Altis Life: The 5 best tips

Altis Life is a "real life mod" for the shooter Arma 3. We have put together five tips for the game.

Tip 1: The basics in Altis Life

Altis Life is a mod for the well-known shooter Arma 3. In this mod you are not a soldier. Instead, you need to join a group - police officer or civilian.
Most servers require you to start as a civilian. The police officers on the server try to ensure law and order as in real life. Civilians must therefore first familiarize themselves with a few rules.
However, they are different on each server. Therefore, you should definitely familiarize yourself with the server rules. Otherwise, as a civilian, you can do whatever you want.
Tip: Choose your favorite server well. Your character progress is only saved on this one server. So keep an eye out for servers that are well visited but not often crowded.

When you start as a civilian, you usually don't have much money. Your first goal should be to buy a vehicle (including driver's license).
The easiest way to get the money is to pick apples. Go to the market (take a look at the map) and buy the largest backpack available.
Now go to the nearby apple trees. Pick the fruits here until your backpack is full.
Then go back to the market and sell your fruits. You can repeat this process until you have enough money for a quad with a license.
With the quad you can go to picking peaches. That brings more money. However, the fruit is also further away. So only start when you have a vehicle.

If you get bored with picking fruit, you can earn money as a messenger.
Of course, you also need a vehicle for this. A quad is sufficient in most cases.
Look for "DPs" (Delivery Points) on the map. There you receive an order from NPC to deliver certain items to other locations.
After successful delivery of the items, you will receive a good remuneration. However, keep to the traffic rules when delivering, otherwise you may be stopped by a police officer and have to pay a fine.

If you don't want to earn your money as a postman, you can also earn a solid income from fishing.
To do this, buy a boat (possibly a fishing net depending on the server) and make a boat license.
Then take your boat out to sea. When you are a short distance from the coast, bring the boat to a standstill.
Now use Space to select the fishing net and then press the spacebar to eject the net.
If your boat and backpack are full of fish, you can sell them for a lot of money at the fishmonger.

Finally, you should remember the following shortcuts to get along in the game.

Z: Open game menu. In this you will learn everything about your character. On some servers you can also save your game status here. Simply click on the "Sync" button.
U: Open / lock vehicle. Note that you can really lock all vehicles. Even boats or helicopters. On some servers it is also forbidden to leave vehicles "open".
Shift + T: Open the vehicle's storage space. When "farming" valuables, remember to also fill the vehicle's storage space.
Shift + H: hide weapon / carry open. On some servers it is not allowed to carry the weapon openly.
Shift + G: Surrender. This can be very useful when chasing the police.
Shift + M: Switch GPS device on / off. This only works if you have already bought a GPS device.

Also read how to properly install the Altis mod.