=VG= SemlerPDX

Welcome back, Vicious!! I sent you a PM, and the same PM to TS3 admins with the rights to promote you.

See you soon, bro!
!cheers

Wow!! Awesome event post! Count me in for sure! I'd like to lead one of the specialist Fire Teams, preferably the Anti-Tank Team.



No worries there, bro. I will add grass/view distance settings for those who need to turn off the grass and such.

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!shok
Wow - that is amazing! Nice find!

done


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Very cool!
So great to get noticed! !fans

We appreciate input, and criticism if it has a constructive purpose. Thank you for your report.

I hope you can understand that we play COOP PR and try our best to have easy to understand rules, but sometimes enforcing them takes a little bit of patience, understanding, and interpretation given the current situation.

I trust all our admins to be as fair as possible, and on a personal level.
And like the boss said, if you need to, send him a private message. I hope you can give us and our admins the benefit of the doubt as we give the same to you players.

!cheers

Good games, guys! Mission success!

Thanks to all who participated, and Special Thanks to Charry for making the mission for us all!!
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@ACE
@ACEX
@ACEX_RU
@ACEX_USNAVY
@ACRE
@JayArma2Lib...(Acre will force the correct needed Jay via SixUpdater)
@yup_mh60
@sthud
@st_lb_enhance

Optional:
@JSRS
@JSRS_ACE
@BlastCore_Visuals
@stmovement

Not too keen on turning Insurgency into Domi - heavy vehicles don't really belong in an infantry mission. Maybe one, thats why we have the option to have the heli be a LAV instead, or Stryker, etc.

Flying to the AO is big in Takistan Vanilla Insurgency, but in ACE/ACRE Fallujah Insurgency, it's not advisable.
Think "Blackhawk Down".

Besides, it already has 1 MHQ - that's what Insurgency is all about. A flowing, changing frontline as infantry searches hotzones for insurgent weapons caches. We have all the HMMWV's we need, and even ATV's for a single person to get back to the front without tying up squad sized vehicles.

A heli call in such as in PITN's SOAR Insurgency would not be so helpful in Fallujah, being a true MOUT map, and CAS is actually OP at times. A fixed wing air asset has no business in Fallujah ACE Insurgency in my opinion. The map is rather small, and the patrol vehicles that are supposed to add excitement and danger all get blown up as soon as they roll on the map. Way too over powered...

Also, like Savage said, this mission is not exactly easy, like some, to script or code - it's some advanced stuff even for me, and I've been working with Arma scripting and editing for nearly a year.

What do I think will get ACE/ACRE Insurgency populated?

1. Regular people playing it, often

2. Online promotions including screenshots, videos, and tales of good times on VG Social Networks, and other community sites like BIStudios.com, and others.


Do I like asking myself questions and then answering them in text format?

1. Yes

2. Yes, I do.


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characters too skinny to show in game, and they were incomplete with plenty of spelling errors - player names would require a separate squad xml for every single member. This is how it will be till we have a web plugin for it (think free public XML hosting for Arma players via website signup here). Patience...

We are pretty much sold on the very high-resolution Rangers as our BLUFOR Team. Here's Poffadder (on left) and SavageCDN (on right) sporting the new skins. Note the new VG XML Profile Patch on Poffadder's shoulder (that's not photoshop - thats what it looks like in game!)
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and on the vehicles too (see the small =VG= below the pic):

seems to me the ACE/ACRE Insurgency at Fallujah mission works just fine as is. Sure, it's annoying that when the mission starts, the MHQ is somewhere you may not want it, but like Outlanders said, it's not hard to move it real fast.

Made so many raids into the city from that MHQ. I usually like it in the East, South of the MSR.
Changing the skins to another faction is more of a cosmetic thing, I suppose if someone were bored with the skins, we could implement the hi-res Rangers.

Flying in Fallujah is pretty risky, but other maps it's not as bad. ACE adds very nice counter measures for some helicopters. We've used an LAV in it's place with good success.

I really love playing ACE/ACRE Insurgency in Fallujah. It could use a touch of our MSO Project - in a few areas. This could be rather difficult, if not impossible. But since we're talking about wild ideas, I thought I'd throw it in there.

Nothing big, maybe just saveable player loadout or player state and location. Trust me, it's not easy to work with either MSO or Insurgency on paper, so don't get your hopes up.

!hi

Since the Arma 2 OA 1.62 Patch getting best graphics and video card settings just right for a good FPS is easier in my opinion. That AtoC setting - wow!

Try walking up to some trees and bushes, and play with it a bit - at max, it bushes out everything and barely looks like a "video game". I get a slight drop in my FPS, but still - it looks amazing! Surely one of the things to turn on if you're gonna hold still and take a good photo quality screenshot!

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*view distance should be a user setting - whatever you want. I roll with 3000-5000 by default, but when I'm in a mission that is dropping my frame rates, I choose it by what I am doing:
Infantry = as low as 1600-2000
Flying Helicopter = as low as 2500-3500
Flying Jets = as low as 4000-6000

If you could find/build an Arma 2 PC (and an Arma 2 mission) that could run at 10,000 view distance at all times, with a playably high FPS, you will have found the Holy Grail of Armaholic gamers.

I am pretty sure it has something to do with that shockwave-flash count down timer I was so fond of. Gonna move it down to the second post for now...I bet it fixes the problem. (also gonna make a copy of current for backup in case your browser breaks it again)

[EDIT: Fixed - was indeed the flash timer thing. gonna stop using it. !butcher ]

map/thread post fixed. Press "Edit" to see how it was done. Size of original pic reduced by 1/3 and hotlink added to image for fullsize. Let's use this BB code style in the future - copy it to a notepad or something.
!cheers

It's like this: Poffadder, Savage, and I - even Solar now, seem to be heading up the Arma sector of VG, and I'm not joking that now is when we could really use someone with your experience and insight. Even if you're not gonna wear the tags, please feel free to drop in here and there. I'll drop a line when we have something worthy of testing, or an event I think we may enjoy together.
We so respect and even envy other successful groups who have paved the way such as ShackTac, UO, and 7th Cavalry. You, more than I, have played with them - have experienced "Arma the way it was meant to be played". Your input has always stuck with me.

I will always remember this, and that you taught it to me:
"Keep the MG at the rear of the column, that way no matter what contact you engage, he is in a better position to move right or left to set up and engage with his MG."

Will always consider you my buddy, even if you don't wear these tags. And I look forward to playing some Arma with you again, regardless of any of this. I don't need to "like" your decision to accept it. We'll be here, and I'll see you around, bro. We all will, I'm sure. And I don't think I'm alone when I say that the door is always open to good people like you.

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Hey, thanks guys! Say, we sure want to use that Upcoming Events more. If you have an idea for an all day event, or even a specific "op" for an hour or two, talk with the guys, find a game and some players, and we'll post up an event - perhaps even attract more players to the event.

Just send me a PM through the site and I'll write one up on the calandar.

See you all around!
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Arma 2 OA 1.62 Video Settings Explained

!cheers

check the date of original post. this thread was necro'd.....
!skull

Though we don't participate in PvP tournaments, we are starting to host a number of gaming events to bring people together.
Coming soon is the Forgotten Hope 2 Event, as well as another of Charry's ACE-ACRE Arma Missions (no respawn - a full mil-sim experience).
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I don't get it - there have been times lately that we've been engaged in long discussions about one thing or another. Seems to be then that you choose to jump into ts3.

If you were in more often, I think you might get more of a chance to play some games, at least in the Arma servers.
We're finally trying to break into the ACE/ACRE side of Arma, and you're not around so often. We have some great ideas, and have found some great mods.

You have more ACE experience than many of us. Would be great to see you around in some more missions. I thought you were in this for the long haul, but I never see you on TS3 lately. Playin Mount and Warblade for months.....

!huh

Good to hear from you! See you around!
!cheers

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With any game, you have different groups of players. The mod user group vs. the vanilla group is what we see here.

No point comparing apples to oranges. Players who use ACE mods and play in those servers usually stick to it. Same with Vanilla players - if they don't have anyone to push them into playing mods, they may just continue to play Vanilla.

There is a percentage of the current players in either catagory that we can expect to attract to our servers. They don't come from nowhere - as in, they are already playing these games somewhere. It takes more than another copy of a popular mission to fill a server full with people who play that game mode. With Vanilla, you can bet to a certain degree that "if you build it, they will come", but with Mods, it takes a bit more. They only fill up once they already have players, usually.

Unless, or until, we happen upon a Mod set and Mission we can all play often, we can expect to always be struggling for player base on a modded server. Promotion may help, but you see the difference in running a Vanilla server vs. Mods.

This is why we will always have, as long as we can, the Vanilla COOP Insurgency. It is a place where people can really play - 1 man, 1 squad, or however many wish to work with a plan. Small improvements should be implemented, again, carefully.

COOP Ins is popular in part because it's often highly populated. If that changes, many of these points will become moot. Just gotta go with the flow of the players online at the time - which is why the server rotation and default config are already set to a formula we've found to be popular. While in game, an admin can get popular vote and change these parameters to suit the crowd.

Just be sure to run the next map before abandoning an altered parameter COOP Ins server to the public.
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