- Banned in China: Iran has banned ARMA 3, as in the original pre-alpha version the enemies was a resurgent Iran who had invaded Europe. After the infamous Greek espionage incident, much of the direction of the game changed, and Iran instead became an Iran-lead coalition of countries (which is never mentioned by name).
- Dueling Games: For a time, Codemastersnote tried to continue its own series named Operation Flashpoint, consisting of Dragon Rising and Red River, to compete with ARMA II. However, Bohemia Interactive continued to secure contracts to develop its Virtual Battlespace simulations for real-world military and civilian organizations, thereby giving them the experience necessary to pull ahead and focus unrelentingly on realism and putting what they learned into the ARMA games. Codemasters eventually gave up and now exclusively focuses on racing and sports games after both Red River and the developer's Spiritual Successor to Black called Bodycount (2011) flopped, so ARMA 3 stands uncontested.
- Orphaned Reference: ARMA III has a black-colored vest known as "vest (raven)". It is froma cut faction known as Raven PMC.
- Troubled Production: ARMA III's production eventually led to a somewhat infamous incident where two of the members of the dev team were arrested while on vacation in Greece and held for 4 months on charges of espionage for allegedly taking pictures of Greek military facilities without permission as research for the game (which was eventually proven to be false).
- The Other Darrin: David Armstrong returns as a general in the series. And he is clearly not voiced by Jonah Lotan, who does so in OFP.
- What Could Have Been:
- In pre-alpha versions of ARMA III, the OPFOR was explicitly Iran (with some other ideas like them invading Europe and reaching Czechoslovakia), the AAF was the Hellenic Armed Forces — in some versions a puppet state named "New Greece" — while instead of the "fictional" Republic of Altis and Stratis, the islands were straight up real life Lemnos and Agios Efstratios. After the rewrite from explicitly Iran to just an Iran-lead coalition, many characters were rewritten into different roles, with Miller demoted from a playable character to an NPC who turns out to be a Villain Protagonist.
- Screenshots and videos from the pre-alpha show various weapons and vehicles that would have been kept over from ARMA II, such as the Benelli M4 shotgun (shotguns in general wouldn't make it into the game officially until the Contact DLC six years later), the F-35 Lightning II (NATO instead settles for a fictionalized upgrade to the A-10 Warthog), a CSAT tank armed with a railgun, some vehicles were given to other factions (the Fennek was NATO's, later given to the AAF, or the Hunter that was CSAT to NATO), as well as some other new weapons such as the Kel-Tec KSG and the H&K XM25. Entire factions were removed: "Raven", a Russian PMC (which only reference remaining is a black-colored vest known as "vest (raven)"), Bandits, Paramilitary, and Kabeiroi (later became the FIA). Some other features shown in pre-release material included the ability to wear enemy soldier's uniforms, attach explosives to vehicles and women in bikinis (yes really
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