***ArmA 3 Thread***
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True, although it did take BIS like 2-3 years to add a 50% performance increase to ArmA 2
Surely optimization is a given thing though, doubt they'll leave it in this state performance wise. Considering the fact people are getting about the same kinda performance out of this alpha as they did ArmA 2, and it looks a lot better. Also that's pre-beta, pre-driver updates and pre-patched, so I reckon a few months after full release tops, it'll have pretty nippy performance.
I'm going to refrain from playing the hell out of this until they start adding in the APCs/Tanks/Jets/Main Island. Give it time for some of the proper user missions to be ported over and have perhaps a couple of new ones get a nice footing.
It's going to be so awesome when this hits beta and all that stuff is in however. Then it's time to go taint deep \o/
It's going to be so awesome when this hits beta and all that stuff is in however. Then it's time to go taint deep \o/
My thoughts exactly, virtually no recoil when lying down, and much decreased when kneeling. Think the guy needs to try firing a rifle in real life standing up.
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I think the best example of a game that could go against ArmA 3 is Just Cause 2. It 32km by 32km, huge draw distance, runs flawlessly, but it has a quite small draw distance of small objects around the player.
ArmA's biggest problem, it's still the ground textures that look awful from distance and just like in A2, there is no grass at hundreds of meters away. This and the explosion effect (game/special effects in general).
Seem to have 30fps in 8 man coop games, like 15-20 in wasteland
both sli and single gpu utilization is about 30% lol
Try to set a lower view distance; by increasing it, it also drops the GPU usage. and of course, the frame rate.
The problem comes from the CPU side, not the GPU/drivers side. I can run ArmA 2 and ArmA 3 close to top settings with an 7950OC, but the drops in performance comes from low GPU usage. If you play around with the editor and add units, you'll see the video card just laying casual around with 20%+ to 50-60% usage if lucky. I've put 6 squads (3 vs.3) of infantry against each other in the main town, and FPS dropped to around 27-32FPS when they were fighting. Again, the video card hardly break a sweat in the mean time. CPU usage was like: first core around 95-99% usage, the other 3 were ~ 50%. Same stuff as it is in ArmA 2. If they don't fix this somehow, we can have as much as 4 Titans in our system, they'll just do nothing.
The CPU was a i5 2500k@4,5GHz.
No it just doesn't feel right at all obviously at alpha stage but firing a pistol shouldn't send your xhair flying up and all over the place for just one shot.
Anyhow that and a few other reasons like sound being very basic and a floaty feel means I am out until they update looks promising though.
The recoil while standing seems extreme (source: fired an AK47, M4, Sig 552 in full auto).
Seems you are a trainer operator, yet you cant fire in accurate short bursts.... so I hope they calm it down a bit.
Side question: Is it possible to deploy bi-pods?
I was using the M249 in multiplayer and the recoil was really really bad, even when prone, I was not able to fire accurate bursts in full auto, so I figured maybe you have a deploy bipod key? Any ideas?
But Arma 3 already runs better than Arma 2 does for everyone I know who has it. It sounds like you have an axe to grind with BI rather than an objective and open mind to this game which is nothing less than stunning for an alpha build. Do you judge everyone on their past mistakes when they have addressed them and show no signs of previous errors. Because holding grudges benefits no-one.
And of course if you actually use that draw distance like you say you don't seem small objects detailed and you don't see what you would find when you get to that location which removes a very important aspect from any tactical game.
Arma 2 was quite clearly a buggy mess and continued to be unoptimised but they offer something really unique with Arma 3 that for me and everyone I know works really well. I just wish they had taken some of that DayZ money and purchased the company that makes Steel Beasts and implemented the modelling they have there for the armour and vehicles into Arma. Then hook up a deal with DCS and we will have the perfect game!
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It's a fairly valid excuse, to be fair.
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The answer is yes you can drop more then 3 feet, doors have improved, you can walk through the door way without having to jiggle the mouse like a loon & I've yet to take any damage from an opening door.
There arn't a whole load of assets at the moment a couple of Jeep/chopper variants on each side & basic infantry units.
Entering buildings is super smooth now.
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Gutted, got home last night and rebooted my pc for it to blue screen fatal error at windows loading. Now it won't post no matter what I try 
Was looking forward to Arma III weekend.
Was looking forward to Arma III weekend.
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I spent quite a while playing this last night, I'm absolutely pants.... Did have a rather epic 1v1 shoot out at a weapon store at one point that lasted a few minutes taking pot shots leaning around cover etc was pretty cool, also enjoyed a rather large coordinated assault on a crashed heli in a valley... Defiantly need to get a mic though.
No grudges held, and I can't account for everyone. Just my own opinion running the game on my PC.