What is multiplayer like? (never played ARMA)

[Plastic Straw Supremacist]

Title says it all. I am thinking about buying ARMA III but can't quite figure out what multiplayer is like from any YouTube videos. I am used to BF3 and Counter Strike but got a chance to play the Infantry mission in one of the showcases in ARMA III and enjoyed it and loved the realism. I just don't want to buy a game for single player.

Basicly what I am asking is what kind of game mods (EDIT: Mean't to say game modes) are there in A3 and how often do you encounter battle?

If someone could help me out I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks!

[Saultyevil]

You'll 'accdientally' throw grenades at your team mates and then everyone will be upset with you and you'll never want to play online again.

[Flawlessjohn]

My advice to you is if you buy this game, make sure you go in with a group so that you can communicate and be more effective as a whole and ultimately have more fun. The game itself in my opinion is quite good indeed, if you have been a fan of the battlefield series then you should be and most likely will be a fan of this. As for encountering battle and the mods, with the mods there aern't many and thats due to it still being in Beta but I believe there is now a zombies DayZ mod which doesn't require you to have bought Arma 2 and the others previously etc. I also know the the realsim mods like ACRE and ACE will be coming out after the game as fully finished. With battleing online, it really depends as to what type of game mode you go into, with Wastleland you always have to be wary but sometimes wont see action for maybe even 20mins depending on your play style where as with coop and TDM or normal DM there will always be battles practically immediately (give or take 1-2mins either getting to the battlefield in the chooper or sprinting over the hill)
Hope this helps
Cookie

[Plastic Straw Supremacist]

Originally posted by cookiejunior:

My advice to you is if you buy this game, make sure you go in with a group so that you can communicate and be more effective as a whole and ultimately have more fun. The game itself in my opinion is quite good indeed, if you have been a fan of the battlefield series then you should be and most likely will be a fan of this. As for encountering battle and the mods, with the mods there aern't many and thats due to it still being in Beta but I believe there is now a zombies DayZ mod which doesn't require you to have bought Arma 2 and the others previously etc. I also know the the realsim mods like ACRE and ACE will be coming out after the game as fully finished. With battleing online, it really depends as to what type of game mode you go into, with Wastleland you always have to be wary but sometimes wont see action for maybe even 20mins depending on your play style where as with coop and TDM or normal DM there will always be battles practically immediately (give or take 1-2mins either getting to the battlefield in the chooper or sprinting over the hill)
Hope this helps
Cookie

Thanks for the reply. I meant to say game modes not mods. How often can you join into a random server or lobby with a mic and have other people in there who know how to use team work to their advantage? Like in CS I can also find at least someone I can work together with even though we are complete strangers.

[Pèpè Silvia]

There's tons of game modes, it's just gonna be tough finding a server that runs the one you want that's populated.

It's might also be hard to randomly fiind a group on a pub server that will communicate/work together. There are a few pub servers that do require teamwork and no BS, and have active moderators, but the majority of good coopertive play is on private servers. Search around for a clan/group that has the play style you're looking for and you'll probably find one

[Sarnen]

Go with a premade group or not at all. If you've never played Arma it is very easy to get overwhelmed or confused and make a mistake, and the fanbase is about as polite as, say, league of legends. It isn't very pick up game friendly (at all) and because the game is so oriented against running around feeling like a hero (currently epitomized by Call of Duty) it'll be frusterating and annoying if you just want to relax and click join game.

[Seilky]

Originally posted by TG Saultyevil:

You'll 'accdientally' throw grenades at your team mates and then everyone will be upset with you and you'll never want to play online again.

Not if you say: "I had throw accidentaly" or " grenade! run!". As long as you don't keep killing you team mates.

Multiplayer is fantastic, there are still some gliches but nothing impossible to play with.
Also, is recomended that you do some of the show cases before joining the MP game it will teach you a little how the game works, also you can always acess the soldier manual by the game menu (also during SP and MP modes).

[Chortles]

Originally posted by fandroid:

Title says it all. I am thinking about buying ARMA III but can't quite figure out what multiplayer is like from any YouTube videos. I am used to BF3 and Counter Strike but got a chance to play the Infantry mission in one of the showcases in ARMA III and enjoyed it and loved the realism. I just don't want to buy a game for single player.

Basicly what I am asking is what kind of game mods (EDIT: Mean't to say game modes) are there in A3 and how often do you encounter battle?

If someone could help me out I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks!

At this point in time, there are very few ("almost none" wouldn't be inaccurate) official game modes for multiplayer, and the only two that come to mind to me easily are Escape from Stratis (up-to-7-player co-op) and Defend Kamino (up-to-10-player co-op and versus, and by default friendly AI will fill in if there's less than ten players), and basically just about everything else is user-made missions! User-made missions can vary wildly, so "how often you encounter battle" can be dependent on what the creator intended (both the originator and whoever made the version that you're playing, if it's a variant) and/or server settings.

Notice how I say "missions" -- the series' roots and a noticeable portion of the MP scene were in online co-op, although "offline" LAN multiplayer was an option too and DayZ has made the "versus" multiplayer more famous. Also, there's no official servers, it's all "whoever wants to host", though dedicated servers are much more the norm in the franchise's history than matchmaking-like "player host".

As far as mission examples, what I tend to see in Invade & Annex (co-op) is: people pick a starting/default class (this one somewhat matters as only the Medic class can revive) and spawn in at base, they pile into any available helos at base, then the pilot picks them up and takes them to the vicinity of the objective area, whether primary (kill all enemies within the indicated circle on the map) or secondary (satchel-charge the radio tower within that circle to unlock the Personal UAV ability for all players, if the Mortar Team spawns on the map and are left alone, they'll start trying to rain mortar bombs onto players and killing them will stop the mortar fire). No time limit and I don't know if there's a "number of primary objectives taken (read: areas cleared of enemies) threshold" that causes the mission to end upon reaching.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZII8v-NwXFY&hd=1
This video is another (much longer) overlook of Invade & Annex, but several minutes of it is taken up explaining the Virtual Ammobox System (VAS), a user-made script used in I&A but which can be used in other missions as well such as any that you might make. Not all missions have this and not all missions even give you "gear customizing" crates at spawn though... some don't even have respawn! (The last being "once you're down, you're down until the mission/session ends.")[forums.bistudio.com]

[Dexter G]

its completly different to every shooter you played.. its like planetside 2 but in a realistic way