Bohemia Interactive, the developer of DayZ and the Arma series, has unveiled its new “Enfusion” engine with a public website and a video demonstrating its extraordinary capabilities. The developer confirmed that “any potential new Arma game” will include this engine.
Bohemia’s shooters have a solid reproduction twisted, with intricate frameworks coupled with astounding (and burdensome) graphical consistency. Bohemia hopes to meet this increased demand with Enfusion, while simultaneously reducing its equipment requirements.
“Games developed with Enfusion will perform significantly better than before,” said Bohemian. “We want your 16-center PC Master Race works to flourish, but we also want to ensure that everyone can enjoy their content regardless of form or control centre age.
It also appears that Bohemia intends to disrupt the control centre market with its future endeavours. The retail release of DayZ is the company’s only control centre game to date, and was developed using a model version of Enfusion (the game was a “hybrid of old and new innovation,” according to Bohemia). Regarding future control centre shipments, Bohemia stated:
“They don’t need to [release on console], but they can, as the demand for PC, PlayStation, and Xbox experiences sudden spikes. Enfusion-built games do not need to be “ported” and can be developed simultaneously for all three platforms while sharing a common code base and resources.”
This quote also segues into the other major focus of Bohemia’s statement: usability for designers. Enfusion will support resource creation via open-source programmes such as Blender, and it will also feature a dedicated modding backend, with Bohemia indicating it may integrate its own studio for mods directly into future games.
Bohemia’s enthusiasm for promoting the engineer insight with its new engine suggests that it is looking forward to modders and other studios utilising it in the future. Similar to the initial cycle of DayZ, it is almost certain that Bohemia will do everything within its power to accommodate a second cycle of rampant modding.
Enfusion’s promises are more intriguing than Epic’s Unreal Engine 5, which was recently demonstrated in the control center-only Matrix Awakens demo. Both Epic and Bohemia are promising equipment adaptability and engineer usability in addition to photorealistic designs, which could be of great assistance to both developers and players during a time of constant pressure and silicon shortages.
About thirty specialists and developers are working on Enfusion, and Bohemia’s website lists eight additional job openings.
Arma 4 Release Date
Unfortunately, a confirmed release date for Arma 4 is most likely still a considerable distance off.
Engineer Bohemia Interactive has not yet provided official statements regarding when we can expect Arma 4 to arrive on gaming consoles.
All indications point to the fact that we have little time left to pause.
Indeed, we only needed to wait four years between Arma 2 and Arma 3, but this was an exceptional circumstance. Arma 3 was a significant step forward for the series, selling roughly twice as many copies as its predecessor on Steam and laying the groundwork for 14 DLC developments (to date), the most recent of which, Contact, was released in 2019.
In addition, the game’s ongoing engine updates and expanding user-generated content tools (as well as the vast scope of mods) have made Arma 3 a remarkably adaptable mil-sim jungle gym – and one for which Bohemia is still delivering extension content, as its locally assembled ‘Maker DLC’ packs.
Arma 3’s ongoing interaction and visuals are currently showing their age, especially when compared to what Bohemia’s more recent Envision game engine is capable of, so we believe it’s only a matter of time.
Arma 4 Leaks and Rumors
Fans have been constantly on the lookout for indications that Bohemia may be diligently working on a sequel, given how long Arma 3 has been in good health – and especially in the lengthy gap between the last full-scale official DLC in 2019, and the announcement this month of the Vietnam-centered S.O.G. Grassland Fire Creator DLC.
Until now, however, there has been virtually nothing for them to consume.
Indeed, Even Rumors Suggest the Next Full Arma Is ‘Years Away’
Things appeared to heat up a bit in January 2021, when a Twitter user named @biostiel shared screenshots of a game bearing the logo “Arma Reforger.” Some locals (on the Arma subreddit, at any rate) accepted @biostiel to be an authentic Bohemia Interactive insider, with access to privileged data about their present undertakings. However, @biostiel’s tweets quickly explained their cases, stating that the game depicted in the allegedly leaked images was not Arma 4, but rather an anonymous, smaller-scale, multiplayer-only shooter project (nothing has been heard of it since).
In addition, they proposed the following principal route: A title for Arma was “years away.” Since then, the @biostiel account and all of the relevant tweets have been deleted.
Then, at that point, night falls, and our watch continues. When we have more substantial — preferably official — information about Arma 4, we will share it with you here.