What was your Gateway Arma?

[redarmy 422]

After playing Battlefield Bad company 2 for years on XBOX(it being my first ever online shooter) and endig up ranked in the top 2% for total points in the world rankings,i moved on to BF3....

 

I then relocated to Asia for work,and in this country XBOX live was blocked,and BF4 was on the horizon...So i found out about this little thing called PC gaming and though,ah whats the worst that can happen?

 

PC arrived with a GTX 610 LOL...still though anything above 60 FPS blew my mind.I got BF4 installed (AND THE "PREMIUM")

I instalntly noticed how awful BF4 map design was and i basically fell out of love with the battlefield series,because of it being awful these days and the DEVS and EA being greedy anti consumer assholes.

 

Feeling at a loss,a real loss as to what to do next(as the thought of becoming a COD player brought desires of suicide) i stumbled upon a cinematic trailer from shack tac's, Dyslexci . I thought it was amazing...his videos were so immersive and you felt like you were there.The gameplay was NOTHING like BF series.Being in the army from a younger age,i always wanted something more akin to realism...and what i saw with shack tac,sold me.

 

I got Arma3 (having obviously  never played 2 and must admit,was very overwhelmed with everything from binding so many keys to opening the editor.

Four odd years later,and with the help from the best community iv ever met,im creating my own scenarios,learning scripting and still very much(maybe now more than ever) addicted to Arma3.

 

It has given me my moneys worth(understatement of the century) and made me resent companies like EA.

This is the game that cannot ever be replaced,and will only ever die with it being reborn with Arma 4.

 

Cheers to you Bohemia.

[Diguelo2k17 3]

Arma 2 purchased on a car boot sale in 2010.

[Laqueesha 474]

I'm an old timer, I is. I got into Arma with the first very first game: Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis back in 2003 after one o' me mates recommended it to me.

[barccy 53]

A pirated copy of OFP GOTY after the retail sales stopped but before CWA was released (if it was on gog then, I didn't know about it). It was recommended by a friend who played OFP:DR on PS3 and frequented /k/ where it is popular. I had been looking for such a game for years, and now play almost nothing but arma, neglecting to even install most of my +300 games libraries on steam and gog. Before I tried making due with Rainbow Six and Delta Force. I think before that I once briefly saw ARMA 1 on amazon, but reviews were mixed and I didn't know what it was. I purchased CWA and ARMA 2 CO when the former released, and played mostly CWA because it was taking me a long time to figure out settings for 2. Even today, I prefer a lot of things about OFP/CWA like the way recoil ends when firing does / gravity affects weapons , the absence of grass and no visual models desyncing from hitboxes to sink into the ground like in the proper armas. The incomplete but still present melee (stroke gun and stroke fist) is nice too, and it still has the best campaigns, regular missions, and music.

[quickdraw_01 4]

Before OFP I played a game called M1 Tank Platoon 2 it was based on the M1 Battle Tank , I believe it had some developer connection with Operation Flashpoint but I could be wrong it was 1998!

[rowdied 44]

Muzzle Velocity

Rainbow Six

Ghost recon

European Air War

Across the Rhine

 

Where the games that got me into Arma (I still know it as OFP)

 

Saw the demo in Computer Gaming and played the hell out of it and bought OFP but found it too difficult and shelved it for a few months until I got sick of R6 and tried it again.

 

Been hooked for life...

[beno_83au 1369]

On 8/17/2019 at 11:33 AM, rowdied said:

Muzzle Velocity

 

Haha holy hell. Back then I couldn't get over the fact that in 1 or 2 shots you could be dead! Loved it. And 20-ish years later I can still remember the music and the sounds.....

[Gunter Severloh 4064]

1 hour ago, beno_83au said:

music

http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=24717

[beno_83au 1369]

Cheers @Gunter Severloh but I was actually talking about Muzzle Velocity's music/sounds.

[Private Evans 498]

Started with OFP on PC. At the time when Arma 2 was announced I was so hyped that I of course bought it on day one...at the end of day one it was so buggy that I in a complete rage removed the game from my hard drive and did not touch it again until DayZ came out...which brought me back to Arma. Played all campaigns including all addons in a row and never left since. Bought Arma 3 on day one being at over 3000h right now ...

[Gunter Severloh 4064]

1 hour ago, beno_83au said:

Cheers @Gunter Severloh but I was actually talking about Muzzle Velocity's music/sounds.

Ah ok, lol somehow didn't read your quote just what you said, and tbh never heard of the game, looked it up on utube, and interesting for its time, idk how i never heard of it, but i never really got into

any pc gaming until like 98 as far as i recall. Maybe the demo for it came out in 96 and not after that, probably why i never seen it.