The Czech military simulator veterans at Bohemia Interaction celebrated 25 years in business and marked the occasion with a beautiful orchestral performance by the Czech National Symphony Orchestra.
The big surprise came towards the end, where the big screen behind the orchestra flashed the words most gamers had been waiting for years to see: ArmA 4, coming 2027.
The announcement has had a bittersweet reaction among the ArmA fandom, one of the most dedicated among first-person shooters.
The ArmA 4 project has been public for years now. Bohemia released ARMA Reforger in 2022 to field test the technologies on which ArmA 4 will be based and get modders acquainted with the new tools.
Reforger came out in early access in 2022 and hit 1.0 last year after overcoming a lot of teething issues.
The mature state of ARMA Reforger led many players to think that the foundations were in place for ArmA 4, leading them to assume the game would be released within the next year or two.
More humorous ArmA fans have drawn comparisons with GTA 6 and Star Citizen, games infamous for having comically long release cycles that are yet to reach a satisfactory conclusion.
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