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alive for it?

Give you a map of the entire Afghanistan

oh ok then

because there are no mosques in vanilla arma and the creator didnt want it to require mods.

why middle eastern have only churches and not a single mosque if its based of ubai, Syria, Qatar, Iran, Afghanistan, etc

simple and plain map , nicework !

Indeed i will be waiting then, hopefully something eastern themed. As well eastern terrains like chernarus have the required standard of being CUP only even with livonia assets released.

Hi, thanks for the feedback. I have two terrains in the works without any CUP dependencies so I hope they will be of your liking, and for anyone else who wants to play with less dependencies, or just newer stuff from A3. However, I am not working on anything along the lines of Bastek (or Middle-Eastern) for now. Would like to return to it in the future though for sure. Cheers!

For the future map you should consider adding also more rural areas, as you see in lythium and kunduz for example. Bastek has only Al Tabruk that resembles it, but it's as well very big area and can't be re-used 200 times.
But yeah been using this map since the release and was a change, stopped using CUP and shit for this, i said it this map is the proof you don't need CUP for any terrain.

Finally one map that doesn't require 200 gigabytes of mods

The map is very clean, very cool my friend, I like it

I understand. then one request: do not forget that in addition to the player, AI run and drive around the map))

@Armatop Hello, I am planning to eventually re-release Bastek on a new heightmap with new satellite imagery and porting all the objects over with all the new knowledge I've acquired, meaning that this version won't be getting major updates, if any. However, as I previously responded to you, I'm currently very busy with work, college, and other personal projects at the moment (other terrains included). I really appreciate the feedback, but at this time I can't realistically update the terrain.

If you are interested, I can send you a private message for more details.

hello. May I ask if you could remake the island a bit? we are probably the only ones who play it and there is a big problem. 1. This is the presence of stones on the mountains in the form of rocks. bots appear in them and get stuck in different missions and it spoils the whole game.2. This will shrink the mountains themselves and make them a little smoother in slope. And they are like walls. and again, it will be easier to move along them.3. Make bridges out of Tanoa, because your AIs can't move around and don't drive across bridges everywhere.4. remove barriers or make them open by default.

@Nuxes Awesome! Thank you :)

I've ported Dynamic Recon Ops to this map
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2865835582

Hi, neat video Ryan! Thanks a lot for featuring the terrain and thanks for sharing! Keep up the good work with your content too! :)

Hey, love the map! I used it in my latest video if you're interested - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z437L4WkA2k

Thanks :)

Good thing you mention it! You can thank Thoreaufare for nagging me until I did it! It was a good choice!

Take my points for including a picture of the map. Such a simple thing that is not done on so, so many uploads. Thank you, sir

Hi, thanks a lot for the feedback! I really appreciate you enjoy the terrain. I'm currently very caught up with work and life but those were indeed some things I wanted to fix. I'll get around to it when I get a chance.

hi .chic island. thanks for your work. we play it every day. but there's a problem. please remove the bullet dust effects. (the smoke is different) they spoil everything. too many of them. and add the dust from the wheels and steps, as they do on all the islands. Thanks

Thank you so much for making a middle-east terrain that doesn't require cup

Any chance someone could get alive working on this map?

@Saeletra Ok and

Hey all, the original Jackup Oilrig made by Thoreaufare for the terrain is now available as a standalone composition on the Workshop.

You can find it for use in your missions here:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2743023487

It's actually a good thing when map mods don't have dependencies. If you don't like seeing Orthodox churches in your ME terrain, make your own.

Armenia is part of the Greater Middle-Eastern Sphere of South Caucasus. 97% is in a Christian denomination in Armenia, and the majority of areas, cities and regions there are devoid of any mosques.

The terrain was made with vanilla assets. Vanilla assets don't have mosques, and the guy still made a very valid and arguable substitute with its use of Orthodox churches as religious centers in his terrain. This isn't an entire country, it's a terrain. You could just make up an excuse in your head. Maybe Bastek is an area where an (Insert Middle-Eastern Country)'s population of Orthodox Christians settled in to avoid persecutions centuries ago, said Middle-Eastern Country's government just let them be and allowed a degree of autonomy because it was sealocked and partially isolated - it would make sense.

You're supposed to make up stuff for it anyways, so why not use your imagination and put in a pseudo-historical justification for why it uses Orthodox churches instead of mosques?

@Gattobuono Lebanon has a lot of Christians

@Saeletra
"here, let me give you an example in real-life of Orthodox Churches being a relatively common sight in a Muslim/Middle-Eastern country"

We know that there are Christian churches in some more tolerant Muslim countries.
Now please send us an example of a Muslim country in which there are lots of Christian Orthodox churches and zero mosques, because that's what the discussion is all about. 🙂

You guys know that there’s churches that look exactly the same in the UAE right? Look it up.

Is this map compatible with ALiVE?

Arma 3 spergs are so rarted that they can't fathom the idea of Eastern Orthodox churches being in a Muslim setting.

here, let me give you an example in real-life of Orthodox Churches being a relatively common sight in a Muslim/Middle-Eastern country:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_in_Jordan

@Gattobuono - I think you need to go back and read CAREFULLY the 'thread'. You have made a major mistake that has NO BASIS IN TRUTH in what you wrote to me.

History:

@Gaulis stated something that was incorrect

@momo12320 basically stated @Gaulis should have known about what he stated was incorrect.

I told @momo12320 that he should have been nicer and not everybody knows everything. We ALL started knowing NOTHING.

@momo12320 agreed and apologized.

I said thank you to @momo12320 for doing the right thing.

THE END



Where in the HADES DID YOU GET WHAT YOU WROTE FROM THE ABOVE!?!?!?!?!!?


Based on your replies @Gattobuono, the owner, @Vectif, should ban you and delete all of your messages. You are just a mean person who adds nothing of substance to any conversation. Your messages are a true waste of time.


@Vectif - You have done an excellent job on this map and thank you for your time and effort on such!

:)

"Very odd that there's Orthodox churches in a very Muslim place."

Careful, you'll have people criticising you for pointing out an obvious flaw! ;-)

This is one of the maps EVER for ArmA3.

Fantastic map

Very odd that there's Orthodox churches in a very Muslim place.

i'd like some of that popcorn

@Play3r
"i can't believe that some of you can get: "mad" about some buildings on a fantasy map that the creator have made out of his own idea.."

Firstly, no one is 'mad', people are simply pointing out that some of the prominent buildings on this map are inappropriate for the supposed setting.

Secondly, this is not a "fantasy map that the creator have made out of his own idea"

Read the description:

"The terrain was made from researching different regions in the middle east (such as Dubai, Syria, Qatar, Iran, Afghanistan, etc) alongside investigating other games set in such regions. As such, Bastek is no exact representation of any of these locations, but more so a mixture of all of them. It is fictionally located north of the United Arab Emirates and south of Iran."

i think i'm going to get some popcorn, i can't believe that some of you can get: "mad" about some buildings on a fantasy map that the creator have made out of his own idea..

Ok, I have a great imagination, so I'll go and play on an Eastern European map and imagine I'm in the middle East.

Shame you don't want to listen to informed feedback and improve your mod though.

As it says in the first line of the description; I was limited by the vanilla Arma 3 assets. You're going to have to use your imagination a bit, and some people may find that difficult.

"I'll gladly take your custom modelled ME mosques, I think that's what you're saying?"

I'm a modder for a completely different game, so no mosques for your map I'm afraid.
But I'll give you some free advice: if your intent is to make a generic Middle Eastern location then you need to focus on the defining characteristics of the Middle East, which, by the way, is a massive area with dramatic variations in terrain, flora and architecture.

I've spent a lot of time researching the ME for the game I'm working on, and I'm helped by my wife, a Christian who was born, and grew up in a Muslim country.

Eastern European Orthodox churches are NOT a defining characteristic of the Middle East. It would be better to have nothing on your map than those totally out of place structures, which are way too prominent in these screenshots. They stick out like a sore thumb.

I assume that you want to improve your mod, no? Well there's your feedback. :-)

@gattobuono I'll gladly take your custom modelled ME mosques, I think that's what you're saying?

let me know when they're done, the community would love it!

@Machine Gun Kelly

"Yes, an educated/informed person would know that in the Middle East there are Christian churches."

An educated person would know that whilst there are Christian Churches in the middle east, they are hardly more prominent that Mosques, and they are certainly NOT Eastern European Orthodox churches as appear in the screen shots.

There is very little Middle Eastern in these screenshots apart from the palm trees and the sand. One screenshot shows a street full of smart looking Southern Mediterranean houses with lovely green grass and European deciduous trees.

Hence I would have to agree with momo12320 that the map maker has very little knowledge of the ME.

And by the way, insulting someone for insulting someone for agreeing with someone isn't the action of an "educated person".

no problem! Anytime, and good luck!