Arma Reforger's 1.8 Major Update is live, and the game is now available on the Microsoft Store with Xbox Play Anywhere support—one digital purchase covers Xbox consoles and Windows PC. The update also introduces the first pass at the Far Hide concealment system, specialist role perks, new smoke and gesture options, and more punishing deaths.

The biggest gameplay addition in 1.8 is the first iteration of Far Hide. It's designed to fix a long-standing spotting problem: when grass stops rendering at long distances or on lower graphics settings, a prone player in a field becomes an easy target for snipers. With Far Hide, distant characters are better concealed against grass-covered areas, so lying still at 750 meters no longer makes you stand out.

Concealment matters against AI too. Grass and camo nets can now obstruct AI vision, making vegetation and camouflage more useful for breaking line of sight and shaking off AI tracking.

Your squad role now affects job-related tasks:

• Medics can inspect and treat wounded soldiers faster and load casualties into vehicles.
• Logistics personnel load and unload supplies faster.
• Vehicle crews repair, rearm, and refuel vehicles faster.
• Engineers construct structures and deployables faster.

Building also gets a quality-of-life improvement: you no longer need to drop a whole pile of sandbags before constructing something. One available sandbag is enough to start deployment, with the remaining items taken from your inventory. Players can also deploy razor wire themselves, and the PKMN can be set up on the 6T5 tripod with or without the 1P29 optic.

New tactical gesture and loiter animations—sitting, pushups, smoking—give you more ways to communicate without voice. The US Army adds underbarrel smoke grenades in several colors, and smoke mortar rounds have been adjusted to stay effective longer.

Other notable changes:

• Running without boots can now damage your feet, with a small chance of stumbling and falling.
• Dying costs 30 rank progression points. Friendly-fire deaths don't penalize the victim's rank, and dying won't turn you into a Renegade.
• Admins can teleport their camera directly to players and promote or demote players through the Player List.
• MOB construction is no longer blocked simply by nearby enemies.

The update also includes crash fixes, memory and pathfinding improvements, VoN updates, and other optimizations. See the full 1.8 Update changelog, and submit feedback through the Feedback Tracker.

Bohemia Interactive’s Steam Flash Sale is live through July 27, slashing prices on the Arma series. Arma Reforger is 30% off, while Arma 3 Gold Edition and Arma 3 Platinum Edition are 70% off. Arma 3 DLCs are discounted up to 67% off, and the Arma 3 Ultimate Pack bundles everything.

For free community content, visit the Arma Reforger Workshop in-game or via browser.

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«I was banned from the server without a clear explanation. When contacting support asking to look into the situation (I provided all explanations), the administration simply remained silent. Instead of dialogue — ignore.

It creates a persistent impression that the reason for the ban is not a violation of the rules (which I did not violate), but that I have my own server in this game. It seems the administration of this project is afraid of healthy competition and tries to keep players by any means, simply blocking owners of other communities.

I've also heard stories about ordering DDoS attacks on other servers — apparently this is part of their "power retention" policy. The atmosphere here is toxic, no one wants to look into the situation. 1/10.»

"Unjustified ban without explanation. Competition?"

«I was banned from the server without a clear explanation. When contacting support with a request to look into the situation (I provided all explanations), the administration simply remained silent. Instead of dialogue — ignoring.

It gives a strong impression that the reason for the ban is not a violation of the rules (which I did not violate), but that I have my own server in this game. It seems the administration of this project is afraid of healthy competition and tries to keep players by any means, simply blocking owners of other communities.

I have also heard stories about ordering DDoS attacks on other servers — apparently, this is part of their policy of "holding onto power." The atmosphere here is toxic, no one wants to look into the situation. 1/10.»

"Unjustified ban without explanation. Competition?"

«Was banned on the server without a clear explanation. When contacting support to look into the situation (provided all explanations), the administration just remained silent. Instead of dialogue — ignore.

I get the strong impression that the reason for the ban is not a violation of the rules (which I did not violate), but that I have my own server in this game. It seems the administration of this project is afraid of healthy competition and tries by any means to retain players, simply by blocking owners of other communities.

I've also heard stories about ordering DDoS attacks on other servers — apparently, this is part of their policy of "holding onto power". The atmosphere here is toxic, nobody wants to look into the situation. 1/10.»

«Unjustified ban without explanation. Competition?»

«I was banned on the server without a clear explanation. When contacting support to ask to look into the situation (I provided all explanations), the administration simply remained silent. Instead of a dialogue — ignoring.

There is a persistent impression that the reason for the ban is not a violation of the rules (which I did not break), but that I have my own server in this game. It seems the administration of this project is afraid of healthy competition and tries in any way to retain players by simply blocking owners of other communities.

I've also heard stories about ordering DDoS attacks on other servers — apparently, this is part of their policy of "holding onto power". The atmosphere here is toxic, no one wants to look into the situation. 1/10.»

Unreasonable ban without explanation. Competition?

«I was banned from the server without a clear explanation of the reasons. Upon contacting support asking to look into the situation (provided all explanations), the administration simply remained silent. Instead of dialogue — ignoring.

A firm impression emerges that the reason for the ban is not a violation of the rules (which I did not violate), but the fact that I have my own server in this game. It seems that the administration of this project is afraid of healthy competition and tries by any means to keep players, simply blocking owners of other communities.

I've also heard stories about ordering DDoS attacks on other servers — apparently, this is part of their policy of "keeping power". The atmosphere here is toxic, no one wants to sort out the situation. 1/10.»