I thought now would be a suitable time for a community update, as the title suggests I have a major announcement to make, and the last community update was in March, so I think the time is right to give the community an update about the current situation at AW.
Xwatt Leaves Core Staff
As the title of this community update suggests, I will be stepping down from CS. The main reason for this is that my own personal schedule has been getting increasingly busy and with that, I feel that I cannot the devote the time to AW that it deserves, therefore the sensible decision would be to step down. @Ryko always puts it best, real life comes first and must be given priority. I'd like to thank @Mark T for giving me the opportunity to become a Core Staff member, and I would like to thank the current CS team, and the staff team for the support they have given me over the years. But most importantly, I would like to thank you, the community, for backing me and supporting the decisions I have made in the past few years in an effort to positively move this community forward.
On a brighter note, I would like to congratulate @MidnightRunner and @Norris, our new members to the Core Staff team. I have no doubt that these two will be able to make a positive impact to AW for years to come, and they have my full backing for any decision they will make. Midnight will be taking over the role of AWE manager, and Norris will be taking over the role of Public manager. I would like you all the congratulate these two, and I want you to support them wholly as you have supported myself.
I&A4
The development of I&A4 is now back into full swing, and masses of progress has been made in priming it for public release. Just under a week ago, we completed a full 100% run of the mission, highlighting the progress in stability and allowing for persistent mission progress over the span of a few days. Please continue to leave your feedback in the dedicated I&A4 feedback thread, it is immense help in aiding Ryko to develop the mission. Feedback can be anything from bugs and missing items, to your feedback in how you think mission should be played. All feedback is welcome, and ultimately will shape the end product for the mission.
AWE and Gamenights:
AWE has had a ton of progress since the last community update in March, and we will continue to support the growth and development of the server for the foreseeable future. Currently, the server is rotating maps and factions after every one run of Liberation, and this method is aiding in keeping player retention, compared to the two runs that we did in the past. Support has been mostly positive for the switch back to CUP and ACRE, and we will continue to listen to community feedback about how we can better improve the server. Be sure to attend our Liberation Sunday events, in which you can find information for that in the events section of the forum.
As for Midnights campaigns, we are currently in a transition period between moving towards a new campaign in both the Tuesday, and Friday operations. For the Tuesday campaign, this will be moving towards a zombie orientated mission, and the Friday campaign will be moving back to the PMC series, and more information about that can be found here:
Alongside Midnights missions, we have two gamenights from @BenjaminHL planned, keep an eye out on the events section of the forum for the dates of those missions.
Final Note:
As always I want to thank the community for helping us to move forward in a positive direction. I want to thank the donators for their continued support in keeping AW financially stable, even during a pandemic where peoples income may be reduced. Being a community powered by your donations is a portrayal of the support you have for our community, and we will continue to make the suggestions and needs of our community the focal point before any major decisions are made.
On a more personal note, I would like to thank all of you for the support you have given me as Core Staff for the past few years. I have absolutely loved it, and it is with regret that I have to step down, but I am in no doubt that this community will continue to live on and prosper, as it has done since it has been founded. I would like to give my personal congratulations to @MidnightRunner and @Norris, both of you have my full backing, and I am excited to see the progression of AW a few years down the line from now.
Good Point, However the warning is in place to remind these trolls that trolling in fob by any means is against the rules. It can be annoying for pilots to take out jets that buzz over I myself have died to this happening. In my opinion it should stay as it gives people a warning and stops them from just straight spraying everywhere.
Ideally it's should not happen more than one time per pilot though. 😆
This is still the best solution which has been put in place to at least mitigate the amount of noise in base. Turning off the chopper engine at base or FOB is a thing for me, but alas not all pilots. IF the chopper noise gets a little too much at base you can always politely ask the pilots to power down if waiting for an extended period of time.
Also if you want to test weapons and recoil, penetration and what not I suggest you use the editor. You can test any weapon AND you get more accurate data, like trajectories and damage indicators that you would not get firing your gun at base.
Invade & Annex has a main objective to assault and secure an area of operation somewhere in the mission terrain; and when completed, it selects a new area and creates the next main objective there. In the context of those main objectives there are usually sub-objectives, which add flavour to the main mission, which may also be mandatory to complete the main objective. Further, there are also secondary objectives; side missions which are completely separate to the main objective.
The purpose of this thread is to document what these missions are, and to allow suggestions for new sub- and secondary- objectives. We welcome your suggestions for new sub- and secondary objectives, in order to keep the game interesting.
There is a big caveat to these kinds of missions, however; ArmA does some things very well, and other things very poorly. Anything that requires the AI to drive from one point to another is just asking for trouble, so your convoy missions, reinforcement missions, and even defense missions will likely not survive from the suggestion phase. It's just too hard to figure out how to get the AI to cooperate with what you're asking them to do.
Secondary missions can fail; sub-objectives cannot. Please feel free to add your ideas to this thread and we can discuss if they can be implemented.
So, without further ado, here is the list of sub-objectives:
sorry guys, i thought i could join servers 24/7 the next weeks with you guys but today my boss told me i have to take care of all the freelancers who happend to be working with us... explain the situation to my co workers and work full time to be prepared for the time after that fan hitting shit... such things. it's complicated and i don't know the outcome for our facility that is education related and shit hitting us hard. hope we survive this situation and i certainly know we are not the only guys lost in that shit. stay save everybody! love you buddies!
also picture of one of my co workers that i can't imagine to be abandoned by us during this...
Tell your mom Karen that I love her anyways. There's no such thing like herd immunity for a (modded) virus that just popped up 4 months ago. Still not sure about you being sarcastic...
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