http://www.shacknews.com/chatty?id=30213025

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVXsysRM3bI

I put together a quick video tutorial for the addon/serverbrowser program, Armarize.

Check it out!

Shacknews.com
Same password as always.

Running Combined Operations atm, uploading @CBA and MSO mission now.

Teamspeak 3 Server:
Teamspeak Server IP: ts.shackbattles.com
Password: boxcar

Server Name: Shacknews Co-Op
Password: boxcar

In December we (ShackTac) invited you all to come over for a vanilla Arrowhead session, with positive results and some fun gameplay. It was a good time, but I was disappointed by the "vanilla" gameplay compared to what we typically have in our modified sessions, and felt that the overall experience left something to be desired due to that. I'd like to play another joint event with the new Shacknews crop of players, but I'd also like to not revisit vanilla Arrowhead to do so - hence this interest check.

In short, we use a program called Yoma's Addonsync to manage our modset. It is a very straightforward program to use (one which we'd have step-by-step instructions for), and permits easy distribution of custom modsets. I would like to know how many of you would be interested in a ShackTac-hosted Sunday even sometime in the coming weeks that would:
1) Be based off of the 'combined arms' setup of ArmA2 + Operation Arrowhead
2) Use our modset, which includes the Advanced Combat Environment mod and a bunch of misc stuff plus a ton of community-created terrains (totals about 7.7GB of stuff to download, but it's automagically easy via the Addonsync tool)
3) Involve us playing the more typical ShackTac-style missions, both cooperative and adversarial

So, who would be game for this? It's easy for us to set it up, pass out instructions, etc, and we'd be happy to help anyone get up to speed with the addons, the addon tool, etc.

Also, does the 1-2pm Sunday central timeslot work for reasonably well for everyone?


For anyone curious, this is a pretty solid example of what our typical sessions consist of:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtxR8shCrYI

Also see this for some screens:
http://dslyecxi.com/articles/st2010/st_2010.html