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Arma 3 Alpha - March 5th - 25 Euros
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Chance Hale
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Woot and thanks, well exceed the recommended requirements but I suppose that doesn't really mean much given the amount of options present in Arma. What's the deal with the huge discrepancy in space requirements? Is the required what the orignal product will be while the recommended is what it'll be after patches? Don't think I've played a game that let you choose whether or not to download certain textures outside of packs like Dragon Age 2, Crysis 2 and Sleeping Dogs.
Whilst I'm very exited for this game I will not preorder this or pay to play the Alpha (yes you get the full game too I know).
I just know what a mess Arma 2 was (and most of the times still is). The performance is pretty much garbage even if the game isn't the best looking. I'm just afraid this game in Alpha is going to be a disaster.
I just know what a mess Arma 2 was (and most of the times still is). The performance is pretty much garbage even if the game isn't the best looking. I'm just afraid this game in Alpha is going to be a disaster.
I had a feeling you would make the thread. Looking forward to some optimizing. I imagine this game will have a lot of tweaking if ArmA 2 is anything to go by.
Probably because the game looks like complete and utter dogshit on low settings, the leap when changing settings in ArmA is massive.
Phanatic8390
Member
True, but I can't imagine they are recommending hardware for the lowest settings.
Usually Recommended is medium to high.
I did actually misread his post as the low specs being unbelievably low, silly me. However, there's a big discrepancy in what some people call 'High' settings in ArmA. Sure you can crank up a lot of the base settings but it's when people start fiddling with view distance and video memory, that's when it all goes to shit. One of my friends kept complaining about the game for the longest time how garbage it game ran etc. until I noticed he had his view distance at 6000-7000, which is about 150% more than he should have. My 3930k has a sweet spot at around 3-4000 depending on the map.
So the game isn't that demanding as some would like to believe, just a matter of knowing the settings and realizing some of these settings are 'impossible' settings, settings that go far, far beyond what modern PCs can handle at 60FPS. View distance being the main culprit.
So I could easily see recommended being some Medium / High settings with a view distance of 2000-ish.
From the technical side, this is what i would like at least to have from Arma3:
*Better lighting, nights specially suck in A2. They talked about it in the past and the videos showed an improvement already.
*Better performance on urban areas. Chernolagggggg
I would be happy with only that two things. Alpha won't feautre a huge city, but still, can't wait to try it.
*Better lighting, nights specially suck in A2. They talked about it in the past and the videos showed an improvement already.
*Better performance on urban areas. Chernolagggggg
I would be happy with only that two things. Alpha won't feautre a huge city, but still, can't wait to try it.
Yeah but if look at the recommended specs fro ArmA2 at its time, you basically needed the best hardware on the market to fall within them. Very different this time; so I hope the specs are realistic.
They made a ton of optimization from the release of ArmA 2 up until now, that is definitely incorporated into the new RV iteration plus they've probably made further optimization besides that. I think all the doom and gloom over performance is blown a bit out of proportion this time.
Legato.Reborn-
Member
I expect great shots from you Sethos 
The_Player
Member
Is it wrong to be anxious to play the game already? D:
Chance Hale
Member
Will it be possible to upgrade your purchase version? Really want to get the supporter edition on the 5th but I just don't have the extra money at the moment.
Punkster_NY
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Anton Sugar
Member
I think Bohemia missed the bullshot train.
Legato.Reborn-
Member
While I do appreciate a good bullshot, I admire Bohemia for just going into the game and grabbing a picture.
They have always been rubbish at taking hype pictures, looks like an average contribution in the high-res thread at best.
IblisGinjo
Member
$33 is a great deal for Arma 3. Very cool that they used this model of early purchasing. Actually so many good games coming out MadMartigan(Adrian Werner) would be proud, wherever he is.
The_Player
Member
That's just stuff from E3.
edit: Sounds like it could be an interview over the videos?
edit2: Nope, it's a stream of a video of an interview with a dev while he plays the scenarios from E3.
Legato.Reborn-
Member
Hey guys! I'm super excited for the alpha and I wanted to throw some stuff here from the BIS forums (I'm sure the big Arma heads like me already know this info).
Here is Stratis. So this is the replacement to Utes. It's a pretty good chunk of island that is hopefully more interesting than what Utes turned out to be (good for warfare pvp).
And here is big momma, Altis (formerly knows as Limnos).
Here is the comparison to Chenarus.
Here is the comparison with water.
Note that water is now accessible to players in Arma 3 so this adds a little more size to Altis.
Here is Stratis. So this is the replacement to Utes. It's a pretty good chunk of island that is hopefully more interesting than what Utes turned out to be (good for warfare pvp).
And here is big momma, Altis (formerly knows as Limnos).
Here is the comparison to Chenarus.
Here is the comparison with water.
Note that water is now accessible to players in Arma 3 so this adds a little more size to Altis.
Legato.Reborn-
Member
This is the town of Kaminia. A (supposedly) smaller of towns (villages?) in Altis.
I would be very happy with something similar to that on Stratis for monday's alpha.
Legato.Reborn-
Member
blitzcloud
Banned
Well, interiors dont need to be drawn unless really close/facing them directly/scoped mode.
Also, it's not that this should run like crap, it's that arma 2 was poorly optimized for what it was. imo.
TBH i am not a fan of the map from what we have seen ( mainly just because it lacks any good city/towns)
Maybe they should have added in some of their owns towns instead( i don't mean this in a negative way btw)
But some parts look really good.
Wondering, when will mods be available? ( no not for dayz..................... wasteland)
Maybe they should have added in some of their owns towns instead( i don't mean this in a negative way btw)
But some parts look really good.
Wondering, when will mods be available? ( no not for dayz..................... wasteland
)Altis is absolutely massive. Alpha may or may not be glorious.
ArmA 2 ran fine for what it was - A huge sandbox military simulator, no other comes close replicating what it does. They need to optimize for people's lower end machines but my high-end machines have never struggled.
They do however need to trim down some options so people can't use them, remove or change some options as they make little to no sense and generally stop giving people too many options they can't handle.
Like, who knows that Video Memory can be a huge source of stutter and "Default" is better than "Very High", however as an AMD users ( I believe it was? ) you need to pick Very High or High to enjoy a smooth experience. I mean, that shit just doesn't make sense.
Dear god, that will be glorious.
The_Player
Member
Kinda sick of all this arabian nonsense in every game possible. D: I'd really love to see more urban environment instead. Even something Chernorussianesque would do just fine.
Judging by the guy on the left, the animations are still shit :/
What an idiot comment.
Yes, please tell us your deep thoughts on the animation system based on one screenshot where a guy is doing a lean you see from an odd angle, in the dark lit up by NVGs.
Maybe you should watch a trailer or something.
Based on that screenshot, can you also tell me which graphical options will be available to us and possible and little on the gunplay? Very curious about those.
Oh come on, do you want to tell me that Arma2 animations were great? This "stick in the ass" posing is exactly what I hated about it (also kills all the immersion IMO).
Sure I shouldn't judge it by a screenshot, but I fear that this will once more kill the graphics (which look great otherwise) for me.
Wait, where were we discussing ArmA 2 animations? I simply can't find those posts, did they disappear?
This is the ArmA 3 thread and BIS has said they've improved animations, had you watched a trailer you could see that straight away. So you sitting here, judging it by one screenshot is just cringeworthy.
I'm afraid those haven't been implemented for the Alpha yet, along with the ToH flight model.
I believe the Alpha is full fledged with the new flight model, animations and PhysX 3.x - Unless they said something I missed?