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I looked at your specs. Very Top Shelf but you might want to wait for someone to review ARMA on the new Ryzen 12 or 16 core CPUs. You don't need that many cores for ARMA. Even a 4-core high clocks CPU would do. I believe you will OC your CPU to 5GHZ or faster with your watercooler. I recommend you get faster RAM though. At least DDR4-3600 @ CL14 or up to DDR4-4000 @ CL18 or faster. Because it matters to ARMA and other CPU intensive games. Scroll back a few pages to see what we have been talking about. It matters for ARMA. Everything else is more than good enough.

We have the 5800X in stock, but at 20 USD over RRP. No GST or TAX so that is a good thing I guess! Problem is there are zero RAM kits above DDR4-3600! I was looking at the 5600X + DDR-4000CL16 on a B550 MB. The get an AMD GPU when it gets released.

Sorry for going OT, but it is related to this thread: AMD Ryzen 5000 series is out and it is a beast in terms of IPC! Anybody find any reviews for it with ARMA 3 or DayZ engine so we can have an idea? I have a few friends trying to purchase the 5950X but they do not play ARMA so I won't know how it does in our game?

I was playing Escape on Outkasts' servers and it popped into our minds that Escape should have a movie theme version such as using Max's A-Team mod! After all, in the TV series and movie, they were being hunted down.

I wanted to say thank you for this. Appreciate how much love this game still gets from great fans like you.

Get the basic Game first. Then you can try out the DLC in an online game where others players have it. They can demo the gear to you. That was how I started with ARMA 2 and 3. I got the APEX addon because many of my ARMA friends play on Tanoa Island map. In fact, they own everything but I don't see them using the DLC gear as much compared to Tanoa from APEX. Great Stealth and NVG gear for both sides. A few have gotten Contact but all the reviews for the price vs content was not good. So best to wait for a sale and get ARMA 3 and MAYBE Tanoa. The rest of the gear are specialists - Jets, Tanks, Sniper Rifles, etc... so will depend on your play style. I think Laws of War is worth getting. The SP story is good and the gear is used by everyone. Also one the best priced DLC when on sale. The next sale is rumored to be coming up this week right before Halloween, but there will be Winter sales in Nov or Dec as well.

I would love to hear your write up about this. After doing the above, I think VR is the way to go. It is amazing in ARMA.

WFH has given me some spare time and I have successfully put together a POOR MAN's VR for ARMA 3! Thank Jebus for no travelling, not waiting to for colleagues to get their act together for meetings, no long lunches, etc... I am using: Trinus CardBoard on PC and Android Phone - You can test this for about 15 minutes before it stops and forces you to restart. Buy it if you like it, but do demo it first. FreeTrackNoIR for head movement - the built in TrackIR and FreeTrack Trinus CB is not detecting I am using an older 1.7 free version. The newer 2.x is for pay as the author needs medical attention. Try and buy it if you like it. I tried OpenTrack with FreePieCapture but sensor readings were "floating" or "ghosting". If I can get it to work, I will post an update. USB C cable to tether - I need to move the PC to the SAME WIFI SUBNET for wireless but limited to 100 Mbps (enough for VR, but slower than my internet). 6.7" Android phone with 1920x1080 IPS LCD screen. It should look better with OLED screens. VRG Pro VR goggle case in white with blue lens filter / coating - the lens are OK, not great but it was cheap ~ 8 USD shipped. Install Trinus CB on Android phone Enable USB cable tether Plug in USB cable to Android phone and PC Setup Trinus CB on PC as Create a profile named ARMA or leave as default if all you use it for is ARMA My Trinus CB PC settings: Main settings: Hi quality settings. Lower the compression to the LEFT if your PC is slow or you want higher FPS. I do it manually to keep a fixed quality. You can set it to AUTO for testing. I set sensor to FreeTrackNOIR so the "HEAD" moves independant of the "HANDS / GUN". If you want to use the SAME head movement as your hands, just set SENSOR to AUTO or MOUSE. Video settings: Sensor settings: Under sensitivity, set it lower if you will want to use FreeTrackNoIR or OpenTrack. I would increase it by SENSITIVITY (Below) 10 notches if you want the Android phone sensor to send mouse look signals to the game. Set it to AUTO or MOUSE mode, works great but it duplicates the same look movement as mouse. FreeTrackNoIR settings : I use this to PASS the TrinusCB motion sensor to FreeTrackNoIR which then PASSES the FreeTrack signal to ARMA 3 for head tracking. Set this to READ UDP packets from TrinusCB under Tracker SENSOR SOURCE: Set the PORT number under settings to +1 of whatever TrinusCB is. TrinuCB by default READS the Android sensor on PORT 5555 (under NETWORK) Set FaceTrackNoIR to read port 5556 Under Filter, I would set it to NONE or non accel. It moves too fast until I can get used to it. In aove, I am trying the EWMA filter. You can change these on the fly. Game Protocol is the OUTPUT that ARMA can read. Set it to FreeTrack 2.0 Under Smoothing, I increased it a little bit so it doesn't jump around. Play with it to adjust the settings. Under Invert, I had to FLIP the YAW otherwise, I would be face to face with my character in ARMA three, instead of behind him or facing where he is facing. Now START the apps in this order: Plug in Android mobile into PC with USB cable Set the USB Cable to Tether mode Start Trinus CB At htis point, I put my phone into the VR goggle, but leave it sticking out in case I need to re-start Trinus CB again Start Trinus CB on PC Start FreeTrackNoIR Move the goggles around slightly. You should see FreeTrackNoIR reading the TrinusCB pass through sensors from the Android mobile on the top left. Start ARMA 3 Once in the main game menu, goto GAME settings Under devices, on the left, clock on FreeTrackIR or TrackIR and ENABLE it. Mine were enabled above already. It might be faded out, so click it, then click enable on the bottom. MAP the FreeTrackNoIR sensor readings to head movement as follows: Lastly, set the video settings to Fullscreen Window so Trinus CB and stream the video the Android mobile as VR goggle view: I get some distortion as my mobile only has a 1920x1080 screen. VR HALVES the screens, for left and right eye with slightly different views. I should probably set the in game resolution to HALF that, so it becomes 1:1 pixel wise per EYE. But it is fairly sharp. If you find it too slow, either lower your in game video settings OR lower the compression quality in TrinusCB to get an acceptable quality vs speed. For Ravage or horror survival, it is crazy immersive. I've been playing all the horror mods and missions with this. Amazing for the low costs.

This is awesome. I wanted to ask is it possible to place the composition into the map such as under a mountain, which is technically hollow? This can give the illusion of being "inside" the map via GPS coordinates. Or is there a map limitation that requires the users and AI to be on "top" of the surface? I can see this as a great way to create tunnels and undergrounds inside the maps.

So amazing but any female rest rooms? We have a few females mods now! Would love to see them get support as well.

@Jove Chiere Great to hear your ideas. I think you can use the Max Women as your reference. It is still a stronger body than the ones on the left, but still realistic in terms of sizing. It is also nearly 100% compatible with standard ARMA male gear. You can switch between Zee and Max's for it. The others on the left are definitely more "feminine" as in in TV and movies, but they look great in civilian or security roles. Also, you being in Spain, I think you know what good looking strong women are. ;) Appreciate you are looking at the hands...

Really good looking females and I do have some comments on the body proportions: Please make the shoulders, biceps and hands more proportional (slightly slender) Those male hands are distracting without gloves. Legs look great and could taper the thighs so it looks a bit more slender. Here is a screenshot of current female bodies for your reference (left to right) Zabb's Enforcer, ZEPHIK Females, Max Women @ Work (NEW), Max Women, Zee's Fifty Shades of Female, ARMA lonely beggar With Enforcer Dragon Female vest, and male vest for dude (slightly different but almost the same size): With tweaked vests, the smaller frames look great. Note the two models on the right technically are using male bodies so looks perfect with Vanilla ARMA sized gear. Do your own thing and no need to look exactly like other models. But those exposed arms and hands could really use some work... Lastly, maybe some cool female tattoo skins... Even cool emo girl tats. Variety is the spice of life.

@Groove_CTrue. Also to wait for BIOS and RAM frequencies to stabilize. Good idea to wait for XT variations. I wanted to ask how is your performance with any of the DLC maps? On Tanoa, I drop down to the 40FPS range. Wonder if GM or Contact hits that hard. Also CUP Chernarus and Chernarus 2020 are HEAVY maps.

I am in the same position as Groove C. My system is good enough but GPU wise getting a little slow for newer games. Plus many are 8 core now. I hope ARMA 4 will have RTRT with better visuals than UE engine so will plan for a system to balance that. Waiting for Zen 3 benchmarks, and maybe 6900XT.

Not another original idea: Seeing a working Camo mod (RE:CAMO sys) on Steam Workshop made me think a bit while watching Fear and The Walking Dead series: Zombie Blood Camo... Players can chop up, hit, kick, or shoot up zombies and "paint" themselves with zombie blood to camo up so they can walk among the "dead". Just "use" a dead zombie body, menu or ace interaction to "paint" / "camo" oneself. The effect can just be a bloodied user, but with NO damage (can run, walk, crawl, etc... at full speed + stamina). Or even better, swap a random Ravage zombie face + skin to the user temporarily as zombie skin camo like the Whisperers, but no zombie walk or damages... Just a cosmetic thing... It should wash off in rain or water of course. Or if another user tossed a water bottle at the user. Or a time limited use before the blood infects the user...

Very cool... I've played briefly on some Russian servers, but get kicked off once the Admins log in. :D So cannot spend too much time on it. Can only play in true stalker sense by sneaking onto the server when the locals are sleep. We need an international server so if you find one, let us know.

I would love to see some different female hairs as HATs or glasses so we can have variety but I don't want you to spent that much time modeling it. Zombie versions to match the sickness from OLD MAN and maybe to support Ravage, Max Zombies and Benson's Zombies and Demons mod. (Binge watching Fear the Walking Dead + Walking Dead series while stuck at home during the Pandemic). Or just some texture fun to create other non-normal types... PS: Can you share the samples so we can try to create variations textures?

Hello GM team, I've been using ballistic mods since ARMA 2 + ACE days, and now ARMA 3 + ACE + Universal Ammo System ballistics, and I only just noticed this due to comments from others. So my general question is that within GM mod, have all the ballistics been adjusted relatively to each other based on real world performance? 9mm, 5.56, 7.68, etc... Were the ARMA 6.5 also recalibrated? I am an accuracy nut... I love to see how AKs tear up a car and brick and mortal obstacles with enemies behind it. Just wondering. I do see GM - recalibrated mods that detunes GM to vanilla ARMA ballistics. I would like to see the reverse where all the basic ARMA 3 ballistics inherit based on GM and referenced.

Awesome update! The CSAT uniforms with the tighen waist looks fairly good actually! But those "hands"! I would be a tad intimidated if those rested on my shoulders. LOL... Great work!

I'm just going to say it. If people are asking for optional lite versions to test drive gear, no the current preview system does NOT allow this or just screen spams the crap out of MP games, and it converts even 1% of the total population of ARMA 3 users, that is still 90,000 x $xxx. How many other ways can you make that kind of money by throwing out free low res crappy textured models into a game? Not many people can claim that....

@opus132 I am going to throw out some comments so feel free to fact check me: Both 1440p and 4K FPS shows less than 5% difference (min and average) between both CPUs. Intel CPU running at higher Mhz ~ 10% average faster (5GHz vs 4.5GHZ, per core). AMD 3950x is Zen 2, previous gen. with 2x dies. Each die has 4cores so there is some latency between the two dies. Zen 3 to be release on announced or released OCT 8th has increase in architecture, IPC and per core speed. Also Zen 3 will have up to 8 cores in one die (CCD) so there will be improved core to core performance across all cores. Lastly, ARMA cripples any CPU because it is barely multi-threaded, the main game and AI threads appears to be single core due to the scripting. So the faster CPU in terms of speed will matter the most while the GPU sits and waits. To get an idea how how well Zen 3 may be, checkout this CPU benchmark in game of a 4 core AMD 3300x 4.4 GHZ (4 cores in one die) vs Intel 7700K normal and OC to 5.1 GHZ (4 cores in one die) to get an idea of how Zen 3 might perform: Full review link: https://www.gamersnexus.net/hwreviews/3581-amd-ryzen-3-3300x-cpu-review-vs-3100-clock-for-clock#!/ccomment That CPU is faster than my Haswell 4790K @ 4.5 GHZ. The per core performance is good for 4.4 GHz. Wait for Zen 3. If AMD gets close to 4.9-5.0 Ghz on some cores, it will be the new king of CPUs as a better price.

I agree with the lite version to generate more sales but if some of the content from DLC could be "shown" and not used like how ARMA 3 demos DLC, then it can work to generate sales. But a lite version of a map (sans high res details) would help to get others to pony up for the full content. Imagine a low definition Tanoa?! I would buy Apex just to see the beautiful detailed trees and forest instead of match sticks! I did, I bought APEX at launch just for the map and gear. Play the hell out of it online, still did not play the campaign yet. As long as good unique high quality content can be reused in different scenarios, I think more Armaholics would consider it. The lite version definitely gives a good demo to see the potential. Actually, I think BIS should do periodic FREE WEEK of all content unlocked so players can join online servers to try all the new gear and maps. Just lock out the SP campaigns. That would get more players to tryout the gear and learn to find something they have been missing from the general experience.

@Flaux82 Your GPU will run ARMA 3 fine maxed out. Your CPU will get clobbered pushing a lot of objects as that appears to be a CPU loading issue. If you pull back the objects distance, start at 500 and move it up until you find the speed tolerable, then you should be OK. Here is me messing with fake 32:9 ratio at 1920x540 (half the resolution of 1920x1080) and wide screen looks incredible in ARMA: I am using 4790K and 1060 GTX with only 3GB ram. Waiting on Zen 3 and next RTRT GPU.

Cannibals faction... Humans that hunts other humans (players or AI) and eats them from Walking Dead Season 4. Should have a full blown town of these with the "other white meat" being "prepped" ...

Wait until GPU gets up to 20x the power of today's GPUs and then we can run it with no problems.