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title: ACE3 and ACEX
description: Overview of what ACE3 and ACEX mods are.
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## 1. ACE3

**ACE3** is a joint effort by the teams behind **ACE2**, **AGM** and **CSE** to improve the realism and authenticity of Arma 3.

It provides many [features](../feature) which enhance realism gameplay, and provides [frameworks](../framework) which mission makers, modders and scripters can use to enhance their own missions and mods.

## 2. ACEX

**ACEX** was an optional package of mods that complimented the ACE3 modification.

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    <p><b>ACEX was merged into ACE3 v3.14.0!</b> Remove it if you still have it installed.</p>
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