ArmA 3: Antistasi Solo Ep 1- Getting Started 

Honestly it doesn't get any better even once you get far in! When they start sending full armoured columns to check out the slightest stone left out of place that leads to all kinds of nonsense

Thanks. Immeasurably.

Glad to hear these older videos are still helping people, have fun with the mission!

Same just started antistasi today and it’s awesome

It's pretty crazy it's already been a year since this went up... glad to hear you're still watching, thanks for sticking around!

Razor do you know what mods he uses I have Anastasia but I dont know how he gets such a diverse selection of starter weapons

Mods are in the description like always

@@JackArden thanks Arden

I can't believe it's been two years since this comment.

Thank you, I hope you enjoy the rest of this series too!

Thank you! I just finished this series up actually, so you've got about 12 hours of this if you enjoyed it haha

I'm glad there's still people enjoying these older videos! Good luck on your playthrough, it can get rough as a first mission

Have fun with the mission!

Yes, that one gets us all eventually haha

I think theres a mod to make the ai a little more... dumb

@@benstiffler3651 what's the mod because I keep getting raped by MRAPs and .50 cals

You better lower the AI skill from parameters.

@@The_Tank_Destroyer69420 how do you do that?

I'm glad you're enjoying the series!

@@JackArden thanks m8!

I'm glad you enjoyed it! I have to say though, the struggles in this video are nothing compared to what this mission put me through later in the series haha

Thank you! It can be a good challenge, plus dying can be quite funny sometimes

Hope your build goes smoothly!

That's interesting, no wonder it felt more built-up than the other factory buildings on the map.

Jack Arden yeah indeed. In the campaign there are more assets inside though. Stuff like broken ifrits stolen of CSAT and several tents and armories.

Sounds good, I'll have to have a look at it sometime

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Appreciate it!

That's great, congratulations! I think my first one took me 250, I don't think I'd have been able to stick it out for 500!

Wow that’s really impressive. I just started my first game yesterday.

It was a long, long time since I last played this game when I started the series! I was surprised I even remembered what zeroing was haha I feel like I'm getting a bit closer to how I used to be able to play this game in the newer videos though

I don't think you can change zeroing in Antistasi, mine's been stuck on 300 for the entire time :(

@@doinkstr you can with pg up/down. All the aks start on 350m and you have to go UP to get to 100m. Took me a bit to figure it out. Also, if you're using an optic like a red dot of some sort, it's possible the zero is locked to 300m.

@@doinkstr Possible late response, but ion case anyone else is wondering: The AKMS starts with 350m zeroing, but INCREASING the zeroing would reduce it at 100m. Weird stuff, but it works

I appreciate your support, thank you. My more recent videos are definitely much better quality than these earlier entries in my antistasi series, so I hope you enjoy those too!

Thank you for your support! I know it can be a massive pain trying to find work sometimes, you get all sorts of strange situations like people asking for 2 years experience to do a simple job- but of course you can't get 2 years of experience if nobody takes you on without it. Something will come along for you eventually though, keep your head up so you don't miss a good opportunity! I'm actually wrapping up this series pretty soon, next monday's video should be the finale of the series. I can completely understand why people don't finish the playthrough though, having to contend with the same frustrating bugs for 100hrs+ and then losing a lot of progress because one simple thing went wrong is so infuriating.

@@JackArden Yes, you are right. Arma 3 can sometimes be quite frustrating. I can't blame them :) Glad to hear that you're about to finish the series. I want to see what happens at the end. I've already watched 3 episodes. I'm going to watch all of them soon. Also thanks for your words of support. Currently, my country is going through recession, and over 1 million people have lost their jobs since last year. So things don't look bright at the moment. Since I can't find a proper full-time job with insurance, I work as an unofficial part time English teacher to make some pocket money. Anyway, thanks for your reply and kind words man.

@@hannibalbarca3860 hope things are going well

@@musicmane4146 Yes, things are much better now. I have been working and I bought my gaming laptop and finished Antistasi solo a few times already.

Well this is nice and wholesome! Glad to hear you're in a better place a few years on.

Thanks! These are pretty old videos now but there's two complete solo series on this mission on the channel as well as plenty of other A3 missions if you wanted to see more of what I did on this game.

@@JackArden I’m learning a lot about this mod from watching your videos . I have about 7000 hrs in arma3 mostly koth and exile . I’m enjoying the aimbots in this mod as apposed to the dumb down ai you find on most servers .

Are there many other full playthroughs of the mission you've found on YT? I'm curious if many other people had the patience to complete the entire mission haha

@@JackArden Not many other people have done full playthroughs. i'd do it but dont have the computer to lol.

I'd be more concerned for your sanity than your computer

I love the game mode, doesn't bother me. Usually play it with a friend plenty of fun.

Much appreciated!

It's on the scroll wheel menu

Thank you for subscribing! I'm pretty sure the only unedited videos on this channel are the speedruns I have on here

I'm glad you enjoyed the video! I hadn't played this game in a long time before recording this and seeing the AI behave like that just made me think "yes, this is the A3 I remember".

@@JackArden Not going to lie, I didn't finish the video but I am back! You speak very well and professional for having a thousand subs by the way, if you showed me this video and said the person who made it had a million subs, I'd believe it.

No worries, personally I'd end up watching an hour long video in several sittings anyway. I appreciate the praise, thank you!

I'm glad my content has helped you out! As far as I know, releasing POWs only reduces aggression from the appropriate faction, though you lower the reputation of the opposition by taking out their soldiers anyway

It seems that way, almost like they were programmed to try and dodge vehicles but they messed up and they go the wrong way instead. The worst example of this is I think when soldiers don't walk past your vehicle unless you're moving, but when you move they get closer to the car and you eventually run them over.

Glad to be of use haha

Thanks!

Thank you! My best advice is don't be tempted to just kick the mission into all-out war early on. It's a really good idea to gain the support of several towns through missions first, this allows you to get a sensible starting income while at the same time not gaining aggression you can't offset easily. When you get past that point, target resource dumps and factories, then find ways to destroy enemy vehicles whenever possible (they'll come in the QRFs to your attacks so station AA and AT around the area, for example). A big mistake I see people make (including myself in this playthrough) is not getting a solid hold over the enemy's resources before trying to drain them of their overpowered attack forces, so you get massive tank columns and air strike forces coming every time you tickle an enemy soldier. Even when you consider the mission is balanced for 8 players, the QRFs can become ridiculously large!

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Zeroing is the range at which the bullet should be expected to hit square in the middle of the sights before dropping below where you're aiming. For example, you might zero a rifle to 300m- wherever you aim, the bullet should reasonably hit directly where your sights line up. Before 300m, the bullet will hit high, past 300m the bullet will drop and hit low. It's used commonly alongside a rangefinder so that you can aim easier at a target over a long distance without having to compensate for bullet drop.

Thank you! The channel has been steadily growing over time, so we'll see how it does in the future

Jack Arden good luck mate

The best way to get money would be through passive income from towns supporting you. Missions like support, logistics and assassination would be the best as support gives you the best rewards (mainly town support) and the other two are very easy. Logistics usually just needs you to jump into a transport and drive away (or get blown up) and assassination just needs you to kill one person and it doesn't matter if you die past that.

It's a really good development on the capture the island game mode. If you like this, you'll probably think Overthrow is revolutionary. It's the same sort of CTI environment but so much more in depth with economies, resource gathering/processing and factories, local police and gang battles and so much more.

I'm using the 1.3.5 version of Antistasi, found at- steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=378941393 I'm also using the USAF, GREF and AFRF packs from the RHS collection, found at- steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=843770737 Another mod I never play without using is enhanced movement, found at- steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=333310405

The version I'm using is linked in the description of all my antistasi videos, so if you follow that link you'll be using the same one I am. The 1.8 version was an abandoned branch, the mission file was reverted back to 1.0 so that it was more stable and had fewer bugs, then development started back on top of it. We're currently at 1.3.5 in the main branch, with 1.4 to be released sometime in the future. The 1.9 version is a revival of the 1.8 branch by some of the old developers of antistasi. It's not yet on a full release, though it's possible to build the pre-release files into a mission. I think I'd recommend you play 1.3.5 (the version I'm using, again in the description of all the videos in this series) because it's the most up to date version on a full release.

@@JackArden what I would be interested in is knowing what other mods than antistasi are you using?

@@jackblade281 I'm using the three compatible RHS mods (USAF, AFRF and GREF) as well as advanced movement. RHS collection- steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=843770737 Advanced movement- steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=333310405

I played the 1.3.5 version of the mission with three RHS mods- USAF, AFRF and GREF. I also used enhanced movement

Thank you, the quality of my videos has definitely improved since this first entry in my antistasi series too!

@@JackArden nice to know m8

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Thank you, I'm glad you enjoy my videos!

I'm unsure of the game version as this was quite a while back, but I'm using 1.3.5 Antistasi and the RHS mods were from the collection available on the steam workshop, the USAF, GREF and AFRF ones in particular. The only other mod I used in this playthrough was enhanced movement. Links below: Antistasi 1.3.5- steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=378941393 RHS collection- steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=843770737 Enhanced movement- steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=333310405

@@JackArden Antistasi 1.3.5? Well that explains a lot since I'm using 1.8.0 and there's no scenario selection at the beginning (i.e REB vs GOV vs INV) or anything and the "aggression' meter is now "support" meter. I was worried that I installed something wrong and broke the mod

@@acookiegimme4894 1.8 and 1.9 are actually legacy versions from another mod developer, thus the differences.

That's mostly right, Barbolani was still involved in the 1.8 branch, however those versions of the mod were abandoned due to instabilities. Barbolani imported the warlords of the pacific mod to start a new branch of this mission, which is the one I played in this series.

Welp I guess that explains some wonky AI or menu behaviors. I also noticed significantly lower civilian spawn rate, that might have something to do with the Antistasi mod as well ain't it?

Sounds exciting, one thing to look out for is that this game is very CPU intensive, particularly for single-core processing. While a lot of budget or older processors may be good enough for most games, they likely won't give you a good experience with this one.

Yes you can save your progress. Go to the noticeboard in your base then open the game options, there is a button there to make a persistent save. Next time you start the mission, you have the option to load your last save.

Back then I ran an I5 6500 with a 4GB FOC 970 and 16GB DDR4 RAM

Thanks man!

Are you using the same kind of AK I was there by any chance? I believe the lowest zeroing setting is 350m, so you actually have to zero it UP to get anything lower, so you go up from 350m to 100m. It's weird I know

Jack Arden I didn’t know if it could go any lower we are monitoring the drive to make sure it works for a few days before I bring it back so I haven’t had time to try and specifically try and see if anything is different with the zeroing. I’ll look and check tomorrow when I can.

You should have access to some basic AT launchers in your arsenal at the start of the game. You could take a couple teammates and give them launchers to help you with vehicles. They can only fire in one direction at a time so whoever isn't pinned can hit it. If you are using RHS and have disposable launchers, these are so light it's always worth packing a few per squad

@@JackArden Thanks for your reply, You are right, I allways take the mk4 with me, issue is not really that i can't destroy them. it's more the fact that they seemingly spawn, flank your location and hammering you down before/ at the time you spot them.

Ah sorry I didn't quite get that from the first comment. Best thing to keep in mind is where these vehicles spawn. QRFs spawn at enemy positions, meaning they can come down the road from any enemy controlled outpost/airbase/etc. When planning your operations, keep in mind the area the enemy is likely to counterattack from and take measures to meet this, such as laying mines on strips of road that a QRF is likely to travel on or by setting up scouts to spot these vehicles before they are in range. Just be sure not to make preparations too far away, because enemy movements can be simulated up to a certain distance before the vehicles actually spawn into the game.

Which version in specific are you talking about? I know the 1.8 version is rebels vs the Russian government with NATO support available though I'm not sure how you'd reverse the roles to fight NATO in that one- I haven't played around with this game's editor very much.

@@JackArden yeah i meant 1.8, I have looked everywhere and i cant find a way to fight nato instead of russians. Its a shame i like the nato guns more than russian ones

@@caden8255 I think that editing the mission file to replace the units yourself would be the only way in that case. You should be able to call in supply drops from NATO using your support points, with a higher support value dropping more equipment. I'm guessing this will contain a few rifles for you to use if you prefer those.

@@JackArden Thanks for the help!

Not a mod, that's part of the base game. It often gets turned off by accident with custom difficulty settings, so check your parameters to see if anything's disabled it.

Nvm i watched your tutorial video and it included this info. Cheers for the videos fella!

Sorry for the late reply, but I'm glad you found what you were looking for. Feel free to ask if there's anything else you're not sure about!

This series used Antistasi 1.3.5 with RHS USAF, AFRF and GREF. I'm also using advanced movement to vault/climb

@@JackArden thats all not ace or something else?

No, I play without ACE whenever possible- I only use it if it's a dependency. If you plan on playing this version of the mission with ACE, you'll need to either delete the medical module files or find a version without the medical modules as it breaks Antistasi

Yes, go to your map/clipboard in your base and open the options. You can do a persistent save from there. Antistasi doesn't support the standard save system due to the way it's structured

The weapons/vehicles come from RHS. I'm using USAF, GREF and AFRF

The AI can definitely be quite complicated, they're "good" in the sense that they can headshot someone stood in thick foliage from 3km out with nothing but a 9mm pistol but they're not the easiest to get used to controlling- that's for damn sure.

If you spend some time with them, doing little Sandboxy-Openworld scenarios and sht and getting used to the controls they actually become semi-alright to easy to control and become really neat-0 to use.

If you're using any mods which alter AI behaviour or change the medical system it will conflict with the mission file's custom handling of these things. Antistasi recommends you play with ACE, however ACE is not compatible with antistasi and will force you out of the mission; which is what I assume your conflicting mod is. I am playing with the following mods enabled: Advanced movement - Allows for enhanced vaulting mechanics such as climbing over fences, climbing up small ledges, running jumps over fences etc. steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=333310405 RHS: united states armed forces (USAF) - adds a lot of new vehicles, weapons and gear based on the US military and replaces the USAF troops, vehicles and loadouts in Antistasi steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=843577117 RHS: armed forces of the Russian federation (AFRF) - adds a lot of new vehicles, weapons and gear based on the Russian military and replaces the AFRF troops, vehicles and loadouts in Antistasi steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=843425103 RHS: GREF - expands on the USAF and AFRF mods by adding fictional and real vehicles, weapons and gear based on many independent factions around the world. Replaces the resistance troops, vehicles and loadouts in Antistasi steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=843593391

@@JackArden ACE is compatible, You just have to disable ACE medical in the options. Also, great work on the video! Edit: Also, m4a1 block 2 is not broken, downed enemies always take more shots to kill than normal enemies, and when they are surrendering during the animation they are invicible. I use this gun during my antistasi play through and I haven't had any problems with it.

@@czapeusz1858 Are you sure they're invincible while surrendering? I'm fairly certain I've killed a few surrendering enemies "accidentally". I'll take a look at ACE medical for the next playthrough so thank you for the heads up on that! Apologies for the late reply too, for some reason your comment got caught in RU-vid's spam filter. I'm going to assume it's because you edited your comment right after posting it? It's strange what that does and doesn't flag

@@JackArden No problem ^^ Sorry for my late reply too, and I'm 75% sure that while they are putting thier weapons away and hands behind thier heads they are invicible, but when the animation ends and they are standing there they become mortal again, I will test it tho, and regarding the ACE medical you can disable it when entering the game and the turn it back on, antistasi will work but you will have to restart the game every time you get killed since ACE medical will break the respawn feature. Have a great day!

They're part of a mod called RHS. It'll be linked in the description if you want to try it out

I didn't want to run out of money to get vehicles early on (walking everywhere isn't exactly good content) so I went with easy for the extra resources. AI difficulty is managed by both the game options (my AI is a bit over average difficulty) and increases over time with the aggression counter since they deploy steadily better soldiers as this increases.

@@JackArden thank you, your videos really got me going in antistasi. Keep them coming mate

@@krisjanismurnieks8421 Happy to help! I'm definitely keeping with this series, should be another video out before the weekend

The red circles only appear in the setup of the mission, where you pick your starting location. They are supposed to act as a guide for where is and isn't safe to set up. Once you close the map by either picking a base location or closing it to keep the default location, red circles won't appear anymore.

Page up/down

Right click on an item in one inventory and it'll move it to the opposite one

@@JackArden holy cow that was quick, thanks for the help getting me started in antistasi :D How did you find the old man scenario?

No worries, I was sorting out today's uploads when you commented anyway. I've only played the beta of old man so far, I thought it was a pretty interesting mission and I'm going to play the full thing at some point

I've played a few hours of it, pretty fun taking out garrisons or patrols, can get a huge amount of gear pretty easily looting. Just stockpile and sell to the rebels lol.

That's one I've used several times in my Antistasi content so far! In fact I think it was the first thing I did in the second series, the starting gear was a great help

If you dress full civilian and use a civilian pickup truck you can drive up to a Outpost ammo box and step out undercover while there is a full manned outpost and 2 extra squads around and they wont react to you loading crate and drive off with it while never breaking undercover. And by placing a offroad Lookout Post at a spot that allows fast travel you can then use that to fast travel back and forth between HQ and Spot to speed up farmning gear.

Probably not, I'm not really interested in A3 anymore, I've done just about everything I'd want to play several times now. Maybe in the future when A4 finally comes out I'll play that though!

Antistasi isn't compatible with any AI mods, if you're using any you should try playing without them. There's a lot of custom AI scripting and so changing the way the AI works will cause those to break.

@@JackArden thank you that will be why it aint working :)

Just you wait till I actually find an MRAP and call it a car for the fun of it

@@JackArden lol that's great.

What's the error the game gives you? It'd be handy to know which mods you're playing with too. I can't help without any more information

@@JackArden sorry didn't see the post, I fixed it. I didn't have a3launcher installed.

Which branch of the mission are you looking for? The one I'm playing in this series or the community-created version?

@@JackArden whichever one works the best

Sorry for the late reply! I can't speak for the community version since I haven't given it a long playthrough before, but you can find the version of the mission I'm playing in the description of this video (or any Antistasi video on the channel)

@@JackArden thanks man 😁

And why does it say Golias Antitasi

If you watched the video, the Golias thing was explained in the first 5 minutes (and also why that's not the version I'm using) As for mods, I'm playing with USAF, AFRF and GREF from the RHS collection as well as advanced movement: RHS collection- steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=843770737 Advanced movement- steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=333310405

I believe I covered mortars in my basic AI guide in the Antistasi playlist

Back when I made this video I had an I5-6500 with a STRIX 970 4GB and 16GB DDR4. Check your postprocessing effects in the graphics settings in-game and disable literally everything in there. Having these enabled gives me terrible performance even with the I7 I've upgraded to.

The weapons I'm using in this playthrough are from the RHS modpacks, you can find the full suite of them here- steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=843770737 These mods replace the factions in the mission, therefore the equipment you'll loot from them also. If you're using ACE, remember you need ACE compatibility packs for every mod you use in the RHS collection. USAF, GREF and AFRF are supported by default in this version Antistasi.

In this playthrough I used Antistasi 1.3.5, enhanced movement, RHS USAF, AFRF and GREF.

@@JackArden thanks

Three RHS mods- USAF, AFRF and GREF as well as Advanced movement

Thank you. Could you say me which Version of Antistasi you use ? The Community version or which one ? PS: Are you playing Csat vs Nato vs Fia ?

This one is 1.3.5 by Barbolani. Check the description of this video, there's a link to the steam workshop page Edit- no, I'm playing reb vs gov

@@JackArden Thank you. sorry for asking so much im starting over with antistasi and need much help until now.

No need to apologise, I'm glad I could help!