Maruk released a statement about Bohemia Interactive's Armed Assault support plans as well as a new beta patch on the
BI forums.
Quote Maruk :
I would like to apologize for massive delay with finalization of Armed Assault version. Release of Arma II required much more effort than we could imagine. However, we did not forget our previous title and we still intend to leave it in as good shape as possible.
We are aware there are some critical bug fixes already in 1.16 and we also managed to do some more fixes in 1.17 that we hope may increase stability and future compatibility of ARMA I.
We intend to use 1.17 as the very last EXE revision for first ARMA.
We currently have very little resources to test this new revision and we ask the community to help with testing it. If you still have Arma 1 and have time to test this latest version please give it go and post your observations to the forums.
There is only one thing that matters in this regard is that the version 1.17 does not introduce any serious new issues not present in 1.14 (the last official version). All other issues has to stay.
We will be reading the forums in next 1 or 2 weeks and hopefully make 1.17 the final official release for Armed Assault very soon.
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Not forgotten it seems
Thanks BI.
Might have to give it a try.
An interesting turn of events. I will test just to see if it makes ArmA1 playable again without the constant crashing.
I must say, they are very committed, even for a game that already has been followed up.
Something rare to find I think. Respect that.
although there's no huge improvement, great to see that they are still patching my favourite game :thumb
now is late..
go **** yourself BIS.
you have waited the death of this game to patch it.
hope you will do something better for arma 2 because even if i hate you bunch of cech tossers i will play your game cuz is the onlyone realistic FPS around the market;and you cech tossers are profiting to much of this situation.
ah and chernarus is horrible worst then sahrani.and give us some decent building 1 of these days.
hope for arma 3 or arma 4 they will stop smoking crack so finally they will give us a good game.
you should also have more consideration for the feedbacks gave by the comunity in all these years.
Good work BIS, if the patch fixes the crashing bugs then I'd say A1 is damn close to perfect
Killer alot of people still play A1, tbh if my mate didnt crash so much we'd play A1 and stop playing A2 for now atleast, due to it running better, being more mod friendly, AI that doesnt cheat as much and ofcourse, working warfare
@killer
Your post lacks all. If you think of anything, it lacks it.
Warning level +1, next step is a perm ban.
Here on Armaholic you are free to vent your opinion, but you are not free to act like a complete headless (fill in a word of your own choice as what you seem to prefer to type should fit well here) swearing and calling names the way you do.
Go elsewhere please. We don't need posts like yours here.
@killer again.
I checked my logs, and I feel like your best don't acces our website anymore. I am not going to bother myself watching your actions.
Goodbye.
barely a few hours go by and already the ban stick comes down! Does anyone else notice how BIS beta patches seem to invoke negative responses more and more often from the community?
To me the beta's are taking me forward into better gameplay (ARMA2). No negativity from me on the matter. Rather the contrary.
But this is good news for ArmA. New beta with fixes, and BIS will listen to the community and take whatever info they get and try fix that to create a FINAL patch. Sounds rather good to me.
Viper, it's good to see Fox banned killer. He fully deserved it for how he posted, if someone posts constructively, it's fair enough and not warrant for a ban, but for his post, that was just flame after flame at Bi Studios it's deserved.
As for your post, why is it, that when they release a beta update or patch, that you are sitting there to add to the negativity? You didn't take anything positive from it, just recognised and stated about the ban stick coming down.
Sorry to say it, but if you are going to continually pull open the negatives and ignore any kind of positives, don't bother posting on a site dedicated to the games/simulators by those you're being negative toward, it doesn't help you, doesn't help the rest of us, and it sure as hell won't help BI.
I think it's great that they are still patching A1, A2 is slowly being repaired, I hate alot of the bugs inside the game, the crashes are a pain, but it happens in every game including singleplayer games that are alot smaller scale.
So instead of being so goddamn negative toward them, show a little appreciation for what they are doing for us. Alot of developers don't support older games in series as well as new games, you could at least thank them for once.
So basically what you are saying is that the brown noses of the community are allowed to kiss BIS ass but anyone else with an opinion can go away? :p I have been with BIS games since OFP/VBS1/ArmA1/VBS2/ArmA2 which not only shows that I gave BIS plenty of support over the years but also that those games cost me a lot of money that I will never get back and they are still ignorant lazy developers that have yet to realize that it does not require 14-17 patches to make a game work if you put in real effort to get it right the first time rather then just copy paste game content with each release. I have had good moments playing the games, but the increasing number of bugs and errors and crashes is really out weighing those good times meaning that I have run out of patience. Below are just a few of the reasons why:
"A list of game "features" that are a sign of how BIS has completely lost it.
Docile, unresponsive friendly AI. Super ninja elite hostile ai that can see you and shoot you with super accuracey through the useless long grass and trees and buildings and some times even through the terrain from well beyond the effective range of their weapons or yours. Incredibly dumb AI pathfinding. Broken missions. Broken campaign. More graphic bugs then I have ever seen in a game before. No concept of how real military technology works. Even at patch 1.04 ArmA2 should still be considered a beta. I have never seen such an ignorant game developer before like BIS. I just don't understand how people keep saying how great ArmA2 is when it is worse then ArmA1 was when it was first released!"
This patch does not fix ArmA1 for me at all, it still crashes for no reason.
[quote=So basically what you are saying is that the brown noses of the community are allowed to kiss BIS ass but anyone else with an opinion can go away?][/quote]
If you want to say that and take that from my post, feel free, I'm not kissing BI's ass, but I sure as hell appreciate the fact they are releasing these sorts of games. You on the other hand sit there and state you were supporting them before. If they are so damn bad.. why did you continue to support them? Yet now you've changed your story and hate basically everything they do and call them lazy. Sorry I just do not understand the logic of your so-called support of them.
Interesting how it crashes for you for no reason, but works for others, if they can't reenact the issue, how are they meant to fix it?
You're calling them ignorant and lazy, yet they are fixing issues with the games that have been reported.
Yes they seem to choose the easiest issues to fix, but over time they do indeed fix alot. Noone but the developers know what they are working on fixing. So quit guessing.
Stating they have no concept of how real military tech works.. well no bloody shit.. none of them are in the military, can't give first hand information on it, they have advisors, but an advisor doesn't put things in a game, developers do.
Saying ArmA 2 is worse than ArmA 1 when it was first released is bs and downright bloody ignorant, I too played them on first release and stand by what I say, either you forget how bad it was to start with or you're guessing or your pc is causing you issues, because ArmA 2 is far and away better than vanilla ArmA 1 and has been since it was released.
@ AAustK9
Well said friend, we all have something to bitch about regarding BI and ArmA... I think its because we care about BI/ArmA and we want it to be all it can be.
But the negitives are far out weighed by the brilliants that is the OFP/ArmA series.
@ Killer
Name one other company that supports its products like BI.... just one mate.....
I can only think of Relic with its 'Company of Heroes' series... but they still they wouldn't patch CoH if CoH 2 was out, only BI have that sort of commitment.
killers comments are all half truths and there is zero support for the BS arguements he was trying make (all in vain of course)
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