Altis and Stratis are real!

[Hindenburg]

So last night I was couldn't sleep so I decided to look some stuff up on Google Earth. And when I was above greece I noticed an island called Lemnos that looked like Altis. When I zoomed into it I realized that it didn't just look like Altis, it's almost a carbon copy of it. I mean really, the international airport it there, the race track at the airport is there, the salt field is there, Kavala is there with the castle looking the same, the hospital is in the same spot, the docks are the same, and so much more! And just to the south of Lemnos is the real Stratis. I'm not really to sure what it's called because it doesn't really give a name (unless I'm just an idiot and it's right infront of me). the only real landmark that I could find (there might be more), is the monument on the southern tip of Stratis called the "Nikos Sialmas Monument". It turns out the airstip on Stratis doesn't actually exist and it was just something Bohemia added. Anyway, if you guys want to have a look for yourself go to Google Earth and look up "Lemnos, Greece". if you want to look at Altis, and Stratis is just to the south of it. If you find anything else cool that on Lemnos that is also on Altis then post it here. Same with Stratis.

[Bengel]

This fact is already known for a long long long long long time. I cant even remember it not being known.

Even if u type in altis on google maps u find the island.

[Hindenburg]

*sighs* it was new to me. :/

[Bengel]

Originally posted by CreeperRussell:

*sighs* it was new to me. :/

well congratz for finding out :D

[Hindenburg]

But you still have to admit though how great of a recreation Altis is of the Real thing.

[Bengel]

Originally posted by CreeperRussell:

But you still have to admit though how great of a recreation Altis is of the Real thing.

it is. The upcoming map Tanoa is said to be a fictional map but i expect to find traces of that one on google earth as well.

[LemonDifficult]

Tanoa is based on Fiji

All arma maps will have been based on a real area. Many developers tend to do alot of research into where they're developing their maps, especially games like Arma or even just open world games.

[NobodysLaw]

Originally posted by CreeperRussell:

But you still have to admit though how great of a recreation Altis is of the Real thing.

It is, 2 devs were imprisoned by the greece government because they thought they were spying on them:
http://kotaku.com/5976057/greek-prime-minister-lets-jailed-arma-iii-developers-finally-go-home-freed-on-bail

[user]

in other news - moon isnt made of cheese, and paris hilton has a sextape.

[UBE Chief]

The loading screens also give you the geographical coordinates of Altis/Stratis :D

[Hindenburg]

Originally posted by Nobody:

Originally posted by CreeperRussell:

But you still have to admit though how great of a recreation Altis is of the Real thing.

It is, 2 devs were imprisoned by the greece government because they thought they were spying on them:
http://kotaku.com/5976057/greek-prime-minister-lets-jailed-arma-iii-developers-finally-go-home-freed-on-bail

I read that just today actually. And it turns out that when they went to Lemnos, Altis was for the most part finished and that they had gone there, not to take more pictures for the game but as a vacation. And when they were like 2 blocks away from their hotel, the police showed up and stopped them and took them into custody. When they apparently, out of the "tens of thousands" of photos they took on thier trip 7 of them were suspicious and a "threat to Greece's national security". But even after trying to explain why they were there, they still spent I think it was 129 days in prison. That just goes to show that goes to show how paranoid the police there are.

[Vin.]

Originally posted by Nobody:

Originally posted by CreeperRussell:

But you still have to admit though how great of a recreation Altis is of the Real thing.

It is, 2 devs were imprisoned by the greece government because they thought they were spying on them:
http://kotaku.com/5976057/greek-prime-minister-lets-jailed-arma-iii-developers-finally-go-home-freed-on-bail

I never even knew about this. Thanks for the link.