I already posted this on Nival, but since no one unravelled the mysterie...

I'm sure everyone of you noticed that green box on the camp sites (when you camp your squad).

AND I'm sure all of you opened that green chest too. Only to find out that there's nothing there. Never.

So, here's the question: what's the purpose of the green camp site box?

Also, did anyone tryed to put something on the box, then exit camp site, and come back to see if it was still there?


Make jokes as much as you like, but the presence of this mysterious green empty box is really troubling me. It's almost like a monolyth from 2001 or something: it's there, you don't have the slighest ideia why it's there, or how it got there... but it's still there.

I used it for target practice, actually.

--Oh, and to add to the mystery for the box: Only on a topic formed around the box itself do I pass from the realm of newbhood into posterhood.
Yea.

It's just a prop. There is no purpose. It's just placed in the map to give an appearance of a campsite, just like the campfire and tent (which also serve no real purpose, other than aesthetics).

Some mysteries in life are not meant to be solved.

I suspect that during the game's design stage the box was supoposed to do something, but then they decided to remove it.

(The same situation can be found in the do-nothing coal mines of the game Patrician III.)

I used it to up my engineering skill: booby trap, quick save, disarm. Wash, rinse, repeat! Only part that sucked was running out of mine probes before I hit 50 engineering. I added all the other NPCs to my team and cannibalized their inventory for probes/lock picks.