ARMA2 Patch News

[Armitage]

1.02.58134 is out which gives you access to the antialiasing settings.
 
http://www.arma2.com/support/updates/folder.html?lang=en
 
Plus
* Improved AI driving skills
* Lowered enemy AI skills for regular and recruit difficulty levels
* Improved Micro AI tactics, attack in pairs, path limiting to avoid passing through walls.
* Fixed multiplayer session NAT negotiation
* Improved game stability (various crash opportunities fixed)
* Multiple save slots supported
* Improved terrain shape beyond map borders
* Various campaign and localisation fixes and improvements
* Modules (F7) support added in the Mission Editor
* Antialiasing enabled in Video options
* Different logic of fillrate optimizer: separate settings for 3D Resolution and UI Resolution implemented instead

[Whitey]

Kids school thing finished and server going down now for patching.

EDIT: Server is back up.

[Doorman]

Can I assume that patch 1.04 wiil be all I need to bring the basic disc installation up to date?

I've been watching loads of videos on this and I'm struck by how similar it is to Operation flashpoint. I hope it's better than that. :g:

[Tutonic]

1.04 is the latest, you can get it here: http://www.arma2.com/support/updates/folder.html?lang=en

It's very similar to the original Operation Flashpoint, but nothing at all like the sequel.

Multiplayer is a hoot, come and join us

[Doorman]

Off to a good start! Installed game, ran patch 1.04 patch install ended with an error in ADDON ~. Tried to run game, that was OK but on trying to play bootcamp was told that I cant play that because it's unavailable.
I shall uninstall it and start again. :sideways:

[Doorman]

Reinstalled it, played the boot camp for a bit THEN patched it. It seems not to like being patched right out of the box. :g:
Anyway, if any of you get wounded, I'm the man to drag or carry you to safety. :lmfao:
This thread needs moving to the Arma2 area,

[Whitey]

This thread needs moving to the Arma2 area,

Done.  I'm glad you got it working.

[Doorman]

Done.  I'm glad you got it working.

Well up to a point. I get dreadful graphics flickering no matter what configuations I use. I've Googled it of course and it seems like a common problem, one with no definitive answer. Seriously irritating! :sad: The controls are a mess, but I guess I'd eventually get to grips with them....I hope!
As a general observation not aimed solely at ArmA II, I am amazed that after 15 years or more of computer gaming joining and leaving a game came be such a chore.Think CS and how easy and intuitive it is. From the moment you decide to play to actually playing is, or at least appears to be, less than a minute. Compare that to newer games.



Yes dear, coming!

[Doorman]

Update if anyone's interested. Flickering has been cured by forcing Vertical sync OFF. That has to be done in the ATI control panel as there's no option for it in game.
Controls coming on.

[Tutonic]

You'll get used to the 'floaty' controls in time.

Although if you play on our server, you'll probably spend most of your time getting team-killed by OldBloke in his T-90 :crying:

[Benny]

I'd avoid worrying about the keys. They'll come as you play. All you really need is;

wasd - move
zxc - crouch, prone, stand
v- jump obstacles
shoot and reload to start with.

[b00n]

I just tried one of the beta patches and jumped in a multiplayer game.  I'm tired now so I'll just say that it is wonderful.  If you can believe it, the developers are actually active on their forums and posting new beta candidates within hours of issues being pointed out! A refreshing change.

If you want to know some of the main things that have been fixed/added in the beta patches (and there's a lot) the latest changelog says:

(current patch candidate)
   [60718]  Changed: AI now goes to Combat behaviour automatically only when under fire, not when player is prone.
   [60718]  Changed: AI follows leader stance, but does not switch to combat behaviour when player is prone.
   [60711]  Changed: Units now never enter cover while moving in compact (Delta or File) formations.
   [60588]  Fixed: MP client could not use laser designator in vehicles.
   [60525]  Fixed: Changing window size is no longer possible inside of video options screen.
   [60522]  Improved: Longer view distance for objects when high view distance is used.
   [60457]  New: FreeTrack support using FreeTrackClient.dll
   [60323]  Changed: Formation direction now adjusts to human leader body direction, not a movement direction.
   [60260]  Fixed: AI soldiers moving in Safe/Aware could sometimes be stuck near a bush or other objects.
   [60234]  New: Scripting function enableAIFeature to disable new AI features when old behaviour is required.
   [60220]  Improved: AI covering units tend to stay close to each other.
   [60155]  Fixed: MultiPlayer client crash caused by certain custom sound
   [60129]  Fixed: AI subordinates now move faster (use less cover) to catch up when leader is way ahead of them.
   [60102]  Fixed: AI subordinates should now respect formation more when moving in combat.
   [60101]  Fixed: Group leader was often running far ahead alone in combat.
   [60092]  Fixed: AI leader did not wait for a player to cover him when moving in combat.
   [60090]  Fixed: Improved vehicles and motorcycles driving.
   [60068]  New: Alt-Enter can be used to switch window/fullscreen while paused.
   [60015]  New: Execute action with LMB can be unmapped.
   [60013]  Fixed: Possible freeze under Vista/Win7 when Alt-Tabing out of the game during progress screen.
   [59999]  Fixed: Player is no more target when commanding in external view.
   [59988]  New: Windowed/Fullscreen can now be switched ingame (in Video options).
   [59924]  Fixed: More 32b overflows caused by 8 GB RAM + large VRAM.
   [59906]  Fixed: Most vehicle gunners did not provide suppressive fire.
   [59899]  Fixed: AI did not use suppressive fire against enemies seen while holding fire.
   [59898]  Fixed: Spatial explosions sounds
   [59884]  Fixed: Suppress in the commanding menu did nothing.
   [59875]  New: Suppressive fire against known enemies can be scripted using unit suppressFor time.
   [59873]  Fixed: After spawning new types of entities via script, game could randomly freeze or crash.
   [59872]  Fixed: Airplane, helicopter, car and ship control was lost while map was active.
   [59808]  Fixed: DOF in 3D scope view
   [59741]  Analogue throttle working for helicopters as well.
   [59736]  Fixed: Startup sounds are not spatial and stick to audio channels
   [59715]  Covering soldier in grass ("Grass layer")
   [59691]  Improved: Small hit be ignored by hitpoints (configurable by minimalHit)
   [59668]  Improved: Hitpoint can pass only a part of the hit to the total damage (passthrough setting no longer ignored).
   [59446]  New: IK weapon animations are now blending with primary animations.  
   [59351]  Fixed: VoN direct speaking distance fade out
   [59318]  Fixed: support the highest Matrox TrippleHead2Go resolutions
   [59279]  Fixed: FPS on Dedicated server is not affected by server window manipulation (such as move or scroll).
   [59088]  Mouse lag can caused by GPU render ahead buffer be limited using GPU_MaxFramesAhead=N in ArmA2.cfg.
   [59047]  Fix: When player was a helicopter pilot, the AI gunner sometimes had no weapon selected on mission start
   [59030]  Fix: Helicopters - when manual fire on, do not allow AI gunner to switch weapons

Ha! Between starting this post and going to check the beta patch page, they released a new version.

Latest patch at the top of this page:

http://www.arma2.com/beta-patch.php

Don't worry, you can run the beta patch in multiplayer games without the server having it, and it doesn't overwrite any files so you can run the official patch any time you want.  It'll create a shortcut in your Arma2 folder which you can use to run the beta version.

[The Moose]

..and I'll just add that in addition to all the bug fixes performance has increased greatly (for me anyway) with the latest beta patches.   Better framerates, far less stutters.  Overall a much smoother,nicer experience.  

 Anyone with a less than top quality machine that had marginal performance really must give the beta patches a go.

[Liberator]

Ah good, the 1.05 patch removes the DRM, so it looks like no need to have the disk in for us DVD owners.

[Whitey]

The dMw Arma II server has been patched to version 1.05.