Oshi7

For a business based on games development, popularity is a huge thing. Wanting your game and business to be a financial success is a good thing. Also stop comparing peoples desire for faster paced ArmA PvP to turning this game into Call of Duty. Its a fallacious argument and you embarrass yourself when you make it.

Doesn't bother me. Lets the developers have a little breathing room, creates an interesting balance between OpFor and BluFor. 30 years in the future is enough time to let some powers shift and politics change so that they can create an interesting storyline. I think ArmA 3 is more of a game than a simulator now.

It got ported fairly quickly to ArmA 3. There is another version of Wasteland coming as well, which is being built from the ground up, seems very exciting and is going to be much more balanced in regards to weapons and attachments and have more features. I wouldn't be surprised to see more Sandbox PvP modes pop up, especially when Java is available and SQF doesn't kill performance. The server from that video turned off grass, which gave me an extra 20 frames, which made it very fun to play on, but sadly made the game a bit ugly.

I've only ever played paintball, but even with only that it used to infuriate me in previous titles when it would take me huge amounts of effort to turn around. Quite immersion breaking, like I was in someone's body who could only turn their entire bodies, instead of shifting weight and pivoting with the hips.

Wasteland is amazing if you know what you're doing, especially for team work. Really love the fact that organic teams can form, with people building their own bases where ever they wish. Arma 2 Wasteland is a better experience right now, but with people like Si Matra doing his own Wasteland for ArmA3 (and on the main island when it comes out) it'll be great. Example of why I love Wasteland:

It is quite concerning that the same problems from ArmA2 persist to ArmaA3. I've spoken with lots of well known youtubers (and other people none of you guys give a shit about) and we've all said that if ArmA 3 could run at a decent frame rate then we'd never play another game again until ArmA 4 came out. Sadly it seems like the same old issues are cropping up, which I can only hope they fix in the coming months. Frame rate is a particularly huge issue (perhaps the most pervasive), considering proper recoil control and target tracking can't be done when you're getting ~20fps. Doesn't help when changing your graphical settings around either, High or Low results in the same FPS, like their is some invisible barrier on what you're allowed to achieve. Although I did join a Wasteland server that had no grass at all and my frame rate sky rockets to 60+ whilst streaming. Was a bit mental, but felt so bloody good. Although I think BI know they're onto a winner and that script-heavy game modes, like Wasteland, are what is drawing in such huge sales numbers they'll work on doing something with scripting so that it doesn't have such a huge impact on drawing the frames.

Any update on the ArmA3 Wasteland, Tonic?

Does anyone know if this is planned? Would be much easier to use the steam server browser, without even having to launch the game. Thoughts?

I think it would be much better to go fully with the Steam server browser since its already integrated anyway.

There are females who play this game who would like to be immersed into the game more and playing as a male doesn't immerse them. Too many straw-man arguments in here, suggesting that ARMA will become like Skyrim with people undressing their characters or something else equally stupid. It's almost a non-issue, as far as realism goes (this is set in 2030) and even in regards to authenticity. People who suggest its "too late" to add female character models seem to over estimate how hard this would be to accomplish, especially since you would only need to add a few female models... you wouldn't even need to change the skeleton for the models at all. It might not be a priority, but for a finalized and finished product to allow everyone to enjoy and become immersed, I think its something that should be added.

If it makes the game more appealing to a larger audience, they should do it. Wouldn't break realism for me at all.

I have a strong distrust of BE. I had two Arma II keys for separate characters on DayZ and one of them got randomly banned by BE and after 15 emails to BE Support I gave up on it. I was using these keys interchangeably, as I stream and make youtube videos and didn't want any cross-over. Never been banned from any anti-cheat before in my life, so it was particularly frustrating, especially when people instantly dismiss you because of it.

I stream a lot of Arma 2, which can be frustrating because you have to cover up so much information to avoid being "Stream sniped". Will Arma 3 have features that allow people who wish to stream safely? I know the easy way not to be stream sniped is to not stream, but a lot of us enjoy it and wish we could do it more for our viewers. Thanks :) Sorry if this has already been addressed, I did search for a few minutes and couldn't find anything.

Webcam top right to block the name of the server when you go to your map. Logo bottom right to block the names of people who are in the vehicle you are in (although I think that is more of a Wasteland thing). Huge chat box bottom left to block server messages or side chat (sometimes not big enough). Bar in the middle of screen to block name when in gear menu. Streamers aren't stupid, they're not taking up screen real estate for no reason. Also, if you die, you have about 0.5 seconds to switch scene on your stream software otherwise it'll show the scoreboard with every persons names and server name.

If you're curious about how much of our screens we actually have to cover up in order to be relatively hidden then you can see a sample here: http://www.twitch.tv/oshi7/b/359620288 Again, people keep saying "priorities" but it would be the most trivial thing in the development stages to do, much like Rocket has already done for DayZ Stand Alone.

True, I didn't mean everyone.

I can't believe how opposed everyone is to such simple things, just because someones wants to stream the game. It's honestly the easiest fix and Rocket is already implementing it in DayZ so people can stream the game, help sell copies etc. It blows my minds how many are actively opposed to people streaming this game with any kind of popularity, possibly even relishing in the fact that Arma is relatively unknown. The comment about getting away from "COD kiddies" was particularly distasteful.

Actually I'm streaming Wasteland, which is a mission type for Arma 2. And yes, whilst there are many more important things to work on, this is a relatively simple fix that could be done to help popularize Arma 3 (much like Wasteland and DayZ have done). My friends and I all stream and make youtube videos of DayZ and Wasteland and have probably done a lot to help put Arma 2 out there and made it sell as well as it has. Sacriel, DaSquirrelsNuts and myself have 60k, 30k and 17k subscribers respectively and its all free advertising for the game. I know Wasteland and DayZ probably get looked down on amongst people who play things like ACE etc. But having a larger demographic and selling more copies can never hurt the game, only help it. A big part of that is doing small things for streamers, such as not displaying key information such as player names in the gear menu or map, having the option to turn on or off the bottom left chat box etc. Nothing major, just simple things. Right now we have to cover up huge amounts of the screen in order just to play.

Hahaha, I was there for that. twitch dot tv/oshi7/b/345322017 @ 53 minutes. To be on topic, the Arma2.ru servers are very awesome. Hopefully, to make the gameplay a little more tactical, I hope thermal weapons are removed :) Also, as a side note, have you ever considered making a server Independant only? So that the play is focused around smaller squads/groups rather than armies? Similar to DayZ, I suppose. Would be very interesting.