gaming The Arma Discussion Thread!

[Jackleberry 1,926]

And here it is ...

 

 

The Arma Discussion Thread!

 

It has finally come, a thread made specifically for discussing the Arma games! (just to clear things up you can discuss anything Arma related here, not just Arma 3). Now I sort of get the feeling that there aren't very many people around here that play/love the Arma games as much as I do, but who knows? Either way, I figured it would be worth it to create a thread for this series anyways, since it is currently (and has been for at least one year now) my favourite game series, and surely there are others on this site that share my interest in this. (As of 28/01/2014, I have 800+ hours played on Arma 2: OA, as well as 34 hours, and growing, played on Arma 3 ... I sort of just started getting into it)

 

For those who don't know what Arma is ...

 

Based on my knowledge, Arma is a series of open world military simulation/tactical shooter games, developed by Bohemia Interactive for the PC since 2006. The most recent game to be released, as the thread 'banner' suggests, is Arma 3, which was first released to the public on Steam during its alpha stage on March 5th of 2013, and fully released on September 12th of the same year.

 

 

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I'm just going to start off by saying how much I love the improved infantry movement/controls in Arma 3, I don't know about anyone else, but for me, it makes infantry combat so much more enjoyable, even with the rather ... 'interesting' damage system (it takes like 3-5 shots for me to kill someone. 3-5 shots!)

[Serbon div 386]

Me and my friends have been planning to play this game for a while because we found a mod with Serbian Gendarmerie or something :/

[Scootalove 10,692]

I wanted to try out the game to see if it is any good, but from the things I heard the game is fun to play when you're scavenging for items and shooting anything in sight.

[Jackleberry 1,926]

Me and my friends have been planning to play this game for a while because we found a mod with Serbian Gendarmerie or something :/

You mean this mod? http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?164659-Serbian-Armed-Forces-(SAF)-WIP

 

 

I wanted to try out the game to see if it is any good, but from the things I heard the game is fun to play when you're scavenging for items and shooting anything in sight.

Sounds like the Wasteland multiplayer mod to me, but yeah I'd have to agree, I had a lot of fun playing that in Arma 2, though I haven't tried it in A3 yet. I spend most of my time messing around in the mission editor, which IMO, is just as good.

[Jackleberry 1,926]

Sweet Celestia, I finally beat the freakin' Adapt episode earlier today. The later missions in that one were hard! Though it probably has more to do with how I approached the situations, than actual game difficulty ... maybe, I don't know. RANT INCOMING!

 

~ Minor spoilers, nothing too big ~

 

'Exit Strategy' was quite a doozy for me, because I always went with the helicopter ambush option, which would have been just fine ... however there's apparently some sort of bug or something that causes the chopper to spot you no matter what, so it was almost impossible. Alright then, at least there's a second option (Assault a compound guarded by a patrolling vehicle and some infantry). Now this is where things got frustrating. Maybe it was the direction I was approaching from (South, though I did try East and West as well), or maybe my complete lack of squad leading skills, but either way my squad would always get destroyed like nothing, leaving me to deal with the enemies myself.

 

Now, it's not like I was rushing in CoD style, that's a terrible idea in Arma, it was just that I would always get my head blown off the second I dared to peak out from behind a rock or something, very annoying. So basically I did this for hours, constantly restarting, assaulting, getting killed, rinse and repeat ... until I found out that there was an AA launcher on one of the CSAT soldiers at the heli ambush site ... :okiedokielokie:. So I went back and did that instead, and I was finally able to move on to the next mission! Yay! So I did the next one, no problem, easy enough, finished it in a breeze ... but then the one after that ...

 

'Attention Deficit'. Alright, this one is more my fault than it is the game's. Basically, we had to run around and cause chaos within the southern bit of Stratis as a distraction. Sounds simple enough right? Well, not when you proceed with the mission under the impression that you had to eliminate the garrisons in each of the objectives. Same as last time pretty much, a whole lot of being killed. After hours of hard work trying to capture the objectives, I for some reason decided to use the 3 explosive charges that were given to me to blow up an AA position.

 

That's when I realised I was doing the whole damn thing wrong. I didn't have to capture the objectives, I had to freakin' blow them up- and not even all of them, just enough to grab the attention of the forces up North!

 

'Beyond Recognition' ... Actually you know what? I've had enough ranting. Besides, this was pretty much the same situation as 'Exit Strategy'. Only difference being that there were MORE freakin' hostiles, and it was in a town rather than some random compound. I just had to move very carefully through the streets/buildings and use as much cover as I could if I wanted to live, otherwise, I was screwed.

 

/endrant

 

Now, don't get me wrong, I still love Arma 3 to death, it's just ... those particular missions were such a pain in the flank for me. Also wow, this is the longest post I've ever made in the history of my forum life ... huh.

Edited January 30, 2014 by Sir Jackleberry

[N.W. 3,619]

I rather enjoy ARMA II, ARMA III doesn't really appeal to me that much to be honest, I also have Iron Front 1944, a WW2 game based on the ARMA engine.

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Iron Front 1944

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Bucky McGillyCuddy 956]

I'm a huge ARMA III player .

I mostly play the Wasteland mod but my internet is really quite pathetic so it's kind of been putting me off playing lately.

[Jackleberry 1,926]

I rather enjoy ARMA II, ARMA III doesn't really appeal to me that much to be honest, I also have Iron Front 1944, a WW2 game based on the ARMA engine.

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Iron Front 1944

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yeah I felt the same way about A3 at first, I don't know, it just didn't feel right to me. So, I just stuck with A2 until not too long ago. Also nice screenshots! Can't say I've played Iron Front, but I did try the Invasion 1944 mod, and it was pretty darn cool!

 

 

I'm a huge ARMA III player .

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I mostly play the Wasteland mod but my internet is really quite pathetic so it's kind of been putting me off playing lately.

718 hours? Nice! Right now I've only got 39, I've mainly been focusing more on the campaign and the editor (most of my time in A2 was spent in DayZ, Wasteland, and the Warfare missions). I'd go in to the multiplayer stuff, but I'm afraid my low-performance computer (even with all the settings turned down) wouldn't be able to handle it very well, especially with the MP lag I've been hearing about.

[N.W. 3,619]

I modded ARMA II to add the An-225 and the BMD-1

[Guest]

Dayng! I never knew we had a discussion about ARMA.

 

Onto to that btw - it's kinda hard to run an ARMA III division now a days, lol.

Edited March 15, 2014 by Guest

[Jackleberry 1,926]

I really should post here more often.

 

An MLP Forums Arma clan would be pretty cool to have/be part of, even if it was only like, a small group of people, if you ask me that would be plenty for a wide range of missions, even large scale ones if they're done properly. Just gotta make good use of AI.

 

Unfortunately even if something like this were to come true, I doubt my shyness would allow me to partake in such things. *Sigh*

 

Anywho here's a screenshot I took of Kamino after a somewhat flopped assault. Us two were all that remained of my 6 man squad of AI (but I think we did good, considering how outnumbered we were).

 

(Graphics quality isn't great since my computer isn't anywhere near top-notch, but it runs well enough!)

Edited April 5, 2014 by Sir Jackleberry