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Arma Reforger
Developer Bohemia Interactive
Arma Reforger is an open-world tactical shooter game developed by Bohemia Interactive, released in early access for Microsoft Windows and Xbox Series X/S in May 2022, with full 1.0 launch in November 2023, and later released for PlayStation 5 in December 2024. The game is set in the late Cold War period on the fictional mid-Atlantic island nation of Everon during a conflict between the United States, Soviet Union,… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
618 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
77
LovedLoved
396 positive · 117 negative
95% range 73–81%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 396 | 117 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 21 | 6 | 48 |
| Lemmy * | 1 | 0 | 19 |
| Mastodon * | 2 | 0 | 8 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
28,552 of 36,057 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
73% recommend · 211 yes, 79 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 290 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mostly Positive (47,122 of 58,912 positive).
Players praise the game's emergent, chaotic multiplayer moments and strong community. [1][2][3] Some reviewers criticize recent updates for ruining gameplay and causing performance issues. [4][5][6] Many note the game requires patience and teamwork to enjoy fully. [7][8][9]
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- [5]
Thank you for releasing such absolute piece of trash and completely ruining the game. Why don't you work with the community? No, instead you are actively working against us. Without the modding community, this game would be dead. An update destroys the entire game, and for what? Is anything new actually good? Nope, nothing. Even vanilla servers run like garbage now. On Insurgency vanilla, you literally run around …
- [1]
I joined a random lobby and played for 20 minutes, then decided to try out the helicopters. As soon as I got in the helicopter, some guy hopped into the passenger seat. I told him I had never flown a helicopter, so he decided to teach me and spent 2 minutes teaching me the helicopter controls. As soon as we were airborne, I could not control it at all and I crashed it multiple times. He told me I was an amazing …
- [10]
Verdict: 👍 Recommended I have spent 1,200 hours in Arma Reforger, which means I am legally part of the terrain. I no longer play the game — I inhabit it. I know which rock flips vehicles, which bush whispers lies, and which patch of grass is responsible for 70% of my deaths. This is not a shooter. This is a long-term relationship with military-grade frustration. I complain about performance while running 37 mods I …
- [8]
I really wish I had bought this game sooner. The reason I didn't buy this game for a long time was basically this: "Move to a point for 20 minutes straight, get shot in the head, respawn, and repeat? No thanks. That's not for me." As someone who loves tactical shooters, I honestly thought that kind of gameplay would just be exhausting. After coming home from work, the last thing I wanted was to spend my free time …
- [2]
my first game: I spawn in and have no clue were i am and what I'm doing. a guy is driving around in a car - i hop in. he drives around. he stops and gives me the driver seat. i drive straight into a forest and somehow find a helipad with a heli on it - with allied pilot in it. we hop into the heli and take of. we fly for about 5 min until we start gettin' shot at. pilot dies. we crash into the sea. we ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ SWIM …
Summarised from 34 of the 388 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 11, 2026. How summaries are made
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Arma Reforger sits at 77% positive across 513 opinionated reactions from 4 sources. Fresh or rotten — where do you land?
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60 of 618 · most liked firstI joined a random lobby and played for 20 minutes, then decided to try out the helicopters. As soon as I got in the helicopter, some guy hopped into the passenger seat. I told him I had never flown a helicopter, so he decided to teach me and spent 2 minutes teaching me the helicopter controls. As soon as we were airborne, I could not control it at all and I crashed it multiple times. He told me I was an amazing pilot and that I should fly for al-Qaeda. Safe to say, I'll never fly a helicopter…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Patch 1.6 completely changed the game's concept. The game has become stuffy, boring and joyless. Please bring back the gameplay mode from old version.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Thank you for releasing such absolute piece of trash and completely ruining the game. Why don't you work with the community? No, instead you are actively working against us. Without the modding community, this game would be dead. An update destroys the entire game, and for what? Is anything new actually good? Nope, nothing. Even vanilla servers run like garbage now. On Insurgency vanilla, you literally run around naked because the clothing is bugged. The performance is trash, desync is…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A great game, currently being ruined the most ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ devs in the business. 1.8 update added a 30 xp penalty for every single death, quite possible the worst balance change ever made. Players only get 20xp per kill, so if 2 players trade and both die, they each lose a net 10 xp. Just an awful change and honestly no one should waste time on the game until they revert the change. That xp death penalty has added all sort of second and third order downstream effects that devs haven't thought about.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I’ve been making content for this game for years and have over 5,000 hours in the tools. At just about every step of the way, my experience with BI has been negative. Too often, it feels like BI shoots first and asks questions later, while constantly raising the bar higher and higher until it becomes almost impossible to keep a project on the Workshop without risking a ban. Mod developers should not dread interacting with your staff. There needs to be a better, more professional way of…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Verdict: 👍 Recommended I have spent 1,200 hours in Arma Reforger, which means I am legally part of the terrain. I no longer play the game — I inhabit it. I know which rock flips vehicles, which bush whispers lies, and which patch of grass is responsible for 70% of my deaths. This is not a shooter. This is a long-term relationship with military-grade frustration. I complain about performance while running 37 mods I refuse to uninstall. Every update breaks something. Every patch…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →my first game: I spawn in and have no clue were i am and what I'm doing. a guy is driving around in a car - i hop in. he drives around. he stops and gives me the driver seat. i drive straight into a forest and somehow find a helipad with a heli on it - with allied pilot in it. we hop into the heli and take of. we fly for about 5 min until we start gettin' shot at. pilot dies. we crash into the sea. we ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ SWIM INTO SHORE (1-2 km) when we are back on the Island again we capture a point, i…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I would like to give this game a positive review, but the player base ruins the whole experience. It takes 3 pages of scrolling to find 1 open server without a 20 player queue, and then there's a 50/50 chance you get kicked VIA a glitch after getting through the queue, if you can even find a server worth joining. Once you get into a server, it always feels nobody wants to work together, getting someone to even talk to you AT ALL can sometimes even be a challenge. The never ending…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Arma Reforger is probably my favorite military shooter game. I have countless hours in both official and community servers and for a long time I have enjoyed the experience. In recent months however I have slowed down my playtime. I think I've grown tired of a game that relies so heavily on mods yet always finds a way to screw them up. With that line alone, It might be more worth it to just wait until Arma 4 comes out. I got tired of community servers pretty fast. Always updating mods…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Since my last review of patch 1.6, things have changed - and not for the better. Crashes and errors have basically become a core gameplay feature of Reforger at this point. But the thing I still can't stomach is the monstrous desync. We're talking about 90% of shots failing to register - not just against players, but even against AI partisans. I’ve spent some time trying to settle into the new HQ Conflict mode, and frankly, it’s a bust. It has no future. People fled games like Squad to get…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sadly, I can't recommend. I really, really wanted to like Reforger but the performance is awful, even worst than in Arma 3. The brand new game engine is STILL heavily CPU bottlenecked and it does not (and it won't, according to devs) support DLSS like tech. I found myself having a better hardware than the recommended but completely unable to hit 60fps. Medium-low, struggling to reach 45fps. Idk what Bohemia Interactive is tryna cook here but this ain't it, chief. Had to refund. EDIT: Now…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I installed this game thinking I was getting a military simulator. Instead, I got PTSD from trees. One minute I'm leading a perfectly coordinated assault. The next, my driver somehow flips a Humvee into low Earth orbit after hitting what I can only assume was an aggressive pebble. Communication goes from: "Enemy north, 300 meters!" to "WHO THE HELL STOLE THE HELICOPTER?" Five minutes later the helicopter is upside down in a lake, the pilot says it was "part of the plan," and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've been into Arma for the better part of a decade now, starting with Arma 3 as my first ever game, a game which amazed me with how fun it could be with friends. Then, i discovered the works of the community, in particular the 40k, Star Wars and other sci-fi mods with insane works of art within them. I was hooked. I hoped this game could be the same. At base, Arma Reforger is fun enough, it is more refined than the clunkiness of base Arma 3 while still having a familiar feeling and a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Basically an Arma 4 paid beta with people beta testing in 1080p at low settings on a 5080. Absolute travesty for an operation flashpoint veteran. This game is not even close to modern standards, no frame gen, no dlss. Absolutely horrendous performance on a ultra 285 and 5080... What a waste of a good simulator. Edit : this 2023 game has 2019 tech missing in 2026. I deeply regret buying this clunky game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is absolutely splendid, but unfortunately whenever I join a server I often encounter a delinquent of the British nationality. Nothing breaks my immersion more than listening to a brit. This needs to be addressed quickly, as I cannot have my day ruined again by another 14 year old european citizen.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →TLDR; the player-base doesn't like mil-sim games and would rather a Battlefield experience, even before 1.6. Game good.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →First of All: I mainly played multiplayer Vanilla Servers, since the amount of modded content takes me ages to gear up. I really enjoy the game so far, but it heavily comes down on the amount of teamplay and communication, to be successfull. Last experience on a modded server I want to share with you. I played on a Echos Of Hell Vietnam Era modded server, and got more then I expected. 1. Spawned in base camp and spent 15 minutes to gear up. 2. Took a helicopter to the next LZ near the enemy…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Listen, this game is nice in the standard game mode with objective teamwork, serious communication and driving supplies etc etc. But for me this isnt what makes this game great. Being Arma, there is Mods. there is your regular modded stuff, but there is game modes like Ukraine v Russia. FPV Drones. Dayz 2.0 is essentially being developed here also. However, my ultimate favourite servers are Vetnam & Iraq. The pure Camaraderie of running through Bagdad with an AK, an RPG, sandals and a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Honestly, this Arma is an absolute masterpiece. Considering it’s only a demo for the upcoming Arma 4, it already shows huge potential. The gameplay feels smoother and more engaging, and the optimization is far better than in Arma 3. Even on demanding missions, performance stays surprisingly stable — a massive step forward for the series. The gunplay is realistic and satisfying, the environments are beautifully detailed, and the atmosphere really pulls you in. It’s clear that Bohemia…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →10/10 very fun. Got called n word for not letting someone in my car. Then got him kicked from server for stolen valor.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →most players in this game have the same mentality borrowed from the IDF for shooting medics, the most moral army of the world.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Arma Reforger is my first introduction into the Arma series. I had read about the game features such as Game Master and the very open mod community. I started right at the release of version 1.7 and I immediately understood the complaints people have against the devs. Vehicles in 1.7 were nearly impossible to drive as the devs broke vehicle transmissions and US supply trucks could no longer go up any grade whatsoever. Eventually after months that was finally fixed before 1.8 was released. That…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Playtime: 2,700+ hours in Arma 3 / 80 hours in Reforger Engine: An absolute masterpiece. User Experience: A $30 bureaucratic nightmare. 1. The Intro: A Glitch in the Simulation Look, Arma is hands down my favorite franchise of all time. I came into Reforger with over 2,700 hours on Arma 3, fully expecting the next evolution of tactical gaming. After 80 hours on Reforger, my conclusion is pretty straightforward: it is a gorgeous tech demo wrapped in a game, but a complete disaster when it…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really wish I had bought this game sooner. The reason I didn't buy this game for a long time was basically this: "Move to a point for 20 minutes straight, get shot in the head, respawn, and repeat? No thanks. That's not for me." As someone who loves tactical shooters, I honestly thought that kind of gameplay would just be exhausting. After coming home from work, the last thing I wanted was to spend my free time slowly walking somewhere just to get killed. Then one day, I decided to buy…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is a blast and really good, but servers are lacking in Aus with only 1 really active and the rest are high ping us/eu if you live in aus might want to hold your money.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →fun and very realistic. My only complaint is that you can travel around the map for 30 minutes looking for combat, find it, then die in 30 seconds. Rinse and repeat.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →> Load into game > Spend 30 minutes crafting the PERFECT loadout > Finally ready > Hop in a Sarka with some random dude > He hits the FIRST TREE he sees > Entire squad dies instantly > Respawn naked in mob > Realise you never saved the loadout > Do it all again like a clown 10/10 gameplay, would suffer again.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →After my third and final purchase of Arma Reforger and trying to get into it solo, I finally stuck it out and didn’t request for a refund. I will admit that with the first two purchases, I just wanted to jump straight into the community servers and do the stuff you see YouTubers do but without actually taking the time to learn the game. This time, I sat down, completed the full tutorial and base campaign, only then I would allow myself to join community servers. It worked! I’m now 90+ hours in…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you have played Arma 3, after you play this you will never want to play Arma 3 again. Additionally the game works perfectly in Linux, keep it up devs.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →1,000 Hours In and The 1.6 Update Finally Drove Me Away. I’ve put about 1,000 hours into Arma Reforger, but this 1.6 update has completely killed my enjoyment of the game. The new game mode and squad-based roles have stripped away what made Reforger fun, freedom, and flexibility. Now it feels like a cheap knockoff of Squad, or as I like to call it, Temu Squad. I used to love being able to approach objectives and gameplay however I wanted, but now everything feels forced and boxed in. I’m told…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is the lifeline of my weekend Its crazy how far this game pushed me. Its honesltly one of and probably the best MILSIM game ive ever played. This is coming from a Squad Player btw . When I got this game I refunded it instantly. Second time refunded. But the third time I focused so hard and spent a beautiful 2 HOURS on the tutorial. I even convinced my friend to get it! I love helicopters and helicopters are AMAZING in this game! But..... the game machanics are complicated yet easy.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Joining a server is the most tedious and annoying thing in gaming i have ever experienced. Tried to play again because I wanna play wardogs so bad again. Don't waste your money or time on this laggy, mod heavy trash of a game. wanna play on a server? download 30 mods, oh the game ended? the map changed, another 30 mods to download. oh you downloaded them all? that server is full and you cant even wait in a que. seriously the most frustrating thing is just getting into a game that is boring ass…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The base game is a great foundation, but it essentially requires multiplayer for anything other than creating your own scenarios and playing by yourself against mediocre bots, and if you want to play multiplayer, 99% of the servers require mods, but getting mods doesn't work because Bohemia Interactive have for some reason decided to hijack and then completely destroy the modding system, by making mods availble exclusively on their broken in-game digital trashcan labelled "Mod Workshop". You…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →it has a lot of potential but as is it needs a major rework as it is full of bugs and trolls with no moderators on official servers and modded servers require downloads bigger than the base game itself and have server queues that can take hours at times and on top of that this game is so horribly optimized that even with the best gpu you will have to dial back your graphics to maintain a decent framerate and on top of that the mechanics for moving and shooting are like they tried to mimic a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →1.18 sucks i got killed twice after the server reset i went renegade as fia because i died wasn't able too spawn back in on any of my bases for the rest of the game even after i made back volunteer
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →‘We Pissed Someone Off’, says ArmA Reforger lead dev. Internal error and server issues likely caused by DDoS attacks.
neutral · AI labelView post →ArmA 4 is not looking good. We are less than a year out, and Bohemia Interactive continues to DESTROY their game and then go radio silent. This update is no different, except that this time the issue is not mod pathways changing, or some annoying but minor issues. No, the game just doesn't work for 75% of the population, for multiple weeks. This has resulted in communities closing down, modders leaving the game and just a general bad taste in everyone's mouth. As stated multiple times by BI…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very realistic. Got yelled at in a video game for not having my rifle on safety. Was then captured by the enemy and circumcised with a bayonet for "realism"
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game is overrun by griefers and idiots who sabotage their own team. There is no method for banning or blocking these players, and they can rejoin minutes after being kicked. This wouldn't be a big deal on short match game, but you can often find yourself hours into a game when a team of hackers/griefers bring their whole discord server on and start wrecking the game to the point it is unplayable and unwinnable, just an endless stream of respawning with basic kit to the barrel of a gun in your…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really enjoyed the game before update 1.6, but there are a couple of additions that significantly hurt the experience for me. The night grain effect feels unnecessary. It reduces clarity without adding meaningful immersion. Instead of improving realism, it just makes visibility worse in an artificial way. The bigger issue is the wind mechanic. I understand the idea behind adding wind for realism, but in its current implementation it makes rocket launchers nearly useless past 200 meters.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →TL;DR: If you want Battlefield, you’ll hate it. If you want a thinking man’s mil-sim sandbox with incredible immersion, Reforger absolutely delivers—just be ready to tolerate growing pains, mods, and the average public player. Arma Reforger is one of those games that feels right when everything clicks—and painfully frustrating when it doesn’t. At its best, it’s one of the most immersive FPS experiences available. At its worst, you’re staring at a queue, crashing, or watching your team turn a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've started playing prior to the 1.6 update (about 2 weeks before). and really enjoyed the realism and immersion. 1.6 improved the immersion and realism with the new HQ commander update. Battles and engagements now seem pivotal and important. Supply runs are essential, a misuse of resources is impactful. However, the game is buggy at times and will crash so beware. but I am willing to overlook this, as the game is good at letting you to reconnect into the match and resume your progress.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Finally broke the 100 hour mark after a month of playing and it still feels like I just started. Arma Reforger is probably the best FPS experience to ever come out. Compared to every Arma before Reforger it is a major upgrade in every aspect especially when it comes to how easy it is to just pick it up and play. The only learning curve to this game is when you first deal with mods like the Bacon Loadout Editor and how to make/save your loadouts, everything else you just figure out by playing.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great gameplay but unfortunately suffers from a multitude of crashes and performance issues, every update breaks more things.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Such an outstanding game. Far exceeded my expectations when I picked it up back in v1.2. Unlike previous Arma titles, this one is created as a whole game in its own right - it's no longer just a sandbox dev environment where you rely on good modders to make otherwise VERY uninteresting gameplay enjoyable. The Enfusion engine is incredibly impressive, the variety of detailed mechanics that immerse you in gameplay makes Reforger stand out. It's a really authentic title with none of the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Played several hours into this. When its working its the best games I have played. However this last update has killed the game. I cant even connect to the server for the game itself. Really sucks because this game has so much to offer. I don't understand why the devs update the game and crash everything then we have to wait months for them to silent patch it just to let us play the game for 4 months and do it all over again. My recommendation is to stay away until they fix their update.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →No endless grind, no dlcs to pay for, no pay to win or skins, you just load in and battle. Very immersive; exactly what a war game should be. I'm glad I purchased this game!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →'Game changing' ArmA Reforger update adds attack helicopters, mortars, and destructible buildings: 'nowhere on the battlefield is safe anymore'.
neutral · AI labelView post →New update has some decent ideas, but has broken all enjoyment and any element of sandbox with too much emphasis is placed on having a commander who knows what they are doing. Hopefully it gets fixed, because this was a solid, fun game until the latest update
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This was/is a teaser test bed for the next ARMA game but I have to say the company behind this title leaving all the back-end systems open for modding creates a truly vast sandbox for the people. themes, Different conflicts, game modes all within a few clicks is what makes this game and others from this company worth it. Don't like this server? move on to one completely different! don't like PvP? fight bots. it's all up to you on what you do and how you play. Enjoy the IP how you'd like.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Arma Reforger is a game where realism means you spend 20 minutes traveling and 2 seconds realizing you’re in the wrong place. Beautiful maps, chaotic comms, and constant “who just shot me?” moments. Half military sim, half accidental comedy. 10/10 would get team-killed by accident again 🪖
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →1.6 is great for engine features and a campaign, terrible for the conflict game mode that nearly all multiplayer gameplay is based around trying to emulate the strict role relegated nature of scenario based milsim gameplay in the public multiplayer environment is questionable to say the least. bohemia should be trying to make a better version of arma 1-2 CTI warfare rather than turning the game into squad/project reality by enforcing strict roles in gameplay that contradict the traditionally…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I crashed my vehicle because I was paying more attention to eating my ice cream. If you've been in the military you'll recognise this type of behaviour is pretty spot on . 10/10 sim.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →in my 240 hours played probably 140 of those hours were spent in queues/crashing/ troubleshooting. The game is good. The patience needed is masochistic. more hours played edit, probably 45 of those in loading screens this is no where near a good game. for every 4 hour session played you are lucky to have ONE instance of mid-large scale coordination/ teamwork. just an overall waste of time. if you are not in a queue for 20 min your waiting for transport for 2 min. then you wait while driving/…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Probably the best active multiplayer shooter at the moment, it plays like battlefield when the series was actually good and not trying to be the next call of duty.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I might change this review depending on new updates on the game. I went into Arma Reforger believing this would be an amazing, even if more PvP focused, sequel to one of if not the best mil-sim PvE Sandbox experiences there are, that being my beloved Arma 3. But as much I wanted to like this game I just simply can't imagine myself playing it for as long as I am going to play Arma 3. Arma Reforger Feels more like a paid beta test than a well-refined game, that being because the fps is somehow…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game is good until Bohemia Interactive updates game with broken updates. Wouldn't it be smarter to give us an option to choose update to play until the stability update is fixed. game is good until Bohemia Interactive breaks it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →spent 45 minutes hiking across the map with the squad, argued about land navigation, got absolutely sniped by someone I couldn't even see, and died. 10/10 would walk simulator again. seriously though, the physics and modding community are carrying this game hard. it's a blast if you have a group to play with
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Lots of potential in the game. Looking forward to Arma4 Key takeaways: - Console Crossplay ruined the culture of this game - In-house developed mod workshop is trash, bring back steam workshop. - lots of replayability but stability is kinda ass.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is little more than a console game with a terrible PC port. None of the tools that Arma 3 benefits from exist here. Steam Workshop was promised but then later denied because it would take "too much effort." How many small, one-man indie games do you know that have managed this "herculean" task? Their own implementation of a "Workshop" still, after 3 years, downloads to your C: drive at an astonishingly slow speed. The entire user interface is built for console. It's as if you're…
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