• Arma Tactics deploys to PC on October 1
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Looks kind of cool but kind of eh at the same time
You mean average?
This has some Jagged Alliance 2 vibes to it.
It actually looks pretty cool.
It's crappy. I'm sorry, guys. I tried it, and it kinda sucks. It's an absolutely horrid port from the touchscreen systems. Doesn't even have hotkeys for basic actions like reloading and stuff. [editline]18th September 2013[/editline] It's a step above Jagged Alliance: Back in Action, but ten steps below 7.62 High Caliber, Jagged Alliance 2, and a thousand steps below XCOM.
Not surprised, bohemia are not good developers and this is something I've come to reluctantly accept
[QUOTE=JaegerMonster;42234243]Not surprised, bohemia are not good developers and this is something I've come to reluctantly accept[/QUOTE] Pretty much, yeah. They have the core ARMA series, which they do good, but Carrier Command, Pound of Ground and now this, they're... Kinda shit.
[QUOTE=Riller;42234422]Pretty much, yeah. They have the core ARMA series, which they do good, but Carrier Command, Pound of Ground and now this, they're... Kinda shit.[/QUOTE] You have to remember that over the years they have acquired many game developers who just carry on doing what they were doing previously. The company that made Carrier Command is a good example of this.
[QUOTE=Jsm;42234448]You have to remember that over the years they have acquired many game developers who just carry on doing what they were doing previously. The company that made Carrier Command is a good example of this.[/QUOTE] ...I hate companies that are both developers and publishers. They confuse me.
[QUOTE=Riller;42234422]Pretty much, yeah. They have the core ARMA series, which they do good, but Carrier Command, Pound of Ground and now this, they're... Kinda shit.[/QUOTE] But really, I used to be a fervent defender of ArmA, but it now occurs to me just how bad of a developer they are. They struck gold with tackling a very specific niche that had never really been tackled before, which was a realistic infantry simulator on a large scale terrain. But thats all they've done with it, and they've seldom improved upon it. Its the same engine since 1998 and it was a bad engine to begin with. That and somehow after a decade+ of experience they still manage to be terribly unprofessional developers. ArmA 3 still suffers from almost all of the faults of its previous games, and to boot, has less content than ArmA 1 which was by their own admittance a precursor test run for ArmA 2 which had been in development the whole time. I dig ArmA 3's improvements over ArmA 2, but its just that, its these little improvements they make and then just get lazy with everything else and when people question why its "b-but improved movement model!!!". If the cryengine military simulator ever makes it to the civilian market and has modding tools, Bohemia is probably finished.
[QUOTE=JaegerMonster;42235274] If the cryengine military simulator ever makes it to the civilian market and has modding tools, Bohemia is probably finished.[/QUOTE] I doubt it will, no one is interested in picking it up as a tool apparently. From what I have read in various places it has god awful performance. Probally bodes badly for it ever being commercial. Unless of course it does so badly they sell it to everyone to try and make up for that failing, but if it is more of a construction kit than anything else I can't see it working.
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