Posts by Filth

  • Arma 3 Creator DLC: S.O.G. Prairie Fire

    Quote from hoofed

    a steaming heap of garbage, like Unsung.

    It's Arma, much of it is janky, much of it is garbage. The APCs, the helicopters, the rifles, the AT, the body armour, the maps, all of it an endless redundant ocean of garbage. RHS, CUP, Unsung, Cold War Germany, BW Mod, Contact, all of it rather equally garbage bottom line.


    Garbage that's kept this game going for the past eight years, surprisingly. It really makes you wonder.


    Anyway so we'll now start paying for our redundant garbage content then. Because it's the

    Quote from falseprophet

    whole arma experience

    BI promise they aren't taking you for a ride. 100% garbage free!


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    In all seriousness though this is what it comes down to for the group:


    Do we want to play Vietnam style, and only Vietnam style, scenarios on a regular basis?

    If so, do we want to pay 20 quid for what we can reasonably expect to be marginally better quality?

    If so, do we want to deal with this one:

    Quote from falseprophet

    the playerbase get split

    Sure, I'd play Vietnam. Played Unsung many times, its a janky, yet immersive and welcome change of pace - free of charge.

    But I won't start paying for mods.

    And lastly, a group like ours can't afford to split the base any further. Pushing Contact was a major mistake that cost us dearly.

  • Arma 3 Creator DLC: S.O.G. Prairie Fire

    Quote from falseprophet

    Unsan was supported by Patreon thus far to provide the free content. It is interesting to see, where this will go. Probably those Patreons will be left a bit confused when they start selling content their donates made possible in the first place.

    So much on reprehensible marketing strategies the Arma community shouldn't throw money at, imo.

  • Arma 3 Creator DLC: S.O.G. Prairie Fire

    Quote from Joe Malley

    the real value

    The real value of all this GM stuff is very, very difficult to spot for me. If CWG is any indication, and I believe it is, there is unfortunately no need to get excited about any of this.


    It's redundant. We can get the same thing for free. Likely at much smaller file size, at marginally lower quality. In fact you could argue quite feasibly that even with what we have in our pack today, you could put together a somewhat consistent Vietnam style scenario.

    It's extremely specific, something for individual missions or campaigns. The rest of the time we'll have 30GB rotting away on our drives.

    It's restricting even with the Workshop aid. You'll have to campaign long and hard to convince people to put their money down if you do want to get "real value" out of it. Have fun debating this with every potential recruit individually.

    Keep in mind that, additionally, many technical aspects of this are unknown. You might be looking at completely fucked up damage handling just like in CWG. Sure, fighting against good looking BMPs is nice, until they one-shot your T-100's frontal armour with an HE round from their main gun.


    Not to mention the marketing strategy behind this on BI's part is rather reprehensible. A community with any sense in it won't support it.


    Meh/10 Won't buy.

  • Wargame Red Dragon

    Quote from Oksman

    Really? The fuck, make a new game Eugene

    Why make a new game, when you have monopoly on a certain type? There is no competition for contemporary, large scale operational stuff. No incentive to innovate.

    And then your 3872th WW2 game flops. Who would have thought.


    It's the same process as in Arma. As long as there is no competition, just make more money selling paid mods! Best business strategy.

    I just hope Eugen will service the thing again. That's all I'd like to see.

  • Game Sales

    Quote from Chroma

    Wargame Red dragon is free to keep right now on Epic

    Highly recommended. Probably best tactical / operational simulation you can find out there.


    We have a decent player base with the group right here. So for this game which in all fairness is difficult to learn, you have a lot of help to take your first steps.


    Get it. It's worth it. Will keep you engaged for years. Hope to see some new faces on it soon!

  • Restructuring of Mod set

    On the fence about this. It's all a bit TL;DR.


    Change is good. You certainly make a strong case.

    There's an argument to be made for stability though.


    Regardless. If you feel you have the resources to pull this off and don't rush things, I'd get behind it.