Now i remember why i fell in love with ofp

[dayglow 2]

Well I fired up OFP today and looked for single mission. For whatever reason I decided to play Ambush which I haven't since the demo was released so long ago. It was like playing OFP for the 1st time all over again. When you look at it it's such a masterful demo mission to introduce someone to the world of OFP. From the openning cinamatic you see how amazing the engine is. As you drive to the troops get get a sense of how huge and free the game world is, then when you get into the mission how brutal the combat is.

As much as I find falts with the game it has a certain magic. The models may be a little blocky and rough and the animations not as polished, but someting about the engine has beauty to it. When you see the sun set across the water and the long shadows draw across the land you realize how amazing the engine is. Simply amazing

COLINMAN

[Papageorge 0]

Lmao I've been there, like 5 times in my OFP career! I first got the game, illegaly, I admit it. I am a bad person. But you know what? I loved the friggen ilegal copy with no cd crack so much... i baught the Darn game just so i didn't have to do 50 things to cheat the system to upgrade it! But man, there is nothing like crawling through the bush, take down a guy with a sniper rifle, stealing his rifle and taking out the rest of his friends. Of course that is a nice LAN story. as for the bugs, heck mine are all AI bs. Like the lovely shot you through 50 trees, imposible to see ones. Darn you Super AI!!!! But heck. Blockness, horrid shoulder stretched skin. Still, nothing bets this game. After all Uncle Sams Misguided Children love it

[advocatexxx 0]

Here here. I'll drink to that !

[KimTuomi 0]

You are so right! Everything in Flashpoint inspires for "just one more mission". As my friend said sometime ago; "You can never say that I've completed the game.. that now I've seen everything!"

Also, OFP is just the ONLY game, which you can play, adapt/immerse in the universe and after playing, tell the combat "stories" for friends! Worst thing is... you sometimes forget yourself, that it is just a game, when telling those stories. Should we open a thread for "OFP Combat Stories" ?

There we would tell the most nail-biting situations and the true survive stories how you "finally managed to drag yourself to safety"...

[ale2999 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (KimTuomi @ Oct. 22 2002,15:06)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">You are so right! Everything in Flashpoint inspires for "just one more mission". As my friend said sometime ago; "You can never say that I've completed the game.. that now I've seen everything!"  

Also, OFP is just the ONLY game, which you can play, adapt/immerse in the universe and after playing, tell the combat "stories" for friends! Worst thing is... you sometimes forget yourself, that it is just a game, when telling those stories. Should we open a thread for "OFP Combat Stories" ?

There we would tell the most nail-biting situations and the true survive stories how you "finally managed to drag yourself to safety"...  <span id='postcolor'>

totally right, my friends make fun of me cuz I mention ofp alot in RL

[Papageorge 0]

There was a Combat story post going in off topic i remeber...

[Jester983 0]

I remeber finishing the mission and when i saw my chopper getting shot down and it said "will you run? Hide? Surrender? or fight? You decide..." I knew right there i wanted this game.

[RMATICH 0]

My experiance with OFP is limited because I'm somewhat [4 months or so] new to it. It took me awhile to learn how to use the editor. Now that I've got it down I can have all the fun moments your describing. The feeling I had when I was part of an Army group aboard 6 Blackhawk helicoptors trying to take the Fort at the town of Trasky on the island of Nogavo. We got beat back and had to retreat. Hey we were ordered back to the helos. I tried taking the fort myself but kept getting killed. I went out on a "tank kill" against resistance T55s and trucks right next to a town on Malden. The site and sound as my Mi-24 made mince meat out of that resistance hardware was mind blwing! Hehehe! The A6 missles sometimes miss. If I can't take out all the hardware I attack with a vegance using all 64 rockets that bad boy carries!!! LMAO. Any survivoirs are toast when that hard steel rain starts a fallin! Wow! What a game.

[RMATICH 0]

64 rockets. LOL. Remember that I'm aiming at an area the size of a medium parking lot at a grocery store etc. All 64 rockets come "slamming" down at those tanks, trucks, and even people. I never hit the buildings that are just a few feet away from the blasts! I hit one of the buildings but only once. I try and limit collateral damage. I sometimes attack purposly attack a town to see if I can destroy all the building in one pass. Sometimes 2 passes are required.

[mads bahrt 0]

I keep returning to ambush time and again. Every time i introduce someone to OFP i use Ambush because of its atmospere and the fact that you get a idea about the scale of the terrain. I love those big rolling hills on Malden. It is by far the best terrain i have ever seen in a 1st person game and was a great reason why I was convinced this was a game I had to own. I myself play this mission every time i want to judge a change in graphics, either because of the engine or because i have changed a setting or installed new hardware.