You’ll spend much of your time moving from place to place, and comparatively little shooting at other players. More importantly, Arma is significantly slower paced than most FPS’s released today. Every shot creates significant recoil, and you’ll find yourself aiming at the sky pretty quick if you can’t control your trigger finger. If you’re used to being able to go full auto at most distances and succeed, you’ll be in for a surprise when you jump into Arma. The focus is on large maps, limited player counts (the average max is about 50), and realistic weapon handling. It doesn’t matter if you come from Battlefield, Call of Duty, Crysis, Halo, Team Fortress 2,, you’ll find Arma 3 to be a very different beast.
I’ve spent a fair bit of time in-game, especially the Wasteland mod pulled from Arma 2, and I’ve got a few strategies for new players, regardless of their history in the shooter genre. The Arma 3 Alpha’s out on Steam, and while it’s buggy, slowly filling with hackers, and poorly optimized, it remains one of the most satisfying games in this, the spring game release doldrums.
