Development Blog & Reveals

[purepassion 22]

I am very happy :)

Thanks guys and thanks DAN for this awesome and very informative devblog!

Edited February 23, 2012 by PurePassion
It's CAPITAL D A N

[Tonci87 163]

Thank you BIS. Those Mirrors are awesome, and I guess that little Monitor is showing what is behind the vehicle, very handy when going backwards or to check if the convoy is still behind you.

Those Screens are just plain awesomeness.

I have noticed that the soldiers seem to have new animations. Are that already new animations like the player will have them or are they "cutscene animations".

The nightime shots are very impressive, the illumination of the vehicels looks very real.

The sea is just breathtaking, great work on that.

What exactly do you mean by

additional gameplay features

that came up with the new animations? You are not introducing jumping, aren´t you?

[Edge 2]

Are that already new animations like the player will have them or are they "cutscene animations".

They are part of the normal movement animations.

... You are not introducing jumping, aren´t you?

No jumping, just falling. :)

[Smurf 12]

That would include recovering from a shockwave\blast ?

[Mr. Charles 22]

I'd just be happy if there is a falling animation and not the regular standing in the air...

[smookie 11]

That would include recovering from a shockwave\blast ?

Keen on rocket jumping, are we? :)

[Smurf 12]

Keen on rocket jumping, are we? :)

Or.......... jetpacks explosions!

[NoRailgunner 0]

Well at least some news about the "Awesome proj3ct". Hope that some ingame A3 videos will appear sooner or later too. :)

Don't forget to include the Sirtaki + Ouzo! Without this dance + aperitif A3 would not feel like beeing in Greece! :cool:

[Tonci87 163]

Great news guys.

[PuFu 4599]

Actually we are. Since the community pays for the game development in the first place basically.

basically? Have YOU paid for anything related to A3 development? Is so, where to, because i want to chip in.

please take an logic test, i am pretty sure you'll fail miserably...

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OT: really love the amount of info the blog. happy development BIS

[Bee8190 10]

basically? Have YOU paid for anything related to A3 development? Is so, where to, because i want to chip in.

please take an logic test, i am pretty sure you'll fail miserably...

Ouch!!

[gammadust 12]

Ouch!!

yes... metalcraze is like a magnet to PuFu's whip.

[smookie 11]

Pufu, you feed them, they grow bigger ;)

[maddogx 13]

Every time I read "Dan Musil", I read the last name as "Muesli" in my head. :D

Funnily enough, it seems I'm not the only one xD:

Jetzt meldete sich der Projektleiter Daniel Musli auf der offiziellen Webseite zu Wort, um einen kurzen Statusbericht zum Spiel sowie eine Übersicht der geplanten Aktivitäten abzugeben.

So kündigte Musli unter anderem an, dass (...)

Zudem gab Musli einen kurzen Einblick (...)

Zum Abschluss präsentierte Musli noch (...)

Source: Gamestar.de

Fail.

;)

[gammadust 12]

Also... do NOT ask Google for a proper translation either:

Until earlier this month announced the developer Bohemia Interactive, the release of military simulation ArmA 3 in the fourth quarter of 2012 was postponed. Now the project manager Daniel Muslims reported on the official website for word, to leave a brief status report on the game and an overview of the planned activities.

Is that a spellchecker working before translate? Assume much, Google do you?

Cool quotes:

Muslims for example, announced, among other things, that they would present ARMA 3, both at this year's E3 (5th to 7th June) and at gamescom in Cologne (16th to 19th August).

At the end of Muslims presented a half-dozen new screenshots that show directly including scenes from the game.

Edited February 23, 2012 by gammadust

[Colossus 2]

There are more pictures on the Q&A from PC Gamers. :)

[ceeeb 147]

Looking good :)

[Flash Thunder 10]

WOW RTT is looking good and that lighting looks a lot more natural.

Can't wait for more info.

[maddogx 13]

The lighting looks effing amazing! Very realistic.

The only thing that's missing are shadows cast by a light that isn't a celestial body. The two night screenies clearly show that headlights and chemlights do not currently cast dynamic shadows. Perhaps this just too much to hope for in a game as large and dynamic as Arma. :(

[froggyluv 2135]

No jumping, just falling. :)

I hope you are serious in that falling will actually take place rather then "bean pole gravity pull" we have now :p

Pics look absolutely stunning and giving us the chance to playtest Alpha is fooking cream.

[Colossus 2]

Don't know why we are already looking at flaws on a game that won't be out for another eight or nine months.

It's a new lighting engine which uses a new DirectX version previous products did not use. It's bound to have flaws at this stage.

Rest assured, they'll fix. :)

Edited February 23, 2012 by colossus

[jakerod 254]

The guy on the right in the picture with the statue has grass or some kind of vegetation on his helmet it looks like.

"What’s a weapon or vehicle in A3 that’s exciting to you right now?

[...]

Crowe: Well, I might just be a little biased from the last project, but right now it’s the Mi-48 Helicopter Gunship. Our community christened it the “Hamok.†It’s big and it’s ugly and it’s all the better for that!"

Excellent. I'm hoping it keeps that name in game.

Edited February 23, 2012 by Jakerod

[Steakslim 1]

The guy on the right in the picture with the statue has grass or some kind of vegetation on his helmet it looks like.

Indeed he does. As someone mentioned, it looks like there maybe be a custom camo option for helmets, that or it'll be a separate helmet altogether.

[Flash Thunder 10]

The lighting looks effing amazing! Very realistic.

The only thing that's missing are shadows cast by a light that isn't a celestial body. The two night screenies clearly show that headlights and chemlights do not currently cast dynamic shadows. Perhaps this just too much to hope for in a game as large and dynamic as Arma. :(

I would be happy if light was blocked by all objects, if flashlights worked during all hours of the day. Fixed the main issues with the current lighting engine besides not displaying dynamic shadows on all light sources. Mainly overdone HDR

[Bee8190 10]

Also... do NOT ask Google for a proper translation either:

Is that a spellchecker working before translate? Assume much, Google do you?

Cool quotes:

Epic fail translation. Thanks for sharing these, gave me really good laugh!! ;)