ArmA2: Operation Arrowhead Impressions - ALL OA Impressions/Videos/Screenies Here

**Placebo** · Jun 26 2010, 11:43

So seeing as there's hopefully going to be lots of new people with their new impressions, we need a new impressions thread.

Bit early but as the game has already been put on sale by those pesky German retailers I guess it's just a matter of time until this is needed

**Lhowon** · Jun 26 2010, 12:08

These have been posted to Youtube (not mine):

**ubermachtig** · Jun 26 2010, 13:42

Arg, those Germans, I should consider an house there.

I definitely like that kickback in the first video, looks pretty genuie to me

By the way, that guy claims to have a 5-10FPS increase, would be pretty cool for the lower-end systems, including my own

**Himmelsfeuer** · Jun 26 2010, 14:13

The performance in Takistan and of course desert is excellent. But somehow Zargabad has a horrible performance for me...Its much worse then chernarus main towns. i hope for improvments on that map

**Nephris1** · Jun 26 2010, 14:44

Well since patch 1.07 the performance is ok again for me (i7920@3.01ghz;4890hd;64bit;12gigram), but nevertheless i expected there to be more fps.
I wasnt able to test a lot but i got the impressions that a few houses drop the fps most.But i ve to test on.My avg. fps is around 40, so quiet well.
As i already posted into another thread, the campaign seems to go "old OFP style"!
The content is great, although the island(Takistan) was expected to be larger, neverthless the village module is great.

Has anyone figured out to build the deployable weapons again?
I was able to pack them, but not to build them.

At the end: the expansion was worth its money again!
For old OFP veterans...OA is comparable with Resistance (although more content) and imho more than Queens Gambit.

The gameplay feels a bit different, means better.
Dont know how to describe it, but it feels more accurate, the grafix seem to be sharper (i use the same settz of my vanilla ArmA2).
But the few green places look very good, and are fair in combat with AI.

**ubermachtig** · Jun 26 2010, 15:06

Nephris, that's excellent news. From all the BI games I've played Operation Flashpoint's campaign was by far the most impressive and most challenging one, Therefore I'm glad about the similarities.

Could you give some additional info about how ArmA 2 and Arrowhead merge together, proclaimed as a cool feature resulting in a "great millitary platform"?

**Iroquois Pliskin** · Jun 26 2010, 15:43

Post some vehicle combat in the Editor, show us which tanks, apcs, helos have radars.

There are less trees there, that's for sure.

Instant +15 fps on slower machines compared to forest areas of Chernarus. (Drawing South/North analogy here)
All textures are sharper, because Devs don't want to waste your GPU's bandwidth, since there are no 5000 trees per 1km2, you will have great desert textures. (south Sahrani around Cayo had awesome sand tex)