The Fighting TTLGers present: Arma 3 (a TTLG Coop Saturdays spin-off) - by Thirith
demagogue on 21/8/2017 at 11:47
If you're going to quote it...
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99 little bugs in the code. 99 little bugs in the code. Take one down, patch it around, 117 little bugs in the code.
Well I guess you gave the Cliff's Notes version.
I had bought and installed Arma3 last month just to do this with you guys, and less than a week later my gaming laptop fries. Really frustrating. :( Might be months until I can get it repaired. Knock on wood I'll join in eventually.
Thirith on 21/8/2017 at 11:53
Oh man, that sucks! Fingers crossed you'll manage to get it repaired sooner. Arma is definitely one of those games that improves in many ways when there are more players. You can counter some of its jankiness with strategy (flanking manoeuvres greatly benefit from having enough people), and you get missions that offer hugely different roles (e.g. fireteam on the ground, two people in a helicopter providing Close Air Support).
Thirith on 6/9/2017 at 17:04
Quick reminder for those likely to join the Saturday session: there have been updates since the last Arma session, so if you're planning to join, make sure that your game is up to date!
Thirith on 9/9/2017 at 17:17
Thanks to PigLick, Sulphur, Malf and Jeshibu for joining today's session.
We got started with a small-scale adversarial: 3v3 (with one of the slots taken up by AI). The mission (which I put together) could use some work, e.g. a minefield around the village where each team was trying to kill the other, but it was still fun, with a tense stand-off between Malf and Jesh at the end. Malf won, aided by the force ghosts of Sulphur and PigLick.
The second mission turned out to be a bit broken; we were tasked with blowing up some tanks and jet prototypes, but even three explosive charges didn't make a dent in either tank. Also, anyone who died respawned a couple of kilometres away. Some good moments, especially once we got to the airfield (Jesh did a great stealth kill on a guard), but too broken to play again.
After sadly losing PigLick to the borked mission, we ended with one that had the four of us attacking a hotel and trying to rescue a hostage. After a false start, we did get to the hostage after a tense nighttime firefight, but he was already dead. Luckily, though, we found an APC in the hotel's backyard and drove to freedom. Okay, more accurately, we drove into the nearest wall, but the game still counted that as a win. Success!
Anyway, currently the plan is to return to
Arma in two weeks' time:
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The next Arma 3 coop session:
Date: Sat, 23 September 2017
Time: 4-6pm UK timeAs always, I'll be online a bit before 4pm to set up the server and check who's on Steam. I'll try to launch the server with a lobby mission 15 minutes before the session starts, and I'll post the IP and password on the Steam group, under the Events tab.
PigLick on 10/9/2017 at 01:47
Sorry about last night, my internet connection dropped out, as it does on occasion.
Jeshibu on 10/9/2017 at 21:59
Here's some footage of us discovering we'd failed our mission.
[video=youtube;hk-QdwTv3sE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk-QdwTv3sE[/video]
Tony_Tarantula on 11/9/2017 at 12:10
I may pick this up the next time it's on sale. Watching that video, I gotta teach y'all a few things.
PigLick on 11/9/2017 at 12:23
Please do, you may get a lot of flack here for your posts and general opinions, but playing Arma with you could be kinda cool.
Thirith on 11/9/2017 at 15:04
If stealing the caps of dead hostages is wrong, I don't want to be right.
On a different note: I've got a couple of missions that allow one or two players to hop in a Hummingbird helicopter and provide Close Air Support and/or transport. I'm always happy to pilot a chopper in Arma (though I've not yet done it in MP) myself, but are any of the regulars confident enough when it comes to Arma heliscapades? (In other words: if you enjoy the helicopters in the game but aren't entirely confident piloting them, some practice may be advisable. :p)
PigLick on 11/9/2017 at 15:21
arma helicopters are death traps