JojoTheSlayer

When it comes to CPUs for Arma you should get the best you can afford since Arma is a CPU heavy game. That said your local CPU is just half the battle and the sever matter just as much. However, I would personally go for a i5 or i7 quad core with the fasted core clock speed I could afford (its the turbo clock that matters). The core clock being the most important part for Arma fps. An i3 is too low for other games that uses more cores effectively and its not future proofing your PC so you are better of saving a bit for an i5 at least. Why not AMD? Because AMD in my view seem to have more issues in Arma and provides lower performance at this point in time compared to Intel. For other games it a bit back and forth, but Arma wise. Intel is King. While this is something you dont want to hear. The best CPU and the only one I would consider TODAY if I was to upgrade. is the Intel i7-7700K (Kaby Lake). You might be better off saving a bit for the high tier CPUs if Arma gaming is your target for your first PC build. Since I already have a i7- 4400K I am not interested in upgraded yet, but Intel Coffee Lake is coming out in 2018 which is rumored to have some performance gain, compared to what I have, to the point it might be worth it. 2018 is also rumored to have an AMD processor that might actually compete with the high end Intel ones because Intel CPU gains in performance between generations has been slowing down because of the lack of competition in that market. Time will tell though. My2cent

I bought both games, but I still agree. :D

1. Yes, during my service you had eye region face frames you mounted the NVGs to. The reason being simple. A) We had none tight fitting Vietnam era type helmets and B) some of our NVG, specially one called night binoculars (they were not "binoculars"), were 3 times longer than the classic "Arma 2" type. It felt like having a PC PSU on your face. :D 2. Do you even Winter warfare, bro? :D I think I had nose cover on my white balaclava, but personally I preferred the headover. 3. I dont really care about stuff like that. What annoys me a bit is stuff like being able to "deploy" bidod while prone without a bipod. Like shooting on the move like that is like shooting at a fireing range where you can stabilize your arm with ease etc. Which is not reality and none "deployed" ingame is still pretty leveled from the get go. Or "reloading" AT4s or M72 etc and such. Or able to "side strafe" gamey like in contacts which no one can in real life etc. Those are the kind of things I would want see changed or have better solutions for. For the latter, lets not forget that in Arma 2 you couldnt really sidestrafe and shoot because there wasnt a "tactical pase" walking mode. Which made contacts more life like and "shoot, then move" was the mantra rather than "move sideways while shooting". I dont want tactical pase removed, but I wouldnt mind seeing more left right weapon sway while doing so to incentive people to stop when shooting and thereby get more life like contacts and such...

No, HEAT is a reverse cone, in regards to where it hits, layered with heavy explosives on the "outside" of the cone. When the explosives is triggered. It goes via the weakest point which is the tip of the cone and forces all of the explosive power into a beam of molten copper, what the cone is made of, which burns through the enemy armor, super heats the air inside the small compartment a tank is, which makes the air expand faster than the speed of sound thereby becoming an explosion, and the tank blows up. Maybe triggering secondary fires, explosions via ammo cooking and so on... So the HE is in regards to the explosives used on the "outside" of the cone and since its "only" anti tank. You also have the AT, ergo HEAT.

Rolling Thunder 21: Bluefor Helicopter UH-60 Recommended to watch in HD. Go to YouTube for the click to time stamps to work. ----------- Click to skip, time stamps: ----------- 00:00 Intro and Recon Insertion 01:30 Some time later... 05:50 Tank Platoon contact 08:10 Where there is smoke 10:36 1st Platoon rolls 13:50 Default was NOT Default channel 19:12 Unknown Flipper 22:19 Red infantry smoke? 23:11 The Hunt for Redfor CC? 27:31 Redfor Logistics spotted 29:33 Where there is Logistics 30:39 Attempt to flank Redfor staging 33:55 Zone Capture issues was ongoing 40:00 Logistics got away 40:35 Continued Zone issues 44:38 Zone zone zone 47:31 Back to Sput... Instant contact 50:58 Lone tank gets killed 52:45 Hotel Contact 56:05 End of the road for contact 59:36 Is Karlis going to support someone? 01:04:34 Enemy heli downed 01:05:54 Vostok full of enemies 01:10:09 Vostok cleared out 01:13:30 Now Sputnik 01:17:38 Forest infested with enemy infantry 01:23:27 More enemies go down 01:24:20 Ghost tank 01:26:10 Push on Bluefor Hotel 01:28:12 New contacts now on enemy territory 01:29:05 Both Redfor and Bluefor pass each other 01:33:34 Falling back to defend Sputnik 01:37:11 Final Battle for Sputnik starts 01:39:13 All inn! Even the heli is taking fire now 01:44:18 Mopping up starts, but... 01:46:38 It is over. GG! 01:46:49 Outro and Score Rolling Thunder is an ArmA-3 PvP tank focused event that is run on a semi regular basis. Usually one every two months (MilSim). Want to apply or know more: http://www.rollingthunder.it Thanks for Watching :) Credits: JojoTheSlayer - Gameplay & Editing Carpet Brut - Turbo Killer - Music excerpt Guns & Roses - Estranged - Music excerpt Mark Snow - Xfiles theme - Music excerpt BDR - Rolling Thunder Event holder Bi Interactive - Arma 3 Game (This video is not a commercial product)

Pro: Scale and Core Concept. Commanding a bunch of units via voice command and actually beating players. Epic servers could some times have large battles without slow downs. Cons: Overall balance in regards to limited long range Ai capabilities. The fact the game mode turned into "super gear soldier" vs a ton of Ai = no problem. Tab targeting from the air (should be less of an issue with Jet DLC). Commander having the ability to wreck a game within minutes, while a general game could last up to a day. Server performance. Newer version going further and further away from the Ai commanding aspect to just become a large scale player vs player thing. Tbh what ruined it for me was there was just too much gaming of the system. With limited recon abilities a single TOW could hide on a hill forever and never be spotted. Cost 100$ and kill a whole platoon worth 100 000$ without an issue because Ai are bad at attacking long range etc. Arma Warfare just never seemed to get the level of balance that say "Natural Selection 2" got. -------------------------------- If a mode similar to warfare re-emerged. I would probably think it would be better to have a bit more RTS focus with other players being able to take control of a unit leader that the RTS player have already spawned in. The RTS player would mostly command via the map, but could have "satellite" upgrades or drone options to get "eyes on", but the general idea is to have him spawn in whats needed, send them to a staging area for whatever needs to be attack and then have actual players select the group they want to control dynamically as a force multiplier and take the Ai into contact. So no more "Rambo unlimited AT rockets etc" In turn you would need to make the player Ai commanding controls allot easier for that mode alone. Basically something like having Aggressive - Defensive, combat modes. Aggressive being "shoot on sight" and Defensive being the Ai would only fire AFTER the commanding player fired (within say 60 seconds and then go back into "just report" mode). And having a choice between column or line formations. The former being for transit, maybe give it a "speed boost as well" so the player would be given a incentive to give the Ai an easier time, and line for combat. The rest could be removed because it wouldnt be applicable. So the basic outline would be that you have 2x RTS commander facing each other (min amount of player needed). That can only spawn predefined unit groups of X (infantry, armor, aa group and so on). The supporting players could only take control of leaders in one group and from there control it (ala Zeus jump into unit). When they die, they go back to the map overview or Commander view, ready to select another unit leader if available. The goal of the game is to gain resources via capturing towns or similar, combat other enemy units consisting of Ai or Ais and a human commander and lastly combine all of that until the enemy HQ/Base is destroyed. In short, retaining the core aspect of the original warfare mode, but making it more streamlined and thereby removing allot of the abilities people had to game the system. Hopefully making it more fun to play for more than the guy that had 1mill$ because he camped at some hill with a TOW and got easy kills for 3 hours .

I dont know how VAC does it, but I do know that VAC input symbol in VACbuilder changes if its not a international key and the output keyboard is another region than the profile was built on. Sure, you could circumvent it by asking people to change regions every time they want to use it, but that is not very user friendly in my view. The issue is probably at the voice programs level, like you assume, because for example. The ingame "select all units" key is the same physical key on my keyboard as an English user, but my output on that physical key is | (Nor) instead of ` (Eng), but Arma 3 makes the correct action regardless. However that could be a "translation" thing that is done when a "new" ingame player profile is made. If you manage to make a solution for it via VoiceAttack. You might want to contact the software make and tell him about it. Since that would make it easier for people all over the world making profiles that might want others to use as well. In any case, Good Luck :)

Great to hear you got it working. It was still interesting. I wanted to check if the {57} was similar on all the other keys (keyCuratorPingView and keyBuldSelect) in another region regardless. Which it was, but at the same time some keys have very high numbers which are not directly reflected on the keyboard layout link. Maybe they are some combinations of keys or something, not sure. Anyway, at least it confirms via 3 regions (German, Norwegian and Swedish) that 57 is spacebar Space on "Use Default Action" with the fix = You select all AND tell them to move instantly. Space on "Use Selected Action" with the fix = You only open the user action menu. So no you have to remove "space" or similar key from both, but I do recommend having another easy to reach button on "Use Default Action" apart from just the required "enter" key. Because that is the button you use to confirm an order. Which means it has to be manually pressed if you only use a "selecting" voice command.

Footage from the Rolling Thunder 20 (milSim tank event 09.04.2017): Short Infantry promo ( Its a tank event, but I didnt play in a tank! ): AT Infantry point of view during the battle:

Could you create another ingame Arma 3 character and uploads its default profile file (see 3 below) here: https://files.fm/ You dont have to provide a email or anything as long as you select lower than "permanent", but you need to post the link to the file on the forum of course. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The issue is still present in the game and my manual edit works. It also worked on a newly created arma character. Maybe you should try to create another character and test it. Might be you are using space or your other key for something else that is creating a conflict or you put the 57 between the [] instead of the correct {}. Try this: 1) Create a new Arma character to make everything with that one default. 2) Go into Options_Controls_Common and remove "space" from Use Default Action and Use Selected Action. Press Ok. 3) Go to C:\Users\YourUserNameHere\Documents\Arma 3 - Other Profiles\YourProfileNameHere folder, find the file YourUserProfileNameHere.Arma3Profile and open it with a text editor. If you cant read anything in the file. You used the wrong file. There should be 3 files in that folder you can open. Try the other ones. Only 1 of them has a wall of READABLE text. 4) ctrl+f and search for keyForceCommandingMode and put 57 inside the {} 5) Save the file, shut down and restart the game. Go into the editor and put down a squad with you as the squad leader. Press space and you should select all of your guys. If this works... Then you might have a control conflict with the key you are trying to use on your main. Otherwise, it might be that the numbers are not the same in all countries ether. Since the keycode page for Bi does site it being a German keyboard, but then again space is a international key... However maybe the numbers differs some, but I cant tell unless I see a file from another computer, ergo the above. https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/DIK_KeyCodes#German_keyboard

If you are making a voice profile for Arma in X voice program. Here are a few universal things you need to take into account: 1. If you are planing that other people will use your profile. You must use international keys for the important stuff, not regional keys. If you have F-ed up with that and the profile has a plain text file. You can use a program like TextCrawler in order to try to fix most of the issues in one go. Basically you can look for a pattern in the text that would only change the keys you want and in turn change it to whatever you want. Thereby saving hours of work compared to changing each one manually. Just keep in mind that it has to be 100% accurate. An unintended spacing or extra . might break everything. Ref 5! 2. Ingame the Arma command menu is affected by fps. So if you have lower fps at the time. The commands needs to be pressed slower or the buttons will be pressed faster than the menu can change and in by doing so you will skip parts and mess up the voice command result. If you have over 60fps however, that shouldnt be an issue. Then again, most dont so... 3. Have at least two syllables or syllable like features in each voice command and keep those that are not able to do that, like "one" for example, to a minimum. An example of avoid it could be using "off now" instead of just "off". This to both increase accuracy and to prevent false positives. Specially for people with thicker accent or similar. 4. Create and test your voice profile on a generally low standard headset microphone instead of studio quality ones. This because most will not have the latter and if some voice commands are hard for the computer to understand. It will most likely fail if people are using worse gear. 5. Keep backups of older iterations just in case you have to roll back major changes to avoid unnecessary work load. Bonus. My2cent :)

Default should be aim at the enemy and and press and HOLD the right mouse button for a short while. This should send the enemies you have spotted to the command targeting menu (Press 2). A way you can test this is to go into the editor. Put down a bluefor recon squad behind a hill and then put a redfor squad far away from that hill with their backs to it. Stop all your guys behind the hill and go up alone. Use your binos and do short press and holds while "aiming" at the enemies. You should hear your guy start talking and if you press 2. The target should be in the target menu. You from there order your ai to attack and so on via Fx-2-x "Status red" usually means the Ai is in a vehicle that is locked, so they cant get out, but the vehicle is very badly damaged etc. It can also be that the Ai himself, being an infantry, has gotten shot. What you can do when that happens is to use the command menu to get the Ai out of the vehicle, get them to heal themselves, or order someone else to heal them (Press 6). You can also use the same menu to repair the vehicle if one of them is an engineer. Report is just the Ai telling you hes status. It doesnt make him do anything. Injured is YOU reporting to your Ai squad leader, if you have one.

You know what. Since I got a Rode NT-USB mic a few days ago. I am also going to add my other "help" scripts here that might help people out in Arma if they get similar setups, aka Using a Desktop mic with speakers rather than headphones. (Direct copy/paste from my "backup" .ahk files and just simple explanations and a few copy/past and adapt examples) How to lower speaker volume while you use a Push To Talk Key. ; Script on/off. $PrintScreen:: Suspend,Toggle SoundPlay, %A_WinDir%\Media\Speech On.wav return ; While Push To Talk is held down: Lower or Mute Windows speaker sound volume. ; (Balance sleep times if people can hear speakers at the start or end.) ; (Default can be high as 700ms on bad mics or as low as 200 (Mute) and 100 (Lower Volume).) ; (Røde NT-USB needs 200 on Mute and 100 on Lower Volume.) ; (Koss SB45 needs 700 on both.) ; (Point is: Mic quality matters. PgDn = Key you press. F11 = Actual PTT setting.) ; Mute: ; (Note: Shadowplay ingame sound is also affected) ;$PgDn:: SetKeyDelay 50 Send {Volume_Mute} Sleep 200 Send, {F11 Down} KeyWait PgDn Send, {F11 Up} Sleep 200 Send {Volume_Mute} return ; Lower Volume. ; (Note: Use this for Shadowplay to keep some level of ingame sound) ;~PgDn:: ;$PgDn:: SetKeyDelay 50 SoundSet, 30 ; Is in % of 100. Sleep 100 Send, {F11 Down} KeyWait PgDn Send, {F11 Up} Sleep 100 SoundSet, 100 ; Is in % of 100. return ; Lower Volume on Ingame PTT binding. ; (~ allows the ingame binding to still work) ~PgDn:: SoundSet, 30 KeyWait PgDn SoundSet, 100 return ;~Numpad7:: SoundSet, 30 KeyWait Numpad7 SoundSet, 100 return ; Lower Volume on Ingame PTT binding. ; While also pressing Shadowplay recording PTT. ;~PgDn:: SetKeyDelay 50 SoundSet, 30 Send, {F11 Down} KeyWait PgDn Send, {F11 Up} SoundSet, 100 return How to toggle mute any Microphone you have installed on your system. ; Script on/off. $PrintScreen:: Suspend,Toggle SoundPlay, %A_WinDir%\Media\Speech Off.wav return ; Microphone Mute Toggle: ; In order to get the right Mixer channel (Which is 14 in this script) for your device. ; You need to run the SoundCardAnalyzer.ahk script first and then find the mixer nr for it. ; SoundCardAnalyzer (copy paste) found at bottom of page: ; https://autohotkey.com/docs/commands/SoundSet.htm ; What you need at min to change in this script is therefor Master:1 and 14 to the correct ones. ; Tip: ; USB mics show up as their own Component Type, aka Master:1 in this script. ; Only the jack version show up as "microphone". ; A decent way to find out which it is. Is set the mic level to 20 or something abnormally low. ; Find that number in Setting and then set it to a higher number ; and run the SoundCardAnalyzer script again ; to check if its the one via the number changing to the new level set. ; Windows Sounds you can use if you have not made your own: ; SoundPlay, %A_WinDir%\Media\Speech On.wav ; SoundPlay, %A_WinDir%\Media\Speech Off.wav ; AHK Command Syntex: ; SoundGet, NewSetting, ComponentType, ControlType, DeviceNumber ; SoundSet, NewSetting, ComponentType, ControlType, DeviceNumber ; Mic Mute Toggle. $CapsLock:: SoundGet, isMute , MASTER:1, MUTE, 14 If isMute = Off { SoundSet, 1 , MASTER:1, MUTE, 14 SoundPlay, %A_WinDir%\Media\MIC_OFF.wav SetCapsLockState, On } else { SoundSet, 0 , MASTER:1, MUTE, 14 SoundPlay, %A_WinDir%\Media\MIC_ON.wav SetCapsLockState, Off } return ; Mic Off. $q:: SoundSet, 1 , MASTER:1, MUTE, 14 SoundPlay, %A_WinDir%\Media\MIC_OFF.wav return ; Mic On. $e:: SoundSet, 0 , MASTER:1, MUTE, 14 SoundPlay, %A_WinDir%\Media\MIC_ON.wav return Nothing really advanced, but it is still better to find than figuring everything out for yourself once one get that issue. LoL

I am not asking for a removal of the U menu though. I just want the team structure set to everyone is in the same team at the start of the match. Something that would technically only take ca 1 min to change in the mission via the editor.

Considering this thread is about End Game. I would propose a change to the mission structure that defaults everyone into the same "Army" at the start (Alpha squad for example). So that that people need to actively leave and create their own squad if they want to. Every game I have played of End Game, specially on Feres (I think), there is this legitimately spam about joining the single team army to allow everyone to be able to see icons on each other an thereby avoid tking. Those that tend not to do that because they are new or they think joining the team entails something else like following strict orders etc. Are the new guys and guess who tend to tk by accident more than others when they are not a member of the "army" team... ------------------------- On the aspect of vote kick vs vote admin. I generally get the impression that vote kick are seldom successful and its most of the time voting in an admin that gets the toxic person kicked.