ARMA 3

[Bardolph]

I like to play as a medic every now and then as well. Helps your team, and easy points, plus you always have a medkit for when you get wounded ;)
Just wish they would put dragging bodies back in but apparently it was being used to grief people.

[Jack Nastyface]

Only problem I've been having is that sometimes when I go into the control options menu mid-flight, the game stops detecting my HOTAS all together and I have exit and reload the game. This is a new problem that I have never experienced before. No idea if it is hardware or software related.

I have the exact same thing happen with my crappy logitech extreme 3d pro...also does it when I fly fixed wing.

Also FWIW...I tried do the medic thing, but there are a lot of guys who do what I call "revive camping", meaning they simply over-watch an guy who's down and wait for the medic to come do a revive. I've started to use the explosive / fatigue combo for my perks and load up with the MX (early levels pick the katiba) with an grenade launcher.  I've used the GL with deadly efficiency against landing helicopters, and with a bit of practice, I can now put a grenade through a tower window from about 100m out.  Once I'm done with the grenades, I just go regular rifleman mode, which means I usually die versus all the dudes with the 9.3 Navid mg.  The fatigue perk just let me run from house to house without slowing down, which is helpful since I tend to run around a lot (I always get killed when I just stay in one small area).  There are some guys that must either have amazing rigs or really hot skillz.  I got into a long distance shooting match with one guy, and he took me out with the 5.56 standard ish weapon at over 100+ yards.  I've finally started to have some games (not many, but a few) where I am getting more kills than deaths.  I think that mostly it depends on the guys I ended up playing with.  I can't tell you the number of times I've played where a helo pilot decides to land in a hot LZ, or where a Irfit driver doesn't pop smoke before stopping to disembark, and everyone gets wasted. Final note:  during one game yesterday, I put a satchel charge on what I figured would be the mostly likely path to a tower, and detonated the charge when a two man team was approaching.  The bodies actually FLEW...

[Toonces]

Ahhhh....I was wondering how you get the grenade launcher.  I just thought the Katiba couldn't carry one.  I'm gonna try that instead of ammo or medic next time.

WRT medic, I HATE when guys get killed and know they're being camped and don't esc out.  I've gotten pretty good at spotting those guys; if someone is laying in the middle of a street and we're close (~150m) of the obj I'm probably going to leave them there.

Nah, who am I kidding.  I try to revive everyone I see.  New lives don't cost anything!  But seriously, when guys get sniped the really ought to just esc out. 

[Skoop]

It almost sounds like your playing Arma's answer to the Battlefield series.

[jomni]

It almost sounds like your playing Arma's answer to the Battlefield series.

KotH does feel like Battlefield.   Getting into the action is quick as opposed to other game modes which are slow going.

[Toonces]

Yeah, it's pretty much just quick fun, kinda like eating Lays potato chips.  Tasty, but it doesn't really fill you up like a good steak.

Still, I do enjoy just getting on and shooting guys.  It's not as frantic or clicky as Battlefield/CoD are I think.

[Jarhead0331]

Now my throttle has stopped working altogether in ARMA3. I have no idea what is going on...I know its not the throttle because it works in other games. I've tried changing the USB config., unplugging other devices, etc. Nothing seems to be getting it work. So weird!

[Jack Nastyface]

Hmm...starting to have some doubts about KoTH, even on the HC Infantry only servers.  Just finished a game where I found a couple new forms of gameplay griefing, one of which was to purposely land a loaded helo right in the middle of a hot enemy LZ, and another one which is to gloat "PWNED" on global chat when you kill someone.

[Toonces]

Hmmm.  I've never seen that.

I had just about the best run I've ever had flying the Pawnee last night.  I had about 30 solid minutes of gunning, maybe 3-4 rearms before I finally got shot down.

I had a few other good runs that included (twice) getting shot down but crash landing, getting out and using my engineer perk to fix my bird, and then getting back into the fight.

I ended up down about $10k for the night because the server reset on me once, and I got shot down several times in a row through a combination of poor flying and just some ace ground guys, but it was still fun. 

[Toonces]

Had a nice, solid $20k match tonight.  If you go infantry and can rack up some kills or other XP granting evolutions, and then win the match, the money really rolls in!  Now to go trash some more Pawnees!

[Jack Nastyface]

Yeah...big challenge is to get on the winning team, from the beginning.  On a recent game, three hummingbirds were landed right close together, so I just couldn't resist but blowing them up with my satchel charge for the big $1200 win.

[Toonces]

That's awesome Jack.  I'm still not employing demolitions effectively.

I did rack up some serious points with my grenade launcher last night.  I was on this balcony near the objective and this enemy helo lands and starts dumping off troops.  I was pretty far away so I lobbed one and it looked like it was a short round, plus I was a bit late getting the shot off, so I didn't think I hit anyone.  For the next 3 minutes I was getting kill assists, though, about a dozen of them, so I guess I hit something!

Next round I had an incredible time.  I took up a Pawnee and flew the same helo for the entire round.  I got shot down once when I was hanging over the castle fort, just hovering about 10' off the ground looking for targets.  I was there for about a minute and I guess a sniper got a bead on my head and took me out.  So I was killed but my helo fell the 10' on its skids and just shut down, but wasn't destroyed.  I respawned, caught a ride back to the zone and did a parachute drop out of my ride to the castle, used my engineer perk to repair my pawnee, and then flew it back to base for a full repair.  SWEET!  I got shot down one other time by a jet, but I mostly decoyed the missile with flares and only got some shrapnel so I was able to get it down, repair it, and then get back to base again for a full repair.

Good round but I only cleared about $7k at the end of the round.  I get a ton of kill assists but I have real trouble closing the deal with the full kill.

[Jack Nastyface]

Woot! Just saved up $100K to buy the third perk!  Maybe now my gaming experience will be: "spawn-fly into AO - parachute - LAND - then get killed".  Normally I don't make it to the landing stage...

[undercovergeek]

i was going to take some screenies of my last gameplay but the first half hour was 'get in chopper, get shot down, respawn' x5, 'get in chopper, read all the passengers saying 'DONT FKNG LAND!!!!' this time, get shot down, respawn x5', some 'get in vehicle, spend 5 mins driving to combat zone, get shot by tank' x5..........

but when you land, parachute down successfully, its a thing of beauty and takes all the pain away from the previous attempts to get there

[Jack Nastyface]

I hear you.  I am almost only playing on the Infantry Only Hard-core servers.  Second choice are the Infantry only servers, third are the hardcore (full armory) servers.  I get really p*ssed when some dude in an Irfit with an AGL or a Gorgon starts auto-cannoning a LZ, etc.