ARMA 3 Announced!

[[R-DEV]wormeaten]

Originally Posted by Cassius

Will all the stuff hacked toegether for ARMA2 be portable to ARMA3? Or should we install a suicide hotline for the devs xd?

Experience from ArmA 1 and transferring mods to ArmA2 was very smooth didn't need much changes or learning something completely different. All this mods today on ArmA2 are actually start to be developed in ArmA1.

[Aztec]

A3 may well be awesome, but to play that thing well is probably going to require a monstrous PC. I currently run minimum graphics A2 and my PC still coughs and splutters at every corner. But the saving grace of arma is the gameplay. As long as PR stays on A2, i see no need for A3 or an upgrade.

[V3C1C]

Originally Posted by Aztec

A3 may well be awesome, but to play that thing well is probably going to require a monstrous PC. I currently run minimum graphics A2 and my PC still coughs and splutters at every corner. But the saving grace of arma is the gameplay. As long as PR stays on A2, i see no need for A3 or an upgrade.

m8 play with settings in C:\Users\User\Documents\ArmA 2

ArmA2OA.cfg

here are mine

vsync=1;
AToC=7;
FXAA=17;
FXAASharp=6;

and turn of Antialiasing in game graphic setings - it will boost your PC

you will be surprised what your old PC can do

most important - if you have Nvidia card - shadows put on maximum

[galzohar]

Originally Posted by Aztec

A3 may well be awesome, but to play that thing well is probably going to require a monstrous PC. I currently run minimum graphics A2 and my PC still coughs and splutters at every corner. But the saving grace of arma is the gameplay. As long as PR stays on A2, i see no need for A3 or an upgrade.

Well, you have until the end of 2012 to save up ~1000$ for a monster PC, not to mention the hardware needed for A3 will only get cheaper by the end of 2012.

[Simio1337]

ArmA 3 will most likely need a SSD to load those massive textures on time, poor graphics card its going to melt like wax.

[Bydax]

Scanning the horizon: ArmA 3 in 2012

[winchesterdelta1]

Those screenshots look amazing. If the gameplay is even a little bit better than it is now i will be in love again. And not to forget all the amazing things the community will be able to do with all the new features like swiming underwater, changing uniform, Physix and animations. Just wow.

Quote from Bohemia:

Following E3, we plan to open up the game to our players. This process starts with the release of a playable build of Arma 3. We call it the 'Community Alpha'. It's intended to enable people who'd like to try the game early on in development help us to shape it up - and make Arma 3 the greatest release of the series. Ours is a large and complex game - being developed by a relatively small team - so we really appreciate your opinions, thoughts and feedback.

The Community Alpha will be quite limited in terms of the assets it includes, with the goal of providing enough content to experiment with the brand new bits of gameplay and technology. It also enables our passionate community to prepare their mods for the very latest version of the Real Virtuality engine. Then, later on in the year, we'd like to open up our game up even further with a more extensive beta program. The exact details, however, we intend to set out closer to their launch.

This will be awesome. We can even provide more community feedback in a pre-Alpha. No more lots of bugs at initial release, cause we will be able to find them and report them early.
I'm in love with this decision already. haha

And the most importend feature for this game,

We have adhered to a strong focus upon backward compatibility throughout the development, meaning we (and of course even you) are in a position to get older assets into A3 very quickly, just with few tweaks here and there. There are, of course, the new features which would require additional settings.

[Zemciugas]

Oh my, looks so epic.

[Atkinson]

I hope that the technology has advanced so much that now in Arma2 the grass foliage will be drawn to the end of view distance.

H&G was able to pull it off already;
Heroes & Generals - Alpha Videolog 2 - YouTube

[V3C1C]

Arma3 PR will be most epic game/mod ever made