From Early Access to Deluxe Drama: Reforgers Solid Steps or Stumbling Blocks? 

What's weird with Reforger is how the gunplay and movement seem more arcade'y (strafing and erratic movement like in DayZ shouldn't be a viable tactics in a gunfight) and yet vehicles and other mechanics are on the simulation side. Otherwise Reforger is very promising. The amount of work put into vehicles makes me really hopeful.

Love a good HazBo video. Personally, reforger disappointed me. I got it when it released and it felt to me like they're making modders pay for the SDK for Arma reforger and Arma 4 to get mods up and running to build the game we (the player base) want that is just never delivered on release from BI. I returned it. The modding scene is looking promising but to me it felt like a slap in the face to the modders we all love and to us long time players. Cold war gone hot game with no jets or tanks is also just pretty pitiful, especially a year on

Not sure why you had such a hard time deciding if this is a game or not. It's clearly a game. The workbench is worth the cost of entry alone! The deluxe edition was never advertised as a full game, but as more of a treat for early adopters - rather than to reel new people in. Free upgrade for people who already own it.

When the controllable ai comes out. I'll love it. Until then, it is not yet arma.

Thanks HazBo, this was a really interesting video. Here’s my rant on AR… I’ve been on Reforger since day 1. Before that I had built up over 3,000 hours on Arma 3. I had very low expectations of AR when it was released, but as someone who has loved the Operation Flashpoint / Arma series since 2001, I was more that happy to hand over $40 (Australian) to support BI in developing their new engine and bring us closer to Arma 4. I think it’s fair to say I was equally as underwhelmed as I was really impressed with AR. There are so many great things about AR and so many unbelievably frustrating and mind boggling things too with AR and some of the decisions BI seems to be making (like moving out of early access prematurely and the silly “deluxe” offering, which is so cringe!). But generally, I was surprised how playable AR actually was and all in all I’ve grown to love AR, especially the main Conflict PVP game mode which I think has awesome potential to be the best PVP CTI game mode of any of the Arma series. I found it so engrossing that 18 months later, I’ve got 1000 hours in AR and I’ve not gone back to A3 at all. The AR environment is so immersive and intuitive, it’s great. AR may be less than 1% of A3, but it does that 1% so much better, for example, driving vehicles is so good, it’s actually fun compared to A3. I think BI have gotten a lot of unfair criticism about AR. I agree with everyone else about the disappointments, but the truth is, as usual, BI are trying to push the limits of what they can do. They’ve always been ambitious and sometimes this brings them undone. The first months of AR were pretty disastrous and BI had to learn some hard lessons. It took BI over a year to finally get AR to a somewhat decent state, but as usual, it’s been a 2 steps forwards, 1 step backwards kind of progress. But one thing BI definitely got 100% right was to release AR as a stand alone title between A3 and A4. Could you imagine the total disaster it would’ve been had they just gone straight to A4?! We have to remember that BI are not just working on AR but have also put huge investment into developing the new Enfusion engine and the Workbench tools for modding too, which has made modding so much easier and way more accessible. So for me, for anyone who loves Arma and wants to see Arma 4 they should support BI and get AR, and contribute to the effort to get us there. Eventually when everyone is getting into A4, they’ll have those of us who stuck with and supported BI through AR to thank. Nothing that is truly great and ground breaking comes easy. To quote a once great man: “Don’t ask what Arma can do for you, ask what you can do for Arma!”

I refunded my purchase of Reforger. I get a so much better experience from modded Arma 3 compared to what Reforger currently brings. The nail in the coffin for me and my friends was the performance, since the new engine's main focus was supposed to be performance improvements yet I run Arma 3 at 140 FPS while Reforger barely gets 70. Yes, Reforger has more stable FPS so it doesn't fluctuate as much but Reforger is such barebones right now compared to A3's content and still gets worst performance than Arma 3 even without proper Ai driving, far smaller maps compared to A3 and so many less assets and even on that barebones state it cannot outperform the super unoptimized Arma 3! It is incredible to be honest.

if they include 3D editor its an instant buy for me

Just waiting for ARMA 4....seriously already....do it.

It better come with an NR6 Hetman style artificial commander built into it that takes advantage of multicore CPUs

BEST GAME YET!!!

Queremos o DayZ nessa Enfusion.

Reforger just is not Arma and nothing like it.. if that is the future I'm worried

No built-in weapon vs wall collision check???

@HazBo do you have a discord? Would like to chat to you about arma 3 cinematics if you up for it :)