The real Island of Altis

[Eric916]

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Lemnos/@39.9085575,24.960154,10z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x14af9308e2419f95:0xd91859654cb35ebd!8m2!3d39.9198413!4d25.141484

 

 

Thought this was interesting. I actually heard that bohemia got in trouble for taking photos of military compounds on this island and modeling the in game bases too closely to the real life ones and the Greek army got pissed at them cuz they said it would compromise security. Just an interesting thing to look at, it's amazing how similar Altis is to it's irl counter-part.

[Sijanec]

I dont want to be mean but there were already at least 5 posts like this

[Eric916]

Just now, Sijanec said:

I dont want to be mean but there were already at least 5 posts like this

aww dam I didn't see them... I'm on here A LOT so that's kinda weird. makes sense though I figured someone already found this...

[Eric916]

how bout Kavala IRL

[Sijanec]

Just now, Eric916 said:

aww dam I didn't see them... I'm on here A LOT so that's kinda weird. makes sense though I figured someone already found this...

And there were more on the old forums

[Eric916]

Just now, Sijanec said:

And there were more on the old forums

well fuck me sidewayz

[Eric916]

1 minute ago, Gnashes said:

 

even church arms is a real church haha

[Shane McCoy]

I never realized it was that identical

[Heidelberg]

Yeah the dude got put in jail for espionage.

[Eric916]

7 minutes ago, Heidelberg said:

Yeah the dude got put in jail for espionage.

lol

[Zorrak]

nice

[Johnny]

og arms looks nice

[ProjectGemini]

Fun fact! The Greek god of Hephaestus was said to live on Lemnos. Various bits of literature from Greek and Rome make reference to Lemnos/Altis because of this. Virgil's Aeneid talks of both Turnus and Aeneas having "Lemnian" armor and weaponry, signifying that both were backed by certain gods.