2009-07-25 18:39   Posted by firstroundko108

I really enjoyed this mission. It took me 2-3 hours to complete. After hiking a couple clicks I got fed up with taking contact every 200 meters and camped out with my team to assault the next civilian vehicle coming down a road. I grabbed a civilian ural and drove through the wooded areas, avoiding roads. Eventually, I ran into a squad-sized element of insurgents and was getting hit with explosions, maybe mortars. My whole team was killed besides myself. I actually had a lot more fun doing this mission alone. I was hunted down by another squad and was able to kill them one by one from behind a tree. After that my ammo was gone so I took up an AK-74 and murdered another civilian, this time for a tractor. I drove that through the woods until it fell apart on me. The last stretch to the USMC base was quite easy and I took no contact for the last 30 minutes. By that time I was tired and deranged, just how I normally feel after missions here in Iraq. Good work Laggy, I enjoyed the videos too.

  2009-09-07 21:02   Posted by Feint

Ver 0.97 is a lot of fun in single player. I must admit that I felt a bit relieved when my squad mates started dying off. Then when there were just two of us, I felt like I could stop worrying about the horrible AI and getting down to the business of E&E. I almost wish the mission started with only myself and maybe one other random person surviving the crash.

The immersion of the dogs chasing me was cool. At first, I suspected that the dogs were just a sound effect. But then I saw the dogs and I started targeting them. The UAV circling overhead was also really cool and ominous.

Wish I could set some trip wired booby traps.

Do some patrols spawn near the player? I swear I was being very careful, then out of nowhere was a patrol within 50 meters or less of my position. That part wasn't realistic and wasn't fair since I was being so careful. It would be better if patrols were in helos and they were dropped close to where the UAV spotted me. Maybe that's what happened...

  2009-09-08 00:26   Posted by laggy

Thanks for the comment Feint,

-Shooting the dogs actually have an effect, won't tell you what though

-The enemy spawning is all done by the ACM module, available in the ArmA2 editor. It generates random forces all around you, which makes the mission extremely unpredictable. It also increases re-playability.

-Enemies shouldn't spawn as close as 50m, if that really was the case.

Hope you try it again, It will most likely be quite different next time.

Laggy

  2009-09-10 09:38   Posted by OziGrunt

Really enjoyed this mission. Took several hours to complete but I got the entire team plus one of the crew home safely just on dusk. Is the mission dynamic from your comments above? Will have to try it again soon!

  2009-09-11 03:02   Posted by theBeltFed

laggy,

I have to say that I love this mission/scenario. I was completely immersed in the environment. Keep more of this caliber of missions coming, please.

Thanks,

BeltFed

  2009-09-17 20:27   Posted by laggy

Thanks all for your positive words.

@ OziGrunt

The mission is indeed very dynamic. it is sometimes a complete killer, sometimes much easier, but you can never know in advance. Randomness is massive... a little too unpredictable sometimes, as a few players said it was the easiest mission ever made. I however, have never succeeded myself, except in "cheat-mode" during beta testing

Laggy

  2009-09-21 23:26   Posted by R.M009

WOW! I absolutely loved this mission, everything was perfect, its fairly hard and most importantly "do-able":D

Well done, Could you check out some of my missions please?



Thanks in Advance.

:satisfied

  2009-10-18 19:02   Posted by olegkr

Very bad designed mission. Got killed 100% by artillery strike. Could do nothing to evade it. 1/10 rating

  2009-12-22 00:27   Posted by nuggetz

I really like this mission but the fact that "things" know where I am at all times makes me wish it wasn't like that. Or is it? If I stay out of site of the "dogs" or what not, then no one should know I'm in the forest behind the tree but that doesn't appear to be the case. As soon as I rest, BAM, more AI surrounding me. I'm still not certain how this is scripted or what you mean by "it generates random forces all around you". That implies that "it" knows where i am all the time. I would much rather have random patrols. Maybe lots of them, but random.

  2010-02-01 07:54   Posted by laggy

Hello,

The only troops that really follow you are the dog patrols, the rest is random.
Other patrols have the chance to move in your direction, but just maybe.
The acm spawns enemies around you as well.
Mission is overall very random, sometimes people complained that it was too uneventful

Thanks for the feedback,

Laggy

  2012-03-23 06:32   Posted by Sulman

It's a well presented mission and neatly executed, but I do think it's far too hard. If it's and E&E mission the player has to have a chance to use strategy to get away - having troops constantly spawn nearby makes it virtually impossible to break contact. The scripted arty in the woods is a bit naughty too - if the player has to stay out in the open, survival is going to be virtually impossible. I counted two helicopters, two UAZ jeeps, and at least four enemy squads in pursuit at once, one of which spawned in my path.

Fun for a shoot out, but I wasn't sure what the point was beyond that.

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