Yup. Loaded a savegame(the Counterattack mission) and I was change into a bird in 10seconds. Wow. The crack was the fixed exe form Itachi.
I will test the Fairlight crack release see what gives.

From what the crack note tells on the download page, the Fairligth crack will be ever worse! ;) (Nope, don't have the game, just guessing...)

A new crack added it doesn't work though.

Still becoming a bird during missions. I could complete Beaten Dog this time and tried several things. Like using the ammo box, switching weapons and so on.

After that I picked a sidemission where I command 2 jeeps with people in them. As soon as I changed to commander view and started ordering people around I turned into a bird. This with the new crack but the same installation as before.

Edit: Ok I might have a working crack in my hands. Have been testing it for about 40mins now and no problems. I am talking to the creator and will upload it as soon as I have permission and all info needed... :)

A new fixed ArmA v1.05 has been added which fixes 4 more triggers to the existing 7 FADE triggers.

It is again made by: Itachi

He says that he did not morph into a bird while playing

Yup, new cracked worked fine for me 40mins play testing. :)

A new crack from Vitality is out. Uploaded at GCW, hopefully it will be on the site soon.

Armed.Assault.REAL.PROPER-ViTALiTY <- (hope thats ok, if not please remove)

hope this one works
but i use a maxi image

yup works for me without turning in to a bird or getting beaten by super ai etc, new patch is underway... next round for crackers ;P

Well, played a lot. NO crashes, no birdies. Vitality managed to get it right this time. I rather see a crack coming later and working, than a rushed work. But hey, we get the cool infos with their little wars:p

securom was a real mess in this one :cool:

Nah, the FADE protection was the problem(pretty much the same as it was at Operation Flashpoint). And it seems that they are spreading this to other companies too(Silent Hunter 4 from Ubisoft has the same ugly combination of Securom 7.31+FADE).

In OPF the FADE was related to the serial. Since I don't have ArmA I can't really debug it, just the already cracked exes...I have never heard of FADE in combo with Securom or is this the common name for "triggers":confused: ??

Edit: aaw shite...just read the flt info regarding blacklisted serials. If that's true, it sure looks like FADE, but since you're all playing with your legit keys.....or? ;)

I don't have Fade when using the DVD or the maxi-image created by poseden. So they added a few things to the FADE.
Armed Assault had two protections(Securom 7.31 and FADE) and they kinda of mixed the things there, added new triggers for copy protections, so things got more complicated than a serial number whih triggers the copy protection.
I finished the game using the maxi-image, so you can imagine that if the serial was keygened or so, I would have been a frustrated bunny. But I'm just a happy cat, waiting for the next patch, eager to play some of the mods made by ArmA community. the game is still buggy, but vastly improved over the original german and czech release or the english release. Patch 1.07 would be release soon(after the US release of the game, where the name gets changed in ArmA: Combat Operations).
I'm hoping that there will be a few fan campaigns(played lots of them with OFP) as the ArmA SP Campaign is not nowhere near the SP campaign of OFP

Beware:

I was using the lastest crack (fixed EXE #5 from Vitality) and I couldn't host a game in multiplayer (both by LAN and Internet) since everytime I did this an error occured and the game would CTD and also sometimes after joining an Internet Game and playing for a while my PC would reboot after exiting the game.
Using the Fixed EXE #4 from Itachi seem to solve this problem, I was able to host a LAN game (don't know about hosting Internet Games) and everything seems to be working ok, at least so far.

Is someone else having this problem?
Anyway, If you're having the same problem I recomend using Fixed EXE #4 (From Itachi).

Armed.Assault.Update.1.05.LANFIX-ViTALiTY

fade is essentially a 'trademark' of codemasters, the other stuff from other publishers i guess is using something like triggers in securom or safedisc..
just terminality really, but best to be aware of it

The ViTALiTY LANFIX is available

i wouldnt personally trust anything the new flt say now, their 'experience' is a lot lower than it was before... that much is evident from their cracks...

securom 5 used triggers, that was a terminology they stated on their web page (which is where it originated), securom 7 isnt as public regarding this information, so flt are just speculating... fade is a codemasters trademark, anything else is just an extra custom check by either the developers or the protection coders, and finding out which is probably not that easy...

and for codemasters - FADE is 99.9% related to the serial number/cdkey, i have not seen anything else that contradicts this fact..

Silent Hunter4 has FADE + Securom7, yet it's not cdkey protected(eyes popping for sailors, many strange graphic bugs and so on). Also FADE belongs to Bohemia Interactive Studio. It's their protection, they have the actual rights.
For OFP, FADE was only cd-key related. Seems that they decided to update the protection meanwhile.

nah i guess the term "FADE" sometimes confuses ppl... like TippeX said its serial based. the popping eyes from sailors in silent hunter 4 are most likely failed custom securom checks.

TippeX: tnx for clearing it out. Like I said, never seen a FADE/securom combo (why do that when securom + triggers are good enough) and I sure hope we'll never see more Jowood "mixes a la svkp/arma/xprot/securom+triggers and shitload of custom checks

cdk: I really like the "popping eyes" part, game turned into a horror piece :D
kewl!;)

Okay, so why with my ORIGINAL DVD and the maxi-image from Poseden I never encountered FADE, while with several cracks I've got it(except the second crack from Itachi and Vitality, Fairlight and Hatred drove me nuts). In the end I've finished my game with the DVD in drive, removing the cracks solved the problem.
As for Silent Hunter4, I really doubt that Securom can do that. Also you can see your sailors in 2d(instead of 3d) and there are more. Those aren't characteristics of Securom 7, but of FADE.

because exe is uncracked, aka securom is 100% intact and checks don´t fail.

it can. there is also a crackfix for silenthunter, fixing the popping eyes.

Developers can do what the hell they like to their game when they detect an illegal hack/crack/serial so anything that renders the game unplayable is just FADE by another name!

true true...still love that trigger in Vietcong when the grenade blowed you to pieces if crack was bad:p

Armed.Assault.REAL.PROPER-ViTALiTY



@HATRED

-> Uncracked triggers in arma.exe (1.05)

Camera moves to a controllable bird!
Cannot snipe properly
Extreme precision of AI even from a far distance
Other gameplay modifications

-> Missing code in arma.exe (1.0 and 1.05)
and arma_server.exe

HATRED
00A288D4: PUSH 00900698 "w:\c\Poseidon\lib\Network\n...
00A288D9: ADD ESP,10

ViTALiTY
0127821C: PUSH 00900698 "w:\c\Poseidon\lib\Network\n...
01278221: PUSH 0097C370 "%s(%d) : %s"
01278226: CALL 0080571B
0127822B: ADD ESP,10

HATRED (1.0 crack)
00A12A9B: PUSH 008F1328 "w:\c\Poseidon\lib\Network\n...
00A12AA0: ADD ESP,10

and many more...

@FLT

-> Uncracked triggers in arma.exe (1.05)

You might have seen a non-scene crack being pred. It looks
working, but it's a modified HATRED crack. (stolen and
missing code)

yeah already a few days out... no more birding / aiming issues :)

Pretty fun on MP or online, playing with your friends. Barely waiting for the fanmade campaigns. In May will be the US release and hopefully a few more bugs cleaned(not too many left, but still).

Maby Im missing something here but after weeks of dead torrents, I got my hands on "ArmA.Armed.Assault.DvD.MuLTi4-TXT"
Now, I used the key in the .nfo, downloaded the 1.5 patch, but when I try to apply the patch, it gives me wrong CDkey error...I have never encountered a CD key check on a patch.

you sir, did NOT read the rules...

Obviously, he won a few days or more of peace and quiet, time that he can use for reading the rules...

@neocodex: You got banned. Read the BOARD RULES before you try to create a new account.

Whoever tries cracking it will probably be testing it to death so they don't get propered if they fuck up, maybe why it's taking a while!

FLT have released a crack for ArmA 1.08 today. I'll upload it to GCW as soon as I have it.

It's not possible to start a LAN server with the cracked-FLT arma.exe (Patch 1.08). Arma will crash as soon as you push the "create host" button :(

Thats because its the single player exe only, the server exe is not included in FLT's pack !

Bit of an oversight there, looks like VTY or HTD will be propering FLT because of no cracked server exe :)

Thats funny, because I can create a dedicated server with the original arma_server.exe (v1.08). the only problem is to create a host from the game. thats the only problem i found yet. played time: 12 hours ;)

Strange !

crackfix is out, working fine