Ah, the campaign just took off.
After 2 or 3 missions, you wind up in a forward base and are given a general objective. How you accomplish this is up to you. A chopper is assigned to your command and can be called in for extraction at any time, and you can use it to fly you anywhere. A UAV is also at your disposal. During your free-roaming exploits, you can be called on to complete secondary taks by HQ (haven't gotten any yet). Completing these can earn you additional support, such as the ability to call in artillery and tactical airstrikes, a valuable asset in any battle.
For more detail I'll need to tell on some specifics, so consider this a spoiler alert: you need to find a couple of guys. All you have to go on is the name of a town and some intel provided by an officer. That officer is in a base about a mile east, so me and the team hopped into a humvee and drove down there. After asking around a bit, I decided to call in the huey and have him drop us of a bit south-west of the town you heard one of your targets talk about. After asking around a bit, one of the civis told me a couple of 'Chedaki' cars came through there from the south, and headed for Malek's farm. Aparently this Malek has been consorting with the Chedaki's for a while, and I doubt he would be missed if we paid a visit to his farm to find out what is going on down there.
Spotted 1 or 2 soldiers patrolling the area, but have hold off on engaging them untill we can get a better picture. Now would be a good time to call in that UAV, but that would mean extracting back to base in order to man the console.
From awfully linear Arma to sandbox Arma II, quite the improvement.
(though it takes a hell of a lot of CPU power)
Oh, and no crashes anymore. :rotfl: