#Arma 2 hell in the pacific mods
#Arma 2 hell in the pacific series

The US forces have been training the South Sahrani military and are just starting to leave (in a trend of the series in which a predominantly US force prepares to leave a destabilized country only to get caught in the fighting see ArmA III). ArmA: Armed Assault takes place on the fictional island of Sahrani, divided between two nations: the Democratic Republic of Sahrani in the north, and an oil-rich (and US-backed) Kingdom of South Sahrani. ARMA: Armed Assault / Combat Operations (2007): Spiritual Successor and de-facto sequel to Operation Flashpoint, developed by BIS (the original developers of Operation Flashpoint), using an updated engine called Real Virtuality 2 (RV2).Essentially, the BIS sequels closely resemble the original, except they have much better graphics and improved gameplay, while Dragon Rising feels, well, different from the original Flashpoint, and a lot of old veterans seem to think that it suffers from New and Improved Syndrome. BIS has since released three sequels based on this engine, ARMA: Armed Assault ( Combined Operations in North America), ARMA II, and ARMA III, while Codemasters developed its own 'official' sequel, Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising. BIS took the rights to the Real Virtuality engine, Codemasters got the rights to the name. The story behind the conception of ARMA was one of a painful birth: After finishing their work on Operation Flashpoint, the developer Bohemia Interactive Studio and publisher Codemasters had a major falling-out and split ways. The basic premise and game design philosophy of making a well-researched, true-to-life and unrelentingly realistic simulation of everyday military life is still there, though, as is the practice of using various fairly funny (and Reference Overdosed) Ruritanias as the setting for the games' campaigns and missions. and 20 Minutes into the Future time frames, not the Cold War. Unlike the original, these installments take place in Present Day, Next Sunday A.D. And that would be a shame.Czech game developer Bohemia Interactive Studios' Spiritual Successor to their successful and legendary Operation Flashpoint series. Otherwise it will be just a collection of modding tools, vehicles and weapons. So the only chance Arma2 has at breaking the horrible mediocrity of its predecessor is actually having an AI which at least gives a good impression. And when I couldn't make two Humvies properly follow each other in the desert I said fuck it. they probably implemented a good AI system to go along with it. Cities were larger, more city-like (and not a collection of cottages) so I thought hell. When I saw the first screens of Arma I was delighted because I saw that they decided to utilize complex urban environment.

But apart from upping the number of polygons, making bigger textures, sharpening up loop animations (oh, how I banged my head against the wall because of that.) they didn't do shit. See, with an open world as huge as that, you could stage almost any combat scenario. That is the main reason Arma sucked for me. The problem began when BAS released their famous Delta Force addons and I tried to make some urban combat scenario. I went through the campaign in about a week and then just fooled around with tools, fooled around in multiplayer with custom-made missions and good company.ДЄnd for some strange reason it didn't bother me that the AI was taken straight from a WW2 naval combat game. I had the original OFP on my harddrive for 2+ years. On the other hand: The AI will occasionally still walk through solid objects and everything else may or may not be pretty much the same I'm not sure my internet's been too spotty to really read everything today. Making the whole game 'bigger' was #2 I think.ДЄs for ArmA2, from reading BI's forum it seems that their 'micro AI' actually works so the AI can actually navigate urban environments now, and the AI doesn't headshot you from a km away anymore.

#Arma 2 hell in the pacific mods

The number one thing I recall being wanted by pretty much all parties when we switched from OFP to ArmA was more turret spaces, for both mods and so base vehicles can actually have the extra weapon or two they've been missing. The only thing 'harder' about ArmA is that aircraft are a fucking bitch to fly because of touchy flightmodels and shitty control fuckup that happened with the addition of shitty leaning, which nobody fucking needed or wanted. For one, the nametags were only on the lowest difficulty (Not that you could tell what difficulty you were on because of the terrible GUI), nothing was pin-point accurate (Except the AI when aiming at you), and what made it brilliant were the terabytes of user content that was generated over it's lifetime.