FROM: Project Lead
TO: Arma 3 Users
INFO: DLC strategy, Karts release, Scripting commands
PRECEDENCE: Flash
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And then there were
Karts ... we can imagine that was quite the surprise! We felt it was important to only release the
April Fools content
together with
our blog on Arma 3's downloadable content strategy. The package really is intended to be a
fun test-bed for this approach, rather than a serious addition to the military sandbox. The charity aspect reinforces this. In terms of the impact this small project has had on the team's workload ... very little. In no way does this affect e.g. programmers working on multiplayer optimization. A lot of the work on Karts' content, in fact, was done outside of normal office hours by a handful of people who had fun doing something slightly different. For example, Senior Artist
Martin Valášek contributed the primary model, created at home to further train his vehicle modeling skills. Project Lead
Joris-Jan van 't Land donned his designer hat once more to create the unforgiving Time Trials - so you have him to blame for the seemingly unbeatable medal times!
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