Recent reviews by Marquis de Bussy

Sony backed off, we won the battle. Game is good now.

Edited 05/06/24

Tax evasion is a fun and legal thrill. 10/10.

Edit 01/04/23: The game is now somewhat stable and actually fun if you play on community servers with mods. Granted, I only play pvp modes, so if you're in it for game master/zeus'd missions YMMV. It needs a lot of work still, server FPS takes a dump when you build too much and the AI isn't even up to Arma 3 standards when you play on servers where it's enabled, but I don't get disconnected every 5-10 minutes. Crashes do still happen as well as server timeouts, but I'd say it's once or twice in multiple hours of playing. I don't think the game has earned it's 1.0 status based on that and a bunch of other bugs, but it is an Arma game so you can't get rid of all of the jank. The movement/gun mechanics, animations, and vehicle handling are all an improvement from Arma 3 and the helicopters actually fly like they have mass/momentum. If they don't somehow break things with another patch, this is heading in the right direction for Arma 4 and the mod collection is already impressive.

I have over 3k hours in ARMA 3 so I have a lot of love for the franchise. However in the current state the game wouldn't be worth the download if it was free, much less $30. It's been months since launch and I have yet to be able to play a full round of Conflict without multiple forced disconnects or crashes to desktop, on official and unofficial servers. There are also things in game that are completely missing too, like a keybind for switching grenade types or ammo types, but that's more something you'd expect in early access. There are only two populated servers at this point because the player base is almost non-existent. Don't listen to the "it's early access bro" copium, there is a reason the player base dropped like the stock market in 08, only pick this up if they've fixed it. I hope BI can pull this out of the toilet, because when you can stay in a match more than 20 minutes it generally runs much better than A3 ever did and I had a good bit of fun playing it when the player base was still large enough to get a good match in even if you had to reconnect every 10-20 minutes.