are there tank v. tank action in this game?

[General Winter]

i heard about it but im not too sure

[ignore if you don't care about my opinion] im looking for something fresh, but WT is absolute ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, WoT is fun, but its starting to grow stale, and AW(armored warfare) is basically dead, and crossout is stupid ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ grindy, and tanki feels like a fancy flash game

i know this game is a sim, but even then im sure modern tanks feel better then they would in WT and this game seems to have more to offer as well, the closest thing i've played to this is BF 1 but next DLC isn't till september; if im primarily a tank guy, would this game offer a lot?

[General Winter]

Originally posted by Valiant_Camel:

There are Tanks, IFVs, and APCs in the game. Also there are TONs of mods that add high quality assets including tanks.

If multiplayer is what you're interested in you would havve to look for a group that does only armor because i dont know of a public game mode that is tanks only. Or you can always start your own armor based community if your willling to host a server and chat service.

If your ok with SP then the game comes with a mission editor that allows you to create any mission you want, so you have access to endless tank fun.

In summary Tank vs Tank battles are completely possible but its not super common in MP

if someone could show me the way to it; i heard about it but wasn't given very specific details on the matter, would've put this in general discussion to get more responses but i don't have the game

[Runekn]

If your focus is tank vs tank, then this game is not for you. This game focuses its simulation elements on infantry gameplay, with vehicles existing more for combined warfare than than anything else. Tank combat is not nearly as detailed as something like WT or even WoT.
Even if this is not a turn-off for you, you will have trouble finding any missions or servers that would satisfy your needs.

A tank specific DLC has been planned for the turn of the year (2017/2018), but we will have to wait and see what features it brings.

[General Winter]

Originally posted by Runekn:

If your focus is tank vs tank, then this game is not for you. This game focuses its simulation elements on infantry gameplay, with vehicles existing more for combined warfare than than anything else. Tank combat is not nearly as detailed as something like WT or even WoT.
Even if this is not a turn-off for you, you will have trouble finding any missions or servers that would satisfy your needs.

A tank specific DLC has been planned for the turn of the year (2017/2018), but we will have to wait and see what features it brings.

alright, i'll wait i guess and see if thats true

just looking for alturnatives, though i guess those options are non existent really (WT and WoT both have a monopoly in that reguard)

[dicky needles]

If you are the gunner of the tank, you have the ability to shoot the cannon (duh) and eardeafen your commander with the MG, although you should listen to your commander. Anyway, you have the driver (He is driving ofcourse), the gunner (Stated above) and the commander. There isnt really a way to like, solo the tank, just like the Stomper drone, you need a driver and the other one needs to be the gunner if im not wrong

[Kiri Otoru]

formally - no, because this game more accounted towards joint operations. and tanks and other armored vehicles are pretty rough modelled. may be Tanks DLC will change that, we shall see.

as for pure tank gameplay - we have community events like http://www.rollingthunder.it for example.

[lucry__zurtech]

offical KOTH servers have tanks and helis and jets if you have the dlc, and you gotta buy them in game by earning money, you wont want to loose them though once they blow up youd have to pay again, few gran even for armoured apc with hmg, and trust you gotta be invisable to aviod some they can kill you from 4km away. f*** knows how they see you and trust they are modern if not prototypes. quite amazing.

[Kill Me]

just play KOTH

[General Winter]

Originally posted by BrianExodus:

just play KOTH

what is KOTH?

[Kill Me]

Originally posted by General Winter:

Originally posted by BrianExodus:

just play KOTH

what is KOTH?

King of The Hill (usually 100 players in a huge battle for a capture point. Most servers have tanks and jets and helicopters)

[Enkar]

Allright people seem to have failed to answer:

Armored warfare in arma is far from perfect, but it is damn interesting and offer a lot of freedom in your actions. It's totally possible to focus on armored gameplay, there's plenty of servers that allow you to do so:
-"Invade and annex" are milsim servers where you chose your role to cooperate in taking an hostile town. It's a coop mod (player vs AI) you can chose amongst many infantry ground troup roles, UAV operators, CAS pilot, transport pilot, and of course, armored squad. It's all player driven, with an admin being in the HQ role deploying ressources you may need.

King Of The Hill: pure PvP mod, 3 team competing for the controle of a town, you get cash from holding the town/making kills/revives, and can buy all kinds of combat vehicles with them. Not that easy to always stay in an armored vehicle if you're not used to avoid getting taken down because of the price of armored vehicles.

-Wasteland: Persistent world warfare mod, 2 teams and a FFA team, where you have NPC missions that can be done to gather monney and trade-points that serve to buy vehicles/gear as much as they serve as encounter points for PvP. Very easy to always be in armored vehicles once you got a hang of the mechanics.

-Exile: Survival mod, gather ressources, do missions, scavenge, and you'll be able to afford armored vehicles at a safe-zone trader.



Now for the armored gameplay in arma: it's a lot different than what you're used to, it's not that "armored vs armored" type of fight you're accustomed to, you'll have to be mindfull of the dangers of infantry, they can lock a laser designator on you for CAS to drop a bomb/missile right on you or simply fire devastating AT missiles that can easily damage your parts and render them inoperable (turrets, tracks, engine) or blow you up. No matter how armored your vehicle is. learning how to use stealth (choosing a good camon pattern, a good spot to place yourself, and turning your engine off so the only heat signature visible on your position on thermal is your firing canon), how to coordinate with your crew, how make use of the abilities of your vehicle, how to coordinate with allied infantry and how to manage your ammunitions will be key to your survival.
As said before, there's three roles: Driver, Gunner, Commander. The commander has acces to a top-mounted camera with nightvision and thermal sights, the gunner can see where the commander is looking, and the commander can see where the gunner is looking, he usually also is the one who has controle of the only defense system you have: a thermal-proof smoke-screen able to disrupt lock-on missiles.
For a crew to be effective, the driver should focus at what's ahead of him (unless the gunner already is looking in this direction). The gunner should focus on the enemy-contact direction (or most-likelly enemy direction) while the commander sweep the other directions for other contacts. What you do not want is a gunner, a driver and a commander all looking at the shells explode while an enemy sneaks on you and get a lock.
To resume, it's really easy to loose an armored vehicle in arma if you're not used to it, but once you got a hang of it it can be a really destructive asset. I personally largly prefere APCs over tanks as they're able to respond to any threat while tanks focus on heavy ground units, but if tanks are your thing you'll probably enjoy arma.

I'll add that the Tanks DLC is coming out any week now since it's supposed to be released Q1 2018, this will add a lot of things, like the possibility to put destructible cage armor arround armored vehicles that will negate rocket penetration, or even camo nets, as well as a complete overhaul of the armored damage system. (that's all free coming as an update, the paid DLC itself will add new armored vehicles for it's owners)

[Kiri Otoru]

If you want pure tank vs. tank event, there is Rolling Thunder probably around still (http://rollingthunder.it).

[General Winter]

Originally posted by unhappytroll:

If you want pure tank vs. tank event, there is Rolling Thunder probably around still (http://rollingthunder.it).

looks fun but it seems to be an occasional thing

[=PanzeR=]

Originally posted by Kiri Otoru:

formally - no, because this game more accounted towards joint operations. and tanks and other armored vehicles are pretty rough modelled. may be Tanks DLC will change that, we shall see.

as for pure tank gameplay - we have community events like http://www.rollingthunder.it for example.

I completely disagree

ArmA its a combined ops Simulator, and even better and realistic than world of tanks, ( because you need 3 men to operate a tank, instead of a single lonely rambo guy )

And you can create anything in ArmA, if you want a good 50 vs 50 tank warfare, just go to mission editor and create a good mission wich u need to capture a town with a armored battallion under your command. Everythins its possible on ArmA mate, you ever heard about a thing called "mission editor"

Not everyone wants to play online, and not everybody wants to plays as a "foot slogger" AKA infantry guy. ArmA has literally TONS of content for jet, tanks and infantry fans even in Single Player. I heard the campaign its infantry focused so it sucks on that, what happened to the previous campaigns that ArmA gamers loved? thsoe campaigns had tastes for everyone, because you played as EVERYTHING: one campaign mission you played as a spec op, and in the another you played as a jet pilot, and in another a tank commander. Pure fun mate, those where the times. OFP 2001

[=PanzeR=]

Originally posted by Exodus:

Originally posted by General Winter:

what is KOTH?

King of The Hill (usually 100 players in a huge battle for a capture point. Most servers have tanks and jets and helicopters)

Do you mean kids on a hill

i hate that crap mode, its not true arma and its a typical CoD ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ that its a cancer to ArmA, if i want to spend XP and money upgrading ill go play Fortnite

[=PanzeR=]

Originally posted by lucry__zurtech:

offical KOTH servers have tanks and helis and jets if you have the dlc, and you gotta buy them in game by earning money, you wont want to loose them though once they blow up youd have to pay again, few gran even for armoured apc with hmg, and trust you gotta be invisable to aviod some they can kill you from 4km away. f*** knows how they see you and trust they are modern if not prototypes. quite amazing.

"true" arma players never touch Kids on a hill, eeeer i mean sorry "King of the Hill" ( my bad )

Its not meant to be ArmA and it a true cancer to the ArmA community, if i want XP and upgrades ill go Play Fortnite or Overwatch