ArmA 3 Thread

iamdjdz · 24 Oct 2013 at 20:29

Is the single player worth it and the public multi?

thingemajib · 24 Oct 2013 at 20:38

First campaign episode out on dev today. BIS are urging people to avoid spoilers on the forums untill proper release on the 31st, so it might be a nice idea to continue that here as well

dpbadger · 24 Oct 2013 at 20:38

Single player official campaign out a the end of the month. I enjoy multi but I don't have the structured free time to do proper coop missions, so I just play capture island and wasteland.

silversurfer · 24 Oct 2013 at 23:07

Neil79 said:
I wish you could trade games you don't want anymore

I thought that was possible. This is such a big game engine, I'd expect some mod will be of interest sooner or later.

I found a benchmark in the workshop. I get 22fps on it

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=173435011

silversurfer · 25 Oct 2013 at 14:57

150mb dev update

Garfo · 25 Oct 2013 at 16:11

cool ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Draeger · 25 Oct 2013 at 16:20

dpbadger said:
Single player official campaign out a the end of the month.

Been waiting for the SP campaign for ages. I'll be picking the game up once it arrives. Daft question perhaps, will the final, final, final version of the game be a retail hard copy product you can purchase in store or will it be download only? Sorry, I'm not exactly 'in the loop' of information as you can clearly tell!.

pooley · 25 Oct 2013 at 17:22

Draeger said:
Been waiting for the SP campaign for ages. I'll be picking the game up once it arrives. Daft question perhaps, will the final, final, final version of the game be a retail hard copy product you can purchase in store or will it be download only? Sorry, I'm not exactly 'in the loop' of information as you can clearly tell!.

It's download only via steam afaik..

MarkeR · 25 Oct 2013 at 20:47

Draeger said:
Been waiting for the SP campaign for ages. I'll be picking the game up once it arrives. Daft question perhaps, will the final, final, final version of the game be a retail hard copy product you can purchase in store or will it be download only? Sorry, I'm not exactly 'in the loop' of information as you can clearly tell!.

You can buy the disc version since the full release, I think it was the end of last month. Although there are plenty of stable or dev updates for you to download via steam.

thingemajib · 25 Oct 2013 at 22:03

I'd imagine there will be some sort of premium deluxe combined version sometime down the road that may come in retail form (ie once any DLCs and/or standalone expansions have been done and dusted) like A2 CO. But for the near future I guess anyone buying retail will be lumped with a V1.00 disc and a ton of steam downloads

esoteric · 26 Oct 2013 at 00:43

Anyone got any tips for getting more FPS in multiplayer?

richiesimms · 26 Oct 2013 at 08:30

http://day0.com.au/forum/arma/638-arma-3-performance-tweaks-and-settings-guide

thingemajib · 29 Oct 2013 at 17:58

Not huge news, but still noteworthy. Some planned additions to altis - Misc items as well as a stadium and ghost hotel complex. Link.

Suarez7 · 29 Oct 2013 at 18:15

Pretty cool, the map can feel quite empty at times so adding stuff like this will improve it, helps a lot for mission scenarios.

MarkeR · 29 Oct 2013 at 19:06

Anyone up for a mission on Sunday night again?

Either patrol ops 3 or even a king of a hill mission on a pub server, with us in one group?

uksoldierboy · 29 Oct 2013 at 19:17

MarkeR said:
Anyone up for a mission on Sunday night again?

Either patrol ops 3 or even a king of a hill mission on a pub server, with us in one group?

I'm there!

uksoldierboy · 29 Oct 2013 at 19:21

esoteric said:
Anyone got any tips for getting more FPS in multiplayer?

Texture quality ultra, everything else on high, disable SSAO, pointless and takes on average 15-20fps off you.

view distance is a big one too so play around with that, 1600m-3500m is what i normally use for infantry, 6000m for helis and maxed for jets.

Disable V sync, 100% sampling, remove all the crap like motion blur etc.

Should get decent fps then, server dependant.

SkeeterUK · 29 Oct 2013 at 21:19

Actually edit the ini and set it to 120 instead of 60 then enable vsync, then its decent vsync without much slowdown.

dpbadger · 31 Oct 2013 at 14:39

Sp campaign looking pretty good no bugs like arma 2. very impressed nice story line so far.

MorleySA · 31 Oct 2013 at 14:51

totally forgot about this release today?

looking forward to playing this when i leave off work!

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