Today, Placebo posted some updates on the BIS community blog. The Community Awards 2008 nomination form is online!
Many words have been spoken about how important the community is as a whole, the talent that the community collectively brings forth, to provide us with many things that keep ArmA alive, whether that be addons, mods, missions, campaigns, squads, websites or simply just some damn fine conversations on the various medium out there.
Most of the time it would be unfair to pick out one or two examples of the best that the community has to offer, but then as they say, life's not fair! To that end we can officially announce the first stage in the 2008 Community Awards, these awards will be a chance for the community to nominate and then vote for their favourites in a number of areas (see below), The category winners will each receive prizes and to hopefully ensure that as many people nominate/vote as possible there will also be 5 randomly awarded prizes of ArmA posters, the posters will be given to 5 names of people who nominated/voted during the awards process as drawn from a hat
There are four Award categories : - ArmA Addon/Mod of the year 2008 - ArmA Mission/Campaign of the year 2008 - Community Website of the year 2008 (eg news site, squad site, addon site whatever, online radio station etc) - Community Member of the year 2008 (eg most helpful, most interesting, most productive, most passionate etc)
Prizes for the winners of the Awards, will be announced shortly.
-=UOE.Txalo=- from the FFAA Mod has released the Spanish Army Modpack 3.2 in the BIS Forums. This Mod adds a lot new vehicles/soldiers and aircrafts to the ArmA, if you want to see a complete list click HERE. We have noted only a few below.
- Spanish version of Leopard 2E tank. - Special operations staff units (MOE on spanish) - Heavy armour transport TOA, machinegunner Browning M2 version - Tiger HAD attack chopper armed with four anti tank missiles Hellfire II, two not guided 70 mm rocket launchers and 30 mm GIAT cannon - Transport chopper NH90, not yet in service on spanish army, but will bought it on three versions normal and without armament NH90 TTH, NH90 FFUR armed with two not guided 70 mm rockets and NH90 MG armed with two machinegunners MG3 - Eurofighter Typhoon attack plane on three versions - Infantry units from the morocco army with two types of uniforms - T72 tank from the morocco army - Two types of islamic terrorist units, afghan style and hammas style. - HK G36E, six versions and various other weapons - many more
This addon is packed with 7-zip, a packer tool similar to Winrar. You can get it from HERE, but the files can also be extracted with Winrar.
Yoma well known for his Addon Synchroniser has released another useful gadget for Armed Assault on his website. This time he made a small tool (Yoma Arma Log Parser) that allows you to filter your Arma.rpt (ArmA Error log file). I made another small tool that could be interesting for server admins/ people who have a lot of problems.
All it basicly does is open your Arma.rpt and show the lines in there grouped. (If you have 100 times the same message, it will show you this message only once, but you can see via the count column that it's there 100 times)
RockofSL from the RKSL Studios has released an interesting addon in the BIS Forums. It is the standart BIS A-10 airplane, but the flight model has been improved. The A-10 should know be controlled more realistic. The addon doesn't overwrite the BIS A-10 it simply adds another plane to the Aircraft section.
This isnt really meant to be a playable addon. Its main purpose is to demonstrate that it is perfectly possible to change the handling of aircraft within ArmA to produce *reasonable* flight handling.
PLEASE NOTE: This addon is purely for demonstration and testing purposes and is intended as a learning resource for addon makers.
This version has: - Improved Acceleration - Reduced take off distances - Slower more stable pitch rate - Adjusted roll rate - Increased Lift - More "positive" control response - Does not bleed speed in a turn as fast as Stock values
Mateck has updated his M1A1 (HA) tank in the BIS Forums. A replacement pack is included in the download archive. Furthermore Matteck added an T72 with new armor values and fixed hit-points.
If you have got the first version (0.9) installed, please remove it before you play with the latest version.
Changes in v0.95 ----------------------------------------------------- - fixed XEH compatibility - signed addon with new privatekey - fixed tracks visible through armor - changed ammo count for M2 and mounted M240 - fixed M240 magazine class so it will not overwrite class from rifles config - fixed some sound problems (new sounds are now defined in main config file) - added T-72 with new armor values and fixed hit-points (based on NonWonderDogs Tank FCS) - added more markings - added reload sounds for MGs - tweaked gunner sights so it's easier to shoot targets at 600m range - updated ReadMe.pdf and editor sample mission - added markings.jpg that shows all markings available in this addon
This addon is packed with 7-zip, a packer tool similar to Winrar. You can get it from HERE, but the files can also be extracted with Winrar.
NSXr from the Cold War Rearmed Mod has sent us some new WIP screenshots of the mod. The screenshots show the Resistance soldier models and the good old Kolguyev island.
Kronsky has released a small but useful Air Drop script on his website. This script allows air drops of vehicles and static objects. Two demo missions (dropit.Intro & dropit.Sara) are included in this package
Fuel and weapons re-supplies, as well as reinforcement vehicles, can be dropped off from an airplane at a particular waypoint or trigger area.
Note : this script is not hosted on our site at author's request.
Karaya1 has released an updated version of his SAM units addons on the BI Forums.
The addon has turned into more than just a simple SAM addon, read the following changelog for more details!
CHANGES IN 1.5 - There is only the XtraVehicle addon left which contains the SAMs plus extra air units - changed a few class entries to be more in line with the rest of the vehicles (thanks to zGuba) - Changed a few threat entries among the new extra vehicles as well as some of the stock units to more reasonable values - Changed a few unguided rockets so helicopters will use them in air combat! - Changed a parameter so all so equipped helicopters will use their rocket pods to make strafing runs on infantry - Changed a parameter so all helicopters/jets will now get fired upon by infantry/APCs/tanks (was an issue for example with the Ka50! )
The BW MOD team kindly gave permission for Lowlands Warrior to release a version of this unreleased updated Panzerfaust 3 addon. All due credit should go to the original creators. Model, skin and configuration of the OFP original are by McCancey, Helifreak, Terpentin and Marco-Polo (BWMod). Adapted for Lowlands Warrior and converted to Arma by Sander.
Snake Man from the PMC Tactial Squad has converted the old OFP Afghanistan island made by the AGS team to Armed Assault and released it in the BIS Forums.
This is OFP port with pretty much the same look as you found in original release. Terrain and objects have been edited to work in ArmA. This is a release with Agent Smith (AGS) permissions.
There are some issues like faulty geometry's on few models (one or two buildings you can walk through walls) and the usual OFP style forest block floating here and there (nothing we can do about it now). Also as tip; dont fly fast moving aircrafts with 10km viewdistances, situation like that is prone to CTDs. Other than that, there should not be major issues. Depending if people like this or not, I might put in some more time to it and fix/tweak issues.
This addon doesn't require any other addons to work, including Queens Gambit. You only need default ArmA v1.12 installed.
Schmalfelden is a map based on actual terrain in Germany, created using a military 1:50,000 scale topographic map and a Google Earth image of the area. I selected this area for recreating realistic engagements in a European environment which might typically described as "good tank country", terrain which Soviet Forces would have sought to exploit with their tank and mechanized infantry forces had the Cold War ever gone "hot". ... V.82 4 May 2008 1. Further improvements on satellite map. 2. Eliminated another 30,000 trees. Frame rate continues to improve. 3. Fixed several more ugly intersections. 4. Objects added: Additional road reflector posts, road signs, street lights in 2 towns so far, miscellaneous objects. 5. More building height problems addressed.
ArmA 1.12 Linux Dedicated Server Public Beta Release
!!!SPOILER!!! Alternate ending?
Who's online?
