Hello GOG users and owners of our ARMA : Cold War Assault

we released update to fix
1985 Cold War Crisis campaign
and many SP/MP missions

For manual patching go please here :

http://forums.bistudio.com/showpost.php?p=2060884&postcount=4

will be given to GOG team as soon as possible

Thank you. But i'm not sure which one to download? Need to patch it in sequence or just apply CWA last update?

the filesizes are 60, 65 and 140MB ... so if You unsure what You got You may get the one with last 3 updates

or wait for GOG team to update theirs distribution

This patch still isn't pre-installed on the GOG release, is it? Anyway, it took a lot of effort to find one download mirror which is still working, of all links provided by Dwarden only one was working.

Anyway, I decided to mirror it for others, hope that's okay. Here's a new download link:
ARMA CWA Patch Full

Playing the game at the moment, and loving it. I'll try this tonight. Apart from the SP missions, do you know what it fixes?

I notice that the target marker is sometimes a little off, specially when you have to enter a vehicle, but other than that the game runs fine, altough I'm only in the 7th mission or so.

Anyway, thanks for sharing this.

Sadly I don't know in detail because there's no changelog (at least none that I know of) but quite a few files are included with the patch which cover the main campaign, SP and MP missions, the Camel (WW1 plane, sadly not the animal) and other stuff. Are you playing in a widescreen resolution, maybe? The game's interface is generally a bit weird but I can't say that it's "off" - I played it in a 4:3 resolution without a noticeable offset so maybe there's some sort of offset when you play the game with another aspect ratio (I noticed that the picture is distorted when playing in a 16:10 resolution and instantly switched to 4:3).

I'm playing in 4:3, at the default resolution. I think it's a problem with the engine, as if the hud places some of the targets a few meters away from the real target. For instance, I was driving a truck, following a jeep, and the yeloow follow icon waq 10 meters to the left of the jeep. Sometimes the yellow icon is spot on... Anyway, it's a little annoying but not game breaking, and boy, the game is so good I just don't care.

By the way, do you think the manual update was added to the GOG installer, I didn't notice anything different after patching the game.

I just to think the original Ghost Recon was the best military shooter out there, it's not anymore. And the ammount of content in this game it's just mind blowing.

I'm pretty sure it wasn't. Last time I installed the game (two or three months ago) the modification dates of the files included with the GOG installer and the patch were different. And while the differences aren't very noticeable I'm positive they are there. For example I played the first mission in the campaign (the assault on Morton) in the unpatched version and got a negative result despite playing it perfectly and getting many kills, then I applied the patch and only managed to get like two kills and still got a positive rating. I'm pretty sure that's one of several issues fixed in the patch.

Sadly not all was fixed. For example it seems that the AI's sight range was increased in the expansion pack Resistance. In the original release both the Resistance and original OFP executable were included and the 1985 campaign was always meant to be played with the original executable. As a result some of the 1985 campaign missions are ridiculously hard because enemies who should be out of range will be shooting at you, screwing up the balance of some missions (especially noticeable in the tank missions). Yeah, I played OFP first and couldn't believe how bad Ghost Recon was in comparison when I finally tried it. Also I beat the OFP campaign for the first time in ten years recently and couldn't stop being amazed by it. Some of the later missions are a bit ridiculous (especially with the increased sight range which I mentioned above) but all in all it's a brilliant experience.

And speaking of old "realistic" military games - Hidden & Dangerous 1 & 2 are also completely forgotten gems. Hope they will be added to GOG eventually.

You're in luck! The first one was released as freeware (deluxe version). You can see the info at the wiki entry, or get it at http://www.gamershell.com/news_9714.html

Thanks for the recommendation; I'd never heard of it until now.

Yeah, I know. IMHO the deluxe version is worse than the original, though - I'd love if GOG offered the original game and its expansion. I don't like the visual and acoustic "improvements". Also there's a weird (cosmetic but irritating) issue where all your commandos have the same face while in the original they had unique (or at least many different) faces (I'd be able to pick my exact old squad just by looking at the faces). And I think they've removed the swastikas from the deluxe version (might be caused by my system language, though). Deluxe may be more stable though - and it certainly does run on Windows 7, I tried it just a few weeks ago, worked perfectly.

Good info to know, thanks. Actually went into hospital that night and just got home, so I hadn't even checked it out yet.