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Lol, can't even view the images your server is so overloaded. Hardly surprising though, really looking forward to trying this out!

Wow, this has really progressed quickly! How many custom buildings have you made for the map?

It would hopefully be more like OFP with several characters that you play in different mission.

Well we know they have stopped in Greece under ceasefire by the time Arma 3 starts, though who knows what will have happened by the end of the campaign.

So it's seems BIS have decided to back away from the backstory that involves Iran knocking on the door of Westen Europe and stops it at the Aegean; if the removal of the reference "2nd Battle of Brno" from the profile of Col. Vahid Namdar is anything to go by. Despite this they still seem to have pushed towards a true world war by the mention of a conflict being fought between China and the US, even if it is a proxy.

On the matter of regime change in Iran there's this from the character profile section of the Arma 3 website: Who knows what this movement is comprised of, the ideology, religion, motivation or what political events occured prior.

Looking forward to getting more info on the backstory. The part about the Helllenic defence of the island could (if not actually covered by BIS) be an interesting opportunity for a mod team working on Greek units to build on the story.

I enjoyed the post PurePassion, thanks for taking the time. I was unsure of the future-ish setting to begin with but have since come around. I agree with you paecmaker in a world where Iran is powerful enough to invade Europe it's unlikely Israel would have been left alone, if those are Mekarvas or copied variant then it's likely the technology came from an invasion of Israel.

I got the price from some early assesments at Simtropolis, however Amazon.com now puts the price at £40 for the limited edition; Amazon.com. And yes the Agents system does sound promising. Seems like a massively expanded version of the system used in Tropico, if you're familiar with the game.

Last night a friend of mine was telling me of this ridculous 'firesale' a local store had, selling everything and anything for as little as £2 before they shut down and became a Greggs!

The fact that Maxis and some of the orginal team are working on it is good news, though I guess that didn't stop Spore failing to live up to it's potential. One positive is that developers have confirmed it will be moddable, hopefully indicating that they won't try and prevent mods and might even release tools to help create them. My main worry at the moment is that 1-16 player thing. Hopefully it means that gameplay will be exactly the same regardless of how many players there are, so entire regions and the promised resources even in singleplayer. If it is purposely crippled like Cities XL was that will be very dissapointing. However, 16 players isn't exactly MMO territory like Cities XL was meant to be and actually makes a fully modded game pheasible even online. Another thing that reassures me at this time is that SimCity 4 (as far as I can tell) has consistently outsold Societies, which may be all the convincing EA needs to sit back and give Maxis free reign. Finally, have look at this. It's a sample of the coding used in the GlassBox engine. I barely know a thing about code but even I can see how simple this is and build a picture of how the game mechanics will work. If modders were to get their hands on that God knows what would be possible! Gamasutra Article Simtropolis Forum Analysis EDIT: One more thing; the price. It's an eye watering £65! As shocking as that may be, it's worth bearing in mind you don't charge that kind of price for a game aimed at the casual players.

Ah, thanks Wiki!

Hey Wiki, I've reached the Counter Sniping mission and am really enjoying the campaign so far. Just wondering, I start the game in Counter Sniping with a regular silenced rifle and aim dot scope, looked around for a proper sniper rifle but didn't find one. Is this the way it's supposed to be?

I'm glad you said that, I do worry with games like this you are so busy rushing around getting new orders in that you don't get a chane to admire the visuals or enjoy a particularly fierce firefight. I imagine the scale of the maps has a lot to do with this, an aspect I find lacking in WiC and CoH.

I can pronounce it, the town isn't that far away from me. It's actually not very difficult if you know the Welsh alphabet, though that does include 'ch', 'dd', 'ff', 'ng', 'll', 'ph', 'rh', 'th' as individual letters! :p Edit: Little secret; most people round here just call it Llanfair PG!

I speak English and Welsh fluently and I hope to learn Italian. Would like to have basic conversational stuff down before my cousin's wedding in Italy this August.

It's been a while but some new goodies have been posted on the Game's website this weekend. New screenshots, lovely atmoshpere: http://www.carriercommand.com/2011/12/screenshots-friday-starters/ New Interview with Excutive Producer Jan Kunt: http://www.carriercommand.com/2011/12/inside-the-carrier-interview-with-executive-producer-jan-kunt/ It seems we'll be seeing weekly updates every friday now, at least shoing some screenshots.

Good to hear. What I meant by AI is will the soldiers use cover like walls of their own accord and will the enemy AI garrison buildings etc.

Did you get a chance to try out the urban combat. Is there a noticable shift in the AIs tactics? Do infantry come into their own here?

I get the impression it's WiC but with ARMA tactics, scale and freedom! EDIT: And much less restricive camera!

Well you have my backing, I would love to see this mission campaign realised! If you can properly capture the chaos of moments like the one depicted in that trailer it would be awesome! Perhaps you could consider an Apache mission if you make it a campaign, I'm currently reading a book by a guy called Ed Macy called Hellfire (Another version is called Apache I think) which recounts his time in the UKs first Apache Squadron while in Afghanistan.

It's looking good, mate! So was the idea here to create a map with a seires of locations related to WW2 battles, Telemark (4.40) etc?

Oh agreed! But I don't think that phillestine meant it with the same positivity...his loss.

Voted. One commentor on the poll had the audacity to say Arma 3 was just more of the same!

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