Lost brothers sinai peninsula

[bonko the sane 2]

The Lost Brothers Mod have released from no where an excellent island, named Sinai Peninsula. They say this about it:

This island/terrain is unlike most others made for OFP, in that it simulates the barren and open nature of the Sinai Peninsula. The odd rock out-cropping is found here and there, providing some cover, but terrain features themselves will need to be used strategically if you want to survive force on force encounters. There are urban environments that can turn into meat-grinders for all but the most highly-trained troops. Plenty of coastline is found, making amphibious insertions very friendly to those seeking to bypass large enemy concentrations. Army posts and air force bases are laid out elaborately but orderly.

The island requires a few addons (Baracken addon, AGS Buildings and CAT_SHITs Afghanistan, see full listing in ReadMe.

Source:

OFPBase

LINK

[m21man 0]

More holiday joy !

[Acecombat 0]

Awesome i have always wanted a cool looking true blue desert map.

So is this based on the real sinai Peninsula area?

[ozanzac 0]

Excellent, now to find out what additional addons I need to make the map function.

Quote[/b] ] true blue

Have you been influenced by an Aussie lately Acecombat, cause I swear, only us colonials use 'true blue' or 'fair dinkum' to describe anything!

[Acecombat 0]

No ozanzac

I use that term usually to describe a thing in its true hilly billy form ... dont tell me thats another term used by you guys , guess i picked it from some book or novel.

Anyway heres the sad news this island is nothing NEW

Boohooo its only a rendition of another Zwadars deserteverons textures i guess and AGS buildings have been added plus cat shits textures (which i couldnt se anywhere ??) , apart from that the new things here were Mount Sinai and that colour canyon (thats a wonderful ambush spot)

I was hoping to however see new Models and stuff , there was no arabic or ME feel to this map , i am sorry but thats what i felt ,it looked like another desert map however its a nice replacement in the interim for Desert Everon( i still like desert everon) , why werent any tree models from Tonal used those woould have been very nice especially the date/palm trees.

Also whats the ETA on the IDF soldiers i cant wait to get some ingame and blow'em up

[MSpencer 0]

Well, ace is around a lot of aussies on ofp.org forums... so it's possible. And yes, I know you want to blow up more IDF people, ace...

On a lighter note, good island. Screenshots look nice, can't wait to try it out.

[python3 0]

well, its good to see them still on the job. Really looking forward to some ME units. Any news on the units, they said a demo would be released soon. That was like a month ago.

[ozanzac 0]

Well, I kinda gathered that you weren't talkin about an Australian desert. (True blue in Aussie Slang (Language) is to describe something that is vey Australian.)

Anyway, to make the post relevant, a full list of the addons required:

Quote[/b] ]Needed AddOns:

ags_build.pbo (final)

ags_inds.pbo (final)

ags_port.pbo (final)

Baracken.pbo (not barackenworld.pbo)

catintro.pbo (Catshit's Afghanistan)

[miles teg 1]

Hey ya'all.  Darn someone beat me to posting info on this.   Sorry ya didn't like the map.  But Panzerfaust put ALOT and I mean ALOT of very hard work into that map.  We're still trying to figure out how to get the CATshit objects into the map without requiring his Afghanistn .pbo file in the same addons folder.  But we simply do not have enough addon makers.  Right now we only have Vipersheart, Mooncaine, and Vixer as our main addon makers. Others like myself have been helping out with the addons here and there as we can as well as a few members that contributed some of their past work.  

But right now all our main addon makers are all extremely busy with either other mods or with real life and can only devote a limited amount of time to the mod, so as much as we'd LOVE to put in better Middle Eastern buildings with Arabic written on sighs and all that good stuff, we simply don't have the manpower to do so as all of our addon makers are very busy working on the main stuff like infantry, tanks, aircraft, ect...

  Yes I did say while back that it shouldn't be long (I don't think I gave a definite time period) but things have changed since that time as alot of our members have either left or have gone AWOL.  

Orginally we weren't planning on releasing anything until the demo was finished.  But part of the reason for the release is to show the OFP community that we are TRYING really hard to make this demo and that we are very serious about it.  But need help.  I am hoping that this map (which personally I think is one of the better desert maps) along with our IDF infantry and Zelda APC (that should be out Christmas Eve or Tomorrow hopefully) will encourage other addon makers out there to join our team or at least help us out a bit with a few small problems.  

I for one need some serious scripting help with a Centurion (Sho't) tank I'm working on (and a little texturing help) as well as help turning it into a combat engineering APC.

But really any addon making or texturing expertise would help us out alot.  Likewise for those with map making skills.  

Also if anyone knows how to make really nice Middle Eastern buildings, we could really use your help.

Any map makers also are VERY much welcome to help us out and help out poor Panzerfaust who has been working on this map all by himself.

 

More then likely this will not be the final Sanai map as we have a better one that is made but that is unpopulated with objects right now.  It also is larger and more accurate scale wise then the current Sanai map which is not very accurate.  But we've done our best with what we had at the time.  

Overall the map combines many good areas for serious desert combat as well as some really good urban combat.  

If that's what you want, then this your kind of map.   But if you just want new textures, new buildings, ect... then please don't download this map.  

But for those of you who like it, I hope you have great fun with it and make many wonderful missions with it!

Oh also before I forget, the entire pack (with all the required addons) can be downloaded here:  

http://www.idfsquad.com/downloads/vip/

However we SERIOUSLY need some mirrors for that version so that all the downloads don't cause that website to shut down.

Chris G.

aka-Miles Teg<GD>

[The Frenchman 0]

The wonders never cease!

[the_shadow 0]

so, does anyone know ehere to find any good desert vehicles to use with the MAP marines?

and maybe some opfor units too?

[miles teg 1]

There's no Marines with this map.  If you're refering to Earl & Suchey's Marines you got the wrong thread and should post your question on that thread.  

If you're talking about desert units in general to use with this map, they're all over the place. There's the BAS units, Earl & Suchey's Marines (in their desert MARPAT uniforms), the older Marfy-textured desert vehicles, Vit's Israeli units (which includes a very nice IAF F-15 and UH-60. OPFOR is harder to find as far as Egyptian units go. But on the page I posted a link to there are links to various Middle East army addons. Also Vit has some, and the Lost Brothers mod team will be putting alot of effort into finishing up our own Egyptian soldiers as there doesn't seem to be any good ones out right now. But we'll see if at least we can put up NoOne's old Egyptian soldiers that he made for the Lost Brothers team (since all the old links to that addon are dead).

Chris G.

aka-Miles Teg<GD>

Chris G.

aka-Miles Teg<GD>

[bucket man 2]

Couldnt find any decent egyptian troops.

I have jordanian and syrian troops and aircraft but no egyptian. Did you guys ever release those egyptian troops or are they collecting dust in someones hard drive?

[python3 0]

well, i took noones old egyptian and pbo'ed it. They are alright, they are reallt too simple and no good vehicles. But we do need some fine egyptian units. Been waiting for this for a long time . Cant fight the israeli's in the sinai without them.