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I've heard a lot about arma reforger, I've seen a bunch of videos, and it looks amazingly fun and sick af. I would love to chill for hours gearing up and pretending to be a soldier only to inevitably be sniped before aiming my gun over and over again.

The only problem is that I'm 17 and my parents aren't too big a fan of violent games; they would probably not let me buy or play this. I could wait a year and change until I'm in college, but that's a crazy long time, and right now, I can't enjoy any other game; all I can think about is how fun it would be to play arma.

Edit: I have the money, I pay for my own games, but they have the authority to tell us to get off the computer, and my mom often comes into the room to chat or whatever, and she especially would not be happy about me playing it.

help

I like to play as a medic for time to time, supplying the assault groups at freshly liberated objectives. Most of the time i get shot at or destroyed completely, fine by me. Sometimes im the guy doing ambushes but I generally hold my fire when encountering medical vehicles.

How about you?

Between dismal quality assurance (QA), half-baked features, unneeded or unrequested overhauls to ingame mechanics, and a general slowness in responding to feedback and emerging problems, it seems as though something is up with the team behind Reforger. Does anyone have any idea or insight as to what is going on?

After having my doubts about 1.6, I’ve come around to HQC as a good game mechanic for factional cohesion.

BUT! I still get the “I only have an hour to shoot some fools!” need from earlier versions of Arma Reforger. Here’s a proposal! Why not let some players play as FIA or insurgents to add a deeper wild-card element to Conflict while allowing MilSim-minded players to take advantage of the combined-arms

GAME ASSETS: There’s a deep selection of factional gear that just sit inert after the FIA is squelched in the first part of a match. All those cool Czech guns rotting in the grass. It’s a tragedy!

GAME MECHANICS: The roles and supply constraints of 1.6 act as a prohibition against how a lot of players like to play Arma Reforger. People should be rewarded by their instincts and talents in a game and not punished (even if it’s a “MilSim” ha ha). No matter the constraints: that type of player isn’t going to: get on a radio, find their squad, think strategically, act tactically no matter what. They may: not have a mic, not have the time, not care, not know the language of other players, etc.

HONEY VS. VINEGAR: It would be better to give those “lone wolves” a game-inside-a-game to play in. It gives the FIA and insurgent elements the unpredictability of human players vs. AI impediments.

I was thinking about this earlier while discussing the cool Czech elements in the game but it makes sense (to me at least) on how to resolve the range of players attracted to the game.

Now about all the freezing and server crashes and game kicks … <sigh />

where possible, build living quarters before armoury.

in the perfect world you wouldn’t have to be a sargent to build the living quarters (especially considering most people play pvp with no ai so the rank locked is kinda meaningless) but we have to play with the cards we’ve been dealt.

also, after many many hours, this is my understanding how the supply regen works:

all bases start with 500 meter radio range without a relay/antenna, then with the relay your range is increased to 2km radius.

if you see the +5 next to a base in the map it means its in range of 5 bases and regenning 5 supplies per interval (i believe every 10 seconds).

the standard bases (non purple) can regen a max of +5

the purple bases start with +10 regen baseline and then however many standard bases are also connected.

all bases will regen up to 1500 supplies, if you want to store more you have to lodgi them in.

the purples do spawn with a reserve of say 7000 or so.

confusing yes but after many moons playing this is how i understand it.

happy hunting and dont forget to build ya living quarters 🫡

I'm not saying silly mods don't have a place, I like to spruce up my character from time to time with a bit of colour.

Do you think it takes away from the Mil-Sim vibe a bit or just encourages a bit more creativity?

Ngl, I actually do like the Hello Kitty mags, adds a bit of girly sparkle to a otherwise male dominated game and I approve. (Not having a dig at men btw).

Seriously we spent nearly 30 minutes if not longer taking points and had 0 contact. They literally took maybe 2 points to the NW more than what's shown. What the hell are you guys actually doing on that team?

Im not sure about the Red dot and colimator skopes, cause they were not all that popular in USSR in late 80-s, but im sure about existence of PSO-1 variant for the AK mounts. Also, having an expensive and rare NV scope for Ak would make night battles more intense. Also, not including the AKM/AKMS, SKS into the game is diabolical, those weapons were as popular as AK-74 in the soviet army.

Also, soviets lacking in lighter machinegun which is RPD.

There was some speculation about Arma 4 and if it will be Cold War, continuing the 2030's storyline, or something different. I was under the impression that everything that BI has shown us points towards a Cold War theme and I felt it was obvious that Reforger is basically the 0.7 of Arma 4. I thought its also obvious that BI is gonna sell us a AAA game with the number 4 tacked on it, while we already have a huge part, if not most of the assets on our computers in the Reforger folder.

I noticed that the Reforger FAQ says this, under Connection to Arma 4:

As the first foray into the capabilities of the Enfusion Engine, Arma Reforger is a standalone game in its own right. However, many of the environmental systems, assets, historical context, and modding tools and features from Arma Reforger will be redeployed for the next Arma installment, alongside a slew of extra content. Arma 4 however, will be released as an independent title and will build on all the lessons learned from Arma Reforger.

I could swear that hasnt been there for that long. Maybe it was stealth changed, kinda like the promise of Steam Workshop support was removed?

Anyways, no need to speculate anymore.

Edit:

First of all, SgtMax and some other person pointed out that there was a job listing for a dev that will be creating descriptions for 80's military gear. link. This is further proof for some of you who still cling on to the idea that the quote that obviously proves the Cold War era continuing in A4 isnt obvious enough. I had completely forgot about this, its very solid as evidence.

Secondly, the devs use the term historical context. Historical context refers to how the things happening, existing, influencing other things at a certain point in time affects the people living in that time, or books, studies written in that time. For example Operation Flashpoint was released in 2001, but the historical context of OFP isnt just the early 2000s, but the era of Soviet Union and after it - the devs said back then how living in Soviet Union affected them and the way they depicted it and the world in the game.

Historical context is referred to as something that exists in Reforger and it will be taken from Reforger and redeployed along with assets, environmental systems etc. To me it was obvious, that the devs referred to what could be simplified/corrected to be historical setting. The other option is that they are referring to the historical context of the character we play as, which would basically mean the same thing if we think of the context of the paragraph its mentioned in.

Lastly: Yes, I am pessimistic about Arma 4, but thats not because the devs redeploy the Cold War theme and assets from Reforger. Im pessimistic for entirely different things, including prioritizing consoles in dev't, console hardware limits affecting the dev't, console player behavior and customs affecting the systems we get, etc. Im completely fine with the "news" A4 is Cold War. I am not fine with buying same assets twice for a premium price, which is sth I have said several times here. Time will tell if A4 has enough new assets, systems, environments, to warrant the AAA price it will be sold with.

I suspect it wont, but thats my theory, my speculation, and while its based on long experience with BI and in the industry, its still just a theory. Why I suspect A4 will be 70% Reforger assets: because OFP, Arma, Arma 2, Arma 3 launched with a number of assets thats close to what that 100% would be, if we dont count variants. We have 2 of the 4 OFP maps, for example. On top of that the devs are creating fresh assets this time, instead of recycling OFP, A2, A3 assets. These assets are high quality and take time to make. A4 is supposed to release next year. Everything points towards my theory being true and Im yet to see anyone argue otherwise. That doesnt mean its sth else than a theory, obviously.

Arma Reforger has had its weakest 30 days of 2025 in terms of both average players and peak players. Generally, a major update for a game sees a spike in players, not a decline. This is just for Steam as well, and does not take into account the decline of playerbase on console. (Mainly Xbox due to performance issues.)

1.6 Update is failing to draw in new players or even sustain the current playerbase. The update has been criticized and the criticism is reflecting in player count.

I hope improvements to this update can revitalize the playerbase.

Can't wait!!

I have about 120 hours on the game so I consider myself somewhat experienced. I expect to get some hate for this but there is no reason to get angry at these NEW players for using a lot of the supplies. There is a high likelihood that you were just like them when you started. Instead of yelling over the platoon channel, let them hitch a ride in your car and TEACH them the game. Remember that arma is a very intuitive milsim, the tutorial doesn’t teach enough. It’s hard for a new player to know what to do and what not to do if all you do is yell.

Be happy that the game a growing and be patient with the new players

A few days ago I logged into NA1 (sorry if I out the server here but I think they should know) and played as normal.

A bit into the game a girl asks a question. Now I understand that for some it is unusual that you see or hear a girl playing a game like Arma, even I just lifted an eyebrow when I heard and instantly after thought that it was kinda cool that Arma is becoming bigger. But I didn't type or say something at first.

Honestly I didn't have time to answer anything because so many reacted over the radio with "is that a girl?!". You could hear how defeated she was on her voice answering "yeah.." to getting that question rather than to treat her as a normal person and just answer her question. And comments "I just want to learn and play the game"

Then the misogyny started. Not from one or two but like 5+ other guys. Guys who allegedly said they were 23+. No admin told them to stop other than they were told to keep the radio game related. No vote or kick from admin for very inappropriate behavior. In the end I typed in the chat answering her question, like a normal person should've.

So instead of helping her and making her feel welcome people did the opposite which really baffled me because every time I asked a question, even stupid ones, I was always got good bros helping me out. The occasional idiot, but only like 1 oit of 10 times. But as soon as it was a girl she got jumped by a load of guys.

This is just bad manners and sad to see, people just start being more polite and treat them like you would any other player and be good bros too them so they feel welcome, not in a flirty way, only friendly. Welcome them to ask group doing some missions and have fun. Don't behave like Neanderthals just beacuse you hear a womens voice over the Radio

Seen this meme floating around different game spaces, do you think this can be applied to Reforger in any capacity?

Saw a post earlier where someone was confused how they got spotted at night.

I took a screenshot with the nvidia game filter on vs off in the same frame moments apart and edited them together.

You can clearly see people even hundreds of meters out, there needs to be a better solution for darkness that isn't so easily bypassed by software that comes with your gpu drivers or people will abuse it. The devs of tarkov were able to turn off support for the game filters so it would be nice for this to be implemented here too.

All other post about the server issues BI is experiencing will be removed.

Bohemia Interactive has been experiencing DDoS attacks over the past few days.