Passive Assassin
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Arma 3 Alpha - March 5th - 25 Euros
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Legato.Reborn-
Member
there is, just not right now -- the hacker did it
Passive Assassin
Member
Hacker? Shame...
blitzcloud
Banned
urgh, well they should have been more careful about releasing the alpha then. Yeah, it may be a great arma game, but if the single gamebreaking feature named "hacking" happens the very same way of the predecessors, it's only normal people won't dip in.
Honestly, I have played many games that handle spawns and everything... and not once i've seen a player able to make that call without administrator rights.
But arma somehow manages to break that wall.
Honestly, I have played many games that handle spawns and everything... and not once i've seen a player able to make that call without administrator rights.
But arma somehow manages to break that wall.
Passive Assassin
Member
Ugh. Can't even play multiplayer cause of the hacking. Back to AllinArma SP mods.
You guys should visit the official forums and see how the moderators speak to people. It's disgusting.
spindoctor
Member
It's a post by Dwarden (who is also a GAF member and has posted in this thread). He's a pretty cool and helpful guy in general, but the Steam forums can bring out the worst in anyone. Just go there and have a look at the kind of crap people have been flinging on Bohemia even before this hacking problem. It's like they don't even understand the meaning of the word Alpha. It might not be the prim and professional response you expect from PR but man is it ever understandable.
Here's just one gem from that very thread
Krappadizzle
Member
Yeah, it makes me sad in my happy place.
Legato.Reborn-
Member
strange I thought you would be the person defending those kind of statements
you're usually the guy I see (I'm just making comments on my own personal observations) telling things to other users in black and white
which is great! but sometimes can make a person look like a dick, do you know what I mean?
Legato.Reborn-
Member
NO U!
I haven't played in a while, outside of wasteland nothing else was really that good.
Hoping for more content but hearing all this hacking talk I don't really want to get into it yet
I do miss the modern weapons though, outside of like 2 or 3 guns the rest suck IMO ( in terms of look, they all feel great). Not a fan of the future look, vehicles look great though.
Also how many towns does the unreleased map have? wish the part we already have had more towns and such though.
Hoping for more content but hearing all this hacking talk I don't really want to get into it yet
I do miss the modern weapons though, outside of like 2 or 3 guns the rest suck IMO ( in terms of look, they all feel great). Not a fan of the future look, vehicles look great though.
Also how many towns does the unreleased map have? wish the part we already have had more towns and such though.
I like how we haven't heard a peep from the ACRE guy(s). Few weeks ago it was basically done and ready to be released. Then nothing. Then "Oh I need donations" and now still nothing. Some clan had it on trial that everyone downloaded their version from and made it work on their own server but that 'loophole' has now been closed.
Really? I just set up ACRE for Arma3 last night, but no one really uses it on a public server so I didn't get much use out of it yet.
Where did he release it?
I guess he didn't, officially anyway. Not sure what the process is to add it to a server but getting the client working seems to be working.
Is this just a hacked Arma 2 ACRE? Works exactly the same way at least.
The team is doing a proper conversion of ACRE for ArmA 3 - Not talking about some homebrew port of the A2 version. They haven't released it yet but a clan got to test it, then people downloaded it through Play withSIX when connecting to their servers I believe which made it spread, however they closed that option.
But there's no official release of this port yet, which is what I was looking for.
Passive Assassin
Member
I haven't played in a while, outside of wasteland nothing else was really that good.
Hoping for more content but hearing all this hacking talk I don't really want to get into it yet
I do miss the modern weapons though, outside of like 2 or 3 guns the rest suck IMO ( in terms of look, they all feel great). Not a fan of the future look, vehicles look great though.
Also how many towns does the unreleased map have? wish the part we already have had more towns and such though.
There's a few mods like the m107, MP7, and the best looking M4.
SJRB
Gold Member
It's getting pretty tiresome to try and play this game lately. It keeps crashing constantly since the last couple of updates. I tried playing just now but the game crashed 4 times in a row while connecting to a server.
I also noticed a lot less servers and players. What the hell is going on?
I also noticed a lot less servers and players. What the hell is going on?
Alpha.
SJRB
Gold Member
I don't even know what to do with this reply. "Alpha" results in less servers and lower player numbers, and connectivity issues that were ironed out in previous updates?
You have these same issues I take it?
Alpha doesn't explain the seemingly lack of community updates. A one word answer of alpha is dismissive at best. I was discussing the same issue with someone in the mumble and they remarked as well that 3 simply doesn't have the same draw as 2 simply because of community involvement. I'd have to agree.
Passive Assassin
Member
The map variety is good but people are getting bored of Stratis. Needs more new weapons and features. Can't be playing Stratis Life, AW Invade and Annex forever :l.
I'm sorry but saying issues are getting tiresome in an ALPHA is completely stupid. There's constant changes, changes that don't always improve the game and can lead to issues -- Thus you report them and they can look into it.
They also recently changed how server hosting works meaning you can only host one per server, meaning less populated server list.
I'd call myself a hardcore ArmA fan but I'm not playing the Alpha very much, because it is just that; an alpha. Trying out the game, helping with the initial testing was all fun but I'd like to wait for the retail product and stick with ArmA 2 for now. So making some conclusions on the community on an actual alpha is ... No, just no. ArmA 3 retail is going to be an amazing game and the community will migrate once there's a stable platform as the actual core ArmA community requires a ton of addons before they start using it.
Passive Assassin
Member
Welp. Time to jump back in.
hmm... I didn't receive a patch until I opted in for the beta, and then it only ended up being 25MB.
Anton Sugar
Member
SPOTREP 4 released (855mb)
Details on lighting tweaks:
Details on lighting tweaks:
Motivation
In the real world, we are used to seeing light sources not only at night but during the day as well even in the daytime we recognize a car has its headlights on for example. Although we can not see the light from such a light source, since daily light from the sun over-lights it, during dawn and dusk we can. E.g. the light from headlights is seen in the morning about an hour after the first rays of the sun. Lit light sources (like car headlights) are evident even throughout a sunny day.
The night was very dark in Arma, which many players appreciated. It was caused by almost zero value of ambient light. However, to avoid overexposing the image at night by artificial light sources (street lamps, car headlights, fireplaces, etc.), the Light Value (LV) of these resources and the intensity of the emissive materials were very low. Therefore, when the sun came up, they immediately ceased to be visible. Twilight in Arma could not have looked like in reality for these reasons.
An example for better understanding:
The sun as light source has a very high light value and it can not be measured by standard means (estimated at 25-30 LV). Meanwhile, its light on a clear day at noon is then 16-18 LV. Car headlights are 19 LV and therefore brighter than sunlight. When lit, they should be seen in the daytime. Their light at a distance of 1 meter has a value of 11 LV, and because it is weaker than sunlight, it wouldn't be apparent at noon.
Process
To approach the situation in the real world, we have increased the intensity of the ambient light at night. The night, however, is still dark, because at the same time we've increased the aperture. The human eye in the real world cannot adapt below a certain threshold and therefore sees darkness with some remnants of light. If we now were to play as a cat in Arma, we would reduce the aperture at night and the night would look brighter.
This change has allowed us to set higher values of lights so that they are seen at dawn and dusk, and the light sources themselves even during the day. The brightness of the lights got closer to their real originals.
Change log
The intensity of night light increased
Light values of bad weather added to the underwater environment
Only nice weather lighting under water was configured so far
Light values at dawn were adjusted for nice and bad weather (based on the real photos)
The intesity of emissive materials was increased
Light sources of street lighting were amplified
Light sources of vehicles was amplified (work still in progress due to the amount of assets)
Light sources of the flashlight were modified
Lens flares were modified (size, texture, transparency)
Camera lens fares of the sun were adjusted
Eye lens fares of the sun were adjusted
Eye lens fares of other light sources were adjusted
Red Blaster
Member
the new lighting is ridiculous in-game, stunning work
Anton Sugar
Member
Any screens??
It does look nice.
Played some wasteland yesterday for the first time in a while. I would love to see some updates to Wasteland to fix some bugs (IE, having to drive the car to access inventory, got my ass shot yesterday).
Community updates is what I need, dammit.
SJRB
Gold Member
There's an easier way to do this: instead of getting into a vehicle, drive 2 feet, get out and access the inventory you can also open vehicle inventory, move the item you need to the ground and then move it from the ground to your inventory.
This is not only faster but saves you the hassle of getting into a vehicle, subsequently giving away your position.
Another smart move is first put a primary weapon magazine in the ammo slot, and then the weapon itself. This will auto-load the magazine and thus skip the loading animation so you're immediately ready to go.
Passive Assassin
Member
Has anyone been messing around with the dev build? The lynx and intervention are pretty nice but I can't get scopes to work on them.
Anton Sugar
Member
First Beta screen released:
Passive Assassin
Member
new map? FINALLY
Huh? I thought Stratis was it for A3.
Red Blaster
Member
the main island (altis) is 10x bigger than stratis
WAT.
Yes, the Alpha is set on a smaller island. That was always their plan.
PS: Altis has approximately(according to Bohemia) 270 km^2, so its area is roughly 13.5 times bigger than Stratis'.
-tetsuo-
Unlimited Capacity
When? Wheeeeeeeennnnnnn
mercenar1e
Member
i haven't played in awhile and i have recently jumped back in and found two mod previews i really like which are listed below.. the sea battles with the Norrköping Class is fun but a little too easy, the devs should make the seas a lot more violent.. thunderstorms and massive waves would be great
Swedish Forces Pack
http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?152536-Swedish-Forces-Pack
Vietnam the Experience
http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?155326-Vietnam-The-Experience-ArmA-3-Preview
Swedish Forces Pack
http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?152536-Swedish-Forces-Pack
Vietnam the Experience
http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?155326-Vietnam-The-Experience-ArmA-3-Preview
( Stratis on the right as comparison, they are not in the same game-world )
Stratis is just ArmA 3's Utes
Well you don't have to use the entire island for stuff.
Playing Insurgency on Limnos is gonna be great.
mercenar1e
Member
for anyone that missed the Arma 3 beta livestream this morning
http://www.twitch.tv/arma3official/b/411222908
Things that will be included in the beta (more to come):
3D scopes
Strider (MRAP similar to Ifrit)
HEMTT (Truck)
Comanche
Zafir (future version of the pkm)
AA Launcher "Titan" (Uses Javlin sighs)
Green Faction (Greek Army)
Mi48
FN2000
New lighting
SDV underwater vehicle (the mini-submarine)
Things that might be added later to the beta:
Altis (developer build)
Stream-friendly UI
Steamworkshop integration
Things not included in the beta:
Static AA/AT
MBT's (Main Battle Tanks)
Java support (might be added later)
Other usefull things to know:
Q3 2013 is still the aimed release date for ArmA 3
Beta will be release a few weeks after E3
Beta content will be first released on the Developer build of the Alpha
http://www.twitch.tv/arma3official/b/411222908
Things that will be included in the beta (more to come):
3D scopes
Strider (MRAP similar to Ifrit)
HEMTT (Truck)
Comanche
Zafir (future version of the pkm)
AA Launcher "Titan" (Uses Javlin sighs)
Green Faction (Greek Army)
Mi48
FN2000
New lighting
SDV underwater vehicle (the mini-submarine)
Things that might be added later to the beta:
Altis (developer build)
Stream-friendly UI
Steamworkshop integration
Things not included in the beta:
Static AA/AT
MBT's (Main Battle Tanks)
Java support (might be added later)
Other usefull things to know:
Q3 2013 is still the aimed release date for ArmA 3
Beta will be release a few weeks after E3
Beta content will be first released on the Developer build of the Alpha