We, [CHG], played AA since about 2003. Even though dated it had excellent gameplay, very smooth and fluid, required skill and teamwork to play well. If you didn't aim carefully you hit nothing.
I tried Arma before but thought the gameplay was ... awkward. I can't really explain it any better than that.
Then AA3 came out and it seems to be the same as Arma ... without the cool vehicles.
2 days after the release it was a disaster, the Army fired most of the development team.
Hoping it's even possible to fix it but it's so full of bugs .... Once you get more than 10 in a server it gets laggy as hell and crashes out a few rounds later. They can only try to improve a bad system. They've spent way too much time and money to change directions now.
It desperately needs more than the 5 maps.
Every day I see more people giving up on it.