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ArmA II
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Developer(due south)	Bohemia Interactive
Designer(s)	Ivan Buchta
Engine	Existent Virtuality 3
Platform(due south)	Microsoft Windows
Release engagement(south)	CZ 17 June 2009 [1] EU 19 June 2009 [two] Steam 26 June 2009 [3] NA 7 July 2009 [4] [5] AUS xx July 2009 [5]
Genre(s)	Tactical shooter, Armed forces Simulation, Open world
Mode(s)	Unmarried-player, Multiplayer
Media/distribution	DVD Download

ARMA 2 (stylized as ARMA II ) is a military simulation video game for the Microsoft Windows Operating System, developed past Bohemia Interactive Studio. Information technology is the official sequel to the Operation Flashpoint-series post-obit its predecessor, ARMA: Armed Assault (ARMA: Combat Operations in North America). ARMA 2 saw a limited release in May 2009, and a wide release from June 2009 through July 2009. An expansion pack titled ARMA ii: Operation Arrowhead was released in 2010. ^[6] In June 2011, a "free-to-play" version of the game was released, featuring multiplayer and limited unmarried thespian modes. ^[7]

Contents

• one Etymology
• two Gameplay
• 3 Evolution
• four Synopsis
  • 4.1 Setting
  • 4.2 Groundwork
  • iv.3 Characters
  • 4.4 Plot
    • 4.four.1 Endings
      • 4.iv.ane.ane "Revelation"
      • 4.4.ane.ii "Missing in Activity"
      • four.4.1.3 "Setting Canvass"
      • 4.four.1.4 "The War That Never Was"
      • 4.4.1.5 Hidden catastrophe
• 5 Features
  • v.1 Factions
  • v.two Equipment
  • 5.3 Ballistics
  • 5.4 Mission editor
  • v.5 Modding
    • 5.5.i DayZ Modification
• 6 Engineering science
  • 6.ane Engine
  • 6.2 Game updates
  • 6.3 Demo version
  • 6.4 ARMA 2: Free
  • 6.five Copy protection
• 7 Reception
• viii Expansion packs
  • 8.1 ARMA 2: Operation Arrowhead
  • eight.2 Overview
• 9 Sequel
• ten Controversy
  • 10.1 ITV Documentary Error
• eleven References
• 12 External links

Etymology

ARMA 2 is named after the Latin word "arma", meaning weapons, soldiers, and state of war. Due to the fact that the previous game in the series was named Armed Assault, ARMA 2 is oft referred to as Armed Set on 2, admitting in error. Although ARMA 2's title is stylized as ArmA II, it is washed equally an homage to the previous game in the series, not because the game's championship is a contraction of Armed Assault like the outset game in the series was. ^[eight]

Gameplay

ARMA 2 is a tactical shooter focused primarily on infantry gainsay, withal it likewise features significant vehicular and aerial gainsay elements. The player is able to control AI squad members which adds a real-time strategy element to the game. This is further enhanced by introduction of the high control system, which allows the player to command multiple squads using the map. ARMA 2 is set up primarily in the fictional Eastern European nation of Chernarus, (meaning "Blackness Rus"). The Chernarus landscape is based heavily on the Czech Republic; the domicile country of the programmer.

Development

During development, Bohemia Interactive stated at the Electronic Entertainment Expo that ARMA 2 was to have a "roleplaying feel to it", with in-game events affecting the character besides as the entire campaign. For instance, terrorizing not-playable characters would result in losing their trust, thus encouraging them to requite away valuable information to enemy forces. The unabridged campaign tin can exist played either offline, every bit unmarried-histrion, or online, as cooperative play for up to 4 players.

Synopsis

Setting

ARMA 2's unmarried-histrion campaign takes identify in September and Oct 2009, in the province of South Zagoria in the northeastern region of the fictional post-Soviet state of Chernarus, as well as the remote Chernarussian island of Útes.

Due south Zagoria'south approximately 225 square kilometers is based on actual satellite photos of České Středohoří, in Bohemia, Czech Republic. The precise location used is the remote area between Děčín and Ústí nad Labem. All necessary data is loaded silently in the background, and thus the player is at no time interrupted by any loading screens while traveling about the terrain. There are loading screens between episodes and missions.

Groundwork

ARMA 2's single-thespian campaign, dubbed Operation Harvest Red, is set in the then-future of fall 2009, in the fictional country of Chernarus (English: Black Russia), a former Soviet republic. In the fall of 2009, Chernarus is in a state of political unrest, with its democratic government trying to go on from being overthrown past pro-communist rebels. Among the virtually powerful of these rebels is a group calling themselves the Chernarussian Movement of the Red Star, abbreviated as ChDKZ. Referred to by the locals as the "Chedakis", the ChDKZ are led by communist revolutionary, Gregori "Akula" (English: Shark) Lopotev. After many months of civil war, the ChDKZ fails to overthrow the electric current government and set up the Socialist Republic of Chernarus. The Chernarussian government asks the international customs for assistance in defeating the rebels, and the The states responded by sending a U.South. Navy Expeditionary Strike Group off the coast of Chernarus, hoping that a presence of an Amphibious Set Grouping with hundreds of U.S. Marines embarked on lath would calm any tensions in the area. Yet, the ChDKZ remains undeterred, and past belatedly 2009 the ChDKZ launched a coup d'état confronting the Chernarussian regime, taking command of the northeastern Chernarussian province of S Zagoria. This acquired the remaining Chernarussian military machine forces in the surface area to retreat towards the coastal town of Zelenogorsk.

On 21 September 2009, as a part of their insurrection, the ChDKZ invaded the island of Útes (which is dwelling to a Chernarussian military machine training base.) Overwhelmed, the remaining Chernarussian military forces in the area regrouped at a church in the Útes hamlet of Strelka in an attempt to fight off the tenacious ChDKZ set on. Ultimately, the Chernarussian military forces on the island were overwhelmed by the massive onslaught, and the island vicious to the ChDKZ. As a result, U.Southward. Marines, operating nearby from the Wasp-class amphibious attack ship, USS Khe Sanh (LHD-9), launched an amphibious invasion of Útes to liberate the island from the ChDKZ forces. Before long afterwards the U.S. Marines landed on the island, the ChDKZ were routed, and Útes was liberated.

A few days later the liberation of Útes, U.S. Marines on board the USS Khe Sanh (LHD-9) prepared to deploy to mainland Chernarus in support of Operation Harvest Red, whose purpose is to bring an end to the civil war in Chernarus and re-establish Chernarussian sovereignty. Officially, the U.South. Marines are deploying to Chernarus as a peacekeeping force. In reality, they are there to capture ChDKZ leader "Akula", and to assistance defeat the ChDKZ once and for all.

Characters

Razor Team is led past Principal Sergeant Patrick "Eightball" Miles (listed as a First Sergeant in printing releases), the son of a California politician and lawyer. Throughout the unmarried-player entrada, the player controls past Master Sergeant Matt "Coops" Cooper, a college-educated senior NCO from New York, who dropped out of college to pursue a career in the military; he serves as Razor Team'southward second-in-control out in the field. Sergeant Chad "Robo" Rodriguez, an orphan with a runaway childhood, serves as Razor Team's heavy gunner. Staff Sergeant Randy "Ice Cold" Sykes, originally from Texas, serves as Razor Team'due south designated marksman. Staff Sergeant Brian "Ruby-red" O'Hara, from San Francisco, California, is a former U.Due south. Navy Hospital Corpsman who transferred to the U.S. Marine Corps; he serves as Razor Squad's battlefield medic. Razor Team ultimately reports to their commanding officeholder, Captain Shaftoe, who is assisted past MCIA Captain, Carl Dressler, and CDF Lieutenant, Tomas Marny. ^[9]

Plot

In training for Operation Harvest Red, elements of the U.S. Marine Corps' Force Recon are deployed behind enemy lines into Chernarus, to weaken ChDKZ coastal defenses for the invading Marine Expeditionary Unit of measurement. Amongst the Force Reconnaissance Marines is Razor Team, a five-human special operations squad, consisting of the main character, Master Sergeant Matthew "Coops" Cooper, Razor Team'due south 2nd-in-control, and the squad's leader, Master Sergeant Patrick "Eightball" Miles.

Razor Team's mission is to conduct a raid on the small Chernarussian town of Pusta, to disrupt ChDKZ communications in preparation for the invading Marine Expeditionary Unit of measurement. ^[10] During Razor Team's raid on Pusta, the team rescues a couple of torture victims, and subsequently uncovers a mass grave, revealing that the ChDKZ have been conducting acts of genocide and state of war crimes in South Zagoria.

Later on the raid on Pusta, Razor Squad is tasked with helping to unite the Chernarussian military (CDF) with National Party (NAPA) guerillas, who are led by a man named Prizrak. Originally hostile to each other at the outset, their subsequent cooperation volition assist to restore peace to Chernarus.

As the civil war in Chernarus rages on, a terrorist bombing occurs in the middle of Cherry-red Square, in Moscow, Russian federation, killing dozens and wounding hundreds more. The ChDKZ blames this attack on the National Political party, which causes the Russia, already weary of the presence of U.Due south. forces operating virtually its border, to need the unconditional withdrawal of U.S. forces from Chernarus. The Russian Federation proposes to the United Nations Security Quango that the United States withdraw its forces from Chernarus, whom the Russians see equally escalating the conflict. The The states' mandate in Chernarus expires, and U.S. forces are quickly withdrawn from the land. Shortly afterwards the U.S. withdrawal, the Russia sends a United nations-backed peacekeeping contingent into South Zagoria, to supersede the U.S. forces. All the same, in the confusion, Razor Squad is left backside as the remainder of the U.S. forces withdraw from the land, leaving them all lonely in Chernarus. Later on, it is revealed that the terrorist bombing of Red Square was in fact a false flag set on committed past the ChDKZ to paint the National Party as terrorists. Razor Team is now tasked with finding evidence which will prove the ChDKZ's involvement in the bombing of Cherry Square, and prove the National Political party's innocence.

Endings

ARMA ii'southward campaign has several unlike endings, which are dependent upon a number of different factors; whether or not Razor Squad eliminates Prizrak, who is opposing the brotherhood between the Chernarussian government and the National Party, and the abort of Gregori "Akula" Lopotev. The campaign's endings range from victory for the player, or to defeat, with the elimination of Razor Team by the victorious ChDKZ.

"Revelation"

A NAPA fellow member calling himself Yuri Olegich asks for a meeting with Razor Team and they hold to encounter with him nigh the Russian federation-Chernarus border. Meanwhile, Russian peacekeepers, who are under heavy attack, retreat back across the northern border and into Russia. At the meeting, Razor Team is informed that the entire Chernarussian civil war was orchestrated by a select few in the Russian government were collaborating with the ChDKZ; deceiving their own country. Suddenly, a tactical nuke detonates nearby; killing Razor Squad along with anyone else who was present at the meeting. Information technology is revealed that the nuke had been detonated past the Russian military machine in response to a perceived invasion from Chernarus. In the conflict that soon followed, the evidence of the Russian-ChDKZ conspiracy was destroyed by the conspirators. Razor Team was declared missing in action, and their fate was never revealed.

"Missing in Action"

Under heavy fire and on the run for their lives, Razor Team makes it to an extraction indicate located at an abandoned church, but are quickly encircled by Lopotev and his band of ChDKZ insurgents. Razor Team, wanting revenge for Miles' death, attempts to fight them off, simply they are swiftly killed. After Razor Squad'southward death, at that place is aught left to terminate the ChDKZ offensive and Chernarussian forces withdrew from Southward Zagoria. The next yr, in 2010, the civil war was over with a full ChDKZ victory, and in the summer of 2010, Lopotev installed himself as the dictator of not simply South Zagoria, simply all of Chernarus. Chernarus was now nether the rule of a totalitarian regime and its populace had little hope for the time to come.

In 2014, four years after the ChDKZ victory in the civil state of war, Lopotev was killed by an unknown assassin at his summertime villa in Chernogorsk. However, his expiry has no consequence on atmospheric condition within Chernarus. The involvement of Force Reconnaissance Marines in Operation Harvest Cherry post-U.Southward. withdrawal remained denied past the U.S. authorities. Razor Team was retroactively declared missing in action at the very moment U.S. forces withdrew from Chernarus, and their truthful fate was never revealed.

"Setting Sail"

Despite the pro-ChDKZ Russian peacekeeping contingent withdrawing from Chernarus, Razor Team fails to help the Chernarussians recapture S Zagoria from ChDKZ clutches. Barely escaping with their lives, Razor Team and a small grouping of surviving Chernarussian soldiers plans to escape Due south Zagoria via truck, past driving westward and into safer central Chernarus, when the route they've planned to take is blocked off by ChDKZ forces. They come up with a different plan, diverting onto a different route with a plan to escape the country via boat. Nether heavy burn down, Razor Team makes it to a boat in a harbor on the Chernarussian coast and escapes the land; they have failed their mission completely.

Chernarussian forces suffered a terrible defeat during the civil war and were pushed back into the southwest, out of South Zagoria. Due south Zagoria suffered for a year under harsh ChDKZ dominion. Nevertheless, Chernarussian forces eventually recaptured the province in 2011, in a bloody a violent epilogue to the Chernarussian civil war. An international Un peacekeeping contingent, comprised mostly of Russian and European forces, was deployed into Chernarus, in an effort to help stablize the country.

The Russian regime suffered a minor crisis in 2009, when several loftier-ranking Russian officials were charged with treason and sentenced to decease for their part in the Chernarussian conflict. General Shagarov of the Russian Army was awarded the Order of Saint Andrew for his role in uncovering the origins of the Russian-ChDKZ conspiracy and capturing Gregori "Akula" Lopotev; he would dice in a car accident in 2012.

Razor Team successfully escaped Due south Zagoria and their involvement in the Chernarussian civil state of war post-U.Southward. withdrawal became a well-kept secret. None of them would ever set up foot on Chernarussian soil again.

"The War That Never Was"

After helping the Chenarussians have dorsum South Zagoria from the hands of the ChDKZ, Razor Team captures Lopotev at a hideout on a remote island off the Chernarussian coast. They are so ordered by their commanders to transfer him into Russian custody, an order that Razor Team resents due to the possibility of a ChDKZ-Russian conspiracy, but ends up heeding anyhow. During the prisoner transfer, Loptoev is freed in an ambush orchestrated past rogue Russian Spetsnaz GRU soldiers. Razor Squad fights back and kills all of the ambushers, identifying ane of them equally "Karelin", a rogue Spetsnaz soldiers that was responsible for several war crimes, atrocities, and the deaths of several U.S. Marines, including that of Ian Simmons, one of Razor Team'due south colleagues who helped costless them when they were captured past the ChDKZ earlier on in the entrada.

Despite Lopotev escaping, the ChDKZ is substantially defeated, with the Chernarussians tracking down the stragglers, and Chernarus becomes a powerful, free, and stable democracy, even sending their armed forces on Un peacekeeping missions into neighboring Takistan a few years later, in 2012. Razor Squad's mission in Chernarus is considered successfully achieved and they are extracted from the country via a MH-60S Knighthawk helicopter and to the USS Khe Sanh (LHD-nine), which is awaiting their return off the coast of Útes island. After arriving on board, Razor Team is greeted to a hero's welcome and a steel beach picnic celebration held past the USS Khe Sanh 's sailors and Marines. General Armstrong, the commander of the local USMC MEF contingent, congratulates Razor Squad on a job well done and reminds them that their valiant achievements will be classified every bit top secret, thus remaining unknown to the general public for years to come. The CDF and NAPA announce their new joint partnership, Russian peacekeeping forces are withdrawn from Chernarus, and several years later, Lopotev is killed past an unknown assassin outside his summer villa in Chernogorsk in 2014.

After the end of Operation Harvest Red, Rodriguez is killed during Operation Fiery Mount in Zargabad, Takistan in Oct 2010, and his heroics during the Takistani conflict become legendary throughout the U.Due south. Marine Corps. With six years of service to his proper name in the 27th MEU, O'Hara is discharged from the U.S. Marine Corps several years afterward and returns to his native San Francisco, becoming a doctor of medicine. Sykes is severely wounded during Operation Fiery Mountain in Zargabad, Takistan in October 2010, only makes a full recovery, becoming an teacher at the Marine Special Operations School at Military camp Lejeune, North Carolina; putting his wartime experience to use in grooming his fellow Marines. Cooper is put in charge of Razor Team and retires from the U.S. Marine Corps after a deployment in Takistan. After his retirement, Cooper becomes a security consultant for various government agencies and travels to Chernarus regularly.

Hidden ending

A hidden catastrophe occurs early on on in the campaign; Razor Team raids a warehouse, capturing Lopotev and several of his associates. Razor Squad is then tasked to send their newly captured prisoners via truck, when they are ambushed and captured by ChDKZ insurgents, afterwards Nikola Nikitin, a CDF officer and hugger-mugger ChDKZ mole, betrays Razor Squad. Miles is summarily executed by Lopotev, and although Razor Squad is rescued past Force Recon Marines soon therafter, it is likewise late to salve Miles' life. Razor Team'south commanding officer, Captain Shaftoe, feels sympathy for his men and offers to cease their mission, sending Razor Team to Germany for liberty. Razor Team reluctantly obliges, boarding a C-130 send out of the country later on that evening. Several months subsequently, the one-time members of Razor Team reunite at a diner, where they limited their disappointment at ending their mission early on, which left Chernarus abandoned by the international community and in consummate shambles. The team discusses a possible conflict emerging in Takistan, and Cooper walks off in disgust.

Features

Factions

Arma two (plus the Operation Arrowhead expansion) features ix distinct armed factions, all with their ain vehicles and weapons. Caught in the heart are the Chernarussian and Takistani civilians.

• United states Marine Corps (USMC)
• Military of the Russian federation
• Chernarussian Defence Forces (CDF)
• Chernarussian Motion of the Red Star (ChDKZ)
• National Party (NAPA)
• Citizens of Chernarus
• United States Army (Performance Arrowhead)
• Takistani Army (Operation Arrowhead)
• NATO and UNO (Operation Arrowhead)
• People of Takistan (Operation Arrowhead)
• British Armed Forces (Downloadable Content)
• ION, Inc. (Downloadable Content)

Equipment

Arma ii features effectually fourscore realistically represented weapons with many variants including assault rifles, auto guns, and missile launchers. There are around 130 vehicle variants, and whatever vehicle that exists in-game can be controlled by the histrion, including everything from civilian cars, tractors and bicycles. Similarly, all aircraft encountered in the game can be flown by the player. All have express fuel and realistic weapon loadouts.

Ballistics

All weapons have realistically fake ballistics. Rounds travel in parabolic trajectories and show effects of bullet driblet dependent on their caliber. Cage velocities are modeled, and rounds lose velocity and knockdown power over fourth dimension traveled. The ranges at which weapons are zeroed are fixed in the base game, although the Operation Arrowhead standalone expansion pack allows this to be modified, letting the player zero in their weapons sights. Sniper rifles tin can use stadiametric rangefinding to adjust for long-range shots. U.Southward. rifles use mil-dot scopes while Russian rifles use Bullet Drop Bounty (BDC) scopes such every bit the PSO-one. In addition, bullets will ricochet from surfaces depending on bending of bear on. Penetration is also modeled, with rounds that laissez passer through materials suffering from altered velocity and direction.

Mission editor

ARMA 2 includes a feature rich mission editor which makes it possible to create user made single player missions or campaigns and multi player missions. Mission editor includes a sorcerer which makes the cosmos of basic missions extremely unproblematic. More complex missions can be enhanced with scripting commands. The syntax and interface has been kept largely consistent with ArmA, meaning that missions are hands ported across and that there is a wealth of documentation available for new users.

Modding

ARMA ii, like its predecessors, has an extensive support for modding the game. The developers have released a complete suite of tools to modify and create new content for ARMA 2. ^[11] The Existent Virtuality Engine includes a built-in scripting language to practise tasks such as control AI characters, create triggers and waypoints, and add mail service-processing effects.

DayZ Modification

Principal commodity: DayZ

In Apr 2012, Dean Hall released DayZ, an open world survival horror modification for ARMA 2 which also required the Operation Arrowhead standalone expansion pack to piece of work. DayZ received much critical acclamation in the video gaming media for its "innovative design elements", with Kotaku and Eurogamer describing it as perchance the best zombie game ever made, ^{[12] [thirteen]} and PCGamer proverb it was one of the most of import things to happen to PC Gaming in 2012. ^[14] The modern was responsible for putting the three-year-old game into the elevation seller charts for over seven weeks, spending much of this time the top selling game, ^{[15] [16]} and is responsible for over 300,000 unit sales within two months of its release. ^[17]

Technology

System requirements

Minimum Recommended Microsoft Windows Operating system Windows XP or Windows Vista CPU Dual Cadre (Intel Pentium D 3.0 GHz, Intel Cadre 2.0 GHz, AMD Athlon 3200+ or faster) Quad Core CPU or Dual Cadre CPU (Intel Core ii.8 GHz, AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400 + or faster) Memory i GB RAM two GB RAM Hard drive space x GB Graphics hardware Nvidia Geforce 7800, ATI Radeon 1800 or faster (with Shader Model iii and 256 MB VRAM) Nvidia Geforce 8800GT, ATI Radeon 4850 or faster (with Shader Model iii and 512 MB VRAM) Network Internet or LAN connectedness required for multiplayer

Engine

Arma 2 uses the third-generation Real Virtuality game engine, which has been in development for over 10 years and of which previous versions are used in training simulators by militaries around the world. This engine has full DirectX 9 support (Shader Model 3).

It features realistic 24-hour interval-night cycles, changing weather condition, fog and visibility, and a view distance of up to xv kilometres. Every weapon in the game fires projectiles with real trajectories, drop off, and penetration characteristics. As such, no weapon organisation in the game is a "guaranteed" striking – only after the engine has simulated the event can it be determined if a given shot or missile has hit the target.^{[ commendation needed ]}

The number of agents supported by the engine is limited mainly by figurer performance. ^[18] This allows a broad range of scenarios to be played, from pocket-size unit of measurement actions up to large-scale battles. Nearly all events in the game are dynamically defined, including about unit speech and AI choices about how to evaluate and answer to specific situations in the game world: scenarios rarely unfold the same way twice – although a side with an overwhelming reward will tend to win consistently.

The player can choose to plough their head independently from their weapon / torso, unlike in most shooters where the view is locked to the weapon. This allows players to look left and right while running forwards to maintain awareness of the battlefield or to look around while in a confined space without having to lower their weapon.

In order to brand immersive missions faster to develop and less predictable, ARMA ii features an optional "ambient boxing" feature in which the world effectually the role player tin automatically be populated by friendly and hostile units who will engage in gainsay.

Game updates

Shortly subsequently the game's German release a 1.01 patch appeared, with the objective of improving AI.

Another patch, v1.02, was released on 20 June fixing more AI pathing issues such equally, the AI walking through walls during cutting scenes, driving vehicles with no hands, and unrealistic state of war reactions by the AI and various singleplayer campaign problems So, another updated patch v1.02.58134 was released on 26 June. Patch v1.03 was released on 4 August, albeit without an option for stand up-alone server hosts. Patch one.04 was released on fifteen September. On 22 December, patch ane.05 was released, which includes a new mini-campaign, Eagle Wing, and a new vehicle, the AH-64 Apache. Patch v1.07 was debuted on 28 June 2010. Changes of note include improved performance within larger cities, enhanced AI driving skills, a raise of the file enshroud size to 4 GB RAM or more than to take reward of 64-scrap operating systems, and improving the game engine's employ of processors with 4 or more cores. Currently, the latest patch for ARMA 2 is v1.xi (debuted on 22 December 2011, and sharing many features with ARMA 2 Functioning Arrowhead patch v1.60), which brought significant optimisations in multiplayer netcode and performance, also equally numerous singleplayer campaign and missions fixes.

On 19 August Marek Španěl from Bohemia Interactive appear that the latest beta patches are available to everyone from the official ARMA two website. Electric current development of the beta versions has added, amid other things, support for more efficient antialiasing modes like FXAA and SMAA in the ARMA 2 Operation Arrowhead engine.

Demo version

The demo version of ARMA two was released on Bohemia Interactive forums 25 June 2009 and presently thereafter on Steam.

In the demo version, the thespian is given the possibility to play 2 single thespian missions as well every bit six of the 8 training missions. There is limited access to the mission editor. There is also access to a benchmark and express online multiplayer.

ARMA 2: Costless

In June 2011 Bohemia Interactive released a gratuitous to play version of ARMA 2, featuring full multiplayer compatibility with the retail version of ARMA ii. ^[seven] Even so the singleplayer entrada has been omitted and players volition not be able to apply loftier-resolution textures, mods or play with Performance Arrowhead or DLC content. Essentially it serves equally a "Calorie-free" version of the game.

In 2012, Steam removed ARMA 2: Free from its database.

Copy protection

Arma 2 uses unlike copy protections depending on publisher equally well equally a inhouse-coded copy protection solution confronting tampering known as DEGRADE. ^[19] If the software detects that information technology was pirated, the Degrade-system degrades features of the game, rendering it unplayable. The version downloadable from Steam is non limited by number of installs, but other download services may employ some limits. As of version 1.05 the publishers copy protection have been removed from ARMA 2 although Degrade is still included. There is now a DRM-gratis version of ARMA 2 + Operation Arrowhead that is available from GOG.com

Reception

Reception
Amass scores
Aggregator	Score
Metacritic	77% (38 reviews) [20]
Review scores
Publication	Score
Eurogamer	eight/x [21]
PC Gamer United kingdom	83% [twenty]
PC Zone	70% [20]

ARMA two has been praised for its realism, graphics, and the sheer calibration of the game. However, as with the original Armed Assault, the game has received criticism for the number of bugs it contained on release ^[21] and the quality of the AI. ^[22] A reviewer at TheReticule.com ultimately felt that though at times information technology "doesn't work", the game is "a genuinely excellent game of the same pedigree of Operation Flashpoint and has done a lot of [sic] regain my faith in BIS". ^[23] Some other reviewer noted that the game managed to show the "job of a real soldier today: contact with the population", something that is defective in other similar games ^[24] The developers take since released several patches addressing mutual bugs.

Expansion packs

ARMA 2: Operation Arrowhead

See also: ARMA 2: Operation Arrowhead

On 22 April 2010, Bohemia Interactive confirmed that a standalone expansion pack for ARMA 2, titled Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead, would be released worldwide on 29 June 2010. ^[25] According to the site, players volition be able to play as members of the Usa Army in a fictional region of westward-Asia named Takistan, ^[26] where the terrain is based on Afghanistan. Operation Arrowhead includes three new maps, a variety of new units, vehicles and equipment, as well every bit the eponymous campaign. Amidst the new units are a new array of United States Army personnel and vehicles, Czech forces and High german KSK units. United Nations peacekeepers are too present every bit an independent faction.

The expansion is a standalone, meaning it can be run without the content in the original ARMA 2, but players who purchased ARMA 2 volition also be able to integrate that content into Operation Arrowhead. The developers plan on releasing some of the core changes introduced in Functioning Arrowhead (such as functioning optimizations) as patches, assuasive regular ARMA 2 players to access to any engine improvements introduced in the expansion. New content, withal, will remain exclusive to Performance Arrowhead.

Bohemia Interactive has so far released two downloadable content packs for Operation Arrowhead. The outset DLC called British Armed services adds units from the British Army, and a new mini-campaign, where players assume the role of a visitor from The Parachute Regiment operating in Takistan. ^{[27] [28]} The second DLC called Individual Military machine Company includes a new entrada, environment, vehicles and weapons. ^[29] On 4 June 2012, a third DLC titled Army of the Czech republic was announced. ^[thirty]

Overview

Name	Release engagement	Type	Source	Notes
Arma two: Operation Arrowhead	29 June 2010 [31]	Standalone Expansion pack	DVD Download
Arma 2: Combined Operations	29 June 2010 [32]	Standalone Expansion pack	DVD Download	Arma two + Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead
Arma 2: British Armed Forces	26 August 2010 [33]	Expansion pack	Download	Units of the British Armed Forces
Arma ii: Individual Armed forces Company	30 November 2010 [34]	Expansion pack	Download	Units of individual military machine companies
Arma 2: Reinforcements	1 April 2011 [35]	Standalone Expansion pack	DVD Download	Addons British Armed Forces + Private Military Company
Arma 2: Army of the Czech republic	one August 2012 [36]	Expansion pack	Download	Units of the Army of the Czech Republic

Sequel

Main article: ARMA 3

On 19 May 2011 the developers at Bohemia Interactive officially announced that ARMA three is in development. ^[37] The game is said to offer radical engine improvements and a unique sandbox-style military machine gameplay. The campaign is said to follow a modest grouping of special forces and researchers that are sent to a Mediterranean island now called "Altis" (Previously named Lemnos) deep behind enemy lines. The game is ready to ship for Windows PC in 2013 ^[38]

Controversy

ITV Documentary Fault

British TV network ITV circulate footage taken from the game in a documentary aired on 26 September 2011 entitled "Exposure: Gaddafi and the IRA", mistaking it for footage taken of an IRA attack in 1988. The broadcaster apologised, blaming human mistake. ^[39]

A spokesperson for ITV commented on the fault and said:

"The events featured in Exposure: Gaddafi and the IRA were genuine but information technology would appear that during the editing procedure the correct clip of the 1988 incident was not selected and other footage was mistakenly included in the film past producers. This was an unfortunate instance of human error for which we apologise." ^[40]

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