06-26-2015, 01:35 PM
I have trouble recalling what happened last week but this is what I can remember about my introduction to ArmA. I was quite a latecomer to ArmA, only starting with ArmA2/OA.
I moved into my current flat in 1999 and I know I had broadband. I can't even recall what PC I had then but I know most of my gaming time was spent round my friend's place playing games like Rival Schools and Worms on his PS1.
A few years later another friend got Operation Flashpoint and always used to rave about how amazing it was but I tried it a couple of times and just found it frustrating how hard it was to shoot anyone and couldn't see what was so great about it.
I think a few years (and probably a couple of PCs) later I got ArmA2 Free which allowed me to try out the multiplayer and that's probably what got me hooked. I can't recall what kind of missions/servers were available for it, certainly not as much as there was for the full version but it was enough to let me see how much fun it was playing missions with other people rather than AI, so I soon got ArmA2/OA. I collected a large number of interesting sounding SP missions (and mods) for it but never got round to trying most of them and mostly only played the campaigns before I got more into MP.
I spent about a year playing PVP with United Operations, which was quite fun as there was about 40 players which allowed for some large-scale missions but they took about an hour in the briefing and that soon became rather boring when I was likely to die quite early on in the mission!
Eventually, like many of us, I heard about CiA from one of Variable's posts on the BIS forums and once I experienced the joys of Co-Op I never looked back.
I met my old Operation Flashpoint playing friend again a couple of years ago and now we both had a love of ArmA in common and were able to enthuse about it at length, much to the bemusement of our other friends. I believe he still plays with and helps admin an large online clan, whose name escapes me at the moment. We still haven't played together online as of yet but maybe we'll meet online one day.
I moved into my current flat in 1999 and I know I had broadband. I can't even recall what PC I had then but I know most of my gaming time was spent round my friend's place playing games like Rival Schools and Worms on his PS1.
A few years later another friend got Operation Flashpoint and always used to rave about how amazing it was but I tried it a couple of times and just found it frustrating how hard it was to shoot anyone and couldn't see what was so great about it.
I think a few years (and probably a couple of PCs) later I got ArmA2 Free which allowed me to try out the multiplayer and that's probably what got me hooked. I can't recall what kind of missions/servers were available for it, certainly not as much as there was for the full version but it was enough to let me see how much fun it was playing missions with other people rather than AI, so I soon got ArmA2/OA. I collected a large number of interesting sounding SP missions (and mods) for it but never got round to trying most of them and mostly only played the campaigns before I got more into MP.
I spent about a year playing PVP with United Operations, which was quite fun as there was about 40 players which allowed for some large-scale missions but they took about an hour in the briefing and that soon became rather boring when I was likely to die quite early on in the mission!
Eventually, like many of us, I heard about CiA from one of Variable's posts on the BIS forums and once I experienced the joys of Co-Op I never looked back.
I met my old Operation Flashpoint playing friend again a couple of years ago and now we both had a love of ArmA in common and were able to enthuse about it at length, much to the bemusement of our other friends. I believe he still plays with and helps admin an large online clan, whose name escapes me at the moment. We still haven't played together online as of yet but maybe we'll meet online one day.