Arma 3: Exile

Spuddy · 10 Oct 2016 at 16:48

boxman2000 said:
Been considering getting this as I've been playing Battle Royale mod for Arma 3 which is fun, albeit very hard (would be like a noob jumping into CS now!)

Although Frankies videos are generally scripted, there are situations that are completely random. I quite like watching Sadaplays on Twitch, I know he's not the best Exile player but he does seem to play with a solid team which does make for good viewing.

I'll wait for Steam sale to see about this.

Slightly off topic but has anyone been following development of Player Unknown's Battle Grounds? He's the mod behind Battle Royale for Arma 2 and 3 and H1Z1. Although it’s a last man standing style game I have no doubt there will be an Exile style mod out for it. The promising thing is it’s based on the Unreal 4 engine and although no game will ever be perfect, it’s got to be better than having a game when the developer of Arma 3 has said it refuses to resolve the tall grass sink hit box issue - Bohemia seems to think it’s ok to have a ‘real war shooter’ with a bug that stops people from accurately shooting! Also it won’t have the same types of issues that has plagued DayZ standalone so for me this is really promising stuff.

If you already have Arma 3 why do you need to wait for Steam sale? Exile is a free mod.

hughtrimble · 10 Oct 2016 at 18:09

boxman2000 said:
SNIP

Thank you kindly for all the info. I'm very familiar with that bug, just had no idea it had a proper name! It's very irritating.

[TFU] Thegoon84 · 11 Oct 2016 at 08:49

Spuddy said:
If you already have Arma 3 why do you need to wait for Steam sale? Exile is a free mod.

That's a good point haha.... I got a bit lost in the text!

Exile is free Bro, standalone Day(not so)Z is what isn't!

Drop me a message on TS.

hughtrimble · 11 Oct 2016 at 08:57

Just in case anyone else is put off by having to play around with game files to get mods like Exile - use A3 launcher, which just auto downloads the mods needed to play on the server you want to use. It's especially useful if you play on a range of servers, alll of which often have slightly different mods involved.

[TFU] Thegoon84 · 11 Oct 2016 at 09:08

hughtrimble said:
Just in case anyone else is put off by having to play around with game files to get mods like Exile - use A3 launcher, which just auto downloads the mods needed to play on the server you want to use. It's especially useful if you play on a range of servers, alll of which often have slightly different mods involved.

Absolutely, I find too that even jumping between servers is straight forward!

Only one problem I have had with a3 launcher is when a new version of exile comes out, which is ususally sorted in a night!

What server do you play on mate?

[TFU] Thegoon84 · 11 Oct 2016 at 09:14

Got accused of trader camping last night.... Mate and I decided to buy a iffrit mounted 50cal, we did a mission got a truck.... I headed on to wait at a junction. Next thing my mate shouted there's a hunter coming, managed to jump in the turret, aimed down site, sure enough they casually came around the corner in to the ambush.... Quickly managed to take all 3 people out without damaging any of the car.... Checked inside they had been planning a massive base raid. We made off with the hunter and all the C4 kits inside!

We think we know who's base it was, so for Karma we'll be heading up Wednesday to destroy and steal their flag mwahahaha.

We saw the guy half hour later and the amount of abuse we got meant they were beyond ****** off. HAHA

Love this game!

~>Dg<~ · 11 Oct 2016 at 09:21

thats one great thing about these kind of mods and playing with friends.when you pull off great base raids or battles with regular groups on servers can be epic fun.

hughtrimble · 11 Oct 2016 at 10:14

[TFU] Thegoon84;30092798 said:
Absolutely, I find too that even jumping between servers is straight forward!

Only one problem I have had with a3 launcher is when a new version of exile comes out, which is ususally sorted in a night!

What server do you play on mate?

None at the moment. I'll be giving Exile a try again soon, I was just having huge Arma 3 stability issues recently and couldn't be faffed to sort them out (I was at the end of my tether with the Apex missions anyway).

The issues appear to have self resolved, so I'll be back on soon.

hughtrimble · 11 Oct 2016 at 10:15

[TFU] Thegoon84;30092815 said:
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We saw the guy half hour later and the amount of abuse we got meant they were beyond ****** off. HAHA

Love this game!

~>Dg<~ said:
thats one great thing about these kind of mods and playing with friends.when you pull off great base raids or battles with regular groups on servers can be epic fun.

Exactly - it's like no other game when it works; it can be so incredibly awesome.

[TFU] Thegoon84 · 11 Oct 2016 at 11:44

~>Dg<~ said:
thats one great thing about these kind of mods and playing with friends.when you pull off great base raids or battles with regular groups on servers can be epic fun.

Indeed, my best ever gaming experiences have been on Arma with mates.... Pulling off some amazing team work and kill squad stuff.

Nothing will ever compare.

hughtrimble said:
None at the moment. I'll be giving Exile a try again soon, I was just having huge Arma 3 stability issues recently and couldn't be faffed to sort them out (I was at the end of my tether with the Apex missions anyway).

The issues appear to have self resolved, so I'll be back on soon.

If you do, give me a shout... Need a few more guys to gaming with.

As for the performance issues, I had the same.... Best thing I ever did was find a full and modern arma 3 settings video/tutorial, followed it step by step and have doubled my FPS with an amazing refresh rate!

Jono · 11 Oct 2016 at 17:13

I have a pretty old system, but I'm getting only about 30fps.

Digital X · 11 Oct 2016 at 17:23

Arma 3 can be taxing, specs?

~>Dg<~ · 11 Oct 2016 at 17:38

servers can be a massive issue.almost as much as a issue as your pc.

Jono · 11 Oct 2016 at 17:38

Don't know.
i7 920 @ 4Ghz (told you it was old)
24G RAM
7950 I think

BluD · 11 Oct 2016 at 18:06

Guys would you recommend buying Arma 2 to see if i like that style of game before i get Arma 3? Arma 2 will only cost a few quid and i can try out some of the mods and see what i think, i just dont wanna spend £30 and find i dont like that style of game but i dont know if Arma 2 would be a good albeit lower graphical representation of Arma 3 or infact nothing like it and i would be wasting my money on 2.

Digital X · 11 Oct 2016 at 18:35

For a few quid yes. Grab Exile or the Dayz mod too to see if it's your style.

On Holiday · 11 Oct 2016 at 18:36

No, buy ARMA 3 on the steam store, play for 1.99 hours, if you don't like it refund, if you do like it and are particularly tight, refund and find a cd key cheaper

[TFU] Thegoon84 · 12 Oct 2016 at 08:01

BluD said:
Guys would you recommend buying Arma 2 to see if i like that style of game before i get Arma 3? Arma 2 will only cost a few quid and i can try out some of the mods and see what i think, i just dont wanna spend £30 and find i dont like that style of game but i dont know if Arma 2 would be a good albeit lower graphical representation of Arma 3 or infact nothing like it and i would be wasting my money on 2.

I suppose so yes, Look to play Epoch or something along those lines. You'll ideally need to find a group to play with tho, its impossible to get anything done by yourself.... However by solo'ing you'll learn faster!

Tho, expect to spend hours gathering and running to be one banged in the middle of nowhere!

hughtrimble · 12 Oct 2016 at 09:22

[TFU] Thegoon84;30096198 said:
I suppose so yes, Look to play Epoch or something along those lines. You'll ideally need to find a group to play with tho, its impossible to get anything done by yourself.... However by solo'ing you'll learn faster!

Tho, expect to spend hours gathering and running to be one banged in the middle of nowhere!

Yup, especially when you start. It really helps to have a bit of guidance just so you don't go to places where you're nigh-guaranteed to get ambushed/blown up, otherwise you'll just rage quit!

Just the little things like knowing the usual sniper spots for the areas you're going in to, where you're likely to find specific resources etc. just really helpful to have someone there to give pointers.

boxman2000 · 12 Oct 2016 at 13:53

Spuddy said:
If you already have Arma 3 why do you need to wait for Steam sale? Exile is a free mod.

Yea, sorry, I was thinking more for Tanoa. Like the look of the map a lot.

Jono said:
Don't know.
i7 920 @ 4Ghz (told you it was old)
24G RAM
7950 I think

Further to previous comments on performance, Arma 3 is very CPU intensive - presumably that's clocked?

If you do upgrade, no point going for a 6 core if specifically for Arma 3 as it's only 'optimised' for 4 cores.

I'm on an i7k 4790 @4.4 with an R9 280x (I know!) and there are guys out there with 1080's at only 15-20% higher FPS than me. Mine rarely drops below 50fps and on high/very high settings. There are some good ways to optimise gfx settings on Arma 3. Link here to settings for a very good Arma 3 Battle Royale player iHayz. This was the basis for my settings (keeping in mind these are Twitch stream settings so some settings would be more optimised for broadcast than quality of gameplay - but perhaps more useful for many that don't have latest systems.