[Arucardo]

oh jesus the map is big enough as it is lol

Haha trying to meet up with others there is going to be a nightmare.

[Rygar 8 Bit]

Haha trying to meet up with others there is going to be a nightmare.

no dude just wait there ill be there in like 3 days its cool

[CoolS]

I cannot get my microphone to work in this game. I use teh direct communications channel but my friend can't hear me. and the mic is definitely working ...

[Rygar 8 Bit]

I cannot get my microphone to work in this game. I use teh direct communications channel but my friend can't hear me. and the mic is definitely working ...

hitting the caps lock key to talk?

[CoolS]

hitting the caps lock key to talk?

Yep.

[DeathCubeK]

I thought comms were fucked?

[nekosaur]

I cannot get my microphone to work in this game. I use teh direct communications channel but my friend can't hear me. and the mic is definitely working ...

It's apparently not working properly at the moment. The other channels do but using those kind of defeats the purpose of direct.

[Tesseract]

direct communication works fine for me. i haven't had any problems with any of the voice channels since i started playing.

[Visualante2]

i think they need to limit chat messages by range as well. I rather not know of a massive duke out on the other side of the map and the chat messages involved when I am in some quiet village sneaking about as it has no relevance. Maybe limiting to 10km or something.

That's one of the nice things about EVE, each system has a channel. And if you talk in it, anyone else nearby knows you're there. And will begin scanning. It can be a blessing and a curse. Personally if it's 50 players over such vast space.. it would be frustrating not to be able to get help or advice from someone.

Anyone else want to see if they can track down the process or people to speak to about setting up a open/private server for GAF.

Probably turn into a carebear no kill or get banned server if it's just GAFers.

[TheNiX]

Jesus they need to remove global VOIP all togehter. And possibly global text, or make it require an in-game item. It's so immersion breaking to hear babies cry about being killed by a bandit, or to just see people call each other racial or homophobic slurs. And I've said it again, but it kinda makes encountering players just that little bit more boring when you know that if you try and make a move on them, they're just going to immediately whine about it in chat to the entirety of the world. This applies both ways, as it's no fun spotting a guy that the chat has told you can't be trusted. So I hope at some point that aspect of the game gets looked at. Hopefully it's open to change, but I don't know how Arma 2 mods handle that stuff.

Hit P, find the annoying persons name, click them and then click mute.

I think allowing you to choose your spawn wouldn't be so bad, afterall, isn't all the good stuff inland? The vehicles, choppers, good weapons, and such. More often than not, while it may hurt the immersion part of the game a bit, people get really annoyed when they cant spawn anywhere close to their buddies. On a hardcore server this should be turned off probably.

Only one of the spawns is inland. The rest are coastal.

[gutabo]

Ok GAF, I'm hyped for this game and seems like I can play it in short bursts at random times of the day. I'm downloading ArmA 2 Free at the moment, am I doing it wrong?

[Foffy]

Oh snap, one of our survivor buddies sent me this on steam: If/when the mod gets ported to Arma 3 it's going to need a higher player limit.

That's only one island from ArmA III, too....

[fanboi]

That's one of the nice things about EVE, each system has a channel. And if you talk in it, anyone else nearby knows you're there. And will begin scanning. It can be a blessing and a curse. Personally if it's 50 players over such vast space.. it would be frustrating not to be able to get help or advice from someone. Probably turn into a carebear no kill or get banned server if it's just GAFers.

Nah, it wouldn't.

[TheNiX]

Nah, it wouldn't.

Everyone would hunt down the bronies.

Just a note on my stream last night: I rewatched some of it before going to bed and I apologize for how shitty it was. I don't even think audio was coming through, but I didn't notice. Once I get home from work tonight I'm going to run through a guide on setting it up properly.

[Jim E. Rossler]

So the visibility slider moves, but it seems the engine is stuck at 800m or something
I've reset and rebooted and created a new profile and it still looks like n64 draw distances

[Arucardo]

So the visibility slider moves, but it seems the engine is stuck at 800m or something I've reset and rebooted and created a new profile and it still looks like n64 draw distances

That's intentional, the visibility changes according to the weather and where you are.

[raphier]

I hear it is difficult to bear the server with Arma. Very unstable with a lot of people playing on it, that fps goes down and eventually crashes the server, requires restarting quite often.

[Orgun]

Oh snap, one of our survivor buddies sent me this on steam: If/when the mod gets ported to Arma 3 it's going to need a higher player limit.

Jeez, it took me a Quiche over 11 hours to meet up on Chernarus alone!

[Arucardo]

Jeez, it took me a Quiche over 11 hours to meet up on Chernarus alone!

Meeting Quiche wasn't exactly straight forward for us either.

Also, it's probably been posted earlier but here's a much higher quality map:

http://downloads.game.co.uk/game.co....ARMAII_MAP.pdf

[MasLegio]

how do I take screenshots?


on EU10 and there are two soldiers on a roof that are not moving

[Arucardo]

how do I take screenshots? on EU10 and there are two soldiers on a roof that are not moving

If you're playing through steam it's F12

[bengraven]

You missed the reply to your post that let you know the guy works for the developers.

Oh I didn't know that!

Welp, he's fucked then! Contracts will ensure he doesn't see too much profit and the game can't be released seperately outside of ARMA then.

[Sunflower]

GAF server would be good times, provided it isn't carebear. I want to kill some of you...maybe. Or perhaps I want to help.

[DeathCubeK]

Can't fucking believe it! Had everything, took me about 10 hours of crawling and sneaking and some dirty cunt sniper bandit fuck takes it all away with a headshot at Stary Sobor :(

[gutabo]

Anyone, please?

Ok GAF, I'm hyped for this game and seems like I can play it in short bursts at random times of the day. I'm downloading ArmA 2 Free at the moment, am I doing it wrong?

(I'll buy Operation Arrowhead afterwards)

[TheNiX]

Oh I didn't know that! Welp, he's fucked then! Contracts will ensure he doesn't see too much profit and the game can't be released seperately outside of ARMA then.

Don't be so sure. BI is a very small dev and can't afford to shelve this or bury it. Not to mention they've already been getting feedback from the community on the future of the game in terms of what it becomes (Full retail, digital release..etc.)

[Sordid]

Meeting Quiche wasn't exactly straight forward for us either. Also, it's probably been posted earlier but here's a much higher quality map: http://downloads.game.co.uk/game.co....ARMAII_MAP.pdf

Sweet! Here it is as a .jpg if that's easier for folks to use:

[Confidence Man]

What causes the Receiving Data bar to stop filling up at like 90%? Been doing that since last night and I still can't get into a game.

[FromTheFuture]

Anyone, please? (I'll buy Operation Arrowhead afterwards)

As far as I know, you can do that (ArmA II Free, OA Expansion) but you'll only have low-res graphics. If you have a bad computer or you don't care, that's fine. Otherwise you're going to want to buy Combined Operations so you have both, with the better graphics options.

What causes the Receiving Data bar to stop filling up at like 90%? Been doing that since last night and I still can't get into a game.

That should have nothing to do with it, I think it's just part of ArmA itself. If you're not getting in, it's for a different reason. Or just try waiting a bit longer - your first few attempts to get into servers might take awhile. Going from my experiences, the first few times I tried to connect to servers it took forever, but it seems the more I've been playing the quicker I'm getting in.

[TheNiX]

I emailed the DayZ dev team about a server. I'll see what they say.

What causes the Receiving Data bar to stop filling up at like 90%? Been doing that since last night and I still can't get into a game.

Patience. That's the point where the game is trying to pull from the master server.

[Rygar 8 Bit]

and the master server is being hammered like crazy so it takes a long while just sit and wait until it spawns you in could take seconds or it could takes minutes

[gutabo]

As far as I know, you can do that (ArmA II Free, OA Expansion) but you'll only have low-res graphics. If you have a bad computer or you don't care, that's fine. Otherwise you're going to want to buy Combined Operations so you have both, with the better graphics options.

Thank you so much! I found THIS CHEAPER-THAN-STREAM STORE, anyone knows if I'm not going to get robbed? Buying both ArmA 2 and OA exp. there is a little bit more expensive than only the OA exp. on stream!

[mxgt]

what a great feeling it is when you're low on food and ammo and you stumble across some un-looted player corpses.

[PjotrStroganov]

I'll join mumble but I'm lacking a proper headset. So I'll be silent and listening. Any suggestions for a nice headset?

[Foliorum Viridum]

Got both games installed. I'm going to be hopping on this tonight with Orgun :D It sounds like lots of you are in the GAF Mumble so I guess I'll see you fellas there. Will be nice to see it busy for once!

[Sunflower]

Got both games installed. I'm going to be hopping on this tonight with Orgun :D It sounds like lots of you are in the GAF Mumble so I guess I'll see you fellas there. Will be nice to see it busy for once!

I'll see you this evening.

[Arucardo]

I'll probably jump in the game in a bit, don't have many hours to waste today though.

[Pisuke1983]

I emailed the DayZ dev team about a server. I'll see what they say.

Awesome.

I installed Mumble today. That should take the whole game experience to a new level ^^

[Fixed1979]

Got both games installed. I'm going to be hopping on this tonight with Orgun :D It sounds like lots of you are in the GAF Mumble so I guess I'll see you fellas there. Will be nice to see it busy for once!

Depending on how late your on hopefully I'll get a chance to meet up!

[Fourman]

This mod is so much better when you're playing with someone you know and you are talking through skype/mumble.

My friend and I headed all the way north to the north-west airfield through the middle of the night with off and on rain. The journey there was brutal and kept us on our toes at every minute. We found a lot of supplies along the way in a town with a department store where we stashed up on food and water and kept heading north. We finally make it to the airfield only to find it ridden with corpses of soldiers and zombies roaming around. Working our way towards the hangars to check out if there are any supplies my friend and I get called out in chat, some guy saw us from a fire station in the area. The guy tells us he is friendly and needs food because he is in bad health. Out of the both of us we only have 1 can of beans and could not spare giving food to him. Now came the decision to give him the can of beans or just tell him we don't have any to spare and take the risk that he will shoot us for them.

The guy throws a flare from the fire station and proceeds to run out to meet us. While he is doing that my friend and I are dodging zombies and discussing what we should do with this guy. My friend is not sold on this guy being friendly and tells me to keep my gun up on him at all times, so I did. We move in on him and see that he is holding a AK, which is a much better gun than what we currently had. Seeing that he had a AK and a bigger backpack sparked the idea of killing this guy for his gear.

While all 3 of us were moving in on each other my friend runs into a zombie, his vision was blurry from blood loss or some wound he got on the way there, which alerted a massive horde that over ran us on the air strip. We are fighting off zombies while also keeping a eye on the guy to be sure he doesn't shoot us. Able to survive the zombie horde we started looting corpses and still contemplating on killing the guy for his gear. I was ready to give the guy beans and gain a new buddy to travel with us when my friend takes 2 shots and kills the guy without any warning. Obviously the guy was furious and yelling at us in chat, he was not a happy camper.

After looting his gear we start making our way to the fire station where the guy was held up to check if he left anything of value there, he did. We found a dead body of a player in the fire station that the guy we just met must have killed. We had no idea what his intentions were and he didn't know ours. That is the magic of this mod, the player interaction that leads to the craziest scenarios that could mean life or death for your character and the hours you spend surviving being diminished with a single bullet or a zombie horde. I love it.

[Wolf Akela]

I need a better idea of the scale of the map.

How small is BF3's Caspian Border relative to that map? Just one square?

[qazqaNii]

I need a better idea of the scale of the map. How small is BF3's Caspian Border relative to that map? Just one square?

Probably only the town Chernogorsk, or at maximum, elektro+cherno

[CHEEZMO™]

Sweet! Here it is as a .jpg if that's easier for folks to use:

What's off to the West and North? Can you not go up there?

[mxgt]

I need a better idea of the scale of the map. How small is BF3's Caspian Border relative to that map? Just one square?

The city of Chernogorsk alone is probably bigger than Caspain, the map is huge.

[TheNiX]

What's off to the West and North? Can you not go up there?

You can go off the map, though I'm not sure how far. I went about 4-5 KM west of the border, but didn't want to keep going.

[Jim E. Rossler]

anyone near kamenka or komarovo want to join up?
I'm chilling in the dayz mumble server

[PjotrStroganov]

Edit: Couple of us logging into DE2.

[DTKT]

Couple of us logging into FR1 now.

Oh shiet. I'll be there in 10 min.

You guys on Mumble?

[RedSwirl]

Bought ArmA II years ago but never touched it. I still need to get through that main game, THEN the expansions, so I think I'll wait until this is alpha.

This is exactly the kind of unique multiplayer that's needed on consoles right now though.

[Orgun]

I need a better idea of the scale of the map. How small is BF3's Caspian Border relative to that map? Just one square?

It's 225 km2, which I think is 139m2