The straight-faced army simulation of Arma 3 will get a bit weirder with its subsequent enlargement, named Contact, the place severe soldiermen will encounter and examine aliens. Expect unusual lights within the sky, unknown plane, unusual power signatures, glowing orbs, the lot. It doesn’t appear like some kooky Stalin vs. Martians nonsense, thoughts, treating first contact with a suspected alien species severely. Which sounds fairly nice to me. It brings an enormous new sandbox map, with 163 sq. kilometres of kinda-real-ish Eastern Europe, for normal Arma actions too. Anyway, right here, come meet some aliens within the announcement trailer.
It’s official: objects floating mysteriously in Arma Three is now a characteristic, not a bug, okay. As for the story of the enlargement’s singleplayer marketing campaign, ‘First Contact’, builders Bohemia Interactive clarify:
“As Specialist Aiden Rudwell, you are a NATO drone operator taking part in a military training exercise on Livonia. When a massive alien vessel enters the atmosphere, you are sent on a reconnaissance mission to investigate the extraterrestrial presence. The priority: to learn who or what they are, and find out why they are here. However, with our very existence in the balance, different interpretations fuelled by a region-wide blackout quickly prove to be a surefire way to conflict. Over the course of this campaign, you will engage in field science, electronic warfare, and combat recon, in an experience delivered in authentic Arma 3 style.”
That does sound a lark. I’m additionally up for enjoying with robots and, to cite Bohemia, “a mini UGV sampling laser and CBRN defense equipment to study strange alien anomalies, as well as controlling the electromagnetic spectrum with the aptly named Spectrum Device.” Love to regulate that spectrum.
As is the Arma enlargement manner, it packs a good bit for gamers with no real interest in aliens too. The new 163 km2 sandbox map is about in a area of the fictional Polish-speaking nation Livonia, which confusingly is known as after an precise historic area and kingdom presently cut up between Latvia and Estonia. Hanging round there are two new factions, Two the Livonian Defense Force and Russian Spetsnaz. Also in there are 5 new weapons, two new automobiles (the sciencebot and A TRACTOR), and gear together with biohazard fits, blindfolds, and a tin foil hat. Can’t go preventing aliens with out a tin foil hat.
Arma 3: Contact is because of launch on Steam and the Bohemia Store on July 29th, priced at £22/€25/$28. It would require the bottom game too.
