Scouting the terrain for Arma 4
Arma Reforgeris the next game in the long-running military simulation series and will serve as an advance force forArma 4, Bohemia Interactive have revealed during their ‘Future Of Arma’ stream today. Most of the information Bohemia had to relay was leaked over the weekend onReddit, but it’s always good to get official confirmation of these things, amirite?
Today’s stream announced that Arma Reforger is available now in early access on Steam and is bringing the series to console for the first time through Game Preview on Xbox Series X/S. Arma 4iscoming, by the way, but Bohemia have yet to set a real date for when that will be, telling RPS that development is “ongoing”. They also describe Arma Reforger as a “work-in-progress”. In its just-released early access version, there are two multiplayer modes to battle in across the 164 square kilometres of map: team-versus-team in ‘Conflict’ and a scenario editor that operates in real-time called ‘Game Master’.
Today’s reveal does seem to be about sending Bohemia’s snazzy new-fangled engine down the catwalk more than anything else. Bohemia first let the world know that they were working ona new enginein December last year, and said they’d be using it for any future Arma games. It is a nifty-looking improvement over the Real Virtuality engine Arma’s been using ever since it used to beOperation: Flashpoint, and my desktop fainted every time I tried to run it. See for yourself in the trailer above.
Arma Reforger is out now in Early Access onSteam. Arma 4 will be out when it’s done.
