Originally Posted by Dslyecxi

It's a variation of Capture the Island in OFP. There's MFCTI, CrCTI, ZeusCTI, and a bunch of other ones. Each has a slightly different approach to things, and some are more fun than others.

The CTI experience is something that's fun to screw around with, and it's good for 'pick-up' play with people you may or may not be familiar with, but the general issue with it is that it ends up being pretty unstructured and is very hit-or-miss as to whether it's ultimately satisfying or not. I personally don't enjoy CTI, but that's because I have a group that I can play really nice cooperative and adversarial missions with. I've found the coop/adv stuff to be more focused, more intense, and ultimately a better time investment than CTI, but that's not to say that CTI isn't a lot of fun for other people.

CTI is also a good way to learn how to fight with various weapons, vehicles, etc due to the respawning aspect of it (that same respawning element is what lowers the tension and thrill in my eyes). Depending on the CTI variant, you can fill up your squad with AI-controlled tanks, trucks, infantry, etc that cost money to purchase. You get money based on how many towns your team holds, how much of the income from that is given to the team (versus the commander, who buys buildings and stuff like an RTS), what you kill, etc. I don't know what the ArmA CTI supports by default, but IIRC it's a bit less robust than the old OFP CTI's. The OFP CTI's will be ported to ArmA in due time, though, so no worries there. They'll also doubtlessly be refined in the process, and one of these days I might actually find it to be a compelling gametype.

Do we know for sure what the retail Armed Assault CTI will be like with the U.S. release?

Just want to have an idea how much differnt it will be from the demo.

In the demo it has "Hire" Soilders. I did not get what that meant until reading that money is invovled. This adds a new dynamic to the mode.

There is a commander? In the demo, there is not.

I hope CTI does well, but without a sound unit structure it seems like it would be pockets of fighting here and there and not the entire unit acting as one.

I do not know. Hell, I guess I should get the retail and find out.