Long-standing lore in the Arma community is that Intel processors are better than AMD for this game. The game relies heavily on single core performance, which leaves my 8 core AMD Fx8350 really quite handicapped. Army for virtual training of soldiers and still the core engine behind the Arma series is about 15 years old. The Virtual Battlefield Simulator engine, used by the U.S. The plain, simple and unavoidable truth is that this game has some performance issues. Buckle in, reader! You’re in for some boot camp!īefore we get into the survival part, however, let’s first get a bit nerdy, and look at some tech specs and requirements to running this game. Notice I didn’t say “combat in a PC game”, because with the level of detail and realism ingrained into Arma by real active duty military service personnel, the tactics learned while playing could conceivably be applied to real life combat situations. In this article, I’m going to attempt to bring the totally new or prospective Arma 3 player into the loop, up to speed, and on his or her way to surviving combat. From the graphical beauty of everything, and I mean everything, to the wind’s effect on your bullet (size, speed and rotation all calculated), A3 delivers an immersive and life-altering war simulation experience. The 3rd iteration in the Arma series from Bohemia Interactive is the probably closest thing you’re going to get to putting your boots on the ground in a hostile territory without actually going and enlisting. The description is so vague, it’d be surprisingly easy to completely miss the depth and realism that this war simulation delivers. If you were to Google Arma 3 right now, you’d find that officially, this game is titled as an “open-world, tactical shooter”.

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