How to get started in Arma 3 in 2024

An Arma III page? In 2024, have you lost your actual minds you may well be saying, and you might have a point if you have been playing the hardcore mil-sim for many a year, but, and this is for all the veterans as well, half a million people just bought Arma III in the Steam Summer Sale – that’s half a million Private Pyle’s running around the show with no clue what they are doing, and that is bad for all of us.

If you are new however to Arma III, hello. You are the future of the military and we are here to learn. From now on you will speak only when spoken to, and the first and last words out of your filthy sewers will be ‘Sir.’ Do you maggots understand that?

Okay, enough of the Full Metal Jacket obsession – so you have bought Arma II because it is amazing, however, you have booted it up and do not have the first clue what to do.

The best way of thinking about ARMA is that it is a bit like a flight simulator. A ton of controls exist and your brain tricks you into thinking you need them all when in reality, at the start at least, you can get by just learning to take off and whizz about the sky a bit. You don’t need to know how to run an emergency landing pattern in Microsoft Flight Simulator to have fun, and the same rules apply here.

Get to Bootcamp

The ARMA 3 Bootcamp is – much like in Full Metal Jacket, the best place to learn to be a virtual soldier and you can find it via the Learn section in the in-game menu but basically you want to:

See you in country.