Recent reviews by A. Alphonse

Imagine making what is by now one of the very few military sandboxes on the market, a game that becomes popular SPECIFICALLY because it's a military sandbox. But it's being weigh down by an engine that's held together with duct tape and hope.
Ok, let's make a new engine. Ah crap that takes a while! Aha! What if we released a smaller ArmA title in the meanwhile! No campaign, we'll save stuff on that, just a relatively small terrain with smaller factions.

Ok, what kind of game will it be? Oh, perhaps you know - a military sandbox again? It'd be a bit rough, but it will allow to get all the modders and mission makers on the Enfusion workflow early, we'll get lots of feedback, it will help with optimizing AI which has always been a major performance hitch for us.

No? We'll make a uh PvP shooter? A fairly arcadey one at that? We'll spend no time working on AI at all?
oh.

Go play Squad instead. BI stop trying to make ArmA PvP a thing. It's not happening. You tried with that Argo, it didn't work.

A fascinating story with beautiful art. Exactly what I was looking for.

"Ground" RB more like CAS RB lmao. Nothing like getting killed by someone who spawned a light car, held down W to an objective and respawned to be able to kill everyone on the map without issue. AA is most vulnerable to CAS but gets almost no reward for shooting them down. Tanks are balanced based on player performance metrics alone so Wehrboo filled Germany gets impenetrable tanks at multiple BRs. Very high repair costs that provide perverse incentives.

EDIT: Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Gaijin, a Russian dev, is boosting all Soviet vehicles into oblivion to cope with how badly Russia is getting owned, lmao

This is a game that is only popular because it doesn't have good competitors that provide something similar, with WoT being too arcadey.

It's alright, but only for the price. The new terrain is cool, but it's only 10x10 km. The new weapons are alright, they look good, true. The new drone is cool. But the main issue with it is that not being a Bohemia Interactive small DLC, ALA Tanks/Jets/Marksman, you can't play on other servers with this stuff. The included scenario is kinda meh too.

It's pretty good. More arceidy than Post Scriptum or Squad - it's more akin to RO2 or Rising Storm 2 in terms of pacing, but the 1-hit-deaths still are there and well. Pretty fairly balanced, and a wide range of historical firearms. Unity engine is a bit funky, but otherwise pretty good.

Just don't get tangled in barbed wire.

A game that on the ground is decent, but flooded with ♥♥♥♥♥♥ DLC and microtransactions. And it's also gone pay-2-win recently, with non skin weapons straight up ♥♥♥♥.