Arma 3 Contact

(After 2.20 "The Performance update" this campaign gives you more than 70 FPS, I remember playing it with less than 20...) Contact DLC... It's controversial. It offers a few content, but I gave my money for the spetsnaz faction because it looks really cool and fits Livonia. I love the map, I play Dynamic Recon Ops only in Livonia. The map is very fluffy (I mean, it's full of grass, bushes and trees) and its landscape is dynamic. It has hills and giant, beautiful fields. Ruined villages are great for defence or ambush scenarios, once I had an intence fight while waiting for extraction in such village. About the weapons... I like RPK - it looks heavy and massive, even uncomfortable to hold on your hands at some point. The Prophet rifle and its variants - it looks massive but light, something is odd about that gun. The campaign is AMAZING (for me). I didn't use my firearm until the last chapter (it forces you to assault a factory with an assault team). I love such scenarios where I'm doing everything silent and just wander around, the campaign even takes it place at night which is a great thing (yeah, it's easy to impress me). The story is about a situation when aliens invade the planet Earth but don't want to hurt anyone. We simply collect info using UGV. It's sad that this is impossible to unleash the full potential of the spectrum device in the 3DEN editor, but it's fun to play with (in this campaign). I absolutely DO NOT recommend buying this DLC unless you love meditative wandering-around gameplay and Livonia because that DLC doesn't offer much new content, most of it had already been used in the main game and reused in Apex DLC, so almost everything you get is three times reused content. But I think Livonia, Russian faction and UGV cost these money (on sale). It offers a little less than Western Sahara which at least has an acceptable price and offers you a new setting - desert. This one... Anyways, it's your choice. I don't see any sense in buying DLCs except Apex, Western Sahara, Contact, S.O.G. Praire fire and Marksman.

It was going pretty well until a bug stopped me from selecting the required signal in the spectrum device. Can't progress because of crappy programming.

Arma 3 Contact is one of my all time favorite gaming experiences. Arma 3 itself is already set in a near-future world with plenty to say about global politics, but Contact takes it a bit further and delivers a more complete narrative experience. This DLC is hard, though! Fortunately, that was my favorite part: spending long nights trying to both avoid and understand the conventional armed forces that you're up against, but also do the same with an enigmatic alien presence. Worth a shot if you have a good understanding of the underlying game mechanics, or have the desire to learn something hard but worthwhile!

Very very boring for an Arma 3 Campaign, visuals are neat, the map is okay. But I really didn't enjoy it that much.

The controls for Ed-1e are beyond frustrating. I couldn't find out how to deploy it, even after looking through settings, the field guide, the wiki, and even asking an AI to help. Nothing. Worked. Wasted well over an hour trying to figure it out before giving up and just watching someone else play the missions. Such a shame, had such great potential.