Karts DLC

ArmA 3's Karts DLC adds a Go kart vehicle and also includes a signal flare gun. It was released on May 29th, 2014.^[1]

Overview[]

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Start your engines and bring the battle to the race track. Arma 3 Karts features a 20hp 4-stroke engine go-kart, several kart liveries, playable race driver and marshal game characters, new kart-racing Time Trials and Steam Achievements, plus various race objects to build your own racetrack.

Official DLC Description

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This light-hearted DLC grants owners the ability to drive go karts in a collection of preset races and/or time trials.

Other content includes racing-themed props along with modules that can be placed by Zeus players to build either singleplayer or multiplayer Check Point races.

Content[]

(*) Denotes free content included as part of the platform update.

Weapons[]

Starter Pistol 10mm flare gun

Vehicles[]

Kart open-wheel racing vehicle

Uniforms[]

Hats[]

Marshal Cap*

Helmets[]

Racing Helmet

Multiplayer scenarios[]

Screenshots[]

Video[]

Arma 3 - The Splendid Split feat. Karts (DLC Test 1)

Trivia[]

Karts DLC was initially presented by Bohemia Interactive as an April Fool's Joke for 2014.^[2] However, reception to the concept was positive and it was eventually turned into an official DLC.^[3]^[4]
A portion of the proceeds from the sales, totalling one million Czech Koruna, were donated to the Czech Red Cross (IFRC).^[5]
All of Karts' content was temporarily made available for free until June 1st, 2020, to celebrate its sixth anniversary of release. Prospective owners had to manually claim access to the DLC before its content would be registered within their Steam Library, however.^[6]

References[]

↑ Bohemia Interactive a.s., 2014, 'Bohemia Interactive presents Arma 3 DLC strategy, releases Arma 3 Karts DLC', Developer's Blog, 29 May, viewed 27 July 2017, <https://www.bohemia.net/blog/bohemia-interactive-presents-arma-3-dlc-strategy-releases-arma-3-karts-dlc>.
↑ Bohemia Interactive a.s., 2014, 'Bohemia Interactive presents Arma 3™ Karts (April Fools)', Developer's Blog, 1 April, viewed 1 April 2023, <https://www.bohemia.net/blog/bohemia-interactive-presents-arma-3-karts>.
↑ Bohemia Interactive a.s., 2014, 'Roadmap 2014/15 - Arma 3 DLC Strategy', Developer's Blog, 29 May, viewed 1 April 2023, <https://www.bohemia.net/blog/roadmap-14-15-dlc-strategy-blog>.
↑ van 't Land, J.J. 2017, It all came together around the same time: We had an artist (Redstone) tell us about and show us his hobby model of the kart. We definitely didn't even think about doing karts in Arma 3 (because it's a bit mental ;-)) before that moment. We wanted to validate our DLC strategy. This prompted us to get Redstone to finish the kart to required quality levels, add a few props and do some Playable Content. A lot of that work was done by people outside of regular work time indeed. April Fools' was on the horizon. Potentially negative reactions to the splendid split video might have prompted us to not go through with an official DLC., Reddit, viewed 9 April 2023, <https://old.reddit.com/r/arma/comments/53susm/what_dlc_content_is_worth_it/d7x7hd7/>.
↑ Bohemia Interactive a.s., 2014, 'Bohemia Interactive donates one million Czech koruna from Arma 3 Karts DLC sales to charity', Developer's Blog, 24 June, viewed 5 September 2017, <https://www.bohemia.net/blog/bohemia-interactive-donates-one-million-czech-koruna-from-arma-3-karts-dlc-sales-to-charity>.
↑ Bohemia Interactive a.s., 2020, 'Arma 3 Steam sale and free Karts DLC', Developer's Blog, 28 May, viewed 3 June 2020, <http://web.archive.org/web/20200531180518/https://www.bohemia.net/blog/arma-3-steam-sale-and-free-karts-dlc>. (archived link)

DLC (ArmA 3)
Premium	Main	Karts • Helicopters • Marksmen • Apex • Jets • Laws of War • Tac-Ops • Tanks • Contact
	Creator (Armaverse)	Western Sahara • Reaction Forces • Expeditionary Forces
	Creator (Cold War)	Global Mobilization - Cold War Germany • S.O.G. Prairie Fire • CSLA Iron Curtain
	Creator (WW2)	Spearhead 1944
Free		Zeus • Malden • Art of War
Official Addon		ADR-97 Weapon Pack* • Czech Veterans Pack
Entries are listed in order of release from left (oldest) to right (newest) * deprecated/incorporated as official content.