Once Josef Zemánek managed to bring the same gameplay to every village on every official map available in Arma 3, we spent significant time just 'browsing' the locations in various daytime and weather conditions.
Thus, we came up with the idea of generating the scenario in every village based on a map's key points. However, we eventually became bored of playing in a single location. In the process, players also had to battle a few randomized infantry groups. The first location we used was the Altian town of Athira, and the goal was to pass through a chain of five randomly selected objectives, which the players had to find using only their map and compass. This prototype scenario helped us internally to introduce some of our new colleagues to 'classic' military sandbox gameplay - and the randomized nature of the scenario ensured replayability. In fact, the intention behind the very first prototype of Combat Patrol, which we called "MOUT Training" ("Military Operations in Urban Terrain") back then, was to offer instant challenging combat with a little team of friends against Arma's AI, without making things too complex. Instead, it offers a quick and simple gateway to a more hardcore Arma experience. That said, compared to some of the more broad and complex community frameworks for randomized scenarios, Combat Patrol is much more straightforward. Each session is different thanks to the scenario's heavily randomized nature.
In this OPREP, we'd like to highlight some of Combat Patrol's qualities in detail - and, most importantly, invite you to play it, provide feedback, and/or even modify the original concept to your liking.Ĭombat Patrol offers quick cooperative gameplay by placing you and your squad mates together into an infantry team, and giving you the option to select the area that you want to play in. However, before that happens, we wanted to share it with you and see whether you like it as much as we do. It's now evolved into what might become an official multiplayer scenario/mode in the game. The development of this scenario started out as a pet project by our Senior Technical Designer Josef "Jezuro" Zemánek and myself more than two years ago. One of the latest Arma 3 Dev-Branch updates introduced a prototype of a cooperative scenario called COOP 12 Combat Patrol. OPSUM: Introducing an experimental cooperative scenario UNIT: Ivan Buchta, Combat Patrol co-author, Arma 3
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