![]() "We'll go to the police station and fire flares through their windows." He banks sharply, a ninety degree turn that makes my eyes widen. He shrugs off the gunfire from the police as we fly over the town. Someone who exists outside of the law, who has turned to crime to fund his in-game lifestyle. Hank, in his current role, is playing as a ‘rebel’. For example, police officers can impound vehicles, and medics can revive fallen victims of gun crime (there is a high rate of gun crime). Many of the jobs have special powers and you need to undergo an interview to even play as them. He is one of the hundreds of players who frequent the Altis Life UK servers, where people come to play the roles of police officers, paramedics, bank robbers, drug traffickers and even taxi drivers. It is the first time I have come ‘face to face’ with Hank. “Yeah,” he says, hand on the stick, “that was small arms fire.” We are flying high over the orange streetlights of Kavala now, over the main street of the town, the bank, the fishmongers, the pub. Hank lifts the helicopter higher and higher until the gunshots ebb away. Before either of us have time to consider it, we can hear the telltale crack of gunfire beneath us. We sent Brendan deep into one of the UK servers to see what the populace is up to. Altis Life is a roleplaying mod for Arma 3, featuring police, ambulance crews and outlaws.
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