ARMA2 & OA's Steam Thread: All Steam Q's/discussions go here [covered by Dwarden]

[Moklakins]

Ill ask again becuase the merging probably caused some confusion. Does the steam version of Arma2 contain securom? I would appriciate it if i could get an official answer from a dev or mod.

[Dwarden]

when i get the needed info i will try answer some of the questions raised ...
but it's not gunna be until next week so please wait ...

[ilovebeer]

How come i see people say ArmA II is getting released on June 30th? it has shown June 26th from day 1 for me?

[Hoak]

Is it currently known if BI intends to roll any SteamWorks featuers into the Steam release of Armed Assault 2? Specifically:

• Will ArmA 2 on Steam have VAC?
• Will ArmA 2 on Steam support SteamCloud?
• Will ArmA 2 on Steam use support the Steam Browswer?
• Will ArmA 2 on Steam support Steam VOIP?

And lastly, full SteamWorks allows for anyone with a paid for license key, even from a media edition of the game to register it on Steam; Will ArmA 2 media Customers be able to register their game on Stea?

[CanadianSyrup]

I can tell you that Arma2 Wont have VAC because VAC stands for Valve Anti-Cheat System Which is Designed for games made by the company valve such as Half-life,Counterstrike,Teamfortress etc.

[Amuro]

I could have ordered it from Steam also, but I don't want to pay the high US retail price which is like 20 USD more expensive than buying from a local brick & mortar store.

[Hoak]

I can tell you that Arma2 Wont have VAC because VAC stands for Valve Anti-Cheat System Which is Designed for games made by the company valve such as Half-life,Counterstrike,Teamfortress etc.

Incorrect, VAC, Valve's Anti-Cheat protection scheme is available to any Developer that Publishes thorugh Steam and licenses SteamWorks... There are in fact over a dozen games on Steam that aren't on the Source engine that use VAC -- Red Orchestra is one of the first that comes to mind, as was once intended to be a fairly serious tactical realism game...

[Commando84]

I only have one game bought through steam all others are on disc I don't have any problems either way.

As some people have the game now do they use steam to run online or can you bypass it?

BTW I have it on Pre-order for £17.95 half the price of steam.

infinte? Im not sure you need a cd key on steam even.
Its alll linked to your login.
user name and password.

[MegaSevan]

Can you still have custom shortcuts with the steam version?

and what about patch support? I know sometimes steam version of non-valve games don't get patched as quickly as retail copies.

[Steakslim]

You should be able to do custom shortcuts with the steam version. ArmA1 shortcuts had not problems with the steam version. As for patch support, I have no idea what BIS plans to do with Steam whether they'll have patches actually distributed throught Steam, or have users manually patch their games. Personally I prefere they let us manually patch.