Arma 3 Community Alpha - Announcement!

[LockJaw-65-]

I think the lighting looks superb, cant wait.

I think the critical point in starting to feel good about scripting is when you progress so much that you are able to help others more than you need help yourself. A few years ago I was doing all the asking here.

@ celery LOL I remember when your posts were questions instead of answers, and look at you now!

[J-Guid]

Its really fun when you run into engine limitations and get to yell at Dwarden on Skype all night.

Poor Dwarden.

:P

realy

[Redjevel]

Sweet, hope alpha will be shortly E3.. uhh ohh... can't wait to script some missions on Arma 3

[F27Sharps]

as we all !

[Ohio]

To play the Alpha will be Great!

[the_antipop]

I hope everyone understands why BIS is asking the community to help out with an Alpha. There is a significant difference between a fully released commercial product and an alpha, some may have seen the difference in Battlefield 3 Alpha compared to release, obviously ArmA 3 will be on a much larger scale.
I understand everyone is keen to get their hands on the game, just remember to keep in the back of your mind that BIS are releasing this so we can all help test the game, not just enjoy it as a commercial product. I'm sure more information will be released sooner to release of Alpha in regards how to document and report bugs, crashes, script errors etc, but that's fundamentally the purpose of an Alpha, to test the game and report anything that isn't smooth or normal.

I just thought I should share all this so people don't see the 'alpha' as a demo. It's a testing platform for the community to use to HELP BIS, not to download and use as a demo for the final game.
The only piece of information I can share in regards to being apart of Alphas and BETAs of big commercial games in the past is never assume that a bug has already been reported, it doesn't matter if it's listed twice, as long as it's listed. BIS need our help to make the final release of ArmA 3 as smooth and enjoyable as possible, and I hope everyone is on board to help make that happen. I'm sure everyone will enjoy getting their hands on ArmA 3 too

-Antipop

[MadDogX]

I hope everyone understands why BIS is asking the community to help out with an Alpha. There is a significant difference between a fully released commercial product and an alpha, some may have seen the difference in Battlefield 3 Alpha compared to release, obviously ArmA 3 will be on a much larger scale.
I understand everyone is keen to get their hands on the game, just remember to keep in the back of your mind that BIS are releasing this so we can all help test the game, not just enjoy it as a commercial product. I'm sure more information will be released sooner to release of Alpha in regards how to document and report bugs, crashes, script errors etc, but that's fundamentally the purpose of an Alpha, to test the game and report anything that isn't smooth or normal.

I just thought I should share all this so people don't see the 'alpha' as a demo. It's a testing platform for the community to use to HELP BIS, not to download and use as a demo for the final game.
The only piece of information I can share in regards to being apart of Alphas and BETAs of big commercial games in the past is never assume that a bug has already been reported, it doesn't matter if it's listed twice, as long as it's listed. BIS need our help to make the final release of ArmA 3 as smooth and enjoyable as possible, and I hope everyone is on board to help make that happen. I'm sure everyone will enjoy getting their hands on ArmA 3 too

-Antipop

^^ all of the above.

Regardless, we can expect a whole bunch of "wtf this shit is unplayable!" posts once the alpha is released. Such is the way of things.

[Bee8190]

^^ all of the above.

Regardless, we can expect a whole bunch of "wtf this shit is unplayable!" posts once the alpha is released. Such is the way of things.

Dont mean to sound disrespectful but why is it such a big concern of everyone's? I think BIS is well aware that the alpha will get coments like this but as they mentioned its target is to test all hardware issues and eliminate as many bugs as possible for the full release, which i think will pay off even if they get hundreds of those OMG it doesnt work1337 posts. Necessary evil to get everything right.

Indeed not everyone is simply capable on reporting bugs the way CTI requires but I do believe the community will do their best to help BIS to get their release the finest yet, greatly overshadowing the OMG fix it reports.

I still suck at mission making, scripting you name it, but I should I find some issue, one can always ask for further opinion on this very forums before I submit and if not, well than I've tryied right?

[J-Guid]

BIS need our help to make the final release of ArmA 3 as smooth and enjoyable as possible, and I hope everyone is on board to help make that happen. I'm sure everyone will enjoy getting their hands on ArmA 3 too

Only if BIS begin listen community, because community its MAIN customer for his product...
Just looking for A2, how many bugs, issues you see on tracker, and how many features proposed by users and maded AddOns by community, but less amount realised, I hope A3 be more better 10x /facepalm
But in nova days we see a Wish list, we are very hoped to see main part of proposes in A3, because Arma is awesome and outstanding Game, times show...

Main issues of Arma devs, he dont have a progressive and extravertly creative director , or have but very lazyness (point)

[GossamerSolid]

Can't wait for this community alpha. I'd love to get some good feedback in before the product ships.