First off, thank you for your service. Second, You need to watch Arma3 vids of actual players. Theres a lot of military guys that play and even non military guys that know a bunch of tactics. This vid is just the games AI. It can be "modded" to be more realistic, but it still has limitations.
Well, the AI is still better than the people playing that mission (if there is ?). The AI is taking cover, retreating, taking flanks... The Players are standing still in the middle of the road, reload while being exposed, cross friendly fire lines, shoot in full auto like rambo on invisible targets, doesnt take advantages of their logistics etc... On that particular video : AI > Player
This is all AI, this is cinematic video only. These are not actual players, except the guy making the vide occasionally playing character to get POV footage.
@@texmechs4961 ahhh okay thanks for the infos. Well yea, I bet with players it would be more intense and interesting to watch. But I kinda understand his choice, hard to regroup 20 people for a video while keeping it your way.
@@touhouplay3293 Some of the marines are being replayed by actions done before. Meaning that the mission creator had controlled them individually then pasted that data into the mission to make them look like players.
i love playing arma, it's a lot of fun, although the people that make these little animation shorts using the ai are really really awesome at editing, as arma's ai can be quite funky and clunky to use for things like this. Although the stuff you can do with arma is incredible, one of these days im going to have to learn how to do these fancy cinematics.
@@Landmine221 If we're talking about for fun ARMA, I think he would enjoy more of Rimmy - Downuder Gaming's stuff. While Womble and CO are all about dicking around, Rimmy's crew are more about roleplay.
I’m loving these reactions! Could you possibly react to OperatorDrewski’s “ARMED CONVOY AMBUSH! - Arma 3” it’s so well made that even the people in the comment section are amazed by how realistic the game could be as the people who took their part in this communicated as if they were conducting a real life patrol/ scenario. I’m no military expert so I don’t know what squads say so you be the judge of that but anyways keep up the good work 🇺🇸
Thanks for the review mate. I love the Arma series and its mods, you learn real quick you aren't an overpowered superhero like in other games, no shrugging off AK rounds with a medkit, you're dead or likely soon to be. The editor allows you to place squads and vehicles in custom scenarios and it's that tactical sandbox replayability that elevates it for me.
Arma realism comes down to the players, I've played in some highly organised groups with some guys that have real combat experience, those were some fun games, you don't see silly tactics in those groups! Another good vid, cheers.
@ i can shoot down an orc chopper using an ATAT playing as a halo spartan its not a serious simulation its not even remotely realistic its just a video game
Man we had to look everywhere for IEDS over there they are so fast at placing them if as fast we take them down would be up the next day on the same roads.
Looks like your viewers recommended Arma without actually explaining what it is, so I'll see if I can shed some light here. While it does provide pre-built scenarios out of the box, Arma is best used as a sandbox to make or participate in whatever military-related content you want. This creator, for example, is using it as a filmmaking tool. He probably has a lot of things in this scenario actually working against the game's programming to make it look more cinematic. It's hard to tell from all the cuts, or how many takes this was stitched together from, but I know the NPCs for sure would've dismounted their infantry and opened up on that poorly concealed ambush if it weren't for technical trickery in the scenario or editing magic after the fact. That's not to say the NPCs aren't incredibly janky sometimes. They're quick to abandon vehicles, they prioritize bounding overwatch over cover and concealment, and they struggle to coordinate between elements. There are some people who modify the game's core code to try and make it more realistic, but some things can only go so far with the current technology it's built on. My favorite way to play is with lots of these modifications and a platoon or more of other people doing our best to use real tactics to make it through community created scenarios. If you want to check this out here on UA-cam, I recommend "Arma 3 - Captain On Deck - ShackTac" by Dslyecxi
An ArmA 3 Experience is always dependent on the people you play with. Like my ArmA 3 MILSIM Team stresses heavily on realism, to include amount of gear, spacing, muzzle awareness, ROE, etc.
Hey man you should watch some escape from tarkov or even try the game yourself! It's a hardcore military shooter and you could say that it's quite a simulator for close-quarter fights
A good number of vehicles had regularly to be returned from OEF in Afganistan. But as far as I recall, a devastated MaxxPro (introduced around 2007/2008) back due to an IED or hitting a mine when in Afghanistan as shown in the video (burned out and losing its legs) was not part of it (maybe other have seen that I don't know). As far as I remember though that happened to number of Humvees. The MaxxPro's that had to be sent back were mostly damaged beyond repair due to reckless or incompetent driving (& panick driving), given the high point of gravity they have. When they hit a mine, of course they needed repair and parts replacement but the mechanics on base where able to handle as much.
A lot of arma military realism units use arma for various things. It can be pretty authentic, it's a popular game among many veterans. Since you can make missions as you want them, and combine ground, air, and sea assets the possibilites are endless. There's also a realistic radio mod called "Acre" that makes it so you have to use the right radio channels etc to communicate as well.
Loved the vid and the regular uploads but I didn't get notified about this coming out even though I have the notifications on :/ either way awesome job I hope the channel grows heaps! Double face cam is cool too!
Pedal to the metal, drive right through, call in air support, set up a defensive line out of range of the point of contact, and wait....better to defend a position than attack a position.
I used to do real well on the old Operation Flashpoint earlier version of these games. They were really fun to play. I do have a copy of Arma Gold, and Arma 2.
An interesting note on the spacing of the convoy. Arma 3's engine is notoriously terrible when handling convoys so the vehicles will be close together. Sometimes a group of vehicles will not even follow the road together; some will go, some will stay where they are even when a move command is given to all of them. Regardless, this is the game that is the most realistic military shooter, and the company even used the game to make a military training simulator.
Alright I'm going to say my piece on this. Its just my personal opinion and is based on ~1600 hours playing ArmA 3 and being a member of an ArmA 3 milsim unit!!! First of, everything Jamesons mentioned is absolutely right and makes sense. Really enjoyed watching this video. From the combatants movements, to the convoy having the two better armored vehicles in the front instead of splitting it up (one front one rear), to having air support called in and to how the US troops AI reacted which is not realistic nor professional. In addition, it doesn't make sense for a convoy to go through a town at the same speed going through just a normal road. Lead vic being in a slower version of that town entry, could've had time to spot the IED on the road (which is visible by the way, like so obvious if that would've been a real player driving front vic). Second, watching the original video posted by "TAMGA STUDIO on 24 Sep 2019" shows a better version of infantry movement and utilizing vic -2 for cover while moving. But that also could've been improved and worked on. Third, this is "Takistan" so even if the mission maker (aka ZEUS) wanted this to be perfect, he would've needed at least couple guys helping with each AI stance or movement (time consuming thing to do I might add). Same thing goes for CAS and gun runs on the enemy combatants. Fourth, AI in ArmA is always something that's considered funky. The only way to make this "convoy ambush" look more realistic is to use actual players on both sides. And since its "Takistan", it would've been almost near impossible for 40+ players to be part of this mission scenario and bunched up in that town without having major "frame drops" which would make everything slow and look less realistic/professional. Fifth, stating that frames on this map are almost non existing (if your an ArmA player reading this you'll understand how ArmA works) so I think, that the mission maker of this "convoy ambush" did a damn nice and interesting scenario of a "convoy ambush" with nice camera movement while spectating everything going down. It could've been improved on by adding CAS and better AI movement but again, it would've needed more ZEUS 's helping and controlling some aspects of the mission. But, for the purpose of a cinematic, combat and hectic engagement of a "convoy ambush", I think the video was SPOT ON!!! Finally, I'd like to state again that this is my personal opinion and it does not represent my unit's point of view. However, if anybody is interested in knowing more about the 77th JSOC, you can google for the unit's forum to check out the unit and its members.
That's an Old Arma 2 map, played on it many an hour, trying to take or hold that town. A lot of bots used here, real players are more sneaky and take cover. Nice video.
This game is a sandbox so air support could be called in but only if whoever designed the scenario decided to put it in. There's some issues with the AI as well, with the spacing issue at the beginning I believe they are actually keeping proper spacing but the problem is they are made up of several different groups and the AI only knows how to keep distance from their own group so they could be walking shoulder to shoulder with someone else and not see a problem. The big movements when dying are a problem with the physics simulation, I don't know exactly how it works but the bodies go from being held up to being limp and I guess somewhere there there's something which pushes them out and up. A lot of the time they just drop down when they die however. With arma being a sandbox there are various degrees of realism. If you were to look at a milsim unit their actions make a lot more sense than some people just casually playing the game or someone just trying to get shots that look nice for a video.
Great video. I've seen this game put on a pretty high pedestal by people who look for "realistic" games (not sure how a game could ever be called "realistic" though!) and it's good to see someone who knows what real is breaking it down. I'd have never thought of the formation of the convoy as being a mistake but when you break it down like that, it makes perfect sense, and yes, why wouldn't they be using those vehicle mounted .50's? The Taliban reinforcements came in all guns blazing with theirs on the back of that pickup straight away! For more gaming stuff, some of the Battlefield 3 and Battlefield 4 single player missions are incredibly cinematic and may be worth checking out just for the spectacle even if you don't end up doing a video on them.
James I love all your military videos etc I served in the Irish defence forces myself I started out in an infamous infantry unit called the 3rd infantry battalion aka (THE BLOODS) we had A company and b company also known as support company I worked about 10 year in that unit and then went on to become a medic in the medical core working in a military hospital for another 12 year I notice you don't have much to say on the army ranger wing aka rangers they won best international sniper team in 2018 over in America against very well oiled sf snipers from all over the world man
2:40 i thought it was standard for the MRAP to lead because it can take a lot of punishment. Unless it's an up armored humvee, but i doubt those are common, are they?
Personally I feel for this game to be admire you would have to watch a milsim (military simulation) game play of ARMA 3. This video does not show the real ability and tactics behind this game. Yes this looks cool but in the end doesn't do the game justice. I would say watch a Milsim video or 2 and just see. Then maybe do a review of how well people exacute certain tactics and how the game plays. ARMA is a very buggy game that's why death animation looks weird (because there is none) it's just weird ragdoll physics. So yeah I loved this video but please do a commentary on a propper MilSim video if you find time. Thanks.
Agreed, there is a lot more that can be done with Arma 3 and good milsims with actual utilization of military tactics and realism does work extraordinarily well. This video didn’t do any justice
I would absolutely love to play A3 with you :D. I might not be in the US-Part of military simulation, but I can imagine that a Unit having a guy like you would set standards for the US-Simulators.
If you are interested in more arma 3 gameplay with less cinematics I would recommended jester814 if I remember correctly some of the guys in his group are veterans and they teach all other guys proper radio procedures etc
Yea a lot of his guys are prior military, like myself (USMC). I have been a part of his unit for a few years. at the start they make us go through the basic army OSUT course (or similar as to what arma allows us to do)
most likely the reason there was no air support is because in Arma 3 flying is actually difficult because they tried to make it realistic, so pilots that are good at attacking are few and far between. meaning these people probably didnt have one available when they were doing this.
Arma 3 can actually be very realistic if you mod it. The base game has limitations but with only a few mods now as a medic you must measure bpm, bp, airway intake, blood types, medicine, overdoses, broken bones, different types of wounds and so fourth.
I’m a big dcs world player flight sim got currently 4200 hrs and arma 3 is my next with 1200 hrs arma 3 just released through mods a new Vietnam campaign series for free and it is some of the most intense unforgiving milsim.
RIP his right ear haha Nice review, I personaly play Mislim Arma and the most common issue I see when I play with my friends, is that they complain about diying too quickly... when I go on to rescue them... 90% of the time they are in an open area while having at least 3-4 good covers around them... People out there, for friends sake... when you are engaged... 1 - Take cover 2 - Spot ALL the dangers, dont be in an tunnel vision setup 3 - Engage... So we dont have to hear your : F... GAME ! That's not even funny to play ! You get instant kill ! The AI are too strong !!! WTF !!! I was lying down !!! Dude... the AI take covers... you don't... guess what happen next Thats what that guy mainly noticed, too many troops in the open field while having thousands way to cover and keep safe while engaging targets. Reloading standing still in the middle of the road while being ingaged by 30 tango ? Really ? Why not running naked ? at least you'd be running... maybe more chances to stay alive hahaha
Ive seen worse convoy set ups in arma 3, one convoy decided too put the truck we needed too protect on the front of the conoy, i was in a heli looking at wtf they were doing, the mission failed pretty quickly
i play arma alot, have about 1000 hours, although our group leader has about 7000hrs (he's been playing for years) The game itself has some bugs in the way the AI work, so they do strange things sometimes. ArmA itself has a huge modding community for gear vehicles units etc and has a variant called VBS which many militaries around the world use for some training situations. Its most dynamic and fun, also extremely challenging sometimes when playing with a group of about 10-30 other players, usually someone in the group makes a mission every few days, which are usually all of the three fun, dynamic and challenging. The most recent VBS4, includes a module that 3D maps anywhere on the planet to a degree, so you can plan for any scenario you can think of, in any region of the world. But its expensive
I’m sure you already know that the front vehicle is an MRAP so putting the Humvee at the front could expose it to IEDs if they were expecting mines. Obviously the MRAP didn’t do its job but the point still stands.
Great video always like to see professionals react to these thing but i also think that the screen with the gameplay should be larger but again great video
The best thing about ArmA is its modability and the scenario editor, where you can set up any scenario you want. Unfortunately, the AI sucks, so usually it's the multiplayer battles that are realistic.
ARMA 3 is sold as a Mil Sim. My opinion is it is one of the best out there. The gear is outstanding and quite realistic. What generally ruins it is civvies play it......Lol, turning it back into a "cheesy" shoot em up.... They are all AI's in this clip, sadly i have seen "human" players that are FAR WORSE... Aircraft are in game for players to fly, Choppers AND Zoomies.... Guns, snake and nape are all doable. there are also mortars avail ingame.... I had the pleasure of playing this game, for over 1k hours with a bunch of young guy's that tuned out to be young U.S. Marines on deployment, playing in there downtime. THEY made this game realistic for me. They were sharp and well sorted marines and we won EVERY encounter we had... It was utterly pure joy for me... Took me back to my younger days. BTW 6534 hrs on record... I played ARMA 2 as well... Lol
I love me some Arma 3! Over 3500 hours logged in cooperative milsim operations (MSO's). Please check out some multuplayer versions of this! It is much more realistic
I love the double face cam
tried it a few times. did not know what people thought. an older one i did.
@@JamesonsTravels you should react to the mission whisky hotel from call of duty modern warfare 2
Sometimes its good. Sonetimes *you* should be the thumbnail size - when the video is hard to see. (Size wise).
@James F Gulf City ikr lol
I just noticed it my blind ass
First off, thank you for your service.
Second, You need to watch Arma3 vids of actual players. Theres a lot of military guys that play and even non military guys that know a bunch of tactics. This vid is just the games AI. It can be "modded" to be more realistic, but it still has limitations.
Well, the AI is still better than the people playing that mission (if there is ?).
The AI is taking cover, retreating, taking flanks...
The Players are standing still in the middle of the road, reload while being exposed, cross friendly fire lines, shoot in full auto like rambo on invisible targets, doesnt take advantages of their logistics etc...
On that particular video : AI > Player
@@touhouplay3293 It's all AI
This is all AI, this is cinematic video only. These are not actual players, except the guy making the vide occasionally playing character to get POV footage.
@@texmechs4961 ahhh okay thanks for the infos. Well yea, I bet with players it would be more intense and interesting to watch. But I kinda understand his choice, hard to regroup 20 people for a video while keeping it your way.
@@touhouplay3293 Some of the marines are being replayed by actions done before. Meaning that the mission creator had controlled them individually then pasted that data into the mission to make them look like players.
i love playing arma, it's a lot of fun, although the people that make these little animation shorts using the ai are really really awesome at editing, as arma's ai can be quite funky and clunky to use for things like this. Although the stuff you can do with arma is incredible, one of these days im going to have to learn how to do these fancy cinematics.
Yeah I agree
@@JamesonsTravels I recommend reacting to "arma bullshittery" by soviet womble. you'll get a nice chuckle.
@john m yea, i usually binge vids/ wiki stuff for mission making, i like to have fancy things
@@Landmine221 If we're talking about for fun ARMA, I think he would enjoy more of Rimmy - Downuder Gaming's stuff. While Womble and CO are all about dicking around, Rimmy's crew are more about roleplay.
@@UnknownDream92 both are funny as hell though
Good too see a veteran actually take a look at these type of games👍
Most just scoff at us, but a few see this and judge it fairly.
To be fair there are many in the arma community that are actually veterans as well.
@@Lithane97 Yeah, they're like den mothers, watching the group of kids and making sure no on gets hurt. Friendly folk, usually.
Just recently found your page and have binge watching. Thanks for the content and thank you for your service sir.
thanks brother.
If i remember correctly, the company that made this game also makes simulations for the military.
Correct. BISim, a sub-company of BI, are the devs of VBS.
I seccond, used by some friends in the Army
Yes
That's amazing. I must look into arma on steam.
yeah Bohemia Interactive based in the Czeck Republic, they're really good for such a small studio
I’m loving these reactions! Could you possibly react to OperatorDrewski’s “ARMED CONVOY AMBUSH! - Arma 3” it’s so well made that even the people in the comment section are amazed by how realistic the game could be as the people who took their part in this communicated as if they were conducting a real life patrol/ scenario. I’m no military expert so I don’t know what squads say so you be the judge of that but anyways keep up the good work 🇺🇸
Yes would love to see him react to that
@Jamesons Travels
Hell yeah please
Thanks for the review mate. I love the Arma series and its mods, you learn real quick you aren't an overpowered superhero like in other games, no shrugging off AK rounds with a medkit, you're dead or likely soon to be. The editor allows you to place squads and vehicles in custom scenarios and it's that tactical sandbox replayability that elevates it for me.
Hahah nice too see man keep up the good work cause in arma Geneva convention is the Geneva suggestion
I'll check it out
Jamesons Travels what sabatons Bismarck? cause his comment of mine was a joke.
Happy independence day!!! Thank you for your service i absolutely love your channel my favorite on UA-cam!! You 🎸
This channel is awesome, oh and happy Independence day to any and all Americans!
Arma realism comes down to the players, I've played in some highly organised groups with some guys that have real combat experience, those were some fun games, you don't see silly tactics in those groups! Another good vid, cheers.
at the end of the day its a video game and a lot of cunts out there are way too serious about a video game and it comes off as cringy
@@indeed8211 not really lmao
@ i can shoot down an orc chopper using an ATAT playing as a halo spartan
its not a serious simulation its not even remotely realistic its just a video game
What's your opinion on Dslyexci's ARMA videos?
@@AlexSDU Yeah good vids, the ShackTac guys do it right, perfect for when you want to nerd out with a fat war-boner.
Man we had to look everywhere for IEDS over there they are so fast at placing them if as fast we take them down would be up the next day on the same roads.
In game, it's a few seconds animation, which I guess is kinda realistic.
As someone who loves Arma 3 to death, you really went ham on the AI in the video. You have earned my respect.
Looks like your viewers recommended Arma without actually explaining what it is, so I'll see if I can shed some light here. While it does provide pre-built scenarios out of the box, Arma is best used as a sandbox to make or participate in whatever military-related content you want. This creator, for example, is using it as a filmmaking tool. He probably has a lot of things in this scenario actually working against the game's programming to make it look more cinematic. It's hard to tell from all the cuts, or how many takes this was stitched together from, but I know the NPCs for sure would've dismounted their infantry and opened up on that poorly concealed ambush if it weren't for technical trickery in the scenario or editing magic after the fact. That's not to say the NPCs aren't incredibly janky sometimes. They're quick to abandon vehicles, they prioritize bounding overwatch over cover and concealment, and they struggle to coordinate between elements. There are some people who modify the game's core code to try and make it more realistic, but some things can only go so far with the current technology it's built on. My favorite way to play is with lots of these modifications and a platoon or more of other people doing our best to use real tactics to make it through community created scenarios. If you want to check this out here on UA-cam, I recommend "Arma 3 - Captain On Deck - ShackTac" by Dslyecxi
“You could see ‘em coming a mile away.”
ARMA’s AI can’t.
Lol I know it’s frustrating playing with AI
An ArmA 3 Experience is always dependent on the people you play with. Like my ArmA 3 MILSIM Team stresses heavily on realism, to include amount of gear, spacing, muzzle awareness, ROE, etc.
Brilliant video mate!!
Thanks a lot!
Operator Drewski's "Arma 3 Convoy Ambush" Video is really great please react to it next!
I see you're a man of culture
If this man was a gamer it would be imposible to ambush his convoy and stay alive
Hey man you should watch some escape from tarkov or even try the game yourself! It's a hardcore military shooter and you could say that it's quite a simulator for close-quarter fights
Hardcore eh?
@Miss Jae haha somebody dosen't like the game, how the wonders of a hardcore game get tilted players always angry xD
he could also play squad.
@Miss Jae can't say I've ever run into a bug in Tarkov. Although I wouldn't call it a hardcore simulation of any kind. I'd say Squad is much closer.
@@es0teric76 meh, id say tarkov is quite more enjoyable in close quarter fights than in squad
Guy looks like he could bring up an M16 any moment lol. Very nice video btw
This has got to be one of my favorite videos because I play arma 3 a LOT
Hahaha honestly it's funny watching you roast the arma ragdolls and models lmaoo
Good to see you well mate. Love that you keep the content rolling, see you on the next one.
Good to see that my suggestion worked. Would love to see more arma 3 reactions of you. Keep up the good work mister.
A good number of vehicles had regularly to be returned from OEF in Afganistan.
But as far as I recall, a devastated MaxxPro (introduced around 2007/2008) back due to an IED or hitting a mine when in Afghanistan as shown in the video (burned out and losing its legs) was not part of it (maybe other have seen that I don't know).
As far as I remember though that happened to number of Humvees.
The MaxxPro's that had to be sent back were mostly damaged beyond repair due to reckless or incompetent driving (& panick driving), given the high point of gravity they have.
When they hit a mine, of course they needed repair and parts replacement but the mechanics on base where able to handle as much.
The huge move when the guy got shot was just the game
dude they even got the warning labels inside the vehicle lmao
A lot of arma military realism units use arma for various things. It can be pretty authentic, it's a popular game among many veterans. Since you can make missions as you want them, and combine ground, air, and sea assets the possibilites are endless. There's also a realistic radio mod called "Acre" that makes it so you have to use the right radio channels etc to communicate as well.
The double face cam is very cool you can see the reaction from both sides i guess.
i was playing with it to see if it was a keeper.
Situational awareness! Lol
Loved the vid and the regular uploads but I didn't get notified about this coming out even though I have the notifications on :/ either way awesome job I hope the channel grows heaps! Double face cam is cool too!
Oh the virtual marines are the best at what they do, I scream semper virtualis!!! from my couch
Do the same with Escape From Tarkov
This guy is a badass. He seems like a legit good guy i would bring fishing 😂👌
No worries i like your take on things very logical and i have learned a few things watching your videos 👍👍
Thank you for your service🙏🇺🇸
Thank you for your service!
Suprised you didn't burst out laughing at some of the ragdoll death animations, like 3:45 for example lmao
The people in the video thought they were being realistic until they see this video lol.
Pedal to the metal, drive right through, call in air support, set up a defensive line out of range of the point of contact, and wait....better to defend a position than attack a position.
I used to do real well on the old Operation Flashpoint earlier version of these games. They were really fun to play. I do have a copy of Arma Gold, and Arma 2.
All turrets aiming the same sector
My man is roasting waypoint systems and the AI in this game.
I'm hooked on your videos Great work
An interesting note on the spacing of the convoy. Arma 3's engine is notoriously terrible when handling convoys so the vehicles will be close together. Sometimes a group of vehicles will not even follow the road together; some will go, some will stay where they are even when a move command is given to all of them. Regardless, this is the game that is the most realistic military shooter, and the company even used the game to make a military training simulator.
His face throughout the whole video made me laugh really hard 🤣. He's probably thinking like wtf are these morons doing lol.
Im playing Arma 3 right now! The editor is best
I would love to see part 5 of the SASR. Keep up the good work!
I love your content
I believe the MRAPs are in front because they are mine resistant, regarding when you mentioned you would want the HMMWVs up front
I like how he say "Let's go!"
Alright I'm going to say my piece on this. Its just my personal opinion and is based on ~1600 hours playing ArmA 3 and being a member of an ArmA 3 milsim unit!!!
First of, everything Jamesons mentioned is absolutely right and makes sense. Really enjoyed watching this video. From the combatants movements, to the convoy having the two better armored vehicles in the front instead of splitting it up (one front one rear), to having air support called in and to how the US troops AI reacted which is not realistic nor professional. In addition, it doesn't make sense for a convoy to go through a town at the same speed going through just a normal road. Lead vic being in a slower version of that town entry, could've had time to spot the IED on the road (which is visible by the way, like so obvious if that would've been a real player driving front vic).
Second, watching the original video posted by "TAMGA STUDIO on 24 Sep 2019" shows a better version of infantry movement and utilizing vic
-2 for cover while moving. But that also could've been improved and worked on.
Third, this is "Takistan" so even if the mission maker (aka ZEUS) wanted this to be perfect, he would've needed at least couple guys helping with each AI stance or movement (time consuming thing to do I might add). Same thing goes for CAS and gun runs on the enemy combatants.
Fourth, AI in ArmA is always something that's considered funky. The only way to make this "convoy ambush" look more realistic is to use actual players on both sides. And since its "Takistan", it would've been almost near impossible for 40+ players to be part of this mission scenario and bunched up in that town without having major "frame drops" which would make everything slow and look less realistic/professional.
Fifth, stating that frames on this map are almost non existing (if your an ArmA player reading this you'll understand how ArmA works) so I think, that the mission maker of this "convoy ambush" did a damn nice and interesting scenario of a "convoy ambush" with nice camera movement while spectating everything going down. It could've been improved on by adding CAS and better AI movement but again, it would've needed more ZEUS 's helping and controlling some aspects of the mission. But, for the purpose of a cinematic, combat and hectic engagement of a "convoy ambush", I think the video was SPOT ON!!!
Finally, I'd like to state again that this is my personal opinion and it does not represent my unit's point of view. However, if anybody is interested in knowing more about the 77th JSOC, you can google for the unit's forum to check out the unit and its members.
Bro I don’t know how you do it but thank u for your service I could never do anything like tahy
A channel called operatordrewski makes alot of content on ”realistic” military games👍
he should check out Schack tactical run by Dsylecxi, easily the best ArmA channel
@@TheReservoirduck they are both good content.
4:40 (developer here) We have fixing the ragdolls on our todo list but I wanted to leave that cuz its funny. But I guess we have to fix that now :D
Fake
That's an Old Arma 2 map, played on it many an hour, trying to take or hold that town. A lot of bots used here, real players are more sneaky and take cover. Nice video.
I just saw this but there's a guy still on the machine gun of the truck that got blown up at 3:30.
The only thing that is not there is that US marines begin to cry "Air Support!" when they hear the first gun fire.
Just like a John Rambo movie! Endless automatic 🔥
Actually, I saw the AI doing a good job with controlled pairs here. It's just that guy with the IAR that was suppressing
I love how he looks like
This is better be good
This game is a sandbox so air support could be called in but only if whoever designed the scenario decided to put it in. There's some issues with the AI as well, with the spacing issue at the beginning I believe they are actually keeping proper spacing but the problem is they are made up of several different groups and the AI only knows how to keep distance from their own group so they could be walking shoulder to shoulder with someone else and not see a problem. The big movements when dying are a problem with the physics simulation, I don't know exactly how it works but the bodies go from being held up to being limp and I guess somewhere there there's something which pushes them out and up. A lot of the time they just drop down when they die however.
With arma being a sandbox there are various degrees of realism. If you were to look at a milsim unit their actions make a lot more sense than some people just casually playing the game or someone just trying to get shots that look nice for a video.
Nice video keep up the good videos.
Great video. I've seen this game put on a pretty high pedestal by people who look for "realistic" games (not sure how a game could ever be called "realistic" though!) and it's good to see someone who knows what real is breaking it down.
I'd have never thought of the formation of the convoy as being a mistake but when you break it down like that, it makes perfect sense, and yes, why wouldn't they be using those vehicle mounted .50's? The Taliban reinforcements came in all guns blazing with theirs on the back of that pickup straight away!
For more gaming stuff, some of the Battlefield 3 and Battlefield 4 single player missions are incredibly cinematic and may be worth checking out just for the spectacle even if you don't end up doing a video on them.
Well it is just a fan made machinima. I'm honestly not sure why these TAMGA guys are so popular.
Those who played the U.S. forces had no knowledge, they just tried to make it look like a fictional story movie.
im up he sees me im down,5 second rushes like he said your never standing endless advancing love the channel boss happy fourth hooah!
Oh nice Arma 3
Got to love Arma 3 AI
James I love all your military videos etc I served in the Irish defence forces myself I started out in an infamous infantry unit called the 3rd infantry battalion aka (THE BLOODS) we had A company and b company also known as support company I worked about 10 year in that unit and then went on to become a medic in the medical core working in a military hospital for another 12 year I notice you don't have much to say on the army ranger wing aka rangers they won best international sniper team in 2018 over in America against very well oiled sf snipers from all over the world man
2:40 i thought it was standard for the MRAP to lead because it can take a lot of punishment.
Unless it's an up armored humvee, but i doubt those are common, are they?
Personally I feel for this game to be admire you would have to watch a milsim (military simulation) game play of ARMA 3. This video does not show the real ability and tactics behind this game. Yes this looks cool but in the end doesn't do the game justice. I would say watch a Milsim video or 2 and just see. Then maybe do a review of how well people exacute certain tactics and how the game plays. ARMA is a very buggy game that's why death animation looks weird (because there is none) it's just weird ragdoll physics. So yeah I loved this video but please do a commentary on a propper MilSim video if you find time. Thanks.
Agreed, there is a lot more that can be done with Arma 3 and good milsims with actual utilization of military tactics and realism does work extraordinarily well. This video didn’t do any justice
I would absolutely love to play A3 with you :D. I might not be in the US-Part of military simulation, but I can imagine that a Unit having a guy like you would set standards for the US-Simulators.
If you are interested in more arma 3 gameplay with less cinematics I would recommended jester814 if I remember correctly some of the guys in his group are veterans and they teach all other guys proper radio procedures etc
Yea a lot of his guys are prior military, like myself (USMC). I have been a part of his unit for a few years. at the start they make us go through the basic army OSUT course (or similar as to what arma allows us to do)
The fact of the gameplay being realistic depends on the person who is playing it.
Could you review Restrepo or maybe just portions?
That's a tough one too watch.. very powerful..
I was about to type this as a suggestion when I saw the link
Finally the reaction ive been waiting for. Gotta do "Squad" next
i dont know why are you reacting to this but i somehow enjoyed XD
most likely the reason there was no air support is because in Arma 3 flying is actually difficult because they tried to make it realistic, so pilots that are good at attacking are few and far between. meaning these people probably didnt have one available when they were doing this.
Arma 3 can actually be very realistic if you mod it. The base game has limitations but with only a few mods now as a medic you must measure bpm, bp, airway intake, blood types, medicine, overdoses, broken bones, different types of wounds and so fourth.
I agree with most this stuff said in the video. "got the 50's use em" especially.
Damn right!
what did you do when you were in the marines?
I’m a big dcs world player flight sim got currently 4200 hrs and arma 3 is my next with 1200 hrs arma 3 just released through mods a new Vietnam campaign series for free and it is some of the most intense unforgiving milsim.
RIP his right ear haha
Nice review, I personaly play Mislim Arma and the most common issue I see when I play with my friends, is that they complain about diying too quickly... when I go on to rescue them... 90% of the time they are in an open area while having at least 3-4 good covers around them...
People out there, for friends sake... when you are engaged... 1 - Take cover 2 - Spot ALL the dangers, dont be in an tunnel vision setup 3 - Engage...
So we dont have to hear your : F... GAME ! That's not even funny to play ! You get instant kill ! The AI are too strong !!! WTF !!! I was lying down !!!
Dude... the AI take covers... you don't... guess what happen next
Thats what that guy mainly noticed, too many troops in the open field while having thousands way to cover and keep safe while engaging targets.
Reloading standing still in the middle of the road while being ingaged by 30 tango ? Really ? Why not running naked ? at least you'd be running... maybe more chances to stay alive hahaha
great vids. thanks.
Ive seen worse convoy set ups in arma 3, one convoy decided too put the truck we needed too protect on the front of the conoy, i was in a heli looking at wtf they were doing, the mission failed pretty quickly
i play arma alot, have about 1000 hours, although our group leader has about 7000hrs (he's been playing for years)
The game itself has some bugs in the way the AI work, so they do strange things sometimes.
ArmA itself has a huge modding community for gear vehicles units etc and has a variant called VBS which many militaries around the world use for some training situations.
Its most dynamic and fun, also extremely challenging sometimes when playing with a group of about 10-30 other players, usually someone in the group makes a mission every few days, which are usually all of the three fun, dynamic and challenging.
The most recent VBS4, includes a module that 3D maps anywhere on the planet to a degree, so you can plan for any scenario you can think of, in any region of the world. But its expensive
Ah arma 3. 4000 hours. Since alpha 2012. Oh how far it’s come. Eventually become good at it all.
I have to say with a couple mods for ai and immersion, the game feels soooo different and more real. Cant believe I played arma without it
I’m sure you already know that the front vehicle is an MRAP so putting the Humvee at the front could expose it to IEDs if they were expecting mines. Obviously the MRAP didn’t do its job but the point still stands.
Great video always like to see professionals react to these thing but i also think that the screen with the gameplay should be larger but again great video
I almost forgot you should react to operator drewski gameplay and also squad
This game is something else
Seems like grandpa didn't like it
The best thing about ArmA is its modability and the scenario editor, where you can set up any scenario you want. Unfortunately, the AI sucks, so usually it's the multiplayer battles that are realistic.
ARMA 3 is sold as a Mil Sim. My opinion is it is one of the best out there. The gear is outstanding and quite realistic. What generally ruins it is civvies play it......Lol, turning it back into a "cheesy" shoot em up.... They are all AI's in this clip, sadly i have seen "human" players that are FAR WORSE... Aircraft are in game for players to fly, Choppers AND Zoomies.... Guns, snake and nape are all doable. there are also mortars avail ingame.... I had the pleasure of playing this game, for over 1k hours with a bunch of young guy's that tuned out to be young U.S. Marines on deployment, playing
in there downtime. THEY made this game realistic for me. They were sharp and well sorted marines and we won EVERY encounter we had... It was utterly pure joy for me... Took me back to my younger days. BTW 6534 hrs on record... I played ARMA 2 as well... Lol
Wow hahaha never thought you will react to arma game good work salaute!!
The MRAP is heavily armed and armored way more then that Humvee is.
Please do a reaction video of Ross Kemp in Afghanistan
I love me some Arma 3! Over 3500 hours logged in cooperative milsim operations (MSO's). Please check out some multuplayer versions of this! It is much more realistic
I just enlisted on the marines 2 weeks ago and I gonna be the first marine in my family, I’m Puerto Rican and I love my country
Pedro Del Valle the commanding general of the 1st Marine Division, during the battle of Okinawa was Puerto Rican
Buena suerte amigo representando la patria
El lechero asi es muchas gracias amigo, también piensas unirte a los marines?
@@kadielvillanueva9366 Me llama la atencion pero pienso meterme en el army, que Mos vas a tener?
El lechero infantry man todavía no me darán un mos especifica pero firme 03