Over the past few months we have seen a massive increase in visitors here on Armaholic. Of course that is a good thing and we enjoy seeing everyone use our website for what we made it. We also hope you keep using our services as you have done till now.
However, good things sometimes cause bad things. In this case the increase in visitors caused massive overload on our servers bandwidth. If a few hundred people are downloading at the same time on a 100MB line I think you all understand this will result in slow downloadspeed, no matter what we do.
Yes, we have read all the forum posts and have seen all the emails we recieved the past few months. But there is only so much we can do at some point.

But today it is time for an announcement which will hopefully bring a smile back on the face of many of our daily visitors, that are roughly between 50k - 75k unique visitors every day!


In order to be ready for the future we decided it was time to improve our services. And last night I asked our server host to install a dedicated 1Gbit port on the Armaholic.net file server. This means we can now serve files, on the .net server, with 1000MB/s 24 hours a day!
The French server we are using as an additional mirror is also being reconfigured to offer better downloadspeeds.

Of course these kind of ports, not to mention the bandwidth used, come at a price. A price we can only afford cause you all visit our website, browse our pages and use our resources and we hope you will continue to do so.
However, there will be expensive times ahead of us due to this, not to mention the fact the file server we use is already a few years old and will soon have to be replaced.

Normally we do not ask for anything in return but to those of you who are in a position where you may have some cash left and you enjoy our services and wish to support us we kindly ask you to sent a donation! This will help us a great deal.
To those who are unable to donate or just do not want to do that we kindly ask you to configure any possible ad-block you may be using properly.
And otherwise, just continue using our website and enjoy all we have to offer!


We thank you for any support offered!

Armaholic staff

We would like to explain why we decided at this point to not create news for each and every mission which has been submitted to our website, posted on the BI forums or posted here on our own forums.

Since the Arma 3 Alpha went "public", it had a great acceptance. This means a lot of people have been creating new content for the game. We have been dealing with a continuous flow of releases, and it is almost impossible to stay up to date with all releases. We are working really hard so everybody's work is accessible from our website but we have to make some decisions to be able to continue our support.

This is the only reason we decided, temporarily, to not create news for missions when we have lots and lots of new submissions in validation (sometimes 20 -30 missions). As an example of what we are having these days, this morning we had around 30 missions which needed to be done. This means we need to make a downloadpage, make a news announcement, download and upload the file(s). This took us more than 3 hours and we did not even make the newspages for any of those misisons this morning.

Additionally we will also not write any news about missions which we receive without proper information about the mission. This means when you want to have your mission posted in our news you should:

• provide screenshots
  
• provide detailed info about your mission
  
• provide a working downloadlink
  
• list any and all required addons (if needed)
  
• a proper changelog if it is an updated version

If you worked on your mission for many hours you want people to download it and enjoy your hard work, so why not spend just a little time on your PR to make your work stand out of the rest?
When people submit their mission with all the required info (as listed above) it will help us a lot to be able to frontpage those. When we feel any mission lacks that info you may not see it in the news at all, but of course it will be added to the download section.

For those of you who are interested to submit proper formatted pages, we wrote guides a long time ago how to properly submit your files to Armaholic. Give them a read if you want your mission to be frontpaged and have a proper downloadpage!

• Newspage Submissions Guide
• Downloadpage Submissions Guide

Also, keep in mind it simply is impossible for us to keep up with all releases, so if your properly submission does not appear on the homepage soon after but others do we might not have gotten to your submission yet!


Armaholic staff

Since the release of the Arma 3 Alpha there has been a massive flow of news every hour. This caused many news items to quickly disapear to page 2 and futher.
So, to make sure people can easily browse the news they are looking for we have fixed the news selector we had in the past already so people are, once again, able to choose any specific news category.

You can find the new selector above the first news item. It has handy drop downs so you can easily choose the category you wish to see the news from only.


I have quickly tested this in Internet Explorer, Chrome and Firefox and I did not see any issues. If however you experience issues with the new news selector drop down menu please let us know in this thread. Please make sure to share with us which browser and browser version you are using.


We hope this will improve your needs to find all the Arma series news on our website!

Armaholic staff

The Armaholic team wishes the entire Arma community a very Merry Christmas!
We hope you will enjoy the holidays with your family and friends!
Post your Christmas greetings in this topic.


The Armaholic team

Benedikt Leurs, Koch Media Marketing Manager, informed us about the official release of the Iron Front DLC.
Iron Front D-Day is the first content update for Iron Front: Liberation 1944. D-Day adds eight new single-player and six new multiplayer missions to the main game. Expansive landscapes in Normandy are featured, including the famous Omaha Beach where the Allied Forces launched Operation Overlord on June 6, 1944.

Iron Front D-Day introduces the US Army as a new playable faction, providing players with an impressive arsenal of Sherman tanks, P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft, landing craft, Thompson SMG, M1 Garand, Browning machine guns, GMC trucks, Bazookas, and many more additions.
On the German side, the troops are further equipped with the Tiger I panzer for the defense of the Atlantic Wall. It gives a taste of the DLC still to come, and patch 1.05 integrates it into the main game free of charge for all Iron Front players.

Also the official patch version 1.05 is availble now. Beside some fixes, it also includes the notorious Tiger I tank for all Iron Front gamers as a Christmas gift!



You can find more information, screenshots and videos in our Iron Front: Liberation 1944 topic.
You can buy the Iron Front D-Day DLC on Steam!.

Today we would like to announce the opening of our new website, www.carriercommandaholic.com.

On this new website we will be covering Carrier Command: Gaea mission which BI released friday.
A while back I pre-ordered the game and tried the first beta, I liked the game a lot so when it was announced the game would support modding I decided to go for it and make a new website dedicated to this new game.
It have been many weeks of hard work to get this new website done. It uses the same CMS as we do here on Armaholic but the newest and most up to date version which comes with many new and improved features. In fact it is 100% better than what we use here. So building this new website will help us to be able to upgrade Armaholic to this new version as well, and that is good for everyone.

There are still some small things left to do. Some images are still missing as I am waiting for them to be finished and also the forums are not ready so they can not be used right now. I hope to finish them as soon as possible.

We invite anyone to come and take a look on the new website, even when you are not interested in Carrier Command: Gaea mission cause you can see the future of Armaholic.com there as well (the CMS and functions).


Please visit carriercommandaholic.com!
Let us know what you think in the Armaholic forums.

Today our sister site Modsaholic.com has relaunched its website to celebrate its one year anniversary.
With the new site comes many new features and a whole new system to run it with.

The old site wouldn't let people create an account so that it worked across the whole platform (Modsaholic forums & site) but now our new system has fixed this issue. We have also completely restructured the downloads section as we had the problem in filling our many covered games sections with content last time, so we have now cut the list to 10 games that we will cover but also add mods from ANY other games that has mods to our "other games" section. This will help us have a full downloads section and no empty sections like before.

As we are a site covering modifications we have also now decided on adding iOS to our list of content we wish to cover such as themes, tweaks, jailbreak, and anything possible you can do with iOS.

Now with new things/updates there always has to be something on a downside, and our downside was we had to completely restart the forums as its a completely new engine, this also includes user accounts.
So if you were a member before then please do come along and join us again on Modsaholic.com!

Hope to see you all soon.

The Modsaholic Staff.

Starting from today I will have some holiday time.
I will be offline from 13 till 20 of July. Any addons and other Arma related news I post normally released during that time will be added when I am back.
See you again after my holidays!

The Armaholic staff

The past month Armaholic.com ran a sweepstake for Iron Front: Liberation 1944 in which 3 people could win an Iron Front game, an Iron Front dog tag and an Iron Front usb-bullet.
There were 113 submissions for the sweepstake where people could post their favorite loadout they would or are using in the game.

Today it is time to announce the winners! The winners have been picked by an AWAR representative. If your name is listed below please sent a PM to Foxhound so your prices can be sent to you.

• spidergeo
• belgerot
• Arturien

All 3 winners get an Iron Front: Liberation 1944 price package consisting of following:

• a Steam code for the full Iron Front: Liberation 1944 game
• an Iron Front dog tag
• an Iron Front usb-bullet

Only one more day to go!
If you have not done it already and still want to have a chance to win one of three price packages make sure to post your favorite loadout in this thread: Iron Front: Liberation 1944 Sweepstake - post your favorite loadout! <--- Topic is locked, end of sweepstake. The winners will be announced soon!




Starting from today Armaholic will run a sweepstake for the Iron Front: Liberation 1944 fans!
The sweepstake is organized in co-operation with AWAR and X1Software and enables everyone who participates to win 1 of 3 price packages!

All 3 packages consists of following prices:

• a Steam code for the full Iron Front: Liberation 1944 game
• an Iron Front dog tag
• an Iron Front usb-bullet

To participate in this Iron Front: Liberation 1944 sweepstake is easy!
All you have to do is, as soon as the sweepstake opens, to post your favorite loadout while playing Iron Front or, if you do not have the game yet, share with us which loadout you are looking forward to the most to be able to use in the game!

Runtime:
The sweepstake will run for one whole month starting monday June 4th and the last day you can post your entry is July 4th 2012.

Rules:

• One entry per person! This will be checked. You can always edit your post when you want to change your loadout.
  
• Posts without a loadout preference do not count and will be removed.
  
• A winner will be choosen at random, meaning everyone has a fair chance.
  
However (!!) feel free to be creative while posting your favorite loadout and surprise us!

Post your entry in this thread: Iron Front: Liberation 1944 Sweepstake - post your favorite loadout!