Should We Hate Call of Duty ?

[TheFull9]

I think if nobody ever came across from FPS games to airsoft... there'd be no airsoft. Certainly nowhere near its' current state. Plus it took a lot of lobbying to get our VCRA exemption, if the sport wasn't as big as it is (/was back in 06) there wouldn't have been the people to do that lobbying and all we'd have now is paintball.

 

[Lozart]

I think we ought to be questioning whether or not we need to "hate" anything like this. I for one am not going to be one of those sad gits sat in the corner with my arms folded and a face like a bulldog licking piss off a nettle complaining about how "CoD kids are ruining it for everyone".

Get a grip FFS, we're running about playing at being soldiers. Have a bit of perspective.

 

[ImTriggerHappy]

I think we ought to be questioning whether or not we need to "hate" anything like this. I for one am not going to be one of those sad gits sat in the corner with my arms folded and a face like a bulldog licking piss off a nettle complaining about how "CoD kids are ruining it for everyone".

Get a grip FFS, we're running about playing at being soldiers. Have a bit of perspective.

So true each to there own I say.

 

[Esoterick]

So true each to there own I say.

Yep, no problem people doing what they want as long as it's not putting anyone else at risk(e.g. overarm BFG throws)

As I said you hear stories of people doing 360 no scopes or droppping and doing some last stand naughtyness. If it does actually happen outside of forums it has to be a very uncommon occurrence.

 

[Mr Monkey Nuts]

It's not cod that makes someone an idiot.

 

[Alex34]

Don't take the mick out of me but I seriously never heard of Arma before this post... I just watched a couple of youtube videos and it is epic! I have to have it!

I can't believe it's been around for years and I had no clue! Seriously... what else have I been missing??

 

[Lozart]

Don't take the mick out of me but I seriously never heard of Arma before this post... I just watched a couple of youtube videos and it is epic! I have to have it!

I can't believe it's been around for years and I had no clue! Seriously... what else have I been missing??

Operation Flashpoint (and all it's offspring of which ArmA is but one).

 

[Fumps]

Aww I'm glad someone else has said they dont know Arma.

I'm another who's never heard of it

 

[BrightCandle]

Don't take the mick out of me but I seriously never heard of Arma before this post... I just watched a couple of youtube videos and it is epic! I have to have it!

I can't believe it's been around for years and I had no clue! Seriously... what else have I been missing??

You really need to find yourself a good community for it as well, so you can really immerse yourself in it. Its actually an amazing resource and we are hoping to use it to help train a milsim team pre event.

 

[Alex34]

Operation Flashpoint (and all it's offspring of which ArmA is but one).

Ok.

I've played Flashpoint.

I've mostly been into console games though.

My wife's PC should be able to run this no problem. It's 5th gen i7 CPU, 256GB SSD with two 2TB HDD's, 16GB RAM and a Sapphire Radeon R9 270X GPU. Will those specs run it ok? Her PC is for photo editing.

 

[Sacarathe]

I always found ARMA (2) to have too many controls to make sense of it (didnt stop me playing it for 12 hours scripted coop) - that said, I absolutely loved DCS World (even more controls, but thankfully no mouse occupying 2nd hand).

 

[Lozart]

Ok.

I've played Flashpoint.

I've mostly been into console games though.

My wife's PC should be able to run this no problem. It's 5th gen i7 CPU, 256GB SSD with two 2TB HDD's, 16GB RAM and a Sapphire Radeon R9 270X GPU. Will those specs run it ok? Her PC is for photo editing.

It should work but the graphics card might be a bit low spec. If you don't try and run it on the ultra high settings it should be do-able though.

ArmA was developed by the guys that wrote Flashpoint originally as part of Bohemia Interactive. When the developers and the publishers split a few years back the publishers continued to make games under "Operation Flashpoint" (Dragon Rising and Red River to be precise) and the developers went on to do ArmA. To use an appropriate set of comparisons ArmA is Milsim, OpFlash is an objective based skirmish, Battlefield would be your average Sunday skirmish and CoD is paintball. If you've played the ORIGINAL Flashpoint games then the almost vertical learning curve for ArmA will be somewhat familiar!

 

[Alex34]

It should work but the graphics card might be a bit low spec. If you don't try and run it on the ultra high settings it should be do-able though.

ArmA was developed by the guys that wrote Flashpoint originally as part of Bohemia Interactive. When the developers and the publishers split a few years back the publishers continued to make games under "Operation Flashpoint" (Dragon Rising and Red River to be precise) and the developers went on to do ArmA. To use an appropriate set of comparisons ArmA is Milsim, OpFlash is an objective based skirmish, Battlefield would be your average Sunday skirmish and CoD is paintball. If you've played the ORIGINAL Flashpoint games then the almost vertical learning curve for ArmA will be somewhat familiar!

What would be a good graphics card for it then?

 

[Lozart]

What would be a good graphics card for it then?

Sorry, just did a bit of research, seems it should be fine! I'm an Nvidia man so I'm not terribly up to date on Radeon GPU specs.

Give it a go and see how it does. There's a lot of fancy visual effects in ArmA if I remember correctly (it's been a while since I played it) that can be turned off to help out the GPU (things like motion blur and bloom which don't actually look very realistic anyway).

 

[Colonel Kurtz]

Don't take the mick out of me but I seriously never heard of Arma before this post... I just watched a couple of youtube videos and it is epic! I have to have it!

I can't believe it's been around for years and I had no clue! Seriously... what else have I been missing??

Dayz, zombie survival game, started as mod based on Arma2, currently in alpha stage of a standalone, prob still not worth buying yet unless already big Dayz fan

 

[Baz JJ]

I do wonder if this constant reference to upgrades that we see, even from people who have yet to play their first skirmish, is a product of kit upgrade bonuses on games?

 

[Alex34]

Sorry, just did a bit of research, seems it should be fine! I'm an Nvidia man so I'm not terribly up to date on Radeon GPU specs.

Give it a go and see how it does. There's a lot of fancy visual effects in ArmA if I remember correctly (it's been a while since I played it) that can be turned off to help out the GPU (things like motion blur and bloom which don't actually look very realistic anywa

I do wonder if this constant reference to upgrades that we see, even from people who have yet to play their first skirmish, is a product of kit upgrade bonuses on games?

Don't think so... Airsoft upgrades are essential is some aspects.

 

[skarra333]

Sorry, just did a bit of research, seems it should be fine! I'm an Nvidia man so I'm not terribly up to date on Radeon GPU specs.

Give it a go and see how it does. There's a lot of fancy visual effects in ArmA if I remember correctly (it's been a while since I played it) that can be turned off to help out the GPU (things like motion blur and bloom which don't actually look very realistic anywa

I do wonder if this constant reference to upgrades that we see, even from people who have yet to play their first skirmish, is a product of kit upgrade bonuses on games?

Don't think so... Airsoft upgrades are essential is some aspects.

I'm not sure about that... I'd say that to those who haven't even played a skirmish as yet - video games are probably why they talk about upgrades etc.

They won't know one way or another about which stock hop-up or gear systems are duff etc, but they will have been trained that stock weapons are deficient, and can only achieve a more useful existence with the right scope, grip, barrel and paint-job.

 

[Alex34]

I'm not sure about that... I'd say that to those who haven't even played a skirmish as yet - video games are probably why they talk about upgrades etc.

They won't know one way or another about which stock hop-up or gear systems are duff etc, but they will have been trained that stock weapons are deficient, and can only achieve a more useful existence with the right scope, grip, barrel and paint-job.

You are probably right. My experience with guns was before video games so my way of looking at upgrades would more than likely be different from someone influenced by FPS. Sometimes we forget how educating these FPS games can be regarding firearms and customising them.

 

[Colonel Kurtz]

upgrading things is a pretty common notion. any genre of machine that's vaguely modular will have options. airsoft websites is probably where most will look first, and they're packed full of parts.

definitely is some transference from computer games, but not a notion exclusive to them by any means.

i've not heard anyone mention themselves leveling up in airsoft, or calling ukara an unlock, but have heard people mention practicing particular elements (like 'room-clearing' skills) as if it was a virtual category with an XP value or similar, like an i-spy book of airsoft that could have skills ticked-off in