Bas island - working title "lost island"

[Tigershark_BAS 0]

So it's probably useless to ask you about what's coming with the island besides the island?    

OPFOR......that's all I can say for the moment.

[hellfish6 7]

Sweet.

[Heatseeker 0]

African opfor maybe? Or is it the rusky units you guys were working on earlier , im really looking forward to this, i think it will be a really nice surprise from bas .

[One 0]

Making a mission on this island as part of a mini campaign....but thought I'd play around with some other areas.

LOST ISLAND WAR STORY

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So I took 2 Rangers with me and placed ourselves in the middle of the city with a group of High Dispersion soldiers.

I'm in this alleyway...lined on each side but shops and apartments. There is a low wall which offers cover if you crouch and when you stand you can fire over it.

I'm getting close to the intersection where I know the troops are. I send #2 to run across the road that makes the intersection to the alley across the other side whilst I back him up.

He runs past me...I popup from the wall and send covering fire the enemy's way....then...a hell breaks lose.

they all fall to the ground but at the same time start firing in all directions. Thanks to JAM, as I duck behind the low wall I hear the sounds of bullet ricochets and bullets impacting soft earth around me. The low wall is blowing puffs of desert dust everywhere.

I look to #2 just as someone launches an RPG at him that impacts the building behind just as he scoots to the alleyway.

I throw a grenade...unfortunately I forget that OFP makes me stand to do this....as the grenade flies, green tracers whizz by me head...one finally finds my arm as I try and crounch behind the wall.

The HD Machine gunner is going apeshit on his PK.....the grenade explodes and this silences him but only takes another 2 of the 12 guys out. Meanwhile....about 3 guys run after #2 down the alley. I get them as they run past...but one guy comes out of an adjacent alley behind #2 and pops hims before I can get a shot off. #3 watching my back calls out Tango and drops a would be flanker. I pop up again over the wall and let off multiple shots....getting another 2. By now the volume of fire a decreased....enough for me to begin moving out from the wall.

I pop up again...let a few shots off and notice some guys have moved round the corner possibly to flank.

I run for the intersection past stores with posters advertising African tourist attractions.....looking at a billboard I almost lose sight of the fact someone has run around the corner....I squeeze off a shot and run around the corner to finish of the remaining troops.

In a word...>>AWESOME!! A 30sec put together exchange in the mission editor provided one of the best experiences ever in OFP. This map...this city rocks....and will provide a whole new experience for you.

There is so much packed into the map and accompanying releases that it will feel like you've been given a Resistance style expansion pack.

This island will amaze you...I guarantee it. We only ask one thing in return....MAKE MISSIONS...LOTS OF MISSIONS WITH IT!!!

The opportunities for gameplay and mission design/settings are astounding. In fact...with units shipping with it....the opportunity for missions that are joint US equipment and foreign equipment should also be reality.

Shouldn't be too far from release now....again..dangerously close to release

judging from this short mission/action dialouge, does the ai really fight well in this new urban environment? - will they move around the streets and alleyways good, or do they act like idiots with all the objects and buildings around?

[ruff 102]

So that the release is now dangerously close can you show a editor photo with textures how the map looks like  

You must be SO annoying around Xmas/Birthdays...

Cant you just Wait and See??

Wouldnt it be a nicer suprise if you didn't know what it looked like??

speaking of birthdays

bas forgot theirs

i read on their site it was on 30 july

belated happy b day to bas

is the island now life threateningly close?

[Tigershark_BAS 0]

Just dangerously...we may upgrade that to life threatingly later.

[theavonlady 2]

Just dangerously...we may upgrade that to life threatingly later.

Is that a fact or a threat?

[Sxep 0]

That doesn´t sound good

[Heatseeker 0]

Bump bip bump, i feel the need to hear more about the island, if its dangerously close to release i assume its already done and they are creating the demo mission and cutscenes for it , i just couldnt let this thread go just like that .

[Tigershark_BAS 0]

The majority of the island is done....we just need to MP test it and we are putting the finishing touches on the "extras" that will ship with the map.

WARNING: Expect a BIIIIIIIG download. Like I said...this is almost like a mini Resistance expansion pack....and we can't send it out to you on CD unfortunately.

Expect a download of between 50mb and 80mb for the island with all the trimmings and extras.

[SFG 1]

So release is.. this week?

[blackdog~ 0]

are the objects going to be in a seperate PBO?

[Tigershark_BAS 0]

Objects-yes

Release time-SFG...you should know better....*tisk tisk*

[Koolkid101 0]

Ek.. I hope its not on the weekday except Friday.... I'm not allowed to play no schooldays.....

[Tigershark_BAS 0]

<Dr. Evil mode>

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

<End Mode>

[blackdog~ 0]

can we some clear, daylight pictures of the jungle, desert, and city?

[Eviscerator 0]

No, you can wait and see for yourself ingame...

[blackdog~ 0]

I want to see pics to tide me over until then.

[Eviscerator 0]

No, I'd rather see you suffer :P

[blackdog~ 0]

Been there done that, 've been told that hundreds if not thousands of times.

But... ok. Tell me when it's going to be released then

[hellfish6 7]

One more dumb comment, Blackdog and you're getting a post count reduction.

[4 IN 1 0]

BIIIIIIIIIIIIIG download is not a problem to me(as long as the speed is about 50 kb )

[9mm 0]

Just a couple of thoughts.

If there are regular African troops in opfor, issue them with the Kalashnokov of free world - FN FAL.

If there are guirella forces in opfor, issue them with a variety of weapons - mostly AKs, but also some FALs and G3s.

[eisa01 0]

Will you release it on bittorrent??? When you released the blackhawks it was impossible to get on ofpec and download it.

[Dauragon 0]

The majority of the island is done....we just need to MP test it and we are putting the finishing touches on the "extras" that will ship with the map.

WARNING: Expect a BIIIIIIIG download. Like I said...this is almost like a mini Resistance expansion pack....and we can't send it out to you on CD unfortunately.

Expect a download of between 50mb and 80mb for the island with all the trimmings and extras.

Size does not matter, i usually download from 150-300 at long distance and if its in the same country its a 600kb/s download