ArmA III Alpha videos

sandman2575 · March 05, 2013, 12:05:27 PM

This does look pretty freakin' amazing. And I thought Arma II looked great. wow.

Has the single-player experience ever been worth it with Arma? I've never played because I never really been bitten by the MP bug for any game. (I also don't love FPS but I know Arma is not your cookie-cutter fps by any means.)

anyway, i'm seriously intrigued by this if it seems like there will be any fun to be had in single player. Also, what undercovergeek said -- this would definitely mean upgrading the ol' system...

MengJiao · March 05, 2013, 01:17:47 PM

Quote from: sandman2575 on March 05, 2013, 12:05:27 PM
This does look pretty freakin' amazing. And I thought Arma II looked great. wow.

Has the single-player experience ever been worth it with Arma? I've never played because I never really been bitten by the MP bug for any game. (I also don't love FPS but I know Arma is not your cookie-cutter fps by any means.)

anyway, i'm seriously intrigued by this if it seems like there will be any fun to be had in single player. Also, what undercovergeek said -- this would definitely mean upgrading the ol' system...

I've played single-player and multiplayer ARMA since its first incarnation as Operation Flashpoint. I got in about a year late in 2002.

There have been times that the multiplayer was pretty good, but these days I avoid multiplayer of almost any kind.

I never liked the campaigns in any of the ARMA games BUT

there is a great editor where you can set up all kinds of situations in the game world. And the editor has been steadily improving for the last
10 years.

So for me (and as others have mentioned, others as well), the best part of the ARMA experience is fiddling with the editor, bye which I mean
picking a topic of interest (eg jet Air Strikes). Setting one up and trying it from both sides. One fun thing is that if you get killed you can switch sides.

I remember one air strike where I ejected. Landed behind a burning gas station, found an enemy tank (I think it was the one I had tried to bomb), went sneaking back to friendly lines, got an antitank missile launcher out of an ammo box, went back and blew up the tank.

As a jet pilot, i had no way to command any troops, but if I'd gotten killed I could have taken command of either side and told the AI to blast the tank or taken command of the tank. I think that was a late ARMA One battle.

Arma2 had lots of good islands and terrains -- though none quite as marvelously constructed as some of the late ARMA One islands with multiple-arched roadways snaking around some nicely constructed urban hills. ARMA2 was pretty grim in a good way.

JudgeDredd · March 05, 2013, 02:17:44 PM

WOW!

Just loaded up the editor to have a wee fling. It looks and sounds STUNNING.

What?...WHAT? I couldn't resist it? Who here honestly thought I wouldn't be able to buy the damn Alpha version? ;)

Tpek · March 05, 2013, 03:04:33 PM

So really, how is the game?
Is it easier and less cumbersome than the previous versions?

sandman2575 · March 05, 2013, 03:22:02 PM

Thanks MengJiao. That's good to hear. Now to solve the harder question of having a computer that could run this...

JudgeDredd or anyone else who's playing -- in addition to overall gameplay, I'd be interested to hear how taxing this thing is for the system you're playing it on --

undercovergeek · March 05, 2013, 04:11:53 PM

Bastards!!!

Not home for 2 more days

JudgeDredd · March 05, 2013, 04:17:55 PM

I'll let you know the settings I'm using in a mo...

Bear in mind I just loaded a quick mission with 2 guys. Who know how it will act with it all kicking off.

undercovergeek · March 05, 2013, 04:21:57 PM

I currently play II at ultra or highest and the blurb has always said if you can run it at II you'll be able to run it at III

JudgeDredd · March 05, 2013, 04:23:47 PM

It certainly seemed smooth - the characters, movement, sound - these FPS's are getting seriously realistic!

JudgeDredd · March 05, 2013, 05:38:31 PM

ok - new graphics card needed.

Don't get me wrong, I was impressed with how it looked when I first loaded a game...and it was on STANDARD. Wacked it up to Ultra, then down to Very High, then High then back to Standard.

To me standard looked great. But my card (GTX460 768MB) doesn't cut it for anything higher.

I'm due an upgrade next year anyway...for the time being, I'll enjoy it on standard.

Grim.Reaper · March 05, 2013, 07:12:03 PM

Of course I caved:) Played only the first infantry mission and things looked pretty good. I am not an arma expert so I likely don't notice all the little issues. Played really smoothe and seemed like a good time. Will have to try the other missions now....

Grim.Reaper · March 05, 2013, 07:15:07 PM

As a side note, I am probably the only one that didn't know this, but steam has a pretty cool remote install process.....I bought the game this morning from my phone and by the time I got home the remote process installed and had my game waiting for me:) Why the heck did I not know this before!

Jarhead0331 · March 05, 2013, 08:01:34 PM

Quote from: Grim.Reaper on March 05, 2013, 07:15:07 PM
As a side note, I am probably the only one that didn't know this, but steam has a pretty cool remote install process.....I bought the game this morning from my phone and by the time I got home the remote process installed and had my game waiting for me:) Why the heck did I not know this before!

Because the steam haters would all die terrible deaths if they found out that steam actually made people's lives easier.

jomni · March 05, 2013, 08:10:07 PM

Yes. I noticed DayZ mod is on Steam now. I usually get version synchronization problem before but this will solve that for a lot of people. But I still use Arma 2 outside steam so I need to do the occasional version updating myself via the DayZ Commander tool.

Tuna · March 05, 2013, 08:19:11 PM

looks wild, but I've been doing ok lately with games, not sure if this would put me over the 'need to upgrade' the hardware edge.