Fixed: Attaching a static defense would freeze it in the air.
Respawn Menu: Respawn hint was not showing up like it should have.
Loadout: M16A4 wasn’t shown properly in the gear menu.
Construction Interface: Russian String table hotfix.
Multiple Lock/Unlock
BETA: Localization problem on Metis and Podnos for russian version
Parameter: Volumetric Clouds
Parameter: Income System
Support Menu: Heal
Team Menu Interface: Added an overlay combo box.
Gameplay: Class Actions
Prices: Balance
Ingame Actions are now simplified.
Town balancing: Polana
Optimization: Most of the Server/Client Loops are now converted to FSM.

For more information on each of these bugs and feature requests check out this page!

You can read more on Warfare BE from our information page and try it with us by joining our ARMA 2 server! We’re working hard to get it configured properly but we are running it in cadet mode to keep it easy for all those folk that like us, are not hardcore ARMA 1 players and milsim fanatics.

With every patch that BI releases the game has become better and better. We hope you’ll test the water by joining us on vent and giving it a blast! Happy days =)

In an interview with Infinity Ward leads Jason West and Vince Zampella, the issue was laughed at and West stated categorically that “We’re just prioritizing the player experience above the modders and the tuners”. You can read the full summary of the interview here.

So does anyone have any figures on the PC / Console split? It would be interesting to see what sort of loss they are making with this decision but I am of no doubt whatsoever that it will be at least in the region of £1 million+. There have now been 117309 signatures on the dedicated server petition and at £30 a copy you only need 33333 people to cancel their pre-orders to lose a million.

Now look at the effort to code a dedicated server, you need a team to create the server side code, to create client searching code, you need to re-evaluate and possibly re-implement VAC, you need to consider the future costs of supporting this platform at a loss, that generally means releasing patches. So how far down the road have they gone with IWNET? Do the losses justify the means to go back and assist the PC community to regain their sales? I would say yes. A million pounds is not nearly enough to create a triple A PC game but it should be enough to modify your code and create a bit of dedicated server support as well as support it for a short period of time.

So then it comes down to policy, do they intend to look after their PC community, do they see the PC being part of their future? We don’t know the answer to these questions but we all suspect the worst, because to remove dedicated server support has blatantly obvious consequences, you would need a brain the size of a walnut and the foresight of a lemming not to realise the backlash from the PC community.

Still, we can live in hope that continuing the campaign might just change their minds…

1) Cancel your pre-order, not later but now. The sooner they see the dropping projection figures the better.

2) Make your voice heard in this live up and coming interview with West and Bowling.

3) Clan representatives should speak up on this IW thread. Do not use inflammatory language. Keep it simple, state what community you represent and if you cancelled your pre-order(s).

4) Spread the signatures, wear one of these. One, Two, Three, Four.

5) Sign the petition.

Click This Image To Vote, Once a Day if possible

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A huge thanks goes out to everyone that played at such short notice (Alex, Piggy & Kieu) as some of the pre-arranged players missed the start time or completely forgot. Not to worry! I must apologise to the MLC guys – I messed up the server settings so when we originally planned a score limit of 12 I didn’t notice it was left on the default of 7. So the round numbers seemed a little odd.

Anyroad, like before it was Search & Destroy and two maps were played, one picked by MLC and one by LE (fairs fair). MLC chose Overgrown and LE chose Pipeline. Results are as followed in played order.

Pipeline: 7 – 3
Overgrown: 7 -2

Again, my apologises for cocking the round limit up, next match we’ll do 12.

Thanks again to everyone that took part – it really was wicked fun!

For more information about [MLC] you can visit their site by clickin’ ‘ere!

That aside, it was a pretty damn good event where I got to fuck about with OC’ing (at the time) an unreleased 1156 socket i7 CPU on a pre-production Maximus III Genie – had this nifty feature which allows you to connect a computer to your computer and overclock it as well debug it in a friendly, understandable manner independently. What that means is, if your pooter locks up, crashes – whatever! The other pooter you have plugged in can tell you what caused it, and instead of messing within the BIOS of your main pooter, you can use the other one running the ASUS software. Very cool indeed!

So, with the rude, mannerless jerk-offs aside, I managed to tag along to the pub with the editor of Custom PC magazine, Alex Waston & managed to meet some of the reviewers from the mag (Clive Webster & Mark Mackay) freaking great lads, absolutely brilliant people – mainly because they kept my supply of booze up. Saying that though, I did have some fantastic conversations with them, obviously about nerdy shit but also about other frivolous BS that they were only probably interested in due to the alcohol consumption.

Eitherway, check me out in the fucking video! Oh yeah and I won an 1GB ASUS Matrix GTX285 graphics card.

Our results were pretty good – we got a little bit of lip from one of the 4c4 boys but we took it as jest – we’re that kind of community. Cunts!

Anyroad, our results are as follows…

Crash: 9-3 Win
Pipeline: 10-2 Win

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