EMSI has released the A2RM Editor on the BI-Forums, his newest tool for ArmA2 (CO & OA).
Smart editor (generator) expecially designed for creating of unified "ReadMe.txt" files for the missions, addons and Mods designed for game ArmA2.
- "One form" application (no other subforms are needed) - Pre-defined sections which are required as a minimum - Other sections are optional - Attached Help file with description of all functions
Icewindo has released an unfinished Post Apocalypse Units addons on the BI Forums. This addon needs Combined Ops (ArmA2&OA) So, here's my take on post-apocalyptic units. These guys can be found under independent -> Post APC - Commoners -> Units. Groups can be found under Ice - Post Acalypse.
They were loosely inspired by the Terminator Salvation resistance and my own imagination.
UPDATE 11.05.11:
I stopped working on this project for some time when I couldn't get the vehicles to work properly, which dropped by motivation pretty much back then.
This may have been partially influenced by the fact that there was no ArmA2 vehicle sample model released in 2 years which would have aided in adding working damage rvmats/wheels.
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I've also added a link to the latest binarized version including the vehicles and new characters. Note you'll encounter error messages, errors etc. as this (was) a WIP version.
All clues left by P8H8 hacker group on the BI Forums were pointing to Greece, but Derdoe has posted his own findings pointing toward a rather different direction :
sumrak has informed us about Namalsk Crisis Campaign along with [Nightstalkers] Shadow of Namalsk mod.
Hi everyone, after ~2 years, finally.. I want to share with you information about release - campaign called Namalsk Crisis along with [Nightstalkers] Shadow of Namalsk mod. Maybe you have already heard about this modification and maybe also you already tried some older version in ArmA 1 (but that was really only alpha release in compare to current version). Anyway, back to the campaign - with release of the version of Nightstalkers mod for the ArmA 1, I released also some kind of prologue for the campaign called Namalsk Crisis...
NOW, in Arma II, I'm releasing a full version of this campaign along with full version of [Nightstalkers] Shadow of Namalsk. Campaign featuring 22 missions with a unique atmosphere, situations, scenes and excellent music! A part of this campaign is also reworked prologue from ArmA 1 version and if you were angry about how prologue ended in ArmA 1, don't worry, you are now able to find out more, what happened!
Counter on the official website just stopped and that means.. Tamika Maclemar just landed on Namalsk, trying find out, what happened! Join her and discover secrets of Namalsk! Fight in unique world's superpowers co-operation against evil corporation NAC!
Installation instructions Although I have tried to minimize differences and use only stuff from original Arma II, there are some things, which are different (UI) or nice features like female radio voice (from OA). So, I have decided to make a little patch. This patch ([i]nc_v1.00_armaIIpatch.7z) will be for NON CO (Combined Operations) users, (I'm assuming, that there are more players with CO). Default release will be for CO users. Classic Arma II users can run even this version, but, with little problems, so, I'm recommending you to download Arma II classic patch. Extract downloaded archive nc_v1.00_full.7z into your Arma II folder and run Arma II with -mod=@NC parameter (default folder name). In case of Arma II classic patch, extract the content of nc_v1.00_armaIIpatch.7z into \@NC\Addons\ folder and confirm overwrite.[/i]
At 11:25pm, MadDogX spotted a new user on the Bohemia Interactive Forums called [~P8H8~]r3dp3ga5u5. The member's avatar is an image of the Chinese characters for 'Persia'.
At 12:00 CEST [~P8H8~]r3dp3ga5u5 started posting links in 14 different threads throughout the Bohemia Interactive Forums. Within the 14 links there were 7 unique links as stated in the table below. Each of the link points to a different _.zip-file. All of them were located at free filehosters.
Here the results of the community members researches as displayed on the ArmA enigma WiKi site : - p8h8 - txt.name : anthemis werneri (greek plant) - mp3.sound : Motto of Greece - svg.draw : shows a picture with number 1821 - gif.statue : statue of Hephaestus - jpeg.animal : picture of a Slow Worm - png.thing : Shoe of the Greek Royal Guards
Mr. Bravo projectleader from Swedish Army Mod released several screenshots and video of their latest work on the BI Forums.
We're currently in our first phase of internal beta-testing with SSG Clan, which is focusing on eliminating any bugs/flaws with our weapons. Next week will begin our second phase, which will add some more goodies to the weapons and airforce-stuff, and then there will be a phase three as well to test our new soldiers and backpacks. After that there will be an official release, probably in June.
ANZAC SAS Steve and Ron have informed us about the release of a Celle Combat Air Assault missions pack as well as two new Air Assault MP mission on Vostok and Vostok Winter on the BI Forums.
Celle Combat Air Assault missions 2 Missions, Day 1 and 2 versions included. - Objectives : 3 Militia base Area's to Neutralize. Air Assault over Vostok - Objective : There is 1 main airbase and surrounding area to neutralize in order to make way for an infantry special forces unit to raid in 18 hours time. We must destroy all airborne aircraft at the same time as taking down all anti-aircraft weapon systems.Once air-superiority has been achieved there are tank units deployed close to the Airbase that must be destroyed before the infantry Assualt can proceed.Once most, if not all threats from the ground and the air have been neutralised there is fuel storage containers,hangers,a Radar Trailer,an HQ Buliding and parked aircraft to be destroyed for mission success.
MadDogX has release a summary of the afternoon events on the Armaenigma.com Wiki
On Saturday, almost 45 minutes late, the hackers struck again, this time "calling" a forum moderator and leaving a message. Targets At 18:44 CEST, BIS forum moderator Zipper5 posted a message in the hack thread: "Okay guys, I just got this really weird phone call. The guy was speaking what I think was Farsi, and after eventually getting it through to him that I couldn't understand him he told me in broken English that I should check my email. I have an email in my spam folder from p8h8@p8h8.info and a message saying "We are watching you." I have no idea what this is about." At 18:51 CEST Zipper5 posted another message: "Here's a print screen I made of the original email I received": http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/6994/p8h8email.jpg Findings At the site p8h8.info is a small web form. Entering an email address into this form will cause an email to be sent to the given address. This email contains what appears to be an ASCII image. Trying the same email address twice returns the message "Email already sent." Each ASCII image appears to be different, which hints at procedural generation. Varanon found that by putting the images together, they form an animated sequence of a sphere smashing into a wall.
A well hidden secret picture has been revealed by community members on the BI Forums today after the code placed in the "camouflage" picture has deciphered and the picture link completed.
Here it is :
Some of the printed inscriptions seem to point out he's a Navy boy, but the written ones are more cryptic.
As you know ArmedAssault.info site has been subject from an attack from P8H8 group last night, it seems that Ofpec.com and Armaholic.com were also subjects of attacks from the same group. Here some infos from AAN Channel :
Iranian hacking group extend scope of cyber-attacks
Written by Jackson Irvine Friday, 06 May 2011 10:26
As previously reported by AAN, an Iranian hacking group P8H8 has in recent days targeted the official website of popular military game Arma 2 with a series of digital defacements which have left the developers and security experts baffled, both by the means in which the hacking group are carrying out the attacks and more specifically the reason for the attacks and the mysterious information being left behind following each attack.
AAN can now report that not only has there been a further wave of attempted hacks by P8H8, but this time the hacking group went after a number of websites affiliated with arma2.com which has sent a shiver of panic right through the core of the Arma2 community.
At 2200 GMT last night, three Arma2 community websites: Ofpec.com, Armaholic.com and ArmedAssault.info were targeted for defacement apparently by P8H8, web and security experts at the three sites fiercely battled against the cyber-attacks and we can report that as of this morning all three have confirmed to us that they avoided actually being defaced by P8H8, the contents of the websites was protected and the hackers were this time foiled in their attempts, the only thing they managed to do was upload one mysterious file to the servers of each website.
The Bohemia Interactive community is abuzz with this latest development and there is wild speculation as to the meaning for everything that has happened to date, while many are concerned about how far this seemingly untouchable hacking group will go to further their aims, most are occupied with trying to solve what has become a stunningly mysterious riddle, early analysis of the image indicate that it contains a hidden url in the properties as well as a number of characters hidden in the depths of the actual image, which can only be detected by acute ocular observations. The codes were identified as video reference codes for the popular video sharing website Youtube, the codes equate to three different videos: Tom Waits "Black Wings", Rihanna "Breaking Dishes" & Bruce Springsteen "The Wrestler", specifically the codes point to exact time stamps during the videos which then play three words: stone, man & wheat, as to what these three words signify AAN has no further information.
Whilst we have no specific details about a continuation of planned attacks, it does appear that the hackers still have an agenda that they have not finished pushing. AAN this morning attempted to contact Bohemia Interactive for a statement but were met with a terse “no commentâ€, after attempting to explain that they had a duty to assure the Arma2 community that they aren’t in further danger from the hackers, we received a further reply of “the situation is on-going and we have nothing to say until we have concluded a full investigation.†We can only advise the Arma2 community as a whole to stay alert, be vigilant, and to trust no-one.
Here is the result of the "camouflage" picture decoding :
W0lle has released his Elephant Island on the BI Forums.
Welcome to Elephant Island! A sunny place somewhere in the Pacific Ocean, or the Carribean, or wherever you want it to be. Only sparsely populated, it features two military camps and an airfield as well as several radio installations which makes it an interesting strategic object for several countries nearby. ... Background I started this project about two years ago after I got my hands on the VBS2 Developer Tools. Unfortunately I suck at graphics, so I was never able to create the required textures for it. In the first version it had an ugly all green Grass Texture all over the place. But hey, I had my first terrain working! A collaboration with David 'Seventh' Lagettie who had the same Idea back then unfortunately never became reality so at some point I forgot about the whole thing and it went to depths of my drives and collected dust.
Edit 06-05-2011 : Elephant Island Patch 1.02 release.
Elephant Island Patch 1.02, replace the old files with the ones from the archive.
Armed Assault.info is having connections issues and is undergoing unscheduled maintenance in a short time. Some of the moves are implying service interruptions, so don't be surprised if something does not show or work in the next hours, days ... hope all will be back fine afterwards ...
Sorry for the inconveniences.
Edit 00:19 It seems we have been under an attack by P8H8 group. All seems to work fine at the moment, even if our clock site seems to be also have been slowed a bit, the only visible clue about the attack is a picture left on our site
We have scanned this with various security tools and it looks inoffensive.
It seem that we were right on our previous released new, here some infos from AAN Channel :
Further developments in on-going digital attack to popular mil-sim game site.
Written by Jackson Irvine Thursday, 05 May 2011 13:52
The sudden and unexpected defacement attack to the official webpage of a popular modern military game Arma 2, as previously reported on AAN, continues. Despite attempts by security and software experts which initially removed the digital attack by an Iranian hacking group calling themselves "p3R51An 8lacK Hat5 8oy5" (p8h8). There has been a further incident in which the arma2.com website was targeted and had its contents replaced by digital imagery and text by p8h8 which seems to identify some kind of hidden cache in a real world location.
Following the information provided by the hackers, the community at Bohemia Interactive's forum has informed us that a cache was indeed found buried in the Czech Republic on the exact spot identified in the hacker’s photographs. The cache was collected by a local treasure hunter and we bring pictures of the cache and its content link. The uncovered map seems to be a sheet from a military manual identifying some kind of war maneuvers across parts of Europe. Early indications from experts we’ve consulted say that the map does indeed appear to be authentic.
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