Worth playing the whole campaign?

[Ocular]

Especially since mods are down atm.

Played Arma a decent amount of time, over 600 hours now. Only played the first few apex missions a long time ago.

Have all the dlc except contact, is it worth doing all the missions including the dlc missions too.

I just felt like, why play the missions when there’s mods, custom campaigns, servers, the editor etc...

If so, would you recommend playing it without any mods at all for the vanilla experience? I’m used to Vcom ai and a bunch of other mods right now.

How do y’all like to play?

Also what’s your guess at how long it would take to beat every single mission?

[Karl Perkins]

East Wind is really good. No mods other than sound mods is what I use. Played through it a couple of times over the years and it still holds up.

If you end up playing it do the prologue mini campaign first if you care about the background story of the campaign.

And anyone who enjoyed East Wind and the overall story of might also want to check out the FIA mini campaign from Tac-Ops DLC set during the civil war and Remnants of War set shortly after the East Wind conflict. That one is imo very under rated. It's good enough that it could have been its own spin-off standalone title.

[Persona]

I play always play vanilla Arma, or to say I use very very very rarely any mods.

And I would recommend to play the official Campaigns too. East Wind is quite fun.

How long you play depends on how long you do the patrol missions. Those are open world (but restricted to a playable area) mission where you can venture out to get loot, do side missions etc.

But the East Wind should be doable within 15-20 hours, depending on your playstyle.

[WypadajacyOdbyt1984]

ArmA 3 campaigns are amazing and never fail to mess with my brain BIG TIME.

[CalicoJack]

yes, play all the official campaigns
They are really well done, i especially liked the "Laws of war" campaign very much!

[Kelovar]

I definitely recommend Remnants of War. Amazing storytelling, really makes you think, because you see war from all sides, and realize that civilians are the greatest victims. .
I just finished First Contact, I enjoyed it, despite some bugs and unnecessary difficulties.

[DarkFire]

East Wind, Apex and Remnants of War are all very well written, enjoyable campaigns. I also enjoyed Contact, though that's definitely not for everyone.