... What? You can't turn off Player needs once you've selected it! Player needs are like when you need water to survive. Pretty much like DayZ.

You can disable it. Go to Shift + 1, then Options I think, it's a long time ago since I've played and select Player needs and put it to disabled

Yeah, I know how to disable it, but I wanted to know how the system works.
How do I get water and food?
Where can I store it?
How do I drink water?

This is the kind of stuff I wanted to know, sorry if I didn't make myself clear enough

I'd like to know too. OTOH I have a whole island to liberate, I am not sure I want to add the usual DayZ/Epoch/etc chore of entering every house in search for food/water/gear too :). Yet I am curious. I hope it adds some drops with water and food, I really wouldn't want to have to loot every house :).

Hi can we fix up the saving a bit? I don't know whether I accidently press start a new game or the game restarts by itself but I keep restarting my campaigns. It could also something to do with updates. I had an update before my last campaign restarted.

Suggest we some how allow multiple saves so if one stuffs up we can go back to a later save. If that can't be done maybe a warning window that comes up reminding you that you are about to lose your old campaign would be a good idea?

First, this is a topic about a game feature called "Player Needs", saving issues should go in their own thread.

Second, saving is an Arma3/workshop problem, also the author is to blame for updating his scenario too often :), and he has been working on that scenario a lot these past days. What happens is that as soon as a scenario, whatever scenario, either a huge one like WLA or a the simplest of missions gets an update from the Workshop, this updated scenario is downloaded by the Steam client automatically, and Arma3 deletes the "continue.Arma3Save" file for this mission. And since the complete 'tard at BIS who implemented the save and load procedures didn't think to add a "Load" button, one will have to restart the mission.

This also happens sometimes when one rage-hits the Esc key when looking at his death camera, the game can go back to the main menu without creating this "continue.Arma3Save" file. In case of such an error, you can find the folder where this mission's files are ("C:\Users\<username>\Documents\Arma 3 - Other Profiles\<profile_name>\Saved\missions\<mission_name>\") and copy the latest "save*.Arma3Save" file to "continue.Arma3Save". But this can be dangerous for missions that have been updated, since the saved data may be incompatible with the new version.

In the case of WLA, if you read the in-game docs, you'll see that the author has provided for this problem. You can make an alternate save accessed by 0-0-0, which is different from the standard Arma3 save. After a 0-0-0 save you can restart the scenario and you will be asked if you want a clean restart or one from the latest 0-0-0 save. And the author advises to make one every time you end your gaming session for the day, because the next time the mission could be updated and you won't be able to "Continue" with the old version to make that save.

And the best option yet is to NEVER use the Workshop to download missions if there is an alternate method. For WLA the author has posted a link to dropbox and the BIS forums where you can download the mission the usual way. So if you see that there is an update (it would have been nice is the author included version numbers in his downloadable file name), you fire up the current one, make a 0-0-0 save, download the new vesion manually, restart with it, load the 0-0-0 save and voila, no more restarts from scratch.

Thanks Neofit your champion. Good info.