Servers live until April 9th
RPS was on holiday yesterday, which is fortuitous timing because it was April 1st and it meant we missed all the “jokes” (lies) the games industry likes to spread on that day each year.
Credit to Arma developer’s Bohemia Interactive, however. Their April 1st announcement was that the latest update forArma Reforgerwas Tiny Wars, a game mode in which you controlled tiny toy Army Men as they waged war around a proportionally huge home. As ever, this isn’t really a joke, but it also wasn’t exactly a lie, because you can actually play Tiny Wars for real now.
Bohemia will host servers for the game mode until April 9th.
I am a stick-in-the-mud when it comes to April Fools' jokes, but I do like it any time a developer uses it as an excuse to genuinely make soemthing frivolous or a bit daft, as Bohemia have.
I’m also a huge fan of levels that make you feel very small as you fight among mundane bric-a-brac. I spent many, many hours playing various Rats maps - Turkey Burgers, et al - forQuake,Half-Life, Counter-Strike and so on. I am glad that the phenomena lives on in Arma of all places.
You can download Tiny Wars in-game, but you’ll find more screenshots and information about itvia its page on the Reforger site.
