will all modder stop working because Arma 4/Reforger ? Arma 3 is dying now ?

[Doggy]

I dont need an Arma 4 ! The Arma 3 -content (official and mods) is awesome.
And with the right configuration you can run arma3 good enough. Sure when all the grafic-kiddies will set all on ultra and play in 4K the performance is not very well. But Arma 3 is not a fast action-shooter.

But very typical for the newer player-generation...they only look at grafics.

But they will never understand that grafic is NOT the most important for a game.

And i think Arma 4 need some years till release and the same big content like Arma 3.

Only some better grafics and some better UI-options will not start a big hype for me.

Hope arma3 stay alive a very long time with support from the devs and an active modding-community.

[29/P4TCH3R]

Arma 4 and currently Reforger offer better tools for Modder - but the current impact is not much. RHS moved over for example to Reforger.
Arma 4 will prob. already have a tons of mods because of Reforger when it launches.

[-OrLoK- Слава Україн]

don't panic, Arma3 will be around for a good while yet.

folk still play A2.

[CW2 P. Larkins]

no because reforger sucks and currently has a grand total peak of 168 players (LOL), most of those probably being modders, devs, etc. who will probably get what they want out of it and then never touch it again. arma 3 grew in population thanks to reforger and will be sticking around until arma 4 comes around and if (big if, clearly) it is actually good

[Rhino Piteck [AI]]

my pretty dream: have instead of arma4 an arma3.5:
an Arma3 with a new graphics engine based on vulkan of course, and not one line of code touched everywherelse, meaning, players of arma3 and "arma4" can play connected to the same server And keep using ALL the mods that are already outhere
I think this should :
Save time to BI devs: concentrating on one thing , the thing that many complain about: graphics quality and FPS
Save time to modders: keep rafining actual great mods
Save some bucks to actual customers so they dont have to pay right away 100€

A move like this, that noone did before should attract attention : "new players" ...
and many of them like Linux/unix/android/and many other OS, since Vulkan runs on every platform outthere: this is not the case of directX neither OpenGL ;)
(pssst windows will use a linux kernel on their desktop sooner or later, dont tell anyone)
We are all winner in this scenario.

This of course under the reserve of what I know about arma.

[PuFu]

Originally posted by 29j2003/The_P4TCH3R:

Arma 4 and currently Reforger offer better tools for Modder - but the current impact is not much. RHS moved over for example to Reforger.
Arma 4 will prob. already have a tons of mods because of Reforger when it launches.

we didn't move everything just yet, and we haven't abandoned our existing A3 mods.

[опытный стрелок]

RHS and 3Cb factions mods have countless guns and vehicles, plus factions. Reforger has nothing like that. Plus Reforger game master servers have terrible lag spikes and freezes. Terrible game. No optimisation.

[V.A.L. Commorby]

Modders who preemptively jump ship to Reforger will find nothing there lol

[Pathfinder Serza]

Originally posted by ValrathCommander:

Modders who preemptively jump ship to Reforger will find nothing there lol

Fine by me, I'm learning...

[PuFu]

Originally posted by Меченый:

RHS and 3Cb factions mods have countless guns and vehicles, plus factions. Reforger has nothing like that. Plus Reforger game master servers have terrible lag spikes and freezes. Terrible game. No optimisation.

even more of a reason to add on top of a limited content game, isn't it? Also, generally speaking reforger works better on most rigs than A3 does

[nikdonikde]

There is a lot of mods for ARMA3, tons of them. Reforger while it's maybe not ideal game will run on the same engine and provide tools to modders to work on anything they would like to see in ARMA4. More mods for Reforger means more mods for ARMA4 upon release.

ARMA3 have serious limitations. It's impossible to simulate any bigger scenarios because FPS will just drop to the bottom, the AI is bad if someone want to look for singleplayer scenarios, overral performance and utilizing CPU is the problem, graphics are getting dated but that's not what I care for. Optics look much better and realistic in reforger already. And we can go on for hours.

So I'm glad hearing that some talented groups providing us free fun already jump the ship to enjoy new engine and explore what they can do with it. However ARMA3 as stated before, will be around for a while.

[29/P4TCH3R]

Originally posted by PuFu:

Originally posted by 29j2003/The_P4TCH3R:

Arma 4 and currently Reforger offer better tools for Modder - but the current impact is not much. RHS moved over for example to Reforger.
Arma 4 will prob. already have a tons of mods because of Reforger when it launches.

we didn't move everything just yet, and we haven't abandoned our existing A3 mods.

Ah okay, missunderstood, thanks for clarifying!

[R3dAlert93]

Arma 3 is way better than forger.