Armed Assault Demo

Meh, it ran okay... feels and plays exactly like OFP, it just has a new coat of paint.
 
FFS, wanted to download overnight but shit happened. Started downloading from gamershell at my whooping max speed of about 64 kB/s, with about 4 hours to go.

I woke up to see the download at 34%, downloading at 1kB/s. GREAT.

:hmph:
 
the multiplayer is fairly nightmarish stuff - just gave up and set up my own offline server


the responsiveness of the weapons is fairly awful - no amount of 'realism' can convince me that it takes a full second to aim at a target 10m away - and the sounds are poor, the 50 cal is sounds like a water pistol. The bullet ballistics of some of the weapons are WAYYY off - the M24 is ridiculous for example. It ran reasonably well if sluggishly on low settings on my 3ghz P4, 512mb RAM and 128mb 9700 - it can handle alot of AI units at once with little impact although foliage and HDR (which can't be turned off) cause big performance hits.
Good things are vehicle interiors, leaning and some of the animations
Iffy things are the AI under fire, physics hilarity, vehicle damage textures and the lack of direction (the maps are so big that without constant and clear instruction it all descends into a chaotic farce)
Inexcusable things are the awful multiplayer support, the incorrect sights and the sluggish weapon responsiveness when aiming

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OFP2 will suck, it's not even being done by Bohemia, I'm far more excited about ArmA2/Game2.
 
hmm I can't even play the demo, after I connect to a server it just give me a black screen with "receiving data..." and it sits there doing nothing. A progress bar would have been nice.
 
Gargantou said:
OFP2 will suck, it's not even being done by Bethesda
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Good, I don't want a long-winded, half-assed, and generic open-ended RPG for a shooter.


I think you meant Bohemia. :p
Also, where'd you hear they weren't the ones making it?
 
Fixed ty, anyway xlucidx, OFP2 is being done by Codemasters inhouse, and expected to release in 2k8/2k9, originally Bohemia was supposed to dev it but they had a major failure in their relations to eachother(Dunno exactly why or what happend) so Codemasters decided to find another developer to do an entirely new game and engine from the very ground up.
 
Gargantou said:
Fixed ty, anyway xlucidx, OFP2 is being done by Codemasters inhouse, and expected to release in 2k8/2k9, originally Bohemia was supposed to dev it but they had a major failure in their relations to eachother(Dunno exactly why or what happend) so Codemasters decided to find another developer to do an entirely new game and engine from the very ground up.
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Damn... :|
 
Game2 is basically OFP2 before it was 'cancelled' from what I gathered, i.e. everything that Bohemia put together before the break. Whereas ArmA only uses an updated OFP:Elite engine and revamped physics, Game2(Which will probably be named Armed Assault 2 imo) has a totally new graphics engine, physics and AI engine etc.:)
 
Solaris said:
So I got in another game, and it ran pretty good, by that it looked pretty good and I was getting about 30-40fps average I think. Wasn't great.

Great game, great experience. Just runs badly on me 6600GT and AMD 3000+ 64bit
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30-40fps is bad? That's enough to play comfortably oO What framerates are you used to with a 6600GT anyway?

BTW, you're lucky you had such a good first experience.
 
Disappointed with AA, it's just OFP with greatly enhanced grahics, the netcode, bugs, interfaces are all the same which is kinda depressing considering they have been around for 5 years or so... still gameplay wise it's fun as ever, just very frustrating with the clipping glitches and so fourth.

Hope they fix it before release!
 
Pulse said:
Disappointed with AA, it's just OFP with greatly enhanced grahics, the netcode, bugs, interfaces are all the same which is kinda depressing considering they have been around for 5 years or so... still gameplay wise it's fun as ever, just very frustrating with the clipping glitches and so fourth.

Hope they fix it before release!
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It's already out in some countries.
 
Can't wait to play the demo with my new card that I'm hopefully getting for Christmas. :D :D
Goodbye my shitty FX5200... I knew you well. *pisses on it*
 
I don't know why the hell does my PC get "High" as the default quality setting when I'm getting 10-11 fps with it? What were they thinking?

On Very low it's about 20 fps. Yay. Still playable, though, as it's a slow-paced tactical game, not something you need high fps for.

Turning HDR off would probably help, but I didn't see any way to do it.
 
StardogChampion said:
Wasn't there something about Post Processing in the menu? I can't remember.
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I think the post processing is only the nice blur effect. I actually played on the default (high) settings with 10-15 fps for one "round" and while the game looked mediocre on the screenshots I saw, in the game it looked really nice, thanks to that nice blurry effect and the depth of view. Too bad it sucks to play at 10-15fps.

It really shouldn't run that bad. Surprisingly, it loads in a matter of seconds. Maybe we'll see some sort of performance fix. I might buy this game if we do.
 
it's very well optimised in one sense - the entire island loads in mere seconds
boom and I'm ingame
the problem is the actual gameplay and framerates is very unresponsive and sluggish
there's alot of potential
 
I found that it's only the large "Capture the island" gametype that runs like crap for me. The capture the flag runs a lot smoother.

I guess the island one is way too large with a lot of AI units.
 
The bug where weapons and ammo dont load properly in the weapon select screen is the worst thing about this demo.. And i dont know if its just me but bullets dont seem to fall? :rolling:
Unfocused said:
Turning HDR off would probably help, but I didn't see any way to do it.
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I already mentioned how to in this thread. Go to my documents/arma demo/armademo.cfg and set hdrprecision to 0 then make the file read only. Then go into yourname.armaprofile and set viewdistance to like 700 and scenecomplexity to between 60000 and 90000 (i have it at 80000) and make that file read only too. That should give you a big fps boost.
 
Reaktor4 said:
I already mentioned how to in this thread. Go to my documents/arma demo/armademo.cfg and set hdrprecision to 0 then make the file read only. Then go into yourname.armaprofile and set viewdistance to like 700 and scenecomplexity to between 60000 and 90000 (i have it at 80000) and make that file read only too. That should give you a big fps boost.
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Thanks, I'll give it a try.
 
Reaktor4 said:
I already mentioned how to in this thread. Go to my documents/arma demo/armademo.cfg and set hdrprecision to 0 then make the file read only. Then go into yourname.armaprofile and set viewdistance to like 700 and scenecomplexity to between 60000 and 90000 (i have it at 80000) and make that file read only too. That should give you a big fps boost.
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I'll see how this works for me thanks
I'm edging towards uninstalling it - as a combat sim its quite disappointing in some very noticeable areas
 
Hm, actually, the HDR is still there and yes, I have set it to read-only and the hdrprecision is at 0. Strange...

I tried that scenario with the island and that was 10fps on low I think. Too bad, cause I had fun crashing a Blackhawk in a whole enemy squad and surviving by parachuting. Actually it hit like 10m next to them but I guess the blast killed 'em. Too bad the two remaining survivors shot me.

I think I'm gonna buy OP:F.
 
Unfocused said:
Hm, actually, the HDR is still there and yes, I have set it to read-only and the hdrprecision is at 0. Strange...

I tried that scenario with the island and that was 10fps on low I think. Too bad, cause I had fun crashing a Blackhawk in a whole enemy squad and surviving by parachuting. Actually it hit like 10m next to them but I guess the blast killed 'em. Too bad the two remaining survivors shot me.

I think I'm gonna buy OP:F.
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Definately worth purchasing along with Resistance, absolute classics reinstalled 'em both yesterday infact, gameplay is still as fun as ever!
 
Wow, I just retried the demo and I can play it on very high with no problems, except for some small stutters.

Definitely feels exactly like OFP with just a new coat of paint.
And what a sexy coat of paint it is.
 
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