The Fighting TTLGers present: Arma 3 (a TTLG Coop Saturdays spin-off) - by Thirith
Thirith on 16/10/2017 at 08:19
As the year is into its fourth quarter, the days are getting shorter and they're already trying to get us to buy Christmassy stuff at the shops, I wanted to ask the TTLG
Arma gang if they'd be okay with adding another mod - or, more accurately, a suite of mods called the
(http://cup-arma3.org/) Arma 3 Community Upgrade Project (CUP). It adds the units and, more importantly, the maps of all the games going back to
Operation Flashpoint to
Arma 3. It's a fairly hefty mod pack, somewhere between 15GB and 20GB, but it very much adds to the kind of terrains we've got at our disposal: Eastern European woodlands and towns, Central Asian valleys, Middle Eastern cities.
My suggestion would be that we finish 2017 with Altis, Stratis and Malden 2035 and add the likes of Chernarus, Takistan, Sahrani and Everon for our sessions in 2018. They can easily be downloaded and added via the Steam workshop.
Would that be okay for everyone?
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Jeshibu on 18/10/2017 at 08:32
Yeah! No need to wait for 2018 either IMO, unless there's some hidden depths of Altis we haven't plumbed yet.
Thirith on 18/10/2017 at 08:42
Hey, welcome back! How were things in the Land of the Rising Sun/Tentacle Porn?
Re: when to add CUP: I'll have to check out the missions I already have for the CUP maps, and I may have to edit them. I might have some ready for December, (Christmas on Chernarus!) but it'll be tricky to get anything ready for the next 1-2 sessions.
scumble on 18/10/2017 at 09:03
I'll just be glad to join a session. Is it possible to get a bit of experience solo just to figure out the game?
Malf on 18/10/2017 at 09:10
I never played solo Scumble, just jumped right in, although when we started with ARMA 2, I did have quite a bit of experience with the original DayZ mod which helped. And we're all still asking each-other which button does what now :)
henke on 18/10/2017 at 09:13
Scumble, there's a boot camp thingy at the start, good idea to run through that. Don't worry about asking questions once in sessions tho, this game has more key commands than anyone can keep in mind. There's key commands for everything from standing on tippy-toes to modulating your voice(whispering/talking normally/shouting).
Thirith on 18/10/2017 at 14:42
I second what Malf and henke said. The tutorial is definitely worth doing, but don't worry about being new to the game.
The only thing that's essential to do beforehand is download the mods and Teamspeak 3, install the latter and make sure that the radio mod TFAR is correctly installed. All the info on this is listed in the first post of the thread.
Looking forward to having you join the session, scumble!
Thirith on 28/10/2017 at 17:25
And that's it for tonight. After a horrifically meatgrindery beginning, we settled into a mission of Escape Altis. Some of the high and low points points: quadbike recon and Malf managing to run over Sulphur in the middle of the road; a gruelling firefight in a small town against a fire team plus MRAP; Malf sinking through the floor of a house and still getting rescued by Sulphur (no hard feelings, right?); finding two cars whose front tires were gone, driving them to a repair truck at a snail's pace and getting them up and running again; and finally liberating a small camp by taking out the MRAP's driver and gunner.
Next session: Saturday 11 November at the usual time. Hoping to be revived repeatedly by you there!
Thirith on 12/11/2017 at 09:50
Last night's
Arma session was cancelled at short notice, as we were only three people.
There will be one last session this year, on Saturday 23 December. Hoping that some of you can join!
If you do, please note that we're adding the CUP set of mods, which brings all of the maps, units, vehicles and weaponry of the earlier games in the series (including
Operation Flashpoint) to
Arma 3. You can find all of the required mods here: (
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=877349651)
Thirith on 22/11/2017 at 21:48
I'm currently on holiday in Chile, sporting both a sunburn and a cold and battling wobbly hotel WiFi, but if I'm not mistaken Arma 3 is currently sold at a nice discount, which also extends to the extensions. For anyone who's been wanting to check out the TTLG sessions.
The Apex extension and its great Tanoa environment would be a fun addition to the coop sessions, but I don't want to split the group between those who have Apex and those who don't. If most of the gang has it at some point, I can start planning in missions on Tanoa.