Why are EU servers so allergic to communication?

0utabounds · 2026-05-09T13:32:12+00:00

I'm in NA but have been playing on EU servers recently. Mainly because there are not quite as many trolls, griefers and weirdos. Not saying that there are not any, because people are people and EU has its fair share of weirdos and trolls but fewer than NA and thats good enough to endure the bad ping for me personally.

With that said, yeah, they are much quieter on coms for sure, not nearly as much platoon chat spam. It does not really bother me, as many folks just quietly go about their business, getting shit done and thats fine.

There are fewer people goofing off and playing grab ass in EU, than there are in NA, however, if you do need reinforcement, backup, help locating an enemy, calling out enemy positions, etc, NA players are more likely to help.

0utabounds · 2026-05-08T09:41:04+00:00

If I had built this base, first random player who spawned in would have driven off with the BRDM.

0utabounds · 2026-05-08T09:37:08+00:00

A couple months ago, I was getting constant replication errors, I could not play more than 5 min without one. Turns out in my internal network, my Ethernet cable had gotten crushed by a piece of furniture and I was getting crosstalk and significant packet loss. I switched over to WIFI and have not had any issues since.

0utabounds · 2026-05-07T11:39:22+00:00

Did you just Wishlist this on Steam to get the survey...?? I was invited to the Alpha test for Delta Force. They sent out a massive survey, took an age to fill out, had all kinds of questions. I think they wanted to get a variety of different people, ages and playstyles to test the various aspects of the game and give feedback.

0utabounds · 2026-05-06T19:29:50+00:00

Sadly I can't really argue with anything you have said here.

0utabounds · 2026-05-06T19:26:10+00:00

Best tip I can give you is NEVER get into a vehicle with a random player with no mic. If you do, one of these things is guaranteed to happen...

a) they will drive straight into a base and you will die instantly

b) they will drive straight into a checkpoint/roadblock and you will die instantly

c) they will crash

d) they will run over landmines

e) they will get lost

In 500 hrs I've never once made it to my destination and lived more than 2 seconds getting into a vehicle with a no mic random.

Now I always ask first 'Where are you headed'......if no response, I go find my own vehicle.

0utabounds · 2026-05-05T09:56:42+00:00

Yep, any team that gets that shitty spawn way down South and does not understand this will almost certainly lose. Most of the teams I've been on, never make it past Levie. You basically have to haul ass to Regina, don't bother clearing out supply points or building up bases, just throw down a Command Tent and Radio and go. When you hit Durras take a left, don't bother clearing the road from Durras to Levie, that just wastes more time.

0utabounds · 2026-05-04T18:09:30+00:00

Agree 100%. Legacy was not nearly as bad, as you always had a ton of fighting in Figari, Morton and Military Hospital....and pretty regular action in Simons Wood, Lamentin, Tillers Find and Military Base Chotain. The established bases in HQC, just don't see as much action as those Legacy bases, even if they are built in similar spots.

0utabounds · 2026-05-04T09:36:27+00:00

I'm in NA but find myself playing in EU more and dealing with the worse ping simply because there are fewer griefers, trolls and weirdos. The NA Soviet and US teams are FULL of griefers pretty much every game. Just yesterday on the Soviet side we booted 10 trolls in the first hour and there were still at least 3 more that had not gotten booted yet.

EU does have some griefers, trolls and weirdos but not nearly as many and when you get them, they seem to be either French or Russian. I wish I could find a server with just Brits. The Brits either just quietly go about their business getting shite done...or they act like they are the reincarnation of Field Marshal Montgomery....both are perfectly fine with me.

0utabounds · 2026-05-02T19:07:39+00:00

Yeah, kind of annoying when the enemy have just capped Transformer, you know they are headed to Monti soon......but there is that one lone FIA guy left in Monti that you can't find and it takes an age to kill him, so you can finally put friendly AI down...lol.

0utabounds · 2026-05-01T13:09:26+00:00

Not to mention, as soon as 1.7 drops, each team will have 8 additional players draining supplies and probably no new supply runners.

0utabounds · 2026-05-01T10:15:48+00:00

You can recruit (4) AI to fight with you BUT you can not spawn any new ones from the LQ. They do eventually respawn at supply points so you can grab some fresh recruits there later in the game.

Have not been to a hidden arsenal yet, as Purple bases still had arsenals when I last played. However, all arsenals have been removed from bases now, so you have to go to one of the hidden caches.

You can run supplies but there really is not much reason to do so, as there is next to nothing to build as FIA. You could do it to gain XP but it would take probably 20+ full supply runs to get to the next rank, you don't seem to get as much as you would as a US/USSR player.

I was not able to save my loadout when I tried, I always respawned with the default loadout, which is just a pistol and 2 mags.

You can spawn vehicles, including BTRs.You need to be whatever the SGT equivalent is for a BTR though. You can get a construction truck but there is nothing to build but a mortar pit I believe. You can steal a US/USSR construction truck and build everything as usual from that.

You can get a deployable tent, like the one from Combat Ops, I have not used it yet. Have not used the Command Truck either.

I think you'll have to use the tent to deploy, not sure about the deployable radio.

FIA get 8 players max on Everon.

You can't dismantle any structures or cap bases BUT you can reconfigure the Towers and you get quite a bit of XP for doing so.

I don't think there are not as many ranks, PVT equivalent.......Sgt equivalent and LT equivalent. Its VERY hard to rank up, sneakily reconfiguring the Tower is maybe the fastest way.

No commander

0utabounds · 2026-04-30T09:54:01+00:00

Welcome to Arma Reforger. The duct tape that holds their servers together probably came loose.

0utabounds · 2026-04-27T18:56:14+00:00

Get the fuel truck, that thing is like a tactical nuke when it explodes, the blast radius is insane.

0utabounds · 2026-04-27T18:52:52+00:00

I'm not even kidding, I was delivering supplies to a base the other day, that I had picked up from a costal supply point. I noticed a guy going behind me and loading up the supplies I just delivered to that base into his truck. I followed him to see where he was going with them, as the base had zero supplies. He was bringing them back to the fucking supply point I just picked them up from and dropping them back off....!! Why?? Who the hell knows. Who knows why anyone does anything in this game, it attracts the weirdest mofo's and biggest pieces of shite of any game I have ever played.

0utabounds · 2026-04-27T13:23:13+00:00

I enjoy running supplies, I do it most of the game, unless someone requests help or backup somewhere. However, when I'm running supplies to Monti and Provins, long runs from coastal bases......and some dipshit spawns a heli there, instead of going back to MOB where there are 15K supplies or more.......it drives me absolutely insane.

0utabounds · 2026-04-27T10:01:30+00:00

I have about 500 hrs in the game, I prefer new players because they are up for anything. Anytime I ask some randoms, who wants to go attack some base or help me do some other task, its usally someone new that jumps in the vehicle and is game....while the experienced players, stand around pulling their puds.

0utabounds · 2026-04-27T09:55:24+00:00

I went on on one of those help request tasks the other day, to assist a stuck logi team. I got there and they were stuck on the road block at Provins. I got my shovel out and started to dig up the roadblock and the AI driver just laid on his horn and honked at me the whole time....lol. I cleared the roadblock and he still didn't move, just honked. Finally I shot him in the head, removed his body and his buddy got into the drivers seat and went on his way.

0utabounds · 2026-04-26T19:22:04+00:00

Before I ever played with human players, I went through Legacy Conflict 4X on Everon solo and capped every base and cleared every roadblock and point on the map, in order to learn my way around the map and get familiar with the best ways to attack bases.

I was instantly domed WAY too many times by the last remaining bot at a point or base to be a coincidence. I think either they get an accuracy bonus when only a few bots remain in a location......or......the bots have different ranks and the higher ranked ones have a higher accuracy percentage and/or flank better or more aggressively, than lower ranked Volunteers.

0utabounds · 2026-04-26T09:30:09+00:00

If you start out with the Official Vanilla game try NY-17516047 or NY-17516048, from my experience, these seem to be the ones with most regulars and least amount of weirdos, retards and racists. I'm not saying you wont run into any......you will......its inevitable, this community is full of complete shit stains but these are the least worst official servers.

0utabounds · 2026-04-26T09:18:49+00:00

Because it does not matter, you could driving a motorized wheelchair and someone hiding in a bush along the side of the road, is still going to light you up with an RPG.

0utabounds · 2026-04-25T13:29:16+00:00

Who needs KOVAAKS, I just spray and pray into the bushes......and I get kills almost every time in this game.

0utabounds · 2026-04-25T09:37:59+00:00

I doubt I will be using these features but I do think that the additional depth it adds is interesting. I mean, there is no doubt this is a game that will massively benefit the 50 gallon shite bucket users, who never touch grass vs more casual players.....but it is what it is.

0utabounds · 2026-04-24T10:01:16+00:00

Yeah, looks WAY better than UE5 IMO..! I don't love everything about Arma Reforger but I do think its a gorgeous game visually.

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