CM Operation Flashpoint 3 announced | "Oops, they're doing it again..."

[jblackrupert 14]

The dedictated server issue was going on in the first year of GRID's release.

CM promised for a year that dedicated servers were being added but

then a dev posted that the EGO engine doesn't support Dedicated servers

so they cound't add it if they wanted to.

CM just kept repeating that lie to keep sales of the game going

Several people including myself warned people on the DR forum about dedicated servers

not happening and even posted the link to the post saying it's not even supported by the engine.

CM's reaction. Everyone who posted the warning Banned and links deleted.

The Dedicated server issue didn't go ballistic with GRID because driving games operate just fine

with P2P and Listen servers provided the hosts connection is decent.

GRID isn't a bad game for an arcade driving game. so that helped

Edited August 17, 2010 by jblackrupert

[ben_s 11]

Hmm, Yeah, so long as Red River turns out half-decent and better than BF/COD series, I will be happy to spend 10-20 quid on it when its cheaper, for a bit of fun. it will never be like A2 though. Pity really, I mean, if CM did make a good game, it would beneif both companies. Brining new people and ideas and companies into the genre. But I doubt it.

[SASrecon 0]

yea shame both companies split after ofp, cm's loss for mesing with bis really, now they have to live like the cheap'n'dirty prostitutes while bis' relationship with the community holds strong :)

[ziiip 1]

750M! But what about the Coriolis effect!

Non fatal headshots, explosive barrels, and lack of support.

FPDR is going to be epic!

Non-fatal headshots are a part of ArmA2 as well.

[ben_s 11]

yea shame both companies split after ofp, cm's loss for mesing with bis really, now they have to live like the cheap'n'dirty prostitutes while bis' relationship with the community holds strong :)

Thats one way of putting it. lol

[Nightrain 10]

Non-fatal headshots are a part of ArmA2 as well.

Well they are not always fatal... :p

Sometimes...

Okay maybe once in thousand.

Anyways it just seems like they are trying to copy BIS.:j:

[ben_s 11]

lol.......

Sion is back, and posting on CM forums, hopefully we get more answers soon on RedRiver.... Though, I do not hold my hopes high for their marketting at all.

[froggyluv 2136]

Lol at the Dev's seemingly not understanding why people don't like their "concept art"

http://community.codemasters.com/forum/general-discussion-1335/423180-back-basics-3.html#post6383155

Are they really that clueless or just wishful thinking :rolleyes:

[ben_s 11]

Yeah, Give them a few minutes to understand why people don't like them wasting money on asets and calling them "screenshots" (very harshley condensed)

Whilst' I do not see a MAJOR problem with pre-rendered concept art, they're often used to mis-lead the person looking at it. Which is the main problem, whilst they "look nice", they're not really that represntative of ingame. Which is the thing I do not like about them.

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Sorry, but sion sometimes looses focus of what he is meant to be doing...

http://community.codemasters.com/forum/6383242-post3.html

I just don't know what to say to that.

[4 IN 1 0]

You know what the old saying goes: When the fail is so much that word cannot express how fail it is, there is always a FPDR

;)

[max power 21]

Wow. Even after there was so much anger in certain parts of their community about the target renders for the past year or two, he had to be told directly about the issue... Seriously?

Of course they are wonderful works of art. The problem is they are pure fantasy and gamers want to know actual information about the game (in the form of text or shots). They don't want to see your production art which doesn't have the same constraints as the game will have. You need to call these pictures concept art. There is a name for it already.

Edited August 18, 2010 by Max Power

[acoustic 82]

I switched from Xbox to PC about a year ago. As soon as DR came out for the xbox and claimed it was realistic, I got it. I was all for realism. Well it was a good game compared to the kiddie jumping games like BFBC and CoD. When I did switch to PC(for obvious reasons) I looked and looked for a nice realistic game. I stumbled across Arma 2 and was BLOWN AWAY. When someone told me that the same people who made DR used to be on with BIS, I was stunned. Such a good game( OFP ) turned into .. that? Rediculous.And everyones argument is that OFP:DR looks better than Arma 2 is pure bull. All you have to do is go and get a user made color module and you can get the same effect.

Next OFP will be blah.

[Scrub 0]

Wooohoooo! DR3!?! Damn-skippy! I'm so hyped! It'll be even better than MW4 on dedicated server....

[ziiip 1]

Well they are not always fatal... :p

Sometimes...

Okay maybe once in thousand.

Anyways it just seems like they are trying to copy BIS.:j:

It's very common if theres an adequate distance between you and the victim.

[CameronMcDonald 146]

No. How? There was no pattern that would establish a subtitle as an expansion:

Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis (new game)

Operation Flashpoint: Red Hammer (expansion to CWC)

Operation Flashpoint: Resistance (expansion to CWC)

Operation Flashpoint: Elite (Xbox port of CWC and R)

Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising (could be new game, expansion, or anything else)

Yeah, because a normal, sane person would expect the game Mass Effect: Space Jump to have nothing to do with the Mass Effect series.

Best. Argument. Ever.

[TechnoTerrorist303 10]

Wow. Even after there was so much anger in certain parts of their community about the target renders for the past year or two, he had to be told directly about the issue... Seriously?

According to Lenton 90% of the people who got Operation FacePalm Dipshit Rising thought it was awesome. I think he needs attention from the men in white coats as he is clearly deluded. Either that or (as I have implied in a previous post) he's on crack.

[Zipper5 74]

It's all advertising ploys. Many more people will see and hear that rather than looking on their forums, or the internet for that matter, for the real reaction to DR. He's not deluded, he's simply lying and has an army of people cleaning up after the mess he left so that nothing can be traced back to him unless you knew of it before hand.

However, I will say he's an idiot after the things he did and said during DR's life...

[Richey79 10]

Nothing against those who indulge a little, but I don't think any of us would choose the name 'waftybuzz' on a forum and expect to be taken seriously, let alone as the project lead for a piece of software.

[Zipper5 74]

I don't think many of us would say

As you can see I've taken a hit to my head. It's nothing serious, but I am bleeding badly.

When talking about a supposed "military simulator" and expect to be taken seriously. ;)

[ben_s 11]

According to Lenton 90% of the people who got Operation FacePalm Dipshit Rising thought it was awesome. I think he needs attention from the men in white coats as he is clearly deluded. Either that or (as I have implied in a previous post) he's on crack.

Yeah, I know for sure that 90% did not like the game. Only about 10-20% really did, and to them it wasn't "awsome", more of just another game to play.

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Well, Earlier today they introduced another person into the CM forums. James Nicholls, he is their Cheif Game Designer, for Red River. The one in charge of the game, Im going to see how this guy does things, before I make my mind up.

http://community.codemasters.com/forum/general-discussion-1335/423251-introducing-james-nicholls-chief-game-designer.html#post6384714

So far he seems alright. Saying :

The team working on Red River are the hardest-working dev team I’ve ever worked with in the industry. We’ve learned an awful lot from the experience with Dragon Rising – good as well as bad – and we’re channelling our lessons learned into Red River’s design.

Is something im hoping is a good sign.

[Baff1 0]

Yeah, I know for sure that 90% did not like the game. Only about 10-20% really did, and to them it wasn't "awsome", more of just another game to play.

Of the 6 people I've played the game with... 1/6 didn't like it enough to bother with. He preferred Call of Duty.

1/6 played through half but was never excited by it.

and 4/6 enjoyed it and didn't want to stop.

[ben_s 11]

Wow, Yeah, i know about 4-5 guys on my Xfire that got it. 3 love it, with ArmA II and OA, 1 said "not his style", and the other one got bored playing it and went back to CoD.

Perhaps more people liked the game than we though.

[4 IN 1 0]

Of the 6 people I've played the game with... 1/6 didn't like it enough to bother with. He preferred Call of Duty.

1/6 played through half but was never excited by it.

and 4/6 enjoyed it and didn't want to stop.

Yet the game score low in over 70% of user reviews:rolleyes:

[Zipper5 74]

Well, Earlier today they introduced another person into the CM forums. James Nicholls, he is their Cheif Game Designer, for Red River. The one in charge of the game, Im going to see how this guy does things, before I make my mind up.

If he was the Chief Mission Designer for DR, then I see no benefit to him now being in charge of the entire game. The campaign sucked, all the SP missions sucked and so did the MP ones. They might have been the most working aspect of the game, but that doesn't make them any better.

No better sign than Sion being back on the team. :rolleyes:

[ben_s 11]

Yeah, hes saying their aiming for something different than DR's campaign and missions.....

Suppose we can't judge anyone until the game is out.