The Fighting TTLGers present: Arma 3 (a TTLG Coop Saturdays spin-off) - by Thirith
Sulphur on 20/5/2018 at 16:29
Well, I thought I'd heard Malf say someone had shot Thirith. Turns out he was saying 'not Thirith'. Whoops. :erm:
Thirith on 7/6/2018 at 13:48
Everyone should already have seen my message on Steam, but if you haven't - or if you got the recent Humble
ARMA Bundle and want to find out what all the fuss is about - here are the details for our upcoming game:
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The next Arma 3 coop session:
Date: Sat, 9 June 2018
Time: 3-5pm UK timeAs always, I'll be online a bit before 3pm to set up the server and check who's on Steam.
Thirith on 9/6/2018 at 16:52
Fun session - with a surprising number of people joining! Henke, Jeshibu, demagogue, Malf, PigLick (a surprise late addition) and Al_B joined for an epic mission: Sigma Quadrant 5. I was a bit worried that the mission wouldn't work properly, since it didn't show us any mission objectives, but we had a couple of targets on the map - so we drove there and took 'em out, looking stylish as ever. Also, for the first time since playing Arma 3, I felt like I knew what I was doing with the Titan launcher, taking care of MRAPs along the way. This game does really nice explosions... :p Compared to some of the meatgrinders we've encountered since starting the Arma sessions, the Sigma Quadrant missions do a good job of presenting us with a more balanced experience.
The next Arma session'll probably be in two weeks. I'll post an update here once it's confirmed. Till then, thanks to everyone who played today!
Malf on 9/6/2018 at 21:31
Bit late arriving, but here's a bit from the end of play:
[video=youtube;pg1ps2JryTM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg1ps2JryTM[/video]
PigLick on 10/6/2018 at 02:27
Lovin my shorts and sandals combo there.
Tony_Tarantula on 10/6/2018 at 18:48
So I've been pre-occupeid with certification exam prep...BUT..
Yeah. My laptop doesn't handle ARMA 3 at a framerate where I find it anywhere near present to play. I'm gonna have to wait on this one to get an upgrade.
Thirith on 12/6/2018 at 05:04
As promised, here's the confirmation of the next session:
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The next Arma 3 coop session:
Date: Sat, 23 June 2018
Time: 3-5pm UK timeAs always, I'll be online a bit before 3pm to set up the server and check who's on Steam.
Thirith on 23/6/2018 at 16:39
In spite of technical problems, which meant that we lost almost as many people to power outages and network troubles as we did to the enemy, we continued with the ongoing saga of Sigma Quadrant, in this case the sixth mission. Again, for some odd reason the mission tasks didn't show up, but that didn't stop us from shooting and exploding our way through the Altis hinterland to Molos. Many an MRAP was blown up and many a rabbit lost their lives to our driving. Thanks to Malf, Jeshibu, henke, Demagogue and Lord Penney for a fun session & see you again in two weeks!
Thirith on 24/6/2018 at 11:29
And here it is in bolded writing:
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The next Arma 3 coop session:
Date: Sat, 7 July 2018
Time: 3-6pm UK timeAs always, I'll be online a bit before 3pm to set up the server and check who's on Steam.
I've adjusted the time, since we usually play for longer than two hours - but people can leave whenever they like. Depending on the mission and the number of available slots, it's often also possible to join late.
Thirith on 7/7/2018 at 17:00
So, today was a mostly *weird* session of Arma, complete with some of the worst driving ever.
We started with a randomly generated mission on Sahrani, which went reasonably well, although our glorious leader Malf got shot to bits and bled out as we were trying to destroy enemy artillery. We also lost Sulphur on the way, to a power outage (although some rumours say it may have been that he went crazy, killed some civilians, and then ran off into the woods screaming, "We're all going to die!").
We then moved on to a mission by our very own Lord Penney, A Bit Dusty, which first saw us find and destroy a weapons cache in a small Takistani town. A revived Malf expertly took out most of the opposition from his gunner position in the Jackal. After blowing up the cache, Jesh made the tactical mistake of not telling me that someone else would drive the Jackal to the next waypoint - because I managed to back it up into a wall, which took out the engine and wheels... and then the Jackal blew up, killing everyone on board.
At this point two more people bowed out, so we played one final mission, which had us steal a helicopter in Takistan. Jesh killed the units guarding the chopper and Malf flew it back to base... where he was blown up by one of our own guys. It is just about possible that the helo guards were on our side and that we were supposed to steal it without killing anyone... This was followed by Dema running his jeep into a tree, which flipped it (the jeep, not the tree) over on its roof. As a result, Dema's installation of Arma went batshit and wouldn't allow him to exit the car until he tried the eject button. O_o With Malf having fallen to friendly fire, the remaining three accompanied a friendly patrol down the road - we managed that at least, which was made easier by there not being any enemy units - and then we decommissioned some abandoned mortars. Not that the game let us have that last triumph, though; it simply didn't recognise that we'd done what Arma had asked us to do - so we went out in a blaze of fire, fragging ourselves (just as Dema said, "No, let's go and shoot some people fi-").
All in all, glorious times. Thanks to henke, Malf, Jeshibu, Demagoggles, Sulphur and Lord Penney for joining us, and my apologies for the downright lethal driving!
Next Arma session: probably 28 July (to be confirmed).