Wild Hogs Ride Again

ColonicAcid · Post by **ColonicAcid** » Fri Mar 18, 2016 5:48 pm #162658

Bottom post of the previous page:

76561198092468807

K-64 · Post by **K-64** » Fri Mar 18, 2016 6:28 pm #162662

Alright. That's you added to the file

Timbrewolf · Post by **Timbrewolf** » Fri Mar 18, 2016 10:36 pm #162707

ColonicAcid wrote:anon u forgot my favourite gun, the FN 2000. Which is what I'll be using from now on god bless.

yacht gun is fishgun tier

K-64 wrote:Since we've gotten a few ops under our belts again and seem to have a good team dynamic going we could probably discuss preferred roles and all that. I'm not meaning full milsim type shit of once a rifleman always a rifleman having to call the officers sir type of shit. I'm meaning more if a mission has an AA slot or whatever and someone feels particularly confident about their abilities then they should take it kind of deal. Also recommendations for other folks based on observation of their actions/antics on the field.

Just please don't have it be that everyone wants to be the cawadoody sniper.

Just based on observations it would seem like our usual breakdown is something like

Upgradecap - Squad Leader
K-64 - Rifleman(AT)
An0n3 - Combat Life Saver
People Are Strange - Rifleman
Wyzack - Autorifleman
Tedward - Rifleman

This is just based on who is usually giving the orders, carrying the specialist equipment, saving everyone from being dead, just shooting shit, etc.

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Fri Mar 18, 2016 10:53 pm #162711

Holy shit that fucking picture. what is the difference between rifleman and autorifleman?

Also Anon3 you are a pretty good sniper

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Fri Mar 18, 2016 10:55 pm #162713

Here we see a school of XM8's in their natural habitat

ColonicAcid · Fri Mar 18, 2016 11:00 pm

autorifleman has a light machine gun.

ColonicAcid · Sat Mar 19, 2016 12:12 am

we operat8ng

K-64 · Post by **K-64** » Sat Mar 19, 2016 1:58 am #162756

I present the Taliban's premier superhero:

Timbrewolf · Post by **Timbrewolf** » Sat Mar 19, 2016 2:55 am #162766

Wyzack wrote:Holy shit that fucking picture. what is the difference between rifleman and autorifleman?

Also Anon3 you are a pretty good sniper

I consider that pretty high praise when it's a role I know everyone kinda fights over.

To their credit, my recent best moments as a sniper were facilitated by PAS as my spotter. Our mission to kill that drug lord by the downed helicopter could've gone to shit if I weren't providing covering fire, and I wouldn't have been able to do that without PAS being on point both spotting targets and relaying information to me (high/low, left/right, popups).

I'd be happy to be the unit's designated marksman, but I've ascended to the next level of Arma scrubbery;

Always wanting to be the pilot or guy with a grenade launcher.

Post by **oranges** » Sat Mar 19, 2016 8:15 pm #162877

76561198029852509 is me

Post by **oranges** » Sat Mar 19, 2016 8:24 pm #162880

Also anon holy shit update the OP already with all the extra info

Timbrewolf · Post by **Timbrewolf** » Sat Mar 19, 2016 10:17 pm #162910

oranges wrote:Also anon holy shit update the OP already with all the extra info

History has shown people don't read shit anyway, and we will inevitably have to repeat everything for everyone every time anyway.

I have made this exact same thread four times over already, on three different /tg/ forums, and every time previous I've made a giant OP with all the information clearly spelled out.

It doesn't make a difference.

K-64 · Post by **K-64** » Sun Mar 20, 2016 12:15 am #162940

Also Leights OPFOR Pack and ACE have received updates. Just to let folks who haven't checked for updates know about it. And I've added you to the squad file, oranges.

ColonicAcid · Sun Mar 20, 2016 12:52 am

updates today? or is the shit i downloaded from yesterday still up 2 date?

K-64 · Post by **K-64** » Sun Mar 20, 2016 12:56 am #162943

Uhh, no idea, actually.

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Sun Mar 20, 2016 1:44 pm #163043

Operate tonight lads?

Timbrewolf · Post by **Timbrewolf** » Sun Mar 20, 2016 4:05 pm #163063

Sure fam. I could fire the server up in a bit and we could play soon. Let me know.

Going to finish watching this episode of Daredevil and then serber will go up

Post by **oranges** » Sun Mar 20, 2016 8:20 pm #163117

>4.05 am

Timbrewolf · Post by **Timbrewolf** » Mon Mar 21, 2016 12:53 am #163252

I left the server up and running for a good six hours or so earlier. A few of us operated together.

I have mastered the art of taking over points by myself through the use of this badass flying death machine here, and a single AI co-pilot. It's only a matter of days now before we have this whole continent to ourselves.

Alternatively a Ghost Hawk and a ton of AI dudes works so-so.

If I really sperg out I can control both helicopters and a squad of AI's all at once. It's pretty fucking involved though. The AI troops have a really weird rate of either getting obliterated by enemy vehicles or noticing them and immediately destroying them. I wish there were better postures for giving them permissions to use their rockets and heavy equipment on armor, as is it seems like you have to do it manually. Eg. opening up the map and manually telling a squad's AT guy to pop armor (before the whole unit gets obliterated). Eg. manually taking control of your gunner's weapons and locking/firing the missiles yourself.

Timbrewolf · Post by **Timbrewolf** » Mon Mar 21, 2016 2:08 am #163260

Oh I also flew a bunch of CARGO OPS so there would be more ammo for me to buy attack choppers with and other people to spend on tanks and shit later.

If you log on and are looking for something to do, or fucking around waiting for orders/other people to show up, SHLEP DAT SHIT. K64 needs his tanks. I need my helos. Our sacred artillery launcher PAS enshrined with cement barricades needs offerings.

K-64 · Post by **K-64** » Mon Mar 21, 2016 3:19 am #163274

I grabbed about 5 crates as well, since we had dipped below 1000 ammo. Also shot down the enemy CAS plane from so close that the explosion killed Zack and heavily injured me. Serves the kebab shitlord right for trying to buzz the hill we were on.

Timbrewolf · Post by **Timbrewolf** » Mon Mar 21, 2016 5:02 am #163278

Yeah what gives?

Until the last few days I'd never seen a Kebab plane before. Now they're spawning in pretty regularly.

I've shot a bunch down in my helo but it makes me really apprehensive about taking any kind of expensive ground vehicle. Fucking CAS birds all over the place wrecking my super expensive tanks no thank you.

DemonFiren · Post by **DemonFiren** » Mon Mar 21, 2016 6:47 am #163303

More like "no tank you", amirite?

K-64 · Post by **K-64** » Mon Mar 21, 2016 2:22 pm #163367

I'm pretty sure it's due to the enemy's combat readiness. Basically as that percentage on the right gets higher, the more fortified enemy locations get, and the more vicious their counterattacks get. During ops last night it was up at the 80-90% level.

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Mon Mar 21, 2016 2:26 pm #163369

I am kinda glad. If the enemies dont get more difficult as we take more ground then the rest of the mission becomes a cakewalk

K-64 · Post by **K-64** » Mon Mar 21, 2016 7:45 pm #163454

After experiencing multiple issues (certain looted guns not having proper sounds for non-shooting players, certain enemy types not appearing), I've decided to roll Leights OPFOR back to the previous version. People may need to roll their version back if they updated it recently. The latest version that is currently broken is 1.7.1.1, the working version is 1.7.1.

Also Cappy's starting an escape mission for those who are wanting ops. Just make sure that the Leights version is the correct, unbroken one though

K-64 · Post by **K-64** » Tue Mar 22, 2016 3:52 am #163546

Double posting to put up a query about mods. I've noticed that certain maps for Escape have introduced difficulties for people joining the server in progress, and I think that's due to us using a different map pack from the mission maker. So I'm thinking that we should possibly swap map pack from A3MP to CUP Terrains. As a comparison, CUP Terrains features these maps:
- Rahmadi
- Sahrani
- Southern Sahrani
- United Sahrani
- Porto
- Utes
- Chernarus
- Chernarus Summer
- Desert
- Takistan
- Zargabad
- Shapur
- Proving Grounds
- Bukovina
- Bystrica
- Takistan Mountains

Meanwhile, A3MP, which we currently use includes:
- Proving Grounds
- Shapur
- Utes
- Chernarus
- Takistan
- Zargabad
- Bystrica
- Bukovina
- Desert

So, there's a fuckton more maps, but of course the downside is a substantially larger download size. In total, it would be 8GB compared to the 1.3-ish. However I think the fact that a couple of the maps that are already in the list have the core module as a dependency means that people who have already downloaded the list already have the CUP Terrains - Core module already downloaded, which shaves off a tidy 6GB. Since this is a rather big change to the mods, I figured it'd be the type of thing to throw around here and see what you guys think before making any changes. My opinion on the matter is that the additional maps, and compatibility offsets the increased download size

Timbrewolf · Post by **Timbrewolf** » Tue Mar 22, 2016 10:15 pm #163756

Yeah, according to my Arma3 folder it's actually 36gb of bullshit downloaded altogether.

Playwithsix is LIES.

EDIT: Can we maybe look into using this instead? I think something about PlayWithSix purposely downloads everything twice or some shit.

http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=22199

EDIT 2: Actually this doesn't work in an idiot-proof manner like playwithsix does.

Post by **oranges** » Tue Mar 22, 2016 10:24 pm #163762

lets use git to manage the mod folder!

Timbrewolf · Post by **Timbrewolf** » Tue Mar 22, 2016 10:26 pm #163764

oranges wrote:lets use git to manage the mod folder!

If we can just do a little bit of work on our own we could potentially turn this ArmaSync thing into something that works for dumbasses.

We need to either

A) Assemble our own mod repo and host it somewhere we can edit/update it and download it with a decent bandwidth

B) Go around collecting repo addresses for each individual mod we want to use and compile that into a list for people to import to ArmaSync

K-64 · Post by **K-64** » Tue Mar 22, 2016 11:48 pm #163787

Well, I went ahead with the changing of map-pack. Seeing as PWS already downloads most of it anyway.In theory, the only observable difference is having nearly twice the amount of maps in exchange for re-downloading 1GB worth of stuff.

Timbrewolf · Post by **Timbrewolf** » Wed Mar 23, 2016 3:38 am #163886

Figured out one source of bloat:

PWS downloads compressed versions of everything, and then decompresses them to install them.

By default it keeps both files for some dumb fucking reason, doubling the size of your mod folder.
Seriously the compression is so shit I wonder why they even bother doing this.
A lot of the file transfers are peer-to-peer so it's not like it's reducing bandwidth costs for any central server.

This software is such almighty shit holy fuck.

K-64 · Post by **K-64** » Wed Mar 23, 2016 4:08 am #163896

I'm assuming with the "by default", you can change it so that it only keeps a single copy?

Post by **oranges** » Wed Mar 23, 2016 4:10 am #163898

An0n3 wrote: A) Assemble our own mod repo and host it somewhere we can edit/update it and download it with a decent bandwidth

I got this bit

Timbrewolf · Post by **Timbrewolf** » Wed Mar 23, 2016 10:44 pm #164111

Well then talk to K64 about it, I aint no computer wizard.

EDIT: Going to have to take a break from operations for a hot minute. My job is ramping up some more, I'm becoming a bit of a workaholic.

I've loved operating with you guys. Really, honestly loved it. Fucking around in games like this is exactly what I want out of gaming and I'm going to miss it. In addition to work I want to focus more on my music and the talent I'm trying to cultivate there, plus I've got a bunch of mixed-media projects I'm working on elsewhere too.

I'll be back some day, but I've got to accomplish a few more things before I can free up the time to goof off and execute Wyzack for not letting a POW sit on his lap in the IFV.

Don't give up fighting though. Altis hasn't been taken over yet. To that end, here is this:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/c2z6kgvavodnn ... ofile?dl=0

The save file for our Liberation game. It's kind-of weird, but basically you should rename it to <hostname>.vars.Arma3Profile and then drop it in your (C:\Users\<yournamehere>\Documents\Arma 3) folder. If you play using a second profile it goes in (...\Arma 3 - Other Profiles\<hostname>).

Eg. if cappy was going to host, rename the file Upgradecap.vars.Arma3Profile and drop it in C:\Users\SwedishDeathMachine\Documents\Arma 3 - Other Profiles\Upgradecap

So long and thanks for all the fish.

K-64 · Post by **K-64** » Thu Mar 24, 2016 5:55 pm #164285

That sucks, man. Don't worry though, I'll keep the kebab-removal quota met by any means necessary.

EDIT: Gonna be trying to escape from Sahrani soon-ish (like between now and 30 mins time) so those with the updated map pack will be able to join.

K-64 · Post by **K-64** » Fri Mar 25, 2016 8:56 pm #164423

Right, two pieces of news-ish stuff. Firstly, the modpack has been modified... again. Don't worry, it's nothing as ridiculous as changing map pack or anything like that. I've just added Thirsk to the list of maps. So it's an additonal 266MB for a pretty awesome map. Secondly, there will be operations at approximately midnight GMT. So that will be roughly 3 hours from now.

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Fri Mar 25, 2016 11:26 pm #164458

My little brother finally got his own copy of Arma 3 so he is going to be joining us for operations. He is less of a shitty noob than i am, and i think he actually knows how to vehicles and stuff

K-64 · Post by **K-64** » Fri Mar 25, 2016 11:48 pm #164463

And you both have the mods installed and updated, right?

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Sat Mar 26, 2016 8:59 pm #164655

Well last night was pretty fun despite the hilarious mishaps. Tedward got blasted off of a crane twice, every single truck we found got destroyed before we could use it, and we ended up losing to unavoidable ggnore fuck you artillery simultaneously killing everyone

tedward1337 · Post by **tedward1337** » Sat Mar 26, 2016 9:14 pm #164657

You think I would've learned the first time
But that crane just kept asking for more. Also I jumped off a building quite gracefully as a highlight to my night

1g88a · Post by **1g88a** » Thu Mar 31, 2016 10:57 pm #165918

Oh shit I didn't know this place had its own ARMA crew. May hilarious friendly fire incidents follow you wherever you go.

K-64 · Post by **K-64** » Sun Apr 10, 2016 3:18 am #167862

Well, Upgradecap found the best mission ever. Basically Mad Max deathmatchy stuff in Arma. Pretty much just strapping the most ridiculous props and weapons onto civilian vehicles then shooting each other with them. I managed to make a truck soar majestically through the sky... for about 10 seconds.

Timbrewolf · Post by **Timbrewolf** » Sun Apr 10, 2016 3:41 am #167863

Suddenly I have a lot more time for OPS.

WE'RE COMING BACK, BABY

tedward1337 · Post by **tedward1337** » Thu Jun 23, 2016 1:48 pm #189268

Necroooo
Who's ready to get hog wild. Let's get a game going tomorrow sometime. I was thinking around 3:30 or 4pm EST

Timbrewolf · Post by **Timbrewolf** » Thu Jun 23, 2016 1:52 pm #189270

There's new DLC so we have a whole new island and new toys to go be pieces of shit on.

There's a co-op campaign either coming out soon or out now I don't know.

peoplearestrange · Thu Jun 23, 2016 2:06 pm

Ooooooooooooh I'd be up for that again!

Probably can only do weekends given the crazy time difference

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Thu Jun 23, 2016 2:09 pm #189276

>Episode 2: The Freedom Strikes Back

These democratically elected tyrants wont know what hit them (it will be bullets)

peoplearestrange · Thu Jun 23, 2016 2:13 pm

Wyzack wrote:(it will be bullets)

And maybe my danger incredibly close arty :3

Wyzack · Post by **Wyzack** » Thu Jun 23, 2016 2:14 pm #189279

>Wyzack has been killed

Timbrewolf · Post by **Timbrewolf** » Thu Jun 23, 2016 2:20 pm #189281

Time to make America great again boys

Time to go to the jungle and have 'nam flashbacks

Time for drone strikes

Time for fucking awesome looking helicarriers