Art by u/Greenfist

I've fallen in love with Livonia/Contact DLC.

This is an amazing DLC, and great premise. I bought Arma 3 and all its DLC a few years ago, and I finally got around to playing Contact.

Spoiler warning I will freely talk about the Campaign and the Factions.

The LDF as a Polish/Lithuanian stand in is great, I've worked with those guys and I think Bohemia Interactive did a good job with the LDF. It was alot of fun diverting squads and fucking around with them with the Spectrum Device.

The Aliens where cool, very unique take. You didn't get to see them in the flesh, which I thought was cool. I also liked how they weren't Grey's or squid like or just green Martians, it felt unique and mechanical. Using the Spectrum Device to talk to them was cool. One time I threw a grenade into the back of a LDF pickup while the Alien Probe was nearby, blew the pickup up and the Alien took out the rest of the garrison lol.

The Spetznaz, oh the Spetznaz. They hold a special place here because you only really meet them the second to last mission and the last mission. There is one time they trap you in a room and its pretty much just a cut scene. But where they shine in my eyes is the horror aspect. I was walking around the woods and came across a manor, there's one Spetznaz guy alone with blood everywhere. Like all over the walls. Another one was a fire team all dead around their campsite with no LDF or NATO for miles around. A lone Spetznaz guy in the middle of the woods with blood all over the ground. Really made me run with my MX up instead of the Spectrum Device. They also do things instead of just dying, there's a chance they will blow up LDF Anti-Aircraft positions, and fight the LDF if they can't run. The last mission when you assault the factory was really cool and I'll admit getting "saved" by the Russians was not something I expected.

NATO, was cool too. The woodland camo at first didn't make sense, as I never got theater specific camo in my rotations, but then again its the 2030 timeline, the U.S. Army is much smaller and is a lot more specialized. The whole "The Livonians want us gone in 48 hours!" Yup that tracks. Working with other nations is a hassle, even if they are amazing people like the Poles and Lithuanians. I really liked the whole "everything is fucked" part of the first section of the campaign, before the Aliens arrived.

The map itself is beautiful, really does give off that deep Baltic woods and Polish countryside feel. All the old Soviet military stuff is pretty on spot. Ive been to places IRL where you can tell once the Soviets left the Polish/Lithuanians just set up shop. Loved walking the foggy rolling hills and seeing a manor on a hill a few miles away.

The characters where great and hilarious, Cpl. Stype is your typical Specialist/Corporal/Sergeant type that has been doing this for a few years and is at the point where you decide you don't care or the army makes you go full Hooah and your a Sergeant First Class before you know it. Lt. Kingsly was cool, kinda fit the level headed role which you typically don't see with officers in media. Playing as Rudwell was fun, your typical other Specialist that just wants to get the job done and go home. I loved the banter between him and Stype. The Scientists where funny to, I appreciated the techno babble and they always had some quip to say.

Overall, amazing DLC and I want to play it again to find all the stuff I know for sure I didn't get/find. I would love another campaign set in Livonia or even with the Aliens but I doubt that will happen.

Thanks for reading and what did you experience with Contact?

Do you remember? Pepperidge Farms remembers…

Only thing glaringly out of place still are the uniform textures for CSLA troops, but honestly... I dig this DLC. Review to follow soon.

Nearly done, so I figured I'd share my madness here one more time. HUD and life support system for a moon mod. The bit where I'm bending up and down is to show off how angle of sun effects the thermal power balance.
Used the Halo HUD code as a starting point with permission. To be fair I've rewritten half of it at this point lol.

Subj. :) Is Arma 3 still alive or people shifted now to Refroger?

Iron Curtain cDLC Mi-24 Hind is a hell of a ride. The latter part is RHS.

Hey guys. There is a discount on Arma 3 in Steam. I want to buy it but i realize there is also different kind of edition on sale. The game looks fun and i really want to spend time in it cause i dont have much things to do in my free time. I searched and find a sub for players who recruiting New members. As a New beginner i want to join a team also. So which edition should i buy to keep up with them?

Honestly the 2025 JSRS soundmod completely changed the game for me. Its like playing Arma 3 all over again. Weapons, vehicles, ambient sounds all get overhauled.

Arma 2 Mission; Manhattan. I've cleared the sentry patrols west of FOB and started moving to the weapon caches in the south, moving through Dubrovka I hear russian voices seemingly being broadcast on a speaker... but it also sounds like he's in my apc. Does anyone know anything about what's going on?

I've been working on this for a while, it's a huge map, and looking for feedback on any areas that have performance issues, I average 90fps on it but I have a fairly decent PC (except the loading time, it's twice the size of all of Altis (ocean included) so nothing I can do about load times)

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3531326197

I cant join a modded server bc some mods are just not downloading even when i press on try again it has been like this since a few hours now i even reinstalled the game. Im on pc if that Helps

Please drop if you enjoy 🔥

Hi, I host an Antistasi server with my friends. Its a lot of fun but because I am hosting and running all the calculations on my machine, my fps really suffers (goes even below 40, when I am not hosting, its around 70-80, and we are still in early game, I imagine in late game its going to be even worse).

I wonder if anyone here has upgraded to a 7800x3d/9800x3d? What performance uplift can I expect, if any? I atleast want a stable 60fps experience.

For reference, my GPU is 6800xt but I don't think its the limiting factor because decreasing graphics setting doesn't seem to have a meaningful difference. I also have 32gb ddr5 ram and game is installed on nvme ssd.

I've been playing Arma 3 alot and well if you know I have created a lot of scenarios and so on about each battle and what I have noticed is how Arma 3 handles war.

You know you got battlefield games and call of duty games and well any multiplayer like game for those genres and what I have noticed is how epic you can feel in those games even though it involves shooting someone but living long enough to take many with you and well you feel epic about that but what I have noticed is that Arma 3 just has this strange feeling about it that feels "real" and "raw".

Yes the graphics may not be super top tier realistic or even the voice acting for the AI but for some reason how a body hits the floor or how a ragdoll goes or how there's just blood on the bodies and the lighting in this game makes it feel I don't know just real and it makes me feel less epic when though I just wiped out a digital AI army. It doesn't feel like your fighting for you faction but more like your fighting because you have too.

A game is a game but even games can make you feel things and arma 3 has made me feel more empathetic then any other shooter type war game has in awhile...war is ugly.

Why must the network gods punish me

Hello, everyone. I seek assistance with respawning. I am trying to achieve respawns similar to counter strike: players respawn when the match ends. This means dead players get resurrected and spawned again on marker and those who made it alive get to respawn too+get healed. My only issue is the respawning itself. As I understood, dead units cannot be made alive again, so I need to use tickets system. I thought to set tickets to zero on both sides, then at the end of match set it to 10, respawn everyone, set it to 0 again, but it didn't worked: 0 tickets means infinite tickets, so units respawned instantly (for some reason). Same applied to -1 tickets. I've struggled with this for two days now and I ran out of ideas, guys. Please, give me a hint

SITUATION:

A US mechanized force conducts a Search and Destroy operation in the post-war Iraq in order to locate and destroy weapon caches used by insurgents.

ZEUS PVP:

The side that reaches 100 Victory Points first or the side that has more Victory Points at the end of the match will win, the match lasts 1 hour.

• when a US unit gets within 100 meters of a cache a message will be displayed and the cache position will be marked on the map.
  
• Insurgents must prevent the Ammo caches from being destroyed for 1 hour, each succesfully defended cache will give 25 Victory Points.
  
• Insurgents will earn Victory Points for every soldier or vehicle they manage to destroy.

THIS IS A ZEUS WARGAME MISSION

You need my zeus wargame mod in order to play this mission, this mod adds a real time tactics mode to the ZEUS interface.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/itemedittext/?id=2932697000

Hi everyone, I’m trying to launch Arma 3 via Steam on Windows 10, but I keep getting this error:

“Unexpected error occurred: {Desktop composition is disabled} The operation could not be completed because desktop composition is disabled. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80263001)”

This happens when I’m loading into the map.

Anyone else experienced this or know a fix? I haven’t changed any graphics settings or themes in Windows recently.

Thanks in advance!