CTF

[KingPhilipII]

Why is it so unpopular?

[daddy_chill]

cause walking around acting like children collecting drugs and running away from zombies is the in thing

[KingPhilipII]

Well King Of the Hill servers seem to do well... I would figure capture the flag would be the ♥♥♥♥ on arma 3....

[daddy_chill]

king of the hill is trash and poorly made... AAS or 88ctf are fantastic
http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=25888

[KingPhilipII]

Is it trash because you want Me to download this whatever it is and play on your 88th ctf servers??? I play on an AFC KOTH server and have had many much fun.. All day in fact.

[daddy_chill]

Originally posted by sabiba87:

Is it trash because you want Me to download this whatever it is and play on your 88th ctf servers??? I play on an AFC KOTH server and have had many much fun.. All day in fact.

um do we brain?... im just giving you a link to download the ctf maps ive got nothing to do with them at all.

[Wolfy]

Very hard to follow all the broken english here, but I'd be able to guess a few reasons CTF isn't popular.

For one, Arma is an engine designed for military simulation. The game creates scenarios in which realistic military situations can be achieved.

Throw out Dayz, Epoch, Arma Life and all those other mod/standalone types. Those mods deserve their own forum, because they are not Arma.

In Arma you can create scenarios in which one team, or force, is tasked with retrieving intelligence (in the shape of a laptop, vehicle, etc.), which is followed up with a return to base. Opfor, opposing force, will be tasked with guarding said objective, thus creating a CTF play.

Arma does not do well making "black and white" gamemodes, such as TDM or CTF. Arma just isn't Call of Duty. It requires much more depth and insight. Take a look at the editor and a few videos, if you play around with the modules you should be able to make something neat.

[Fast Pooper]

Originally posted by Wolfy:

In Arma you can create scenarios in which one team, or force, is tasked with retrieving intelligence (in the shape of a laptop, vehicle, etc.), which is followed up with a return to base. Opfor, opposing force, will be tasked with guarding said objective, thus creating a CTF play.

Arma does not do well making "black and white" gamemodes, such as TDM or CTF. Arma just isn't Call of Duty. It requires much more depth and insight. Take a look at the editor and a few videos, if you play around with the modules you should be able to make something neat.

The problem is, unless you're in a dedicated milsim group, it's hard to actually be able to play these sorts of scenarios online with a group of randoms. Even KOTH (which I might add is the only half-decent gamemode that's being played at all) is nothing but YOLO para-dropping and camping.

It would be nice if someone could make some easy back-and-forth scenarios that let the players play them out with ArmA mechanics without too much effort in the brains department, because that's what we need, and that's what I think could be popular.

[KingPhilipII]

I have no problem organizing groups in KOTH... I go to the group system, send everyone and invite and usually I get a group of 4-8 players and we generally work together and win.. I won 5 games yesterday in a row because Me and My team worked together to eliminate campers and hold down the main area.

[Zlokob]

well i really think

Originally posted by Wolfy:

Arma does not do well making "black and white" gamemodes, such as TDM or CTF. Arma just isn't Call of Duty. It requires much more depth and insight. Take a look at the editor and a few videos, if you play around with the modules you should be able to make something neat.

this pretty much sums it and answers the topic.

classic arma multiplayer is barely present. mp has huge majority in those (almost) total conversion mods. the best thing to really feel original arma is to be in some sort of group, and to play created scenarios.

i myself play everything exept those life mods and breaking point. they make no sense to me. i play all classic arma mp forms like coop modes, koth, cti. and also epoch/overpoch (not to be confused with dayz epoch/overpoch, because in arma 3 there are no zombies, it's just pvp like wasteland) and wasteland can be fun for pvp, since all good old original pvp modes of arma are barely present in arma3.

[KingPhilipII]

Now I assume "classic arma mp" is One team vs another? Or Human Team vs AI? I have played hours and hours of co-op. Now Im moving on to KOTH. Found a nice server.

[Zlokob]

yea i ment on team vs team. there are still good coop aka human team vs ai team servers and i also played a bunch of time on those servers.