]

Seems like 33910

Yah I bought combined operations, that package only contains 33910

[weary stirrup]

Oh boy, the memories from Domination and especially Chernarus Life...

Still the best game I've ever played

[narrow bough]

Good evening!

Just a question

How do I make a marker not disappear when I'm closer than 10m in OFP?

I wanna make sure that my player get in line

But the waypoint disappears when I'm too close

[obsidian agate]

I am not sure if OFP allows to set the completion radius but if so, set it to e.g 0.5
otherwise you can use a "Hold" waypoint (and set a manual "move" or "get in line" title) that you skip by script once the player's position is to your taste

[dreamy vigil]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/835854573766836244/986376202170298398/unknown.png
Got this error after i skip a cutscene when playing Arma: CWA

[ember bay]

memory leak

https://support.gog.com/hc/pl/articles/212451029-ARMA-Cold-War-Assault-Wyjście-do-pulpitu-z-błędem-Out-of-reserved-memory- it's in Polish but you can run it through google translate and should be understandable enough

basically -nosplash -nomap parameters for the app or try Enhanced Configuration Project mod

afaik it's due to high view distance set

[dreamy vigil]

i think i have issue here, i bought arma X edition a long time ago and but it says arma 2 not in Library,
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/835854573766836244/986755652087087144/unknown.png

And when i check my steam library there is Arma 2, but missing Army of Czech
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/835854573766836244/986756225553272842/unknown.png

and another thing my Arma 2 page is blank like this
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/835854573766836244/986756737661030410/unknown.png

[stable matrix]

there are two arma 2 copies on steam, you probably own the one that is not visible in the store. its the same game so don't worry about it

[dreamy vigil]

still missing the Army of the Czech tho

[stable matrix]

app id 33900 and app id 33910

that's because czech dlc is a "real" dlc

while the other are standalone games according to steam

if you view DLCs of Arma 2 OA you will see czech

it's just some quirks with how the steam apps are setup

[dreamy vigil]

ah i see

[stable matrix]

if you want to install BAF and PMC you need to run the games on steam once for the files to be copied to the correct locations in arma 2 oa

czech is installed correctly out of the box

[dreamy vigil]

which game i should run first?

[stable matrix]

arma 2 -> arma 2 oa -> arma 2 baf -> arma 2 pmc -> arma 2 czech

then run arma 2 co to start all games at once

arma 2 czech installer is part of arma 2 oa

[dreamy vigil]

i dont have the A2 CO in my library, will it just show up in my library cuz when i check CO store it shows me this :https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/835854573766836244/986763489374765056/unknown.png

[stable matrix]

arma 2 co is just arma 2 combined operations i.e. arma 2 + arma 2 oa

it's not a standalone game

[dreamy vigil]

i know but will there be a new game icon for the co in my library or i just have to start one of the Arma 2 game?

[stable matrix]

you will need to start arma 2 oa 🙂

that's the newest of them

and when you load in the arma 2 data you'll get the "combined" experience with arma 2 in oa

[dreamy vigil]

got it

[dreamy vigil]

If i want to back up the game, do i need to back up all of them or just the OA and A2(vanilla)?

[winged walrus]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/442479753300279300/987001996009680996/Record_2022_06_16_19_01_35_470.mp4

New M4A1 sound for Arma 2 :D

[celest haven]

Hey guys

Who play armed assault here ?

[merry briar]

Since you've said problem there, you better to tell it beforehand.

tldr: Don't ask to ask, just ask

[celest haven]

Okay

Injave problem with russian language

I have *

I cant change it to english

@merry briar

[rare thistle]

why can’t you change it to english? should be in the options afaik

[celest haven]

In the option its just russian

[rare thistle]

what game version do you have?

[celest haven]

1.18

[rare thistle]

steam?

[celest haven]

No

[rare thistle]

then?

[celest haven]

Then what

[rare thistle]

could be region locked

if it isn’t steam version, where did you get it from

[celest haven]

From a site i forget

[rare thistle]

from a site?

what site? i can’t help you without additional information i’m afraid…when did you get it, from where etc

[celest haven]

Bro

I found a solution

I download 1.05 patch international

Thanks bro for trying to help @rare thistle

[rare thistle]

that is not gonna work if you own 1.18

[celest haven]

And sorry for annoying questions

[celest haven]

Ill try it

[rare thistle]

so again, where did you get the game from?

[celest haven]

I didnt find any topic for this issue on internet but its ok

Wait

[rare thistle]

i’m waiting…

[celest haven]

Thats the site

[obsidian agate]

so you -really- ask for support on the official Discord for a cracked version of the game

guess what

↓

[celest haven]

What

[obsidian agate]

!ban @celest haven 0 software piracy - buy the game on Steam, it's cheap

[gilded lantern]

*fires them railguns at @celest haven* Ò_Ó

[rare thistle]

🥷

[merry briar]

Sorry for your loss, PuFu. RIP your sibling

[rare thistle]

cheap move from @obsidian agate after all the baiting done

[obsidian agate]

chaff and wheat were separated

[obsidian agate]

sorry, I thought you would ban after "↓" but you stopped typing :'(

[rare thistle]

i was on phone

:)))

[obsidian agate]

(still, +1 on my tab mwehehe)

the next one is on me 🍻

[dreamy vigil]

oh hey Arma Gold also on GoG

very cheap like $2

80% discount

[merry briar]

when can afford a pc
and pirate a $2 game

[weary stirrup]

Of course, because all the money went into the PC! 😄

[safe tangle]

how do i fix the issue with over-memory error for CWA

i try to boot C01 : Battlefields and it shuts it down

now i cant finish the mission

[stable matrix]

are you running with -nomap?

[obsidian agate]

!purgeban @pure ravine 0 scambot

[gilded lantern]

*PewPewPew!!*
RIP @pure ravine

[winged walrus]

is there any way to convert biedi files to sqm?

whenever I try to open a mission created in 3D editor from regular editor it alarms "Warning: the file is read-only"

[obsidian agate]

!purgeban @tardy olive 0 discord nitro scam

[gilded lantern]

*fires them railguns at @tardy olive* Ò_Ó

[dreamy vigil]

i kinda wonder how come people getting scammed like that

[winged walrus]

There's a new addon for arma 2 recently released on moddb, I believe it was Brazilian army.

Actually a few days ago

[reef sparrow]

Hi, I just bought the arma x: anniversary edition, is it supposed to say that I don't own arma 2 when browsing the steam store?

[merry briar]

Normal. Theoretically there are two Arma 2's in Steam, one is hidden one is public. You got the hidden one

[reef sparrow]

Oh ok
So if I just launch the hidden version it has the same features as the public one right?

[merry briar]

It should

[molten heron]

the only difference was one was NA (north america) region, the visible on is ROW (rest of world)

[reef sparrow]

when i launch arma 2
the sound is really distorted and static
is there a way to fix that

it dosent happen if i launch OA

[reef sparrow]

also is it possible to bind "Previous" to Space+Mouse wheel up?

[tough quarry]

just open arrowhead bro only

[tough quarry]

idk

i only open arrowhead with all dlcs that's what it was meant for anyway

[zinc marlin]

Anyone know if the train tracks from Chernarus are in the arma 2 data packs? I can't seem to find it, not sure if I'm missing something

[forest onyx]

@alpine rover

[eternal wadi]

not everything is released in the data packs
they might just literally not be there

You could... Go there in Arma 3 with cup, and do getModelInfo cursorObject; to get the filepath, usually cup file paths are the same as in Arma 2, then you know exactly where they should be

[winged walrus]

Does JSRS A2 creator mind if I replace shotfire sounds with more modern sounds and modified the distance sound script? ... and upload them to moddb with giving credits?

[stable matrix]

From Bohemia forum post about JSRS mod for Arma 2

YOU DO NOT HAVE PERMISSION TO EDIT THIS MOD AND ITS CONTENTS WITHOUT MY EXPRESSED WRITTEN PERMISSION, NOR ARE YOU PERMITTED TO RELEASE ANY PARTS OF THIS MOD UNDER YOUR NAME.

YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO PUBLISH THIS MOD ON OTHER SITES WITHOUT MY WRITTEN PERMISSION. SINCE WE GOT REPORTS OF BROKEN JSRS DOWNLOADS PUBLICHED BY DIFFERENT WEBSITES. IT IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED TO DOWNLOAD JSRS ONLY VIA THE GIVEN LINKS IN THE BI FORUMS.

[winged walrus]

okie :'(

how do I find the author?

[obsidian agate]

on the mod page?

[winged walrus]

hmmm ...

where's mod page?

I originally downloaded the mod from moddb

[obsidian agate]

I'd go out on a limb and google "JSRS mod Arma 2" 😄 most likely the BI forums link

[winged walrus]

thanks :D I hope he lets me to reupload his mod >.<

[obsidian agate]

or mod the mod and have JSRS as a dependency, that's also a possibility

[winged walrus]

that doesn't require the author permission?

[stable matrix]

he's also on this discord

[obsidian agate]

not at all

[desert hemlock]

i think reforger will end up here if they dont fix these servers

[winged walrus]

Reforger will end up here when Arma 4 comes out anyway

[elder warren]

No

[odd citrus]

ah

[dreamy vigil]

shame

[odd citrus]

!purgeban 252480342747774976 0 discrod scam links

[gilded lantern]

*PewPewPew!!*
RIP @tender coral

[odd citrus]

new approach to have no message it seems

[elder warren]

Gottem

[obsidian agate]

"discrod" HA HA HA

[odd citrus]

dont you have discrod?

[obsidian agate]

"don't you guys have phones?"

[odd citrus]

exactly

[toxic delta]

#end_of_life_discrod

[odd citrus]

I can sell you one if you dont have

only 350

[elder warren]

I've still got an old 3310 floating around somewhere if you need a phone

Probably still got half a charge in the battery

[swift pebble]

Hey, so I've been a bit bored around in yt and for some reason I started looking at the old videos uploaded by Bohemia Interactive, and eventually found the trailers of the factions present in ArmA 2, and a trailer got my attention

https://youtu.be/dC6xC7gsO1w?t=80

Exactly at 1:20, I recognized the theme, so I started looking into the OST, and I couldn't find anything similar sounding to the OFP theme

And then I decided to google it and I found a topic on the forum too

https://forums.bohemia.net/forums/topic/72739-arma-2-soundtrack/ Wich is true, tracks 23, 24 and 25 are not in game and neither on the music .pbo

Anyone knows why those aren't included?

[ember bay]

they probably thought these don't meet the general soundtrack standard, idk. Do you have the Anniversary edition? There were some extra files inside, maybe songs too

[dreamy vigil]

what are the name of the track 23,24,and 25?

[dreamy vigil]

probably trailer only soundtrack, Arma 3 also have those

[swift pebble]

Motherland Calls, Cold War Rearmed and Antiphon

[swift pebble]

I don't think I do, I bought ArmA 2, OA and the DLC's all through steam during winter discount on 2019 I think

[swift pebble]

ArmA 3 ost? I'll try to find it

Probably the one I'm looking for is Cold War Rearmed A2 version, and I'm going to be disappointed if it's just meant to be used for the trailer for the Russian faction

[dreamy vigil]

no i mean trailer only soundtrack, for example Tank DLC trailer has different tone than tank dlc theme ingame

[swift pebble]

yea, but the thing is there is no file named like that inside the music .pbo in arma 2, and neither on youtube

perhaps they only used it for the trailer and just kept those 3 tracks listed but outside the game files

[obsidian agate]

I might ask

[swift pebble]

Please do lol, and thanks for the help btw

[obsidian agate]

just did! answer next week, most likely 🙂

[dreamy vigil]

should've asked in Czech, Lou

[obsidian agate]

oh, Spanish was not the way to go then

[swift pebble]

XD

Well, thanks

[winged walrus]

which sound do you prefer for M230 Apache arma 2?
first : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9dqSwyCcXE
second : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSxkS_pIzQQ&t=55s

the second one was original taken from first one but I made it louder (can be heard up to 5000 meters in game) and added reflection to post firing sound

if the answer is none and Vanilla sound better I'm gonna cry

[ember bay]

imo 1st one sounds better, the other sound type feels like it was compressed or recorded with low-budget mic

[forest onyx]

2nd sounds like someone recorded gun shots in a indoor range :X

[jovial cargo]

Hi guys

I have Arma 2 Operation Arrowhead

I want to try out famous mods of Arma 2 like Dayz. But 99% of Arma 2 mods need you to have Arma 2 Complete Edition and don't work with operation Arrowhead.

So what should I buy to complete the Arma 2 collection? Most sites seem to be selling Operation Arrowhead only.

How do i complete my Arma 2 collection bundle?

[obsidian agate]

Steam 🙂

[jovial cargo]

Thank you

[swift pebble]

https://store.steampowered.com/sub/40710/

Should be listed with the DLC's, when you search it up it doesn't show up for some reaon