Best Mods for Arma 2 OA

[W0lle]

There are people who don't know what ACE, JSRS or JTD Fire&Smoke is. Since some of the threads are buried deep within the forums, it's not easy to find them unless you're an "old timer".

Forum search? The option to search is present in every forum, subforum and even in every thread. It's not really hard to enter "Ace2" into a search field and hit enter you know. For that you don't have to be an "old timer".

I don't understand the "punishing" attutide and negativity of these forums. Every response up to yours was positive.

What punishing attitude? By telling him that there is no "one Mod that suits everyone" but it's completely up to him to decide what Mod gives him the best experience?
But don't worry, I also don't understand a lot of things people doing here every day.

[[FRL]Myke]

The best addons are always those which are required to play on your favorite server or with your favorite friends.

[DMarkwick]

Forum search? The option to search is present in every forum, subforum and even in every thread. It's not really hard to enter "Ace2" into a search field and hit enter you know. For that you don't have to be an "old timer".

Given that you know the existence of ACE2 in the first place

[vilas]

pod265 - as you are new, learn not to ask such question, cause many people spend their time on making mods and we should not say which is better and which than is worse, just open www armaholic com, section addons, download them for free and check which you like, but dont make modders to act like in rats race, cause everyone tries his best in his free time, also you might not know that some people spend for example year of their life to make island (for free) and it should not be underestimated

so just visit armaholic com and check any addons there

[jiltedjock]

ASR AI - improves the AI's combat behaviour considerably
Hetman Artifical Commander - adds a strategic layer, either to play strategically against the AI or to be commanded by an AI general. Very immersive.
DAC - makes the spawning of units and "insta" missions a breeze
TPWC Suppression - introduces suppression affects

These all address what many regard as shortcomings in the vanilla single player game.

After that there are many many excellent total conversions, new islands, new units, new editor modules to play with, all of which are on Armaholic.

[Kremator]

Yes, I have read this forum but

No you haven't. You need to read, read, read then read again. Yes there are lots of mods out there but you need to choose.

Oh and by the way ... welcome to the Armaverse

[Haviv]

For me personally I couldn't play without J.S.R.S, ACE2, WarFX: Blastcore and JTD Fire & Smoke. I would call those my 'essential' mods. I'd avoid ACE2 for a while if your brand new and just get used to vanilla first. The others are sound/visual improvements that won't effect gameplay.

These are some of the client side mods I have (I have almost 5 zillion other mods including ACE/ACRE)
In addition to JSRS and warfx and JTD fire/smoke
Also

bd tracers
http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=12427

partial nv clear (night vision) http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=6355

jtd clear horizons http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=9202

oktnoblur http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=10222

[twisted]

ASR AI - improves the AI's combat behaviour considerably

DAC - makes the spawning of units and "insta" missions a breeze
TPWC Suppression

Add in ace2 (fantaztic) and you have my basic must haves

Oh, and dayz which is by far the most popular.

But don't limit yourself, and there are so many great ones to try out.

[Orcinus]

The ACE2 mod will give you a very different experience. If you want to stick to a pretty much vanilla gameplay, with several tweaks like AI and Effects i suggest you try the SLX Mod.
Plus the SLX mod is compatible with most other addons!

Don't use the original SLX - great though it is, it has lots of bugs. Look for the thread on "COSLX", Gunter Severloh's excellent debugged & well-documented version.

@vilas: +1, my sentiments exactly. Though I've yet to complete a mod or addon myself, I have great respect for & gratitude to the people who give the community so many brilliant additions to the game.

[Atkins]

PR for public PvP action. Not that realistic as ACE but provides a solid PvP experience without joining a unit and downloading a ton of mods.

Invasion 44 for some WW2 action. Unfortunately ppl mostly play it with coop so no PvP action pretty much at all...

DayZ - Zombies zombies zombies