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It has been at least 6 years and this unique, underrated gem is still getting updated with new, meaningful content every couple of months. Strong recommend, every single second of the 42 hours spent was well worth it, and with new features on the way I absolutely need to spend more time on it.

Basically, you buld a 2d pixelated blimp or plane. Or a tank. Or a literal fortress. Or literally whatever you want, really. No naval vessels at the moment, unfortunately. There's tons of components to put in your designs with varying levels of complexity, enough that making a good airship is difficult but not nearly as complicated as other design-your-craft games (such as From the Depths). There's also a ton of decorative objects to give your crafts an actual look and feel to them, instead of just being boxy death machines.

The campaign mode is good for introducing players to the features of the game as a curve, with an easy to understand tech tree, and just got updated with a bunch of amazing new features. Sandbox is where you can test your designs and have fun simply watching things burn, and with workshop support, you basically have infinite replayability regardless what you play the game for.

The only downside is the multiplayer isn't always super populated. There's often a few people playing, but I personally have never seen the game above ~20 people online and playing multiplayer at a time. Maybe the new update changes that, though.

I wouldn't recommend this game, and the reason is simple. In order to play this game and have any sort of meaningful impact on the game, you need a microphone to communicate with people. However, the game apparently has had an issue for multiple years at this point which results in your microphone not working, and hasn't been fixed. Ontop of that, unlike Squad, it hasn't introduced QoL features like... setting what microphone the game uses.

As a result, my microphone, which is literally required to play certain roles (bannable otherwise), is not functional, and the game is a steaming pile of ♥♥♥♥ as a result. Nothing more frustrating than doing extremely well, helping out the squad, and trying to communicate... only to get kicked because people aren't arsed to look in the top left of the screen to see chat or have the memory of a goldfish.

In it's current state, I wouldn't recommend spending time on the game unless you are in dire need of social interaction or have friends to keep up with. The new updates have taken the desktop user experience and dumped it in the trash and then set it on fire.

The new action menu is inconvenient at best to sift through for desktop users and frustrating at worst. Much of this does depend on the avatar creator more than anything, but it doesn't make it any better. Now you've often got to sift through three or so different menus in order to actually get to an avatar's emotes, assuming it even has them at all to begin with. Wanted to boop someone on desktop? Jokes on you, you can't get a good 3.0 avatar with emotes at all. If that wasn't enough, when going through the new menu, your camera movement is completely restricted with no way to look or turn when on desktop like you could previously when accessing emojis or emotes.

The latest patch released today has made the experience arguably worse, as the menu has been subdivided into even more submenus and requires you to press the same button you used to open it, which is a little less natural than moving your mouse a centimeter and left clicking. Alot of the stuff mentioned here is minor, but it quickly adds up and is a constant hassle to deal with when trying to interact with other people on desktop. A friend says "Hi!" and waves at you in VR? Well, gotta go through three menus to wave back, by which point they've already turned around and don't see it. The update has also made camera movement between crouching and standing significantly slower, ontop of a prior update which made it slower than normal to begin with, and the change is quite noticable.

The biggest issue so far with the latest patch is that legs on every single avatar appears to have broken for desktop users, and the legs themselves break when attempting to crouch. This is most notable on Kon avatars, where the mere act of crouching completely breaks your legs and causes them to phase inside of your body. It's blatantly broken and gives the impression the devs didn't actually test the new update outside of VR.

TL;DR
Don't waste time on it if you aren't in VR or don't have friends to play it with or keep up with.

Easily my favorite game on steam, hands down! I love it, and here's why:

Arma 3 is a military sandbox shooter, allowing you to interact with almost all aspects of military warfare, from ships to planes to trucks to tanks to infantry. There hasn't been a single game which has released since Arma 3 that lets you interact with all of these aspects on anywhere near as large a scale (25x25km map, 1 to 1 scale with an IRL island), if at all to begin with.

By modern standards, the gameplay is relatively clunky, the graphics are out of date, and performance is relatively poor on lower-end machines. The game is also CPU intensive, which is better or worse for some rigs. In spite of this, the game has a very healthy playerbase with thousands of concurrent players, although spread out among a wide variety of different gamemodes and units which can give the impression the game is less populated than it actually is at any given time.

Although the game has a number of DLC, what many people tend to not know is much of the DLC releases came with free patches and updates for the game which everyone can enjoy - Helicopters DLC came with a helicopter overhaul for all helicopters, not just DLC ones. Marksman DLC allowed firing from vehicles for everyone, and so on.

The game has also gotten significant improvement in the AI department over time as well, although by modern standards the AI is still relatively lackluster. Compared to previous Arma games however, the AI in this game is actually extremely smart and complex, but also require experience with their behavior and knowledge of the honestly terrible system of actually controlling them. Still, I'd take Arma 3 AI any day over Arma 2 AI or god forbid Armed Assault AI.

The game also comes with honestly one of the best editors I have ever used in gaming, hands-down. It's essentially a built-in SDK for making missions that you can access straight from the main menu, and allows nearly anyone to sit down and make whatever the hell they want. Some of the more complicated things do require scripting (usually extremely simple scripting) but the Modules system alleviates the need for many scripts. You can spawn in and play with every single vehicle in the game, regardless if you own it or not if you can bear the annoying watermark that flashes on your screen.

One potential downside is that much of the multiplayer is PvE focused, and that's where you'll find the most amount of actually populated servers, doubly so if you get involved in the unit and modding scene behind the game. Still, you can easily find a couple hundred players playing PvP if you check during prime hours (during the day, weekends, etc.). Personally, I have spent the overwhelming majority of time playing PvE as the gamemodes and missions are significantly better balanced and fun regardless if you've spent 10 hours or 1000 hours in the game. Many PvP gamemodes like KOTH or Warlords require you to grind exp or money (or both) in order to get better gear and equipment.

All in all I would definitely recommend the game, especially during a sale where you can get the major content adding DLCs (especially Apex) for cheap and if your computer can play it. It's a unique experience you can't get anywhere else, with the ability to turn it into whatever kind of experience you want it to be.

TL;DR
Overall good RTS game, comrade, should try.
Pros -
-Nice representation of life on Eastern Front
-Interesting story
-Great gameplay
-Nice blood & gore aspects

Cons -
-Low FPS at times (Sometimes games last so long the map is literally a bunch of craters. Not often, though.)
-At times, gets boring waiting in stalemates
-AI is unpredictable. In a bad way.
-(May be fixed) Campaign progress suddenly wiped...?

You know, I never got around to reviewing this game.
But I absolutely love it. It captures war on the Eastern Front perfectly, allowing you to see how terrible and terrifying the war was by watching soldiers get blown into infamous 'red mist', gunned down by officers for retreating, mass-charges into well-defended positions, begging to fail, and tanks slipping through ice. But at the same time, you can also bring a little bit of kindness into the war by saving civilians in the line of fire, rescuing soldiers, etc. There is even an intense mission where you have to take out a TIGER! With only infantry! Not hard but fun and intense. This would be in the campaign. The story is also very interesting, btw.

But your journey won't end there. You can take the fight online in awesome, yet brutal mutliplayer matches or against the AI in co-op missions or 'Comp-Stomp' matches, which are basically normal multiplayer matches but with AI instead of human opponents. Mapmakers also make epic maps for this game that blend very well with either the theme of the Western Front pack, such as the endless D-Day maps, or remakes of the large-scale fighting in both cityscape and countryside on the Eastern Front. There are so many maps to choose from, I wouldn't be surprised one bit to find that nearly every single engagement of the war in Europe is covered by some map.

And finally, the editor. The editor for this game is extremely simple. I have zero coding or mapmaking knowledge and I actually managed to make a couple ok maps. Not the best, mind you, but I'm sure you could find somebody else who is worse than me. Anyway, the editor has a few great guides on Youtube and in the guides section of the community, allowing for an even easier time using the editor. I'll admit, it wasn't the easiest for me to learn how to use, but I don't have alot of experience using editors for games, so I'm not really familiar with alot of the different formats of interface.

What about cons, you ask?
Well, one con of this game is, for whatever reason, my game would occassionally reset campaign save data. I could be on like mission 10 and after not playing for about 5 days, I'd not have any save data at all, and it was very frustrating having to play the same missions like 20 times. This could be fixed though, I don't know, I haven't really checked.
Another con would be that, well, sometimes teams in multiplayer would be so stalemated it just killed the game. It happened rarely but often enough that it was really annoying. I can't count the amount of games where nobody ever captured a single victory point the entire game, all the way up to the end.
Ok, so next up is unpredictable AI. There are plenty of times where the AI will be a complete idiot one game, and completely ignore repairing extremely important bridges needed to cross a map, but other times where, nomatter how hard you tried, the AI would completely wreck your Tiger I that hasn't even been spotted on the map even once yet, with an ambush of about 5 panzerfausts out of literally nowhere. It's so obvious the AI always knows exactly where all of your units are, regardless of FoW. Also, AI would sometimes ignore bridges that were vital to crossing the map, and other times they'd repair completely useless bridges put in the game for purely aesthetic reasons. I mean, it's mostly probably due to custom map design, but still. Very annoying to see AI go for useless bridge instead of Ace Tiger II with like 30 tank kills, hundreds of inf kills, and in need of vital repairs ASAP.
Sometimes, if battles prolonged for too long, FPS would tend to drop a bit. Not alot but definitely noticable. This is probably due to alot of detail on maps alongside alot of new 'features' added like firing hundreds of artillery shells at one spot causing an FPS tank as you marched your little horde of infantry and tanks across it.

But all that said, these cons are really mostly just annoyances, and the vast majority of gameplay was fun and engaging. Even a little bit immersive at some points, playing alongside good friends in a co-op game. And those cons are really just things you should expect, though a little bit more prevalent due to the massive amounts of custom maps.

Audiosurf 2 is an excellent game. It's not very intensive on your computer, and is great for relaxing after playing competetive games. I mean, really, it's nice to listen to some music while riding around on a track specifically designed to be in tune with the music. Sometimes it's a little bit weird layout of tracks but it's not too bad. I'd reccommend getting this.

Wow. Great optimization. I have probably one of the worst computers ever and at times, I can actually run this game smoothly. Amazing.

I've barely played 30 minutes, and I've already found out that this mountain is epic.
It's a floating mountain in the middle of space that has an atmosphere, and can take on dwarf planets like a boss. Or, if you want it to, become a snowglobe. Heck, you can even play gramaphone music on there. Ontop of that, who DOESN'T want to be a mountian? This game is definantly unique and a one-of-a-kind.

I think that this game is awesome. It is very simple, and I understand that it could definantly do with alot of simple improvements, such as range of the cannon (which is suprisingly short), and perhaps some more military diversity (There is just 4 land army unit 'types' in the game) which are your horsemen, light infantry, Infantry, and cannons. Ships are just the same.

But this game is old, very old, made in 2005. Shouldn't be too suprising that some of these things are missing. And crashes, too, it's definantly not meant to run on modern computers. But it's still a good game, you don't have to be the world's smartest genius to win the game, and neither do you have to conquer the world with all-powerful military might. There is a score win system in the game, which I like after playing a game such as Empire: Total War where the only real way to win is to shoot everything that isn't you. I mean, Empire, not a bad game by any means, but I think it could have gone with some diversity when it comes to winning.

So, really, I think this is a good game and while it does have problems because of it's age, it's still a good, simple game, plenty of enjoyment out of it.

Awesome game about WWII. It may be old, but it has a heck of a lot of better mods than AS 2, and you can actually run it! It does crash sometimes, especially with some mods, but I rarely have such crashes myself.