Arma 3 Community Alpha - Announcement!

[bradhunt5]

I'd like to take part in the Alpha as well

[SWAT_BigBear]

My PC is the oldest, I got dibs on the download link

[KrAziKilla]

hi bradhunt5, wlecome to the forums
why you want to take part in the alpha?

[NeMeSiS]

http://www.musicpicture.net/image/terror-5.jpg

This whole thread...

That sums it up.

[Pellejones]

aaahahahaha this is the best thread ever I love the "you have to have been here for 3+ years and have 3000 posts to get the alpha!" haha

[froggyluv]

Frankly I don't care how they go about making requirements for Alpha -paid, free, chest hairs...whatever Imma grab it ASAP. To suggest people only want it to say how kewl they are is silly. I bought Overgrowth Alpha merely to watch a game grow and wow myself at the many animation/hit effects/ragdoll that they achieve on a weekly basis -never once feeling the need to post on their forums to gloat. I don't even like the game but love the technology running it

One thing that I noticed after ARMA2 release is the many Campaign/scenario bug complaints which later "matured" into "the damn game's broken..."

I and probably many others would be happy with the Editor alone and BIS could highlight "NO MISSIONS!" everywhere so hopefully only those that want to test the tech alone would be interested. Of course some sort of benchmarking mission would be deemed necessary but no need to advertise that. Also why waste time with arbitrary Demo missions that will inevitably be ripped to pieces by conventional 'FPS diehards'.

[paecmaker]

Before people are able to download the alpha(or whatever) they need to do a quiz if they know that its just an alpha and not the final product and so on.

[PurePassion]

aaahahahaha this is the best thread ever I love the "you have to have been here for 3+ years and have 3000 posts to get the alpha!" haha

Exactly! I mean, your post count clearly shows you are not a fan of Arma and thus don't deserve to take part in the Alpha and Beta!

Anyways, the jokes, or better the

interesting observations

aside, I am really glad the team decided to make new features available one after one. This way it is much easier to test precisely and tell differences in performance. And that represents a huge immediate testbed for BIS.

I have one question tough. I really think that Limnos is a very beautiful and important element of Arma 3 and I would like to have it "saved" for the final game. You know, for the "" effect when you jump in the editor for the first time.

But on the other hand, it would be better to include the island to be able to judge performance more precisely. Hmm... I think I will be surprised by the Team's decision

[antoineflemming]

aaahahahaha this is the best thread ever I love the "you have to have been here for 3+ years and have 3000 posts to get the alpha!" haha

Exactly! I mean, your post count clearly shows you are not a fan of Arma and thus don't deserve to take part in the Alpha and Beta!

Anyways, the jokes, or better the aside, I am really glad the team decided to make new features available one after one. This way it is much easier to test precisely and tell differences in performance. And that represents a huge immediate testbed for BIS.

I have one question tough. I really think that Limnos is a very beautiful and important element of Arma 3 and I would like to have it "saved" for the final game. You know, for the "" effect when you jump in the editor for the first time.

But on the other hand, it would be better to include the island to be able to judge performance more precisely. Hmm... I think I will be surprised by the Team's decision

Wait, you guys did realize that the years and posts ideas were sarcasm, right?

[-Coulum-]

To me it doesn't matter how its distributed, as long as I can get my hands on it. If there is really a need to only get "dedicated players" make it pre-order and require OA. But I think that simply making it clear that it is an alpha will be good enough. Ie. on the main menu it reades Arma 3 ALPHA. and every time you shut the alpha down it will prompt you with "are there any bugs from the alpha that you would like to report or support?" and provide you with a form that you can fill out then and there and send to BI.

I have one question tough. I really think that Limnos is a very beautiful and important element of Arma 3 and I would like to have it "saved" for the final game. You know, for the "" effect when you jump in the editor for the first time.

I agree with you there. I wan't to "save Limnos for when the game is finally done as its one of the biggest feautures of the A3. I hope that there is a test island in the alpha. But at the same time I don't want limnos to suffer from poor performance due to lack of testing. Oh well I'll be happy however the devs decide to do it.