Spartanish

Opfor mission 1 (and 4 if multiple signs ups are allowed).

5 hours ago, =VG= Zeee said:

Sadly no my friend

Out of curiosity, is Tiger even still in the game?

Arma Cold War is Operation Flashpoint after rights drama ended decade ago between latter creators and publisher. And from personal experience, ARMA Cold War still has a blast of campaign and is fairly engaging entry into Arma series. Wouldn't advice either Gold Edition or Arma 2 as those lack charm of original and options of newest. Either go with OG Cold War or straight for Arma 3.

AA

Gunner Anvil 2.

No idea whether I will be available for 14th but AT Assistant / Rifleman if yes.

From 1.7.2.2 version. On Ascheberg ALT, CAS has no place to resupply. Not in hangars, airstrip, helipads. Checked second airfield as well in case it was copy paste from STD layout but nothing as well.

VG Coop server seems to be invisible on servers list despite being active. It's still possible to join it with IP address.

Edit: Mumble also seems to be fully dead.

As Cherry brought up, adding new supply depot somewhere around center of the map, in same manner like on Bijar LRG, would immensely help the supply situation. Additionally, I would suggest adding close to it spawn points for more vehicles. Half-tracks especially are a chore to bring from main, and taking them later on when frontline is on last flags is bordering on madness. Tanks as well could be moved to such additional supply depot, since it takes roughly 20 minutes for one to come back to front after destruction. Way too long given how exposed and blind they are on this map.

Alternatives are a complete revamp of the layout as Polish proposed, or adding 30 Stukas since CAS clearly works well. First option would take more time than just adding supply depot and changing vehicle spawns points to existing layout, while second 'option' would get old pretty fast and would create new problems.

1 hour ago, =VG= Kavelenko said:

before we add this one to the nerfed map list lets give it a decent try out.

Played it today on VG server. Round was won by tickets and lasted around 1.5 hour. Problem was though such that around half the round, out of roughly 25 players, almost 20 got CTD at the same time.

Might be Kashan / bot F-16 related issue. I saw several times player operated bot A-10  hit land or some structure on Khamisiyah and there was no server crash.

Now I kinda regret that neither me nor The_Polish_Guy did not record the HMMWV chase from the middle of the round since we were the ones to actually drive that thing and 'secure' the hostage for entire one minute.

On 10.12.2018 at 8:32 PM, ranger_12 said:

why you don't try a real strategy game spartanish ? Men of war for example  

Always preferred single-player campaigns over multiplayer or skirmish mode anyway. Neither am I a fan of micromanaging your forces to soldier's inventory level. Micromanaging your state and painting the world map in Paradox games was far more enjoyable for me.

I am not an expert but I played it bit back in the day. If you are looking for someone to learn the basics with, I can be of assistance.

1 hour ago, =VG= SemlerPDX said:

Really?  This is a thing that was intentionally removed?!  Maybe unintentionally? 

Intentionally cause it was crashing the server. "Updated AI jets to not be able to drop bombs to fix crashing issues." this is from 1.5.4.0. changelog.

In regard to topic, bot difficulty is not an issue, it's theirs' spawning patterns. Maps like Grozny STD for example became barely enjoyable when we meet up to 80 bots before capping last capable flag. In contrast, it took us 20 minutes alone to capture the very first flag on Pavlosk Bay STD few days ago, only because entire bot team was like never spawning there. Afterwards, we finished rest of the map in barely over another 20 minutes, since bots were no longer spawning on frontline flags.

Increasing bot difficulty will not solve the problem, it will mask it. And at the same time, just as ZZANG and Keed mentioned, it will more likely just cause new problems. Having Bots with faster reflexes on city or desert maps is one thing. On jungle, forest maps it will be more of annoyance than an actual challenge when bot will shoot you down instantly from several hundred meters distance, behind trees and bushes, after you left cover 1-2 seconds earlier. Increase the difficulty and within days, weeks there will be complaints that it is simply no fun to be gun down by something from another side of the forest.

Only technical problem I ever encountered on Jabal Alt was classic server crash due to helicopter crossing south border of the map.

But since we're kinda at the topic, Al-Basrah, especially Alt layout, is pretty much bound to cause a server crash nearly every time. And it is not due to CAS/Trans doing.

Your supposed doubts toward maps? Isn't it obvious?

No eastern maps? No soviet faction? 2/10, literally unplayable.

Jokes aside though, I am interested, mainly because I much more prefer WW-2, Korean settings (PR Korea War when?) over more modern ones. Probably due to lack of fancy modern gadgets.

13 minutes ago, .Blizzard. said:

I like this idea but i do have my doubts about some maps and bots.

Let's make then WW2 Muttrah, with Germans in the docks having severals MGs and PAKs aiming at ours incoming LCAs.

Mhmm, now when I think about it, would it be possible to make a match between modern faction and ww2 faction, after PR:WW2 eventual release? Could be used for some sci fi event.

20 minutes ago, =VG= m823us said:

I just wanted to show some of our better PVP player known as @=VG= TEDF, who is most "excellent" in this video.  @=VG= PBAsydney is also in a few of these clips. 

Isn't video showing the opposite with Sydney being most excellent and sometimes TEDF as his chauffeur?

10 hours ago, =VG= Double_13 said:

Ooo spartanish, do I have to send another pm or is tank good? 

Tank is always good, apart from poor Vietnam Patton. 

4 minutes ago, CNJ Jonathan said:

Amazing pictures X. I wonder who was driving that tank at wanda shan. 

You sure it wasn't a "Panzas"?

"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts abolutely" - John Dalberg-Acton

On 21.05.2018 at 2:49 PM, =VG= keed said:

Fixed thermal sights sometimes staying on when switching modes.

(Un)fortunately, it still happens. At least it does on one manned AAVP on Muttrah.

Had same issue right before the event. Retrieving account was also blocked by this error. Was planning to reinstall whole game but decided to restart PC first. With that problem disappeared.

6 hours ago, Nyther the Komrade Dog said:

What I mean is the Amazon River start inside Brazil and it mostly runs west so as the joke here says, if you gonna pee on it pee on the west side XD

But it never runs west... It flows directly east into Atlantic. Also it starts in Peru.