When the game came out it was so much harder to get good guns and ammo. Trading even used to be a somewhat popular thing because high tier guns were so rare. And back then it was a bit more of a horror game too, so people didn’t go around grinding tanks for loot like we do now, and most players preferred to do as many missions as stealth as they possibly could, which meant less loot, which made the game harder and a lot more fun. It also made it more intense when you did have to fight. It’s a bit of a shame how the game has kind of lost its balance with looting now.
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I was 24.
My group of friends still game regularly online and still actively enjoy pen and paper RPG’s etc.
Right now Helldivers 2 is our preferred game, but I am back to GZ multiplayer with another mate. Very happy with that.
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Hi @dogcoffee , if you’re still playing, could I ask you to do me a favor? Please go to the campsite at the very top of of the main mountain in the mountain region, and check if you can light the campfire.
It is the only fire, I’ve ever been able to light, and I wonder if it was initially intended to be so for all campfires. However, next time I visited, I couldn’t light it again, and I never got confirmation from others, that they could light it (as I remember).
Maybe just a feature for the final scene of showdown update?
Never heard that before, too, nor tried it.
How did you light it?
As I approached the campfire, it got “selected”. Then I “executed” it and the most beautiful fire came on. I’m quite sure that @Saddletank tried it too back then, but I don’t think it worked for him.
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No, don’t think so. It was back in September '19. There also was the “flaming sword” on the first island, but that was an Easter egg 
It stood in a campfire that lit when you approached and interacted with it.
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For me it worked today but I tried it for the first time as I never heard of that before, too, like @Madchaser
Sadly it was daylight… 
Edit: P.S.: oh, I did that in the up to date Steam version of the game.
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So cool, @Kimosabe_X ! Thanks for clarifying this. For a second I wondered (like @Gysbert and the second Mkay magazine) if I had dreamed the whole thing 
Now the question is if it can be done more than once. Like the Volvo DeLorean - I could only make it take off and fly away one single time …
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I get such a kick out of discoveries like this! For me, it only triggered after starting a fresh world, so maybe it’s a one and done thing on Xbox. The DeLorean Easter egg was the same way, worked again in a new world. Awesome to see it fly again after all these years!
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There is at least one more that is interactive, or maybe it is best called re-active since the player doesn’t get a prompt with this one. When I went to the “Gun in Fire Easter egg” location the campfire was not lit, but it started burning when I got close to it.
Need to check this one later too, to see if it keeps doing this. You know, like the dead roar of that Tank on Archipelago, it always kept roaring on approach. 
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Maybe it’s just an assett which loads with delay.
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Hi @Madchaser , I’m a bit thick … I didn’t quite understand the “asset which loads with delay” part of the sentence … well, the entire sentence to be honest 
Could you please explain for this weaker mind? 
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Excuse me. Maybe it’s just bad english of a german.
So: what if the fire is always there, but the game just renders it if we get really close, not because of a Trigger, but because of a bad engine. Just like some trees pop in quite late. You know?
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Nah, I don’t think that’s it. I was pretty close to it when it happened.
When we first find this campfire with a gun in the fire pit, it catches fire when you want to pick up the gun. Somehow, now without the gun there it still has that catching fire mechanism. Maybe the trigger was reset with the last update. I have to go back to see if the fire is out again, and if my approaching triggers it again.
But if it turns out be a render issue, it would be a bummer. 
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Sure, now I understand. And the tree-thing happens al the time on X-box 
Anyway, now I’m certain that it triggered due to @Kimosabe_X , @Gysbert , and @TimData 's investigations
Your English is absolutely fine. I wish I was just half as good at German …
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on the disk version with no updates try this, grab a field radio, and destroy a harvester or tank, then throw down a field radio, then fast travel far away, then fast travel back, harvester or tank 1 hit destroy, easy gold weapons, if I remember
So I now re-checked, and the campfire is no longer interactive. It was probably reset during the last update. I will now check the gun in campfire location still starts burning on approach.
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I checked the campfire at “Gun in fire” location, and that one still works. It’s not burning, until you approach it to within a few meters. Then it suddenly catches fire. 