Opertaion Flashpoint: BF1942 before there was BF 1842
PolishElvis
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Any one here still play this gem? It had everything: A decent Cold War Era story, excellet realism and a multitude of mission. An ecellent mission editor and mod support keeps the game's communitty following strong. The GOTY edition is now on GAmetap and it's a pretty cheap buy else where. It's puesdo-sequal, Armed Assault is not out in the US but it may be in the UK. ArmA, from I've played isn't quite as good as OFP but has better graphics. There is an xbox version OFP but i've heard it's not so good
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I'm pretty sure the modding community for it is still alive, though.
Multiplayer was never very popular and the netcode was awful, so I'm sure no one plays that anymore, really.
We actually had a thread on here about OFP and ArmA. Though, it kinda fell off the first page and into oblivion.
The mod community is absolutely huge. Theres so many different mods out for Ofp. Whole islands, weapons, vehicles, animations, textures, sounds.. you friggin name it bud.
My favorite mods for Ofp would definitely have to be Finnish Defence Force, Capture the Island and a mod based on Stalker (which I can't remember the name of).
The Stalker mod was a bit buggy but generally enjoyable. At least for me it was.
With succession of patches theyve tightened up the code quite a bit. My friend in Australia and I played Capture the Island for 10hrs with no problems what so ever.
As for the key, you might be able to contact Bohemia and they might be able to give you a new key or send you a new disc. I had that problem when I received the Ofp Gold and they just sent me a whole new copy of the original.
So.... Game On?
Operation Flashpoint files via Filefront
Avon Ladys OFP FAQ
Finnish Defence Force
Unfortunately I can't seem to find any of the cti mods. I'll have to dig up my archives and see if the cti files are there. If so, I'll send em to any interested party.
Asides from firearms and operable vehicles, yea.. they're nothing alike. Ofp definitely leans more towards the sim genre then anything else. Which is probably why alot of people are turned off by it.
On the mods note, Wargames League and much of the Ballistic Addon Studios stuff is pretty good.
Considering its a few years old, it'll prove prove difficult to find. EBay and Amazon marketplace are the only results I'm seeing so far. I think you can buy it off of D2D too.
Might get lucky browsing bargin bins and what not at your local b&m stores.
It'll be hard to obtain, but certainly worth it. Try if you can to get the GOTY edition. It'd be a major wench trying to finding the exps.
If I see anything I'll link it.
Used to be. When Ofp was released it did have quite a few bugs. After a handful of patches its become quite stable. Only problems I've encounter post-1.96 is the issue with the ports. If you have the required ports blocked on a firewall or router then the game will most likely hang when trying to join a mp game.
I'm hoping the same will be true for Armed Assault. Especially since all the Ofp mods are compatible with it.
Hopefully will see the same support for ArmA as we did with Ofp.
If we get any games going, we definitely need to have some fun with some of the zombie mods.
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Armed Assault is slated for May 07 release. Atari will be publishing it. They are using SecuRom for disc protection. The downloadable Czech and German versions carry StarForce. (hiss)
I've never heard of SecuRom.
Is no news good news?
Rock Band DLC | GW:OttW - arrcd | WLD - Thortar
SecuROM is Sonys anti-copy protection for PC games. It's not as intrusive as StarForce but it can cause problems. A note in the SecuROM wiki article states:
"The version of SecuROM that comes with Armed Assault and S.T.A.L.K.E.R prevents the game from running at all if Process Explorer, a free tool offered by Microsoft, has been run since the previous reboot."
You can read more about it on the website SecuROM and the SecuROM Wiki Article if you're interested.
SecuRom has some problems with certain disc drives (or used to). That would be the ones that read the discs, not hard drives. Anyway, it's impossible to say if you'll have problems until you try it since even the affected drive models didn't find that every drive was affected. It was all completely random.
It just wouldn't read the disc or be able to authenticate it once the game was installed. Nothing horrid like StarForce.
4: SOLDIER, 9 O'CLOCK, 250.
ride your horse
kill dudes with your musket
You can download the files from the link below. Current MF version is 1.16.
MF Conquer the Island
From the CtI wiki article:
"Conquer the Island or Capture the Island is a game mode for Operation Flashpoint.
The idea is that two teams are placed on the same island with one construction vehicle each, a Mobile Headquarter or MHQ.
Each team has a commander (either AI or human) who can use the construction vehicle to build factories.
From these factories the troops can buy weapons, squad members, vehicles and planes using virtual money.
The money is earned by capturing and holding towns on the island, killing enemies and recycling destroyed vehicles.
Victory is achieved by either holding all towns on the island or destroying all the enemy factories and their construction vehicle."
It varies from CtI to CtI, but Mike Melvins version (above) has 9 player teams. I've seen some CtI games with 20 on each.
Each player can command up to 11 units. Thats 216 units fielded for both teams.
Which makes one hell of a shit storm should they all collide.
That's also not including civilians and resistance.
Any player slot not controlled by a player will be taken over by AI.
It'd probably be funner with a full roster of players but you can just as easily play with AI and it'd still be enjoyable.
Seriously though, CtI is some of the best gaming I've ever had I highly recommend it to any Ofp player.
If you had done a search you would have found like 3 or 4 older threads on both OFP and OFP2.
Bi Forums.
Flashpoint Elite(xbox) was the way I discovered OFP. I love the game. Elite was almost like a test bed for a lot of the things implemented in ArmA. Streaming terrain, more ambient wildlife(bugs, birds, butterflies), self shadowing on everything, bump/normal mapping, HDR. It's also more stable online with Live I guess.(don't gots *sad face*)
Elite pics.
Landing and Battle at Le Port vids by Maxqubit.