ArmA2 - The Xbox 360 thread

[AVIBIRD 1]

My name is AVIBIRD 1 and I am a handfull of die hard players that sill play the original OFP ELITE. I have two questions that I need help with. How many players will be online. The PC will have 50+ and the original OFP had 24 players. Second During the interview with IVAN BUCHTA I think he stated that the 360 game was not yet developed however on same video clips with mark spanel I have seen XBOX 360 MAP on the load screen during an interview. If this is ture then the XBOX 36O will not come out until late winter or early 2010.

[Grimnirsson]

I don't think that BI can get away with a delay this time. First they made this mistake with OFP: Elite which was published when the Xbox1 was already way over its time (and the 360 already at the horizon) and to do this again will lead to the same result as with OFP: Elite (great game but not many folks playing it)

And this time there's a real tough opponent on the battlefield, any delay will make them lose ground to OFP2.

[Mr Reality]

That's the reason i didn't buy OFP Elite. I had preordered my 360 and was hopeing Elite was going to be backwards compatible.
To be honest though, i wont be getting ArmAII for the 360 as there will be limitations in the editor.

[Rocco]

Edited to please the facho mod....

[ricbar89]

Originally Posted by (Mr Reality @ Oct. 10 2008,13:37)

To be honest though, i wont be getting ArmAII for the 360 as there will be limitations in the editor.

Do we know this? Where did you get that info from?

What limitations?

(bar the obvious)

Originally Posted by (-=[Rocco

=- @ Oct. 10 2008,19:01)]who cares? consoles suck anyway, it´s for those who don´t know anything about PCs. And afaik and i hope, that there wont be any hybrid servers.

If you havent got anything decent to say shut up. Im an old PC gamer who now uses consoles out of ease.

[Commando84]

Man some games are better played on pc's, sorry to say this to you guys..
But sure if this would have been a uber EA games battlefield 14 it would have been released in the right time and with the millions od dollars of marketing done to it..
Ofp and Arma is some of the games that are best played on the pc Sort of like team fortress 2 also, on the console TF 2 had promised to bring custom maps and stuff, but they ouldn't cause some of the owners of Xbox or Ps network said no you have to charge the users cash for the custom content
There are more restrictions on developing to a console, i've meet real game dev's stating that for sure..

[ricbar89]

Originally Posted by (Commando84 @ Oct. 10 2008,20:31)

Man some games are better played on pc's, sorry to say this to you guys.. ***
But sure if this would have been a uber EA games battlefield 14 it would have been released in the right time and with the millions od dollars of marketing done to it..
Ofp and Arma is some of the games that are best played on the pc *** Sort of like team fortress 2 also, on the console TF 2 had promised to bring custom maps and stuff, but they ouldn't cause some of the owners of Xbox or Ps network said no you have to charge the users cash for the custom content ***
There are more restrictions on developing to a console, i've meet real game dev's stating that for sure.. ***

What has this got to do with the topic? ***

Why does every question about a console have a poster going on why the PC is better?



How about we keep this one ontopic.

[AVIBIRD 1]

Quote from Rocco: who cares? consoles suck anyway, it´s for those who don´t know anything about PCs. And afaik and i hope, that there wont be any hybrid servers. YO JACKASS what is your deal. What has this got to do with the topic?
Why does every question about a console have a poster going on why the PC is better? how about we keep this one ontopic.

Rocco my old man had a good saying in life you should follow it. ( SON IF YOU HAVE NOTHING GOOD TO SAY OR ADD TO A CONVERSATION THEN SHUT YOUR F##KING PIEHOLE).

Rocco don't make this forum like codemasters OFP2 where people just talk crap and have stupid replays to peoples posts. The BI COMMUNITY is better then that.

Rocco my replay to you beacuse I have something intelligent to say and then we can get back to the main topic of this post.

PC against CONSOLE games! Yes it sucks but PC games are on the down side with sales the past 5 years. You need a top line PC to run most new games and will need to add money to play new ones within a year. Most homes only have one PC and for a game like ARMA 2 a game could be a few hours if not more. Yes PC can handle more and bring a better product to the market but not sales and you know it's all about money for companies and stockholders. So the overall product will be a little less then it could have been SO GET OVER IT you will still have the best wargame on the market. PC players will still have they MOD from the community as long as the map editor is done right and console players will have downloads for some bucks LOL. No cross platform play MS is to controlling for that maybe PS3 who knows. PS do you PC players understand PC games can not make it alone anymore it’s all about the bucks the truth hurts. so game companies can continue to make new games for us.

PS. THE ONLY the restrictions on developing to a console
that BI stated at this point was number of players per map and map editor with construction points,adding cut scenes and written text.

Rocco I could have a nice debate with you why I switch from PC to CONSOLE games start a post or e-mail me LOL.

AVIBIRD 1 When playing this game keep Chuck Norris home.

[xnodunitx]

Lets try not to turn this into another BS flamewar about consoles vs PC, the difference is simple.

Consoles are fully working out of the box game systems that run their games at max graphics with no to ever so little lag, don't require patches and experience the problems computers do.

Computers can do more yes (not talking about just games) but they can also run into bigger complications and far more serious problems, not to mention you require more then one object to run a game and it can be more costly. Each one has their strong and weak points.

That said, thus far I'm afraid there hasn't been any information given about the player limit on 360 server.

I don't have a xbox 360 so I don't quite understand how they operate but if I had to guess it would be the same as how ArmaI will work in that "The max count will be as many as the server can handle", taking into account the servers bandwidth and connection speed.

Or it may be more like OFP:E pending on how similar the xbox 360 is with its earlier cousin. I did a search for other 360 topics and none of them have any information about it either.

[AVIBIRD 1]

Xnodunitx Thanks for the replay. I know no real information out at this time for the xbox 360. I was hoping for one of the big boys that run this forum had some insight or one of the BI team members might drop a liitle hint. During an interview with IVAN BUCHTA I think he stated that the 360 game was not yet developed. I hope this is not ture. The main reason OFP ELITE had a poor outcome was it was delayed and when it was released the 360 hit the market. I feel BI needs to get the game going before or at the same time as OFP#2. I know ARMA#2 will play more like OFP in gameplay however time is everything in life. OFP ELITE is still the best war game for the XBOX and XBOX 360 but most people don't know about the game. I am a handful of players that still play OFP on the XBOX we are always looking for more players let me know.

PS. One more concern will BI have the ability to take the community mod's and make them part of download content from them. I know this brings up a lot of legal and safety question.

AVIBIRD 1 When playing this game keep Chuck Norris home!