I like the Contact campaign but having me search for hours for some roots is kinda boring
#contact_discussion
ancient ice
woeful flower
Contact: like it so far.
minor adder
All the campaign stuff should go into #singleplayer
main spear
woeful flower
Contact discussion: I am discussing that I like it so far. 👍
mossy mauve
i dont think how 90% of it is walking with complete fatigue
the other 10% is hiding and holding space on some laptops
woeful flower
I like ufo stuff...its cool. The whole idea of the dlc is a good thing personally. I'm enjoying it.
mossy mauve
i like it, but the first mission when i got spotted you lose the mission and had to use a truck or something as a distraction
i figured vehicles and shit didnt work cause everything got emp and thats how one of the people died at the beginning
young epoch
The movement of the aliens looks incredibly wonky and I actually love it.
Nope most vehicles you come across will function just fine
silk tide
The Area 51 event is a clusterfuck
snow kiln
Is anyone having a problem with the spectrum device? for some reason I can only see the bottom half of the screen when I right click (as seen in imgur link) https://i.imgur.com/HHE9dwk.png
Does anyone know how to fix this?
snow kiln
What do you mean by that?
scenic lantern
What screen res Do you have? @snow kiln
snow kiln
Part of me thinks it's because I have a higher FOV
scenic lantern
That might be the issue
cerulean prism
no @mossy mauve
scenic lantern
@mossy mauve
Dude... For Real? @mossy mauve
snow kiln
My Resolution is 1920x1080, it's always been that
cerulean prism
go to #offtopic_movies_series at least
snow kiln
Yeah okay so I was right, I changed my FOV back to normal and works
scenic lantern
👍
snow kiln
So I guess if anyone else has that problem just reset the Aspect Ratio
stable vine
!purgeban @mossy mauve 90d scamming, soliciting
coarse ridgeBOT
*fires them railguns at @safe mica* Ò_Ó
stable vine
Yes Arma doesn't support custom FOV's which is also why it's not available in ingame config and not documented anywhere
sterile mesa
small two missions which let you play a little bit with drone in editor
ancient ice
CONTACT SPOILERS
Right so how does one complete the Collecting the second alien Root tip, if I attack it, it just kills me if I fire a RPG my whole vision goes white,Using eddie doesn't work.
snow kiln
I knew loading walkable moving objects would be a good meme
https://i.imgur.com/AgaB94Y.jpg
scenic lantern
@ancient ice
If somebody has a solution, he/she will answer. Wait...
ancient ice
Cool trick
||Run up to the Little thing's, and you can get in them. the Launchers. and just hide and watch as chaos erupts.||
sterile mesa
@ancient ice || is Alien drone near the second probe tip? You should sample that 2nd probe tip with probing lance, not laser||
cloud venture
Regarding the FOV: i play on a widescreen setup also with custom FOV and its all working fine for me
scenic lantern
i think it's fov in relation to resolution
ancient ice
|| @sterile mesa Yes, the Alien Entity is near the second Second probe tip||
dry palm
||I have been wandering aimlessly looking for this second tip for so long it’s actually dawn now||
snow kiln
lmao
And for those of you who dont want to click the Imgur link it's miller on a target. I dont know why it was at a Bluebell base though 🤔
Someone Honestly needs to make a "easter egg" hunting discord for this campaign though
torn bloom
i wonder why i found ctrg gear in a box in a bluebell base too
pulsar stone
Ditto
snow kiln
I'm at Kulno
pulsar stone
Had a CTRG Carrier rig
snow kiln
Yeah I also have a CTRG Rig
pulsar stone
In an AA camp that had just been sabotaged by russians, so I assumed it meant something
torn bloom
yea that one
snow kiln
If you go south down that road you will find a dead guy in the street with a map in his hand
That's what I'm trying to find atm
snow kiln
Btw @torn bloom that writing translated says "Leave your posts"
torn bloom
hmm
pulsar stone
I love that the DLC added EMPed factions to the editor, it'll be nice to be able to make post EMP scenarios.
pulsar stone
Kind of curious why they didn't go deeper in the signal jamming/EWAR aspect of things, though. Nothing I could make work in the editor.
torn bloom
doggo
snow kiln
RIP I shot a dog and it mission failed me
snow kiln
Friendly Fire
torn bloom
gg
snow kiln
I win again lmao I found a Go-Kart
torn bloom
im quite glad you can put the simcon adapter and blank rounds into the mx rifles and promet rifles
goes into mp and proceeds to shoot everyone with blanks
livid rune
||Ok, I'Ve been trying to transmit noise at that stupid alien drone for half an hour now ("Transmit Signal" task, mission first contact) and nothing happens... what am I doing wrong ???||
cold cloak
@livid rune ||try change offset of transreceiver||
It is posibble to use scanners in mp mission with full functionality like this one in campaign?
Or with ||listen|| function only?
snow kiln
No, maybe maybe with heavy scripting but probably not
pulsar stone
At least they could have made drone hacking/disabling usable in custom games 😦
Hey, anyone knows a good low-vis clothing mod?
snow kiln
What do you mean by low vis
livid rune
@cold cloak ||Thanks, that did it, plus the fact that noise doesn't work (contrary to what the task description says) but music does...||
calm crescent
@pulsar stone Some one will implement it. It's a great concept even if they have to water it down.
pulsar stone
Yeah, I guess so.
ancient ice
If anyone want's any
locations or anything DM me.
Also, @stable vine Are there any Livonian Public Servers right now?
that are up)
stable vine
dunno
warped yarrow
I just finished Contact. I've gotta say, it was awesome. Especially the last mission, very cinematic.
How do I do spoiler coverup?
inland cosmos
use || on both sides of whatever
so like ||this||
I used a \ though so that's why you can see it
without a \ it looks like ||this||
warped yarrow
||a||
Cheers
||I loved how I had to watch the credits twice, just to listen to all of the different news channels||
mossy mauve
holy shit
torn bloom
ikr
scenic grail
Is there a video about the ending yet?
torn bloom
doubt so, most lets players havnt even made it to mission 3 yet, unless they live streamed
scenic grail
Can someone gimme some spoilers in PM then?
torn bloom
i like the fact that the popular arma people are playing the new campaign with mods, and end up wondering why some stuff is broken
snow kiln
I just finished with like 7 mods loaded so
mild agate
Need help please. I am trying to run this mission pbo on my server, and keep getting. Warning Message: No entry 'bin\config.bin/CfgWorlds.Enoch'. My RPT http://pasted.co/0dfc5646
torn bloom
well it depends on what mods you have loaded if stuff breaks or not
some mods might not break anything at all
was talkin to 1mag
inland cosmos
So does anyone know if part of the singleplayer adjustments and such is more light at night?
because playing just arma in the editor and the night is a lot darker then if you also load the singleplayer stuff
mild agate
would anyone know what causes this error. No entry 'bin\config.bin/CfgWorlds.Enoch'.
calm crescent
You dont have the dlc loaded for whatever your loading
mild agate
Its for Contact, is the dlc called Curator?
calm crescent
No that is zeus
mild agate
So I updated my server, and I see all the dlc's but im not seeing contact, or anything different
inland cosmos
nah thing is sabre I tried it with and without the campaign stuff loaded
full moon nights are a lot brighter with
woeful kite
Mission 4 is hella long
mild agate
Question; So I own a copy of Contact, and I have a server. I just did an update and noticed there is no Contact DLC in my server files, what do I need to do to run Contact missions on my server?
inland cosmos
So you know how Contact is split up a bit into platform content and the singleplayer campaign content?
the platform content that everyone gets, like the map and a bunch of gear, is in a folder called enoch
the singleplayer campaign content, like the alien stuff and EW equipment, is in a folder called contact
enoch runs by default, so you'll always have that
the singleplayer content isn't multiplayer compatible however
the changed up main menu you get when loading the campaign stuff also doesn't have a multiplayer button
mild agate
OMG no I did not realize that, So I got Antistasi Livonia from the workshop, and like most Antistasi missions I thought it was coop
inland cosmos
it is
mild agate
I sorry if I sound stupid, if it is then why will it not run on my server. RPT http://pasted.co/0dfc5646
inland cosmos
Apparently it's not loading enoch
gritty pelican
anyone have the class names to these alien vehicles?
im not seeing them in props etc
mild agate
What is enoch
woeful kite
@inland cosmos the large alien entity and alien network are props, but the smaller ones are in actual factions
inland cosmos
the platform content that everyone gets, like the map and a bunch of gear, is in a folder called enoch
woeful kite
Just sort it out in Contact stuff only
inland cosmos
did you not read what I said sidekick?
and what does that have to do with anything nathan?
mild agate
Yeah Gordon WeedmanToday at 12:03 PM
Apparently it's not loading enoch,...Yeah I did
inland cosmos
And I told you what it was before that
knotty knoll
Alright, no need to make a major deal out of this folks.
knotty knoll
No, its not.
mild agate
Yes you did above that I forgot I do apologize for over looking
knotty knoll
See. The DLC has been out less than 24 hours, people are bound to have questions (and miss answers).
mild agate
Thank you
inland cosmos
I think you're seeing stuff that aint there FM 
knotty knoll
Nope
mild agate
Im just trying to understand why my mission is not loading enoch
inland cosmos
anyway yeah if you can figure out how to load the enoch stuff on your server sidekick, you should be fine
mild agate
Yes Thank you
inland cosmos
go to options > game > difficulty
and at the very bottom it should say unlimited saves or something
and yes
might have to close and open the escape menu again though
and danger zones always block manual saving
nah I played on normal and only had one save too
that's the one
solar ginkgo
@inland cosmos so the map is publicly available? Or at least its supposed to be?
mild agate
Ok so I got my server running, Now how in the hell do you access your multiplayer browser with Contact DLC enabled, Im only getting Play "Single player", Editor
stable vine
you can't
solar ginkgo
So can you not use the public platform materials in multiplayer at all then?
mild agate
So we cant make multiplayer like this https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1754891378&searchtext=Antistasi+contact
inland cosmos
then why did you @ me earlier @woeful kite?
mild agate
This is unreal
What a god dam joke, we pay BI $25. knowing all to well we all like playing coop, and make this great looking dlc for only single player...Im so finished with giving this company anymore of my money
solar ginkgo
Wait so you can't make MP Livonia missions?
stable vine
"we pay BI $25. knowing all to well we all like playing coop"
And we also knew very clearly beforehand that we won't get coop, but we still paid $25 for it anyway and now we just complain because we apparently couldn't read
@solar ginkgo yes you can
contact != livonia
livonia is Enoch, contact is the seperate single player only stuff and alien stuff
solar ginkgo
Then why does it keep saying I need to purchase the DLC when I try to load Livonia from the main menu editor?
Unless I have seemingly random collections of mods loaded.
@stable vine
mild agate
@solar ginkgo No sure cant, they once again screwed us over
stable vine
because you need to own the DLC to play on the terrain
The alient/singleplayer campaign content is not made for MP use
solar ginkgo
Except that's the issue: with mods (still trying to find out for sure which ones) I can get on it just fine.
stable vine
The base game content can be used in MP just fine
solar ginkgo
Without the DLC being purchased.
inland cosmos
have you tried playing on livonia tho?
stable vine
you can only play on it if you own the DLC
solar ginkgo
With some of the mods I can, in Editor, click play.
And it loads it
Otherwise I can't even load it up from the editor menu
inland cosmos
so you can run around and stuff on livonia?
Might wanna find out what mod is causing that and notify the authors, pretty sure that's a big no no
solar ginkgo
I'm currently piece-mealing my typical mod list
To try and find out what mod(s) are responsible.
mild agate
@stable vine So if it can be then could you tell me how you get to your Multiplayer Browser? I tryed both play buttoms, and only allows me Single player, editor
fringe berry
is anyone else stuck in a download loop for the update`i downloaded the whole thing 3 times now and it throws an error with orange addon and exits the install
my game files are untouched
calm crescent
Question why do they call the LDF the slang term that they call them?
cloud pilot
Bluebell?
The flags, patches and coat of arms are all blue so I’m guessing something with that
mossy mauve
who pinged me
vocal pulsar
During the first mission you can see a few Livonians squatting. Now, can the animation for that be found in the editor? (In the Splendid Animation Viewer)
scenic grail
jesus christ contact takes long to install
umbral wren
I heard a couple of people now talk about a huge delay when shooting people online with the a shotgun (pellets). It takes way longer for them to die than with a normal weapon after a hit.
scenic grail
aaand it failed
alright what
it failed a second time
and it slows down my entire computer now epic
it's now reinstalling the entirety of arma 3
mossy mauve
is story discussion allowed here?
scenic grail
in spoilers only afaik
calm crescent
Yes, just make sure to mark things as spoilers as needed.
mossy mauve
kk
||anyone else found the CTRG stealth uniform near one of the looter offroads?||
is there a way to make eeddie follow you?
calm crescent
@mossy mauve Yea, I found it.
calm crescent
There is some other nice stashes as well
mossy mauve
its suh a fucking pain in the ass to dissasemble and resassemble it al the time
i hope that rudwell in my TL wont get court-martialed for the genocide of livonians
minor adder
The cbrn gear is part of the platform update is it? Would make pub zeus more interesting
mossy mauve
no, its premium
calm crescent
He means it's part of the platform as in you can play with it in none DLC enviroments.
minor adder
Exactly
So that you dont have to install the contact part, which doesnt work on public servers
true relic
what names of contact in-game sountracks ?
mossy mauve
all the stuff except the cables, AEs, AFO, broken equipment and spectrum device are in the main branch i think
calm crescent
Pretty sure spectrum is part of the platform, just not functional as it is in SP
mossy mauve
there was a discussion about the spectrum device not being in main branch in #general_chat_arma earlier
calm crescent
If it is that kinda sucks, was hoping to script my own UAV hacker with it
minor adder
I think they are planning to add it to the platform
mossy mauve
i think BI plans to include a bunch of stuff in the main branch with 1.96
contact music isnt in i think
minor adder
When is 1.96 coming?
minor adder
And shouldnt 1.95 come first
calm crescent
Aliens
mossy mauve
i dont know im just relaying stuff from their blog
id assume that 1.95 is their current internal build and that they dont see that as a viable release candidate
man, i wish the spectrum device stuff was an engine update and not just script
that was cool as hell
also the spectrum device keep stelling me theres actiities and when i check ther eis not
you get a notif for every small action that is detected
might just be a ping
its really annoying
you have to find out from what direction its coming
its pretty neat
tells you when ||LDF|| is near
calm crescent
I do admit it's a bit vexxing but realistic when you ||Intercept LDF Radio comms and miss out on half the convo trying to direction/tune your device. ||
mossy mauve
genuinly learned some stuff about electronic warfare tbh
calm crescent
It's honestly the future of warfare.
Iran is doing it, US does it, Russia does it.
mossy mauve
mainly that its easier to run in and gun everyone down
unless there is a ||stomper|| around
calm crescent
Yea, never got why people think it has no action and it's all walking.
It's like there is only truly a few spots you have to use the device, you can just got hot and clean house at any time.
mossy mauve
yeah
surreal torrent
There was a ||stomper|| south of Palona ||near a crashed heli that I crawled up to and placed an explosive under. When I shot up the squad, I used the explosion as a distraction for the Palona patrol to come up the road, which I had a clear vantage point over as well allowing me to wipe the town out too.||
Edited that for a little more obvious spoiler region
mossy mauve
this channel looks like an article on the SCP wiki
calm crescent
lol that is what I was thinking.
mossy mauve
kinda fitting
calm crescent
Tell you what though, 2nd mission has the best damn scene out of all of Arma universe.
Soon as I saw that, was like...yep worth buying this.
minor adder
Remind me what happens there again?
Only got through 3 missilns until giving up and waiting until im home and on my proper pc
Just isnt the same on 50% ss and all low
And a tiny screen
surreal torrent
Also does anyone know a way to reload ArmA's sound effects system?
With a command or something?
I used a medical zamtrak and now my character is just repeating the treatment sound effect over and over
Persists through restarts and reloads
calm crescent
Its the first part you encounter.
minor adder
How do you do spoilers again
surreal torrent
||spoiler||
mossy mauve
||
minor adder
||test||
The part where the dumbass || teammate shoots the flare and lights the hut onfire and then the alien ship comes?||
surreal torrent
ayy nvm I fixed it
I jumped from a roof and treated myself normally
and it stopped the sound
calm crescent
Yep
minor adder
The part where you are || assigned to burn trash, and then dont burn the trash, could you just kill all livonians or does the mission become weird ||
mossy mauve
||Spetsnaz 223 special purpose brigade are the reals mvps||
wary garnet
I'm stuck on Mission 3, namely that spectrum minigame
||There's a small probe flying around and you need to mimic the radio frequencies. There's a freq in the middle that seems to be the starting freq. When I transmit the noise on that freq there's a "power up" sound and a freq normally appears to the right of it. I then transmit on that freq. Occasionally it results in the alien making a foghorn sound. Then a 3rd freq on the left side appears and nothing happens I transmit on that. It usually only appears for a few seconds before it switches back to the starting freq. ||
gameplay image:
https://i.postimg.cc/0yDDksp1/Untitled.jpg
scenic grail
||friendship ENDED with ldf, now SPETSNAZ is my best friend||
minor adder
What ||friendship||
mossy mauve
||its a puzzle, go play music on a frequency, if it moves play it on one of the two new ones, if it resets you messed up and have to try again|| @wary garnet
minor adder
The first thing i did in the first ||mission was to try and shoot nato guys|| and after the ||ldf guy comes in behind you i tried shooting him without the simcom adapter||
But it || didnt work :(||
mossy mauve
||i knew instantly that its just blanks, you already saw the tape in the intro cutscene||
minor adder
I saw it, but ||maybe without the simcom adapter it would still kill :( ||
I ||thought||
mossy mauve
||you know what blanks are right?||
minor adder
||yes, but then why use the simcom adapter||
vocal pulsar
||Back in Cold War Assault (the 80's) the russian special operation was actually called "Spetz Natz". But here, in First Contact (2039?) it's called "Spetznaz. I wonder what's changed between the 80's and 2030's.||
minor adder
|| its called the proper name now||
I just kinda hoped ||that the blanks couöd be faulty and kill someone :(|| @mossy mauve
I mean who doesnt try to ||instantly shoot teammates||
wary garnet
@mossy mauve that's what I've been doing but nothing happens
minor adder
You are all || psychopaths||
What monster wouldnt || try and free their friends from their mortal prisons ||
vocal pulsar
They have ||stuff to do on earth||
minor adder
Not || anymore they dont||
surreal torrent
btw anyone looking to translate the ||documents|| use Google Lens, it can translate handwritten fonts really fucking well
surreal torrent
I have been using Google Lens and it has saved my ass so many times because I can read ||patrol documents and sensitive info||
minor adder
God the ||handwriting is so difficult to read at parts||
At times its even ||worse than mine||
dry wren
havent got to try the thing yet but reading all these blacked out comments is amusing
minor adder
We just want to || preserve|| the || experience for people who havent played it, like me||
*||fully||
analog harbor
Can anyone tell me how to solve|| that AFO puzzle?|| It just seems to random for me
minor adder
I think the solution is further up in the thread
mossy mauve
||it wasnt the aliens, you see a rusky run around and then charges are blown||
royal condor
Hello, how to use the black censor? 🤔
mossy mauve
||
royal condor
|Test|
stable vine
|| stuff to censor ||
mossy mauve
||spooiler||
surreal torrent
@mossy mauve Ooooh, I just thought ||it was the AFO because when you move north toward the rebel camp, the AFO there blows everyone up||
scenic lantern
type text, mark it, right click, mark as spoiler, send
analog harbor
okay.... i quit that puzzle.... it's stupid and random
vocal pulsar
put || at the start and end of a message
mossy mauve
the puzzles arent random
stable vine
@scenic lantern expert tips. nice. learned smth new
royal condor
||If you read this, congratulations! You just violated the CLASSIFIED SECRET DEFENSE HIGH LEVEL law! 50 years of jail for you! judge's gavel tap twice xD ||
mossy mauve
its basically just one of those ||remember the colours games mixed with memory|| @analog harbor
scenic lantern
||you're welcome @stable vine ||
analog harbor
Accept, nothing make sense
analog harbor
it doesnt tell me if i do it right or wrong
mossy mauve
it does
mossy mauve
||if you do it wrong it resets to the original frequencies||
||you only have to do the "alien comms?" frequencies||
@pliant pumice
sorry
@analog harbor
surreal torrent
Also, does the ||tinfoil hat|| do anything?
mossy mauve
no
surreal torrent
nice I can throw it away lol
mossy mauve
||wait it might do||
analog harbor
it doesnt.... it jumps all over the place
mossy mauve
||i didnt find one, but it might stop the psychic waves that hit you from the AE when youre close|| @surreal torrent
mossy mauve
@analog harbor im sorry to tell you, but youre really bad at pattern recognition
surreal torrent
and let ya know
I got one from the ||rebel camp south of swarog|| btw. It's sitting on a table, you can ||craft one from the box of aluminum foil||
analog harbor
does it matter WHICH music you use ?
lone lark
Arma 3 Contact: the ending doesn’t matter.
The ||comrades|| we made along the way matter.
||)))))) good to see Russians are finally depicted as not being the bad guy asshats||
woeful kite
ebo rip
scenic lantern
so what?
calm crescent
@analog harbor || It doesn't matter which music, think of it like one of those puzzle wack of moles. Your goal is to eliminate all the secondary signals in a specific pattern.||
surreal torrent
OMG I just successfully used the comms to move an enemy squad out of hiding!
Blasted them all with my silenced Mk200
I love it
calm crescent
Wounder if BI will post some data graph like they did with LOW
Was pretty cool to see what everybody did, what percentile, ect
torn bloom
how many of us || let the core blow up at the end ||
mossy mauve
||tbh the livonians would have deserved it||
surreal torrent
woops miscalculated the route an enemy patrol was gonna take when moving away from their position and I sent them riiiiight into me
lmao
I love misdirecting the enemy using comms
lone lark
@torn bloom ||I didn’t, I decided to shoot random shit the entire time and then suddenly it was “very good comrade, here is medal the end”||
||What happens if you let it go boom?||
torn bloom
@lone lark || long story short - big boom, oh no, mission failed well get em next time ||
lone lark
||Is it worth it to play it again and let the boom boom happen?||
torn bloom
|| first time it happened it scared the crap outta me, but idk thats your call, if you want to it's quite easy, just dont shoot anything ||
|| or dont shoot the launchers shooting at the core, etc ||
mossy mauve
||i cant hack the ugv||
nvm
dammit
it seems like its comp,letely random wehter it will work
surreal torrent
Does anyone know what this note means? Does it just direct you to ||the bandit camp north?|| If so, then what's ||that circle with the X? I am around that area and see nothing, other than Echo squad and the alien device (The squad of which I have already killed)||
oh can't upload images?
shame
Here's the image ||https://i.imgur.com/xhWMGk9.png||
mossy mauve
Looks like cia documents to me
inland cosmos
I couldn't find anything there either
mossy mauve
noone gonna help me?
surreal torrent
oh wait I found it @inland cosmos
It's not directly on the mark
Also I dunno Doug, I just blow up the UGVs
Couldn't hack them myself
inland cosmos
oh wow that mark is actually quite a bit off
surreal torrent
um
sooo
I drove down a street
Then I got an unknown signal from the other direction
back down the road I just came
and so I head towards the signal and on the road ||there's a fucking zamak with an SPMG and a 6.5mm suppressor|| right where I drove past. It wasn't there when I drove by 10 seconds earlier. ||And no one was driving it||
summer vale
Miller strikes again
surreal torrent
um
wtf
I went away and came back and it's gone
WHO WAS DRIVING
It only happens when signal ||85.90|| shows up
I think I found an easter egg
Okay so I have no clue what is happening here
inland cosmos
||signal 85.90 is the spetsnaz' comms channel||
torn bloom
aliens man
surreal torrent
I'ma put it all in spoiler tag ||Every time I leave the danger zone around the alien object (that is originally the location of the primary objective to find ED-1E, west of Swarog) I get a notice that signal 85.90 is active. When I scan it, it doesn't give me any info other than Unknown Net and if I am lucky it marks the position on the maphttps://i.imgur.com/80aiHfL.png There was a truck that spawned on the road there the first time I went to look at it but disappeared when I left and came back. For me, it had an SPMG and a 6.5mm suppressor||
If anyone else has seen this and know wtf is happening hmu
inland cosmos
I know what's happening there
surreal torrent
oh also I should add ||there is nothing at the location marked for 85.90. Just woods and downed trees||
?
inland cosmos
||Okay so the idea is that you're supposed to get an eddie drone right? The next goal is to get samples from the alien thing there. Except when you get at where the alien thing is, the LDF forces are all killed already. The 85.90 channel having activity as soon as you leave the danger zone is a hint that the spetsnaz has wiped out the LDF forces prior to you arriving||
surreal torrent
||But I killed those guys. And I don't have ED-1E yet||
inland cosmos
||which is added on to by your guy being all "who did this?"||
surreal torrent
||85.90 was appearing before I killed them, too||
||Yeah no, I haven't gotten that yet||
inland cosmos
||yeah you're supposed to get eddie first before going to that bit AFAIK||
inland cosmos
kinda
||but yeah if you follow that signal you can get some pretty big hints that the spetsnaz are about||
surreal torrent
I'm the kinda guy that does everything else BUT the main missions in video games
lmao
inland cosmos
same here kinda
surreal torrent
I played Kingdom Come: Deliverance until I was near maxed out on my skills and stuff, and only then did I end up going to the guy that trains you in combat at the start of the game
I kicked his ass lmao
inland cosmos
||also, with quite a few points of interest, check that frequency before getting too close, often times you'll catch something on itand when you get to the point of interest, stuff has been destroyed or killed. hmm wonder who did that?||
surreal torrent
By the time I started killing bandits for the missions in KC:D I was wiping out town guards to loot the whole place lmao
Also
torn bloom
|| the spetsnaz must be pretty darn fast and smart to literally destroy a whole LDF base camp 500 meters in front of me and leave before i get there ||
surreal torrent
I am still very confused where that kamaz came from and went
When no one was driving it
Does stuff actively spawn and despawn in this?
inland cosmos
||the spetsnaz are very sneaky beeky like||
||they're special forces for a reason||
surreal torrent
||oh wait maybe that was spetsnaz's vehicle and I was around just after they arrived and just after they left lmao||
torn bloom
|| also, i mistook a civilian offroad as civilian, then realized it was actually a bunch o bandits boutta shoot up my car ||
inland cosmos
Sort of unrelated spoiler ||FYI tho CTRG is also around as you can find CTRG vests and uniforms in places||
surreal torrent
WTF
IT'S BACK
I scanned the freq
and it's back
It's definitely connected
torn bloom
sp00k
inland cosmos
yeah probably meant to be a one time thing or something
torn bloom
also, according to the intro to apex mission number 2, || no CTRG unit is stationed in / around Livonia in 2035 (contact takes place in 2039) so it may just be your standard british troops, as we know from within the campaign that british troops are stationed in livonia in 2039, but then again this is miller we are talking about who knows ||
mossy mauve
||there is a ctrg uniform next to a looter offroad in a nato camp||
summer vale
Also possible that they were already suspicious and knew about the Black Site going up, after all Astra is a International space organisation so easily could have a leak
torn bloom
|| also isnt astra the space agency from argo? couldve sworn i recognized them from argo ||
summer vale
Also entirely possible that A) They deployed because Russia was moving towards CSAT or B ) More likely Livonia wasn’t a factor when Apex was being made
hushed spear
I may be a retard, but I need some help. Ive been playing and I have now reached the mission where you go around, get more EDDIES ( taking astra van ), and investigate some areas on your own.
I need a GPS, I have no clue how to locate myself on the map or know if I am going the right way.
Literally have been using the emspec device radar at the top to figure out what direction things are in
am I being an idiot, or is this the best way?
inland cosmos
okay so what you can do is simple triangulation
place down a marker using shift click, then orient yourself straight towards it
now in your map, place one side of your compass over the marker you placed, and use I believe ctrl+alt+mouse to draw a straight line past that side of the compass
repeat this with a marker in a much different spot, and where the lines meet is where you are!
hushed spear
Why cant we just have a GPS.
inland cosmos
who says you can't?
hushed spear
Or why cant the LDF have one I can yoink
inland cosmos
hushed spear
I cant find any
Im lossing it!
@mossy mauve find out on ur own
Story is amazing so far
BI has seriously outdone themselves
inland cosmos
specifically the Amsterdam studio that also made Laws of War
they really know how to write a story there
torn bloom
even if you find a gps, will it work?
torn bloom
considering that the || emp fried every electronic that isnt in a storage container / faraday cage / thingy ma bob ||
hushed spear
There are so many cages, not one has a GPS :weirdChamp:
Also explain how the van isnt effected
Im gonna pretend they just drove it in so my immersion doesnt hurt
|| Even tho the camp is pretty far from EMP point ||
torn bloom
some vehicles seem to work, others dont
|| i found a vehicle that i thought worked, but I couldn't turn the engine on ||
hushed spear
ye
torn bloom
|.| text here || (exclude the period)
hushed spear
ty
surreal torrent
(No spoilers) I killed this guy 5 minutes ago and his zamak keeps going in circles. lmao https://i.imgur.com/GPge92n.jpg
You can see the tire tracks in the road
hushed spear
lol
surreal torrent
I can't get into the vehicle without getting run over
hushed spear
killed a guy earlier and I thought he was alive and still driving away and he just went right off of a hill
I like that they made it open world in a way
surreal torrent
I slaughtered ||an entire zamak filled with LDF as they came down the road||
Only one guy had the sense to jump out while I was popping their heads
hushed spear
|| Well, I think its kinda important to realize LDF wern't always enemies ||
torn bloom
|| exactly, i like how in mission 2 jack tells you to "try not to kill anyone" and then about and hour or so later you are killing whole squads of LDF no problemo ||
hushed spear
|| I still try not to engage... FeelsBadMan ||
torn bloom
|| or maybe you are having a hacked UGV do the killing for you ||
|| in that case you are technically not the one killing the LDF, just a casually rogue drone ||
atomic dove
How to black out text for spoilers?
torn bloom
|.| text here || (exclude the period)
atomic dove
||How do I talk to the 👽 in mission 4||
hushed spear
|| NOOOOOOO IM NOT AT 4 YET ||
atomic dove
oof
torn bloom
ooof rip
surreal torrent
Polona spoilers ^^^
||Turns out if you take the UGV out before doing the mission for it, your character tells Syke that it is already taken care of, and he calls your character a badass for not having to hack it||
I love those details
torn bloom
|| lmao UGVs make appearances from mission 4 to the end, so get gud at hacking them, they will def come in handy for slaughtering LDF guys (and maybe yourself if you get lucky enough to be chosen) ||
that brings up the question
|| what kind of budget does the LDF have to have so many drones, like jesus||
surreal torrent
||That ammo truck guy I posted above? Turns out he had a bunch of fuckin RPGs and MAWs in the truck||
woeful kite
what specific song is the "Tchaikovsky" audio in the spectrum D?
calm crescent
@torn bloom The LDF focuses on quality vs quantity in their army. Also when you don't really need to field a navy and a heavy armor brigade, you got som dosh to toss around.
torn bloom
true
left stump
Btw guys, when are we expecting to see 1.96?
knotty parcel
but am still being charged for the 25?...
sturdy cosmos
Can we at least all agree that ||JTAC needs to give more than just grid coordinates for CAS||?
Or ||maintain tighter restrictions on airspace, since the drone comes in through the exfil corridor for the A10?||
cloud pilot
@knotty parcel yes, it costs money
warm summit
i found an rpg42 with 3 rockets
goanna save it for a full troop truck lol
@sturdy cosmos lol or not call in a literal GBU12 less than half a kilometer away from a factory used as the main base of operations by NATO?
calm crescent
Right?
viscid yarrow
Is Arma 3 contact coop? Or just single player only?
left stump
Singleplayer by the looks of it
warm summit
Contact singleplayer reminds me of Metro Exodus campaign
You have to wander to get stuff
and nobody holds your hand most of the time
there's main-ish quest but you are mostly free to discover new side missions
rose belfry
Do someone know if the radio backpack get something particular ?
viscid yarrow
Anybody get a crash after completing the first mission?
nocturne vault
Is there an asset list for the new shtuff? Besides the VR arsenal
*the contact asset..
fallen wren
||who cares ||Miller is the Alien
calm crescent
Welp just beat the campaign, gg BI
btw ||What you did with the russians was a very much appreciated twist. ||
dapper flume
Very well done campaign!
devout seal
||the ending was indeed very awesome. The russians were so cool||
devout seal
Any chance that the Contact eden effects could get pushed to the platform? would be excellent in the editor
coarse carbon
The only time in all video games or Russia helps NATO, I did not think it was a scenario but I love, thank you BI
mossy mauve
|| It really does make a cool statement with the Russians. It always turns out in the end that even though you may be enemies, everyone can work together if it is in their best self-interest. I liked the campaign, though the lack of instructions was more frustrating than anything at a very limited number of points. ||
mossy mauve
||Honestly, I always liked when Bohemia has shown humanity in the enemy, instead of just having them be "they not nato so bad guy go shoot bad"||
turbid pelican
i didnt even realize you got special gear from them
as soon as the objective/task was marked complete i just moved on
oof
im pretty sure you keep them, at least i got to keep my mxm
where did you get the thermal equipment
yea
that you lose im pretty sure
ooh
and you are in that mission?
turbid pelican
what is the issue?
left stump
||In Carpe Noctem, we gotta find the root tips, right? So I went to a zone which is red in color on the Bouncer map, and it shows frequently that the tunnel network activity has increased. Yet i don't find any tips. I've gone myself, I've used Eddie, but no luck. Could I get some pointers here?||
turbid pelican
what mission? i dont want to spoil myself
left stump
Second last
turbid pelican
oof
turbid pelican
oh its the one where ||you come from the van to find the roots||?
left stump
Yea
turbid pelican
oh im in it
turbid pelican
||one of them is in south east of the area where you find them, just follow the aliens frequency, the other is somehwere else idk||
left stump
||So just moce SE from where I first spawn in?||
turbid pelican
to complete it you have to ||first disable the ugv, then play sounds at the less loud frequencies (2 instead of one this time) in the right order, you know that you failed the order when you hear a loud alien/robotic scream, i think its like left right left right on the frequencies if you know what i mean||
||se of the circle where you look for them, use the experiemental antenna, there should be 2 frequencies in the direction, one for alien and one for ugv||
empty bear
A bit confused... found the Astra van but nothing happens. Do I have to take the van somewhere?
turbid pelican
||the ugv is next to the border of the miltary training and civilian area||
empty bear
My q had no spoilers... the answer might. 😃
left stump
||Go to the back of the van and there should be a prompt||
empty bear
Thank you
turbid pelican
||take the drone from inside, also i heard theres a thermal scope and rangefinder there||
left stump
And thanks Hyperoom
turbid pelican
||ok honestly i think the astra van wont spoil anything if you dont know the mission but im going to pit spoiler anyways||
left stump
Lol
empty bear
||ah, there's a magic spot you have to stand... not too close, not too far away...||
left stump
||lol yeah||
turbid pelican
also if you want one more tip ||dont engage the ldf guys close to the alien they wont bother with you if you dont get close||
left stump
Alright thanks
turbid pelican
np
turbid pelican
bruh just use my tactic of ||run and do the amazing arma ai do the rest||
turbid pelican
i cant believe i didnt even get hit with that tactic in the ||astra van|| mission
turbid pelican
lmao i have only died like once or twice in the entire campaign, im in the second last mission
||avoiding any sort of firefights seems to be the anwser, unless its like max 1v3 and theh havent spotted you, ofc you still have to fight sometimes||
left stump
The ||Impersonating Grey Wolf and sending LDF troops anywhere is really neat||
That's what is most useufl to mr
turbid pelican
yea but i only used it like three times and it only worked twice, i use that feature mainly to just ||know where they are going and avoiding them that way||
left stump
I've used it everytime I came across a patrol
And it worked 100%
You just have to send them in the way you're not going
Btw
Do the PoI matter? Or are they just for supplies
turbid pelican
Pol?
left stump
Points of Interest
turbid pelican
you get supplies yea
left stump
Nothing else right?
turbid pelican
yea
left stump
Aight
turbid pelican
i just go so i can feel that i did everything and also for ||the chance to shoot some looters in the back||
left stump
Yeah I get you
I was doing them up until now
Now I just want to see where the main story leads me to
turbid pelican
try to complete the ||main alien ship puzzle||
turbid pelican
it ||gives you good loot and one more thing||
nice, mind telling me where it is, or do you just ||follow to other alien signal||
left stump
It's in the ||town before dolnik||
Basically ||it's ez to find cuz the ship is directly on top of it||
turbid pelican
||close to the poi?||
turbid pelican
||yea i did root 2 first||
turbid pelican
||so where root 1||
left stump
||So wait, you went to Widok first? Or you went to the alien signal||
turbid pelican
||werent there 2 alien signals||
left stump
||Cuz one is in Widok, the otehr is directly under the alien ship, near the city called Dolnik||
||therrle are two roots, and one signal from the mothership and the other from a small one which just moves around||
||the smaller ship which u interacted with before and it knocked you out and gave you visions||
left stump
Ah k
So
I was trying to sneak around and uh
||I got found out by the ldf and they started shooting. I killed two but he alien started shooting at them, killing them, then jumping away lol||
And now I think it's engaging other LDF
Far away
turbid pelican
can you screenshot the map, i can only find dolnik on the only high quality map
left stump
Alright
left stump
I almost uploadd it lol
turbid pelican
oof
turbid pelican
Sure
im really dissapointed in one thing in the campaign, and that is that ||you are fighting the ldf making it another blufor vs independent campaign, as was the east wind and apex protocol||
mossy mauve
omg you haz spoiled it for me i cry now /s @turbid pelican
turbid pelican
my phone stupid and didnt let me edit
elfin urchin
This pretty much sumps how things went down in contact
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/263/261/3be.jpg
sturdy cosmos
Is it possible to ||recover the UGV while being undetected in mission 4||? Every approach is covered, and the AI has turned back into 'see through darkness and shoot everything that moves' robots.
And the one time I managed, it immediately flipped the alarms anyways, or maybe the animation made me sit up and since there were three guards all around me...
woeful mauve
I did it undetected on second Try
Had to use the special device to move two squads Away
sturdy cosmos
I already have, the only guys around don't seem to be part of any squads
Or if they are, I can't find their signal :/
Only ones left I can detect are like 500m north anyways
sturdy cosmos
Done that one too, but the guy in front of the target spotted me both times - once before I wasever through the fence.
woeful mauve
Mh
sturdy cosmos
Ahh, think I got it. ||Alpha was still around, hiding in a two story building. Having him move moved on the guards... so far.||
Though, question before I get too far away, ||Do I get a terminal at the objective location? Because I didn't find one in the truck :x||
woeful mauve
good i tested that 😄
||You just have to recover the "eddie" drone from an astra van ||
||i just moved two squads haning arround at the main gate and sneaked to the van on my first try a guard ontop of the radar station saw me second try was easy ||
sturdy cosmos
Yeah, it worked out once I got the right people moving
And I managed to slip away, even though ||they magically disabled my truck full of guns >:C||
sonic cape
is it just me, or the contact dlc has the worst average FPS from all BIS campaigns? no matter what, i couldn't get it to go above 30fps on either of my PCs, and i am not playing on patatos
fossil portal
how do i 'test the arm' on that UGV, the game doesnt tell me what the keybinds are...
sturdy cosmos
@fossil portal It should have popped up, press H to replay the last hint.
fossil portal
it didnt and pressing H doesnt popup the last hint either 🤔
i had Tutorial Hints Disabled but maybe Enabling it now is too late, gotta restart? :x
wild ledge
poor perf is probably due to a ton of script stuff
sonic cape
defaults:
pg up and down - forward and backward arm
q and e - up and down arm
fossil portal
oh, its using the numpad. i dont have a numpad
sturdy cosmos
o.0 Erm... shouldn't do, like Pufu said, it's QE and PGup/Dn
fossil portal
its been so many years and yet keybinds, action menu and all that crap hasnt improved since operation flashpoint 🤦
sturdy cosmos
Add peripherals.
Steering wheel, pedals, a second keyboard, a custom modded USB switch box...
sonic cape
i actually prefer more keybinds to limited keypad oriented ones
as long as i can customize my own stuff
empty mountain
mossy mauve
||hes in it||
left stump
Yeah there's a map there. I tried to find the treasure but couldnt
summer vale
What I found was a Wheelbarrow with some dirt dug up around it
But nothing physical to interact with
I’d say it’s about less than 30 seconds North-NE of where the mark actually is I think
jaunty imp
Anybody has LDF camo 2d sample and is willing to share it by any chance?
elfin urchin
@left stump ||Its a buried alien boomer probe, nothing happens though||
summer vale
Yeah I needed sleep so didn’t do that, I’ll boot up Arma and have a look give me 2 secs
Also wow you mark the map a lot 😅
left geyser
Trying to figure out how to use the ||||Drones in the eden editor as they just drop to the ground||||
summer vale
Yeah I was originally thinking of a entirely different treasure map
Yeah I knew about it just didn't look for it, having a peek in editor to see if I can find that farmhouse, I'm invested now
So text dosen't seem related, very bad google translate translates it to ||leave your posts||
I may have found it?? very unlikely though, will send screenshot to see what you think
Found something ruined that looks slightly similar
elfin urchin
@umbral estuary ||It's that overturned wheelbarrow, there is an burred alien probe there, but its just there AFAIK, no messages or even acknowledgments ||
left stump
Ah thanks @elfin urchin
brisk saddle
hello, it is possible to use the modules of the dlc contact in multiplayer?
tulip sleet
Quick question, I came across a group of dead soldiers, but I'm not able to open their inventories to loot them, I see the stuff on the ground, but when I try to open their gear's inventory, it just does nothing. is that a bug or is that intended?
brisk saddle
and the " radio gun "
summer vale
@tulip sleet First mission?
gaunt isle
So... anyone found a way to run mods with the Contact campaign yet?
tulip sleet
3rd or 4th.. the first one you can actually do things freely
summer vale
Oh then no clue, I was wondering if it was during the first bit!
It might just be as part of the environment and you can't loot them because that might mess with the code and open them up to being despawned, no idea really
tulip sleet
Anomalous Phenomena is the mission name
gaunt isle
Yeah, you can only loot certain groups before Anomalous
None of the gear carries over though
tulip sleet
from the first missions to Anomalous, or from any of the missions to the next one?
gaunt isle
First missions up to Anomalous
Haven't completed Anomalous yet, as I started going around to Investigation zones
Which led to a rescue mission and other fun bits
tulip sleet
that's what im doing.. I want a backpack 😉 and I hope i can find some ||working nightvision and such||
gaunt isle
There's a hint they give about a truck you should check. Couple guys there with backpacks 😎
Also, how do you do the spoiler tag?
tulip sleet
I found that messenger bag.. if that's what your pointing me too do double | around the text
summer vale
|.| |.| Without the .’s
gaunt isle
Yeah, the messenger bag 😛
tulip sleet
ive found slightly better, and slightly worse then that one
gaunt isle
None of the LDF guys have backpacks, which is odd
tulip sleet
They do..
gaunt isle
... They do?
tulip sleet
Comms gear = backpack
gaunt isle
||I looted the Ballistic Therapy LDF guys and reinforcements, no backpacks at all...||
tulip sleet
slightly worse then the messenger bag
gaunt isle
Ah
Yeah, haven't found much aside from that. Did get the ||SPAR-16 GL from the campsite near the Swaroga, from the camp where the prisoners you rescue were apparently camped out before being caught by LDF||
😛
tulip sleet
i want a backpack that can ||carry one of those marksman rifles you find at that camp lol||
woeful kite
@gaunt isle you can run mods on contact by normally starting arma 3 with the optional contact stuff loaded
however alot of stuff can break because contact has features like custom maps
gaunt isle
Just found that out
tulip sleet
its 2 | before and after
torn bloom
|| not really, you get to interact with it by selecting different radio stations n shit and hearing the aftermath of the livonian incident ||
round pebble
guys, do you know if there are multiplayer server with the livonia map already ?
can't seem to find any
mossy mauve
Here you go https://arma3.com/servers
tulip sleet
dang, we can't use the ||medkits|| you find in the game
nocturne vault
Lol.. so I can use the contact assets with out having it, as they mentioned.. BUT, I gotta look at the icon for on the right side of my screen the whole time.. Nice ..
summer fiber
BUT, I gotta look at the icon for on the right side of my screen the whole time.. Nice ..
you don't have to look at it, you can look at another part of the screen as well
fluid lance
How do I get the crap from the van in the radar station in 'anomalous phenomena' I've tried like 10 times
woeful kite
@fluid lance the van is to the south east in an empty lot
||Don’t go to the garage and grey building||
||When entering, enter from the west and stay in between the wall and fence to avoid the sentry on the radar||
||enter through the hole in the corner and stick to the radar building side||
||Go Pass the radar building until you’re at the grassy area||
||Then cross the road when you’re at the grassy area and you should see the van||
fluid lance
thanks!
mossy mauve
eddie's rape van
spring forum
how can i change eddies keybindings?
i cant carry on with the mission as it does't recognise the pgup and pgdown keys on my laptop XD
mossy mauve
how are you even playing the mission? is your laptop not on fire yet?
sterile mesa
@spring forum look up for zeroing up/down keys
spring forum
@sterile mesa you mean the one under weapons? i've tried that one
sterile mesa
and what keys did you tried with those zeroing actions?
spring forum
ahhh its gun elevation
i changed gun elevation from pgup and pgdown to numlk and / and it works now
cheers for the help though man 😃
atomic dove
Need help in mission 4
||I've completed all other objectives but I can't figure out how to communicate with the flying egg. I keep sending noise to all the frequencies but it just keeps making weird sounds||
^^Halp
nocturne vault
@woeful mauve im using a uniform.. they said it would be available @summer fiber HA!
Although I might have a weapon in the bag... icr
atomic dove
@warm summit thx
warm summit
yeah i was standing there like a fuggin idiot for maybe 20 minutes just shooting music at it
summer fiber
@nocturne vault what would be available?
atomic dove
same but I was there for like an hour
nocturne vault
@summer fiber apparently, according to the page just some civ clothes & some props
summer fiber
i don't get it, what's the problem?
nocturne vault
I set up a loadout with one of the uniforms & I can’t use it without see the icon telling me to purchase the dlc on screen
summer fiber
oh. yeah that's how arma dlc works.
nocturne vault
Yea I know.. I was just under the wrong impression abt what would be available..
I’m gonna get it soon anyway.. won’t be a problem for long
summer fiber
only uniform that's free with contact is the NATO Woodland afaik
nocturne vault
Yea
tulip sleet
does anyone know how you ||save all the eddie's? i get in the truck, says something about no robot left behind, and after that, not sure where to take them||
inland cosmos
unfortunately, I don't think you can
tulip sleet
||when you look there's like 4 or 5 in the truck, but you can only ever get the 1 out, even drove it back to the base, and nothing.. can't seem to make out what he says "take them to.. and free them there" hetalks to fast||
torn bloom
|| i didnt even know you could save all the eddies haha ||
calm crescent
||So can anybody explain to me what the roots are actually? I feel it was some sort of power source for the aliens, or a left over probe they are dismantling.||
mossy mauve
|| they theorize it's a communications network ||
@calm crescent
|| afaik they don't really know though ||
rocky urchin
does anyone know which music is used from Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in Arma 3 Contact?
woeful kite
try asking the arma 3 twitter
torn bloom
I have a feeling the music was made by BI themselves
but who knows
fluid lance
How do i make contact with the alien in anomalous bla bla bla
every time i go near it he shoots shit at me
stable vine
roboter probably
fresh cape
Where are the changes listed for the audio?
fluid lance
so i'm standing under the moving alien in mission 4, he keeps moving around above the trees, nothing's happening
tulip sleet
I've got a problem.. ||when trying to get the mini edie to get the sample from the root, no matter where I try and get the sample from it always says failed.. anyone help w/ that?||
woeful kite
@tulip sleet ||you need to hit the orange blob in the root||
tulip sleet
@woeful kite ||that's just it, I dont see that blob||
scenic lantern
you're to close with your character then... move away some meters and wait for the mass to reappear. then move up with edie
tulip sleet
||im at 25% sig, is that still too close?||
scenic lantern
your far away enough as soon as the mass reappears
tulip sleet
EDIE disconnects when youre less then 20% sig str..
mortal fractal
||If you don't see the orange glow, you're too close.||
tulip sleet
||if EDIE can't get close to it, how am I too close to it?..... if the goal is to get EDIE to take a sample, it'll have to be in range of it correct? if I'm losing the ability to control EDIE cause i'm TOO FAR away, how can i be TOO CLOSE to it?? I'm really not seeing how that would be possible||
mortal fractal
||You only have to be far enough away for the orange glow to appear. So just walk up to it and when the glow goes away, take a few steps back until it pops up. Then drop EDIE||
tulip sleet
||im standing right here, https://gyazo.com/f4522343b2a0e45b0509fc96e363dab3 and EDIE is at ~24%||
mortal fractal
||You can be like 25m away from the thing. You can get closer than what you are I Think||
tulip sleet
||then its bugged cause I see nothing orange or glowing||
mortal fractal
which mission is this?
and can you link to a screenshot of the thing you're trying to analyze?
woeful kite
M4
tulip sleet
||investigate alien root, on the Anomalous Phenomena mission, right after you find the white van w/ the EDIEs in them||
mortal fractal
||the enemies aren't around it anymore right?||
tulip sleet
||they're all dead, if they are still alive, they're not shooting at me, and not showing up on the map||
mortal fractal
||and the task isn't complete right?||
mortal fractal
||why is it day time?||
tulip sleet
even got as close as 2m from it w/ the drone, still failed
I have no idea.. it was night, then slowly became daytime
mortal fractal
how long have you been playing that mission for?
tulip sleet
||enough to get most/all of the south POI's and the 2 north POIs||
mortal fractal
Here is someone else playing that part just don't go past it if you don't want spoilers: ||https://youtu.be/FuNvLH4b8P4?t=1142||
well crap rewind like a minute
tulip sleet
you didn't link it w/ a time
tulip sleet
I"m gonna throw my mouse in the trash can
stupid M0 is triple clicking when i try, bound fire to a key on my keyboard damn thing works
blasted 2 hours!!!
mortal fractal
well at least it's the mouse's fault and not Arma's
glad you got it figured out too!
tulip sleet
wonder why it only does it w/ the drone.. very weridd
mortal fractal
maybe the triple click is too fast for other things to recognize?
tulip sleet
might be since i usually just click click and not hold down
red mesa
you know? I think it'd have been interesting to let some fog during the whole campaign, maybe not as thick as during the UGV mission but some thing like "Tipping point" mission on main campaign, thing is with most contact missions being during night clear, bright night time, you can see the AI clearly but they can't see you because they're at night but their NVG is not working so they are just like syndikats in apex except they don't even have flashlights to make up for it, Livonian AI was way too blind IMO on this campaign, and no, it has nothing to do with my difficulty settings, sliders are both at 1.0
mossy mauve
||how to stop the ship pulsing?||
mortal fractal
||need to find the right patterns with the spec device. Just kind of pay attention to how it reacts to what you do||
left stump
||In carpe noctem or for Field Science? Cuz for Carpe Noctem, for me the ship settled down, down the hill, and I had to run over to it in order to get the correct frequency to peak up. So be careful of that||
reef perch
Did the dev's script Livonia to be that bright at night in Contact? or is that just the way the terrain is set up?
left stump
The terrain is set up so. Night time no overcast
Gives a really good starry night sky as well
woeful mauve
||did the blindfold or tinfoil hat show up in the campaign? didnt found them anywhere||
safe sparrow
So, when you dont load the DLC, all the 'contact' stuff they added into the base game, do you need to own the dlc to access it?
Like the marksman dlc and stuff? Or are you able to use the stuff they added to the base game without owning the dlc
woeful mauve
Weapons and vehicles are locked to owners of the dlc i think
safe sparrow
(I doubt my friends are going to get it and I want to know if I can still make missions with Contact entities on the map with them being able to play it)
okay
woeful mauve
you can wear clothing but have water marks on your screen
safe sparrow
Alright, thanks
woeful mauve
assets for map building stuff from contact can be used with non owners i think
they can enter vehilces as passengers but not driver or gunner dont know if that counts for the reskinned versions from ldf too?
fierce bear
For anyone curious; the Tchaikovsky bit on the Spectrum Device is the beginning of the 3rd movement in Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir de Florence. You can find it easily by searching for “Allegro Moderato from Souvenir de Florence”
hushed rapids
I need some help finfing the alien routes!
stable pollen
Does anyone know how works Aliens drones in Editor ?
minor adder
The reskinned ldf vics can be used by everyone, it counts at what the original one was, for example a reskinned rhino could only be used by tank dlc owners, but a reskinned mora can be used by everyone
elfin urchin
The fact you dont have the GPS in the DLC is kinda refreshing. Using the radio lighouses for figuring out my own position was really neat.
quasi depot
This actually led me to believe that my PC had crashed and almost had me press the reset button.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDMCvbAmw1g
analog kraken
The whole time I was just getting a weaker crysis vibe, also did anyone else find conversation voice lines kept repeating if you stood only slightly in the wrong place or walked back just a tiny bit? Also the ai were easy to beat no matter what difficulty I changed it to, especially the night ones. Missions didn't feel very robust overall tbh, glad someone else bought this game priced DLC for me, especially as contact visibly runs worse than Vanilla Arma.
hearty terrace
wish had that luck lol
analog kraken
Yeah honestly was lifesaver I didn't buy it
analog kraken
Yeah I admit the content is nice, but the quality for 20 dollars or something is ridiculous
hearty terrace
yeah it's just the price that kills it imo
if it was like 10 dollars or something
analog kraken
Bohemia greed I guess
hearty terrace
but if it was cheaper a lot more people would buy it
a lot of people don't buy it cuz of the price
they're like "why am I gonna pay 20 dollars on something that I can get similar by just downloading a mod".
analog kraken
I'm not sure though Armas watermark system is quite effective, and if they halved the price, they'd have to over double the sales to get a profit
It's just Bohemia greed at the end of the day, not much we as individuals can do much about.
hearty terrace
yeah
mossy mauve
anyone else have shit fps in the campaign, lol
like usually i run 100 fps in multiplayer with 60gb of mods, so was kinda suprising
slate marlin
on an empty map? lol
mossy mauve
nope, full operation
ok so you give us a patrol waypoint, this causes a group to slit in half and 1 half patrols, you also make it so that the haalf patroling has chem lights on there shoulders (awsome) but you give us no way to replicate this effect outside of that waypoint
then when i got like 40 in singleplayer campaign i was like, wut
slate marlin
must be the one person in existence who does
mossy mauve
i mean i spent more money on this pc than id like to admit
sure, obviously it dips during high intensity moments, but still
singleplayer should run just fine
full lynx
@woeful mauve you can find the ||tinfoil hat|| at least in the Carpe Noctem mission, in one of the points of interests ||by either grabbing them from one of the bandits, or by crafting ™ your own out of tinfoil||.
I don't think it impacts anything, unfortunately.
@mortal fractal could you be more specific about the patterns? I just ||transmitted on all the frequencies peaking on the device at the time until the game progressed; I literally didn't see any pattern the ship's reaction||.
I'd love to understand what I was supposed to notice there 😛
mortal fractal
||I think the peaking thing is the pattern essentially. You just watch to see which one goes highest up and then you jam it. It's possible there's an order to it. Or maybe I just got lucky. I honestly never even thought to look at the ship to find a pattern.||
full lynx
Same here 😦
I mean ||sometimes, after jamming the signal, something happened, sometimes it didn't - I couldn't notice it really because I was busy jamming. And If jamming one signal didn't work, I was jamming another one, until one of them worked.||
Now I feel bad because I feel like I might have brute-forced the solution 🤔
narrow talon
the aspect of the Spectrum device and how it works is in no way self explanatory, it feels like a great idea but I can not make heads or tails of it ...
full lynx
What is it that you would like to know? (besides the pattern thing that I don't know myself)
It's basically a SDR radio that lets you see the full spectrum available to the antenna (see a websdr here for a real life equivalent [use your headphones]: http://sp2pmk.tvk.torun.pl:8901/), and listen and transmit audio on a given frequency + has a removable antenna that effectively lets you just switch available wave ranges
Find a frequency used by an LDF squad and you can hear and locate their ping every few seconds.
If they happen to be talking to Gray Wolf (HQ), point the radio at the squad and listen, then when they stop talking, turn around to face the HQ (red radio station on the compass thing at the top of the screen) and listen on the same frequency for the HQ's response. Then face the squad again to hear their lines. Repeat until the conversation is over.
Remember that when you're behind a hill, there is a high chance you will not be able to hear what's broadcasted from the other side
If you can't hear anything on the link above, use this one, and click the "turn on audio" button: http://websdr.pzk.pl:8901/
mossy mauve
||i still cant stop the alien pulsing||
||i transmit noise on the main frequenci, it makes a noise and makes a new frequenc which i then transmit on and it just repeats||
any help please?
inland cosmos
gotta transmit it on the right one
bit of a puzzle and I don't think anyone really knows how it works
mossy mauve
how the hell do i figre that out?
inland cosmos
trial and error
mossy mauve
ive been trying for 20 minutes now
inland cosmos
¯_(ツ)_/¯
strange sparrow
The alien makes an specific noise if you transmit on the wrong freq. If that happens, you got to start over
mossy mauve
when does arma 3 take place?
youd think the range and battery life of eddie would be way longer
strange sparrow
vanilla 2035, contact 2039
mossy mauve
2039 and that stupid robot cant go any further away than it does?
strange sparrow
i'm not sure, but if you use the UAV terminal, it has a short range; but when you use the computer (when eddie is introduced) it has a huge range