Arma 3 News

Nominate Arma 3 for the Steam Awards!

Hello troops!

After more than 7 years of continued support, we are calling in a strategic strike by our community! The Steam Award Selection Committee is asking players to submit their nominations for the Steam Awards. We would like to ask you - our incredible community - to nominate Arma 3 for the "Labor of Love" award!

SITREP #00239

FROM: High Command
TO: Arma 3 Users
INFO: Art of War DLC / Creator DLC Updates, Live Ops Status
PRECEDENCE: Flash

SITUATION

We are rapidly reaching the end of a mad year, and so we feel this is a good time to inspect the current state of Arma 3 development. Offering a distraction from the frequently grim reality around us, gaming has certainly seen a massive boost this year. Arma 3 is no exception. We are constantly humbled to see how many of you continue to play, and to welcome the hundreds of thousands of new recruits. The game is meanwhile in a Live Ops mode, rather than active development. Even so, this year saw two primary platform updates with 1.98 Old Man and more recently 2.00, on which we'll reflect a bit in this report. And we'll be looking ahead, providing updates on what's still to come: Art of War charity DLC, Creator DLC, and more platform support. We suspect to be seeing plenty of comments asking about the future of the Arma series, but we hope there are still many of you interested to learn about Arma 3's extended tour of duty. Thank you for the splendid support and stay safe out there! o7

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Community Radar #20

We've reached the big TWO ZERO in 2020 for this Community Radar.
And we've gathered a lot of new community content for you to look forward to.

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SECREP #00032

FROM: BattlEye TO: Arma 3 Users
UNIT: Main Branch
ACTIVITY: Anti-Cheat Update
SIZE: ~8.5 MB

Arma 3 2.0 has arrived, and it's brought treats

There's nothing else quite like Arma 3 - it's a military FPS game, but it's also perhaps the most in-depth sandbox game available today, giving players the opportunity to build incredibly complex scenarios and simulations using the latest military hardware. Now, Arma 3 2.0 has arrived, and while it doesn't upend the milsim applecart in any major ways, it does bring with it some very welcome improvements to the seven-year-old game.

The biggest new addition in Arma 3 2.0 is the ability to share custom compositions created in the Arma 3 Eden editor directly to the Steam Workshop. Eden is Arma 3's 3D editing environment, and it lets you assemble game assets however you like, from simple table settings all the way up to full military bases and checkpoints. With the arrival of Arma 3 2.0, you'll be able to share your creations in Eden at the click of a button (once you've saved your work, naturally).

That streamlined functionality will make it easier for Arma scenario designers to build, share, and find objects and settings to fill out their work with realistic and atmospheric props and scenery. No sense in reinventing the wheel every time you need a roadblock set up in your Apex scenario, right? Now you'll be able to find one on the Workshop - right in the editor, mind you - and plunk it straight into your scene.

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