Arma 2 Massive Battle Video

Koku Gamer writes: "A new video has surfaced on Arma 2 gameplay. If you ever dreamed of playing a action packed war shooter, Arma 2 is exactly here to bring that. With such massive battles to include more than 1,500 A.I. soldiers into the game and let you go crazy on them. Here is a trailer to prove it. Hit the jump and enjoy your viewing."

[Shade360]

I for one can't wait.. 1,500 AI's to shoot? bring it on!

[darkmurder]

1500 AI my ass, it only lets you assign 144 of any unit to each side. So at most you will have 144 combined planes/soldiers for each side, theres 4 sides I think? so that makes it about 500ish if true.

[Cinotix]

Holly shiz, intense as heck, would love to see it on consoles.

[Wonderfulwest]

this isnt on 360 as i would get it. looks awsome

[Ziriux]

Yea I don't think the 360 can actually handle the power of 1500 something soldiers on the field.

[Marcelles25]

it will be almost identical to this game but dumbed down for consoles

[Nathan V]

awesome

[SpitFireAce85]

1500 A.I where all i saw was some dude running around
and bunch of explosions

[hitthegspot]

Ya, Agree. I never saw 1500 A.I. I saw more than 1500 blades of grass. My favorite was at about 3:20 the random shooting at the deadly blades of grass and my personal favorite, the look away shotting at 3:27. Where is the squad, what is the point, what was the objective, am I suppose to be Andy McNabb in "The One That Got Away"?

[DecayingMadness]

yeah this video just made this game look boring...

[TheIneffableBob]

ArmA 2 is amazing.

[Ziriux]

Didn't you guys see in distance, they had a bunch of soldiers, you never got to shoot at any of them, or barely even see them.

[W S K]

Operation Flashpoint was awesome!!!...and Arma too (two of the best and realistic shooters out there)

but this is nothing new...(maybe for someone who never played them ;-))
i can remember making missions in OFP with the editor where i put 5 mounted MG´s on top of a hill and about 500 soldiers were running towards it :D

and i played it with some buddies over LAN
THAT was fun!!!!!!

in ArmA i never took the time to make some missions (by that time i almost switched completely to consoles...but that´s a another story)

and right now ArmA 2 is really hardware consuming (dont want to think about how it will run with 1500 Ai´s on screen)
so at first i will need to upgrade my PC or wait (maybe about a half year) till theyve optimized it better...

everyone who got a decent PC and plays sometimes over LAN with some friends should check them all out... and btw: the mod community is very large... so theres plenty of stuff coming for this game

EDIT:
ive watched some vids on youtube.....
HOLY COW!!!
THIS GAME IS EPIC!!!
I NEED TO UPGRADE MY RIG!!! :D

here is a video at daytime ( xplosions look way more impressive in the dark ;-) )

[DecayingMadness]

woo thx for the vid, personally i like it better during the day

[evrfighter]

wow Im impressed. I've kept my pc up to date mostly throughout the years and all im missing is a quad core. I think Im bout to pick this up thanks to that vid.

[Pandamobile]

Video looks awesome!

[GAMER NOT FANBOY]

when will there ever be recoil in the weapons wtf?

[FantasyStar]

Now that's motion-blur done RIGHT! Take some notes down Guerrilla Games from BIC.

[Pandamobile]

Agreed, that motion blur looks phenomenal.

[kaveti6616]

I watched it carefully, and the smoke effects in the background disappear when the player turns to face them, and then reappear. Not only that but the texture quality of the grass was not impressive at all. And the 1500 AI probably have a few set patterns and walk similar paths with similar behavior. They're not unique, they're not going to react dynamically. Not even the PS3, nor any PC could handle that much true AI, let alone the 360.

That being said, Arma fans shouldn't jump the gun and bash me for this comment, because I am not attacking the integrity of the gameplay. If Arma is a fun game then graphics don't matter at all, so if it turns out to be fun I'm not one to criticize it as a game, but the visuals look less than stellar to me.

[Pandamobile]

So, the game looks terrible because of some particle effects bugging out and the grass textures aren't good?

And there are 1500 AI on the battlefield but depending on your proximity to them, they get simplified. But there's still 1500 soldiers on that battlefield.

Here's a video from the same guy that shows how he did it.
http://www.youtube.com/watc...

He also noted that he wasn't running the game completely maxed out, so your problems with the smoke and grass will most likely not be visible on high settings.

[overlord23]

just looked like a big fire works display with no objective just run around with nothing to shoot give me call of duty 6 sorry modern warfare 2 anyday

[Pandamobile]

They used the mission editor that comes with the game to add the exorbitant amount of soldiers.

The battle is also spread out in a large area.

[Mr Face Creamer]

I read an article around a week ago saying this needs a better system than Crysis right?

If true, then dam... My PC is going to have some tough competition.

[akhiluppal]

look at other videos of this user, his specs are average, just overclocked, this is real, the biggest battle ive had was maybe 200 vs 200, which is Alright to have fun,