joostsidy   685 Posted May 21, 2019 It gives a bit of the Alien (Movie) vibe with the elongated (scanning?) light effect, so I'm also betting on aliens or alien technology. Hopefully no chest bursters.. 😮  Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
I'mJimFuckingSterlingSon   10 Posted May 21, 2019 if i can speculate, thinking of either a Total war or Red alert setting where you can move units from a top down perspective. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jeza   5416 Posted May 21, 2019 Little update:  Spooky Spoiler   Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Electricleash   133 Posted May 21, 2019 ... Macrotech, Drone manufacturer <--- This has @Kydoimos all over it! Now I'm thinking Cyber warfare. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
toiletuser   29 Posted May 21, 2019 God i hope it won't be alien or zombie nonsense!  I hope it's going to be Alaska/Alps kind of map with non-futuristic weapons and good SP campaign! Btw did they said when we can expect APEX campaign 'OLD MAN'? 6 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
the_one_and_only_Venator   163 Posted May 21, 2019 38 minutes ago, toiletuser said: God i hope it won't be alien or zombie nonsense!  I hope it's going to be Alaska/Alps kind of map with non-futuristic weapons and good SP campaign! Btw did they said when we can expect APEX campaign 'OLD MAN'?  If the conflict will be taken to the US and if Russia will in fact join CSAT and will become a faction and if the expansion will contain a new map Alaska makes sense I guess. Or any other place in the US... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Callsign   128 Posted May 21, 2019 4 hours ago, jeza said: Little update:  Interesting, thanks for posting. It begs the question who 'Amy' might be and what a ED-1D is (UGV?). I imagine Amy will be like the journalist Kate in Laws of War and a audio/video character only. While I'm unsure of the Alien idea (probably enjoyable but not my cup of tea for Arma per se), the phone message theme does have a missile alert feel to it, so perhaps it could just be a new region of the world to explore (Russia/ Korea?), alongside the same scale or smaller as Apex? Please tell me it's the Dragon Rising Islands, that would be totally hilarious trolling for BIS to do 😂 From 'Acts' in the filenames it's not a stretch to search google for Acts of War on wikipedia, to this Star Wars wiki page - 'telling the story of a Jedi task force sent to the Yinchorri system to settle a conflict.' With Russia supposedly making a decision about whether to enter CSAT, perhaps that's when Aliens decide to intervene? 😮 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AveryTheKitty   2626 Posted May 21, 2019 32 minutes ago, Callsign said:  Interesting, thanks for posting. It begs the question who 'Amy' might be and what a ED-1D is (UGV?). I imagine Amy will be like the journalist Kate in Laws of War and a audio/video character only. While I'm unsure of the Alien idea (probably enjoyable but not my cup of tea for Arma per se), the phone message theme does have a missile alert feel to it, so perhaps it could just be a new region of the world to explore (Russia/ Korea?), alongside the same scale or smaller as Apex? Please tell me it's the Dragon Rising Islands, that would be totally hilarious trolling for BIS to do 😂 From 'Acts' in the filenames it's not a stretch to search google for Acts of War on wikipedia, to this Star Wars wiki page - 'telling the story of a Jedi task force sent to the Yinchorri system to settle a conflict.' With Russia supposedly making a decision about whether to enter CSAT, perhaps that's when Aliens decide to intervene? 😮  Acts is a simple prefix used for cutscene animations. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
zukov   490 Posted May 21, 2019 maybe a complex and fun multiplayer PVP with a sci fi RPG variant like take on mars, or a secret base on tropic island with a fantastic experiment big mainframe huge 3D printer etc etc Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
stburr91   1004 Posted May 21, 2019 If this is an aliens DLC, it can only mean one thing....  Spoiler The decision makers in BI haven't seen Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.  1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Toedeli   12 Posted May 21, 2019 So the Eastwind Device probably hasn't been in the safest hands...   Honestly though I think all this is pretty damn interesting. Maybe the Device or something like that is somewhere in Russia and they send a Spec Ops CTRG Team to retrieve it? But that's already been done so hmm...  Didn't CSAT really lose popularity after the entire Apex Protocol leak? Like, everyone was like "wow, CSAT sucks!" (((#csatdidnothingwrong 😞 ))) so wouldn't the organization crumble?  Well, maybe it plays a couple off years in the past perhaps? If the date on the phone is correct, here are the years where Tuesday is on the 21st of May: 2024 and 2030 (other years are also possible but I'll just go with these two for now). So perhaps it gives more background to either CTRG, CSAT (perspective of the bad guys?) or to any other group. But again, the codename is 'contact' as far as we know so far, so whatever it is, I really kind of hope we get some final closure on what the entire story truly was.  I hope it won't be Supernatural DLC tho. Perhaps some new Modules and Paramaters but I beg for no drastic gameplay changes, but after blessing us with Laws Of War, I'm certain the Amsterdam Team will surprise us positively! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WombatInCombat   27 Posted May 21, 2019 23 minutes ago, Toedeli said: So the Eastwind Device probably hasn't been in the safest hands...   Honestly though I think all this is pretty damn interesting. Maybe the Device or something like that is somewhere in Russia and they send a Spec Ops CTRG Team to retrieve it? But that's already been done so hmm...  Didn't CSAT really lose popularity after the entire Apex Protocol leak? Like, everyone was like "wow, CSAT sucks!" (((#csatdidnothingwrong 😞 ))) so wouldn't the organization crumble?  Well, maybe it plays a couple off years in the past perhaps? If the date on the phone is correct, here are the years where Tuesday is on the 21st of May: 2024 and 2030 (other years are also possible but I'll just go with these two for now). So perhaps it gives more background to either CTRG, CSAT (perspective of the bad guys?) or to any other group. But again, the codename is 'contact' as far as we know so far, so whatever it is, I really kind of hope we get some final closure on what the entire story truly was.  I hope it won't be Supernatural DLC tho. Perhaps some new Modules and Paramaters but I beg for no drastic gameplay changes, but after blessing us with Laws Of War, I'm certain the Amsterdam Team will surprise us positively! There will also be tuesday on the 21st of my in 2041. Anyways i think that the date and day are just there to date the teaser. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jerryhopper   286 Posted May 21, 2019 i updated my ed1d, which suppose to fix the battery drain...  u gotto love these lil electronic gadgets...  http://www.e5dao.com/products/ed-1d/   Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Qinetix   304 Posted May 22, 2019 Only one day left. Check this tweet by Ben_at_Arms  Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Seitan   8 Posted May 22, 2019 Nuclear warfare? End of the world situation. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kerozen   187 Posted May 22, 2019  Is it me or does the dude look like a Spartan from Halo? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sberla101   50 Posted May 22, 2019 7 hours ago, Qinetix said: Only one day left. Check this tweet by Ben_at_Arms   1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Callsign   128 Posted May 22, 2019 44 minutes ago, kerozen said:  Is it me or does the dude look like a Spartan from Halo? Hmm, not convinced. I'm seeing more a guy in a smock with the hood up - maybe with a white/pale mask, carrying an MX variant rifle. Not sure what the logo (?) is in the bottom right. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tankbuster   1746 Posted May 22, 2019 It does look like the MX rifle, the SW with a bipod. I thought that when I first saw it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Electricleash   133 Posted May 22, 2019 (edited) Cleaned it up a bit by shifting about the channels.  Edit: Weirdly close to my avatar pic... Edited May 22, 2019 by Electricleash 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ravenholme   50 Posted May 22, 2019 Yeah, my first thought upon seeing him was that it was someone wearing a CBRN-like smock with some kind of weird mask. Good catch on the weapon being an MXSW, it definitely is that. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lexx   1363 Posted May 22, 2019 Looks like one of them big visor gas masks you see in sci-fi movies.  My first thought was MGSV chapter 3. The soldiers had this stuff in the leaked cutscene. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MrStregatto   31 Posted May 22, 2019 I think that is something about terrorism I dunno why 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Callsign   128 Posted May 22, 2019 1 minute ago, lexx said: Looks like one of them big visor gas masks you see in science movies.  Either that or the smock is black for SWAT/ CQB/ CRBN? 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ravenholme   50 Posted May 22, 2019  2 minutes ago, lexx said: Looks like one of them big visor gas masks you see in science movies.  You're right, so it almost definitely is a CBRN suit. Makes me wonder if the working title of "Contact" is a dark reference to how nerve agents can affect humans. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites