ArmA 2 Demo Released, Samples Campaign and Multiplayer

In this thread: a good amount of people discovered that this is a realistic tactical shoter/sim, and not for them.

no visuals when you are getting shot?
no fast healing?
a machine gun killing infantry?
it's not obvious where you can get weapons and ammo?
complex order system?
it's hard to see the enemy?

Well, doh, of course.

Game is pretty bad. I understand it is a tactical shooter but the controls are bad, spawns are on top of each other, no visuals for when you are getting shot, horrible AI, etc.

Maybe it isn't for me. I was excited by the videos, disappointed by the result though :(

I look forward to the 360 release and cross my fingers for dedicated servers. I loved opflash but can't justify the pricetag on a new gaming pc nowadays. Btw Dslyecxi your videos are awesome, nice job

created a shack arma group on steam for those interested

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/shackarma

What is the appeal of this game at all? Is this some kind of spiritual successor to Operation Flashpoint? That game was flawed as hell but fun, this game is playing just like it.

It seems that a lot of people are hyped about the graphics, but seriously, what the hell? This game runs like shit on my beast of a computer and I honestly do not see anything great about the graphics. Extremely long draw distance? Sure, but what is the goddamn point? Character models look terrible! Nothing really remarkable about the texture work, although it's not bad by any means.

Someone explain this game to me, Fallout 3 looks exceedingly better than this and runs much smoother, this is not even mentioning the *extremely* clunky controls/combat in general (I realize it's supposed to be a complex tactical shooter, but come on, I didn't think it was fun at all!)

arma 2 seems like it could be a really neat game with some minor nuisances that mostly equate to a learning curve. my impressions after playing the basic training portion of the demo for only an hour (and as a new arma player).

TLDR; so far i'm really enjoying the demo and there's a good chance if the rest of the demo is as good i'll be buying this.

what's cool
1. all the player view mode tweaks with the keypad, wow, i got lost a few times in all the modes
2. small arms weapons look good and have good feedback
3. fast loading missions, eat my shorts BF2
4. alt-tab works better than any other game i can remember, super fast and pauses the game automatically
5. best parachuting experience in any game ive played (really need to max use of keypad Enter key to switch view)
6. the fact the interface/hud can be one resolution (i.e. native) while the 3d graphics can be different (i.e a lower one)
7. flying the helicopters are hard but i feel like im actually flying a helicopter
8. graphics and lighting are superb ( try flying into the sun, good luck viewing your instrument panel)
8. i'm still playing it

what's not
1. what's with the weird prone view when you pick up weapons/ammo ?
2. mouse lag on my native resolution, changing to a lower res for the most part removes the mouse lag
3. it's not obvious where to go to find weapons, ammo, objectives sometimes
4. steam overlay doesn't work
5. mouse wheel zoom on the map is inverted
6. the AI took the longest possible route to get into the helicopter. the helicopter was right in front of us and instead of walking towards it it ran backwards around another helicopter which it circled and then came back to the helicopter in front of us

App failed to start because d3dx9_41.dll was not found -- I'm running Vista x64 fully patched with an ATI 4830.

Odd, textures aren't loading in-game at random, walls of structures sometimes disappear - with only a roof showing. It's just all graphically messed up.

I guess I could uninstall and install it from Steam... perhaps it's a bad download? DirectX was up to date and I'm using nvidia's x64 185.85 drivers.

Oh hey look at that, there are 186 drivers out. Guess I'll try those and let you guys know the result. Guess I never updated the Vista install. :\

Filefront link:
http://files.filefront.com/ArmA+2+Playable+Demo/;13929938;/fileinfo.html
The Steam one stopped at like 70%

Companies need to figure out that FileFront is the way to go. Now my download is going to take 5 hours instead of one.

downloading, i dont think my x1800xt would be able to run it well

Got it dled and man it looks sweet. I can't wait to spend some more time in it tonight.

Lets see how this runs on my Q6600/8GB/8800GTS 512 w/ Vista or Win7.

Nice to see MP was kept in the demo as well. Anyone giving this a go later tonight?

Demo is on Steam as well..

http://store.steampowered.com/app/33920/

DOWNLOAD LINKS HERE - updated often

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=74668

sucks that i have to get ready to head to class for midterm. i cant even afford to install it or ill have to have the wife drag me off the computer to make me go to class.

Why man with big gun straddle fence?