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my friend said

you got to get this game it ruxors dude

I looked at him as if he was nuts!

Now I thank him all the time.

He still plays SS OR CS OR BS OR RS OR what ever

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Found some screenshots, looked at them to death, got the demo, played it to death, got the game!! cant seem to kill it biggrin.gif

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My uncle gave me the game, and i tried it out on the mission "Commander". I got my ass kicked first time, and i thought that it was a shit game. Then i left it all together for a month biggrin.gif. Then when i didn't have anything else to play, i tried ofp once more and i fell in deep love with it. And eventually i became an OFP Guru. biggrin.gif

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</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Hasharajima @ May 07 2002,04:54)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Last year when I just got cable internet, I went to gamesdomain.com and downloaded sever game demos which include the OF demo and immediately fell in love with it. Actually the screenshot attracted me the most!

I got my ass kicked the first time I played the demo mission but on the second try, I told myself: This is no average low-brain cell FPS and re-organized my strategy and won!! I really learned ALOT from OF!

From that time, I followed the development of OF closely untill the final release date and immediately bought it!

This is the first time ever I really spent money to buy a game! It is my best investment ever! Share your EXPERIENCES GUYS!<span id='postcolor'>

well it's like this... after the shutdown of my air squad (my days of sadness) I started playing Cs it worked fine for a few days then i saw Firearms i played it for some time and i were hooked.

A couple of months later i bought a pc games magazine and saw a screenshot and a description of the game... I realised quickly that this was what i had been waiting for and i jumped on it and monitored OPF closely almost every day until it hit the streets.

That day i was standing there armed to the teeth with cash and guts, outside the shop.

I stormed the shop and fetched one copy of OPF and almost pushed people away from the counter as I approached it and slung up my cash on the counter!

"HERE, hurry up" I said to the shop clerk.

I got home installed and heard the install music it really grabbed me and gave me new life after my Air squad.

Since that day OPF is standard... Must get an Update now... still at 1.00!

So now only the DSL missing then i'll be one of the airforce pilots online with flight experience...

If there is a version of OPF that involves air combat i say this:

"Stay out of my way, This OPF copy is mine and if you don't move you'll pay with your life" Fair warning.

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I had never heard anything about OFP before, until I read the review in PC Gamer. It got me really excited, the only other thing that I had played where there were tanks, helicopters planes and infantrymen controllable by the player was Wargasm smile.gif

But yeah I promptly went out o nthe European day of release and bought it, and i must say it is my most treasured game. It never gets uninstalled if im running out of space biggrin.gif

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I found a flashpoint forum on suppressivefire.net and I became really interested in that I heard it was a combined arms game. This was in the november before the demo. It was populated by a bunch of "Veterans" like Uziyaha and bunch of others. I was so excited as BIS released the short vids of each if their vehicles. The Telefragged preview got me really excited and I downloaded the demo on the first day it was available. I have been playing it ever since.

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i had been playing counterstrike in clans etc and was getting bored with the same old crap, a friend sent me a link to the demo and generally i dont play demos but thought to try this because the flashpoint cover looked cool, played it, thought it was fantastic and sat extremely impatient for it to arrive in the shops, got it the day it come out in our woolworths shops to the dissagreement of my wife and never looked back. biggrin.gif

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I was terribly bored, went to a store, looked at the screenshots printed on the back of the game-boxes, saw the nice resolution and bought it...simple as that.

Oh, and since I had a new computer I loved to see that the game had pretty demanding hardware requirements!

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I think my friend told read to me about this new FPS that was in development back in 2000 some time. He was reading it from a magazine, something bout being able to see and go to mountains far away, with vehilces and aircrafts that you can fly in, and it'll be military based (more so than DF series). Back then, I was a UT, HL, and other FPS gamer that wanted ore open, realistic gaming.

Then sometime in 2001, early on in 2001, there was a paragraph in PCGayer on how they went and did a MP beta test of OFP and it was so cool, and the 2 screen shots were one of the AH1 and some infantry. I must of stared at those 2 small pics for ages. That's when I started reading about the community and the fan sites that were going up. I remember the day that the demo came out, man I was in love. I kept playing the demo, and almost all of the user missions that came out for it afterwards, up to July (game didn't come out here until September), and it hasn't left from my CD drive since that day (maybe for 2 days, one to reinstall OFP and another time to install Red hammer).

-=Die Alive=-

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I was playing Half-Life. That game was getting old. I didn't see my legs, graphic generally sucked, i couldn't drive vehicles... I always wanted something realistic with no limitations.

I got one PC magazine for free with CD in the magazine in March 2001. Well. That CD contained demos of different games. OFP was the first demo and that demo got 5 of 5 starts. I installed the demo. I said to myself: Nice graphic. I loved that cutscene. I felt very good. Like i would be actually in there. I was very happy when i've seen myself in the jeep. I was even happier when that officer told me to drive it lol. I was dead a few minutes later. First soldier got me. No body armor. This sucks, i said. I gave up on that game. I was really really bored after a few days and i installed OFP demo again. I found that game very very interesting. I can see my lags, i have 1st and 3rd view, i can drive vehicles, i really don't have body armor. Just like in real life, great graphic... That is what i was saying to myself. I'm playing this game since March 2001, i bought the original in June and i'm playing this game every day since then.

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A friend told me about Flashpoint a while back, he showed me an preview article about it in "gamestar" (german gamemag), since then i began to follow the progression of it.

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</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Die Alive @ May 07 2002,16:39)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Then sometime in 2001, early on in 2001, there was a paragraph in PCGayer on how they went<span id='postcolor'>

PC Gayer? So are we putting gay-ness in PCs now?

LOL

just kidding. smile.gif

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First, KingBeast, is that really you in your avatar ? Because if it is, then.......

I was playing Ghost Recon in November 2001. It was heavily advertised and to my knowledge it was the best infantry simulation out there. So I played it, over and over. And my friend told me to check out Operation Flashpoint on Gamespot.

So I checked out the screenshots, and of course I thought "But this looks crappy." Compared to the high-polygon trees in Ghost Recon, Operation Flashpoint seemed too dull and boring.

But eventually after 2 months I bothered to download the demo and I was immediately hooked. I wanted the game so badly that I ended up searching for it on Hotline as I was very very short on cash at that time. So yea I played the warez version, but it was the European 1.0, which I couldn't upgrade as I didn't have the original CD. And seeing all the new units and bug fixes on the official website have just convinced me to scrap up every penny I could and finally bought the thing in March 2002. I paid 29.95 at CompUSA.

I gotta say I died a lot. I mean half the time I killed my own men as I couldn't distinguish them from the foes. I consider myself a veteran now.

Most enjoyable part in this game is not driving the tanks or flying the helicopters, it's being an Infantryman. One man and his rifle. The most exciting and challenging part to play.

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</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (RalphWiggum @ May 07 2002,17:07)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Die Alive @ May 07 2002,16:39)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Then sometime in 2001, early on in 2001, there was a paragraph in PCGayer on how they went<span id='postcolor'>

PC Gayer? So are we putting gay-ness in PCs now?

LOL

just kidding. smile.gif<span id='postcolor'>

LOL. PcGayer biggrin.gifbiggrin.gifbiggrin.gif

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</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (advocatexxx @ May 07 2002,17:22)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">First, KingBeast, is that really you in your avatar ?  Because if it is, then.......<span id='postcolor'>

No. That man is not KingBeast. That's his dad. biggrin.gif

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..... of writing 2 posts instead of one biggrin.gif

Beware, this disorder may spread to others.

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</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (advocatexxx @ May 07 2002,17:45)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I am quickly getting infected by the "SpaceAlex" syndrome......

..... of writing 2 posts instead of one

Beware, this disorder may spread to others.<span id='postcolor'>

I had to post two posts because i saw your post after that one about PCGayer. I'm not doing this very often.

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I learned of it through a friend, altho I had to get a 3D card before I could get it because I only had an 8mb on board thing that was not good at all.

I ain't played it much recently but when I get a decent board and CPU (have the CPU free from a friend) I will probably play it more because it gets a bit frustrating when it gets slow at certain points.

Great game!

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Having often wanted to go to foreign countries and kick off with whatever indiginous or invading peoples were there I have to say this game was just mana from heaven for me. By the way I am of course joking.....

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I first heard about OFP a year before the release on a gaming site (don't remember which one). The game promised pretty much everything I always wanted in a MP game.

I followed the development from then on, and downloaded the demo when it came out. I played it and a few hacked missions for it quite a bit, and got some of my RS/UO buddies hooked on it by selecting some choice add-on missions for them and making them download the demo and add-ons. Come to think of it, one of those missions that let you try the M21 is still one of my all-time favorites.

When V1.0 was released in Europe, I bought a copy through a Canadian company that was importing it via Air Mail. I had my copy here in Southern California the day after it was released in Europe, and several months before it officially hit the shelves in North America.

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i remember hearing about it 2 years ago,, i waited for a demo to come out along with various trailers, THEN i was HOOKED..

this game has kept me HOOKEd for evryday since its released..

THAT is a testiment to its greatness, and is undoibtedly THE best game ever made to date..

if you disagree,, then BAH!!!

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Advocate that picture is of me, why do you ask? Are you making fun or something? sad.gif

lol nah thats Harold Bishop from an Australian soap caleld Neighbours. And Harold quite frankly is a Beast. Hes all fat and religious and such.

My ugly mug may be found here ---> ME

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