Development Blog & Reveals

[zukov 490]

the only "new thing"is the camo on the quad bike at left

[lexx 1412]

Nope, pretty sure it's one of the two FIA textures. It's already in the game.

[Wiki 1558]

Maybe I missed something, but BI said Apex would be available Q2. But do we have any idea or intel when it will hit dev branch?

[deltagamer 612]

I don't know if this has been mentioned yet but there was a Russian Military camo located in the a3 files under characters_f.pbo. Maybe it's something we could expect to see expanded on when the dlc is released. 

 

http://i.imgur.com/AfGUz6Z.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/OBN1sfx.jpg

 

It's looks like a retexture of the current CSAT uniform.

[Chairborne 2594]

I don't know if this has been mentioned yet but there was a Russian Military camo located in the a3 files under characters_f.pbo. Maybe it's something we could expect to see expanded on when the dlc is released. 

 

http://i.imgur.com/AfGUz6Z.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/OBN1sfx.jpg

 

It's looks like a retexture of the current CSAT uniform.

 

That has been in the game files since alpha or beta, like the woodland combat uniform for NATO and a bunch of other stuff.

Probably just some leftover from some earlier concept.

[graemeshute 218]

New piss test DLC featuring court martial!

Yes and Uniform Ironing/ pressing DLC

[drebin052 324]

I don't know if this has been mentioned yet but there was a Russian Military camo located in the a3 files under characters_f.pbo.

 

Pretty sure that's just a leftover from the pre-Alpha days like Chairborne mentioned. It was back in the original 2011 storyline when the current AAF Digital camo was supposed to be used by the now deprecated Russian PMC called Raven Security (which, ironically enough is an American PMC in real life). They even had a cap with their insignia on it before the texture got removed on release:

 

[R3vo 2654]

https://data.bistudio.com/mailing/html/arma3-apex-preorder.htmlJust got an E-Mail.

 

Not sure if this was already known, but seems like we will also get a COOP-Campaign.

[heavygunner 179]

Is known

[deltagamer 612]

@drebin052 @Chairborne yeah I Know :P

 

I can remember a dev was talking about the cut PMC faction a while ago due to time restrictions. Maybe it could make a come back considering there seems to be some work already done on it.

[zukov 490]

some stuff need to config again is an addon released in alpha

http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=19203

[CaptainAzimuth 714]

@drebin052 @Chairborne yeah I Know :P

I can remember a dev was talking about the cut PMC faction a while ago due to time restrictions. Maybe it could make a come back considering there seems to be some work already done on it.

RHS Russian Federation.

Russian Forces 2035.

Arma 2 Community Upgrade Project

Can we... Not please have more Russian stuff? Especially retextures of existing gear that could be done by virtually anyone. The Expansion is supposed to bring fresh new and interesting content, in a whole new theater. The last thing I expect to see in the Asian South Pacific are Russian Forces. Not that I have a problem with it, it's just... Every single modern game has Opfor Russian Forces. Gets kinda old you know.

[AveryTheKitty 2626]

China pls.

[zukov 490]

i bet Indonesia vs Nuova Guinea rebels

[CaptainAzimuth 714]

I wouldn't even care at this point, just anything but Russians and rag tag Gaurilla's. I just think they should follow the story line, and like they said CSAT would be a more opposing smart army with interesting assortment of weaponry that NATO has to deal with, at least in the story line that adds up.

[chortles 263]

just anything but Russians and rag tag Gaurilla's.

What I've been thinking for years, which has no small part in why I latched onto CSAT.

[theevancat 277]

I did like CSAT as well. It's good to be different.

[zukov 490]

 

 

 concepts for the new NATO VTOL aircraft and both NATO's and CSAT's Light Strike Vehicles.

mmmm so the main factions remain the same

[Maio 293]

:cylon:

 

https://forums.bistudio.com/topic/187396-arma-3-apex-news-and-speculations/

 

That is all.

 

:cylon:

[CaptainAzimuth 714]

mmmm so the main factions remain the same

There's still hope. CSAT is a coalition, so it could be a different nation, or at least, I'm hoping it's a different nation with their assets instead of recycled ones.

However, at least they did mention that staging of Apex's content is going to be Dev Branch ahead of time. Content first and then the map I think. They also mentioned Features, but not specific. I hope it's logistics. Though, does anyone remember how soon they staged Altis on Dev Branch before release?

[ceeeb 147]

There's still hope. CSAT is a coalition, so it could be a different nation, or at least, I'm hoping it's a different nation with their assets instead of recycled ones.

However, at least they did mention that staging of Apex's content is going to be Dev Branch ahead of time. Content first and then the map I think. They also mentioned Features, but not specific. I hope it's logistics. Though, does anyone remember how soon they staged Altis on Dev Branch before release?

 

From memory, Altis was released to Dev branch a couple of weeks prior to stable release.

[mistyronin 1181]

From memory, Altis was released to Dev branch a couple of weeks prior to stable release.

If I remind it properly I think it was 1 month before. But they released the playable content 2 weeks before the release. (don't quote me on that tho)

But in other cases they released content months before the release, for instance the DLC helos, or the Eden editor itself. So I wouldn't make much parallelisms. 

[Chairborne 2594]

I also remember Altis was released at least one month before being put on stable.

[lexx 1412]

There's still hope. CSAT is a coalition, so it could be a different nation, or at least, I'm hoping it's a different nation with their assets instead of recycled ones.

However, at least they did mention that staging of Apex's content is going to be Dev Branch ahead of time. Content first and then the map I think. They also mentioned Features, but not specific. I hope it's logistics. Though, does anyone remember how soon they staged Altis on Dev Branch before release?

 

I just hope they keep CSAT style as is. Even though some here are loudly exclaiming that it's bad, I totally dig the style and I can't believe I'm be the only one. If they'd totally change / adjust it now to be more close to what NATO is wearing (which some mods are doing), Tanoa will lose parts of its A3 identity, imo.

 

Pretty sure we'll see non-iranians this time, just like we've seen chinese soldiers in the helicopter dlc promo screenshots. Then again, this probably would require a truckton of new voice files, though, and I have no idea how hard / expensive they are to create.

[graemeshute 218]

I just hope they keep CSAT style as is. Even though some here are loudly exclaiming that it's bad, I totally dig the style and I can't believe I'm be the only one. If they'd totally change / adjust it now to be more close to what NATO is wearing (which some mods are doing), Tanoa will lose parts of its A3 identity, imo.

 

Pretty sure we'll see non-iranians this time, just like we've seen chinese soldiers in the helicopter dlc promo screenshots. Then again, this probably would require a truckton of new voice files, though, and I have no idea how hard / expensive they are to create.

I also hope we get Jungle camouflaged CSAT with a deeper story line. Secretly I hope it will be the Chinese PLA or the KPA with all that Propaganda rhetoric.

 

http://www.travelpostersonline.com/ekmps/shops/travelposters/images/north-korean-propaganda-let-s-display-the-heroic-feats-of-our-army-and-people-in-the-stand-off-with-imperialism--8339-p.jpg