[ArmA2] Bizarre...online experience

[Milt]

I downloaded ARMA2 from steam and played around for an hour or so on the practice mission and then figured I would hop online.
I got onto a node server which had 26/30 pepole playing
From what i can tell (forgive my ignorance on this) it was a 30 player co-op
I spawned in and ther was a froup of guys wandering around an airfield some shooting at choppers and every now and then a chopper would fly off.

The commentary coming up was even better....
WTF do I do
where is everyone
how do i spawn
idiot chopper pilot etc etc

So banging on the keyboard I found some objectives.... pick up vehicles with chopper locate enemy hq

I ended up grabbing a truck and drivibg across a map to find three guys standing in what ooked like a supermaket have the same converstaion
then teamkilling one another
I couldnt find any enemy
every fe minutes the screen would go black..I thought it was me but no.... posts come up..Im blind Im blind
so I activated nigh vision....woot it worked then low and behold it was daytime again
then someone stole my truck and i hopped out

All very bizarre.

In the end it would be very cool if someone actually knew what to do in the game actually played. What I did notice though is a lot of 6v6 servers were full.

I would like to suggest to any who have purchased this game that we maybe organisa a night using vent /TS /mumbles and workout how to play etc.
Otherwise feel free to hurl advice my way

[Piemole]

My online experience was similar.

+1 for the training night.

[Purg]

I had some decent gaming on a Gaming SA server. Seems to be heavily moderated which keeps a lot of the numbskulls in check.

It is a co-op server so you're mainly fighting AI. Worth a look though, I had a decent time over the a couple of nights ago.

[D416]

Well...after playing every game type & even that bloody stupid DOM game style *its old map , rehashed into a new game from arma1...please..i want new stuff..not old story crap on a brand new game..wait a couple months dammit*
Ive come to the conclusion : Best form of Arma2 game is this :
4 vs 4 on a Attack Defend game style. think of it as Coop vs Coop
1 team is sent in to eliminate a VIP or insurgents.
The other team is tasked with defending the VIP or Replleling the Infidels.
If i could work out how to host a game like that...id be happy for the rest of my life i reckon.
Also..it would be in hardcore mode ....no cross hair *thats arcade & this aint an arcade game* , no team ID's *forcing you to check kit..so not to eliminate your own squad by accident & force you to use LOS & IFF tactics* ,
And of course ... Respawn or Zero Respawn. so your more Spec ops.. less john rambo. i find coop games with no respawn...tend to fill better & more intense ..as you know..1 stray bullet can ruin your aim or your napping with the grass & the trees.
IF any 1 works out how to do Human vs human coop Instead of the Human vs AI coop...post here...as im dam well intersted in how to host *dont have a server..but got enough spare parts im thinking about building 1* or even just to play.

[Stompya]

We just need someone with a good upload to host a server I ran one for Arma 1 for a period for us TOG guys, we could play 5-6 guys ok. Had nearly a meg up at that time though.

[Purg]

Originally Posted by Stompya

We just need someone with a good upload to host a server I ran one for Arma 1 for a period for us TOG guys, we could play 5-6 guys ok. Had nearly a meg up at that time though.

What sort of bandwidth would be required for a 6 player server?

I could probably hang one off a VM on another box, only have a 512 up though...?

[D416]

Speedtest.net - The Global Broadband Speed Test

good for finding out what you can really pull
Perth - Perth



Perth - Melbourne

[Stompya]

A 512 up connection could probably handle 4 aussies.

The major lag on the big servers is caused by the server admins allowing overseas players on, soon as u get a couple on with pings over 250 the gameplay is stuffed. Servers like OGN and GSA operate ping kickers (not sure if setup yet for Arma2, they did in Arma 1)

[Purg]

GSA are vigilant about high pingers. Doubt it's automatic though, they were asking for votes to have some guy promoted to Op so he could kick US players.

I played ARMA1 MP once, many years ago. ARMA2 looks like it has potential to be very enjoyable tho. I'd invest some time in it.

[Stompya]

With those 2 uploads, almost worth trying a 6 player.

I ran the Arma 1 ded server and game client on my old amd 3800 dual core with 2 gb ram no problems, so anything that plays arma 2 ok should be able to do the same, just make sure you set the affinity of your cpu cores to one for each and should be ok.