major_barnes1987

I haven't played ArmA 3 for 3 months now and i'm good lol!There was a gpu issue i had to deal with.It was a nice break from the game and now i came back.1000h+ and i'll keep playing till ArmA 4 comes out or til WW3 comes.If ArmA 4 comes before WW3 i would really appreciate it thought!

Couldn't agree with you more my friend.This is why Warfare/CTI is my favourite game mode from any game ever.

Not all Vanilla sounds are bad,vehicle engines are good for example and tank fire (cannon firing shell and shell hit sound) is still the best out there. But i agree about most of the weapons.

I hope they make a new physics engine with that money.Now there are no excuses.I love you all guys and girls of B.I. and i appreciate all the effort you put into the game to make it what it is.But this is the time for serious improvement.

I voted for defcon from Eagle Wing too.If i could vote all of EW tracks i'd do it,it is the best music B.I. ever created.This feeling of isolation as ineptaphid said,for me it was more like desolation.A little sad but not too heavy,with all yellow sky,the ashes in the air,the nuclear blast and the wind blows,that feeling got stuck in my mind and is the best i've ever had. East Wind has some good tracks too,it reminds me of ancient and modern Greece combined.

I like both infantry and vehicles and i agree with most of the people.If you remove one element or the other the game is half complete.The keyword here is Combined Arms,that's what ArmA was from the beginning.Infantry,tanks,helicopters,drones,arty and somehting important that we all tend to forget...logistics.That's right,every little piece is important in ArmA games and without even one the game would be incomplete. I like how players using all these elements together to win and each player has his/her role and play his/her part for the team.I believe we all did that at least once,some of us we doin' it more often and when it works is f@cking beautiful.I wouldn't give it up for the world.

No better present for Christmas.Thank you mate!

Hi all! I have 2 requests,you can call them dreams because i know they might never come true. 1) An ACE-like mod concentrating on singleplayer.Letting A.I. do complicated things. 2) Recreation of the M5A2 Atlas tank from Crysis and/or it's Rail gun version.

The fact that the terrains are somewhat detailed copies of real places is even more interesting.And the small things on it give you strategic ways and tactics to use.Most of you know that Altis is based on an island in Greece(my country) called Limnos,so it has a certain special value for me.Even though i live far inland i recognise the architecture,the trees,the roadsigns are all common in this country.I recall my time in the army(hitch),the weather conditions,the smells. That doesn't mean i don't love the other terrains made by BI.I still feel the cold and the dark of Cherno.The heat and dust of Takistan.Tanoa on the other hand is B.I.s masterpiece.Even though i hate the jungles so much,i like the water element and i hope to see proper naval warfare scenarios on the island.

Then maybe the whole group 15 agreed to hid or destroy it who knows.If i was the high ranking officer in the field and command has given me the order to retrieve such a weapon of mass destruction i would totally destroy it.I don't care if i live the rest of of my life as a rogue,my conscience would be at peace.

Since this thread is spoiler alert and since you guys talk about Apex Protocol also and i can't use spoiler tags for some reason,i have a question?Did i misunderstood Miller's last words from Apex or he really hid-destroyed the east wind device so no superpower can have it?"It's in safe hands" he said but doesn't tell them where.He was the highest ranking officer on the ground in Tanoa at the end so he could totally order the pilot of the cargo heli to drop-move the device elsewhere,at some point on the way back.It makes sense! If he did that then he's a true hero for me.

That's what i was saying about a certain element (earthquake device) from the east wind to be used in a certain place (volcano) on Tanoa.But somehow i doub't that's the case anymore.

"Highly repalyable" hmmm.I think they mean you can use different tactics with your friends and live a different experience by playing the same mission.But the possibility of more open gameplay is always present because Tanoa is smaller than Altis.At some point maybe you're free to roam the whole island,who knows.I also hope side missions will return and this time they needt make more sense to the story,not just be a way to get better equipment.

I think Lee is British name.The Chinese is Li if i'm not mistaken.

Awesome stuff.The vehicle inside vehicle feature sounds perfect.And CTRG is a faction now?Not a part of NATO anymore it seems.It gets really interesting...

My best guess is that NATO knew about the earthquake device and they wanted it as badly as CSAT.And Miller and his team was the way to do this.They fought alongside the FIA for long time,gather information and when the time was right stole the device( Follow Miller ending) or CSAT beat them(Push with the attack ending).And if anything goes wrong blame the Brits for acting alone mentioning that Miller and his team was working as a covert-black ops.Now let's suppose that Tanoa campaign will continue from where East Wind left off and let's suppose that B.I. will recognize the Game Over ending as canon so Miller has the device.The real question is what he will do with it?He'll deliver it to NATO as ordered?Sell it to a third party?Keep it for himself?Destroy it?He's a good guy?A bad guy?Both?I'm really interested to see what will happen next... ;) E.G. Don't take my words to seriously,all this is just speculation and theories of mine.

Yeah i beleive it's the best out of the 3 MRAPS in the game.The wiki says about top speed but not about acceleration witch is more needed when in rough terrain and strider is the best on that.Also better glass protection,amphibious and more.The real strider,the fennek is not an MRAP vehicle by nature and it's not so much protected like in game btw.

I bought Apex about 2 weeks ago and i know i'll never regret it.I play ArmA 3 for almost 2 years now (and ArmA 2 for i don't know how long) and every day,i s#it you not is a different game.Every day you use a tactic you didn't even think you can use.Every day you learn new ways of playing the game.This game will never get old and with Apex i will play till the end of time!

Yes it's easier to play with opfor.It's just the other 2 factions are hard to learn.To learn their best assets and how to approach the enemy.It needs time to learn all that stuff,time some people don't want to spend. I agree about the strider crew being easy target if it's disabled.I killed many times this way. :P So about what @rekkless wanted to know we all agree that CSAT troops have a slight advantage in an infantry vs infantry firefight.

I agree about OPFOR being more agile but not in all their assets.I play alot of CTI and i know a lot about units deploying and how each faction's equipment works.I'll try to explain how ballanced the game really is.So in my opinion: OPFOR soldiers are indeed faster than the others and they have the best rifle in the game by far,the katiba equipped from the start.The Blu MX comes second and the poor mk 20(5.56) of the greenfor.Most of the best weapons and equipment i can't count them all right now belongs to OPFOR.So if we have a Op group against Blu or green.Well greens and blues will have a hard time,can't say they will lose it always depends on the player skill. Now for the MRAPs Ifrit is not the best.Strider is!I've seen the details of all 3 and the Strider has the best armor,it's amphibious aaaaaand something the Wiki doesn't say(it says only about top speed).It accelerates like hell.Try putting all 3 of them in a drag race and you will see who will go first.Acceleration in rough terains like Altis is more important than top speed.So greens win the MRAP fight. APCs and IFVs.OPFOR has one wheeled apc marid with HMG and GMG while blues have tracked panther with HMG and GMG.Tracks always better than wheels on the battlefieldBut Greens have tracked Mora with 30mm autocannon and 7.62 MG.Well autocannon always better than HMG and GMG but Mora and panther is not amphibious like marid so we have a draw.For IFVs now: blues have the marshal witch is amphibious and has 40mm autocannon.Ops have the kamysh witch is not amphibious and has 30mm autocannon and LMG not as powerfull as the marshal but it also has 2 AT missiles.So kamysh can kill any marshal from very long distance any time.Now for the greens they have the gorgon witch has a 30mm autocannon 2 AT missiles and LMG and it's amphibious.Greens win by very few points the battle of the IFVs. Tanks: Ops T-100 Varsuk,not so heavy armored like Kuma or Slammer Up but the fastest of all 3 by far.And with the best 125mm cannon.But one shot kills are very rare cause the other 2 tanks are too heavy armored like i said.Green MBT -52 Kuma is tough but slow.You can't move it easily from place to place.M2 Slammer has the 120mm gun while the slammer Up has the 105mm gun.Not much of a firepower but tough armor like Kuma.The 2 tanks are very much the same But......there's an ace in blues pocket no one is using right.The slammer(based on Merkava Mk4) is the only tank in the world that has the engine on front and on it's back it can hold up to 6 soldiers i think 6 is the right number.It's basicaly a tank and an apc at the same time.It can carry a whole squad of AA guys to help with enemy air units or engineers or mixed squads.No one is using that asset correctly not even me?And i wonder why?If slammer is used to it's full potential blues win the tank battle. Arties are pretty much the same but greens dont have arties only mortars.Both opfor and blufor have howitzers but only blues have MLRS.So blues win the Arty war. AAs are pretty much the same except greens withch has no AA vehicle. Now in the air orcas are very ballanced in all aspects while the hellcat is slower and diffycult to maneuver it.Both can hold up to almost the same number of ppl.The hummingbird/pawnee is the most agile of them all.From my experience the pawnee survive most of the enemy AAs than the other 2 and can give the saem hell to a ground spot than the other 2.The ghosthawk is something else.This heli is more like a croud control vehicle using 7.62 miniguns.Flying around a spot and keeping the enemy on the ground.While it can transfer up to more ppl than other helis.Cant remember the right number. About gunships now: i think the kajman is little bit more heavy armored.The kajman can hold 8 soldiers so that makes it a transport and a gunship.It has alot of firepower but....the blackfoot is the only helicopter in the game(correct me if i'm wrong) that has AA missiles.And it is faster than the kajman.It can kill any kajman with missile lock on any time.As you say the opfor jet has AA capability so...opfor win the air battle by few points. Logistics: Greens only have zamak trucks while blufor has the Hemmt truck variations.The opfor on the other hand have the Tempest truck variations.The tempest is heavy armored like an MRAP and can withstand mine explosions.But blues on the other hand they have the bobcat vehicle.This bad boy here can clear minefields,repair any other vehicle and has an HMG to keep enemies away while repairing.Another blufor asset no one is using right.Blues win the logistic fight too. Now all of the above don't mean s#it unless you have a good functioning team and skilled players.Use all the assets every faction has.Improvise with what you have and find new ways to defeat your enemy.

The new water texture looks amazing.For other lighting effects we have to actually play the game,see the light in different time of day and weather conditions.

What the other guys said.You can play ArmA 3 any way you like.Try single player missions first,campaigns(there are some really good campaign mods out there that will keep you on the edge of your seat).You need to find what kind of game you like to play mostly.Let's say me,i'm a CTI freak.I play multiplayer with friends mostly but sometimes i want to play alone.I can do that,it's not the same as with real players but its still alot of fun.Its like playing an RTS game. ArmA can be anything you want it to be MilSim,FPS,RTS,Flight Sim,Horror,Survival,RPG and the list goes on.

I like tanks too,they are my favourite beasts.I play mostly in EUTW servers and they are CTI based games,but no big tank vs tank battles there.They sometimes happen but they're very rare.It's usually tank vs infantry and apcs.I'll have to agree though with the other guys that B.I. needs to pay more attention to armored vehicles next time.To fix the damn physics so we can drive them properly and put some realistic damage system based on penetration points.

best experiences - ArmA 3 and what it offers in general -CTI -Teamwork,when it actually works -Single player campaign -Tactics you think before the start of the mission or on the fly.And reactions to enemy plans.In CTI you always need to counter the enemy's plan and think of your own.Then share it with your team and it's Christmas time!!! -Tanks and other heavy armored vehicles when i realise how deadly they can be with a full and trained crew.Just recently me and another player turned a whole CTI game around with one tank.I let my partner shooting our objective point with T-100s 50 cal cleaning the place of infantry while i was looking around with the main gun for enemy armor and.Right there i see a marshal ready to shoot me from the side and bammmmmm Marshal dead.He managed to fire a couple of shots,damaged my track but no big deal.As we continued to push forward i dropped a ghost hawk with my 125 cannon,many pawnees with 7.62 machine gun and many infantry.We really changed the game there.It's magical i can't describe it! Worst experiences -when i let A.I. drive -when noobs ruining my game in every possible way -When trying to kill a CSAT soldier A.I. with 5.56 gun