ArmA II: Operation Arrowhead discussion thread

[thales100]

Looks good

[cm]

The fuck? An expansion already?!

This is madness! I would hope that the game is fixed before the expansion is released.

However, I assume this is done because after the game is finished you have a whole bunch of full-time employees doing nothing (most of the bug checking is done by the coders I would assume). May as well pay them to do something right? :P

[EricM]

Nice looking Apache.

If it goes like Queens Gambit, the actual campaign was outsourced to Black Element. So it may not slow down BIS from fixing the original campaign (Dogs of war).

Otherwise, that would explain why there wasn't many content and config fixes in 1.03.

May as well pay them to do something right? :P

Yes, modellers, mission makers and texture artists don't deal with bugs. So at any rate, it's just as well they work on more content.

[BogdanM]

I'm not very happy to see an expansion already because BIS doesn't have a team big enough to work on both games at the same time, so they'll probably take people who are fixing ARMA2 to work on the expansion. Also I hope they will make a expansion for people who already own ARMA2 because why should we buy the entire game again if we only need the campaing and new units.

I hope this doesn't postpone the release of the editing tools...

[da12thMonkey]

Personally I think the content of the expansion will be largely based on content from the VBS2 US Army module, with some enhancements to the models and inclusion of spec maps, normal maps etc to bring them up to ArmA2's visual spec.

This wont draw much in the way of resources from BIS's bug-fixing since the content is already there, it just needs sprucing up by a couple of members of the art team.

Hopefully this means there will be a Chinook too.

[TimRiceSE]

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/article...own-in-cologne

different press release?

"Bohemia Interactive is fully committed to supporting the existing ARMA II user base whilst also working on the expansion pack, this will not only allow us to introduce a new and original theater of war to the simulation series, but also improve numerous areas of the core game, for both the original game and the expansion, where we can go even further with adding completely new features" said Marek Spanel, Bohemia’s CEO.

[p75]

Is this the ARMA 2 expansion pack:

http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/5...erationarr.jpg

[Big Dawg KS]

I'm not very happy to see an expansion already because BIS doesn't have a team big enough to work on both games at the same time, so they'll probably take people who are fixing ARMA2 to work on the expansion. Also I hope they will make a expansion for people who already own ARMA2 because why should we buy the entire game again if we only need the campaing and new units.

I hope this doesn't postpone the release of the editing tools...

Different people in the team work on different things. I doubt this will interfere much with tools and bug fixing. My main concern however is that they say new features... I really don't want to see any new features until BIS polishes the existing ones.

"Bohemia Interactive is fully committed to supporting the existing ARMA II user base whilst also working on the expansion pack, this will not only allow us to introduce a new and original theater of war to the simulation series, but also improve numerous areas of the core game, for both the original game and the expansion, where we can go even further with adding completely new features" said Marek Spanel, Bohemia’s CEO.

[cjsoques]

It's kinda pathetic that the two top threads right now:

-Expansion
-Campaign Needs Rework

Doesn't make much sense to me really to be doing this

[ck-claw]

WoW 2 expansions now yay!

Someone beat ya to it!