Questions for a new player

[Dreadlockpasta 1]

After all the good I've heard about the original, I've decided to pick it up. I have three major questions though: 1) Is there a difference between Arma: Cold War Assault and OFP GOTY Edition? Will mods and missions for one work with the other? Does ArmA: CWA include the expansion?

2) Are there any dynamic missions similar to dynamic war for ArmA 1 or Cipher for ArmA 2?

3) Is the editor roughly the same as the ArmA games?

[John Spartan 89]

First of all welcome mate to this comunity.

I am glad that you decided to try out old classics belive me you wont be disapointed, even tho visual part is far out of date, but campaigns and gameplay balance all that out.

1- there are three Official campaings, operation flashpoint (you play for nato), red hammer (you are playing same story for soviets) and expansion with resistance campaign. In GOTY eddition there will be all 3 of them, where in CWA i noticed red hammer campaign missing.

2 - search for DAC - dynamic mission creator - one of the best there was for OFP

3- mission editor ui is similar in all ARMA series games, so once you learn basics you can make your own missions in all of them, off course scripting commands get more complicated with every newer game.

And finaly about mods, yes they will work with bouth GOTY and CWA versions, just make sure you have the lattest patch applied. Try out FFUR, SLX or my favorite GRAA mod.

Have fun.

[Dreadlockpasta 1]

So in that case, I'll get GOTY. Thanks man.

Edit: Well, actually, how big of a deal is Red Hammer? Is it a really good campaign? Do a lot of missions require it? It's much easier to get a digital copy of CWA so if the missing campaign is just a minor thing I'd go for that version instead. Or if somebody knows where to get a digital copy of GOTY edition that'd be ever better.

Edited April 9, 2013 by Dreadlockpasta

[John Spartan 89]

If you can wait till tummorrow, and dont mind a stem version of cwa, send me a pm with your email or steam account and i'll spare one copy free of charge mate.

[Dreadlockpasta 1]

I sent you a message. Thanks big time mate.