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[TheBronzePickle]

I figured this would matter enough to some people and was separate enough from ArmA 2 to warrant a thread of its own.

Link to Website

ArmA 3 is about to launch, sort of, as an alpha, available on Steam Tuesday (tomorrow, maybe today for some of the world). You have to pay into it, but there's a few options available, from 25 euros to join the alpha, beta, and to get the game when it's released plus 3 guest passes for the alpha, to 70 euros for that plus a whole lot of other goodies including getting all future DLC for free, a digital soundtrack, and every single game and DLC in the ArmA franchise so far.

As for some of the new features present in ArmA 3, I'll let Dslyecxi, founder of ShackTac, avid ArmA gamer, and worker for BIStudios, show the rest: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiLXDwsVlXg

Edit: A nice video by Dslyecxi detailing why ArmA 3 is something you should maybe be interested in: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcbQk5VXKNE

Edit 2: Now in Beta.

Edit 3: Now 'Out'.

[Ozyton]

On the 14th the people who pre-purchased the game will get alpha codes they can send to friends so they can try a 'lite' version of the game.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8vrbzNYEwM

EDIT: Just got around to watching this video. I'm liking just about everything it shows. The parallax sights just makes the icing on the cake =p

[Graknorke]

I am getting antsy because I am now on the 5th.
That means ARMA3 releases today.

[Cthulhu]

I'm interested but I'm also afraid.  Arma is big on graphics and I've never had a game this computer couldn't run.  I'm afraid of my computer's mortality.

[Ozyton]

I'm interested but I'm also afraid.  Arma is big on graphics and I've never had a game this computer couldn't run.  I'm afraid of my computer's mortality.

http://www.arma3.com/buy#requirements

The general idea is that if you can run ARMA 2, you can run ARMA 3 but better.
EDIT

OS   Windows Vista SP2
Windows 7 SP1
PROCESSOR   Intel Dual-Core 2.4 GHz
AMD Dual-Core Athlon 2.5 GHz
GRAPHICS   NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT
ATI Radeon HD 3830
Intel HD Graphics 4000
GPU MEMORY   512 MB
DirectX®   10
RAM   2 GB
HARD DRIVE   15 GB free space
HARD DRIVE (ALPHA)   10 GB free space
AUDIO   DirectX® compatible on-board
OTHER   Internet connection and free Steam account to activate

OS   Windows Vista SP2
Windows 7 SP1
PROCESSOR   Intel Core i5-2300
AMD Phenom II X4 940
GRAPHICS   Nvidia GeForce GTX 560
AMD Radeon HD 7750
GPU MEMORY   1 GB
DirectX®   11
RAM   4 GB
HARD DRIVE   25 GB free space
HARD DRIVE (ALPHA)   20 GB free space
AUDIO   DirectX® compatible soundcard
OTHER   Internet connection and free Steam account to activate

Speaking of that Steam thing, you won't be able to play this game if you do not have Steam, sorry. You can purchase it from other places such as the Bi store, but you can only play it thought Steam. Offline mode is supposedly going to be supported, but it will still be through steam. This is probably put some people off.

EDIT 2:

I am getting antsy because I am now on the 5th.
That means ARMA3 releases today.

Nifty countdown timer

[kg333]

On the "must have Steam" thing, from what I hear, the licensing works slightly differently if you buy through Steam, versus buying from BI and activating on Steam.  Apparently the later results in fees paid to Steam for retailing, while the latter only results in fees of distribution. 

If you'd like more of your money to go to Bohemia, buy from them instead.

KG

[TheBronzePickle]

Thanks for the heads-up. I'll probably buy direct from Bohemia, just to show the love.

I'm personally psyched about all the changes I see. Even at this stage, the game looks amazing like ArmA and ArmA 2 did when they came out and then some.

[Ozyton]

Final Dyslecxi video for today (almost spelled it right on the first try that time.)
http://youtu.be/yLIPW0oIvm8

Tuesday cannot come fast enough

[ScriptWolf]

Wow 10gb just for alpha.... It's going to take me forever to download T.T

[Tronak]

If anyone does have an spare alpha lite invite, think about me. I promise to spread it and/or even send it back. 

Btw, there are a couple of new threads in BI forums about giveaways and kindly asking for invites, here they are:

http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?147450-The-Official-Arma-3-Alpha-Giveaway-Thread! -> for giveaways
http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?147430-Looking-for-Arma-3-Free-Alpha-invites-Look-here! -> for asking for invites.

If somebody is looking for a lite invite thats a good place to check.

[Ozyton]

It's out! Or it would be if the store page wasn't down T_T

[hemmingjay]

Everyone rushing to be one of the 500 named in the credits?

[Ozyton]

http://www.pcgamer.com/previews/arma-3-preview-what-i-like-and-dislike-about-the-alpha/

It's available on steam now, but as mentioned before Bi won't get all your moneys... so I'm waaaiting for the Bi store to looaaddd >_>

[hemmingjay]

I bought 2 copies from BI but they only gave me 1 key so far, so I will have one to give away whenever their customer support catches up to what appears to be a tsunami of purchases. Also, obviously some alpha lite keys when those become available in 2 weeks or so.

[Ozyton]

http://es.twitch.tv/chkilroy

Have to go to work in an hour and store page hasn't loaded =<

EDIT: Almost got the game but it thought i wanted to pay in pounds, whaaaat