Expansion Expectations

[Mattastic 97]

We've all seen the end of the 2014-15 road map end at the release of the first expansion for ArmA 3. In the past we have viewed what comes with expansions such as Operation Arrowhead to ArmA 2. That expansion brought a big change with it. I want to know what everyone's thoughts are on where the first expansion of ArmA 3 will take us. I assume their will be a "West" Wind Campaign to match the "East", which may take part in the western hemisphere rather than the eastern. Maybe we will see a new terrain based off of somewhere in North America, i.e. Mexico, Alaska, etc. Anyways, however crazy it sounds I would like to hear all of your predictions.

[AveryTheKitty 2626]

Pacific. It's obvious that they're gonna do it.

[major_shepard 82]

As long as they put content in this game (no massive copy-paste this time), I guess everything will go.

[mistyronin 1181]

I don't know where is gonna be set.

But I expect a new map, possibly with new features like snow or getting deep in maritime stuff ( in the vanilla game it was reduced to just a couple diving missions ).

[Mattastic 97]

Pacific. It's obvious that they're gonna do it.

Asia Pacific or NA Pacific?

[the_demongod 31]

Asia pacific. If you watch the intro newscast thing for the East Wind campaign, at some point it shows a globe with various NATO/CSAT markers on it. There are several in the Indonesia area, and sometimes around bases you can hear men talking about how it's a mess there and such.

[da12thMonkey 1943]

The whole South-East Asia setting idea is fairly believable to me.

Black Element Software, one of BI's subsidiaries, has an office in Thailand (the office was still under the Black Element name last time I looked, anyway). If anyone follows BIS's devs on twitter you might have noticed that some guys from the Thai office paid a visit the the guys at BIS' Brno office in recent weeks. The studio is as far as I can tell, focussed on providing external 3D art services to game developers.

From their location they could readily perform location scouting and reference collection tasks for developing the expansion's terrain in the manner that BIS did with Altis/Lemnos and Chernarus, as well as generate various 3D assets needed to populate such a terrain if needed. It would make perfect economical sense to accomplish the task of building a new and different locale for the expansion (as it has so far been described by BIS themselves) in this way, using BIS' available personnel and facilities.

[CaptainAzimuth 714]

Definitely Asia. Not only what was said already, but also CSAT have China on their side. This would probably provide for some Chinese vehicles and weapons (QBZ variant of the Katiba anyone?) and a Terrain in an Asian setting. The Expansion is probably going to include alot more content, but that's all i can think of right now.

[old_painless 182]

Uh, Asia as in dense jungle and waterborne raids down murky rivers followed by Iwo Jima style battles uphill calling in bombardments of the enemies entrenched machine gun nests by air support :cool:

[CaptainAzimuth 714]

Pacific Asia... I'd be down for that enviornment.

Likley to have those Rivers and pond area's which would be amazing for setting up a small base of operations. And actual bridges... That would be amazing to destroy while the enemy is advancing, and or then trying to find means of getting to the other side in one piece.

[semiconductor 309]

Contemporary setting and new terrain based upon North America or Europe.

But everybody seems to be waiting for yet another Asia-themed game with silly-looking weapons. Sigh.

[CaptainAzimuth 714]

Contemporary setting and new terrain based upon North America or Europe.

But everybody seems to be waiting for yet another Asia-themed game with silly-looking weapons. Sigh.

On behalf of that defense, i'm tired of a re occurring theme. Desert, and jungle. Asia provides a terrain with HIGH fidelity in terms of land features. Africa does the same, but well. The flat lands of Altis already kinda feel like Africa. Though, some spots in Africa would be nice to see in the Arma 3 Engine.

[semiconductor 309]

On behalf of that defense, i'm tired of a re occurring theme. Desert, and jungle. Asia provides a terrain with HIGH fidelity in terms of land features.

Well, nobody asks for 1:1 replica of, say, France, BI can add as many land features as they want. Besides, Asia also provides really dense grass/forsets and I really want to see how exactly we are going to fight all-seeing AI in those circumstances.

[AveryTheKitty 2626]

I think it would be nice to see maps similar to red dragon: http://www.cocgblog.com/2/wp-content/uploads/wargame_red_dragon-07.jpg (2433 kB)

[Mattastic 97]

Good insight, all of you, in addition to what you all have said I think the existence of Asian faces could be a hint towards the expansion as well being in the asia pacific region. Of course they could and probably are regular features in the game with no real meaningful ties to the expansion, but it is fun to speculate. I think the expansion would be a great time to see a revamp of CSAT, with it being more explored on another front and all, it would make sense. That is unless the entirety of CSAT is Iranian, which I don't think is the case.

[CrazyBaron 10]

why start new thread...

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?175688-Next-DLC-Speculation

[james2464 177]

I'm going to call it now and say the Philippines will base the new terrain. :)

And we may see tunnels.

[Ckrauslo 12]

Would be fun to see something in the frontier between south and north koreas

[Maio 293]

why start new thread...

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?175688-Next-DLC-Speculation

Yup :)

Please continue there.