I'll update when i've spent more hours in it but for now, i'll say what i can about it. This game is NOT "new player friendly". Sure, some people will help you but its too few and far between. It's a rarity. The chance's are good you'll have to join some sort of milsim group to really get all the benefit's out of arma. The learning curve is HIGH. The control's aren't all that intuitive. The amount of control you get is fantastic but...goodluck learning it all within any reasonable time frame. On to the performance issue's arma has, it's unoptimized. It's a mess. I have a Nvidia Geforce gtx 1050 ti, on all low settings still gettings around 25-30 fps and sometimes dips below. I have a intel core i5 7300hq. 8 gb of ram. I know it's not the most powerful laptop ever...but...the issue persists with more powerful one's. Now, when you get the base game, you'd hope that'd be all, right? Nope. Ton's of DLC that a lot of groups and servers may require for you to play, so you have to go out and spend additional money. Single Player performance is not half bad. Multi-player performance is where the game suffers. I'd reccommend the game to someone who has a LOT of time and money. If you are into milsim but have a life and you must be sparing with your cash, don't buy it. The potential of arma is ...tremendous....but..it falls short ultimately.

I'll update when i've spent more hours in it but for now, i'll say what i can about it. This game is NOT "new player friendly". Sure, some people will help you but its too few and far between. It's a rarity. The chance's are good you'll have to join some sort of milsim group to really get all the benefit's out of arma. The learning curve is HIGH. The control's aren't all that intuitive. The amount of control you get is fantastic but...goodluck learning it all within any reasonable time frame. On to the performance issue's arma has, it's unoptimized. It's a mess. I have a Nvidia Geforce gtx 1050 ti, on all low settings still gettings around 25-30 fps and sometimes dips below. I have a intel core i5 7300hq. 8 gb of ram. I know it's not the most powerful laptop ever...but...the issue persists with more powerful one's. Now, when you get the base game, you'd hope that'd be all, right? Nope. Ton's of DLC that a lot of groups and servers may require for you to play, so you have to go out and spend additional money. Single Player performance is not half bad. Multi-player performance is where the game suffers. I'd reccommend the game to someone who has a LOT of time and money. If you are into milsim but have a life and you must be sparing with your cash, don't buy it. The potential of arma is ...tremendous....but..it falls short ultimately.