OFP graphics...

[UKFMav 0]

USSRSniper, yeah it's just OFP with graphics card display colours modified a bit.

However you could do that for any other game, and some people seem to have caught the wrong end of the stick.

What I meant is that other games don't show off their graphical engines like OFP can.

[Heatseeker 0]

Now it's true that COD and MOHPA have outstanding graphics but you're so limited in what you can be and do. Not so in OFP.

BIS did there best at minimizing the graphics compromise in order to retain a large as life game.

Who can look at the OFP Combat Photography thread and walk away unimpressed?

Cod looks awfull, cant believe quake3 engine games that get released nowadays are still called new, thats what they do, throw some physics and shadder efects and call them new.

I think OPF can still be a nice looking game engine to build on, atleast i think the VBS1 pics look very nice and even more lifelike compared to the chubby models of cod.

I could live with VBS1 looks in OPF2 plus some lighting improvements, physics, damage models, colision detection, a.i. and gameplay, i dont worry so much about graphics when i can have 2km view distance and no loading times over huge expansive terrain, it looked fine 4 years ago and still impresses me today .

[Wolven Zero 0]

When I first got OFP, back when it was in its first year of release in Europe, I was impressed. It was not really the mission editing and the sorts which impressed me, but the sheer size of the islands your playing on, the vehicle responses, the animations, the graphics too at the time, as they were top notch for the time... all very impressive stuff.

I am still ever being more impressed by OFP, as look at all these extras we got now, ECP, BAS stuff, animations, missions, improved skins, and if you run OFP at max resolution like I do, at 1600x1200 (or whatever it is), the graphics are so... smooth. Very impressive for a nearly 5 year old game engine.

[Colossus 2]

As long as the game has a good story and good amount of thing you can do

I'm happy with that.

I still play Hind95 and thats a game with a REAL crappy graphic.

[Warden 0]

Compared to Doom3 and such OFP has one thing replaybilty, any game that relies on graphics alone will a die quick death.

[llauma 0]

Compared to Doom3 and such OFP has one thing replaybilty, any game that  relies on graphics alone will a die quick death.

Agreed.. Graphics will always improve so unless it haven't got anything special to offer it will be totally dead within a couple of years no matter how good it looks when it's released. By then we'll have games that makes Doom3 look like crap and then there's no reason to play it. After all it's not like it was something amazing except for the graphics.

[ag_smith 0]

One more aspect I'd like to bring here:

The modern OFP addons vehicle quality has not been beaten by any other game so far. Just have a look at vehicles from CSLA, DKM, BAS and other hi-quality addons and try to find better looking ones in any other game! Heh! That's really something!

[USSRsniper 0]

lol why compere doom 3 with OFP? DOOM 3 has great gemplay for action game, OFP has great gameplay for everything

[Sgt_Eversmann 1]

Compare the OFP Vehicles (CBT, BAS, ...) with Söldner Secret Wars,

All Vehicles from Söldner looking like some toys and in OFP they're looking like real Vehicles that can kill someone

'nuff said

[svendejong 0]

Quote[/b] ]lol why compere doom 3 with OFP? DOOM 3 has great gemplay for action game, OFP has great gameplay for everything

word my man!!

[GabKa73 0]

Doom3, HL2, FarCry etc have better physics and accurate collision detecting. These are the real disadvantages of ofp and not the old graphics system.

[berghoff 11]

Doom3, HL2, FarCry etc have better physics and accurate collision detecting. These are the real disadvantages of ofp and not the old graphics system.

OFP1 - 2001

Doom3 HL2 Farcry - 2004 I don't know why we should compare these games at all. Try to pick a game from the same year.

Anyway, the islands in farcry are nice I must say that.

The graphics were good enough at that time. Its about the whole package. Not just graphics.

[Edge 2]

I have to say I still enjoy the STYLE Flashpoint brought on my monitor. Of course, the engine has limitations and there are some issues as well, but OFP mean something different from all those polished FPS games.

Regardless of community-made addons and visual enhancements, the OFP has graphics very suitable to its theme. Maybe it was the simplicity and frugality of the graphics that allowed me play with the game over the past four years.

Nobody should compare The Mighty Three (HL2, FC, D3) with the OFP, for The Mighty Three are just good games, while OFP is the open system, designed to last forever (uhm, forever until OFP2 is released ).

[GabKa73 0]

I just wanted to point out that graphics doesn't matter that much for the overall gameplay of games like ofp (although I must say that I still love OFP's look very much).

And as I occasionally play Doom3, HL2, Far Cry and frequently OFP I do compare them. It is what makes Flashpoint a very special game - you can still compare it with the newest titles and it is still unique and outstanding and beats them in many ways.

And for me (just my opinion) it's the collision detecting and the physics that makes the big difference. With that fixed - OFP would rule them all (again, just my opinion).

[llauma 0]

All the other games people like to compair OFP with are all based on small FPS' like the first Doom but they are constantly growing bigger.

OFP has gone the other way around. It started with making a good foundation of a battlefield like flight sims but it offers the detail of a normal FPS.

So the main difference between OFP and other FPS games is that other games focus on small detail which they try to get together into a map. Games like Far Cry have incredible detail but looking at a big scale it doesn't look realistic at all.

Offcourse OFP doesn't look as perfect when getting just next to the house but that will propably be improved in OFP2 and the most important thing is already there, a good foundation.

[DracoPaladore 0]

I can see alot of improvments for OFP graphic wise, but otherwise it still dosn't matter much.

[pogingwapo 0]

I say bad graphics , but overall OFP is good

[lee_h._oswald 0]

I say bad graphics

There is no bad graphics...

There is allways not enough money for newer hardware!

MfG Lee

[svendejong 0]

to the ones that say ofp grahics are bad.

I challenge you to come and play breaktrue on zeus addon.

At dawn, with propper command structure amd bn880's new tracers.

It cant get more immersive than that and it looks soo nice.

[USSRsniper 0]

lol FPS recent addons quality not beaten? look at VBS1

[Sgt_Eversmann 1]

I say bad graphics

There is no bad graphics...

There is allways not enough money for newer hardware!

MfG Lee

True words.

I would just wish that the OFP Graphics would be updated by BIS.

Atm I think that they are not that Powerfull like other Graphic Engines.

But maybe I just have to buy a new Graphic Card...

[Dutch soldier 0]

With the correct addons from guys who improved the gamestyle+gfx alot its almost a new game!

GJ Guys the OFP community is proud at ya

This is how it looks on my system now!

http://home.planet.nl/~queke020/Film.wmv

[Madus_Maximus 0]

OFP is still the only game that manages to crush my computer and make it curl up in a ball and die with everything maxed out... and I can easily play Far Cry and HL2 (not got Doom 3, read reviews, it was poo, stayed clear) with everything on highest with smooth frames!

Also, at the right time of day (about 05:30 - 06:00) the graphics look stunning! The lighting is pretty impressive even for an engine as old as it is!