Bohemia Interactive has announced that Arma 3 has sold four million copies worldwide and in order to celebrate it, it will host a free weekend for it on Steam. The Free Weekend starts on April 26 at 19:00 CEST (all time zones) and ends on April 30 at 19:00 CEST, and it will provide all Steam users with the opportunity to try out the complete Arma 3 base game.
Arma 3 is an authentic military shooter game, in which you enter a massive military sandbox terrain to engage in diverse tactical combat. Players have access to a wide variety of gear and weapons – and are able to operate all sorts of military vehicles such as tanks, helicopters, and jets. The game also offers a large number of singleplayer scenarios (including a story-driven campaign) and multiplayer modes. Plus, there’s a powerful yet intuitive 3D Scenario Editor for users to create their own scenarios, as well as the Arma 3 Zeus interface that lets users act as a real-time Game Master for other players in multiplayer.
On top of that, Arma 3 fully supports all types of player-created content and modifications, which can be easily shared with other players via the Arma 3 Steam Workshop. The Workshop already hosts 50,000+ publicly shared items, ranging from weapons, vehicles, and uniforms to new gameplay features, singleplayer or co-op campaigns, and community-made multiplayer modes such as the original PLAYERUNKNOWN’s Battle Royale.
Since the initial release of the Alpha version on Steam Early Access in 2013, Arma 3 has come a long way by introducing lots of additional content, new features, and improvements. The game has received 75 free platform updates and 10 DLC packs, which have helped to achieve an impressive average playtime per Arma 3 user of 150+ hours.
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Cool, I’ll give Arma another shot I guess.
Of course for most internet connections, it still takes the whole weekend just to download.
Most? Pretty sure that’s not true, but what do I know.
I may have exaggerated slightly. The global average speed of internet connections in 2017 was 7.2 Mbps.
Arms 3 recommends 35 GB of space which, ignoring Steam compression, would take just over 11 hours to download at 7.2 Mbps assuming the connection speed remains stable, which is still a decent chunk of the weekend (one fourth of it, roughly). Taking Steam compression into account would be considerably less than that though.
Facts still remain superior to fiction, after all, so I’ll grant you this one.
I wasn’t trying to be a D.
Rephrase.
Most gaming countries with decent populations, typically have great internet. I say this from travels and family in said countries.
No biggie bro.
I see it like this, download while you sleep and play something until it’s finished, or just buy it.
That sucks.
You in the projects?
Joke.
It’s a demographic thing based on variables I assume/know have to do with age, income and need. I-Providers aren’t trying to lay down lines everywhere. That’s why we keep advancing wireless as of now. Heck, there’s a company still using phone lines and everyone hates their internet because of it. They aren’t going to invest in ripping out old or putting down new lines.
Bud.
I am not an internet specialist.
But I can tell you this from my many travels and whatever.
What you just said, isn’t logical.
It’s downright impossible.
Couple of things, what are you paying for? Speed wise.
And what do you have in your PC for it to be 1mb?
Lastly, you can’t say “I get 1mb” and then suddenly you are getting 1k% increase.
Like I can’t fathom how without questioning your hardware.
Anyways.
Download the game and have fun. I enjoyed it day one.
Still not on any crappy console. Hehehe.
Runs fine for me, only issue I consider a problem, multiplayer on large servers. Otherwise, I honestly think it runs decently for what it is in the years I have had it, since day one.
That’s because your PC sucks boy.