RockofSL from RKSL Studios has bring some great news about RKSL Studios website and has released a lot of stunning screenshots about the WIP on the BI Forums. If you’ve been to our website recently in the last week you would have seen that it’s been “Offline for maintenance” a lot. This has been so I can get the new version of the site up and running. On it you will find: - Updated Projects pages - Easier to use Menu Structure (I hope) - Comments system for articles - New Public Forums - High res video streaming …eventually. Not all the video are uploaded yet. - Improved search features - Several “New” projects and updates: - Rapier FSC (updated) - SA-2 SAM (NEW) - Hermes UAV (NEW) - OPFOR Mk60 Series BAe Hawk(NEW) - Westland Apache WAH1 (NEW)
This news isn't directly related to the game but it is still interesting to know and surprising ! Geoffrey Burgoyne has just released his book with over 7000 words which is based on the Armed Assault campaign story. You can read a short summary in the comments.
This book is not affiliated or anyhow endorsed by BI nor the ArmedAssault.info team.
You can buy it and check it out with discounted prices just for people who view this article can be found here here.
ProPilot informed the community, on the IMW forums, about an unexpected event in IMW life as this mod has merged with ACE.
IMW and ACE have merged! This will open up a vast amount of resources to us, and allow us to really re create the middle eastern theatre. We will now be able to include MRAP's, UAV's, and much much more. . More details soon.
Paul R. Statham, more known as Placebo has released an interview of Jerry Hopper, the bouncing reporter from Sahrani Radio, on Bohemia Interactive web site.
Anyone who was involved in the community towards the end of ArmA’s development and then especially through the first year subsequent to release, cannot fail to have noticed Jerry (if he thinks you don’t notice him he’ll come round to your homes in the middle of the night so it’s best to say you notice him!). Jerry certainly livened up the community with his own unique blend of community activism and news posting, so without further ado, let’s bring on the Jerry……..
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.
Our friend and colleague JerryHopper from ArmedAssault.eu has announced us that his site is currently unreachable because the armedassault.eu domain name expired. However it should be arranged soon, depending on time needed for dns changes.
The Business Network web site has NOT announced ANY agreement between Bohemia Interactive Studios and the improbable Virtual War Channel in order to allow ArmA : Queen's Gambit to become a major TV series in the US.
William Porter has updated his blog again. Into Enemy Territory, that's the title and it looks like that Prime Minister Torres is attacking South Sahrani! Find out more on his blog and don't forget to read the other entries as well!
Word is that Prime Minister Torres had been planning his attack since he first heard we’d be training the kingdom’s troops. He’d just planned to launch it once we were all gone, or so his story goes. Some SNAFU.
OFPEC has unveiled its Faces Library! They have added 120+ Armed Assault faces created by Wipman from over at the Bohemia Interactive forums. They have also dug deep into their archives and pulled out 120 or so Operation Flashpoint faces. The faces are used to dress up your player profile and add a little bit of spice to your online experience!
On Sunday February 3, as previously advertised, Sahrani radio had broadcast Ondrej Španel aka Suma interview by Jerry Hopper on his radio show, Good Morning Sahrani. This special episode of "Good Morning Sahrani" had featured questions sent by the community via the "answering machine".
A few days ago a kind of earthquake has occurred unnoticed by all but the Modders of our community. Generally modders can learn how to model and create config files by using BIS samples and seeing how they are made, since there is very little public information and documentation.
Unfortunately only a very limited amount of these models have been released by BIS, so Synide, a modder, converted all BIS encrypted models to an editable format, called MLOD, to offer them to the modding community. He did this without BIS permission, so it was a kind of reverse engineering method, which is clearly forbidden in the Armed Assault EULA.
Recently BIS has made it clear that people that used the reverse engineered MLOD's should cease doing this immediately, including sites that host the results of this breach of the EULA. As you may have noticed we just opened this section on our website a few days ago and were forced to close it. Our action to propose these models to the “masses” actually kind of started the whole issue.
EDIT: We have a great new... Placebo shown our article to Marek Spanel and he confirmed us that BIS is going to release all their MLODS models for being used by the Arma community, we just still do not know if it will really be all models, nor how they will be released, where and when!
Quoting Placebo:
They key issue is really that when we release them we include full and proper documentation such as EULA which clearly states what they can and cannot be used for, whereas unathorised releases tend not to include such "protective" documentation.
It means that, once more, BIS will find a way to continue supporting the community, like they used to do since years!
While Mr.Murray is working on his next ArmA Editing Guide he is stumbling over some exciting ArmA "features". Watch the video, made by Sgt Ace below in order to find out ArmA's latest gadget :P.
Here are the Animation names : - ActsPercMstpSnonWnonDnon_DancingDuoIvan - ActsPercMstpSnonWnonDnon_DancingDuoStefan - ActsPercMstpSnonWnonDnon_DancingStefan
In order to find out how to use them ingame head over to the BIKI
Our friend JerryHopper has submitted us a news concerning an interview for Sahrani Radio with the BIS lead programmer, Ondrej Spanel!
Dear community,
As you all know, i am doing interviews with ArmA community members. Since quite a while, i have been trying to get BIS developers on our radioshow/podcast. Today, i'm very honored to finally announce the confirmation on a interview with Ondrej Spanel, also known as Suma.
As i always believed that Sahrani Radio could be the voice of the community,and today i give you all the chance to be just that. We have setup a special 'answering machine' where you can record your question for Suma.
You have maximal 20 seconds to ask your question, so keep it brief and to the point.
Try avoid questions like 'when will product or patch X be released?' as they most likely will not be asked for obvious reasons. From all submitted questions, the Sahrani Radio staff will pick the most interesting ones and those will be asked and aired in the interview.
You can ask your question at the following adress.
A good example would be : "Im John Doe from Belgium, and wanted to know if suma likes chinese food" The best chance to to have your 'audible'question aired, is to ask a original and interesting question.
Our friend and colleague JerryHopper from ArmedAssault.eu has announced us that his great Sahrani Radio project is back online! We support this nice initiative and strongly advise you to listen to it like all real Sahrani-based soldiers do! ;)
The radio is online 7/7 24/24, with music and it will broadcast new interviews, as well as other field-reports in and around armedassault. While we are writing these lines Rhodite is currently playing and talking. Direct link to listen with a AAC+ compatible mediaplayer like Winamp is http://arma.valuenet.nl:8000/listen.pls.
To give the radiostation some variety, we're looking for people from the community who have a good taste for music and humor. Are you that guy with a different taste of music? and are you not afraid to let your voice be heard on the radio or podcasts / interviews? This, in combination with a healthy dose of humor, makes you a perfect candidate for this position. As an Sahrani Radio 'deejay' you spend about 3-6 hours per week on unique audible content within the armedassault community. If you are interested in being part of Sahrani Radio, send an email to hopper.jerry AT gmail.com Ofcourse, if you dont have the time to commit yourself to Sahrani-Radio, but do want to help us out on a irregular basis your welcome too.
The jury has done it's job, and the results are in for our Real Combat Photography contest! Out of the many great entries that we received, the following were deemed to be the best in portraying what ArmA is capable of by the jury:
Now you can take a look at the full size versions of these masterpieces:
Made by Daniel from England.
As one jury member put it: "Just an excellent moment captured."
Made by Ruhisu from Poland.
Made by Gangster from the Czech Republic.
One jury member commented: "Very much captures the idea of 'on the fly' combat photography."
Congratulations to the winners, and thank you to everyone that participated. Your entry didn't make it, but as they say: "Better luck next year!". Keep making those shots :)
The Real Combat Photography contest has ended. The entries were really diverse, showcasing the creativity of the ArmA community. We would like to thank everyone that submitted a picture to us. The winner will be announced as soon as possible.
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Arma Tactics released for PC via Steam.
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