Tactical Battlegrounds

What it is

Tactical PUBG in Arma 3. Your squad (solo or up to 8 friends) drops into a battle royale on Altis, Malden or Stratis against squads of Arma's AI, while PUBG's blue zone closes in phase by phase.

From your own PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS (read from your install, PUBG is never started or changed):

• PUBG's drop-plane film opens every match, with its sound.
• PUBG's care-package film (crate on a parachute, red smoke) loops behind the lobby and plays in the corner of your screen when a care package is on its way; its music plays when you win.
• PUBG's key art is the backdrop of WINNER WINNER CHICKEN DINNER.

PUBG's rules, Arma's realism:

• Pick a role in the lobby: Assault (repairs vehicles), Medic (revives twice as fast), Sniper, Machine Gunner.
• The squad leader picks the landing zone on the map, an AI-flown Ghost Hawk flies you in — or JUMP out anywhere on the way and steer your parachute down, PUBG-style.
• Blue zone in 8 phases with a blue wall you can see; red zones get shelled; care packages fall with red smoke and the best gear (Lynx, M320, Titans, plate carriers, ghillie suits, adrenaline).
• Ground loot in buildings in PUBG-style tiers (better in military buildings).
• PUBG's heals: Bandage (to 75%), First Aid Kit (75%), Med Kit (100%); boosts: Energy Drink, Painkiller, Adrenaline (boost heals over time and makes you faster). A flare gun calls an armoured vehicle drop. PUBG's keys: [7] heal, [8] boost, [9] bandage, [0] flare gun.
• Knock-down and revive (Arma's revive); if your whole squad is down, the squad is out.
• Maximum vehicles and aviation: cars and armed trucks on the roads, APCs, tanks and AA on open ground, boats on the shore, helicopters and gunships, and jets on the airfields — A-143 Buzzard fighters, A-164 Wipeout and To-199 Neophron bombers. AI squads drive armour, and AI gunships and jets join from the 3rd phase.
• Kill feed, alive counter, squad health, a siren at red zones, PUBG-style zone announcements; when you are out you follow a living teammate; end screen with your place, kills, damage and time.
• English and Russian.

Playing together

One player presses Play and hosts; the lobby shows the host's controls (island, AI squads, vehicles, AI aircraft) and an invite code (COPY INVITE CODE). Friends copy the code (or the host's address from this page) and press Play: the launcher asks whether to join that game. Up to 8 players in the squad. Friends connect through Steam's relay, no port forwarding.

Needs

Arma 3 (base game; Malden is the free DLC that comes with it) and PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS installed, Steam running. No Arma DLC is needed.

Credits

Made by VolkMicro with AI assistance (Claude). Code, scripts and icons: MIT. Arma 3 © Bohemia Interactive; PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS © KRAFTON — no game files are shipped.