Is this the kind of thing he would get up to as a rebel usually? I turn to Hank, who has finished shooting flares. This is also a bannable offence, although there is no script to ensure you do not die when hit by a stray bullet. Another rule - RDM (random deathmatch) - is in place to discourage people from firing on others without roleplaying first. Because it is "against the rules", a script ensures that you don't die and lose all your expensive gear when it happens. The game counts being hit by a car as 'VDM' (vehicle deathmatch) - a misdemeanor that, if reported, is punishable by a server ban. On my way to meet Hank, I was run over by someone in a rustic-looking car. I have already encountered some of these anti-roleplay server-surfers. "They just run over people and when a cop dies they just pick up their guns and shoot everyone without talking to them." "We call them 'hobos' in Kavala," he says. He is very different from someone who kills you for nothing. Hank, although he is currently firing white-hot flares into the windows of the police headquarters, is a different class of criminal in this mod.
"If they get time, they'll pull out a speedboat minigun and shoot us down." I ask if this is considered an illegal activity. "We'll go to the police station and fire flares through their windows." He banks sharply, a ninety degree turn that makes my eyes widen. He shrugs off the gunfire from the police as we fly over the town. Someone who exists outside of the law, who has turned to crime to fund his in-game lifestyle. Hank, in his current role, is playing as a ‘rebel’. For example, police officers can impound vehicles, and medics can revive fallen victims of gun crime (there is a high rate of gun crime). Many of the jobs have special powers and you need to undergo an interview to even play as them. He is one of the hundreds of players who frequent the Altis Life UK servers, where people come to play the roles of police officers, paramedics, bank robbers, drug traffickers and even taxi drivers. It is the first time I have come ‘face to face’ with Hank. “Yeah,” he says, hand on the stick, “that was small arms fire.” We are flying high over the orange streetlights of Kavala now, over the main street of the town, the bank, the fishmongers, the pub. Hank lifts the helicopter higher and higher until the gunshots ebb away. Before either of us have time to consider it, we can hear the telltale crack of gunfire beneath us.
We sent Brendan deep into one of the UK servers to see what the populace is up to.
Altis Life is a roleplaying mod for Arma 3, featuring police, ambulance crews and outlaws.
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