OP RED LINE [Part 2] - ARMA 3 Zeus - Beach Assault

This seemed like a constant steady uphill struggle (and not just because of the actual hill) with just infantry and constant setbacks. While it is challenging and "active", you might want to consider adding in some positive surprises as well. The players might get some unexpected air support perhaps. That would've added some extra priority for taking out the AA tank. You might have perhaps added a spontaneous secondary mission where taking out the AA tank is suddenly a requirement for extra air support. Ofc this would've added the issue that they might blow up the radio tower with the air support, skipping much of the mission. Somebody suggested that the bots should retreat, which would've been a perfect example of this. To you they are just disposable AI units ("Oh these are holding this and these are holding this"), but in reality they would've been called the hell out of there. Last man stands shouldn't really be a thing in modern warfare. Seeing the bots retreat would've been a great "F YEAH" moment for the players in the middle of the mission raising morale and making the mission more enjoyable. Edit: Having the units retreat would've given you a great opportunity to reinforce them somewhere and then conduct a major counterattack, converting the attacking players into defenders for a while. That helps to add variety to the mission and might be slightly more realistic.

Talking about retreating, have you considered a mission where retreating is the actual main point of the mission? Or perhaps tell the players to capture some location, then spawn a huge counter-attack and suddenly change the entire mission from "capture some distant location" to GTFO. This doesn't have to happen on the end point and might happen at any given moment during the actual mission. Possibly trap the players to a shoreline or something and give them a limited amount of transportation gear to escape with so that they have to make some effort for defense. Also, if you give them artillery support for retreat you can make the couter-attack larger and more epic while still balanced.

[@Luetin09]

Heres what happens when you try to get AI to retreat. They dont. Then they die. A lot of people have great suggestions that would work in a pvp situation, but would never work in ARMA Zeus. People seem to still not understand the amount of limitations there are. The AI often will flat out not obey commands because they are under fire or whatever.

Thank you for enlightening me and sorry for taking your time. :) I did consider the stupidity of the AI but I also wondered if you could make them retreat by abusing some of the AI settings like reducing their skill to 0, making them stand up, switching them to silent mode or so on.

[@Luetin09]

too finicky in the middle of a combat situation when youre trying to manage a lot of things at once. What we need is for bohemia to put a control setting that forces AI to obey whatever commands they are given and ignore everything else. I have said this for ages.

Figures. But thanks for replying! :)

[@georgemogannam855]

This is great. It's like watching a father playing a board game with his child. Sometimes pushing a little harder, but mostly observing and watching the child learn and grow.

[@varnine889]

If you enjoy those kind of stuff, you should see his zombie video.

[@Luetin09]

Live tonight from 22:30 GMT -- 17:30 EST twitch.tv/luetin come and join in the Live Zeus action

[@greenerion]

Guess who might be joining in on his phone from the plane to his new unit after completing basic training officially yesterday?

[@Luetin09]

5:58 makes me laugh every time XD so evil

[@misterdinner3648]

I think you mean 5:55, or 5:54 to be safe

[@lakewood34]

Another great video, but you ever thought about putting the ai onto the highest skill only in the main base, so there cannot be any 1v20's in the main command center.

[@GrapeFlavoredAntifreeze]

22:43 I was watching that mortar marker just hoping and praying that a shell would land. That was so satisfying.

[@KOS_Nova]

Jimbo is such a fucking badass

[@jimbospike]

Thanks :D

[@JarthenGreenmeadow]

Most impressive part of the video by far was that solo infiltration.

[@KushaggrRastogi]

You beautiful human being... Thank you for this!

[@jimelanevarez753]

You should put the viper on another mission XD REVENGE!!!

[@seanpaulladh2203]

Best Zeus mission I ever seen, and Jimbo was Awsome

[@UnknownTA4]

Next operation should be Vipers Revenge...?

[@jimbospike]

I remember this mission. It was tough gaining momentum.

[@tompeake566]

up the pilot skill so they land properly maybe just a thought😊

[@cobra412uf]

Luetin I don't know if you are still monitoring message traffic on here but do you try to use a sort of turn base strategy when managing your units throughout the fight? You seem very fair as far as what you are doing managing considering you have god view and control over what's going on. Do you limit your interaction within the game to specific events or timing? I was thinking along the lines if when X time occurs it opens say a defined mortar area 1 for command control engagement. I use to do mission scenarios in Operation Flashpoint a long time ago. Typically using triggers to set off certain actions or response changes to include sending in reinforcements or enabling say air support for triggered armored movements.

[@Art-lv2im]

I really wanna see an A-10 in action in one of ur mission

[@alex-od7mk]

Watching Jimbo reminded me of All Ghillied Up for some reason lol.

[@blakecoleman7098]

Jimbo was Doing awesome

[@tnbalex8075]

love your videos mate, are you streaming tonight at 11 pm?

[@VELCRO666]

great videos, are your missions downloadable like this one, looks really good

[@YourAscents]

Was that Ubisoft UK Frag Doll Jam who blew the comm tower?

[@DasBlarcy]

This might be a stupid question, but what's the mod allowing drag/carry bodies?

[@Matthewlet]

Darcy Gaming I know ACE allows it but he's not using ACE so

[@gamingolympian4245]

If it's not ACE, there are modules in game (hence the animations) that allow carrying and wounding of players

[@ltamez2635]

You should see how long it takes for them to fight through a maxed out viper team

[@ryanmcdonough6179]

Have you gotten your new PC yet?

[@maxmackgaming7920]

Luetn, Can you make a mission ther The team are going to take war prisiners from the enemies?

[@moonrise3241]

Can't wait see more

[@tool8204]

isn't that an old mission...I've seen that before with that last viper and stuff...O.o

[@TheDarkWiiPlayer]

maybe you should force rotlib on your missions

[@chim_0]

which server is that?

[@blakkelure]

Love these videos :)

[@brybes6006]

I'm guessing liru is freinds with you I usually watch his vids also

[@svetlanatoma3693]

sniper time

[@ipoopedtoday4260]

The fucking framerate

[@Luetin09]

welcome to ARMA. I now have a new PC build though which will help greatly with this.

[@ipoopedtoday4260]

Optimisation is tragic. Atleast I can play smoothly APEX no problem

[@Luetin09]

as I keep saying I am not sure people know what optimisation means anymore, its just become a buzz word for - 'make it better'

[@ipoopedtoday4260]

Not too sure. Maybe underestimated simulation hardware power hunger

[@ipoopedtoday4260]

Because you are stupid enough not to realise that there's shit ton of same accounts

[@calvinp.r.9026]

Why don't you guys use mods?

[@varnine889]

Not everyone is willing to download stuff. And it's not like vanilla stuff isn't full-filling gameplay-wise either.

[@Frost-01]

Luetin why do you keep on referring the Marid as a tank? ...

[@ltamez2635]

Okay, so i'm using mobile and i'm laughing at how retarded mobile youtube is. Every time i refresh it changes the amount of comments that i can see, it went from 26 to 7 to 6 to 11 to 9 and it keeps changing XD lollll

[@thebeardedastronomer]

Wong Way got so annoying, constantly going on about his chopper crash.....notice me senpai more