Arma 3 News

OPREP - S.O.G. Update 1.1 Preview

UNIT: Savage Game Design
TO: Arma 3 Users
OPSUM: Sneak preview of the upcoming S.O.G. Prairie Fire 1.1 Update

EVALUATION

Hello Arma 3 players!

The team behind S.O.G. Prairie Fire is excited to be soon rolling out our first update with many fixes and quality-of-life improvements, and new content to take you deeper into the Vietnam War Special Forces experience.

Right now it is only available on the RC-Branch for public pre-release testing, but it will be released to the main branch of Arma 3 very soon.

Full Report

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1227700/Arma_3_Creator_DLC_SOG_Prairie_Fire/

SITREP #00240

FROM: High Command
TO: Arma 3 Users
INFO: Creator DLC, Live Ops Status, Update 2.06 Preview
PRECEDENCE: Flash

SITUATION

Hello to all players and creators in the Arma 3 community! It has been some time since we last provided an overview of the state of Arma 3 development. We have just celebrated the 8th anniversary since initial release, and even in its 9th year, there still are many thousands of first-timers entering the Armaverse. That is incredibly cool, but we can also imagine many have not read through old reports and do not know about our actual support plans. So let us take a look back at the major milestones during 2021, check in with the Live Ops crew, and explain our perspective on the future of Arma 3. Buckle up, this is going to be a long one!

Full SITREP

Arma 3 8th Anniversary Sale & Live Stream

Arma 3 turns 8 on Sunday (September 12), which calls for a celebration!

[h2]Steam Weekend Sale[/h2]

This weekend, starting today and ending this Monday, you’ll get an 80% discount on the Arma 3 base game on Steam – the largest discount in its 8-year history.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/107410/Arma_3/

DLCs such as Arma 3 Apex and Arma 3 Contact are also on sale at up to 66% off.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/395180/Arma_3_Apex
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1021790/Arma_3_Contact

[h2]The Splendid™ Squad Live Stream[/h2]

Furthermore, this Sunday at 19:00 UTC we’ll be hosting The Splendid™ Squad live stream on Twitch. This will bring together 8 of Arma 3’s most popular video content creators for a cooperative multiplayer scenario led by Liru the Lance Corporal as Zeus Game Master.

Here’s the full mission briefing:

[h3]Situation[/h3]

Bohemia Interactive will be hosting a community live stream event in celebration of Arma 3’s 8th anniversary.

Date: September 12, 2021 (Sunday)
Start time: 19:00 UTC (UK: 20:00 BST / EU: 21:00 CEST / NA: 14:00 CDT)
Duration: ≈2 hours

[h3]Mission[/h3]

Rumor has it that there is a group of Arma 3 streamers for who no operation is too dangerous. If you have the job, and the dough, AND you can find them, maybe you can hire... The Splendid™ Squad.

[h3]Signal[/h3]

Liru the Lance Corporal (Zeus Game Master) - https://www.twitch.tv/lcpl_liru
Karmakut - https://www.youtube.com/karmakut
OperatorDrewski - https://www.twitch.tv/operatordrewski
Jester814 - https://www.twitch.tv/jester814
Rimmy - https://www.twitch.tv/rimmy
DiabloHelmetcam - https://www.twitch.tv/diablohelmetcam
Digby - https://www.twitch.tv/digbytathamwarter
LeClair (Arma 3 Community Manager) - https://www.twitch.tv/jtleclair

[h3]Execution[/h3]

You can watch the event on Arma 3’s Twitch channel and each Splendid™ Squad member will stream their perspective to their own channel as listed above. All of them will have 3 Steam codes for the Arma 3 Ultimate Edition to give away to viewers during the event.

We hope to see you there on Sunday. Thank you for 8 splendid™ years of Arma 3!

Indian news channel uses Arma 3 gameplay footage to claim Pakistan bombed Afghanistan

In a bizarre development, some Indian news broadcasts claimed that the Pakistani airforce attacked the Panjshir valley, an Afghanistan mountain province home to about 170,000 people, which is currently the last major holdout of anti-Taliban forces...
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Arma 3 latest Global Mobilization update adds heavy duty artillery and nukes

In the US Army, the infantry branch is known as the 'Queen of Battle.' It's somewhat less well-known that there's a king, and that crown belongs to artillery. So it's a shame we get to see so little of it in modern war sandbox games. Fortunately, a new content update for Arma 3's Global Mobilization DLC has added a whole lot of it, including the massive M109 Paladin.

This is the fourth content update for the Global Mobilization - Cold War Germany DLC since it launched more than two years ago. The latest update adds a total of eight new vehicles. There's the M109 self-propelled howitzer (don't call it a 'tank'!) and the M109G variant used by the West German armed forces. Players also get the Soviet 2S1 Gvozdika (another self-propelled howitzer), the SF2 LARS 2 and BM-21 Grad multiple-launch rocket systems, and the Russian 2P16 short-range ballistic missile launcher, complete with the 2K6 Luna (which can carry a nuclear warhead).

Another neat piece of military kit that comes with the latest update is the BrPz 1 'Biber' combat support vehicle. This is an easy vehicle to identify, because it has a massive, folded up bridge on top of it, which it can deploy over gaps and streams in order to create crossings for ungainly tanks and howitzers.

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