SURPRISE ARROWHEAD FEATURE OR FUTURE DLC?

Images, RRP (US$9.99) & ETA (29 August) posted at ArmA2.com, click to enlarge.




I know I'd happily pay for 'em, especially as we know BI don't skimp on content.

Wow, did not see that coming, well played BIS. It would be incredible if these come with Arrowhead, it was already promising a huge amount of content, British too would be insane. As you say, would happily pay for these as a DLC if that's the route they're taking. Very happily, they look fantastic.

It's like they've started the win train and don't know how to stop.

I'm liking the look of all those opium poppies!

For Queen and Country!

Was thinking, my (tenuous) bet is on the Brits being included in Arrowhead at retail, for these reasons: 1. It's somewhat odd releasing teaser images for a DLC for a game that isn't even out for a month, and 2. So far we've seen British infantry, light vehicle, and transport chopper, exactly the same as the Czech units, so perhaps they'll be a third mini-faction.

However unlike the Czechs and Germans the British seem deserving of a lot more content, right up to a full-blown faction alongside the US Army, so it would seem a bit odd only adding in a small selection and leaving it there. That would perhaps support the DLC theory.

Of course the two aren't incompatible - BIS might release the above units and vehicles with Arrowhead as a teaser for a much larger DLC fleshing out the Brits into a full faction. It would seem awfully generous, but they did give us the Apache from OA for free. I'm honestly not sure. My instinct is the first scenario, however the fact that they've confirmed a substantial DLC for down the track does make the Brits seem very logical, it's a bit hard to think what they'd do otherwise.

Isn't pointless speculation fun! Yes? No? I'll get my coat.

More units, check out the PMC's (complete with black SUV's) revealed in this clip:

LOL - "SPORT (INTERNATIONAL AIR HOCKEY): BRITISH DRAGONMASTERS DEFEATED BY CZECH BOHEMIANS IN 1-SIDED ROUT"

Oh BI, you adorable scamps.

Ooo pretty flowers

Holy fuck...









New Vehicles & Weapons
o Modern British troops in multi-terrain, desert and woodland camouflage.
o Personal weapons: L85A2 and L86A2 rifles, L110A1 machine gun, LRR and AW50 sniper rifles, N-LAW AT launcher
o New vehicles: Jackal 2 MWMIK all-terrain vehicle, modernized FV510 Warrior
o New helicopters: AH11 Wildcat (multi-role), HC3 Merlin (transport)
o British versions: off-road car, Chinook HC2 transport helicopter, Apache AH1 gunship
o Desert and woodland paint schemes of the ground vehicles

New Single Player Campaign
o Player will command a mobile observation team of British troops into battle with Takistani insurgents. Short campaign will focus on depicting asymmetrical warfare with a guerilla force and counterinsurgency operations.
* Multiplayer modes
o Cooperative scenarios featuring the British units, vehicles and equipment.
* Engine Improvements
o Extension of the Engineer's role
o Ability for players to effectively operate and command artillery and mortar units

Arma 2: British Armed Forces will be deployed on 26th August 2010.

It will be available for GBP 7.99/EUR 8.99/USD 9.99.

And when someone asked "So how exactly will this be, for lack of a better word, protected? Like if I buy the DLC then what's to stop me passing it to my mate I wonder..."

Maruk the CEO said "Your dignity?"

So looks like we won't even have to deal with copy protection, BI are sexy.

And when asked "How will NON-DLC users be handled? Would be a shame if servers became unusable by others due to them running this DLC. Then we will have more divisions between Vanilla / ACE / DLC."

He replied "We have a solid plan to address this problem."

...which is more than I was expecting, I would have been quite happy with a get it or lump it approach, that'll be potentially great for public servers.

EDIT: A few more screens from a Czech site showing woodland camo:

An absolute bargain for just NZ$13.80. If it should turn out to be possible I know I won't be handing it on to anybody. I think a solid plan for the handling of non-DLC users would be to simply substitute default US Army units.

Yea handled badly would leave communities fragmented as they can't expect everyone to own all arma2 content (arma2/oa/plus any DLC).

Looks good through.

New screenshots posted and news that BAF is to include a new small desert terrain; Shapur.