Arma 3 launched without its campaign mode, meaning that soldiers who stepped onto the field of battle early would've been left kicking their heels and cleaning their rifles – would've been, were it not for an industrious army of Arma 3 modders. Even a quick reconnaissance run on Bohemia's military simulator's Steam marketplace turns up some impressively professional missions. Here ten of the best Arma 3 mods we've enjoyed so far.
Arma II AddonsArma II is one of the most detailed and intense military simulation games on PC today. Bohemia Interactive have been ploughing this furrow to great critical success since developing Operation Flashpoint in the early 2000s, and Arma II is the culmination of a decade of research and design. It has also attracted one of the most dedicated communities in all of PC gaming, and Bohemia always ship their games with a comprehensive suite of modding tools for users to expand their games. In this article, we’ll take a look at some of the very best in Arma II addons and mods available today. ACE2 – Advanced Combat Environment 2As if Arma II wasn’t chillingly realistic enough, the modding team behind ACE2 have the goal of upping the realism level several notches. ACE2 is a highly detailed addon for Arma II, featuring a whole raft of real world weaponry, equipment and vehicles to play with in multiplayer, but the main aim is to encourage a new level of realism in gameplay and player tactics. ACE2 encourages and values genuine teamplay above all else – lone wolves will find themselves facing a messy and brutally quick end. Though this may sound intimidating to a new player, in fact the mod team and community are very supportive and helpful to even the casual online player, and have not lost sight of the fact that a multiplayer game should be an enjoyable experience first and foremost. The ACE2 website features a ton of information, tutorials and mission guides, and this one of the best supported mods in the Arma II community. Well worth your time if you’re a fan of realism in your multiplayer gaming. Gossamer’s WarfareGossamer’s Warfare, the successor to the highly esteemed AWP Warfare mod, is an Arma II addon with a twist. It combines RTS gameplay with FPS action on the ground. In Gossamer’s Warfare, each opposing team has a designated Commander, for whom the game plays out like a military RTS: they can build bases and then research and upgrade them as the match progresses. Meanwhile, for the other players on the team, the game plays out in traditional FPS fashion, but they collect income for upgrades by capturing places of strategic interest. Dominate these strategic points and choke your enemy’s supply lines and you win. Many mods (and commercial games) have tried to pull off the RTS/FPS hybrid, but rarely has it worked as well as it does in this Arma II addon. Gossamer’s Warfare is also fully compatible with the new Arma II: Operation Arrowhead expansion. Vietnam: The ExperienceThe Vietnam: The Experience addon has a long history with Bohemia Interactive’s military shooters, first appearing for the venerable Operation Flashpoint in the mid 2000s. The mod is still going strong and is now available for Arma II. Vietnam: The Experience recreates the jungle warfare of the late ’60s and early ’70s, and is an addon that has always emphasized smooth gameplay – this is one of the less demanding Arma II mods in terms of PC requirements. With its atmospheric settings and wide array of historically accurate units, Vietnam: The Experience is a great Arma II addon for those looking for some classic warfare moments. Remember to check out the mod’s forums for the latest updates. ConclusionThese mods and addons for Arma II should provide more than enough entertainment for the devoted Arma II fanatic and student of multiplayer military warfare to get their teeth into, and with the active community support for the game, there will no doubt be plenty more original addons to come for the Arma series. Wasteland
There's something of DayZ in sandbox mission Wasteland, both in terms of mechanics and cult popularity. It's a multiplayer-only mode that drops players onto the island of Stratis, before asking them to select a team: BLUFOR, OPPFOR, or Independent. From there, players have to stay alive, scavenging money, food, and water from the island's settlements, and spending their gotten gains on new weaponry. Occasionally the game spawns missions and AI enemies that reward teams that combine to complete them with hefty payouts. Because it's a multiplayer mission, you don't technically need to download or subscribe to anything before playing Wasteland - simply pick a server running the mode.
Arma 3 Rally - Skopos Course
You'll find a few rally courses already available on the Steam Workshop, but none are as slick as m@gicpanda's Skopos Course. It's set on a country road with straights long enough to let you floor your hatchback's accelerator, but it's the visual touches that make the course memorable. Come round the first corner and a jet screeches overhead; round the second and you're dodging burning armoured car wreckage. Try and avoid spectators if you can, but don't worry too much: I ran seven of them over after misjudging one tricky corner, and the rally organisers didn't seem to mind.
GhostHawk Shift
Antorugby's chopper-centric mission is good practice for helicopter pilots. It starts off simple, asking you to cart a lazy squad a few hundred metres down the road, but gets hard fast. Your next landing zone is covered by enemy AA guns, meaning you'll have to fly low, land quickly, and get out fast before your wings are clipped. Later, you're able to redistribute some aerial justice with your copter's own cannons, meaning that by the end of the job, you should be comfortable landing, hovering, and manoeuvering yourself around the sky.
MGS1
This download is a surprisingly complex retelling of the Metal Gear Solid in the Arma III engine, complete with boss battle, codec, and audio cribbed from the Playstation game. Arma III's AI - still a little suspect at the best of times - isn't really built for this kind of difficult stealth workout, but it's the little touches that make MGS1 worth playing. You'll start near a minisub, correctly aping the real Metal Gear Solid's aquatic infiltration, and regular checkpoints mean that being spotted won't lead to too much frustration.
Survivor
Survivor's a simple mission that drops you into a town with a pistol and an electro-ed up version of a '50s boogie song, before asking you to survive against a roving gang of “bullies” who want you dead. There's a time limit, so hiding on the top floor of a house - however much it might be my cowardly instinct - won't work. Survivor's a good mission for training your iron-sight aim, too, forcing you to be quick on the trigger but fairly conservative with your ammunition.
Dynamic Universal War SystemArma 2 Graphics Mod
One of Arma III's most ambitious and impressive mods yet, Dynamic Universal War System will invent you a procedural war upon startup. You're plonked onto the vast island of Altis, given a base, and asked to capture enemy territory. Squads and vehicles can be purchased with command points; command points are earned by capturing more territory. There's an admirable amount of choice in how you approach DUWS's war: use your own sniper rifle to clear enemy territory, or send a mechanised force to clear out an enemy outpost from the comfort of your own base.
Revenge!
One for PC Gamer art editor and Operation Flashpoint obsessive John Strike, Revenge! is a retread of the mission of the same name from 2001's original OpFlash. You're a team leader in one of two APCs converging on a large, terrorist-held settlement. Clearing the area is a matter of slow and deliberate progress, splitting your squad into fire teams and closing off firelanes. Or, in my case, ordering all your men to run toward the objective and hiding around at the back so you don't get shot.
CH Assault from the Deep
Mateck's Assault from the Deep uses Arma III's newly introduced submersible well, asking players to pilot the craft up to a beach where they have to clear a small gang of foes before regrouping and pushing toward a larger force. It's one of the easier missions available on Steam Workshop, but it's well suited for small groups, making it another good training exercise. Just remember to shut the hatches on your mini-sub so your team doesn't unceremoniously drown on the way in.
Ekali Apocalypse - Sniper Mission
Casting you in the role of sniper in a sniper/spotter duo, Ekali Apocalypse is short, giving you only one target to eliminate before extracting. But it's notable for letting you choose your vantage point and forcing you to scan around the area before making your shot with one of Arma III's realistically unwieldy sniper rifles. Overcompensate for bullet drop, or else you'll end up alerting the entire town to your presence.
Ground Attack II
Graduate to this after you've completed your GhostHawk Shift. The second of DICS' Ground Attack missions has you attacking convoys at low altitude. You're piloting, so you don't need to worry about shooting - your gunner will do the killing for you. That is, unless, you're feeling particularly ambitious and want to take manual control of your cannons. Knock out the convoys across Stratis, then it's back home for a congratulatory hug and a sandwich.
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Backpacks let you increase the amount of space in the inventory by adding a certain amount of universal slots. You can store anything in it, from medicine to weapons. Backpacks come in a few kinds, varying in appearance and capacity. The more capacity, the harder a given backpack is to find. Some of them are only available in most inaccessible army bases. The list of backpacks in DayZ is as follows:
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Managing your backpack is rather not intuitive and requires some training. The least complicated thing is putting items from the ground into the backpack. In order to place an item from a pile or other container into the backpack, you must:
The whole thing looks a bit different when you want to move something to or out of the backpack without opening any other container. Is such case, opening the backpack works completely differently.
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From time to time you will come across new backpack in shops, residential and military buildings and even deer stands. Changing your old backpack to a new one required a different set of moves.
After aiming at the newly found backpack, an Open backpack x sign will appear. Sometimes there might be items inside it. In order to take them, do treat the backpack as a pile of items and follow the same steps. To take the backpack, you need to keep a certain order of steps in order not to lose anything from your current one.
Remember that the bugs appearing while moving items from the inventory to the backpack (and vice versa) will eventually be fixed, but for now be careful.
Can somebody give me a way to increase the performance in arma 2: OA, more like a mod or app or command that makes it use more than one core, because it uses only 10-15%(one core only) while in game of my cpu and for a game like that needs much more resources.I have tried many things such as:
1. A custom settings launcher. 2. Set launch options in Steam: -nosplash -cpucount=6 -exThreads=5 3. Some apps that should have incresed my performance and/or make the game use more threads. But nothing seems to work..after all I still get 20-40fps in multiplayer and the average is 25-30 fps.Though it should be nice when it comes to shooting it's really hard to play, because the fps drops.In singleplayer I get 100fps, but I don't really care about it... I know arma 2 is poorly optimized but there should be a fix So my rig is: CPU: fx6300 GPU: hd6790(It's old and kinda weak I know) RAM: 4gb ddr3 1333mhz Comments are closed.
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