01-20-2011, 08:56 PM
Given that ACE2 tends to in a permanent alpha state I am not in favour of using it. It breaks more than it adds in my opinion. By using default Arma II/Arrowhead one gets a far more stable game with considerably less issues. It would avoid having to redo missions whenever class names or inheritance structures in the configs change between versions and it allows players to join games quickly as there is no requirement to synchronise all versions.
Zeus AI features are great in combat, but a side effect is that AI groups become extremely slow to move (think of how the AI in a player led squad behaves in combat, but that behaviour spread to all AI on the map). Whereas AI can move quite efficiently over large distances when given waypoints that are far apart in default Arma II, when Zeus AI is enabled they can easily take more than double the time. This can break missions when enemies or friendlies fail to appear in time. Without this undesirable side effect it would be good to use it.
The only type of addon that would in my opinion be nice to add would be custom terrain, but preferably only 'island' addons that limit themselves to dependencies on the default content, not other addons. With the enormous size of the default terrain there is more than enough space to create missions though, and I do not regard custom terrain as a requirement.
Regards,
Sander
Zeus AI features are great in combat, but a side effect is that AI groups become extremely slow to move (think of how the AI in a player led squad behaves in combat, but that behaviour spread to all AI on the map). Whereas AI can move quite efficiently over large distances when given waypoints that are far apart in default Arma II, when Zeus AI is enabled they can easily take more than double the time. This can break missions when enemies or friendlies fail to appear in time. Without this undesirable side effect it would be good to use it.
The only type of addon that would in my opinion be nice to add would be custom terrain, but preferably only 'island' addons that limit themselves to dependencies on the default content, not other addons. With the enormous size of the default terrain there is more than enough space to create missions though, and I do not regard custom terrain as a requirement.
Regards,
Sander