Originally Posted by Bamboo

My thoughts after getting into ARMA about 1 month ago.

-Patch right away to 1.12

-DO NOT TRY THE DEMO (i did when it first came out year before last or so, and couldn't believe how much it sucked)

-Single player pretty much sucks too. I was pissed I had bought the game after spending a few days on single player, and considered uninstalling. Then on a whim I jumped into the TG multiplayer server and got hooked quick, thanks to a lot of other cool players in TG like in the 4th squad.

-I posted about this in the ARMA TG forum, but we may try to get a noobie night going, so people can come in and not feel like everyone is going to yell at them while they get the hang of it, and just play some fun easy missions. The 4th guys are working on this too.

-It really can be a resource hog, and likes a fast computer, but one guy just the other day upgraded to the new 9600GT card, that you can get for as low as $130, and he went from playing everything on LOW to allmost all HIGH he said. He had a 7900 before that. It only runs single core, but does good now with Vista 64 since the patch. They have already stated that ARMA 2 will be multithreaded (for multicore computers).

-I bought the GOLD version, but turns out it was as waste since it just has some extra single player missions, and haven't even tried them. Should have gotten the $30 basic version.

-If I just want to jump in and play and shoot lots of people, I load up PR. If I want to really FIGHT, and use cover, and be immersed in a game, I load up ARMA. PR feels like a cartoon after playing ARMA.

Think of ARMA as an updated version of the original Ghost Recon game. You can get killed by 1 shot. I have usually at least 1 time each day I play were me getting shot unexpectedly actually cause me to jump in my seat. Like I am leaning around a corner, and I catch a glimpse of a bad guy just before I get a bullet to the head.

The computerized voice bothers me too, but you get used to it.

There is more, but I suggest you check out the arma forums for it.

Also, here is a video I did last weekend just of some random fraps video.
In the video you will see the guy crawling around on the ground. It is because he is wounded and can't get up. He is trying to drag himself back to a medic.
Also at the beginning of the video, it was actually dark out, and we had NVG on, and in the 2nd clip you can see that the sun had come up, and it was bright daylite out.
Also below is a link to the full size version, and it is very worth the download. It is not as jerkey as the flash version, and it is widescreen, so it isn't squished to 4:3.

If you get the little pop up video, click on the words on the top of the video at the beginning of the video so you will go to the actual site and watch the bigger version.
[media]http://www.vimeo.com/834636[/media]

Download:
http://www.divshare.com/download/4124359-b1f

Here are a couple of the pics, but they are not as good as the original because they were way over the imageshack size limit
And as for map size, it will really blow you away. It is just trying to surround a city (the pics blow) but from the 1st shot to the 2nd, it was about a 10 min. run.

What was the name of the song in that video? By who?