Remember Cold War Rearmed 2? Well of course and you don’t as we’ve covered it only once back in 2011. Cold War Rearmed 2 is a community project to bring the ever popular Cold War Crisis and Resistance campaigns and content into ArmA II, and the team behind it has finally released its public beta version. Continue reading Cold War Rearmed 2 – ArmA 2 Mod – Public Beta Released→
Bohemia Interactive has released a new update for the Alpha version of ArmA 3. According to its changelog, Bohemia has improved the game’s shadows, fixed a number of crashes and introduced destructible windows. Unfortunately though, we cannot spot any performance improvements. As always, this update will be auto-downloaded next time you start the Steam client, and you can view its complete changelog below. Continue reading Arma 3 Alpha – Update 0.52 Released – Shadow improvements, Crash fixes, Destructible windows→
In support of the popular Arma 3 Alpha and Arma 3 Alpha Lite, Bohemia Interactive has released a brand new episode in their official Community Guide video series. This second video takes a closer look at infantry combat – providing insights on the principles of situational awareness, positioning, enemy contact and shooting. Continue reading ArmA 3 – Community Guide: Basic Infantry Combat→
As promised – and while the Arma 3 Alpha leads Steam’s Top Sellers chart since launch – Bohemia Interactive today made a free invite-only variant available. The Arma 3 Alpha Lite is a limited version of the Arma 3 Alpha, providing people with the opportunity to try out the singleplayer showcase missions, a selection of weapons and vehicles, and the scenario editor. Continue reading Arma 3 Alpha Lite Is Now Available→
Bohemia must feel really great with ArmA 3’s success. Despite the fact that the game is still in alpha stage, ArmA 3’s users are already more than those of all previous ArmA games combined. This further shows that there is a market for hardcore sim titles. That, or most of those guys purchased this new ArmA game in order to be ready for a possible DayZ mod. Either way, we are sure that Bohemia enjoys ArmA 3’s early success, so it will be interesting to see whether the final game will meet commercial success or not. Special thanks to Guru3D’s reader ‘Chillin’ for spotting it. You can view a Steamgraph with all ArmA games below, and make sure to read our Performance Overview. Continue reading ArmA 3’s Alpha Is A Big Hit, Surpassing All Previous ArmA Games Combined→
Bohemia Interactive was kind enough to provide us with an alpha code for its military sim FPS title, ArmA 3, so it’s time to see how this upcoming PC exclusive title performs on our platform. Before continuing, let us remind you that this is an alpha build, meaning that it does not reflect the final product. Obviously, some may ask then “So why are you guys doing a Performance Overview”? Well, the answer is simple; our purpose is to provide Bohemia with information regarding the game’s performance, in the hopes of further optimizing the game until it gets out. This is crucial, as we’ve seen lately a large number of PC titles suffering from such issues. Continue reading ArmA 3 – Alpha Performance Overview→
Dean “Rocket” Hall has released a new devblog for the standalone version of DayZ, showcasing 20 minutes of gameplay footage. DayZ Standalone features better visuals than its mod counterpart, though we can see all known ‘issues’ that are present in Bohemia’s ArmA titles – like low-res blurry textures at the distance and flickering objects. Naturally, some of them will be ironed while other won’t be fixed or tweaked (a ‘noisy’ texture would be ideal for the distant textures. After all, that was the technique that a lot of Skyrim modders followed in order to provide a better IQ). Still, DayZ is not popular for its visuals, but for its atmosphere and gameplay mechanics. And thankfully, this standalone version looks even better than its mod version. DayZ Standalone is planned for release later this year. Enjoy! Continue reading DayZ Standalone – 20 Minutes Of Gameplay Footage→
Bohemia Interactive announced that it has joined forces with one of its community members, Andrew Gluck (better known as Dslyecxi from the Arma community group ShackTactical), to create a series of tutorial videos. We’ve featured two of Dslyecxi’s videos in a previous post, so make sure to watch them. Bohemia has also provided us with an alpha code for its military sim title, so except a hands-on later this month. Press release after the jump. Continue reading ArmA 3 Gets A Community Guide Video Series→
PC gamers, rejoice. The alpha version of Bohemia’s military sim FPS, ArmA 3, has been released. The ArmA 3 Alpha provides players with the opportunity to try out and provide feedback on the game’s military sandbox gameplay. The content in the ArmA 3 Alpha is limited, and includes four showcase missions (Infantry, Vehicles, SCUBA and Helicopter), a subset of weapons and vehicles, two multiplayer scenarios, the scenario editor and modding support. Whereas the final game will also feature the 270 km² Mediterrean island of Altis, the Alpha is positioned on Stratis – which hosts 20 km² of rugged terrain, expansive forests and a man-made airbase. Bohemia has also released a new trailer for it that can be viewed below. Continue reading ArmA 3 Alpha Version Is Now Available→
ArmA 3’s alpha program will be starting shortly and YouTube’s member ‘Dslyecxi’ has released a video that showcases some of the possibilities of Bohemia’s game. Before jumping up and down, know this; this video does not show any mission from the alpha version of Bohemia’s military sim title. So take it as a teaser for what is about to come. Well okay, we also included an older video from Dslyecxi that showcases the game’s movement and shooting mechanics. Enjoy! Continue reading ArmA 3 Alpha – World Premiere ‘Possibilities’ Video→
