How to play wasteland "properly"

[PapaValhalla]

It seems every time i try to play wasteland, i JOIN the losing side which is of course being basically spawn raped. So obviously that means i spend my time avoiding rockets from heli's, jets, etc etc dying repeatedly in the process just trying to get to a general store, or a gun store.

Every once in a while i can net myself a couple kills when they invade on foot, but other than that i just get raped by vehicles and aircraft nearly every time iv'e tried to play this mode now.

Usually the teams are balance locked so you cant join the other side unless it puts you on that side, so i can't just swap sides, so it leaves me to join one of the losing sides and basically become a crawling turtle till some random artillary from a jet run kills me through a building v.v

How in the hell, am i supposed to play this mode lmao, what am i doing wrong xD

[Bhayaal]

Go back to ArmA 2 to play Wasteland properly. In ArmA 3 it's just bunch of kids killing their own team or going to Independant for the same reason. You can't play this mod because ArmA 3 community is childish af (thanks to "life" ♥♥♥♥♥♥ servers).

If you really want to play at this mod, go search for people to play with, group, make you HQ with water, food, vehicules and weapons, and then raid ennemies positions to gather what you need. Make a big HQ, group with other people, and make your law.

This is the true Wasteland. This was like this in ArmA 2. And if you just want to play alone try to make mates and explain your plan. Don't play like a beheaded chicken, or it will not be fun for anyone.

[ShadyPhoenix]

If you still want to play in Arma III Wasteland here are some hinds you can follow:

1. Avoid driving vehicles. Any vehicle is pretty noise and you can see them from 3000m. Other people can one-shot you with a Titan or MRPL/NLAW rocket.
2. If you are on foot, try to move along away from any road. In the Arma III Wasteland people just focus roads and camps, but ignoring the surrounding, which means you can move freely and engage enemys from the side or even from behind.
3. There are 2 ways how to shop save:
3.1 The First one is to go only to a shop if you teams is nearby. This will bait enemys to your
this may bait enemys to your location but they first gonna shoot your Teammates which run
around like Flys.
3.2 You just go to a Store if there is really nobody. You should make sure that you've first get a overwatch at it and then go in.
4. Get some Teammates. Then if you may die, you'll get your Stuff back or even get revived

[Sgt Smash]

Pick a gun store, take it over with your team mates, then defend it, and watch the whole server rage as they fail to take it back from you, also helps it you bait players to come and try and take so you can get more kills/money!

[Botji]

Originally posted by Poulegarou:

Go back to ArmA 2 to play Wasteland properly. In ArmA 3 it's just bunch of kids killing their own team or going to Independant for the same reason. You can't play this mod because ArmA 3 community is childish af (thanks to "life" ♥♥♥♥♥♥ servers).

If you really want to play at this mod, go search for people to play with, group, make you HQ with water, food, vehicules and weapons, and then raid ennemies positions to gather what you need. Make a big HQ, group with other people, and make your law.

This is the true Wasteland. This was like this in ArmA 2. And if you just want to play alone try to make mates and explain your plan. Don't play like a beheaded chicken, or it will not be fun for anyone.

I would actually put most of the blame on Dayz, the current Wasteland is almost the same as Dayz without zombies and I see Wasteland as a sort gathering of players who like the Dayz looting but want it as a 'lite' edition with more action.

Wasteland used to be a fun mission/mode with base building but it feels like that was a long time ago, any of the recent times I tried it the teams were like 5 Bluefor, 5 Opfor and 55 Indep... I shouldnt need to explain how bad that is for the gameplay, it even went so far that I stopped seeing servers with base building enabled because it affected performance and no one used it, so they removed it.

Havent tried it since then but I doubt it has changed much for the better.

[FutureRegrets]

I stopped playing wasteland because its a pain in the ass to find a server that actually has basebuilding still enabled.

[PapaValhalla]

Thank you all, i took a couple of the suggestions, and it's been a little more enjoyable, but yeah, i get team killed more than anything lmao or just get spawn camped by the team that is drastically winning xD, bummer, this mod had a lot of potential

[PapaValhalla]

The gun store thing really worked lmfao, i had about an hour of enjoyable gampplay that my team held a gunstore till they nuked the place with ifrats and jets lmao