For me? Well In around early 2017 I had just acquired my brand new PC that had more capacity to run games than the potato I’d had since around 2014. I was hella excited to play all these games I’d stupidly bought a few years ago, not realising I couldn’t run them (Red Orchestra, Gmod etc.). It took me around 4 months to cycle through them all and they were really good months, before finally coming across the crown jewel of Arma 3. I loved Arma 2 despite only having 20fps And huge lagspikes, and so decided to give it a try.
There I was, sat staring at the menu screen in awe and excitement, before clicking onto multiplayer and trying out this peculiar, brand new game mode called ‘King of the Hill’ with my friend George. I found myself to be pretty good at it thanks to Arma 2 skillz, though my friend George quickly left in frustration.
We decided to look for another server, and George showed me this ‘Altis Life’ server he’d played. I had fond though laggy memories of Takistan life, and decided to give it a go.
It was meh. Like most hobos we didn’t read the rules and we broke roleplay almost 24/7, though luckily we were never caught. We retired, bored after a week with 2 million in our banks and eyes gleaming on the summer sale, we didn’t return for about a year.
Then, in March just after my birthday, we had a few more friends to play Arma with and decided to give the server a try, and we were completely baffled. This is so much better than we originally thought! We were hooked and played nonstop on a daily basis. We eventually gave it a break after a month, but a month later we were back and haven’t left since!