reforger_questions

[blissful jacinth]

For example, you can adjust how much area of your screen the scope of the aiming dead zone takes up

[zenith heath]

yes yes I know how it works, my question was more of a - Can it be modded in the Reforger? As a mod.

[blissful jacinth]

I hope so...but I think maybe it would be better to make this basic functionality official? Because as a mod, there will be a lot of problems

[zenith heath]

maybe true, it is always nice to have the functionality in the game and mod on top of that than having to develop said functionality as a mod I guess... Though I am speculating here as I have absolutely no clue how this process works..

[blissful jacinth]

yes... as mentioned above, you can't always rely on modders

But optimistically, we now have new engines and better occupancy, you know what that means? This means that we can be bolder, we may even play Escape from Tarkov in ARMA

[zenith heath]

Yeah the new engine is the best part so far. I hope the future is bright. On the Tarkov note - I prefer playing games where I control the recoil, not the game hehe.

[blissful jacinth]

Yes! In A3 I can do real point and shoot

[zenith heath]

In literally every other FPS game out there you control the recoil, just not in Tarkov. Nikita thinks he is a mastermind of FPS gaming, but that is another topic and we should not spam here about that...

[blissful jacinth]

Imagine an adversarial mode like Tarkov, but with all weapon data close to reality

[zenith heath]

there was some prototypes of that in A3 actually, but never got finished...

[blissful jacinth]

Indeed... just by the way, haha

[blissful jacinth]

I remember they were put in a mod in the workshop

[zenith heath]

yes, I even played the mode a bit, once even managed to try it with a friend. Then after some time the CO OP stopped working, I even talked with the mission dev, but I would guess he did not have enough time to complete it etc... I don't know..

[blissful jacinth]

By the way, I'm in... Asia. Workshop download speed is too slow

I even download mods while sleeping

I'm referring to the reforger's workshop

[zenith heath]

awwww poor you my man... damn BTW there is a new Tarkov mod on A3 workshop

[blissful jacinth]

Ah, I saw it too, I hope the author can keep making it

You know, every day I see the progress of the RHS team

At first they didn't even know where to put the barrel...

Watching that live stream raised my blood pressure

One more thing to say, we lost the slot for face decorations

Really don't get it, even dayz has it, why is it gone in reforger? ? ? ? ? ? ?

[sleek wharf]

because it wasn't a priority

[cedar condor]

Face decorations? Like facepaint? I wanna smear camo on my face

[half locust]

wanting something doesn’t make it a priority

[cedar condor]

Did I say it was??? 🤔

[sand verge]

u sound like ur fun at parties

[sand verge]

I guess reforger has dead zone in the movement of mounted lmg’s like on a humvee

[stray blade]

Is there a way to disable clickiy sound when pressing WASD in Game master interface?

[minor gull]

Is there a dedicated a.i dev for reforger? i really hope to seeimprovements for a.i soon and able to drive in gamemaster.

[tame gyro]

What’s that 64 slot server running version 0.9.5.66 called “arma reformer campaign” 👀 on Xbox.

[sand verge]

I think it’s a private testing server for the devs

[round willow]

Are servers working yet? Bout to hop on

[gilded gazelle]

is there any way to fix the game master im trying to make one but every time i try to it just crashes

[daring socket]

So did this update today fix the DC issues ?

[round willow]

I think servers are down

[gilded gazelle]

it was happening before the servers were down tho

[timid ibex]

Whens console update?

[crimson fractal]

Tonight

[brittle heron]

Check the news page -> https://reforger.armaplatform.com/news/june-update-7 (it's tomorrow)

[crimson fractal]

As mentioned in patch notes ^

[sleek wharf]

What a strange question. Yes, there is a whole team of AI devs in Reforger.

[minor gull]

If they are dedicated to working on a.i only then when can we expect some improvements? currently the a.i is not just basic but utterly broken, machine gunners are firing point blank into building walls at enemies they can't even see. They shoot their own squad mates in the back, they cannot drive at all. Some refuse to open doors and just stand bunched up, same thing happens on fences. They refuse to defend even when ordered to with a defense waypoint and instead just rush at the enemy even if they are behind cover they choose to rush into open spaces. So for me it's not a strange question to ask if there are dedicated devs working on these issues or if they are currently assigned to other tasks like stability etc. I am not a dev so i don't know how those things work. I do not play modes like conflict i have spent over 1000 hours in arma3 zues making single/coop player missions so the a.i is very important to me.

[scarlet wolf]

Sometime in the following year

[magic sandal]

is there a way to make a server with any mod I want? If so how do I?

on arma reforger sorry lol

[gilded gazelle]

it is not letting me log into my account in reforger and i dont know how to fix it. it is just saying wrong username or password

[stray blade]

let me ask you the obvious. Is the E-mail and password correct 😉

[gilded gazelle]

yes

[stray blade]

mind you, its email and password not uname (im about 84.9% sure)

[gilded gazelle]

yeah i just got it and then how do i add friends

[flint nest]

Since i have been here day one i have heard about the connection issues and had them first hand, I want to ask why have the developers not just gone back to the Red chain and yellow chain of death?
@sleek wharf

[stray blade]

Thats easy, Steam (on PC), or Discord universal, or whatever xbox uses

[flint nest]

This is a legit question as I wonder if it would allow players being disconnected to at least havea chance not to be disconnected presently

[gilded gazelle]

Can i add friends to a game master game i create or do i have to do something else

[stray blade]

you cant. You need a dedicated server for that. There is no possibility of "self hosting" for now.

There is plenty o' empty Game master server out there, join one, vote yourself "master" and go wild with your friends

[unreal pine]

Will weapon dead zone come back when we are on foot like what was in previous arma games??

[flint nest]

yes

[magic pebble]

Already in the game. isn't it?

[flint nest]

no

[unreal pine]

Not that I've seen... Is there a option to set it?

[magic pebble]

No option to set it or remove it because it's the main setting in the game.
When you move your weapon, your soldier will move their arms and torso only without moving their entire body except if you move the mouse too far to one side.

[blissful jacinth]

No it's not aiming for the dead zone

[blissful jacinth]

Aiming the dead zone means you can move your weapon on the screen instead of keeping it centered on the screen

You mentioned that the character only moves the upper body, that's part of it, but the other part is that the weapon can move around the screen

[magic pebble]

Right on. I though it was the ability to move your weapon without moving the soldier entire body like in other games.

[blissful jacinth]

Even though there is already a similar effect in the game, the entire body of the character remains in one direction when moving

After last night's talk, I had a conversation with an old player from the ofp era that I know

He thinks that targeting dead zones is easy to implement in reforger, but the official does not provide an option

Another thing that makes him criticize is about fov

He thinks ... the fov is too narrow, even if it can be adjusted to 90°

I know this may not apply to everyone, I'm just mentioning this

Because it's not possible for everyone to play with a 120° fov, but I think his remarks about targeting dead zones are justified

[magic pebble]

I might be wrong about this but doesn't Arma use vertical FOV instead of horizontal? So 90 vertical in Arma is basically 120 horizontal in other games

[blissful jacinth]

I think we need to look into it lol

[blissful jacinth]

I don't know what you think, I'm just repeating the player's point of view, he thinks that the first thing the official needs to do is to open up various functions and scenarios, even if it's just a white model

I briefly skimmed through this update and I think the biggest change is that they added adjustable sights to more weapons

Reminds me of RHS

Somewhat jokingly, when I played reforger for the first time, the first thing I did was check the reload animation of the PK machine gun

[sand verge]

On Xbox is it possible to properly holster weapons? For example I have an AK and a PM. Can I holster the PM rather than have it in my hands?

[jade yoke]

Anyone got any info as to when the next bloodlust2 mod update is? Or where one could locate said info?

[naive mortar]

how exactly are your friends supposed to join you if they don't see what server you're on?

[obsidian pumice]

I know this is Arma, and as an XBOX player I don’t know what the previous entries are like, but is there a reason that DayZ implements 3rd person ADS while Reforger only allows for 3rd person “blind fire”?

[half locust]

other than the game being a first person shooter?

[obsidian pumice]

I guess it doesn’t strike me as an FPS when you can toggle to a 3rd person cam. Was more so curious than anything else. I quite like that aspect in DayZ, and was surprised since Arma seems more “casual” (at least Reforger) and figured it would as well.

[half locust]

public servers have that option turned on to make it a bit easier - driving, seeing your character etc. None of the private own servers i have played on have 3rd person view active. It is also the same on previous arma titles

[obsidian pumice]

Got it, makes much more sense now

[regal agate]

Have you tried the mod for it?

[sand verge]

Was looking more for vanilla but thank you for telling me about that mod. Good thing to know about.

[regal agate]

Ah, yeah no worries

If you do try it out, let me know if you run into any issues

[muted holly]

Steam friends, use the join game feature

Or remember the name of the server you join

[stiff elbow]

someone found a way out to unload the eden world to test scripting stuff without long loading times?

[naive mortar]

ok thank you

[zenith heath]

Can I save stuff that is made in Game Master mode on a dedicated server?

[stray blade]

It autosaves every 10 min and should persist over restart. But test to be 100% sure. There were some issues

[zenith heath]

Ahaaaaa alright thanks!

What about compositions? Where can I do those?

[stray blade]

Watcha mean?

If u mean the compositions that you can assign to the hotkeys, no i dont think u can save that yet

[sand verge]

Is there any 32 or 64 slot servers? For Xbox

[zenith heath]

Yeah I did not ask my question right, sorry. I mean the compositions in Game Master. Can I make some of those?

[stray blade]

Ooh, no i dont think you can directly. Maybe via mod. I mean they got added to arma3 very late too.

[zenith heath]

Do I need to input a command in order to make the server save? I don't seem to be able to save GameMaster progress on it...

Or maybe I need to be logged in as admin?

[stray blade]

Hmm no, if u check console log on server, you should see smthing like this 5:11:58:806 UpdateEntities 15:11:58:806 WORLD : Frame 15:11:58:806 SCRIPT : RequestSave: $profile:.backend\GM_Eden.json

And in profile directory in folder .save i see -rw-r--r-- 1 server server 920 Jun 8 15:21 GM_Eden.json

[zenith heath]

oh yeah it just did it

[stray blade]

Now if it dont work, it may be a bug. Or needs a parameter to load.

[zenith heath]

It did save!

[stray blade]

But did it load :)?

[brittle heron]

probably a question better directed towards #enfusion_generic as this category is specifically for Arma Reforger 🙂

[scenic kindle]

oh thx

[brittle heron]

np 🙂

[zenith heath]

yes!

[sand verge]

I have a question

Can I download mods and use them in public servers like conflict or game master?

[stray blade]

If server has them, yes. If not no. Clientside addons do not exist as of now like in a3. Even then, server would have to allow them.

[sand verge]

So if I had a mod for a ar and hopped on a server, that server would have to have that mod whitelisted basically?

[stray blade]

No, your client will simply not load the mod when you press join.

[zenith eagle]

Can I place a stack of bandages into the quick menu? Can't figured it out. It's only placed 1 bandage instead all.
(xbox series x)

[digital moat]

the server would have to have the mod enabled in the mission it was running. if it's not listed then it doesnt exist from the perspective of your game, whether you have downloaded the files or not

[sand verge]

Oh ok

[minor acorn]

Currently this is the intended way this system should behave.

[zenith eagle]

Thanks for reply.

[proper notch]

Has anyone noticed whether or not AI can see through smoke?

[eager violet]

They cannot see through heavy smoke

@proper notch They will see through the smoke soon after the grenade stops putting out smoke

See 6:22 of this video - https://youtu.be/HY96zHCUlhw

[proper notch]

Cheers, I need to watch that whole video later. I've been wanting to see something of a technical comparison between 3 and Reforger.

[timid ibex]

Was playing on a conflict the other day and they were shooting threw walls 500 meters away haha

[stray blade]

They suppress last known position, if they loose line of sight. Just sneakily move away ;)

[timid ibex]

Yeah I know but I was on a server the other day and 8 of us was struggling to take the first objective on xbox it was just weird as it was like there were extra on point and could see us from wayyyy further then they were supposed to

[fresh pewter]

when will the player count go back up?

[magic pebble]

When the server issues are fixed

[fresh pewter]

😦

[jade yoke]

Will gas consumption during driving be a thing in the future? I notice when you shoot a vehicles gas tank the gas decreases in the vehicle and can become empty, I also noticed that if not receiving damage to the tank gas doesn't continuously drain.

[eager violet]

Yes, consumption during driving will likely be functional. I'm surprised it's not working now.

[arctic lynx]

Hi there, trying to find some downloadable audio samples so I can help produce a mod/add on. I found a list online (bohemia interactive on github) and located the audio files I need but can't find a way to direct DL them? Please advise

[jade yoke]

Yeah only way I can get gas to consume is if I shoot the gas tank, and then (it should slowly leak imo) it will have less gas but still can drive to one end and back without any change in fuel levels.

[coral merlin]

how to give myself admin on my dedicated server?

[bitter lotus]

Voice chat is kinda, Hella quiet when driving a car
Can you implement it so if in a car it raises voice volume by an extra 50% or something?
or add whisper / voice / yell

[slow pagoda]

good suggestion! could you put that into the feedback tracker? That way it has higher chance to be seen by correct people.

[coral merlin]

why does my server keep shutting down

"ds number of failed heartbeats reached 2 shutting down"

[unreal pine]

Fuel consumption is already there, I've driven the US army jeep around the whole island and it used only a quarter of fuel but it does consume

[jade yoke]

Maybe that's why I didn't notice it 🤔 🤷 definitely should be faster imo.

[unreal pine]

It's about the same across all arma game's tbh

[jade yoke]

I drove across the whole map and back didn't seem to move for me gas at half a tank the while time (this is after I had shot it) weird

[modest ice]

it does still bother me how there isn't visible vehicle part damage indicators like in previous games

like seeing fuel tank damage

[unreal pine]

I'm sure they have something planned for vehicle damage, I'm hoping they go the more realistic route with it to show us what the new engine is capable of

That said tire damage is there just not really anything visible other then tires sinking into the ground like previous Arma games

[bitter lotus]

How do i do that brother?

[desert nymph]

Just say what you’d like to see in #reforger_feedback

[bitter lotus]

@slow pagoda Can you ask one of the boys & bohemia if the audio settings file is local? If so i could just turn that up manually eh?

[slow pagoda]

@bitter lotus soz, im just a moderator from the community, I dont work at BI

youll have to ask yourself 😄

[formal pond]

I’m looking to purchase Reforger purely for the scripting and mission making side of things. Would it be worth it?

[half locust]

both are different than A3. Is it woth paying 30$? for some 30$ is a lot, for others less than a meal. No one can tell you what to spend your money on

[quartz lance]

@formal pond Since release i've spend much more time in the Workbench than i've spend playing any other game's released in the last couple year's.
So yes if you are into scripting and modding you can already have a good time with Reforger. At least that's how it is for me.

[sand verge]

Definitely would enjoy it! Im only on xbox so obviously very restricted in terms of mission making/modding and GM has no mods for now online etc but I have a world of fun knocking stuff up, only waiting now so I can save what I make and implement mods to online that I have been having a great time using offline.

[vernal socket]

Ya since it's the only thing they got working in any of their games to date

[zenith raven]

Has the networking issue with people being kicked off servers been fixed yet? I haven't bought the game yet.

[crimson fractal]

It's different for everyone

[digital moat]

no, its still pretty bad. there is a tiny m inority where its better than not.

[gusty prairie]

Not necessarily. It's very vocal potential minority people telling other people that the servers are still broken. If you keep saying, "They're not fixed" then people won't try and can't give feedback.

You're not helping. You need to tell folks to try it themselves so appropriate feedback can be given. If I didn't lurk so often, I would probably see your reply and just leave and not give it a shot.

It's been reiterated 100,000 times. The fix isn't a catch all fix. It works for some and not for others.

[cerulean rivet]

Hey sorry if this has been asked already but does anyone know what the change to spawn protection with the 7ths update is?

[gilded marsh]

Are Blackhawks and chinooks coming to the game in the future

[digital moat]

um..no? the minority is very much the people it works for. ANd no im not telling people to spend money on a game in development that doesn't work yet. People have the right to ask questions and receive honest feedback. And i'm not going to care about someone going "oh how dare you criticise this keep your mouth shut and tell them its ok and to buy it!"

[digital moat]

So i messed with this yesterday. its a temporary timer where you're invulnerable when you spawn. its actually not as useful as it sounds because it takes long enough to spawn that you only have a couple seconds of protection. we had a case yesterday where 1 guy with an ak kept a camp locked down repeatedly killing the 3 defenders spawning in until we all spawned at the same time

so its good enough to race for a bush and get into concealment to fight rather than spawn and just die immediately, but dont expect to zoom around killing with impunity

[gusty prairie]

Two things: You took my comment WAY out of context. I never said BUY anything. If they have it, then they should go try it. If they don't have it, then wait. Your response shouldn't be, "Go buy it and try it" but if I have the game and someone said, "Oh yeah, servers are still fucked." I'm not even going to bother. For you to blanket statement and say, "It still doesn't work" doesn't help. I'm not silencing you, I'm not telling people not to bitch. I'm telling people to give constructive feedback.

And secondly, how do you know it's only a minority it works for when it's pretty much the same folks in this discord saying they still can't connect, which is unfortunate but may not be the majority? I don't think you have the data to indicate. All I said was, "Potential minority" because the dataset size isn't exactly huge just here on this discord and may not be representative of the actual number.

[zenith raven]

I bought the game but I only see "Arma Reforger Server" in my library...

[brittle heron]

make sure you arent only viewing the tools category in your steam library

[zenith raven]

I'm viewing everything

And after I bought it, the game was still in my cart... but I've been charged too

[brittle heron]

did you try restarting Steam incase it derped?

[zenith raven]

Yeah

[brittle heron]

You can check your account purchase history to see if it went through on Steam's side, click on your username in the top right, select account details & in the page that opens there is a link to view your purchase history.

[zenith raven]

Okay I'll have a look

It says purchase pending so I'm assuming I have to wait for my bank or smth to catch up. Never had this happen before...

[brittle heron]

Yes most likely, I'd leave it some time and check again.

[zenith raven]

Thank you

[brittle heron]

no problem, I hope it fixes itself soon for you 🙂

[kind yoke]

I'm slightly curious is Xbox users gonna have the ability to host servers so we can use mods with friends and stuff in the future?

[zenith eagle]

It's confirmed, that's definitely coming for Xbox. But no date yet.

[rich swallow]

When is the AI going to be worked on? How much more advanced will it be them Arma 3?

[ashen iris]

Question: Is artillery or more so I should say fleshed out American and soviet factions planned arty helis tanks planes etc maybe destruction or is what we have now all we are getting and some bug fixing and stability is what is focused for reforger and we have to rely on modders for that <I'm new to arma as a whole with reforger being my first game > so sorry if I'm kinda asking stupid questions

[magic pebble]

Helicopters, destruction and bug fixes are confirmed. Everything else is not confirmed or we've been told that it won't be in the game.

[ashen iris]

Well I hope we get some type of tanks or arty

[hidden lark]

Where was Helicopters confirmed? I thought Arty was the next "big thing"?

[ashen iris]

@hidden lark where did you find these atm btw ?

[hidden lark]

find what?

[ashen iris]

The info about arty and stuff being planned

[hidden lynx]

If we get to a sergeant on one server then I log off then get back on to the same server will I still be a sergeant

[opaque sage]

Is it good on xbox

[crimson fractal]

I believe it is but it's largely a matter of opinion

[opaque sage]

What's the cons of it

[crimson fractal]

Some people are still experiencing server issues, there's currently not a lot of content, there's an invisibility glitch, no private servers yet

[opaque sage]

Ok thanks

[crimson fractal]

Also servers are still low pop

[fresh pewter]

when will the player count go back up?

[crimson fractal]

I guess when the Devs are satisfied with the server stability

But we don't know for sure

[quiet timber]

Are the server issues fixed yet? Aka can i play for more than 5 minutes?

[crimson fractal]

It's different for everyone so only you can tell if it will work for you

[round willow]

Less Dc’s more lag 😦

[digital moat]

i currently get almost exactly 15 minutes per d/c

[cosmic barn]

Is the game down?

[blissful jacinth]

i can't download any mod

always loading

[fiery flint]

When will Locally hosted Servers (As in servers hosted by a person on their computer that others join) be added to the game?

[compact bolt]

i think the answer is currently wait and see https://twitter.com/Nillers_/status/1533854453631270914

[fiery flint]

Alright, Thank you.

[unreal pine]

Will there be any fauna of any kind on Everon?

Would be really cool to see deer or small deer flocks since there are deer stands and feeding spots spread out in the forests

[foggy estuary]

Sounds like something that could cause a lot of lagging in reforger. I think this is something that will maybe be in arma 4

[unreal pine]

Well that would depend on your system and how the implementation of fauna was handled and how much detail they choose to go for. One work around would be to have it as a setting for either server side or local...

[primal ocean]

I just want helicopters

[foggy estuary]

But I think they said in the Gamestar interview that there will be animals. "Yes , Especially in arma 4 " was the answer.

Could be a lost in translation. But that's what they wrote.

[unreal pine]

That's promising

[timid ibex]

Is the game good on console yet

[foggy estuary]

It is yes, but there are only 16 players server rightnow due the server issues.

The Pc version has 32 players

[unreal pine]

When did they turn down the player count on PC? All servers that I've seen still say 64

[foggy estuary]

Oh my bad, i was thinking i read somewhere that they lowerd the pc servers to 32. My mistake

[zenith heath]

Those are community servers you see. Only the official ones have the said cap.

[unreal pine]

That makes sense

[crimson fractal]

You'll have to try for yourself because it's different for everyone

[foggy estuary]

You can try the trial version.

[rigid rover]

@slow leaf how is war of the worlds going ?

[zenith heath]

I am aware this is a long shot but are we expecting some high rise concrete building blocks in the future as vanilla assets? I mean classic soviet multi story civilian buildings that every ex communist country has including mine... 😀

[raven otter]

Is there any official word if tanks and helicopters are being added at some point? Not speculation but official word.

[sand verge]

Helis yeah, far as I know, no tanks.

[zenith eagle]

Official helis, anything else not commented yet. So we will see...

[zenith eagle]

No official words by devs, that tanks definitely not coming. Yeah, I know the german GameStar article, but's it's not a reliable source and I'm from Germany. 😅✌️

[sand verge]

I didn't read that, just going by what's said by devs here and in interviews. Unless I misread, you said exactly the same as me?

[zenith eagle]

I mean, tanks could be a possible option, but it's not commented by devs yet. We'll see if it happen or not. For now I'm okay with it, I'll let me surprise. First step: optimizations. Second step: new content.

[sand verge]

Well, They said no current plans for it, csn be taken in a number of ways but it's a different answer to what was said about helis. If I don't have plans for something, that means just that, there is no plans for it to happen. Yes, plans can change, but at this stage, you'd think if they planned for it at all, it would already be a plan. Wouldn't surprise me if they left it till arma 4. But yes, idrc either at this point. The optimisation is way way below par for adding a tank atm anyway.

No doubt a modded vehicle would be made anyway eventually

[zenith eagle]

Agree with you

[unreal pine]

Will there be weapon jamming?

I think that would be a cool feature to have for vanilla Arma

[sand verge]

Will there be a mode in the game where u and other ppl can just chill and maybe attack each other every now and again?

[zenith heath]

that does not really sound like a mode though... 😄

[sand verge]

More like dayz really

[sleek wharf]

There is GM

[sand verge]

Minus the zombies and survival mechanics

[zenith heath]

sounds like you should just open up an empty Game Master game and just chill.

[sand verge]

No

[zenith heath]

Then you need to figure it out on your own.

[sand verge]

Like arma life

[zenith heath]

That is not a mode where you just chill if I am not mistaken these are full blown RP game conversions. AFAIK some is in the works by modders.

[vapid mirage]

Is this game already dying or is my game bugged? Every server for multiplayer is empty besides one… one which is 16/16

[coral jewel]

What would be the target server player capacity? 64? or way more like 128 or 256?

[naive mortar]

I agree

[raven otter]

Well the reason I asked also is because me and a guy are having a debate and I don't think he understands mods but to be fair I don't know either, but the argument is basically if they don't implement tracked vehicles officially then you wouldn't be able to add a modded tank, which sounds ridiculous especially since we have the tools to use for such features

[sand verge]

64 max for Xbox probably

Maybe 256 for pc

Probably in the future

[coral jewel]

thanks

[inland scroll]

Ay idk if it's a bug or not but Reforger is automatically canceling several of my mod downloads.

[round willow]

Do they have any plans to rework the points on conflict? I feel like they just placed a few things randomly. It would be cool to have more decoration to make the outposts more full of life.

Like more tents and stuff

[crimson fractal]

It's been mentioned that conflict will be reworked

No real specifics though

[digital moat]

truth told, conflict is just a scenario and its already got a number of varients. you'll be more likely to get a better version from the modders than BI for this. Frankly i'd far prefer them getting the game fundamentally working rather htan messing with a scenario that any one of us can mess with. I mean conflict enhanced already blows the original out of hte water

[toxic atlas]

Will Reforger get a Bradley IFV?

[flint nest]

Once servers are up and stable at 256 players I wonder if they then will try and push it to 500 players....

[bold wigeon]

it's a "troop transport"

[little summit]

I know, I know, listen, I know it's a wild thought, but what if (starts connecting threads on a wall), what if 501?

[bitter lotus]

Is there any place on arma website that explain each reason?

Example group 1 - reason 1, reason 2 etc etc etc

[crimson fractal]

That's just crazy man, there's no way. Unless...?

[jade yoke]

Will there be a conflict type of prefab mode in GM? Like how a game of conflict currently works, but customizable in GM. Like the GM chooses where the bases are located and how many between the 2 main HQ's if that makes sense.

I've tried many of things to make something similar to conflict but in different areas, and there is no way currently that I have found to make a physical objective that the player can interact with and secure 😅.

[sand verge]

Can someone confirm if there is biological night vision? I.e. at night your eyes adjust to the darkness over time? Which is then ruined if you use torch/lantern etc. Like in real life.
I know moon light (and moon phases?) affect visibility. Sidenote: Moonlit skirmishes are 👌

[zealous swallow]

I dont think so

[half locust]

reason for what sorry?

[bitter lotus]

The logs, After you get kicked there is a group 1: reason NIL (can vary up to like 10)
Trying to figure out what each reason means

[stiff elbow]

is this somewhere official that consoles can only use 2gb of mods?

[half locust]

i doubt that is reforger exclusive tbh. You can check through xbox dev data if you want. Considering that most content mods for arma3 are well in excess of 2gb, that would mean there will be quite a limiting factor for xbox platform

[stiff elbow]

all right, I almost thought so, thanks

[viscid zealot]

how much time for a coastal base to self resupply

[crimson fractal]

20 minutes after capture

[sand verge]

please aircrafts in reforger. 😉

[tame gyro]

That was the case on fallout 4 and Skyrim, but now that I think about it I’m pretty sure I have over 2 GBs of mods downloaded on arma, since I have two that are 1 GB+

[half locust]

wondering what happens if a mod would be 2gb+ in itself, not cumulatively

[tame gyro]

yeah just looked and I have a few GBs downloaded. The saved data on the game says I have 9.8 GBs of reserved space, so if there is a limit currently, I think it may be that 10 GB mark. Worth other Xbox people checking the size of their game and seeing if they also have the 9.8 GBs of reserved space

We have so many shit games like COD that take up hundreds of GB, I think arma could get away with being 50 GB larger lol

[night bane]

hi, will i need to buy arma 4 if i already paid for arma reforger ? (are they the same game?)

[tame gyro]

Yes you will have to pay for arma 4. Reforger is for them to test stuff out for arma 4 and get yo money.

[night bane]

when will arma 4 come out ?

[half locust]

unknown. 2years + minimum is realistic

[round tide]

havent played arma reforger for a while. is it still full of bugs? like vehicles falling below the ground and stuff?

[gloomy meadow]

Think I've been saying that for 2-3 years now 😁

[gloomy meadow]

Reportedly there's been a bunch of fixes but yes, there's plenty of bugs/issues 🙂

[sand verge]

Anyone know what causes the scopes to glitch out and have blue pixels throughout it?

I thought it was conflicting weapon/attachment mods but I've had it happen just now without any change of mods from previous session and tried changing around what mods are active to try and resolve it, but it's still happening.

[half locust]

it happens with vanilla scopes for me just as well

[sand verge]

Fair enough, I've only had it unless im using modded items in scenarios or GM. Point to note I'm on xbox, never had it happen on m21 or SVD when playing online.

[old zinc]

hello again, im still havng an issue with my arma workshop where i cant download any mods at all and its quite frustrating, any help is appreciated

[stray blade]

Try turning antivirus off while downloading mods, that worked for me, other than that change download location with -addonDownloadDir and -addonsDir startup params. More info can be found on wiki

[old zinc]

ill definitly try that, i dont even have an addon folder in documents, or a profile folder, i added them manually but they are emty

[stray blade]

Check ur startup params, perhaps u changed it

[old zinc]

i have the wiki open, but how do you get to startup params by chance?

[stray blade]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Startup_Parameters

[slim vigil]

I was looking for conflict enhanced details,does anyone know where i could find them?

[fossil viper]

Does it not have anything under it in the workshop menu?

[inland scroll]

Ay idk if it's a bug or not but Reforger is automatically canceling several of my mod downloads. And none of the mods I've been using are working, games just won't start

[hushed socket]

QUESTION:
is there anything that can be done against "gamma cheaters", especially for playing at night time? (from the devs perspective, mind you)
wasnt this resolved somehow in the original OFP and the first three SplinterCell titles by just not "drawing" anything that was in the darkness??

[robust trail]

When will arma workshop mods be added to multiplayer Gm?

[charred sail]

just checking back in after a while to see if the large amount of disconnection issues have been resolved

[stray blade]

issue is down to client, so try it yourself, as different people have different results

[lone maple]

Will they add keyboard and mouse support for console?

[blissful jacinth]

I think it's a good idea because arma shouldn't sacrifice controllability in favor of consoles

[blissful jacinth]

This reminds me of the ACE mod, but because of the engine they just replay the reload animation

[blissful jacinth]

I'm actually curious, we already have the wreckage of the T62, BMP and M113

Does this mean they will be in the game?

Or is it like in a3 where you can find the remains of arma2 vehicles, they are just decorations

If you look inside these wrecks, you will see that they even have basic cockpit details

[sonic thorn]

ACE mod is cracked

hopefully they are working on something for when ARMA 4 comes out

The difference between sniping in vanilla a3 compared to with ACE3 installed is absolutely insane

[eager violet]

They already can be if a server runs the workshop mods. But the official servers do not run any mods

[charred sail]

it literally cant be client, not when there has been literally nothing you can do to resolve it on your own, and there are thousands of people that have this same issue. And especially not when its basically the official servers that are doin it the most

[coral merlin]

my friend was automatically banned for no reason, how to unban them on my server?

[stray blade]

#reforger_multiplayer message

[brazen onyx]

how can i play on a terrain i created myself ?

[brittle jolt]

do the helmets actually protect you or are they just cosmetic

[hushed socket]

doesnt seem to help against 9mm pistol. and i guess there are no shrapnels from the grenades to be afraid of, so helmets are cosmetic only atm...?

[magic pebble]

Cosmetic but this "Might" change in the future.

[cedar storm]

Will there be crossplay Xbox and PC eventually?

[kind yoke]

Personally I hope not unless they allow Xbox users to be able to use mouse and keyboards as well cuz that would put us at a slight disadvantage

[sand verge]

Same, the game wouldn’t be fun nor fair against pc players

[cedar storm]

Exactly what I want

[zenith eagle]

But m+k support doesn't means that it will be used by all or most people. Like other games with m+k support, this feature is used by very very small percent. Console gamers still prefer controller. In conclusion: m+k support would be bad too.

[terse kindle]

Is there a way to add selectable loadouts in the game master mode as the game master?

[sand verge]

I missed the start of the pc gaming live stream with BI. Does anyone know what they mentioned?

[compact bolt]

i don't think anything new was mentioned

[sand verge]

Did they say anything about the server caps?

[compact bolt]

oh no, nothing like that

this is for the general gaming public remember

[sand verge]

Oh thanks anyway

[magic pebble]

They said absolutely nothing of value.

[compact bolt]

• nothing of value to people who have already been following reforger closely

[magic pebble]

Nothing of value to anyone. The only thing I would consider of value is the answer to the mod ability

[compact bolt]

i guess you think everybody knows what arma reforger is (spend enough time in #reforger_discussion and you'll see that isn't true lol)

[magic pebble]

They could've showed the trailer only if the purpose was to show the players that the game exist. They didn't answer any question. Instead plugged their technology.

[compact bolt]

what question would you have asked?

[magic pebble]

The same questions

[compact bolt]

i donno what to say, that segment went exactly like any segment where bi is a guest on a general gaming stream would go. they're not going to drop info that would only mean anything to people like you and me and mean nothing to everyone else. the questions and answers need to be general and open. and no, just showing a trailer wouldn't have given the same information, for example about modding, the fact that they've abandoned the old engine tech, etc

[zinc sail]

Is the BTR-70 in game amphibious?

[stray blade]

Yup

[zinc sail]

so could someone theoretically take one in conflict and drive it around to the other side of the island?

[stray blade]

Well it goes 9km/h in water, so i guess yes, but would take loooong time

[magic pebble]

Driving on the main road is faster and probably safer too

[unreal pine]

Will mirrors be a working thing for reforger?

[tame gyro]

I noticed that the eyeballs of the players actually reflect the surroundings, so maybe lol.

[unreal pine]

That's cool, love finding those little details like that

[sand verge]

I have 4ghz processor and gtx 1650 laptop card.will i be able to run reforger in medium setting with decent fps

[kind yoke]

Yes Ik that but like I said unless they add m+k support for console if they do crossplay then that's fine otherwise we could just keep it the way it is

[mortal flare]

Will Arma reforger be supported after arma 4 released?

[blissful jacinth]

no i think

[mortal flare]

will there be compensation for the purchase of Reforger? Did the developers say anything about this?

[half locust]

compensation for what?

[mortal flare]

some exclusive items in Arma4

[half locust]

this isn’t that sort of game…

[mortal flare]

that is, the game will not be supported after the release of Arma 4?Did the developers say anything?

[half locust]

define support here

new content- nope / end of life support, most likely

[orchid geyser]

Anyone know if we will see additional units, such as helicopters in reforger?

How does the rank system work? I seem to become sergeant in every game I play 😄

[half locust]

most likely yes, but no official confirmation.

[half locust]

that is mission specific, higher rank, more options towards vehicle spawns / request

[orchid geyser]

Oh, that makes sense. Thanks.

[half locust]

there is no global rank ingame to unlock stuff or alike like most other mainstream FPS aim for

[jade yoke]

That's what makes arma great

[coral jewel]

any update coming this week?

[gusty prairie]

Devs mentioned we were on a weekly update cycle. But who knows. Keep an eye on #socials

[sand verge]

I think there’s an update for pc tomorrow

[stray blade]

Well it defo wont be on friday so in 1 to 3 days

[timid ibex]

Is xbox stable enough to run higher pop servers yet

[floral shadow]

Yeah I haven't been on the discord for like 3 weeks now hasn't the game been fixed properly yet

[sand verge]

Yeah unfortunately not, hopefully this new update will put a big dent in the server issues

Guys I have a bunch of mods downloaded and enabled but I can't use them in Game master, any1 can help pls?

[digital cargo]

keep an eye on Tuesday, stuff happens each Tuesday.

[stray blade]

You joined server or offline?

[sand verge]

offline

[stray blade]

Its then related to mod not working properly, what kinda mods did you dl, and did you read description. Alot of mods are not in working/usable state

[sand verge]

I downloaded 3, one of them being the Bohemia car

I'll try some more

[stray blade]

Oh that i think should work. Did you check your filters in gm?

Otherwise check log to see if they fail to load for whatever reason.

[sand verge]

yes I checked the filter. How do you check the logs ?

[stray blade]

Windows?

[sand verge]

the Camaro z28 mod is working, it must've been the mods I downloaded had problems, nothing else. Thanks a lot for the help

[stray blade]

Righto

[digital moat]

russians take Nevada (what it used to be called) all the time because it crossed the bay to (then) Ohio

[digital moat]

the main perk of rank is in spawning. The higher your rank, the shorter your spawn timer for people who spawn on your radio. i dont know how fast lieutenant is, but ive had experiences where ive had people spawning every second or two on me for 20+ minutes

[jade yoke]

As we have been able to use mods in solo, does the tweet mean we can now find actual modded severs that pc hosts? Also does that mean some sort of cross-play? More details are needed.

[solar thistle]

Hey all, I'm having an issue with modding as well as trying to start an unmodded server.
Modded:
There's an error log I could link or give that says something along the lines of "cannot move /addons/[mod ID]/[image].jpg to server/addons/[mod ID]/[image].jpg" as well as "Can't open a workshop meta file: $profile:../addons/[mod ID]/meta

Unmodded:
Sever starts up fine, but I cannot join because there is a connection failure over and over, I do not know if I Ported correctly or not.

[stray blade]

Deleteing content of addons folder on server should help with first error.

For second if you are hosting on same machine that you play on.... well solution is not straightforward. If not then most likely port forwarding or wrong address in gameHostRegisterBindAddress

[fossil sparrow]

I really appreciate the updates for reforger, but I have this question. What's an authentication stage? I googled it but it just gave me info about two factor authentication. I wanted to know what the dev report meant by authentication stage

[compact fossil]

Will cross play be added?

Really want to play with my friends on pc

[maiden roost]

Are ya'll working on the memory leak? RAM utilization grows steadily overtime even when no players are online. Once RAM is maxed out (14GB) server crashes (10 player rented server). I am using the "-maxFPS 60" as custom start param. thanks!

and fixing ammo changing location when taking it...or at least i thought it was in the change log. i thought that was fixed with last update but does not work.

[proven girder]

I haven't noticed any memory leaking on my server 🤔

[quartz wolf]

look under your server mate!!there should be a pool/puddle of ram there. (if there is not... it probably dried up already..🤓

[delicate hollow]

i know y’all probably get this a lot, but will you be adding helicopters or any sort to reforger? or just infantry/armor based

[zenith eagle]

Official are helicopters, but nothing more is commented yet. Maybe, maybe not. On the other hand the modding community are very active. We'll see...

[delicate hollow]

@zenith eagle so there will be helicopters?

i just got confused on where you said official are helicopters

[zenith eagle]

Yeah, someday in the future. But no eta

[zenith eagle]

In an official interview with german GameStar

[delicate hollow]

ohhh ok i get what you meant now, also do u know if they said anything with adding mortars or any type of artillery?

[zenith eagle]

Nope. Any type of additional content aren't commented yet (except helicopters). We all must wait for more informations on official channels.

[jade yoke]

I believe so and if not officially then the mod community will provide at some point

[zenith eagle]

Yeah, that's true

[delicate hollow]

facts, people are getting mad that it crashes and stuff, they need to realize. this is just beta for the game, and it will be so much better once they fully release it

@zenith eagle do you have a link to the interview i cannot find it on youtube

[jade yoke]

Yup did the game preview for Session and it's about to release September 22nd, game came a very long way since first day on preview. Can't wait to see where reforger goes.

[zenith eagle]

Be careful, german GameStar is not reliable and this article had some weird statements from the journalist, but I searching for the english translated version... Give me a second

[zenith eagle]

https://www.gamestar.de/artikel/der-lange-weg-zu-arma-4-wie-geht-es-jetzt-mit-reforger-weiter,3381140.html

Sorry, the translated Reddit post was deleted... Don't know why

[delicate hollow]

it’s ok i translated it

https://www.global-esports.news/general/the-long-road-to-arma-4-whats-next-for-reforger/

found a english translation

[vale wren]

Are you planning to update the FSR to 2.0?

[sand verge]

Seems like an excuse for lazy work. This company had a whole cash grab history back when dayz got abandoned I’m hoping it’s not the same or deal.

[gloomy solstice]

Uhhh dayz is still getting updated tho, and I'm talking even porting parts of enfusion into it

[zenith eagle]

Lazy work... what a stupid statement. Software development is very complex these days and what BI reached with their new engine is remarkable. Sure, it's need improvements, optimizations and more features, but hey, we're currently in an early phase of reforger and on the road to Arma 4.

[foggy ridge]

is it just me or aiming sniper rifles is a bit imprecise because it keeps jumping a few degrees

[hushed socket]

QUESTION:
is there anything that can be done against "gamma cheaters", especially for playing at night time? (from the devs perspective, mind you)
wasnt this resolved somehow in the original OFP and the first three SplinterCell titles by just not "drawing" anything that was in the darkness??

[modest summit]

Can we expect any humanitarian faction coming to reforger?

[magic pebble]

Won't hold my breath for it.

[stray blade]

It can be modded in already, if someone would do it.

[compact fossil]

Will cross play be added?

[sand verge]

Hopefully not between pc and Xbox if Xbox doesn’t get m and k support

[modest summit]

Would be a really nice addition in my opinion

[modest summit]

Mod or official either way works 😄

[compact fossil]

Why are u not wanting it to get cross play?

[sand verge]

Because console players are gonna get bodied by pc players and there’s gonna be more cheating

[stray blade]

Nothing is stopping you. Just dunno how you would declare them as non combatants so ai doesnt go warcrime on them. I didnt look far into custom faction, but given that there is Custom faction example by Bi in workshop i guess it can be done

[foggy ridge]

crossplay in pve would be fun

[surreal compass]

is there anyone who can run ArmaReforger_BE.exe with Proton?

[blissful nest]

PvE 🤮

[stray blade]

Pve is awesome.

[blissful nest]

May aswell go do mental arithmetic against a calculator

[foggy ridge]

in pvp it doesnt make any sense

[magic pebble]

It's possible. I've seen controller players dunking on m&k

[fossil condor]

If you don't like pve why even buy an arma game

[magic pebble]

For KOTH babyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

[stray blade]

maybe for "altis life" gotta get that RP injection

[magic pebble]

Dude I tried so hard to get into Altis life but no matter how much I tried I couldn't.

For some reason it attract the most vile full of themselves people.

And they get to be police and bully everyone

[stray blade]

Forced hardcore roleplay made me sick tbh.

[sand verge]

Should I play the original OFP before I play reforger?

[hushed socket]

no. but you should play it in general!

[sand verge]

Will it work on a modern system though?

[foggy ridge]

yes

[hushed socket]

yes, it should work.

[sand verge]

I tried playing ArmA 2 campaign and scripting got all messed up

[gusty prairie]

I played Resistance within the last couple years. Would recommend.

Should be included in Cold War Assault.

[hushed socket]

long live Victor Troska!

[compact bolt]

i've been playing arma 1 with some friends recently and it holds up. runs crazy well too, better than cwa, in my subjective experience

[marble roost]

When will you be able to save a game master session?

[jade yoke]

When will the first major update drop? Only asking as 12months for early access. I'd think would mean every 3 months ish we'd get 1 major update, if I recall 4 major updates correctly.

[zenith eagle]

There will 3 major updates comes. There is no eta for the first one. As developer you try to be flexible, so publish a date now wouldn't make sense, because they have currently bigger problems to resolve. That's the reason, why there's no roadmap at beginning.

[blissful jacinth]

only 3？

What is it about?

Think about what will be included in each update with only 3 updates

Jets, helicopters, and... more infantry stuff?

It doesn't look like we're going to have a good time in reforger

[zenith eagle]

If you would read the Steam store page:

“The game currently includes most of the core features and supporting systems. However, throughout Early Access, we plan to have 3 major updates, adding more content, such as: new weapons, artillery, new gadgets.
We will also keep improving features such as health, artificial intelligence, and destruction of the environment.
We expect the game to mature during the Early Access and shape the future of the Arma series.”

[jade yoke]

Should have this detailed info on the Xbox store as well imo.

[fair dome]

How long until custom servers and 32 player slots will be available

[stray blade]

No longer than 11 months

[magic scarab]

Hello guys! . As a new player I have a question about mod's. Which one from workshop working and you can really use them?

Xbox console

[half locust]

most of them working despite most are early wips, similar to the game. You can use them in SP on consoles

[stray blade]

Best to look @ ratings in workshop. But do note xbox doesnt have modded servers yet, so you can only use them in singleplayer

[magic scarab]

Thank you for answer 🤝🤝

[daring socket]

is DCing every 20 mins still an issue in this game or did they fix that yet?

[fossil condor]

still an issue

[worthy helm]

Too vague a question. There were multiple issues for a range of network related problems, a number of fixes have been deployed each week since launch. So the best way to find out if specific issues that you might have experienced are fixed is to try for yourself directly.

[crude rose]

I know that they were talking about making it a 64 player Loby cap. Does anyone know when they’ll be expanding it from 16 to more?

[stray blade]

In part true. On server for pc cap is 64. On xbox prolly the same, but you cant host a server for xbox yet.

[sand bramble]

xbox is 16 🙂

[stray blade]

Welp thats what official servers are set to... you could set them to 1 player also

[crude rose]

But there’s no way to increase that size yet eh?

[worthy helm]

The official servers will have their player limits increased once BI is happy with the state of the network issues.

[tame gyro]

Almost all of them work, but you can only use them in single player currently on Xbox

[magic scarab]

Single player its a ,, scenario " Mode right? For example, if I download a mod with a gun then I go thought to scenario mode and this gun will be there straight away?

[tame gyro]

If you hit “play” on game master instead of “find server”, you will load into a offline single player mode with all your mods available. Some mods do come with a scenario though that you can load up and it’ll have all the mod stuff ready

[magic scarab]

Ok I get it. Thank you sooooo much

[graceful totem]

There are no Xbox custom servers

[stray blade]

for now....

[graceful totem]

So they cannot set them to 1, or anything for that matter lol

[crude rose]

So does anyone know if or when they will add in aircraft

[stray blade]

well someone is running them, so yes, they could set them to 1 😛

[crude rose]

Wouldn’t that just be the scenario

[graceful totem]

Devs are running them. The question was specifically about Xbox server cap going from 16 to more, so all of that was a non answer lol

[half locust]

if ever, most likely helicopters, there is no official answer so far

[stray blade]

The question wasn't specifically about Xbox server

[shell mirage]

when will tanks come?

[zenith eagle]

I wouldn't bet on that, maybe by modders.

[shell mirage]

bruh so then it isnt real arma

[zenith eagle]

Yeah, because it's a standalone game and not Arma 4

[shell mirage]

its gonna go over to arma 4

[zenith eagle]

No, that's wrong. Reforger is and will be standalone.

[shell mirage]

ok

30 bucks for a game with an jeep💀

[zenith eagle]

There's a little bit more vehicle actually and it will come more (like helicopters).

[shell mirage]

better be helicopters with rockets

[unique zealot]

How on earth do you fight at night in this game?

[hushed socket]

hahahahaha

you just do

or you dont

[unique zealot]

There's a few tells, such as silhouetting, or people accidentally wandering into light that can help you find a target, but most of the time I'm basically walking into people in the pitch black nothing. I don't suppose there's any tactics on torch usage that work?

[hushed socket]

yes there is.
you can blind your enemy for example. or send him a message

you can use light from vehicles

you can drop your lit torch on the ground for distraction

you can leave it turned off too

btw, the nights are more lit if there is good weather and full moon.
that also depends on the angle of the moon and your positioning on the map... and the calendar date.

[unique zealot]

Blinding people seems a pretty risky move, compared to anyone you aren't pointing at shooting you instantly

[hushed socket]

thats your choice

[digital moat]

so it requires you to actually think instead of just run around. you need to use stealth, avoid backlighting, be slow, and learn not to use your flashlight.

[hushed socket]

watch out that you dont shoot your comrades when they blind you, hahahaha

and watch out that your comrades dont shoot you

[digital moat]

ive definitely done the drop the light thing. i also do it to highlight an area such as the radio, so either someone goes and turns off the flashlight (at which point i light the up) or they are visbile when going for the radio.

[unique zealot]

@digital moat I thought of actually thinking myself. Anything beyond waiting for the enemy to mess up and illuminate themself?

[hushed socket]

listen

the sound is great in Reforger

[digital moat]

please understand i wasnt being rude. the point is night time is not a run and gun but a thief-esque time to play. In truth a huge chunk IS that, waiting for the first person to make a mistake. As crazyjake said, turn up your volume and you'll hear the brush being moved, slight footsteps. But its very much about who's willing to be more the predator

[unique zealot]

I don't suppose watching for muzzle flashes works? I can't get anything out of them. No idea how bright they are IRL

[digital moat]

oh it works great. a muzzle flash will light up their whole body

[hushed socket]

you can try all that for yourself.
with the Game Master mode for example, there you can set the conditions and see the results

btw, if you dont have a top CPU but still want to watch a big clash between AIs, i can recomend just joining an empty GM server and vote for yourself to be game master.

youll have better framerate that way if the server computer is well built

[unique zealot]

Well, classic reforger there, my game crashed as I was doing some sneaky manoeuvres. So far ingame I've actually really struggled to see muzzle flashes. I think I can attempt tos ee if blinding the enemy with torches is worth it, and how much stray light there is from these ones

[hushed socket]

that were merely some options.
of course different situations can change the outcome of your decissions....

good luck

[digital moat]

aren't all the servers hosted by BI?

[unique zealot]

Second question - I assume talking into the radio can be overheard by people standing near you, correct?

[digital moat]

i mean you ahve to be close, all i know for example is when im taking FIA bases at night, I can clearly see when the AI shoots and ive seen a number of night battles where stuff was lighting up like mad from gun fire

[digital moat]

yes. even worse atm (did the patch drop?) it shows that you're talking with your name

so it is/was that even if your voice wasnt quite audible, someone could physically SEE you were talking

[unique zealot]

I get a lot of "unknown" on the radio now if the signal is poor

I actually think a reasonable amount of "seeing the name" may be appropriate in that irl they'd be speaking russian/english so you'd know that way which side they were on

[digital moat]

does it show the names if they're enemy still?

i agree, because you should be able to look and see if their name is on the player list

[unique zealot]

I suspect a lot of people who speak the enemy's language try irl to issue confusing orders in close combat

[hushed socket]

idk, but i ment rather using an empty server instead of doing GM offline (which would leave all the AI calculations to your own CPU)

that way i get 45-80 fps in a 90vs90 AI battle instead of 7fps with my old CPU

example: https://youtu.be/lKKBUEIiHrQ

[digital moat]

oh i cant argue that

[hushed socket]

of course thats just extreme condition i wanted to test out of curiosity.
many servers cant hold that much AI fighting atm and rather crash. or the (MY)game crashes

[digital moat]

in all honesty, BI needs to hire some master network programmers and not the ones they have now and master server meshing, because their arma engines have never truly been able to allow for truly large numbers of units. We're entering into an age where it shoudln't be a problem to have 4 or 5 servers working together to allow hundreds of players and thousands of AI.

btw...does anyone know if the patch had any effect on disconnects?

[hushed socket]

it seems to have gotten better for many people.
just played little over an hour without a problem and the random comrades in my team said the same.
was a nice match (let me add, i mean without connection problems)

but the problem is not solved, lol

[unique zealot]

If its any help, my client crashed once and I didn't disconnect at all on a 48 player server

[digital moat]

i mean i'll take an hour. i've been locked to 15 minutes this last patch. I can do a lot in an hour of gameplay

[jade yoke]

Officially the answer was aircraft, water craft, artillery and destruction is slated to be added over 3 major updates. No eta or order in which the content will come.

[jade yoke]

You can turn on you torch and the drop it and it will remain on, example we had a sniper on a hill (moving and shooting) shooting at us anytime a light came on or we went into light, so I had 3 guys line up looking at the hill, while I laid down and crawled 20m to there left turned on my light (quickly) dropped it and moved to my right as fast as possible. When the sniper took his 2 shots my guys lit him up, target eliminated 😂

[fossil condor]

Question, why do the crashes get worse every time you "update" the game

[jade yoke]

Will we get fuel consumption adjustments for GM at some point? Or any mode for that matter lol

[lime summit]

Hiya i have a question. I am not sure if i am doing something wrong but when i make my own conflict i get as far as doing it all on the enfusion engine and when i test it on the engine everything works but then when i test it in scenarios to see if it actually works i get no ai spawning at the bases and the vehicle shop dont work. It's prob me doing something wrong but i wanted to ask here to see if i could get some info on it :/

[stray blade]

Perhaps better to ask in #enfusion_scenario ?

[lime summit]

Okay thank you. I will ask in there now 🙂 @stray blade

[coral jewel]

will the motion blur be implemented?

And I would also like to ping again about issue with foliage rendering over a larger distance and visibility problems with distant models.

I will be doing it till it will be undertaken by deveopers

[half locust]

use - https://feedback.bistudio.com/project/view/66/

[fossil condor]

Imagine wanting motion blur

[coral jewel]

ive used it already some time ago

[coral jewel]

https://feedback.bistudio.com/T165480

[half locust]

great, then there is no point posting here anymore, is it now?

[coral jewel]

yep, you are actually right, however I intended to be a little bit annoying with it, sorry

[foggy ridge]

I've played 12 hour long Warfare missions with 60 other people (and AI!) in Arma 2 and it was fine. (yes I had no life back then)

[rigid rover]

I am currently setting up a dedicated server and as far as I understood only my pc can join the server that set up the server am I right

[stray blade]

Not quite, but for sake of simplicity, lets say yes.

[rigid rover]

Shiet

Basically I wanted to try a workaround on consoles multiplayer Limitation currently

U can’t set up or buy server so I wanted to try to host on my pc and use the direct join feature basically

[buoyant gust]

Console platform specific servers are limited in backend, you cannot go over the limit, for now.

[rigid rover]

I know but for some reason there was a bug 3 updates before where u could host servers for some reason when u created a game from the workshop downloaded section

For some reason it got patched and this is basically why search for a workaround cause official is well.. not great for groups u always have black sheep’s on these servers ruining the fun

[zenith eagle]

That worked?! Okay... I had heard about a rumor that private servers were able with a mod, but didn't know, that your description was really the workaround. And this runs well?

[zenith eagle]

I know what you means with that idiots, really annoying.

[stray blade]

So i was right about it xD

[rigid rover]

@zenith eagle it was running, it heavily depended who is connecting how much and from which country (ping)

[zenith eagle]

We tried it by direct join over the modes, but that was the workbench was the solution, damn... 😂

[stray blade]

Yeah u asked about the workshop solution a while back

[zenith eagle]

Then I didn't understood, why it was generally disabled, when it already worked.

[rigid rover]

I think the same reason player count got reduced, instability

[zenith eagle]

Yeah, seams plausible

[rigid rover]

I really hope the come with private servers fast

Cause I am a big believer that having no private servers in sandbox games kills the majority of the player base

[zenith eagle]

That means, the server was correctly running by @tame mural 😅

[rigid rover]

Dayz took over a year rust don’t have private servers since 1 and a half years now and I see the numbers always dropping

[zenith eagle]

For sure... the main reason is to play with friends or group different scenarios or gm sessions. That would be gamechanger on Xbox

Personally I played DayZ not very long. I was upset by the controls and tried to learn this game alone, big mistake

[paper helm]

Did the update fix server error? If not I see no reason to play wondering if I'll be booted.

[gloomy solstice]

For dayz to be fun you need a group, just like rust etc

[rigid rover]

Game master is the only thing I personally play, conflict is just way to big for 16 players

[crystal parrot]

@paper helm no, its worse than before too

[zenith eagle]

Yeah, we need higher pop server. Hopefully BI give a try

[hushed socket]

how about instead of making foliage disappear at a certain distance it would be turned into sprites?
for example, looking at daggerfall(unity) the outcome looks pretty damn well in the distance, and much better than shit disappearing into thin air.

[surreal compass]

what is reason 2 and group 1? "(E): Kicked from game. group=1 reason=2"

[buoyant gust]

Its a Disconnection, it means the connection process to the server failed, happens when joining fails.

[surreal compass]

clear

[coral jewel]

I think the drawcalls are a problem - amount of objects that are requested to draw, not drawing them itself - that's why it might be hard, even with 2d, always fron facing, sprites.

[hushed socket]

that would be just laughable, because the old engine from Arma3 could achieve the same results in this department.
and i dont understand why this limit cant even be exceeded when i turn down every other graphics setting there is, including the general view distance and resolution.
this not only has to be worked on but should have been thought of the moment they created this new engine (which people already speculate if it is actually something new...)

it has been asked for in this series for too long now, to yet again just wave it away with "but the performance...."
not that there was any official comment on this topic anyways..........

[terse kindle]

Is there a way for the gamemaster to setup some loadouts for players to select?

[slow pagoda]

The last lod of trees is already as simple as it can be really, a crossing plane. The object number does not change with whatever graphics is rendered on it even as invisible it would still be there.

You can try Arma 3 and crank up view distance and object draw distance to 12 km and see how that works.

[hushed socket]

the talk is about the option "Grass Draw Distance" in Reforger.
it stops at 150m, which could already draw farther in Arma3 with the "terrain setting" on Ultra and the "extended grass" mod.

fyi, this is what i have a big problem with in this "new engine": https://youtu.be/UxWMrg5RnSc

with that in mind, now please read again:
"and i dont understand why this limit cant even be exceeded when i turn down every other graphics setting there is, including the general view distance and resolution.
this not only has to be worked on but should have been thought of the moment they created this new engine (which people already speculate if it is actually something new...)"

btw, i just hope for an offical statement some time, not from discord moderators.

[slow pagoda]

you could perhaps rephrase the question in nicer way to get people more inclined to talk about stuff

[hushed socket]

how nice?

[slow pagoda]

civil

[hushed socket]

it was civil

[half locust]

pretty sure it is not engine limit

it might be limited on purpose, have no idea if it can be modded to increase the rendered distance, i would assume not

[high rune]

There's no such thing as an engine limit when your engine is brand new and under active development lol

"Engine limitations" is describing a situation where you don't have access to the engine source code or it's infeasible to modify it like in RV4

[half locust]

that being said, after watching that video, there is no way to have endless grass rendered distance

maybe some thing to mitigate the non grass rendering, sure, but that’s left to be seen

[high rune]

Rendering huge amounts of grass is challenging because you rapidly become fillrate-limited, I doubt any modern rendering engine is going to be limited by drawcalls

Most of the scene is going to be drawn in just a few massive indirect calls most likely

Or if it's not, it will be eventually

It's possible they reduced the grass for console performance or something, maybe when the engine gets more mature and it makes sense to optimize things further it will improve

[hushed socket]

i feel trolled here... really

[half locust]

why?

[uneven rose]

Dose anyone know how to use custom maps on console?

Specifically with game master

[half locust]

cannot until you can rent your own servers

[tame gyro]

If you go to scenarios, the mod may or may not have a scenario you can load up to use the map in game master. But like the other dude said, we can’t play multiplayer with mods right now.

[undone stirrup]

Why does the game keep crashing

[digital moat]

in my case it got much worse :/

[delicate hollow]

are you kidding me it got worse?

when do you think the player count will go up on xbox?

[stray blade]

I think in 34 days 3 hours and 23 minutes. But i cant back this up.

[delicate hollow]

bruh

[delicate hollow]

are you being serious or are you just being a bitch 😂

[stray blade]

I mean, you asked "when do you think", i think that...

[delicate hollow]

yes i know.. but are you being serious when you said the date. or u just pulling out of your ass

[small ermine]

I think tomorrow

[stray blade]

Its the date im thinking about, but as ive said i have nothing to back up that claim ;)

[delicate hollow]

@stray blade ok i was just wondering, my apologies, at first i thougjt you was being a dick and just being a smart ass

[stray blade]

No i was being a dick, sorry, i have no idea, figure when devs see connections are stable enough to increase it.

[stray blade]

Maybe this will give you some insight #reforger_xbox message

[delicate hollow]

@stray blade ur fine man, and i appreciate it

[undone stirrup]

Why cant ai drive vehicles

[high rune]

Because it takes time to implement and BI hasn't spent that time yet

[stray blade]

They didnt attend driving school yet, but they said they will in the future.

[kind yoke]

Has there been any updates or news about console hosted servers? Haven't been here for a hot min

[grim onyx]

is there no editor for reforger?

[crisp briar]

As milsims is one of the very few areas where size actually matters, is there any goal for the approx. number of players and AIs supported by servers?
Are we going to be able to simulate real batallion-level operations, without practically overstretching players and AIs over the map?

[half locust]

no eden editor but there is the workbench

[buoyant gust]

This is a very complicated question, so I will give a quick overview, long term - upgrades of some systems are coming, but stability comes first.
Just to put things in perspective, currently full conflict runs at an average ~300+ AI / 64 players / 40 vehicles / @1500m networked view distance in each direction = ~25+ FPS, at least for the official servers, and this says nothing about the fidelity/entity count we are dealing with.

[crisp briar]

Of course, I don't expect upgrades in this domain to be soon or of a high priority. I'm more asking about the view for not-so-near future

[buoyant gust]

The goal is to be able to support ArmA 4, and all that comes attached with such a title.

[hushed socket]

will there be options to change steering/throttle/braking sensivity for gamepads/wheels/pedals????
i mean, i hope for button customisation first, but still.
OH, and option to chose between manual or automatic transmission (vanilla game).

[polar glade]

I have not seen in any DevReport whether work is underway to fix the FPS drop. Can you tell me if this is being solved at the moment? My FPS drops as soon as I open the map and never comes back.

[sleek wharf]

I'll check how is it going internally. It's known issue

[hollow jolt]

would high rise buildings be built with interiors? in the previous arma the buildings were just 1 solid object that you can't get inside

[hushed socket]

uuuh, something like this with complete interior would be something 🙂
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dubai_Marina_Skyline.jpg#/media/File:Dubai_Marina_Skyline.jpg

[robust bluff]

Is there a roadmap for the major content updates atm?

[zenith eagle]

No

[hollow jolt]

nah thats too much but something smaller scale would be good

[small ermine]

From the dev report released: We are also making steps towards allowing people to host their own modded community dedicated servers for the Xbox platform.

[ornate cairn]

Is anyone else using a 60hz monitor, and can't get unlocked framerates?
I'm stuck at 60FPS, Vsync and framerate limiters are disabled.

Even setting the limit above 60FPS doesn't work

[digital moat]

i mean...should it give you higher frame rates? the game might be smart enough to say "high you can't display it so im not thinking it" or something

[hushed socket]

you have to turn off vsync in the nvidia control panel

[ornate cairn]

Thank you.

[hushed socket]

not even VsyncFast must be on, or else the game restricts to max Reshfreshrate of display.

[ornate cairn]

Oooh, okay.

[ornate cairn]

Higher framerates regardless of whether or not your display can actually display them results in lower input delay.

[hushed socket]

but i just made a profile for this game so all my other (personal)default settings stay on VsyncFast

[ornate cairn]

Yeah, I added it as a profile just now.

More info and research here: https://youtu.be/msOWcvoIC8M

[digital moat]

holy crap this guy is so wrong it hurts "games process data at the same rate as the refresh rate" This is a statement that, while previously often true, is very often NOT true in modern games and is increasingly less so entirely because of what we're talking about. Most modern games have what's called a main thread (processing data like input, physics, sound, etc) and a render thread (displaying stuff...this is directly tied to your refresh rate/fps) Now, while having enough cpu bound stuff that causes the main thread to slow enough to effect the render thread will effect the input latency as well as the render thread very often, however just becasue your render thread is able to blast out does NOT mean the main thread is going any faster.
I can see what he's talking about, but a) the returns are minimal at best especially in a game like reforger, and b) if it's a modern game being developed in modern methodologies, this will not be directly true.

now, as the reforger devs here LOVE to point out...we don't know how they coded the game so there's no way to say either way. But the fact of the matter relating to your video link is the information he is using is old and increasingly less applicable.

...cue the "you dont know what you're talking about" comments while I sip my drink and stare at my parallel programming techniques for games textbook on my bookshelf

[hushed socket]

wow, your flex was awesome

[ornate cairn]

Cool 👍

[digital moat]

sorry ive just gotten so many "you dont know what you're talking about" comments when i actually bring up programming stuff i just jump to defensive.

lol i had one post where i literaly quoted from a 1 year old AI programming text i have and someone went "that's not true at all" and im damn near slamming my forehead into my keyboard

[hushed socket]

you dont know what you're talking about 😆

[gloomy solstice]

Damn bro stop talking, you clearly have no idea what you are talking about😆 /s

[digital moat]

discord...the place where monsters are born

[fiery basin]

Okay, since i don't get a Response in Troubleshooting:

Since Release of Arma Bugforger.. excuse me, i meant Reforger... i have the problem that i can't play the game cause i have some controllers pluged in on my PC (Saitek X-56 HOTAS, Logitech G29, FS19 Sideboard), is there a option to disable the controller input for Reforger???
Or is there a way to unbind the controller inputs yet????

[hushed socket]

other than disconnecting the cable, i dont think so.

i also hope for better controller support, lol

[fossil sparrow]

Are fantasy genre mods inspired by dungeons and dragons possible in reforger?

[slow pagoda]

sure

[fossil sparrow]

Hey, is it normal to not know where your squad members are when playing reforger?

[eager violet]

Oh yeah baby! its a selling feature

[fossil sparrow]

No, I mean, I asked the squad I joined where do I spawn, and nobody told me where do I spawn

[eager violet]

Yeah man that just depends on your squad mates. Some are helpful, some are busy yelling at their wife and kids and dont have time to talk to you

[fossil sparrow]

Oh, understood

It kind of happened 3 times in a row, so I guess that's normal. Do I just go into the channel for looking for game and ask to setup some sort of game in reforger instead since that might be easier?

[eager violet]

It would be worth a try. There is also a chance bobody can hear you in game

[fossil sparrow]

I typed in the chat, the one in which you need to press c to type in

Since the radio is only usable once you are in the map, and well it is a short range radio

[solar thistle]

Is there a way to look up reforger mods by their ID located in your addons folder by chance? I finally got the server to stop closing immediately now it says I'm missing a mod I don't have or have listed for the server to load. Arma Reforger mod ID 58D0FB3206B6F859

[crimson fractal]

You can play without one

[graceful totem]

You could maybe try turning off the controller support via Steam

[fossil sparrow]

Where do I report a person that has been using a large amount of slurs and is trolling on reforger?

[solar thistle]

Try reporting them to Bohemia themselves, Steam, or PSA his name if all else fails

[fossil sparrow]

I don't know how to report them to steam or bohemia, but I got a screenshot of what he did

[unreal pine]

So I noticed in both the trailer and in the latest video from Arma reforger that there are trenches, I'm wondering how they were made or if they will be in the game?

[sweet vapor]

would be awesome if you could build them imo

also digging small holes in the ground as cover

[unreal pine]

Yeah that what has me wondering is there something more then just a placable object or is there terrain deformation of some kind? 🤔

Cause it does look like the trenches are sunk into the ground

[sweet vapor]

it kinda has to have terrain deformation...it should be a feature of a modern engine/milsim game tbh

[unreal pine]

Yeah I agree and I'm hoping it's something they are working on/ planing on implementing at a later date but I know it's not so easy to implement

Hopefully one of the Devs could shed some light on this if it's something they can share info on

[fiery basin]

jup, i tried that, didn't work...

[magic pebble]

When will get to see some details about destruction and how it will work?

[shut cosmos]

There are some already placed on map, and they are in the reforger workbench so you can create your own trench warfare map/mod 😮

[unreal pine]

I wonder if the workbench version of Everon will make its way into vanilla reforger cause as far as I know there aren't any trenches on the map in the game

[shut cosmos]

2 places I am aware of are mountain North-Northwest 400m away from Black Lake, and up the road from durras top of the hill on the way to military levie right next to the bunker by the roadblock

[unreal pine]

🤔 I'm going to go check those places out next time I'm in game cause they do look amazing in the trailer

[shut cosmos]

I can PM you a screenshot of the location if you'd like?

[unreal pine]

Sure that would be awesome

[magic scarab]

Question. When i play a conflict mode solo with mod's i have an option to ,, save and exit " But if i want to play again and i Press ,, continue " I am in start of game. Anybody knows something more about it?

[stray blade]

It will be fixed in one of next updates.

[humble turret]

When will 64 player servers come back?

Will custom servers be listed in the browser in the future?

[jade yoke]

Soon but no eta

[paper torrent]

Question. When you make your own mission, can you link it to another and move on? Have the objective change as you complete a mission.

[solar thistle]

I'm going insane over this, I have screenshots of my error, and it's saying it can't find a mod I never downloaded or listed in my config. Someone says it's a scenario but none show up in my list and I cannot find it ever. Am I really going to be blocked by a non-existent mod? Edit: 58D0Fb3206B6F859

[solar thistle]

How do you report Bohemia for not listing a dependent mod on their new workshop when their sample mod depends on it in it's .gproj file????????

I found what mod is dependent on 58D0Fb3206B6F859 it's called "Sample Mod- Main Addon" which on the Workshop depends on 9 mods, but there are 10 mod listed as dependencies, guess which mod isn't listed in their dependencies workshop list???? 58D0Fb3206B6F859

[austere nimbus]

Could it be the GUID of 'Core' or 'Reforger'? aka base game

[jade yoke]

Will reforger receive achievements to unlock on xbox at some point?

[crimson fractal]

Or at least stat tracking for our play times?

[stray blade]

Fun one would be "Got disconnected 100 times" :D. This is sarcasm ofc

[tame gyro]

“Get stuck inside another player for the 50th time”

“Get killed by an invisible player for the 200th time”

“Get teamkilled in public game master lobbies 1,000 times”

“Get locked out of a game master server by a milsim 50 times”

[sand verge]

lies the last one is 50,000

[sonic prawn]

Do american guns (especially M2's) have so bad iron sights irl too? I genuinely struggle to even see my targets less then 10 metres from me when using an M2, am I doing something wrong?

[austere nimbus]

IRL the sights are not bad, but neither good either.
The biggest problem is how games portrait them (especially BF/COD), which is far from realistic... However I do feel it might need some tweaking in Reforger to make it a bit less annoying.

[delicate hollow]

“Achievement Unlocked- Disconnected after getting shot 10G”

[floral shadow]

Irl if someone's 10m away are you gonna fully aim down your sights?

[sonic prawn]

Idk I never held a gun before, i guess not? But hitting that shot from the "hip" in reforger feels impossible

[magic pebble]

You don't. You **basically **look above your weapon and can tell where the bullett will go

[magic pebble]

Do I have to be login to my Bohemia account ingame for the ingame feedback to be sent?

[weak raven]

Anyone know if working AI is actually planned for reforger?

[austere nimbus]

I believe it has been said by the devs that better AI is planned, and if not the community will do it for them 😉

[magic pebble]

The community will do a botched version of what the developers would've done.

[hushed socket]

there cant be a "and if not", lol wtf

[sand verge]

Is update Wednesday?

[weak raven]

Having working AI is kinda essential

[fathom osprey]

The sight flips up and down. They are using the raised leaf sight, which in the game severely blocks your view. In real life not as bad.

But if the sight is fixed, they should be using the battle sight (https://i.imgur.com/lQkQ7X4.jpg). Maybe it will later be changed where it starts out on the battle sight (750 yards) and when you page up, it flips up rear leaf which goes all the way from 100 to 2600 yards.

[sonic prawn]

Oh, thats how it worked in RHS no? But anyway, thanks, I was wondering if I was the only one struggling with it

[fathom osprey]

With aperture sights in particular you will have problems in video games and you need much enlarged apertures, or viewmodel/texture/effects like so: https://i.imgur.com/rwBoubc.png

[sonic prawn]

Yeah, something like the Garand one wouldn't be bad, right now I'm just coping by staying away from machine guns lol

[fathom osprey]

I just use the tracers

[twin escarp]

any word of private servers?

[half locust]

there are already private servers

[twin escarp]

that we can host ?

[stray blade]

But not for consoles, they are looking at it for future versions.

[twin escarp]

that’s what i was referring to marko thank you

[half locust]

yeah the server exe is in the tools

[half locust]

ahh, you should have specified that you meant xbox

[twin escarp]

indeed 😂

[stray blade]

Or axe in #reforger_xbox

[bronze python]

Do we know what’s going to come out on the first major update at all

[slow pagoda]

no. just need to wait and see

[bronze python]

So no info on content but we know what’s gonna be added on the 3 updates

Like tanks aircraft and artillery

[magic pebble]

Nothing is confirmed. They are yet to officially announce anything.

[bronze python]

Ok makes sense

[eager violet]

Private servers for Xbox will be hear in a near future update...per Dev Report 4

[marsh mirage]

What engine is it made on?

[magic pebble]

Enfusion

[marsh mirage]

thought it would use UE5

[magic pebble]

They have their own engine

[flint zealot]

if they would use UE5, Arma would be dead

[austere nimbus]

UE5 would work perfectly fine, although it would most likely be the death to modding.
And I'm not sure if it's able to handle the amount of network traffic required for Arma 🤔
Yes, you can build MMO's with it, but it's all instanced and doesn't require massive amounts of data per user to be send around.

[magic pebble]

Isn't Squad on UE?

[austere nimbus]

UE4, and compared to Arma very limited (not bad, just less stuff happening at the same time)

[paper torrent]

Can somebody, anybody, please tell me how to get coop working on Reforger. I've tried setting up a server on my pc which others can see but can't join.

[signal knoll]

It would kill point of this game, Bohemia engines are built around modabilty

[marsh mirage]

fair enough

[weak raven]

show me one game using UE5 that is on scale of arma

[gloomy solstice]

Show me a modern game that is on a scale of arma😆

[weak raven]

The arma series really is the only game/engine that occupies the largescale milsim genre, there is zero competition

[gloomy meadow]

DCS? 🤔

And Eve. And umm... many RTS

[gloomy solstice]

Eve and rts games are almost always "downscaled"(the smallest ships in eve are about the size of a large plane but look and feel more like xwings) the same applies to rts games, sure the maps are big but would it look good if you took control of a regular grunt on the ground in first person? Truth be told arma has no competition

[torpid trench]

Question about SP missions: I've been playing with Reforger recently and I wanted to know if there is the possibility of building SP missions where the player has the possibility to lead a group of AI team mates and vice versa, as was the case for x arma3. So far I have found several missions where once deployed, I find myself fighting alone ...

[tame gyro]

You can’t command AI other than through game master, so the single player and co-op scenarios are pretty much all suicide missions

[gloomy meadow]

@gloomy solsticeno direct competitor, I'd agree on that

[mossy ingot]

in the feedback tracker, is the "severity - Feature" meant for specifically broken features of the game, or for feature requests?

[sand verge]

what discount can we expect on steam summer sale for reforger

i dont think it is worth 30 euro, max 20

[still canyon]

No one but the people setting the price would know at this point, such things are not announced beforehand and there is also no historical pattern yet like with A3. There is also no guarantee Reforger, or any game, will be on sale; as that is again at the discretion of the people setting the price and also limited by the sale policies of steam.

[stray blade]

From what can be read on their FAQ price will not change

https://reforger.armaplatform.com/faq

Will the game be priced differently during and after early access?
The price will remain the same during and after early access.

[sand verge]

Fine imma keep the money to myself then

[crimson fractal]

I mean I'll take it

[sand verge]

Eh

Ive seen enough negative stuff about it

Maybe later when there will be mods

[still canyon]

There are already quite a bunch of mods

[distant plume]

Is there a way to see what mods are available if you don't own the game?

[stray blade]

Not atm, or not officialy should i say

[hushed socket]

isnt there a website? im sure there is one that lists all mods, somebody already posted it in Discord.

[stray blade]

Well, there is always a way...

[hushed socket]

from @tame mural ♐ :
Since there is no chance to browse workshop outside of the game, I have created simple online browser of Workshop.

https://ofpisnotdead-com.github.io/reforger-workshop-preview/

[solar thistle]

Try to make a Mod ID search engine. There's an unknown mod that I keep running into, and I can't download it. Dependency for my server to run. 58D0Fb3206B6F859

[hushed socket]

thats not my website, it is from @retro.

maybe you loaded up your server with a wip mod from your workbench tools?
delete all mods from the local mods folder and freshly load up your server again.
otherwise idk, hope for an official answer.

[solar thistle]

local mods folder where other than the literal one

[ebon obsidian]

How shaky is Reforger in practice atm? Took a little break from the Armaverse for various reasons, one of them being Reforger being essentially in unplayable condition

[stray blade]

I will check what that mod is later.

[still canyon]

That is just the GUID for the base game

[minor gull]

When will A.I be given their driving licence ?

[stray blade]

When they finish drive school

[tame mural]

That mod doesn't exist.

[stray blade]

As Neil said 58D0Fb3206B6F859 is Arma Reforger

[foggy ridge]

reforger is 58D0FB3206B6F859, there's no lowercase b in there, if they are case sensitive then no wonder you're not able to get it

[stray blade]

Dunno just copied what he wrote. Dunno about case sensitivity

[solar thistle]

You actually need Reforger downloaded to start up a server instead of the files. Never had to do that

[stray blade]

that is part of core

its present in both the server and game, so no you dont need to download

[fresh pewter]

will we get communication from the devs about dwindling player counts / future of reforger?

[magic pebble]

We don't get shit from the devs regarding anything

[fresh pewter]

sadge

[stray blade]

What is there to communicate about dwindling player counts?
"Yo dawg player counts are dwindling!"

[magic pebble]

Player count is 📉

[minor gull]

Arma fans are back to Arma 3 and casuals usually move on within a month or 2 after a new game comes out.

[sweet vapor]

DCs stopped AR in its tracks

[zenith eagle]

Just to be patient

[fallen latch]

how can i get modded weapons into the world editor while making a mission?

[bronze python]

Will we expect a content drop at some time next month or after that month

[gusty prairie]

Devs haven't revealed plans. Nobody knows.

[bronze python]

Oof ok thank u then

[sharp adder]

2 part question.

1: How many QA testers are on reforger?
2: How many network engineers/coders working to solve disconnect issues?

[tame mural]

2. probably nobody, they are just in hiring phase for now (https://careers.bohemia.net/position/engine-network-programmer-praguebrno) 🚎

[sharp adder]

I guess they can say all hands on deck in the dev report when it's only 2 people

[stray blade]

id say at least 1 for both

[bronze python]

Is that why we been getting a report every 1 to 2 day

[sharp adder]

Yeah pictures of "old vs new" is pretty cool

[digital moat]

Likely nothing until after they get the connectivity issue solved and a couple patches of legitimate content. Right now they have literally nothing they can say in their defense because every time the ysay they've improved things, all that happens is that different people get diferent results in both directions. Further, to even mention the numbers would shine light on the fact that as a product reforger atm is an abject failure/embarressment for BI. I can't think of the last game that went from so many people to so few so fast. In short...I honestly think never because I personally suspect reforger is going to get shoved into the back of the closet where they hope everyone who paid near-AAA money for....nothing....forgets about it.

[ebon obsidian]

I'm taking the risk and blurting it out that I believe that BI (i.e. the management) knew what they were doing by releasing Reforger. To me, it was a shameless but still a necessary cash grab to fund Enfusion development to avoid losing their majority share of or even going out of business.

I have constantly strengthening impression that BI is in financial trouble because they're now paying the price of the pile of the technological debt that has accumulated during the years. I'm not necessarily blaming them for that since that's how software development often just works (or rather, turns out) though.

Assuming that I'm correct here, I have mixed feelings about it since I have love-hate relationship with Arma and I wouldn't mind if the upper management got swapped because I would do so many things differently, but I still feel like that they've managed to make something special. It's rather the counterfactual – the things we could have in Armaverse if certain things were done differently – that bothers me.

I believe that Arma would need a competitor, but the entry barrier to create a heavy entity of large open world combined ops sandbox is extremely high nowadays and makes it very unlikely that something like this would happen, although it'll be interesting to see how development of especially Unreal Engine will possibly change the landscape here.

I've still got more thoughts on the topic but I'm running out of battery, so I'll end my post here for now.

[digital moat]

I agree they knew what they were doing in that they felt they had to. Reforger unfortunately was an obvious cash grab that has likely also come at the cost of the company's reputation. The arma platofrom has always opened incredibly unique doors, but what needs to be pointed out that BI has never in fact been the one to make use of those doors, modders were. There are so many features of advanced arma 3 that come from modders it's insane to where vanilla arma...is basically unplayable for most players now. It really depends on whether or not BI can put the money they got from reforger to good use because my personal feeling is that they aren't going to get more than one chance with arma 4 and that after reforger a whole lot less people are going to be doing any preorders or day 1 purchases.

[onyx imp]

I wouldn't necessarily go and say that arma 3's many features came from modders. Content? Sure, quite a lot of it, but features mostly came from vanilla itself and a lot of things that are done by modders always originate from the path BI paved and developed into RV4.
I also really wouldn't call vanilla arma unplayable, especially as so many still play it, or play the setting.
You can actually see that with arma reforger part of the reason that nothing big is coming out is because mod devs are waiting for BI to showcase how to do things, and provide examples and architecture for things to get done easier.

[high rune]

An engine like UE is simply unsuitable for a game like Arma

[thick musk]

Are in Reforger caves and tunnels possible now? I mean, without the rock/cliff tricks.. just being able to make holes in terrain creation?

Because in a mission, i saw a rocky cave/tunnel but its fake

[brittle agate]

all caves and tunnels I've seen so far were "fake"

[thick musk]

Big sad.. so still not possible 😒

[foggy ridge]

the terrain is a mesh out of a heightmap, so no tunnels

[ebon obsidian]

Yeah, I agree. That's why I was talking about the (future) development of Unreal Engine. Also, a competitor for Arma wouldn't necessarily have to copy Arma as it is, but rather utilize the strengths of e.g. UE and create an alternative creative vision of the topic. (Just like in warfare, there's no single path to victory and to win, one must adjust their strategy and tactics to the terrain. Circumstances and the environment can be either your best friend or your worst enemy, and it's in your hands when it comes to which one they'll end up becoming.)

[sweet vapor]

I hope that we'll have terrain deformation in A4

[buoyant gust]

It is possible with procedural meshes, there is a very nice implementation in WarThunder

[sweet vapor]

I think VBS4 also has it (pretty much has to as a milsim)

[ebon obsidian]

Would be fun to know how those things are optimized for high enough performance

[buoyant gust]

From what I remember playing around with it its down to updating only parts of the mesh - split by grid etc. and there are issues with that, not to mention integration with other systems and of course replicating it.

[ebon obsidian]

Yeah, I can imagine 😄

[brittle agate]

Even Arma 3 has it

[foggy ridge]

wat

[unreal pine]

So that means we could technically have trenches and craters caused by bombs in real time? 🤔😃

[buoyant gust]

In my opinion it is generally technically possible, I have executed a smaller scale prototype in UE4 for my master thesis, but there are likely issues at scale, interactions with other systems etc.

[sweet vapor]

I've seen real craters and trench making in VBS4 footage and deadmen said even in arma 3 (similar engine), so you would hope it's possible in enfusion as well at some point....me and my boys will sweat while digging those trenches

[stray blade]

Oh the lag...

[unreal pine]

Sounds interesting, I feel like such feature would be a huge step above for Arma and for a military sandbox game in general that I hope we get to see it become a feature 🤤

[ebon obsidian]

I could imagine that while it isn't impossible for sure, there's a risk of explosion in complexity due to exponential growth in interdependencies when implemented at a larger scale

[unreal pine]

I wonder if it could be linked to things like certain ground textures to limited interdependencies

[buoyant gust]

From dynamic navmesh for AI to physics, occlusion culling and replication, all would need to work with it.

[unreal pine]

That sounds like it would be a nightmare to work with from a multiplayer standpoint 😬

But at the same time it would still be awesome to see how well it could work

[thick musk]

Yeah just release it of the dev branch so people can use it global 😅🤣

[thick musk]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2822758266

Here it is

[foggy ridge]

cool

[digital moat]

Ever heard of ACE? How about TFAR? DId you know that weapon leaning was first modded? Bipods were first modded as well. I just can't agree with you. I remember a number of mods like those that had me go "wow....this is amazing! why wasnt this in before??" And by unplayable i mean the game simply felt lacking in comparison. And with reforger, nothing big coming out is more because it doesnt work and there's little point adding content to an unstable platform that isnt even being played by a single percent of the arma community (btw they apparently saw my posts or someone else talking about low player count...they just yanked the player counter from the steam page)

[onyx imp]

TFAR is an impressive feature but it was there since Arma 2 together with ACRE, same goes for ACE which while I love a lot of its systems it is largely derived from both ACE from arma 2 aswell as AGM that preceded it, not to mention that ACE appeals to a specific audience so you won't see anybody casually use it.
Weapon leaning was initially modded but it was inherently really buggy and pretty barebones, it was better than nothing for sure, and it was funny how you could use people's backs to deploy weapons, but it wasn't really there to the extent that it is now in vanilla arma.
My reasoning previously about the lack of big mods for reforger stemmed from what I saw mod devs talk about, that is waiting for BI to show how to implement air units or post the proper documentation to do so, the game for all intents and purposes is pretty stable if you're a milsim of sorts that plays privately on PvE, since very often you'll be below 32 player count and with a server machine specific to your needs, so network instability would be very unlikely.

Also player count is still present on steam charts so I'm not sure what you're on about.

[digital moat]

steam charts access their actual numbers that can't be changed. but yesterday you could see the number of people in game on the steam game community hub, that's gone now.

[onyx imp]

huh, I suppose that is a dev-side setting.

[dark tusk]

How can I prevent corpse from disappearing

[onyx imp]

as a game master you should have access to preventing it in your scenario properties.

[dark tusk]

I afraid not

[dark tusk]

any help?

[lime summit]

I have a question. So today i go to launch my server and all i get is this before it shuts down. 06:15:17:346 BACKEND (E): Http Error (BAD_REQUEST)
06:15:17:348 BACKEND (E): [RestApi] ID:[1] Error - Cannot send request
06:15:18:046 BACKEND (E): Http Error (BAD_REQUEST)
06:15:18:047 BACKEND (E): [RestApi] ID:[2] Error - Cannot send request
06:15:19:046 BACKEND (E): Http Error (BAD_REQUEST)
06:15:19:048 BACKEND (E): [RestApi] ID:[3] Error - Cannot send request
06:15:20:146 BACKEND (E): Http Error (BAD_REQUEST)
06:15:20:147 BACKEND (E): [RestApi] ID:[4] Error - Cannot send request

Any idea what is causing this. Is it my end or is it something everyone is getting atm?

[stray blade]

U run win 7?

[lime summit]

@stray blade nope windows 10

And it's the windows 10 2022 server version

[lime summit]

So fyi to anyone that has the same issue just download driverfixwebdl and it will run right away. Then you can uninstall the program and then start you're server and it all will work again :). Unless you have other issues of course. But to fix this problem i did what i said and all is working perfect now.

[pallid crag]

I have a problem regarding a player who has an offensive in-game tag. I know some games censor out the name or have a reporting system. Ubisoft allows you to report a player if their name or icon breaks the community guidelines, Zero Hour censors and renames the player in a match. Will there be any framework protecting the community from this toxicity? There is a no-tolerance policy for the discord, I hope this extends to your other titles.

[jade yoke]

Will we be able to make custom game modes using GM (like conflict/C&H)? It'd be nice to have actual physical objectives that the player could interact with. Instead of the GM saying you did it boys next objective.

[stray blade]

You can already place down objectives as GM. Like assault, defend, move, etc. These will autocomplete. Then you have custom ones, which you need to mark as completed (as gm)

[jade yoke]

Right but the autocompleted are super basic and you can't link an objective to a radio for instance to establish coms with the HQ (no HQ either) that's what I'm asking if we'll get down the road or not

Physical objectives for players not the AI

[rich swallow]

Will Arma reforger’s AI be better then arma 3? Like in terms of driving vehicles and use smart tactics to kill enemies?

[fading cradle]

Is the connection problem fixed?

[sweet vapor]

nah

[fading cradle]

Holy sht, next time they should do an network test that isnt intern.

[arctic rune]

they are, we are it, Early Access remember?

[slow pagoda]

@fading cradle lets keep this civil.

[fading cradle]

Sorry :)

[delicate quartz]

Hi there

Just help me to explain this

https://imgur.com/S5WnUSZ

Why we can’t see the night quality similar to the pic above

Since it teaser to infusion engine

Thank you very much

[austere nimbus]

1. almost full moon
2. seems it's late evening or early morning, not midnight
3. having a pitch black picture doesn't look good for marketing 😉

[stray blade]

You can, in gm set night to summer night with full moon. Away from dusk or dawn.

Or close to full moon

Brightness is a bit enhanced on picture tho.

[delicate quartz]

I’ve tried a lot and can’t see the light reflection either!!

Specially the red stops lights of vehicles

[stray blade]

I can try to replicate it tommorow. But it is a bit enhanced.

[delicate quartz]

There is no reflection

@stray blade appreciate it 👍🏻👍🏻

I thought there is problem with my 1070ti

Since it not support RTX

[sand verge]

When will 64/32 player servers be on console

[arctic rune]

once they fix the network issues

[raven nymph]

Hello. Is there any way to change the actual font size of the grid #s on the map screen?

Some guys I run with have a hard time seeing the grid #s on their screen, they are small. Ive looked for info but cannot find anything so i figured id ask here 🙏

[radiant matrix]

hello ! is it possible to have a discord boot which say when the server goes online ? and if yes, how 🥲

[floral shadow]

Havnt checked for a week so we didn't get an update does anyone know if its gonna come early this week

[devout crown]

When are content drops becoming a thing? Any official statements on the matter?

[zenith eagle]

Don't expect any kind of new content until network issues are fixed in few weeks.

[fresh pewter]

no dissent

[dim notch]

hi I have error when I try to play mods in multiplayer,Does enybody have the same problem? I can play mods in singleplayer(game master) but when I go online it crash every time

can enyone have any solution how to fix that?

[ebon karma]

Did they fix the "Internal Issue" thing? I refunded it not so long after i bought on release and been quite a while since release

[stray blade]

Yeah the image is quite altered. Ive tried to recreate it but there is some differences, like radio tower lights simply aren't on. Red position lights of vehicles arent reflecting on ground. Picture is much too bright for the day the picture had to be taken (18th sept 1989 at 23:15), judging by moon phase. Position picture was taken is 096028, some terrain features dont quite match. My angle is slightly off too, but it is what it is.

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/1826788035365787827/EC28F18409197686F5B7BEAF6173B6C6EEBE6189/

[stray blade]

Perhaps you could get closer in game by placing red light sources and some post processing.

Ive also noticed that if you turn on truck lights and enter and exit the gm few times, the light from headbeams stops rendering and you need to get in and out of the truck again

[floral shadow]

I have a question for a discord moderator, how does bi intend to bring back a larger player base

[crimson fractal]

How can a discord moderator answer that?

[austere nimbus]

Reforger may not have a huge player base at the moment, but Arma3 is still going strong.
And I'm positive that when the game is a bit more stable and modders have released some interesting stuff, Reforger will also gain interest.

not sure how BI or a moderator can answer that differently though

[scenic lichen]

can you play single player in this game

[crimson fractal]

There's no campaign for reforger if that's what you're after but it can be played in single player

[delicate quartz]

@stray blade you recreate it amazingly, I’m really appreciate your work.
And for this I was asking why can’t we see the quality of this picture in actual in-game mod
I’ve reported before that the muzzle flash from vehicles guns does not reflect on vehicles body or light up the surrounding area,if you have noticed.
hope to enhance it soon in the up coming updates!!!
And thank you very much

[forest wave]

Is there any info on how smart the AI will be in reforger/a4? Mainly to do with tactics. It would be cool to see AI not just instantly shoot, but shift into position and let you come closer before opening up. Stuff like that.

Oh and realistic vision for AI in darkness.

[sweet vapor]

so that the AI uses nvidia control panel and cranks up the gamma? 😄

[forest wave]

Yeah well so they don't snipe you from a kilometre away in the pitch black yk

[sweet vapor]

i mean if they don't crank up the gamma, I'm smarter

[foggy ridge]

are the 3d scopes supposed to cut my fps in half?

[frigid venture]

anyone know why i cant find reforger on Steam

[digital moat]

if you type "reforger" into the store search its there for me

[digital moat]

this is unfortunately how 3d scopes in any game are going to work, it's trying to render the game twice when that scope comes up.. if your gpu can't handle the load of twice the renderign then it'll slow

[foggy ridge]

dang, 3090 not enough for reforger

[robust bluff]

Which is why 2d scopes are an option

[jade yoke]

Okay so I'm asking for a official answer from a Dev on if xbox players will be able to host there own server on xbox? or more specifically what the dev report means (100% clarification) about multi-player mod support/custom servers. This is a big discussion on the Xbox channel so I'm trying to get official information vs speculation about what was stated.

[floral shadow]

Can who ever is in charge of this shit can you stop posting bulshit fan art no one wants to see and just release the update for fuck sake

[topaz whale]

I'm sure the guy posting on Twitter and taking screenshots is the same guy working on the updates /s

[floral shadow]

No but surely that same guy who post shit can see that there's a large problem and like I said no one gives a fuck about the art

Every art thing they've posted has had more negative feedback then positive

[topaz whale]

Probably because the people who like it don't feel the need to give feedback whereas the people who like to complain will complain any chance they get... me included.

[foggy ridge]

they are less precise than 3d scopes so I have to use 3d - the 2d scopes are jerky and don't allow me to make small adjustments

[floral shadow]

I mean reactions to the post a few people like ot but everyone else is pissed that they have to see it

[topaz whale]

Then just don't look at it

[digital moat]

the issue is this is a fallacy. It attempts to say something is obviously liked because it isn't defended because it doesn't NEED to be defended. The problem then is that this assumes a bad product will be rated and discussed JUST as poorly as a good product. Because though one DOESNT have defenders, supposedly the other doesn't NEED defenders and thus you wont see them. Thing is, we know that's not the case. Some of the most contraversial games like star citizen and no mans sky who have had their share of detractors have also had constant and varying support showing that even poor games with promise will have people speaking up for them. So, in short, reforger doesn't have defenders outside this discord...because there likely aren't many in the first place. this discord is by far the densest population of pro-reforgers and if you haven't noticed, even HERE discussion has slowed massively. If BI gets its act together thing might change, but for now the reason there aren't many people defending their social media posts is because they don't have anything to counter the detractors other than "it's early access" and "it's in development", excuses many don't find acceptable for what was/is being sold.

[topaz whale]

Or and hear me out here, the people who like the pictures just don't comment. I thought they were nice. I haven't commented.

but for now the reason there aren't many people defending their social media posts is because they don't have anything to counter the detractors
Why would they defend it? Who gives a shit about what offtopic crap people post on twitter.

[digital moat]

And its certainly possible. But thing is...most people defend things they like and have a passion in. If dissed arma 3 on a facebook post, people would be all OVER it. I can think of any NUMBER o things from sports to cars to games where if someone starts ragging on the subject, people are quick to interject.
So I'm not quite sure why reforger would be any different. But hey, it's possible. Or, I think, more likely that the potential defenders are themselves waiting to see if there's anything to like/defend in the end.

[topaz whale]

You said it yourself. Some people do defend it. You just don't like their responses.

[digital moat]

sure 🙂

[half locust]

mind you language

[floral shadow]

Offt taking freedom of speech real low..

[cerulean cobalt]

fr

[zenith eagle]

Maybe you learn civilised behavior and check #rules ... freedom of speech isn't comment like a ranting 12 years old kid.

[foggy ridge]

I like art btw

art direction is doing a good job

[austere hare]

Plus there's no such thing as freedom of speech in a private community. 🤷‍♂️

[limpid plinth]

Is TFAR being developed? The basic radio system is so bad.

[austere nimbus]

Well... the person who maintains TFAR now works for BI, so I guess yes and no(?)

[proud thistle]

Do you mean a TFAR for Reforger? Afaik no since I havent heard anything pointing towards it yet but @brittle agate will know

[austere hare]

Problem with integrating TFAR into the base game is it's reliant on another program (Teamspeak), unless they've somehow managed to create voice hooks for Discord that have the same effects?

[limpid plinth]

Yes, that's it. Sorry for my poor English.

[proud thistle]

afaik discord still doesnt have the needed api, but that would also require another program (discord) so it wouldnt change much

[limpid plinth]

I just want the convenience of TFAR. Existing radio systems are not very flexible.

[brittle agate]

I started with reforger TFAR, got the basic teamspeak functionality working.
But I don't think it makes sense anymore with how good ingame VON is now.
VON basically just needs bohemia to improve the modability of it (custom audio effects mainly, and control over how distance loss is calculated, multiple frequencies per radio) and then you just need to mod in some radio UI and stuff and then its fine.
Not much sense to develop a full TFAR now, with having to rewrite/replace tons of stuff that will later just be scrapped, if we can just wait till modability of VON becomes better.

[limpid plinth]

OMG

[austere hare]

Touche. And as far as I'm concerned, Discord's quality and consistency leave much to be desired as far as voice. That said, Reforgers radios are WAY better than Arma 3's vanilla comms.

[limpid plinth]

I am satisfied with just the news that it is being developed.

[proud thistle]

Read the last line

[brittle agate]

I just said its not being developed currently

[austere hare]

Language barrier methinks.

[limpid plinth]

Ah, what I meant to say was that I was satisfied just because you had plans to develop it.

[brittle agate]

I experimented around with it such that I got the basics working that would be needed to develop it.
But I don't think I'll go any further. Especially as it depends on clientside dll extensions, which aren't happening and anyway not console compatible.
But if we wait for ingame VON to become more modable, we won't need DLL's and it will work with consoles

[austere hare]

My clan uses ACRE, have for years, but TBH TFAR was always more reliable. Solid mod there if you're the one who wrote it. Good on ya.

[brittle agate]

I think plan this time would be more to get together with ACRE team and just build one radio mod that does it all, instead of having two.
But they are also blocked by VON not really being moddable currently, like 90% of it is in engine. For my TFAR test I just disabled the ingame VoN completely

[proud thistle]

Dedmen gonna develop tfar the roundabout way by just improving ingame VON

[limpid plinth]

My English is not good, so I am relying on Google Translate. Please forgive me if the meaning is a bit strange.

[limpid plinth]

Thanks for the great answer!

[proud thistle]

TFACRE #when

Arma 3 tfacre would have been interesting

[austere hare]

Anytime anyone complains about either mod I remember whisper lists and Ventrillo in Arma 2...

[proud thistle]

[zenith eagle]

FSR 2.0 is officially released few days ago for PC and Xbox and many game developers will definitely use it. BI too, any information?

[timid ibex]

Anything on update yet

[sinful locust]

Have they added the ability to save a solo conflict?

[lavish pawn]

Hello i have problem on Arma Reforger. When I go to the game options, I try to modify the keyboard keys, I press the option I want to replace and finally the key I want to assign, but nothing happens, I can't change keys.

[foggy ridge]

any clue if something like a medical kit or vehicle repair kit is planned?