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yep...warping is gone and i have played few round yesterday and today.
learning curve controls is huge but i can get over it.
i just hope that devs decide to put blue names on friendlys to help noobs like me

maarit wrote: i just hope that devs decide to put blue names on friendlys to help noobs like me

or instead of them holding your hand, you could, you know learn -_-

Once you get the basic controls you can truely enjoy this epic masterpiece!! Dont give up guys, its well worth it. Its the close we can get to the real thing, bf2pr, albeit good, its so more gamey to me after playing arma2pr! I mean just other day defending a cache there was this guy in a mosque tower firing with his mg and then I picked up my rpg and destroyed the tower, how awesome is that. Also, suicide bomber backpack ftw!!

Oskar wrote:It's an Acer Aspire laptop with 4GB RAM, Intel Core i3 processor and an ATI Mobility Radeon 512MB graphics card. PR:BF2 runs super smooth on high settings.

hmm...I got an Acer Aspire laptop with 4GB RAM, Intel Core i5 processor and an ATI Mobility Radeon with 1GB dedicated ram and i have to play BF2 PR with all low to medium settings and it still struggles on most city maps

Answer would be buy a desktop to play games not laptops. With that kind of config in desktop variant it would kick ***.
Now about ARMA..I haven't played before when this warping thing was actual. I downloaded it recently, few days ago. Applied all the patches, added last beta fix, and fired up OA. Played a bit and I can say it runs nice on my oldie worn out PC. I got AMD Athlon x2 II 250 @ 3.1Ghz, 4Gb RAM, and GTS450 512MB. I run it on 1440x900 with all on medium and I get avrg 35fps. Sure it drops sometimes very low and does not goes over 50 but its still playable. It really needs quad core cpu and at least 1GB of Vram to run smooth. Im quite suprised and will continue to play it. It has flaws but its quite impressive and interesting ( for now )

Ive tried PR:ARMA2 and tbh its nothing much. It like you take something complicated and make it even more complicated. Without reading manual you wont get anywhere soon, and I haven't been reading any manuals for OA and I figured out how things work. Well Im still learning. ALso PR needs more features. This now looks very empty and is more like minimod. Still comparing to BF2 this look and feel rocks.

job86 wrote:hmm...I got an Acer Aspire laptop with 4GB RAM, Intel Core i5 processor and an ATI Mobility Radeon with 1GB dedicated ram and i have to play BF2 PR with all low to medium settings and it still struggles on most city maps

I have these specs in my desktop and Arma II runs fantastic on high setting, CPU OC'd to 3.8.

Buren06 wrote:I bought ARMA II and don't regret it. However, it's a long way off from being playable for me. The auto-radio commands were irritating, I found the graphical effects to be a huge headache (literally), and the simplest of tasks were incredibly complex. Not that I'm not willing to put in the time to learn, but even menial accomplishments were needlessly complicated. Like I said - I didn't expect to know how to play it, but the general experience seems far too un-intuitive for me to enjoy at this time.

Still - glad I bought it, I'm sure I will come back to it when PR: ARMA is further developed. The potential is obvious.

My words

Interesting. I might actually check this out now.

saXoni wrote:Interesting. I might actually check this out now.

You will love CAS power in Arma2. Get it nao

MaSSive wrote:Ive tried PR:ARMA2 and tbh its nothing much. It like you take something complicated and make it even more complicated. Without reading manual you wont get anywhere soon, and I haven't been reading any manuals for OA and I figured out how things work.

Exactly the same for someone who comes from vanilla BF2 and start playing PR:BF2 without reading the manual, it will be complicated for him and even more if he havent played vanilla BF2. Usually a more complicated MP game means you have more possibilities, if someone wants to play easy games then he should try COD or Battlefield 3.

If you can withstand a month of PR:ArmA2, you will never get back to BF2 version.
It is very hard at the beginning, but after you learn, it is awesome.

Hmm...I must say I never did read the PR:BF2 manual and there is no thing in it that I do not know of. Comparing BF2 with Arma2 is a bit silly dont you think?

As for BF3 I never intend to get it, and I saw what that game is when they announced it. Filthy marketing trick and a toy for kids. They made it! Now they are even with COD series. Ha!

MaSSive wrote:Hmm...I must say I never did read the PR:BF2 manual and there is no thing in it that I do not know of. Comparing BF2 with Arma2 is a bit silly dont you think?

Well there is nothing you dont know now, after X time playing PR:BF2, but im sure the first time you tried to fly a heli you rolled over, the first time you played you created a squad before 1:30, the first time you got into a mortar you didnt know how to use it or the first time you got into an attack heli as gunner you didnt know how to zoom, use thermals or use properly the different missiles modes, and you though it was something complicated.

I dont think comparing BF2 and Arma is silly, sure they are completely different and Arma is a lot more complicated but the same way BF2 can be complicated for someone who havent never played any shooter.

Oh well alright...touche. Point taken. But really it took me very short time to learn how things work in BF2 R. Sure, I didn't knew all that when I was first time doing it but after few tries I got it. With Arma its quite different, and harder, but its not nuclear physics...Ill get it, eventually. One thing I wont, is flying in Arma without joystick. I find it impossible, since sooner or later you're going to make that small mistake, that will make you crash. I can fly small distances, like moving chopper in main base for repair, but flying a full chopper to AO, is something I will never do, until I be sure I can do it error free. And that will happen when I get a stick, and learn to use it.
And I must say that I fully respect the hard work of devs in making PR:ARMA2, but I must be honest too, and say that in this moment its not really attractive to me. Needs more buffing.

Idk wtf, I downloaded the 1.60 and then some hotfixes, the latest ones that were recommended in PR A2 sections of forums and when I try to join any PR server it tells me I have missing files. Can someone give a sequence installation guide because this is really confusing. Anyone?

All you need is 1.59 patch and 1.60 and latest beta patch. If you want to run latest beta make sure you run it from "Launch Arma2 OA Beta Patch" which is in your ARMA2 folder if not found on desktop.
It warns me sometimes of some modified and missing files, but I just close the popup and continue. This is for OA and for ARMA2 no worries OA patch will patch your ARMA2 to latest one.

I assume you downloaded PR and got it installed? And you have combined Arma2 and OA?

One more thing. If you already installed 1.60 and you missed some of the patches before it, you will have to reinstall everything from scratch. Reason is that you cant uninstall 1.60, so you will have to start over from beginning. Oh and if you run PR:ARMA2 launch it from its shortcut, dont use expansions screen.

I played Arma 2 OA with 1.59 PR. I was waiting for the warping to get fixed, now that it seems that it is I downloaded and installed 1.60 couple days ago and some hotfixes and now I cant join any server.

Thats weird. Are you sure you dont have 1.60 beta patch? That will not work you need 1.60 official, and latest hotfix. One in forums here is not latest. Check on link I posted above.

Just downloaded and installed latest beta patch (ARMA2_OA_Build_87662.zip) from that link. Started game from "Launch Arma2 OA Beta Patch" in the game dir. Still same thing.

Here is a screen after trying to join TG, I click continue and it sends me back to server browser screen.