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ARMA Reforger has just received its awesome 1.3 Fire Support update, bringing new infantry, helicopters, mortars destruction and more to the sandbox military simulator. Built on Bohemia Interactive’s powerful new Enfusion Engine, the game is the first ARMA title to be a multi-platform release across PC and console.
In an interview with VideoGamer, Krzysztof Bielawski explained that bringing Reforger to console has been a “challenge” due to the intensive simulation available in the military simulator. When asked how possible bringing the now 12-year-old ARMA 3 to console would be, Bielawski believes its next to “impossible”.
ARMA 3 on console can’t happen
Speaking to VideoGamer, Bielawski explained that there’s a “lot of effort in making ARMA 3 even more optimal” at Bohemia. 12 years after launch, the aging MilSim game has been updated with multi-threading, allowing the game to make use of multi-core CPUs on modern PCs. However, Bohemia isn’t done with optmisation.
“Like there is some code, especially multi-threaded code, which we developed in Enfusion [Engine] and you’re using in the third [game] and it could be ported back to ARMA free code and there are some attempts at it,” he continued.
However, bringing the full ARMA 3 experience to a console like Xbox Series or PS5 would be a herculean task for Bohemia, so much so that the team thinks it’s probably impossible.
“Oh yeah, I would say it’s impossible,” Bielawski said. “Porting the whole ARMA 3 [experience] to consoles, that’s out of the question. That’s not possible and I wouldn’t even try to estimate how hard it would be.”
While ARMA Reforger has been built as a “creative platform” that is a valuable test bench for the development of ARMA 4 on the Enfusion Engine, it’s still its own game, and Bohemia still has a tonne of plans to expand the game well into the future.
With the game now hitting its highest-ever daily active user count with a total of 225,987 unique players across all platforms, Reforger is an incredible success for the team after a rather rough early access launch back in 2022.
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