Bushlurker has released 4 out of his Geotypical Microterrains collection on the BI Forums. ArmA2 & Operation Arrowhead or Combined Operations needed, JTD Clear Horizons heavily recommended.
Background There's been an increasing trend towards higher-resolution ground terrains recently, both among the Community terrainmakers, and also with BIS themselves... I recently got around to wading thru the PMC campaign in MP with a friend, and we had a helluva time (in a good way!) creeping around on Proving Grounds, which, as most of you will have noticed by it's "fairly demanding" performance requirements - not to mention the moonscape microterrain - features a very high-res ground terrain mesh...
Hi-res ground meshes are a Good Thing for terrainmakers - you can do a lot more with a landscape when it's basically gridded in finer detail... even features as small as trenches become possible... (prowler.wolf ahead of the pack there, as usual ) On a slightly larger scale - more natural hillslopes, bays and beaches, erosion features - they're all easier to make in better detail and more convincingly with a hi-res ground mesh... Not to mention how much more fun they can be to play on, with all those smaller scale and more frequent & natural dips and hillocks and ground cover... The price for all of these Good Things is, of course, those previously-mentioned "fairly demanding performance requirements"...
Afghan Valley, Ghor Province. Afghanistan. 5.12km x 5.12km Terrain 5m Ground Resolution This synthetic terrain represents a small eroded valley in central Ghor Province, Afghanistan. I had great fun on this terrain using the BIS Town Generator module - for which it's ideal! - it's used in the in-game island "cutscene" too - a different town every time!
Etah Plateau, Western Antarctica. 5.12km x 5.12km Terrain 5m Ground Resolution Next stop on the microterrain World Tour, this synthetic terrain represents a small area of Western Antarctica.
Faffindale, North Yorkshire Dales 5.12km x 5.12km Terrain 5m Ground Resolution
This synthetic terrain represents a small area of the Yorkshire Dales. The Dales are limestone country. At one time in the prehistoric past, the whole area was a shallow tropical sea, with many coral reefs and atolls. Eventually, the sea became land, and the sand and coral became various sandstone and limestone rocks. Since that time there have also been glaciation episodes, forestation, deforestation, resulting in the quite Scottish-looking moorland with small woods in sheltered areas, characteristic of this impressively scenic part of England.
Heavily Recommended Addons JTD Clear Horizons removes those ugly painted mountains, so everything you see actually IS there... A permanent fixture in my "always on" addon folder, I heavily recommend it for viewing these terrains!
Chimalpopoco, Central Andes. 5.12km x 5.12km Terrain 5m Ground Resolution
The Central Volcanic Zone of the Andes is located between latitudes 14º and 29ºS of the Andean cordillera. An elevated region, much of it over 4000 m in altitude (constituting the altiplano of Bolivia and puna of northern Chile and Argentina) dominates much of this zone.
The Hawaiian Islands are at the southeastern end of a chain of volcanoes that began to form more than 70 million years ago. Many of these volcanoes formed islands that have subsided and eroded beneath sea level, and some of the old volcanoes probably never reached sea level. Each Hawaiian island is made of one or more volcanoes, which first erupted on the sea floor and only emerged above the ocean's surface after countless eruptions.
It's a light and easy to use revive script. After beeing shot down, the player can be revive by an other player or respawn to base/mobile respawn. * All unit can revive * Once revived the player is still hurt, full healing by a medic is needed * Draging unconcious body allowed * Can get 0, 1 ou 2 mobile respawn * Weapons saved * Can configure respawn area (base) * Can configure number of lifes * Can configure waiting timer before Base spawn allowance
Version : 1.31 *2 Demo missions added : - ADO_REVIVE_demo1 -> Without mobile respawn - ADO_REVIVE_demo2 -> With mobile respawn *Minor scripts tweaking
TheSun has released an ACR weapon pack addon v0.5 on the BI Forums. This pack contains several models of weapons used by Czech army, be it special forces or regular infantry. A lot of the weapons are present in ArmA already, these just add more varability to them. I plan to add more in time.
R0adki11 has released updated Nogovan Light Infantry Soldiers Pack v1.2 and Nogovan Paratroopers Pack 1.3 addons as well as brand new Nogovan Backpacks v1.0 addon on the BI Forums. Nogovan Light Infantry Soldiers Pack v1.2 - added groups, tweaked the textures, also added the ability for Backpacks to work.
Nogovan Paratroopers Pack v1.3 - added backpacks this is an required addon, added groups
Robalo_AS has released an updated ASR AI addons v1.9 addon on the BI Forums.
1.9 | 03 AUG 2011 AI infantry can throw smoke when wounded for concealment. Can be disabled with asr_ai_sys_aiskill_throwsmoke = 0;
1.8 | 26 JUL 2011 AI rearming distance can be set in userconfig (asr_ai_sys_airearming_radius value in meters, default 50). Enabled rearming from another AI unit's backpack on the same side (was limited to same group). Getting primary ammo has better priority, should no longer change primary weapon if mags for it can be found. Rearming from own backpack is faster. AI skills revised. Recommended difficulty settings: between 0.5 and 1.0 for skill and 0.5 to 0.8 for precision.
1.7 | 12 JUL 2011 Dedicated servers will continually change the view distance based on the initial VD, time of day and fog conditions. Can be disabled in userconfig with asr_ai_sys_aiskill_serverdvd = 0; Cars removed from the list of units what were "helped" to hear gunshots. They're hardcore enough by default. Doubled accuracy for AI snipers (they were too inaccurate) and machine gunners (reduced ff due to extreme spread). Skills are now applied without delay, as soon as the units are initialized. Simplified soldier cost config, only 3 target importance levels. Improved AI rearming support for the CWR2 mod.
Absolution from 15thMEU has released a LPD-29: San Antonio Class v2.0 addon on the BI Forums.
Features: -Flight Deck capable of handling multiple helicopters/VTOLs -3 storage decks appropriate for vehicles and personnel -Flooded Well Deck for boats and amphibious vehicles
Description: I am a member of the 15thMEU(SOC) realism unit and I developed this addon to facilitate amphibious operations. For about a year this has been available to the 15thMEU as a private addon but I think it's time to share it with the community. This is my first addon effort and there will be a number of amateur quirks but through testing I have determined it to be sufficient for its intended purpose.
Xeno426 has released an updated TGW Vehicle Fixes v1.54 addon on the BI Forums.
This mod changes and adds to the way the new thermal imaging system is displayed and applied to vehicles in ArmA2 Combined Operations. The majority of ground vehicles have had their thermal sights tweaked in the following manner: gunners have a green thermal scope, and commanders have a red/orange scope (excepts in Russian vehicles, where the commander has the normal black/white scope). The Ka-52, Mi-24v & P, UH-1Y, BMP-3, BTR-90, T-90, AH-1Z, M2A2, Stryker variants, HMMWV CROWS variants ...
Changelog 1.54 Added different optics for zoomed-in Ka-52.
Mondkalb has release his new Window Of Opportunity (WOO) game mode on the BI Forums.
Window Of Opportunity (WOO) is a new game mode that is basically a mix between warfare and high command. More commonly known as "Real Time Strategy".
Goal of this was to create a new gamemode that appeals to all of those players, that couldn't get around playing Arma2 anymore because of the lack of fellow players to help get a decent sized coop squad up, to those that have constant performance issues when playing and those that think Arma2 can be played in a bigger magnitude, with a bigger scope than a normal coop or warfare offers.
And, without being modest, I believe I've achieved all that.
So, go ahead and have a try, because describing what it is will inevitably lead to TL;DR. (Or check this video out, first.)
Kju has informed us about the Nineteenth release of A&S ProMode (2011-07-28).
And yet another large update with a few big additions, several updates and important fixes. Please read the changelog below for details.
Note: The files with the _AI_ tag have the AI mode active by default.
You can see the planned additions for the next release in the roadmap.
2011-07-28 changelog
# Added: ability for the admin to use the mission parameters of the preceding session. # Added: custom player kill messages in mission parameters. # Added: Helicopter Collision Avoidance for AI.
# Changed: Double the damage for units lying on the ground. # Changed: Improve the visual design of the mission parameters. # Changed: Make sure a JIP has a constant black screen until the spawn menu is shown. # Changed: Show only the first name of AI units in the kill message. # Changed: Improve artillery chat messages. # Changed: Add random mode version for Malden2010. # Changed: Add random mode version for Brik2.
# Fixed: Change class leads to an additional death in the scoreboard. # Fixed: Dead body of disconnected players does not get removed. # Fixed: Disconnected players in vehicles do not get removed. # Fixed: Choppers get their damaged evened on all areas on damage. # Fixed: Cut fence feature is broken. # Fixed: Units in vehicles are shown as nearby medic in the spawn dialog. # Fixed: Briefing map and main map are not adjusted to new mission area in random mode. # Fixed: Custom kill message at times shown "killed by (DEAD)". # Fixed: Each class change ups the group count by one. # Fixed: Vehicle kills show driver as killer rather than the gunner and actual killer. # Fixed: Kill message broken when player exists the vehicle before the ammo kills the target. # Fixed: Player name not shown artillery messages. # Fixed: "PlayerA is healed by PlayerB" hint is still shown after mission end.
The optional AI mode can be used for enjoyment while waiting for the server to fill or as training. See the details in the features section of the wiki.
The A&S ProMode (2011-07-28) pack is available in the filebase.
Find more about A&S ProMode, its features and countless configuration options in the wiki.
Meatball0311 has informed us about updated F/A-18 Super Hornet 1.2 release on the BI Forums.
FIXED mar_2MAW_V1.2
FIXED mar_pilot.. no longer running into invisible walls on Nimitz deck REMOVED extra gear up and gear down actions FIXED Pilot View centered for all units FIXED Pilot RTM file so pilot is not situated nicely in cockpit
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