Arma 3 APEX – Jungle Fever

My buddy and I recently finished the official APEX expansion in cooperative mode for Arma 3. The story is a direct continuation of “East Wind” from the original game. At first, it does feel disconnected until something specific comes up, which I won’t spoil. It’s a cool touch having a narrative that connects with each other, considering it’s a war simulator and not your standard AAA-game series.

Instead of the usual all-out war, you play as a cloak-and-dagger special operations team that has the task of taking out a local warlord on the island paradise (for criminals) of Tanoa. This group is named “Syndikate” and is mostly equipped with old-fashioned AKs and equipment like that. Not the high-tech armies of past campaigns. However, later on in the campaign, you get to meet another faction that is equipped with more futuristic high-tech weaponry, like yourself. The story is presented in a very Tom Clancy-esque way, which to me is awesome. It instantly gets me into the clandestine thriller mood, so well done here!

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[Arma 3 mod] Battle of Norway – Operation Weserübung

I have recently been getting into Arma 3 again, playing the APEX expansion with a friend (impressions coming soon!). While being fun, what truly caught my eye is the amount of single-player/cooperative campaigns out there on STEAM workshop. And one of those campaigns is the World War 2-themed Battle of Norway – Operation Weserübung. It takes place during the invasion of Norway, and you get to play as a German paratrooper equipped (well, at least from the start) with an MP40 and if you are lucky a few stick grenades. 

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So what has happened since 2012?

Plenty of stuff, but at the same time not too much. Games are the same almost on a genre level, but there have been some notable things that happened to the industry.

Political correctness / wokeness is a big one. Games (not only games, though) have been suffering from insufferable political correctness for the last couple of years. So now we have World War II shooters with mixed-race battalions, women on the front line with prosthetics, etc. It has been an absurd ride, but thankfully it’s mostly regulated to AAA gaming. Which leads me to…

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Efter sju mycket svåra år…

Vi börjar närma oss tredje världskriget, så jag tänkte; dags att börja skriva här igen! Med andra ord så är jag är tillbaka. Förvänta er ett halvtaskigt inlägg var fjärde månad eller något sådant om något obskyrt och antagligen tråkigt spel!

Ps. Jag tänkte eftersom världen är mer internationell nu så kanske man borde skriva lite på engelska. Också för att jag blivit alldeles för amerikaniserad på senaste då jag glömt halva svenska språket.

/Thomas