Joint operations: typhoon rising

[Ex-RoNiN 0]

What a waste of bandwidth this is, its the worst aspects of BF1942, OFP and Landwarrior 3 combined together. Utter tosh.

/loads up OFP

[Acro 0]

What I like about Joint Ops is that you are able to shoot from any vehicle with your personal weapon unlike in OFP. The ability to move around in vehicles was kind of nice too but somewhat unrealistic. I wouldn't dare play around on the ramp of a moving Chinook IRL.

Net code of the game is good. 60 players on a server and without major lag.

The physics are unfortunately too simplified and arcadish.

[4 IN 1 0]

this is a really arcadish game acturely, well after trying it for an hour or so as an sniper i turn out started yelling "EAT THAT COMMY SC*M" every times i kill someone and in the end getting a 196 points by sniping, should be a normal reasult after all those OFP sniping lessons(man i think if you cant get over 100 in that game then you better shoot yourself dead for this sane )

[Placebo 29]

before making stupid statements like this.

Please refrain from flaming

[HellToupee 0]

Well,

I just go through playing the demo for about 1 hour. The reason for your lag is likely because your settings are too high. I did get a slow framerate at first, but that's because I was on a server with 64+ players and all my graphics set to high. Big no no. I lowerd the graphics a bit, and it worked smooth as a babies arse.

The game I wont hesitate to say is somewhat fun. The ability to drive vehicles and boats onto the CHinook and do insertions like that is just plain fun...but the vehicles move around way too fast and robotic-like. I often see Littlebirds just zipping around the map, as if it was on a rail, or roller coaster that has a sudden turn. ZWIP!

Anyway, it's pretty fun, the detail on the weapons is gorgeous, but they definately put a bit too much detail in the map, instead of the actual vehicle and player models.

The game needs some help, definately similar to Battlefield Vietnam...but BF Vietnam will probably always be better than Joint Ops.

But still, I found this demo to be pretty fun for the first few minutes.

nar my settings were on normal, my main reason was is its almost the same game as blackhawk down and ive tried that on this machien before and it was smooth on full settings. So i was expecting this to run on on medium :P, but the map is alot more detailed than black hawk down and with 60 odd people blasting stuff around.

[HellToupee 0]

FarCry came out months before DOOM3 is ever to be hitting the market. And the engine can provide 98% of what DOOM promises (except the broken balustrade). Now are you a follower or a trend.setter?

You really should read up on what the Doom 3 Engine does before making stupid statements like this.

I would prefer if you would proof me wrong and not just tell me that I am.

I can give you some points to consider:

A: Where are the great DOOM3 outdoor maps?

B: what is realy revolutionary about DOOM3? Ligthing effects, shadows, phsysics. Tell me what you consider so spectacular! And dont come along with deformable objects, or friction cause that isnt new.

And Doom is definetly not to be released before Mai 30th

But then we could ask what is so revolutionary about farcry, its physics arnt anything new, the water effect is nothing new ither, the long draw distances are nice but you cant actually see that far, you look at a beach its empty look at it with nocs its loaded with baddies, its just some very agressive lods. Graphically i dont think anyone is going to touch john carmak and his boys.

[SpecOp9 0]

Personally I think the game is pretty damn fun. And there are 30+ more maps in the final version, that's endless gameplay right there...

The game is fun. Somethings in this game I wish were like OFP, but some things in OFP I wish were like Joint Ops.

Face it, there is nothing cooler than standing on the edge of a chinook and shooting at people below. Sure unrealistic, but downright fun.

[Albert Schweitzer 10]

Personally I think the game is pretty damn fun.  And there are 30+ more maps in the final version, that's endless gameplay right there...

The game is fun.  Somethings in this game I wish were like OFP, but some things in OFP I wish were like Joint Ops.

Face it, there is nothing cooler than standing on the edge of a chinook and shooting at people below.  Sure unrealistic, but downright fun.

Joint Ops, Covert Ops, Global Ops, Tactical Ops....is anyone gonna remember which is which?

[kegetys 2]

Face it, there is nothing cooler than standing on the edge of a chinook and shooting at people below.

...but not when it feels like you are shooting from a flying train :P

[SpeedyDonkey 0]

how many players can play online in one server?

[jakerod 254]

back in DF2 you could have around 100 and I thought I saw 150 one time but im not sure. I heard in JO though it is 100 players on some and then some are probably like DF2 and have 16, 30, 50, 80 like that.

[VerySolidSnake 0]

Going out to pick this one up tonight, I've always been a huge fan of the rambo-style gameplay of the delta force games. Plus this one has multiplayer games lag-free with 150-200 people ingame. I hated BF, played the demo to this and found it to be a ton of fun. Oh, and funny thing is... this will be the first game i've bought since OFP:R. Anyone else gonna get this?

FEATURES:

EXPLOSIVE 150+ PLAYER GAMES* – Play in games with 150 players online via NovaWorld, or host your own games with up to 64 players online* or over a LAN.

BADDER-WAR MACHINES, like the LCAC hovercraft loaded with mechanized troops, lead a team of Black Hawks & AH-6 Little Birds and RAIN HELL FIRE from above as you lay waste to enemy bases. ROLL over the enemy and PULVERIZE their defenses with the remote control cannon on your Stryker attack vehicles.

DEFEND your teammates & OBLITERATE the enemy with 35 MODERN-DAY WEAPONS! Deliver a deadly long range message with a shoulder fired stinger missile, or kick ass at close range with the M4 rifle with the optional M203 grenade launcher.

HUGE unprecedented JUNGLE ENVIRONMENTS! Wage war across maps up 64 square KM, with viewing distances up to 1 Km.

12 TRAINING MISSIONS –Learn how to handle weapons, drive vehicles and jungle warfare tactics essential for victory and survival

5 CLASSES to choose from – Fight as a Rifleman, Engineer, Gunner, Medic or Sniper from one of 7 different countries-- US, UK, France, Germany, Russia, Australia and Indonesia!

[Goeth 0]

Anyone else gonna get this?

If it´s as shitty as the demo was then definetly not.

[ran 0]

any pic of the french units ?

as of yet i've only seen a soldier model wearing a german nationality patch along with a GIGN patch and a man wearing a french C/E camo outfit once again with a german path

[DracoPaladore 0]

I played JO and wasnt too impressed

[Baron Hurlothrumbo IIX 0]

@ June 16 2004,23:50)]

Anyone else gonna get this?

If it´s as shitty as the demo was then definetly not.

Word

[shinRaiden 0]

I looked at the screenshots for a quick sec... I want those precious bits back for wasting my time. Looks very plasticy. Should keep the CS kiddies distracted for a bit longer though.

[SpecOp9 0]

HOly smokes its been released???

AWSOME!

[Baron Hurlothrumbo IIX 0]

FEATURES:

EXPLOSIVE 150+ PLAYER GAMES* – Play in games with 150 players online via NovaWorld, or host your own games with up to 64 players online* or over a LAN. BOTH WILL BE HORRIBLY DESYNCED AND FULL OF WHINING KIDS COMPLAINING ABOUT 56K PLAYERS!!

BADDER-WAR MACHINES, based on a movie one of the janitors in the building once watched! Looks almost like the hollywood version of the real thing!!!!! like the LCAC hovercraft loaded with mechanized troops, lead a team of Black Hawks & AH-6 Little Birds and RAIN HELL FIRE from above as you lay waste to enemy bases- bases, not players. Players will require 4 -8 hellfires each to break their body armour.

ROLL over the enemy and PULVERIZE their defenses with the remote control cannon on your Stryker attack vehicles. If the physics is cooperating. Which it won't be, because we did a half-assed job of implementing it. But hey, Inertia, momentum and gravity aren't THAT important, right?

DEFEND your teammates & OBLITERATE the enemy with 35 MODERN-DAY WEAPONS! All of which act like paintball guns! Don't bother aiming, just spam the area with fire! NO SKILL REQUIRED!!! PERFECT FOR CS PLAYERS!! Deliver a deadly long range message with a shoulder fired stinger missile, or kick ass at close range with the M4 rifle with the optional M203 grenade launcher, WHILE BOUNCING AROUND LIKE A KANGAROO!! It's Deathmatch-a-riffic!

HUGE unprecedented (except for other games that have done them) JUNGLE ENVIRONMENTS! Wage war across maps up 64 square KM, with viewing distances up to 1 Km. - Viewing TERRAIN, that is - you can't see players at this distance! You have to zoom in! It's like they don't exist!!

12 TRAINING MISSIONS –Learn how to handle weapons, drive vehicles and jungle warfare tactics essential for victory and survival !! But don't worry, nobody you play with on the net will bother using them! They'll just dive straight in and steal the nearest vehicle!! Then TK you if they feel like it!!

5 CLASSES to choose from – Fight as a Rifleman, Engineer, Gunner, Medic or Sniper from one of 7 different countries-- US, UK, France, Germany, Russia, Australia and Indonesia! None of which bear the slightest resemblance to the real appearane of the units!!

[VerySolidSnake 0]

you know, i respect you guys a lot for being mature about pretty much everything on these boards. But when it comes to other games, it's like... everyone gets pissed off that some developers decided to make a game.

First of all, let me clear up some stuff. I played 150 game with absolutly zero lag and zero desync (i joined in progress). I took a jeep with a gunner and 2 other guys in it, backed it into a blackhawk, and a driver plus 2 guys on guns in the blackhawk and several looking out the back and windows firing. Walking around a moving vehical without any problems. Wasn't TK'ed once. Couldn't walk through walls. My jeeps didn't bounce 100's of feet into the air for no reason. I could swim. To get into a vehical, you look at what you want to get in, and press Shift, instead of going through a menu. The guys didn't stretch to 20ft tall when running along side a mountain. I COULD see guys 1km away, i moved accordinly to intercept their paths.

Again let me say this, there must of been 20+ vehicals flying, driving, and going across water with 150 people in game with zero lag.

Have I proven my point? While this game may be a different type of shooter than you are used too or like, that doesn't make it a totally bad game. It's multiplayer code is amazing, something I've seen no other game accomplish. In terms of realistic gameplay though, it doesn't compare to OFP, no game has, thats why this is the first game i've purchased since OFP:R. It seems to me the ONLY time you guys will open up to a game is when OFP2 comes out, which i think is being a little stubbern (i'm writing this because every other game that has been mentioned has been bashed horribly)

[The Frenchman 0]

 Players will require 4 -8 hellfires each to break their body armour.  

It's SO realistic!

[Baron Hurlothrumbo IIX 0]

you know, i respect you guys a lot for being mature about pretty much everything on these boards. But when it comes to other games, it's like... everyone gets pissed off that some developers decided to make a game.

No, it's like everyone gets pissed off when a shite game, like this, is presented as the best thing since OFP. Most of us have played the demo. It was shite. And I can tell you for a FACT that players are not rendered at 1km viewdistance unless you are zoomed in. Thats how all these players can play - only a few of them are on screen at any one time, and sending data about them.

You can move around in vehicles because the physics are so simplified. Everything moves as if its a ride on rails at Universal Studios.

The only point you've proved is that you like shitty arcade games, and can't see their faults for the huge shiny plastic wrap covering them.

[edc 0]

If I wanna play an arcade then all I'd have to do is go to Start->Games->Pinball. Enough Said.

[theavonlady 2]

I began FPS playing with the DF1 demo. Loved DF2. LW was a disaster. Then the OFP demo came out. I thought I'd never look back.

Then DFBHD came out. I bought a copy. Unimpressed. Sorry, nothing comes near OFP.

[DracoPaladore 0]

But when it comes to other games, it's like... everyone gets pissed off that some developers decided to make a game.

I don't.

Hell, I play BFV. I should get a damn medal for announcing this on the forums here. I just wasn't all that impressed with JO. I remember seeing the screenshots and going WOW! But I found it to be dissapointing.