w production, i can see the effort that was put into making this

i believe that the map is set in iran since soviets did invade it but were kicked out of iran later but it makes sense since they speak a little bit of arabic there

my head canon to Arid is that instead of the afghan war, the USSR is fighting [FICTIONAL COUNTRY] in order to seize Adamantine, and the US probably hired PMCs to intervene this soviet-fiction country war, as well as smuggling resources out of this country. my best shot at it is that this is _probably_ an United Arabia, that annexed Afghanistan, also probably under US influence. USSR took up arms, and spicy zombie virus came along. however this does put a discrepancy on normal unturned lore. my best guess is that Russia left the USSR to explain the existance of Russia AND the USSR on the same timeline. eh, im thinking too much, i love arid though

bro why are you using minecraft music?

thumbnail got something covring the y bro

What a chaos and mess.

I'm pretty sure the map was supposed to be Afganistan but then the taliban took over the country again in real life so they fictionalized the map. Also I'm pretty sure the map takes place in an alternative Universe where the UFOs carrying the Unturned virus crash landed in the Soviet Union in the late 1970s.

ah i remember when arid first released... good old times sniping with my friends on top of the big crane

Afganistan

This video has convinced me you are worthy of being subscribed to so congratulations on 235 :)

I'm 99% sure Fort Knell is supposed to be a US Embassy. The devs apparently modeled it after the US Embassy in Mogadishu, Somalia (if you look it up you'll see the similarities). I'm also pretty sure Renaxon or one of the devs said it himself but I dont really remember.

I think the flags can be found in kuwait

The newspaper description says it's from the 1980s

KNIGHT WRITER HAS BEEN ROBBED????

5 days ago 😮

You've found most of the puzzle pieces but failed to connect the dots. The reason its set in the past is because it is, its a testing ground for the virus. Hence the lack of flamers, spitters ect The PMC would've been hired by Scorp 7 to ensure the spread of the virus for testing, and to harvest adamantide on the way Fort Knell would've been attacked by PMCs, It's safe to assume tensions between Knell and PMCs due to the MRLS at Knell aiming at various PMC Locations

The volume of everything except the gunshots was way too quiet, making the gunshots an earrape. Good video though:)

Something that’s always bugged me about Arid is that even though I’ve seen a lot of theories saying it’s set in the 1980s, there’s several things that kinda prove otherwise. If Arid was set in the 80s-90s, why are there modern weapons for sale (the Zolash Mod 1, WKM 12.7, TX-45, GP460S, etc) at the traders as well as spawning at Fort Knell? My personal lore, is that the survivor is connected to the traders in the safezone, who were sent to Arid to investigate the origins of the virus in the region. Fort Knell, the deadzone in the top left of the map, was a US-backed coalition main base that was constructed to try and discover the origin of the virus in the region. During the operation of the base, something catastrophic happened there. A horde approached the base and threatened to destroy it. 2 missile trucks, loaded with missiles similar to the Thanato missiles used in Greece, were deployed to try and quell the horde. They were too late. The base was overrun, the missiles sabotaged by the US forces in a last ditch effort to destroy the area/horde, therefore irradiating the entire area around the base. Soon after contact with Fort Knell was lost, a small force was mustered to set up a safezone in the region. The force consisted of people from multiple countries, as suggested by the Norwegian patch on one of the traders. You are deployed into the area a while after the original group was sent in, which could by why there are so few zombies in the main city. This could also explain why there are so many more zombies in the airfield/radar base because they didn't have the manpower to advance that far. You are then tasked to find out what really happened here, as well as finish cleaning up the area and attempt rebuilding this once thriving country. But that's just my headcanon for Arid. Let me know what you think.

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I thought the map was set in the 1980s due to the soviets being there. But the US uniforms seem to be based off of the 2000s UCP pattern. This might not have relevancy but it still ticked me off as a uniform nerd and made my mind make up a bunch of excuses to make the timeline work

Good video! Way better than mine tbh, I was kinda lazy on it and I had a problem of trying to force every curated map into the same timeline. That's actually how I started the "virus started in 2016" thing, because I was trying to force Rio into the main timeline but it just didn't work. The SDG wiki says it was 2018 and Buak cements it now. So, sorry for essentially lying about that lol. I guess it's not a huge deal but now that I'm more mature I actually kinda feel bad about it. Hope you keep making content!

Honestly unturned lore goes hard

Cool video and probably most reasonable theories surrounding the lore! 😺 (as others mentioned, do work on the audio balance as mic is very quiet)

Considering how PMCs work in the modern era (basically corporations/organizations killing or protecting stuff to make money), imo the PMCs in Arid came here to intervene and fight off the Soviets too. We COULD also say that the PMCs are here to only fight off rebels, but I believe that will make no sense. Either those two, or maybe make money from Adamantine

Bro made a theory about Arid when it hasn't gotten any new lore added, I admire your commitment. Please somehow make a theory about A6 Polaris or Carpat idk

Very good video Mate! I would love to see more videos like this!

I miss playing unturned, sadly dont have it

ok the transition from the low quality retail ragtime to a higher quality retail ragtime is pretty good

I believe that the PMC was hired by scorpion 7 and that they were used to get Adamantite. This Adana rite was used by scorpion 7 to make experimental stuff the the mk1 in Washington, or the virus itself. It is possible that since the bio weapon aka the virus was commissioned by the US government, they could be the reason that arid is infected but the rest of the world is not with it still being in the same timeline.

more please

yo can i make some constructive criticism, are you able to afford a better mic because its a good vid, it's just very very quiet

unturned video, Instant sub

So bassically communist iraq

Nice vid!

nice video bro

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Good video bro, keep going forward 💪💪💪 🤌

amazing movie I'm going to get some popcorn

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super video 👍😎🥂

I’m form bc I’m nor highest

The amount of times that something happens in new brunswick:

“Yukoners when people call them Yukonians”

This video is terrifiyingly accurate.

As a person from PEI who lives in New Brunswick... ...I don't have a satisfying way to end this statement.

Brooo we do see a lot of slimes here in Manitoba Just the other day my dad accidentally ran one over

From SK, don’t follow the slander you made for it, if anything the Manitoba one works better for SK

My friend who knows little bit of french, german, Korean, spanish, Chinese, Japanese, and russian, but more english (as her main language is English), and her made up language, Rus-Man, and she is a german-italian-irish-welsh American: I see 0:08 as an absolute win.

this is a good canadian slander video, well done