Here's the dev team's dramatic vision of the mod: Along with fixing things up, their future plans include adding more factions and, gosh oh gosh, possibly horses. 'There will be lots of bugs and incomplete things,' developers Decades of Development warn. No trench foot.Īs one might expect from the first alpha of an Arma mod, it's neither finished nor polished yet. It brings World War I to Arma 2, with biplanes, armoured cars, artillery, bolt-action rifles, trenches and whatnot. This calls for Arma!Īrma 2: Combined Operations mod Over The Top released its first alpha version earlier this month for your downloading delight.
No, you want something that's wonky and often a bit unpleasant but ultimately dreams hard enough that it sweeps you up. With long waits, shelling, disease, gas attacks, unwieldy guns, and marching futilely towards your death, it's a mite more difficult to glamorise and turn into an exciting rollercoaster. While we've seen oodles of FPSs set in World War II, the Great War has been less popular with developers.
