Comments on: ArmA: The RTS

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 24 May 2009 17:01:31 +0000

Gone back to this lately and I have to say the WARFARE!!!! mode is fantastic, must improved over the earlier versions too now that the newer patches have fixed a lot. The lag is very minimal and playing it with mates on voice comms is a big laugh. For those wanting a more hardcore experience in a similar vein try Evolution where you need more teamwork.

By: teaCup

teaCup — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:38:29 +0000

Warfare is a joke.

But ArmA is sort-of decent now, after few years of patching.

For kickass gameplay, try tournaments like IC-ArmA or AToW. IC had as much as 148 people (European and North American) playing simultaneously. Now that was a battlefield!

By: Krulin

Krulin — Fri, 23 May 2008 23:36:28 +0000

Sweet, sweet game, love it to death, and my computer does cry at the thought of playing it as well, but they are tears of joy. :D But i love it mainly because it’s way more realistic, there is no one man army, unless you have a helicopter and they don’t :D. But one man, probably won’t take out 10 by himself, unless it’s night-time.

By: Erlam

Erlam — Fri, 23 May 2008 19:50:43 +0000

Damn, this looks good. Any comments on the building, such as “it works and is awesome” or “damn I hate it”?

You know, any info at all really.

By: Fat Zombie

Fat Zombie — Fri, 23 May 2008 18:41:00 +0000

Might need a bit more than that, phuzz. A couple of hundred bucks would convert to around a hundred quid; not much if you’re intending to upgrade your PC to anything special, I gather.

Can I borrow a couple of thousand bucks, Deut?

By: phuzz

phuzz — Fri, 23 May 2008 09:30:42 +0000

Hey Deuteronomy, can I borrow a couple of hundred bucks? I’d like to upgrade my system ;)

By: Fat Zombie

Fat Zombie — Fri, 23 May 2008 07:46:19 +0000

Well my computer CAN run it, that’s fine; I’m actually impressed that my system can run it (Socket A AMD Athlon XP 2400+, AGP Radeon X1600Pro, 1GB DDR RAM), it just tends to go slowdown if there’s more than a few vehicles, or lots of soldiers, etc.

By: Leviticus

Leviticus — Fri, 23 May 2008 02:37:40 +0000

Deuteronomy is such an angry young man. xx

By: ViscountGrizzley

ViscountGrizzley — Thu, 22 May 2008 23:10:24 +0000

Oh, and here’s a 1.14 change summery.
http://www.bistudio.com/armanews/arma-updated-to-version-1.14-2_en.html

By: THELEIF!

THELEIF! — Thu, 22 May 2008 21:38:34 +0000

My computer can run it.

My spiritual guide tells me that any Pc gamer with an inadequate rig are XBox owners that secretly wants to destroy the PC gaming reputation. He also tells me that he know this because his inner voice told him this so it must be true.

By: Fat Zombie

Fat Zombie — Thu, 22 May 2008 21:02:06 +0000

Well, I thought that the demo was good anyway. If it’s better, then boy howdy!

(Is the game itself better performance-wise than the demo?)

By: ViscountGrizzley

ViscountGrizzley — Thu, 22 May 2008 20:45:33 +0000

Please don’t judge the game by the demo. That was years ago and so very messed up. I play ArmA regularly with a good group and it’s something unique and incredible.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIY0CVz6WXE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckYRIV2nYAQ