ARMA 1 : beta patch 1.18.5278 RC (road to final) + feedback

[Dwarden]

As followup to announcement of plans for final patch
http://forums.bistudio.com/showthrea...ewpost&t=89728

now there is 1.18RC
http://forums.bistudio.com/showpost....45&postcount=2

i setup BIKI entry about 1.17 beta patch (1.18 ones would be same) : http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/ArmA_Beta_Patch_1.17

community site / mirror owners please add Your mirrors into the list , thanks

feel free to post feedback into this thread...

[Guttersnipe]

Being playing with 1.17 now for a few hours - definately fixed a few crash errors I was having (also fixed my occasional 'black screen' issue with @ACE !) - Many thanks & appreciation to BIS for sticking with the continuing proccess of improvements (now get busy on Arma2 !)

[Von_Paulus]

Thanks BIS!
You are quite unique in term of support.
You stand as a shiny example to all other commercial developer teams.
If we didn't live in an era where, in most of times, it's the mediocracy and the greed which are rewarded, I'd say that you would have a brilliant future ahead.
But you've the community and the community relies on you.
Thanks for all, from an "old" video gamer.

[jasonnoguchi]

I must really say that this is the first time I see a game developer CEO pay so much personal attention into maintaining a community for their games and putting in so much effort to address issues when the sale has long been made. Great work. More CEOs need to be like Maruk.

[jasonnoguchi]

System requirement states "ANY ORIGINAL VERSION OF ARMA 1.08" but we are already patched to 1.14 and that cannot be removed unless the game is removed. Please advise.

[allthumbs]

Is it required to disable/delete beta 1.16 before installing 1.17? Or can I leave it and just use the new exe?

Edit: Sorry, it looks like one should delete previous beta versions. I really need to read the fine print!

[Maruk]

It should work exactly the same with both 1.08 and 1.14 as all files that are different between these two official versions are replaced in the beta anyway.

System requirement states "ANY ORIGINAL VERSION OF ARMA 1.08" but we are already patched to 1.14 and that cannot be removed unless the game is removed. Please advise.

[BlackEagle1]

how are the 1.17 linux server patch and the 1.17 windows server patch?

at me, was all good at 1.16 beta, but you missed the linux server patch 1.16beta.

i cant play 4-5 months on my favorite linux server!!!

and this was the my problem with bohemia and i doesnt buy arma 2.

[afp]

"5278 - Fixed: Improved AI path planning when riding a bike"
I'm laughing hard.

Otherwise its a quite nice intention, since there are lot of small communities still playing ArmA 1 missions time to time and will do this for a long time now.

[Snake Man]

I am truly amazed how quiet the Armed Assault community is now. I was totally thinking that PMC releases wont get any notice because people just don't like them etc, but if Maruk the man behind BIS himself posts a new patch for ArmA and we get like just few replies ... that is bad.

Thank you BIS for the 1.17, it is much appreciated by me, going to develop one full mod using this patch. Thanks