Last night, on the PC Gamer ArmA server...

Good men died on our ArmA 2: Operation Arrowhead server ("The War Walrus," as we like to call it) last night. Brave, strong, 15-year-old men died. But they did it nobly: we were on a morning raid to rescue four members of the press (in our imagination, courageous game writers captured by the enemy). Along the way, we shot down a helicopter with light machine guns. Here's how it went down.

PC Gamer intern Mike Quach had a closer perspective on the flyswatting, which he captured in the video below. Skip to 1:29.

On Saturday, we were the recipient of anti-air fire--my bit of close air support turned into an infantry stand-off after AA clipped the tail rotor of my AH-64 Apache. We ejected directly over the area of operations. Utilizing whatever civilian vehicles they could hijack, enemy reinforcements arrived in a passenger bus.

Evan's a hardcore FPS enthusiast who joined PC Gamer way back in 2008. After an era spent publishing reviews, news, and cover features, he now oversees editorial operations for PC Gamer worldwide, including setting policy, training, and editing stories written by the wider team. His most-played FPSes are Hunt: Showdown, Team Fortress 2, Team Fortress Classic, Rainbow Six Siege, and Counter-Strike. His first multiplayer FPS was Quake 2, played on serial LAN in his uncle's basement, the ideal conditions for instilling a lifelong fondness for fragging.