Prepare for the FIA

[u/Polo117]

Sticking to the same US/USSR HQC playstyle will not work with the FIA in 1.7

Solo play will result in you giving your gear and vehicles to the FIA for free

• Solo building a base? You got caught by 1 FIA, who now has your construction truck, radio, gear and will use all these things against you

• Solo operating a heli or armored vehicle? 1 FIA will watch and follow you for an hour, waiting for the perfect time to kill you and take your vehicle

Arsenals at every base enables constant sabotage

• Every Arsenal is a place for the FIA to upgrade their gear from a simple pistol, to everything they need

• There should only be a few arsenals at heavily defended bases, with lots of player traffic

• Once the arsenal is not needed, it should be disassembled

Storage Depots are destructible

• Hoarding depots in one spot is a saboteurs dream, they should be built under camo nets, and spread throughout the base

• Depots can no longer be used for indestructible walls

Rushing to build bases or capture points will result in you getting ambushed

• Players can't predict safe paths to drive or walk, the FIA could be ANYWHERE

• FIA can reposition most of the default FIA AI, and landmines around the map

• FIA can recruit more FIA to position

• FIA can build defences

Bases need to be isolated so they're harder to infiltrate, and easier to defend

• Bases built besides towns, forests etc allows the FIA to walk right in, even with AI defenders

• A base built in a clear, open field, with sandbag walls makes it harder to infiltrate, and also protects the AI defenders

• Just need to avoid positions that have high-ground looking into the base

Abandoning vehicles at every base you attack gives the FIA free transport

• Many people spawn a vehicle, drive to an objective, and once they capture, will build a new vehicle station and spawn another vehicle, while their original one is a walk away

• These scattered vehicles give the FIA more options for transport, to use them as roadblocks or ambushes

The FIA punishes those who lack situational awareness, who don't work within a group, and those who rush to complete their objectives.

I'm keen to see how this new danger will change how people play, how will you as a soldier, Squad Leader or Commander change your playstyle in this new environment?

[u/Average_nat3]

This shit will be the end of this game lol no one asked for fia in conflict at all, instead of actually adding something new or interesting the devs continue to fumble this games player base.

[u/Max_Bronx → u/Average_nat3]

I have seen many people in the past wanting to control or play as FIA.

And yes they should add more stuff, they have destroyed BMP and other stuff already on the map. Just make those a higher quality and test how tracked vehicles behave before Arma 4 comes around. But we will probably not see this.

I play mostly Vanilla HQC and I can assure you this will not be the end of the Game.

[u/Sahnex3 → u/Average_nat3]

Server owners can just turn it off.

If you dont like it, just dont play on servers where FIA is enabled.

simple as that.

[u/DeadEyedCretin → u/Average_nat3]

I think it's cool, definitely gonna play a few games as FIA

[u/SerzaCZ → u/Average_nat3]

You're leaving.

I'm coming back to provide covering fire.

We are not the same.