To all Prairie Fire players!
We hope you're all having a great summer! People - including the Prairie Fire devs - are of course now enjoying vacations, and taking advantage of lifted Covid restrictions. You will probably recognize the need to be outside and away from your PC in the hot weather!
The joy of Arma is it's a long-term relationship and not just a summer romance! With about 7m Arma 3 owners and about 1m new ones in the past 12 months we have high hopes for our DLC player base to continue to snowball and we intend to have new toys available for the new grunts heading to Nam over the summer.
-Rob
On behalf of the SGD community team
1. DLC News
It took a while but the IT migration is finished and the studio is running at peak performance again. Our IT and Game mode teams have been expanded to be able to put renewed energy into game mode development. The artists are spitting out a steady stream of eye candy during their weekly check in. The veteran, military and historical advisors eagerly feed back improvements. A part of the content that is being developed for the encore update is already reaching gold stage in the capable hands of the encoders. We can't say what's coming but we're sure you'll enjoy it.
2. Veteran News
Conflict Chronicles - Dick Thompson
Dick Thompson recorded a podcast with the Conflict Chronicles about his experiences with his Recon Team in Vietnam. Conflict Chronicles is a series of podcasts that shares the physical and mental experiences from those who have been on the frontline of conflict. Interested in more of their podcasts? Visit their website!
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The Masks We Wear - A podcast on SF Veteran mental health
General Bowra recommended this article to us: Senior Green Berets debunk mental health rumors, fight stigma in podcast series. "The Army’s special operations community has borne the brunt of twenty years of war, training and deploying at what a then-senior commander called an “unsustainable” pace. That has led to destructive effects on the mental health of many soldiers, according to two senior special forces NCOs who discussed the topic in a podcast released Wednesday by 1st Special Forces Command." The podcast has since aired and can be listened to below.
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3. Mike Force News
Spoffy has published the roadmap for the next Mike Force update, these are the core points:
Quality of Life: Improving the whitelisted arsenal ranks; revamping the building menu; adding a new player tutorial; new tools for FOB building (including tree-cutting and object demolition); dynamic player groups; improved support tasks; bugfixes (no more stuck zones); static weapon crates and better night fighting.
Strategy: Improving how supplies are transported; giving zones identities and types; more variation in enemy attacks and infiltrations; more static emplacements and vehicles; improved player access to artillery and ground vehicles.
Level Up: Improved UIs for ranking up and medals; better balancing of rank points; and more support tasks to earn rank points.
Spike Team: Add Spike Team option for players; new missions behind enemy lines; dynamic results of Spike Team missions that affect zone completion.
You can read the full roadmap here.
4. Social Media
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">We have reached 1111 followers 🥳<br><br>A good moment to express our appreciation for all of the awesome players and creators that we have met on twitter, the discords and twitch chats. A big thanks from us!<br><br>To celebrate here is the bouncy crater bug that plagued us before release 😃 <a href="https://t.co/PUFa1cUo8T">pic.twitter.com/PUFa1cUo8T</a></p>— Savage Game Design (@SavageGameDes) <a href=" 1, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
5. Highlighted Community Content
Recon Blues: The siege of Dak Long
All episodes of The Siege of Dak Long graphic novel by D.J. Teo are available for reading on the forum now. You can read them here. Mister Teo is working on more stories and we hope to hear from him soon!
Ceb's Screenshot Contest Results
The contest was a great success, a whole bunch of artists took part with approximately 80 screenshots.
We are so very grateful and humbled to Tilt Meyer for generously donating these personal prizes from his collection.
Airborne Sir!
These were the community voted winners:
Top 3:
Papa Bear - Challenge coin
Farsight - Challenge coin
Shaleshock - Challenge coin
Top 10 runner ups:
Veteran picks:
Papa Bear - Signed copy of Across the Fence
Mustache - Signed copy of Across the Fence
Doctor Death - Signed copy of Across the Fence
We made the following music video with the screenshots as a tribute to the awesome artwork community.
6. Highlighted Mods
NightIntruder'& TeTeT's Aircraft Carrier
NightIntruder and TeTeT modded in the USS Bon Homme Richard (CVA31) - Carrier's Strike Group with the main purpose of providing ARMA3 players with access to an aircraft carrier and its supporting ships from the mid-Cold War (and the Vietnam War) era. It's a great asset you can use to launch F-4B's from the Gulf of Tonkin. NightIntruder also uploaded a video explaining the special features of the mod (featuring Unsung assets.) You can find the mod on the workshop here!
