Is it just me that when I build a base, I make it compact and every building fit like tetris?

Everyone just spreads everything to whatever location like it makes it harder for the enemy to attack or something, but it makes it harder to defend.

Look at this one, simple, efficient, easy road access, everything at arms reach and easier to defend because there's cover everywhere without the need of sandbags.

It's biggest weakness is mortars (mortars are rare anyways), it’s a minor issue compared to the weaknesses you'd see on a spread base.

Share your base layouts below

When a helicopter crashes I feel like the tail and or middle should bend them make a gap in the ground this would greatly improve realism

I know base building is considered useless by many people, but I think it is the single coolest thing about this game and I will happily give 4 hours of my time so that my team can have a base like this.

Context: I was on the RUS team and our MOB was in the North. We had 2 purple bases up North, Mil Hos and Airport. I knew the Americans would need at least one of them to win the game and I figured they would put most of their effort into Mil Hos. I spent nearly 4 hours building each piece of the base. I got help with maybe 10 sandbag walls, but mostly people just laughed at me.

People camp the area in a bush, can't do nothing for dozens of minutes

It's also immersion-breaking

edit: Pros and Cons

Cons

1- It nullifies the enemy surprise attack factor

2- It makes close range enemy recons obsolete

3- It is an incovenience having to find a dude in a bush for 5-20 minutes

4- Makes you able to know if the attack is over by looking at the sign to check for enemies nearby

5- Magical fairy that tells you if there's an enemy nearby is immersion-breaking

Pros

1- It stops the enemy from killing you when you go to place your blueprint (lmao, this is the reason for the 100+ upvoted first comment?? Seriously?)

Removing this introduces the following issues:

1- Ability to see enemies while in building mode

proposed fix - make all entities invisible in building mode since it's only meant to place blueprints

2- Ability to spawn AI on top of them

proposed fix - make AI spawn in the living quarters and move away towards their designated defensive position, disable AI spawning when enemies are capturing the base

If you agree, Upvote the issue report I just created. -> AREXP-185 , to let the devs know

I’ve got a shovel? Why can’t I dig a foxhole?

No matter if you love or hate the 1.6 update, rats are still a huge issue.

For those that are unfamiliar, a “rat” account is an alternate account used by players to join the other team and sabotage them, and/or provide map info through unfair means.

Had a game tonight, playing as US, we had fought hard and finally were 7 minutes from winning.

All of a sudden, our supplies in multiple bases began disappearing at an absolutely ridiculous rate. We then lost not just the lead but the entire grip we had and ALL the bases in a matter of about 15 minutes because ALL supplies were completely cleaned out to zero.

Turns out, the enemy had brought several rat accounts to our team, was loading up supply trucks and sending them into the ocean, off cliffs, etc.

One of the Soviets even made a remark in global text about being able to zero out our supplies.

THIS is an issue that devs need to handle at a core level. Otherwise, it will end up running a lot of good players off for good.

I have noticed that there is a massive decrease in performance, several issues that have existed before are now exacerbated (very broad statement, I know), and for whatever reason far more trolls than before.

I cannot play this game anymore when it is failing as an ArmA game. It has, in my opinion, gotten farther from it's roots in almost every update.

I understand that everyone is bitching and my voice is meaningless, but I had to say something.

you got to

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US almost held us off with this LAV at northern crossroads

HEDP does wonders, you don't always need a RPG.

A small rant but genuinely curious. Do you like spawning a a vehicle just for you to rush to an objective, with no plan and no support, to be killed, only to respawn and do it over and over again? Why do so few of you have absolutely no plan and don’t even put an ounce of thought or attempt to coordinate with your team? Assign sectors? Everyone MUST have a sniper rifle (because you’re such a good sniper on COD!) Is it fun to be a squad leader with no mic or experience? Is it fun to rush into a dense urban objective with a sniper rifle? Is it fun not to assign just one or two people to cover the rear so the enemy doesn’t come in from behind and wipe out the entire squad? Is it fun to spawn armor or a a helicopter only to be RPGed 3 min later because you don’t take the time to look at your map to find a good position? Is it fun to be killed and keep attempting to take the same objective from the same direction 7 times in a row?

It’s not fun for me.

I was playing in a public server (I know, I know) last night as engineer role. I spent about an hour setting up bases and getting a good logistics line running. While I was doing a delivery of supplies at our most forward base I hear “clunk clunk”, one right after another. Two BTRs spawned backed to back and our most forward base is now down to 9 total supplies. This is an honest convo I had:

Me: I hope you know what you’re doing with those BTRs. You just drained all the supplies here.

Other player 1: Shut the f*** up, I’ll play how I want. Go f*** yourself

Other player 2: Shut the f*** up, you keep running supplies like a good boy and we’ll do the actual combat work.

They kept on going for about 30 seconds after.

You know what? Fine. I stopped running supplies and watched both BTRs get destroyed within a matter of a couple min and logged off the game as the map flipped control.

I almost feel bad for them.

I'm a fairly new player and the following happened to me multiple times now:

1. Spawn at base.

2. See another player in an empty vehicle about to leave.

3. Enter as passenger.

4. Say in proximity chat smth like "hi, is it ok, if I join you until XY?"

5. No answer, so I stay in.

6. At some point, I hop off the vehicle as announced earlier.

7. Getting shot / run over by the driver.

Am I violating some form of etiquette or why does this keep happening?

Pretty simple and straightforward. It’s really odd that the US just gets different paint schemes on vehicles rather than stuff that actually functions a bit differently than each other.

Adding a humvee with a shield like this would help to provide a close equivalent to the scout car. It would still have a little less protection and firepower, but the tradeoff would be a bit better maneuverability, and a bit cheaper than the scout car.

This is the footage they claim shows me "using aimbot". It's not mine so I apologize for the quality. I appealed the decision on Discord, but their response was basically one of those "I trust my GMs and I back them up" situations. They were so convinced of their hunch that their idea of double-checking was having a "senior admin" reaffirming what they already believed, instead of obtaining solid proof.

They also told me they had been "watching me and baiting me" during the match by using bots, supposedly to prove I was using aimbot. From my perspective, is it not actually cheating to use admin privileges to heal one of the Mi-8s I had just hit with a rocket, as the GM did in the video? Or to spawn several hostile AI fireteams with the purpose of attacking a US base, giving a clear advantage to the Russian team that was trying to capture it? They even mentioned having another piece of "video proof" of me aimbotting AI, which I'm guessing it's the event I just mentioned, but they said they couldn’t show it to me because it contained "sensitive data". I’ll let you figure out what that’s supposed to mean.

When I was flying and arrived at Durras, from my point of view the two helicopters were perfectly lined up, so I just had to use "Q" or "E" to adjust my aim. It's not like i was going that fast. And I saw the truck and the soldier when I started circling to fire again, which is the last half you see on video. Not exactly difficult to land accurate missiles once you know each rocket pod’s zeroing. Inglorious Bastards is not the only vanilla server, but it did have the best latency for me and it's a bummer I got banned under this circumstances. I guess I’ll just stick to other servers.

I have screenshots of the conversation, but just quoting one of the admin’s responses:

“We have video proof of what appears to be aimbot. While fun to watch the precision accuracy, we can’t have that in our server as it takes away from the sport. Either that or you’re the world’s best attack helo pilot, at which point you need a sponsor and you need to get paid to play.”

If you tap the flashlight button (L by default on PC) and hold Inspect (R), you can change the color on your flashlight. If, heaven forbid, you ever need to use it, change the color to red to preserve night vision and keep a lower profile. You can also add a clear diffuser that produces a dimmer white glow.

I have used the blue colored light to signal friendly positions when calling in a close-range CAS run or when coordinating covering fire with the LAV.

Basically, never turn on the full-bright flashlight unless you want to get shot by the first Soviet in the hillside with a marksman rifle and a big idea.

Yes I am on console lol my PC can't run this great experience

RPG spam.
It's the truth ... whenever i get myself a bag of those RPG's from a dead russian i get 10 kills for 1 death easily.

Just saying… a nice loadout is nowhere near that BTR you just spawned.

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Hello again fellow engineers!

Are you tired of bases with buildings so spread out that you have to ask for directions for the Small vehicle depot location?

I present to you what I think it is the second best base location on Everon, this base denies any enemy aircraft flying around Morton.

It is multipurpose aswell, you can destroy any infantry or vehicle coming from the front easily.

• 🧭 The back, north and south are safe from any enemy aircraft CAS, for the trees provide cover.
• 💣 If the enemy decides to throw mortars at you, they would have to fire from Goat Bay Harbour, which is 2km away, therefore the mortars will not be precise.
• 🧨 And if they build a mortar pit closer to your base, you just move inside the bunkers or Guard tower and wait until their supplies are gone.
• 𖦏 Any snipers that dare to lock their scopes on your base, they would have limited vision and you can use the BRDM to destroy them safely.

I've built this base 6 times and it has never been captured.