The blue circle shrinks from roughly 2-3km to about 100m within one hour. The smaller the blue, the faster it drains. If you're caught outside the blue for more than a few seconds, your life starts to drain. You can also completely ignore all the hotspots and win the game through stealth, cunning and a 9mm pistol alone.Ībout 10-15 minutes into the match a blue circle appears and you have to stay within it until the very end or risk death. The catch is that the packages are highly visible and approaching one for looting is extremely dangerous. Care packages, which offer the best gear, are dropped from an airplane throughout the match at random locations (where exactly the match is taking place on the island is also random). Military buildings offer better gear but they are consequently some of the more dangerous places to visit. You start the game with nothing but the clothes on your back, you see. You are thrown out of an airplane from a height of 1600 metres and after you land you need to find gear.

When the minimum player limit is reached (usually around 40), the game starts. Having said that, I think the lobby is perhaps the most ingenious part of the BR mod nothing puts you in the mood for murder better than listening to a bunch of idiots. When playing with my friends, we often race to see who can mute everyone the fastest (‘mute all’ button is still a faraway dream for Arma 3 players). The patrons here range from screaming children who are probably too young to be sitting at a table, to people playing instruments live over VoIP (including but not limited to recorders, acoustic guitars and once even a tuba) with a healthy dash of the worst racists and homophobes you’ve ever encountered. In this way, it's the cleanest deliver of what makes Arma multiplayer great - and it's playable against strangers, without the need to clear hurdles and join a community.īattle Royale matches begin with players gathering in the in-game lobby. How well you do is down to your map reading skills, planning, situational awareness and gun handling. You can't buy anything or grind to unlock anything.

On a surface level Battle Royale is simply free-for-all deathmatch, but unlike most public multiplayer mods available for Arma 3 today, it's based on skill and a tiny bit of luck.

Razmon - that was his name - flopped to the ground. I peaked over the crumbled wall, aimed at his back and fired three times. A man ran past my building and stopped under a tree some 15 metres away, most likely to do the same thing I was doing - look at his map.

The blue circle had just popped up and I was looking at the map when I heard the footsteps. It was at night and I was hiding in a ruined building in Agios Dionysios. The first one, like many first things in life, was somewhat sloppy and forgettable. I remember my second kill in Battle Royale.

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