Why did wasteland die?

[Condasoft]

I loved wasteland, where did it all go so wrong?

[Д а н к о в с к и й]

It's just hard to reliably populate a server. You have to hope a lot of people all decide to get on at once and Wasteland is no longer the hot new thing compared to modes like Antistasi. Wasteland is a holdover of the old Arma 2 ways of doing things. If you want that experience now you're more likely to just play DayZ or one of the other PVP modes instead (is Exile still a thing?).

Not to mention the mod disparity, either you make it vanilla which few people want to play, or you make it modded and deal with all the stress of mods.

[Seth_Haveron]

there are a lot of proper wasteland server with a lot of options

but for whatever reason ppl dont seem to like to play on private servers

we used to run a highly customised PVP/PVE server with self learning bots that over time mimic the player to a point that there is no destinction if its a bot or player

and since there are constant clashes between player and bots and bots v bots all over the map you are definitly not alone

[YURI MARCHENKOV]

i would LOVE to play on that server, i find its hard to join on a good server, my system isnt a potato nor is it a space comp but im having issues with finding good server, after like 45 minutes of looking, i get bored i just jump back on MIKE FORCE.

[Ģ◊иℤ◊⚡ℤ∀муpΛй]

Wasteland has died along with the insurgency mode, i really loved insurgency Blufor was raiding taliban camps while a few players took over random AIs in the area, kinda like what you can do with Zeus, this way you could prepape IEDs mines and create obstacles before Blufor arrives this was quite cool, but its extinct now since we have ZEUS, you can do exactly the same but much faster and easier and give blufor a warm welcome. Great ArmA2CO memories.

A similar mode still exists for certain Unsung/PraerieFire servers, which has a few slots for VC, it is however much cooler because the VC can build tunnels with actual interior its really tense for blufor.

[Street yogurt]

Wasteland arguably died in the Arma 2 days. people didn't want it anymore, they wanted DayZ. Wasteland tried to chase the zombie trend of that time, and it failed, because Arma zombies suck ass.

[Street yogurt]

Originally posted by Ģ◊иℤ◊⚡ℤ∀муpΛй:

Wasteland has died along with the insurgency mode, i really loved insurgency Blufor was raiding taliban camps while a few players took over random AIs in the area, kinda like what you can do with Zeus, this way you could prepape IEDs mines and create obstacles before Blufor arrives this was quite cool, but its extinct now since we have ZEUS, you can do exactly the same but much faster and easier and give blufor a warm welcome. Great ArmA2CO memories.

A similar mode still exists for certain Unsung/PraerieFire servers, which has a few slots for VC, it is however much cooler because the VC can build tunnels with actual interior its really tense for blufor.

I also miss Insurgency. It is possible to restore it using ALiVE's Asymmetric modules but it is a lot of work and there's no real public server scene on this game anymore sadly. Not like the huge servers Arma 2 had for coop play.

[Sgt Smash]

Wasn't it remade for Reforger?

Sure i see a YT video, tho my memory ain't what it used to be lol

Now I'm curious, gonna have a look 🧐