ArlandSPInvasion

Arma Reforger - Arland Invasion (SP)

A medium length scenario with multiple objectives. Find your way behind enemy lines, unlock new missions, capture towns, and liberate Arland.

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Level Overview

Theme:

Covert night-time actions behind enemy lines.

Player Goal:

Complete all missions and liberate the island together with friendly forces.

USP:

Step by step island liberation with survival-like atmosphere.

Level Planning

Objectives:

Unlocking objectives resembles Far Cry's approach where by climbing a tower destroying a radar installation, the tasks are revealed for a specific region. After each task in the area is completed the player may choose to support an assault on the strongpoint in the respective region.

Enemy Distribution & Difficulty:

Arland has been split into 3 difficulty zones. Starting location is in the Green zone where most enemies do not pose a threat or are engaged by friendly units who will support the player. Yellow and Red zones have more specialized units (MG gunners, snipers, AT) as well as less support or interactions with friendly units.

Objective Types

Radar Installation

There are 3 radar sites across Arland. By destroying a radar, missions in the region become assigned to the player. Completion of this mission also acts as a trigger to spawn units and tasks. Radars are operated by a few officers and their guards. Radars are always defended by at least one RPG soldier to allow the player to pick up the RPG for the radar destruction on the spot. Alternatively, radars can be destroyed by hand grenades.

Helicopter Crash Site

Following an unsuccessful helicopter assault on the island there are multiple crash sites scattered for the player to explore. Crash site tasks are mostly present in the first area and include limited enemy presence. Some sites have friendly forces being engaged by the enemies. The player can choose to help them out.

Friendlies in Trouble

Some helicopters managed to land troops successfully. However, most were spotted and engaged. Objectives with BLUEFOR involve besieged friendly units that are under attack. Player's task is to eliminate hostile presence. Task will still complete if no friendly units survive.

Officer Assasination

Unique task for this scenario that has the player eliminate an officer supervising an ammunition delivery at the port. Multiple approaches are possible. Player may choose to engage head on or use a sniper lookout nearby with a perfect view of the target.

Strongpoint Assault

After finishing all tasks in the region the strongpoint assault becomes possible. Friendly units are spawned in and the player is given a task to assist them in capturing key objects on Arland. This task presents the player with a chance to participate in urban combat and acts as a reward for completing previous tasks.

Level Highlights

Random spawn loadouts

Players start with a random weapon but are free to replace it by finding weapon caches or looting enemies.

Traversal

Players are free to covertly traverse the level. However, it is also possible to find abandoned cars or take them from enemies for a more reckless experience.

BLUEFOR v REDFOR

Despite most of the helicopters being shot down there are pockets of friendly resistance. If the player is quick enough most friendly units can be saved and contribute to the strongpoint assaults later.

Strongpoint Assaults

Upon completion of all the side missions for a specific region it becomes possible to capture the main strongpoint. Player can support freshly landed friendly units in their attacks.

Project Conclusion & Reflection

Working with Arma Reforger was a great learning experience. It presented multiple challenges but also great opportunities.

One of such challenges was the lack of documentation which I mitigated by trying things out myself and following community guides. I believe this issue to sort itself out with time as more and more developers use the workbench.

As for the opportunities, the workbench and the world editor specifically provided a great playground for my creativity. In some ways the engine appeared similar to UE5 and allowed for quick iteration.

The current state of the project is not final. My plans include the addition of adaptive player spawns to speed up the gameplay, adaptive enemy and friendly patrols, and task variety with new points of interest. Additionally, I plan to tackle optimization and garbage collection by cleaning up assets behind the player when moving to a different zone of operation.

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