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If everyone goes back to TS, I might as well stay on Vent cos nobody can hear me on TS 😥
NylonSumo, I don’t remember ever seeing you in Vent. Or TS 😛
What about that spooky pledge of allegiance children are forced to make in American schools? That’s always freaked me out.
America takes democracy seriously, yet elects one joker after another. I’d be lolly if it wasn’t so dangerous. One to avoid! 😛
Explain yourself, Queeks 😆 In your own words, if you can :P:);)
Well if Vent is not working out then maybe we should go back to TS. My qualm about TS was that nobody could understand me very well on it. Better codecs can prolly sort that.
I am enjoying Ventrilo but, as I said ref codec quality, I haven’t compared like with like.
I’m gonna be like water; go with the flow, maaannn.
I think Ventrilo is using a lot more bandwidth than the old TS server, but it’s still trivial, and I believe (I got the faith!) that it can be adjusted downwards in the client if you have a really slow connection.
I spent some of the weekend running high-quality TS and Ventrilo simultaneously whilst playing, and those progs were solid.
Last night I had Ventrilo running, a second PC on my home network running a GameSpy-registered internet ArmA server, and me playing Arma online, too. It was a heavenly experience on an ADSL 6.5mbps/450kbps line.
-> Make sure you have installed the December ’06 update to DirectX 9.0c.
-Fenix out
Yeah, get insured Turks. That way, when you sell the camera to buy poached human-horn, your sponsors won’t be out of pocket.
LeGIt, ArmA has motorbikes 8) but no badges :shock:. Watcha gonna do?
After tonight’s little experiment with running a dedicated server, I think that most servers out there simply aren’t specced high enough to cope with the load they take on.
Had a nice session with 6 of us on my server. No CTD’s, no freaky server behaviour; just plenty of laughs and action. Of course, it was impossible to stop Dazzer driving around the maps like he was in an ice-cream van. Don’t get him wrong though: under that suicidal exterior beats the heart of a true bullet-magnet :lol:.
If I’m running the server, I’ll be in Ventrilo advertising the fact next to my name. Tomorrow, I’m going to try running wth 8, 9 or 10 player slots. I’m not leaving it on 24/7 or anything, and if my flatmate wants her PC, then it can’t run then, either.
There’s another thing I did which may have kept my client up (I do get lots of crashes normally). It was installing the latest Windows drivers from http://www.openal.org – I saw it mentioned in the ArmA troubleshooting wiki. OpenAL isn’t somethng I’ve ever encountered before but ArmA uses it, apparently.
Right, it’s bedtime for this bonzo, so g’night.
-Fenix out
Housemates sound as xenophobic about games as they do about people. Moreover, it sounds like a case for the legitimate use of a key-logger! 😉
If I knew much about routers, I’d be interested to know how ArmA messes with it.
Shucks, 11thSignal 😳 :).
SOIA comes in, revealing more of his mighty intellect to us mortals. The Sector Control (look for ‘SC’) is pretty cool and the mishmakers have made some excellent scenarios. Find a good game (how? lol) and it’s a joy. It’s BF-friendly.
Apart from a couple of real corkers, it should be custom missions all the way. Which is what it’s all about, right?
I liked Wipers’ comments which nearly made me want to install OFP until everything calms down :D.
I’m playing around with a little dedicated server of my own this evening. Check out ‘=XDC= Limited Test #1 v1.05’. Catch me on Ventrilo if I have my headphones on my ears. It’s running on my flatemate’s PC. i don’t know if I’m being cautious or optimistic by setting it to 6 players. Right after this post, I’m going to alter the available maps (including custom ones (god knows if eternity will be long enough for anyone to d/l them but I’ll try to keep it to smaller missions…). Uber-admin password is the one that =XDC= admins should know. The command ‘#login
‘ does the trick. -Fenix out
That was actually set to Easy Mode last night on “Seize the Base”, but WTF how strong were the enemy! Hordes of ’em over-running our spawn within 10 minutes.
@XDC_Wolf wrote:
tried this online last night, what a pile of crap! first off I have NEVER seen a less intuitive game, spawning as a seagull, I had to be talked through how to actually spawn by Dazzer (I think) and then sometimes it will respawn you normally, other times it will respawn you as a seagull and you have to disconnect and reconnect to play again.
The point of it is that respawning is against the spirit of the game. Being able to respawn is a fiddle of the game system.
@XDC_Wolf wrote:
WAs respawned in the middle of a river at one point, without a gun, had to run half a mile to get a gun, and got shot whilst I was picking one up.
When you respawned in the river, what you actually did was a body-snatch, stealing the body of an AI soldier. I have a theory about how the spawnability works in the game, and I’ll start another thread on it, if I still remember. You can’t play this game thinking about frags and respawns: you have to think about self-preservation first and then execution of a plan. It’s all about staying alive. When 2-4 of you have infiltrated a target zone and everything’s starting to rock ‘n’ roll, it’s genuinely sad when one of the group gets killed.
There’s a funny story behind why he was in the water :oops:. You’ll laugh when you hear it. I was the squad-leader at the start of that game and I ordered the whole squad of AI’s to run backwards away from the spawn and take cover. The actual destination I gave them was kind of on a steep slope into the water… One of the cool things about this game is that soldiers will drop pieces of kit if they think they’re too heavy to swim or think they’re about to drown. After the guy had been there for 10+ minutes, he obviously felt the need to ditch his gear.
@XDC_Wolf wrote:
No offence, but I have never seen a game more in need of a massive amount of work on it’s interface, the only advantage/change over OpFlash is the browser for online play.
This game is a definite shock to the system, and I would have liked to have been more helpful to you but I’ve lost my voice (re: Ventrilo) and I was the only one who knew wtf about everything.
The teamwork last night was atrocious, for several reasons. First there was the patch which made all the AI into uber-soldiers. Same mission, same AI spawns, but with additional AI on top of them. Such different behaviours and results! Everyone who was used to the mission was getting blown away. Vehicles on normally safe routes, 700+ metres (up to 1.6km!) away from the target were getting destroyed by amazing converging fire and there seemed to be long-range foot patrols all over the map.
Second was the poor communication which was my fault. Between losing my voice and trying to get Line to understand what me, Wolf, Dazzer and ViperGra had arranged, it fell apart. Line was in hilarious, murderous rage against the AI and was a bit blinkered with respect to teamwork. It was very lolly nevertheless. Me and Line managed to get a couple of decent rounds in, in uber-cautious mode. It was frightening!
Third was the number of noobs on the server. ViperGra, you should be ashamed of yourself 😉 with those suicidal drive-up-to-the-enemy’s-front-door-in-a-truck-and-loook-at-my-clan-badge plans that you fooled Dazzer into coming along on. I tried to warn you but my voice…. I remember you shouting out about how loud it all was seconds before your inevitable slaughter. So that was you and Dazzer fucked.
The number of times I just kicked-back and watched your heroic last moments (that’s last moments witht he clock only just begun ticking from spawn :P). Laughter prolly made my throat worse. It certainly isn’t better today. Wolf I saw you get taken out by a sniper as you left the spawn in a truck on the road. Sorry I couldn’t help ya!
Wolf, basically about the interface, I’d say who cares? In a game with the team all playing together, it’s often the case that the admin will restart when a couple of ppl have died.
The game is not the menu interface. It’s about treating the objectives with major respect and finding a way to get to them without dying. It’s about taking the right amount of time to make a decision and enact the plan. It’s extremely rewarding if you give yourself a little time to understand the logic of the game.
Plz give it another go. It really is the business!
-Fenix out
