to play opf with addons

[qUiLL 0]

mods i assume this will be moved/locked since every thread has about a 50% chance of that happening in this forum but at least let me get this out...

i used to be a diehard player of opf since the beginning and even before the game came out...but now i find myself putting in the cd only to remove it later in disgust.

to start out with, for OPF multiplayer there are 2 kinds of games. one is the no-addons-needed simple one town CTF; now while this is an easy way to get some quick OPF gaming in im not exactly a fan of this style of play since there is soooo much more to opf than just one town ctf...if i wanted that i could just stick the HL cd in and play some counterstrike....heck i dont even need the CD to play CS! not that im exactly a CS fan, but point being that wasnt what i had in mind when i bought this game

then there is the other kind of multiplayer game, my kind, which makes use of alot of the other cool stuff OPF has which other games dont...vehicles, scripting, effects, etc. of course when i go to join all of them i fail to notice that they require about 10 different addons to play, not forgetting the fact that some of the addons required require addons of their own. (ok maybe 10 is an exageration, but the part of addons requiring their own addons isnt)

so anyhow by the time i get to the stage where ive looked at all the MP games im pretty much feeling like "screw it, ill just find a few cool looking addons or download a mission or something". so eventually i make it into the editor and load the spectacular desert island with a single simple mod i download and mess around with it...on a desert island...with a couple enemy units....needless to say it gets boring pretty fast with no objective or goal or anything.

so if i reach the point of being ambitious i go to download a whole ADDON PACK with a map that goes along and the whole works! WOW! BUT GUESS WHAT? SILLY WABIT, THAT ADDON PACK REQUIRES AN ADDON OF ITS OWN...and after spending a good half an hour trying to find THAT addon, and i find it, hey guess what? im starting to feel pretty good about myself, wow ive actually got something started here...i got a working addon pack! now time for the island to go along with it....oh but wait! what is this! a list of required addons to use the island....and not one but several! so this stooge goes to search for the first addon on the list, only to find that it couldnt be found on ofpec and would take too long to look through all the pages of addons on ofpgamezone (since there is no search-thingy). so i go to use my last resort, godly google, keeper of the web, and do i find it! BY GOLLY YES! I FOUND ADDON NUMBER ONE! I AM THE KING OF THE WORLD...I AM THE GOD OF ALL THINGS MIGHTY...oh but wait! whats this? could not find file blah.rar....WHAT? AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHRGGGGGGGG!!!! ::mighty king-kong chest pound::

and by that time mr. looney toon has gone onto the flashpoint forums to rant about his troubles after several hours of totally unproductive unfulfilling uninteresting and unhumane work to be able to be able to play such a wonderful game...well at least my opfr jewel case will enhance the beauty of my cd collection...the guy on the cover looks POed....i wonder whats that stuff smeared over his face....is he single? time to take my medication, will continue rant later (if not locked)

edit: bottom line is, too many different addons are needed to play MP or use OTHER addons, and trying to find a particular addon is ridiculously hard, plus the setup of many websites with finding addons isnt very helpful. try to successfully install several addons or be subjected to gang rape by a bunch of aids infested african monkeys? backside, please!

[theavonlady 2]

My! How frustrating!

Maybe you want to be more specific? The only such complex addons I can think about, for the most part, are the recent total conversion mods. By defintion, these will require you to download a warehouse full of addons.

[qUiLL 0]

wow response already. anyhow im cooling down...slowly but surely...i think i need a drink...all this intense searching has taken alot out of me ! :-D

as for which mod, the first mod i talked about was the p38 lightning (its great, my favorite ww2 plane, looks beautiful and flies like it too but to really play using it i think id need alot of other ww2 stuff to make it more fun...which needless to say im not about to go attempt to download)

as for the second mod, its the lost brothers addon pack with sinai penninsula, i was waiting for a mod like this for a long time, from the screens it looks great but i guess ill never know lol...enough drama for the evening. OH CRAP ITS MORNING NOW (seriously...when i started this it was like early-early morning like 1-2AM, now its 5AM!) (oh an also, i still consider 1AM evening, cuz really its too early to be considered early, so all it can be considered is late. enough with my screwed up logic already!)

[theavonlady 2]

i think i need a drink

I would have suggested a beer but I don't want to tempt you with sin.

[qUiLL 0]

ill get a root beer float! no sinning, plus its prolly tastier too :-)

oh and one last thing

this has happened to me before....several months ago, when i had tried playing opf again. i cant remember which addons i tried using, but i remember the same thing happened, and i pretty much said screw it and havent tried opf again till now...

[redface 1]

are you on a 56k modem?

[theavonlady 2]

Always read the ReadMes.

Dunno......... no one else seems to be suffering the troubles you've known.

And make it vannila!

[Placebo 29]

Ofp.info has most addons/mods out there, the rest can be found with a fairly simple search, either google or these forums. Yes it takes a little time but that's life, we must choose between playing Opf out of the box and not spending time doing anything else or we must spend a little time doing leg work. Everyone has to do the same thing.

With regard to your complaint about addons & multiplayer have you not checked out "ofpwatch"?

As this is a "discussion" about addons/mods it belongs in A&M:D

[Postduifje 0]

Sorry you feel that way. I never experienced it like this. I know, downloading addons can be a bitch sometimes, but I've always encountered addons who were easy tot track down either here on the board, ofpec or the makers website. And addons that need other addons can usually be downloaded from the same website. Anyway, enjoy that drink

[SpeedyDonkey 0]

Quote[/b] ].heck i dont even need the CD to play CS! not that im exactly a CS fan, but point being that wasnt what i had in mind when i bought this game

You don't need to have the CD in for resistance either. (Thank you BIS )

Good luck with the AddOn hunting! Trust me, i know how it feels some times.

[@cero 0]

I think that the addons issue its one of the reasons why I'm so frustrated with MP too.

I decided to star creating some missions for MP that requiere some addons that do not requiere other addons. I'm making sure that any addons I'm using will be easy to find and for SP missions I normally add various links to the readme so if one link is dead or have download problems you can allways download the addons from other links.

OFPWatch its a great tool to hellp you in multiplayer. Use it, it will make it alot easyer for you.

Regards.

@CERO.

[mr burns 132]

so anyhow by the time i get to the stage where ive looked at all the MP games im pretty much feeling like "screw it, ill just find a few cool looking addons or download a mission or something". so eventually i make it into the editor and load the spectacular desert island with a single simple mod i download and mess around with it...on a desert island...with a couple enemy units....needless to say it gets boring pretty fast with no objective or goal or anything.

sounds like some usual "starter" problems.

once you got about 1 gig of addons normalized into your ofp (e.g. you won´t play w/o them, the most important being the editorupgrades, mapfacts barracks & agent smiths building packs) these problems will most likely be gone.

with about 10 gig of addons i only rarely experience missing addon errors

[hitsqdzulu 0]

Quill ....I suggest you get OFP Watch ...Its a great little program that is used to start Ofp and dl addons from auto addon servers. I am a admin of Fraghaus server. We are a auto addon server that mostly plays co ops. We have over 800+ megs of addons ....but we make maps for all the addons we have so we have well over 100 addon coop maps. If you get bored dl our addons and come play some coop.

[Hit_Sqd_Day 0]

Hi everybody,

yeah Squill get ofpwatch that wont totally solve your problem, but at least makes the way of getting the addons required for a MP server much easier.

The use of OFPwatch is quite simple:

-Install it

-Run it

-Select a server in the browser

-go to addon manager and hit Download & install.

-depending on your download and the upload of the ftp you download everything:)

-then click PLAY

and weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Play

kind regards,

Daywalker

[benu 1]

I think we all have been in that situation. Another thing to add to this is that some addons were only available on a few sites which no longer exist anymore. I download all addons that look decent or better and burn them on cd/dvd, so if i might need them and the original sites are gone i already have them somewhere. I also keep a folder on my gameserver (ofp takes only 1gb of the 100+gb of harddrive space available), so i don't have to upload stuff when i want to install it there.

I only play on a few mp servers at all, and nearly all of them have aas running (the server part of ofp watch). Since ofp watch no player has an excuse for missing addons anymore, this tool evolved mp gaming to the next level.

Well, except when you have traffic problems and wait for the already ordered new server with more traffic and have to disable the downloads in ofp watch in the meantime. But i digress

[qUiLL 0]

thx for the link, will try it out

as for ofp.info having most of the mods, case is im sure your right because they have pages and pages and pages and pages of mods when you go to the site, but no where to search through all of them! ontop of that, half of the addons that i wish to get have three letter acronyms which i have no clue what they mean in which case i wouldnt know which category to look under to start out with.

[Placebo 29]

but no where to search through all of them!

Umm unless I'm missing something here you really are.......

[MEDICUS 0]

... ontop of that, half of the addons that i wish to get have three letter acronyms which i have no clue what they mean in which case i wouldnt know which category to look under to start out with.

What addons are you looking for? If you aren't "successful" with the search-funktion at Gamezon.cz and in this forum, just ask for it here or PM the addon-maker (if you know his name). I think you'll find someone who knows where to get it.

Mfg MEDICUS  

[benu 1]

I guess thats what missing addon thread is for

[qUiLL 0]

oh crap i just noticed the search function at ofpgamezone isnt just news...u can select other stuff as well...such as addons :-D