Downvoted because of lying about DLC policy. I don't care if this DLC would cost 99c instead, make it free, or you're lying scumbags Bohemia. #WorseThanEA mainly because EA won't lie about screwing you over for their own personal enjoyment.
A while ago, Bohemia promised with their DLC NOT to split the playerbase, and only introduce content everyone can see but maybe not use, so while you can still ride in the back of the fancy new helicopters, you can't fly them without the dlc, now there's a whole new map, that while cool, splinters the ♥♥♥♥ING COMMUNITY. Yes, I am quite upset about this, as most servers are using Tanoa now, which means I essentially have to buy 60% of the game, again. I was very tempted to buy this through ♥♥♥ just to pray that it was bought with a stolen CC so Bohemia would get none of their money, which they don't deserve. G-G Scum.

Additionally, the total value of their DLC is now MORE THAN THE GAME. This is not the sims! This is ARMA! This "Map and couple vehicles" is literally valued at $5 less than the main game, which is saying how much they value this content, which is trash.

This is an open letter to bohemia to drop the price of this to $15. I don't care how much effort you put into this, you lied, and false advertised essentially. Everyone needs to write a negative review no matter if the content is good or not, because the mere idea of this dlc at this price point with their prior promises breaks several basic moral codes everyone should have, and is disgraceful.

TL\DR version: Walk past or buy when it's on 30% price.

Alright, so I decided to acqure this DLC in the end. I rad a couple of reviews before getting involved - both positive and negative, and you know, the negative once have turned to be true. First of all - the price, it's too high for a product like that which is quiet poor on original content apart from the island - the island, maybe, is ok.

However it actually have some FPS issue, while I can run Altis or Stratis with 40-50-60 FPS on my PC config (on all Ultra) it is essentially giving me around 25-30 on Tanoa while playing campaign, alone. To have the game playble I had to reduce the graphics quality and view range which I didn't had to do before.

The campaign is half-♥♥♥ administrated and poor both on scenario and other stuff. Gameplay wise it's just a bunch of 'point A to point B' little missions with no opportunity to loose. And it's quiet short. I bought the game today at morning and after 3 or 4 hours it was already completed by me alone. There is nothing that can stop you from just playing the campaign through any style you want because you can't loose here and you even can't really die because of none-ending respawns. Even mission objective can't be lost while you're spending your respawn countdown jerking while there is no boots on the ground to protect something that you have to protect. And I've just started on that piece of crap - the mission flow is half-♥♥♥ administrated as well like bots can just spawn on top of you and so on. Missons are all fast and all alike, you won't see any diversity or any plot twists - CS: Condition Zero campaign is much more entertaining, that is what I can tell ya to compare.

And the best part - check the screenshots and trailers to this DLC on the very steam store page. Now so you know - you won't see any of those scenes in the actual game campaign. What you'll see is a bunch of infantry in the junge and a bunch of cars you won't even have to drive more then 1 time. I mean, campaign is going to show you less then 10% of the actual island and around that of it's own already poor content.

SPOILER ALERT BELOW, however you won't miss anything actually. The actual plot is dumb flat. Csat is bad and Nato is good, good bye. That's the only story material you'll carry out of the campaign. There is zero to no logic in what is going on and the story is damn stright and simple. Comparing to the original East Wind scenario flow with it's ~40 episodes and nice story plus twists the Apex campaign is just a nonesence. Workshop have a lot of better orchestrated missions made by community mambers for free.

Now on 'new toys' - it says you'll have a lot of new weapons and vehicles. But don't be rushed to be impressed. Most of that are just copy - past of old weapons, camos and helmets \ gear etc with some new textures slapped on it. There is very little of new, original contect. Some few good things are actually present but that's about it.

Almost forgot to mention that AI are running mad on Tanoa - they're either becoming empty headed and die like rats or can suddenly see you through all the foliage, at night, w\o NVG.

In the end - I was thining about playing that with my friends to remember the good Arma 2 co-op experience. But now I'm positive I won't recommend that DLC to anyone. Maybe for 30% price, not more. So if you're not in hurry to get the DLC because content of this DLC is essential for servers you like to hang around then you can relax until it's half a price or more.

Cheers. Fair seas.

There are mods with more content than this. The real tipping point that made me give this a bad review was the fact that the campaign was literally something I could put together in a week with the base game and a couple of mods. This is worth $15, tops.

Just way to expensive for what you get.

Children play Call of Duty
Boys play Battlefield
Men play ARMA

This expansion is definitely worth the buy. Even at $35, it is still one of the best expansion Bohemia has ever released, and honestly I believe that everyone who owns Arma 3 currently should purchase this because it will soon become a necessity to Arma 3.

Tanoa - The terrain is defiantly the star of this expansion, it is a huge archipelago of dense jungle, farm fields and towns. One of my most favorite things about this map is the city, Georgetown, because I don't think any other Arma game has had a city like this, a proper city. In Altis, we had Kavala, but that was just a copy paste of weird styled homes (not really weird but not anything most people would be used to). But Georgetown is a huge city with skyscrapers, 4 lane roads (really?!) and a huge port.

Vehicles and Weapons - These are the other amazing things about Apex, with my favorite being the VTOLs. The blufor faction has a huge VTOL which replaces the old C-130 line of huge air vehicles, with multiple variants such as troop transport, cargo and my favorite, armed (it has a tank turret and a Gatling gun with explosive rounds attached to the side). Secondly, the civilian jeep style vehicle is a good addition to civilians cars and is a great way to transport around the rugged terrain. Thirdly, the opfor and blufor light attack vehicles, which are beautifully designed, are weaker then the Ifrit and Hunter from regular Arma and is more comparable to the offroad with the 50. cal. Finally, there is a huge variety of new weapons, anything from high end futuristic guns to good old AKs and RPGs. Not to mention the new anti thermal clothing and the thermal headgear.

Campagin - Have yet to play, will update when I'm done with it.

So, as I said, buy Apex. Apex is for everyone, from the people who enjoy life game modes to those who desire to do organized missions, Apex can be enjoyed by everyone. So please, do yourself a favor and buy it!

People are pretty split on this expansion, some say that it is good while some say that it is bad because of either the rubbish campaign or not enough content. I think this expansion is brilliant and here are the reasons why:


Map - This map is the most detailed in any Arma game I have ever played, and I've played all the way back to Operation Flashpoint. This is the focal point of the expansion, whilst others like Operation Arrowhead focused on the map, campaign and general content, it lacked true quality in each of those sections, whether people like to believe that or not, there were many reused assets and lazy detailing in a lot of the Takistan map of that expansion.

Tanoa on the other hand is only a third of the size of Altis, but each and every inch of the map is worked on by hand, no lazy generation tools or many reused prefabs, they dedicated their time to make sure the entire map is crafted by hand in great detail. Areas like the jungle are thick and promote tense CQC gameplay, whilst areas like the city have good enterable buildings and long streets to snipe across. There are lots of other areas in the map that allow great and exciting gameplay more so than most if not any other map I have ever played in the entire Arma/Operation Flashpoint series.

Now granted, the map isn't as big as the others considering it is "only" a third of Altis and even Takistan of the Arma 2 expansion, but the detail is much better than either of those maps, which is something most people who review don't take notice of.

Weapons - You got some new guns, nothing really groundbreaking but are still great additions. People use the very ignorant argument of "Mods have already added the AKM, why is this expansion adding it?" which implies that these mods are as detailed as the offering Bohemia Interactive give with the expansion. Here's the truth, as someone who appreciates good detail in this game, especially considering it is a mil-sim that strives to have true to life bullet ballistics and gun functions, this expansion delivers perfectly with the added weapons.

Let's take the AKM as an example, sure mods have added this gun in with good detail, but this expansion adds a much higher quality AKM with proper reload animations, bullet ballistics, textures and sounds. The AKM, unlike some mod version I tired isn't insanely accurate up to 1000m either, which I noticed with a lot of mod weapons.

Other weapons add something new to the game such as the Type 115, this gun is a hybrid of an assault rifle and a .50 caliber rifle, which I find to be pretty ♥♥♥♥ing awesome. The Type 115 is a bullpup assault rifle with a simple switch of fire mode allows you to access the .50 caliber rifle, it takes 10 round mags and is fairly accurate for what it is.

There are other weapons too such as the SPAR and AK12 and even the classic RPG-7.

Vehicles - This expansion adds various vehicles including VTOLs such as the V-44X Blackfish, which is a big awesome ♥♥♥♥ing plane that also allows vehicle-in-vehicle transport, something which works great and adds a new dimension to the game alone. There are other awesome vehicles such as the water scooter of which is fun for novelty scenarios and another VTOL which is named the Y-32 Xi'an. There are more but I want to get into more detail with vehicle-in-vehicle transport.

One of my favourite things I have experienced so far is loading up the VTOL with an armoured car and being dropped out from a high altitude with a parachute slowing the descent, that alone is an awesome feature even if no vehicles were added at all.


Campaign - Now here is a weak area of the expansion of which I agree with other reviewers about, the campaign. It is a co-op based campaign so there is no pausing saving or loading, just respawning if you die, it loses the fun and immersion of a single player campaign because of this. The actual missions showcase the map, guns and features well but are pretty boring. Most missions go as "clear this area" to "bomb this thing" and I find it pretty basic, nothing entirely new here. The campaign has a decent story but nothing to grip you and although it is fun in co-op, it is still pretty boring.

Jungle combat is presented well in the campaign and it is tense and exciting, but you can achieve better jungle combat by creating your own mission. The campaign is good if you want to have an excuse to try out combat in Tanoa.

Faction - The new guerrilla faction, the "Syndikat" is a decent but not a heavily interesting faction at all. They are a low tech guerrilla faction that use older weaponry like the AKM, RPG 7 and the AK-12 (the game is set in 2035 incase you forget). The Syndikat are a violent bunch, with all its units held together by a leader names Warlock. To me this sounds pretty basic as a story behind the faction, but it is a cool and suiting addition for the map and campaign and they remind me of the Takistan Militia from Operation Arrowhead, due to their low armoured units and low tech weaponry that they use.


I personally am really enjoying the expansion, because I like all the possible missions to be created using Tanoa and the vehicle-in-vehicle transport. I also really enjoy the new weapons and I think the new Type 115 is a great addition to the Arma series. There are lots to enjoy here.

Get this expansion if you really enjoy detailed islands which provide all types of new combat experiences, and also enjoy new weaponry and vehicles to go along side that. The map provides lots of new combat environments and the new weapons include old favourites which you may enjoy being added in at great detail.

Don't get this expansion if you were expecting a large and fun single player campaign as well as an interesting story and faction. If you don't care as much about the new map or weapons and prefer expansions to add a good new campaign and lots of new gameplay features to compliment it, then I suggest that you save your money.

Overall, I think this expansion adds greatly to the already fantastic Arma 3 gameplay. This expansion helps expand your missions making possibilities and adds plenty of new and exciting combat environments. But do not expect this expansion to add a great new campaign, think of this expansion as more of a large content pack rather than a new story.

Yes. Apex is a good sized expansion to Arma 3. It's decently priced depending what you're looking to play.

The single-player content like campaign is meh (due to respawn mechanics etc), but assets like Tanoa for multi-player are ok.

Arma 3 is a good game & I have put many hours in to it, So I was looking forward to playing the new Apex DLC but after playing the game the DLC fell flat, There is a few new items, A map, & SP missions. I wanted to give this a good rating but I can't, The Apex DLC should have been included in the Arma 3 DLC Bundle (For $19.99) For what the Devs added to Apex how can they justify a price of $34.99 for DLC that has next to nothing in it, All the other Arma 3 DLC has roughly the same stuff minus the SP missions & a map but that's only $12. There is no way they can justify a $35 price tag for this. I'm completely disappointed!

This was ridiculusly overpriced, there are far too few additions in this game to warrent a $35 price tag.