Completed ArmA 3.
At one point you’re just let loose on an island and asked to wreak havok, picking your insertion point and striking enemy bases.
NATO forces finally appear. They don’t know anything about any captain Miller, it seems.
I don’t know why “Air Superiority” mission gave me more grief, that all the other missions combined. The support APCs got stuck. My AT soldier wouldn’t attack enemy APC, so I had to literally shoot him to get the rocket launcher and blow it myself. Another soldier got stuck in a building, so I couldn’t “evacuate the team”. Had to go back and shoot the bastard. And on top of that, enemies were sniping me like never before.
“Preventive Diplomacy” is designed to be that cool mission, when you’re finally given a powerful antipersonel rifle, you can call in a chopper, you have an armed UAV and artillery support, and your task is to stop enemy counteroffencive. But nobody explains you how to use the antipersonel rifle: it doesn’t shoot where you want it to shoot at 300m, as marksman rifles do. Your chopper doesn’t do much and gets downed by a random jeep. Artillery is pretty random as well, and UAV shoots in the wrong direction half of the time, and is too hard to control. Luckily, not only your APC gets stuck. Most of the enemy APCs got stuck in buildings as well. A major disappointment: explosion that downs a building (yes, the engine supports that) does nothing to a jeep behind it.
Last mission, “Game Over”, could be good: you are again let loose on an island trying to evacuate. You roam gathering weapons, finding vehicles with some gas left, and there are a bunch of optional missions to help soldiers in trouble.
What could go wrong? There’s no “save” option. If you die, you die. In a mission where you literally have to travel kilometers alone, and in a game where you die from a single shot, that’s not a good idea. But that’s not all! At one point, you get a truck, and try to rescue a squad stuck in a swamp. What could go wrong? Mines. The swamp is mined.
In that mission, you need to know exactly what you’re doing. Went to the helipad. There’s no helicopter. Went to nearby port. There were no boats there. Found a gunboat along the coast.
Loaded in. There was no fuel.
Finally, found a Zodiac near the next port.
