Bohemia Interactive has released a new patch for the alpha build of Arma 3. According to its release notes, this patch comes with minor optimizations for dynamic light, fully enables the Fog effect, and fixes serialization of particle emitters. As always, this patch will be auto-downloaded from Steam next time you run it, and you can view its complete changelog below. Enjoy! Continue reading Arma 3 Alpha Gets A New Update – Dynamic Lights Optimized, Fog Fully Enabled→
Bohemia Interactive has just released a new episode in the Arma 3 video guide series. Drawing on endless hours of multiplayer combat experience, Andrew Gluck (better known as Dslyexci from ShackTactical) narrates the video to share tips on how to be effective as a team in multiplayer. Continue reading ArmA 3 – Multiplayer Teamwork Trailer→
YouTube’s member ‘Dslyecxi’ has posted a video in which he showcases the newly impressive fog effecs that Bohemia added to its military sim FPS title, ArmA 3. And quite frankly, this is the best fog effects we’ve ever seen. Contrary to other titles, ArmA 3’s fog looks like a… real fog. Now imagine a new Silent Hill – or another horror – game with that kind of fog. Man, that would be too good to be true. Screw that, imagine a DayZ mod for ArmA 3 with this feature enabled. Now THAT would be something really cool, right? Until that happens, though, enjoy ArmA 3’s fog video demonstration! Continue reading ArmA 3’s Impressively Enhanced Fog Effects Demonstrated→
Bohemia Interactive has released a new patch for the alpha version of ArmA 3. This new patch will update your game’s version to 0.54 and comes with a new fog technology, PhysX collisions related crashes fixed, performance improvements related to object instancing, as well as tweaked terrain shadows. This patch will be auto-downloaded from Steam, and you can view its complete changelog below. Enjoy! Continue reading Arma 3 Alpha – Huge Update Released – Comes With Performance & PhysX Improvements→
Remember Cold War Rearmed 2? Well of course and you don’t as we’ve covered it only once back in 2011. Cold War Rearmed 2 is a community project to bring the ever popular Cold War Crisis and Resistance campaigns and content into ArmA II, and the team behind it has finally released its public beta version. Continue reading Cold War Rearmed 2 – ArmA 2 Mod – Public Beta Released→
Bohemia Interactive has released a new update for the Alpha version of ArmA 3. According to its changelog, Bohemia has improved the game’s shadows, fixed a number of crashes and introduced destructible windows. Unfortunately though, we cannot spot any performance improvements. As always, this update will be auto-downloaded next time you start the Steam client, and you can view its complete changelog below. Continue reading Arma 3 Alpha – Update 0.52 Released – Shadow improvements, Crash fixes, Destructible windows→
In support of the popular Arma 3 Alpha and Arma 3 Alpha Lite, Bohemia Interactive has released a brand new episode in their official Community Guide video series. This second video takes a closer look at infantry combat – providing insights on the principles of situational awareness, positioning, enemy contact and shooting. Continue reading ArmA 3 – Community Guide: Basic Infantry Combat→
As promised – and while the Arma 3 Alpha leads Steam’s Top Sellers chart since launch – Bohemia Interactive today made a free invite-only variant available. The Arma 3 Alpha Lite is a limited version of the Arma 3 Alpha, providing people with the opportunity to try out the singleplayer showcase missions, a selection of weapons and vehicles, and the scenario editor. Continue reading Arma 3 Alpha Lite Is Now Available→
Bohemia must feel really great with ArmA 3’s success. Despite the fact that the game is still in alpha stage, ArmA 3’s users are already more than those of all previous ArmA games combined. This further shows that there is a market for hardcore sim titles. That, or most of those guys purchased this new ArmA game in order to be ready for a possible DayZ mod. Either way, we are sure that Bohemia enjoys ArmA 3’s early success, so it will be interesting to see whether the final game will meet commercial success or not. Special thanks to Guru3D’s reader ‘Chillin’ for spotting it. You can view a Steamgraph with all ArmA games below, and make sure to read our Performance Overview. Continue reading ArmA 3’s Alpha Is A Big Hit, Surpassing All Previous ArmA Games Combined→
Bohemia Interactive was kind enough to provide us with an alpha code for its military sim FPS title, ArmA 3, so it’s time to see how this upcoming PC exclusive title performs on our platform. Before continuing, let us remind you that this is an alpha build, meaning that it does not reflect the final product. Obviously, some may ask then “So why are you guys doing a Performance Overview”? Well, the answer is simple; our purpose is to provide Bohemia with information regarding the game’s performance, in the hopes of further optimizing the game until it gets out. This is crucial, as we’ve seen lately a large number of PC titles suffering from such issues. Continue reading ArmA 3 – Alpha Performance Overview→
