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Thread: Campaign was too overhyped?

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    Thumbs down Campaign was too overhyped?

    After so much talk about the campaign being open-ended and so on, I was disappointed by it.
    I thought the campaign would have been as long as Cold war crisis or OFP:R campaign, but it took me 11 missions to restore peace in Chernarus.
    I thought there would have been more choices (like moral ones) example: "If we destroy this village we will have more control over this area, but the civilians might turn against us. But if we don't destroy it chedakis might use it as a base and they will have more forces available in this territory."

    Also Russians had powerful army, but the only times I had contact with them was the mission after manhattan and in dogs of war against few spetznazes.

    In my opinion it was very bad choice to have Warfare missions in campaign. Let's capture towns by killing about 3-10 guys at the town and then standing on settlement about 30 seconds. In dogs of war capturing towns often required to kill 1-3 guys and then standing next to settlement. Capturing the towns should have been in my opinion Cold war crisis style missions where both forces try to advance, and the missions would consist about trying to take out few towns or defending em. In that way the campaign would have been much longer too.

    Also why bother adding HALO tutorial to boot camp when you don't have HALO in any campaign missions?

    Other than that, ArmA II wasn't disappointing.

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    I haven't finished the campaign yet, but those criticisms sound valid.

    Do you plan on remaking the campaign with your ideas integrated into it?

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    Did you complete the secondary objectives ?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Abs View Post
    I haven't finished the campaign yet, but those criticisms sound valid.

    Do you plan on remaking the campaign with your ideas integrated into it?

    Abs
    Nah my skills aren't good enough.

    Quote Originally Posted by MQ-9 Reaper View Post
    Did you complete the secondary objectives ?
    I tried to complete as many objectives as possible.


    Also I was little bit disappointed that there wasn't any missions like Pathfinder in OFP. That would have been excellent recon team mission. (Take out few tanks or AA so that our forces can advance or something like that. The first ArmA II campaign mission was way too easy to be like the pathfinder in OFP)
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    I hate how much they have Warfare in the game as SP. i think it should have onyl been a MP mission.

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    I really like the high command feature, but warfare missions in the campaign are just... awkward. If the game is supposed to be a simulation, keep warfare out of the sp campaign and put it into extra mp/sp missions, it's just not realistic and kills the game's atmosphere tbh.

    Anyone played the Squad Commander sp mission? That's decent high command gameplay but without warfare stuff, I would have preferred the campaign to be the same in the later missions, high command usage, but no warfare.

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    Yeah I was dissapointed with the campaign too. I mean, it was decent length and took me about 30 hours to complete, but they could have masked the Warfare stuff better - it was too jarring.

    Also, while Warfare-style open engagement may have made sense when you align with CDF, but when you help out NAPA it makes no sense.

    It would have been much cooler if by choosing either NAPA or CDF you chose the campaign style too - choose CDF for open warfare with epic battles, choose NAPA for Resistance-type covert hit-and-run missions where you truly do some guerilla stuff.

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    Ugh, these warfare bits don't sound overly promising. I can only assume that a "Warfare mission" is more or less similar to the objective of Team Fortress? Keep the enemy away from zone x for y minutes and you win the day. I guess the joke is on me for expecting something along the lines of the stellar CWC campaign.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GoOB View Post
    Ugh, these warfare bits don't sound overly promising. I can only assume that a "Warfare mission" is more or less similar to the objective of Team Fortress? Keep the enemy away from zone x for y minutes and you win the day. I guess the joke is on me for expecting something along the lines of the stellar CWC campaign.
    Oh don't get me wrong, it is much better than CWC or Resistance. It's just annoying that they could have made it even better.

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    i didnt end the campaign yet
    but sorry Cold war was the best campaign ever in motignac with the song memory
    something was teribly frightened in my mind from that mission ..was like i had to hide
    and it ends like "the unknown hero of war" he would have been blessed by usa army but ran from them...
    like he had sins from the past still in the memory influanced by the bad
    dont ever tell anyone how i feel after that mision..because i would feel naked
    That campaign can kill someone...dead by cold war huray dead can dance

    anyway the new features on A2 campaign looks cool
    i just dont know what would have happent if i refused to do stuff like choosing i go back home or not rescueing the doktor and the molestrated woman

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    Quote Originally Posted by GoOB View Post
    Ugh, these warfare bits don't sound overly promising. I can only assume that a "Warfare mission" is more or less similar to the objective of Team Fortress? Keep the enemy away from zone x for y minutes and you win the day. I guess the joke is on me for expecting something along the lines of the stellar CWC campaign.
    a gamemode is a gamemode nomatter if it comes out in other games to
    because it will be on arma2
    we are really lacking ctf or shorttime based TvT games
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