Just how much has OFP affected you?

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not sure but it seems that after playing OFP i kind of changed my way of hearing thing, i am now take more attention on backgroung noise then i used to be, and some times if other ppls talk to me it cause problems(i am focus on something/someone and listening to background so i can know if there is any ppl comes in the shop, while i didnt really notice if anyothers are trying to talk to me if they didnt call my name, and no i am sure that i have a normal hearing ability)

[neonblack 0]

I picked up the GOTY edition with CWC, Resistance, and Redhammer at Wal-Mart back in 03'. I saw it sitting on the shelf, and since I didn't think Ghost Recon looked like much of a game, I decided to try out Flashpoint. Three years later, I'm still playing, having uninstalled the game only twice (and only then to fix some problems ).

As for mentally affecting me... I dream I'm in Flashpoint, and I dream I'm playing Flashpoint. Nuff' said.

[Mr_Tea 0]

Ahh, no more f...... monster shooting.

I spend uncounted hours in OFP, don`t want to miss one of them.

[kernriver 4]

As for mentally affecting me... I dream I'm in Flashpoint, and I dream I'm playing Flashpoint. Nuff' said.

Hehe, it happened to all of us, i guess

[Guest Ti0n3r]

I've even had a few nightmares about ArmA.

Do I need to see a doctor? ...Naaaah

[brataccas 0]

hehe ofp is the first thing I ever install on my pc, even when my dad fixes my pc and when I reformatt he knows to install ofp on it

[Lifter 0]

I knew OFP had affected me when I found myself playing a mission I made that didn't involve any shooting or killing. Just driving around moving stuff.

I wonder what a psychiatrist would say to that.

"Creating a virtual world of happiness when one is not satisfyed with the real world"

OFP - Better than real life.

[zaphar 0]

For me, OFP made me interested in Russian weapons, especially small arms. I now know a lot about small arms in general and plan on getting some soon. I've always been interested in military stuff since I was little, but OFP just reinforced that. I haven't bought any other games since OFP:R and still play it, but in SP, since online play seems to have died , but ArmA should fix that

It was kind of funny once, I went to a presentation being given by an AF intel officer, and he showed some pictures of some Russian made jets, I just happened to identify the SU-25 "Frogfoot" when it showed up on the screen.

[Daniel 0]

A couple of you have mentioned the Refresh thing. I do it all the time. Like after almost every task I do on the computer, Flashpoint related or not. Why am I doing it?

Weird isn't it...

[-RuN- 0]

Ofp didn`t made me nutts, but gave me the ultimate kick into addiction.

I`ve never been at ease in the real world, as I don`t seem to fit in it. Virtual reality came as an escape. I remember in the 80`s, I had a simulator of F15, it was of course very basic in term of landscape and you couldn`t get of the the plane and walk outside, but that what I wanted to do.. just stay in this huge green and flat emptyness..

Many years later came Jedi night and the same desire of just sitting there among the buildings and corridors, just to have a rest. With Half-life, this virtual word took a new dimension, and then came Flashpoint...

 

It was 2001 and then nothing else really did matter anymore. I didn`t have a computer then and I`d spend 8 to 10 hours playing (even so I never considered it as "playing" per se..) in internet cafes.

When I got my comp in 2003, I remember saying outloud, Flashpoint, flashpoint, flashpoint.. as if I was cheering a rockstar before a show. My social life was inexistant and I didn`t care since I had my own world which, thanks to the community, was always improving. It did cost me my marriage as my poor wife would be watching TV and my back as I was flying helo, fighting reds or practicing my landings.

We broke up in 2004, at the same time that my comp crashed (thank you windows service pack 2)

I am now in a little room, with only a 8 years old laptop on which I could only play Pacman...

Even so, every day I check avidly Ofp.info and the forums.

And every nights, in my head, I still get back to the Ofp reality before falling asleep.

[heklos 0]

Just joined the forum because of a mission that i just had to say was the greatest.

How has OFP affected me?

When the demo came out i was in south korea, finishing up my 5 year enlistment. After playing the demo the first time i was dumbfounded. The game amazed me. It had all the things I always wanted to have in a game, relative balance between sides and equipment and for that time excellent graphics that immersed you into the world of OFP. I played that demo for weeks untill the full game came out. I had done everything I could think of in that demo mission. I spent so much time on this demo that even the others i knew were laughing about it. I just couldnt get enough of it.

I bought orig OFP first, then the Red Hammer update, then the Resistance update. I still have all the original disks from all the update packages. After that i wanted my brother to play and i purchased the GOTY edition which i found in a bargin bin at a store and was appaled to see it in there so i rescued it.

I have also purchased copies for others so we could play on a LAN at work when I came over to Iraq as a contractor. Before that though i had taken a break from OFP, untill i stumbled upon The Avon Lady's site and found references to the enhanced sound package by ...i forget who right now but im sure its still on the site. Boom, i was back into OFP. Moving from there to ECP, then to grabbing just about every addon i could find. BAS, DKM, kgettys and so on. Now here i am 5 years later from the time of the demo. I have over 70gb of addons, maps, missions and misc items for OFP on 2 different continents. I have played many hours of CTI, all variations MFCTI, CR, WGL and so on and still to this day i am not bored with OFP. I have dl just about all the TC packs i could find, from CSLA to Y2K3.

I have bought 2 3000 dollar plus laptops in the last year and a half for just about the sole reason to be able to run OFP will all the fancy addons that i have come to love while I am in iraq.

So i wish to send out a big thanks too all the modelers, mission builders and editiors who have continously spent hour upon hour to release extra content for guys like me.

Thank you Gentlemen (and ladies? not too sure but ill put it in for gp) for the hours of enjoyment i have been given by your creations. I would put down everyone who i have used thier creations from, but it would be a really really really long list and this post is long enough.

So with that im off to bring another subject into the OFP fold. Can you say CCE

[sv5000 127]

I got the demo, i think it was assault....never stopped being hooked on ofp since, and then I discovered the editor.

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I then learnt how to do things for myself in O2 and it just grew from there. My wife does not understand it...

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OFP has lasted 3 computers, it never leaves except for OS upgrades etc. No other game that I have ever played has grabbed me like ofp, Its so much more then just a game, its a virtual world that can take me to the snow and ice of a finnish mountain top..to the hot winds and sand storms of an afghan valley. I can slug it out on the ground with nothing more then a rifle or deal pain from above in a plane or chopper.

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My love of the game helped make my choice to get VBS and its addons,

but I never can walk away from the original....

[Guest Ti0n3r]

I knew OFP affected me the day I didn't eat my medicine cause I thought it was too arcade.

[blackdog~ 0]

Gee I dont know.... uhhhm, I suppose one could say that it's kind of been a gradual effect, I suppose.

Kind of learned how to design really kickass websites... make some really sweet graphic stuff, manage a linux dedicated game and webserver...

Oh and yeah I've accumulated some military vehicles... the tank isn't mine though

PS: I was going to post a pic of all the websites I did (evilmadman.com, tacticalblunder.com, surfacezero.com - but not as much) since they are kind of a reflection of this game's impact over the years... and this is what comes up on Archive.org

http://www.surfacezero.com/span/strange.jpg

[kernriver 4]

OFP has affected me in a way that i constantly harass people to play it with me...it finally payed off: on friday, my brother, two friends and me are having a LAN coop, it took a lot of effort to persuade them...

[Commando84 0]

Yeah ofp i saw some pics of it way back in 99 or 2000 and then when the demo came up in a pcgamer issue i played it and i liked it, it had immersion and made me get really intresting and it was like nothing i had ever played before. Before ofp i played red alert 2 and Half-life + various mods to it. Even made own maps to red alert 2. When i got my hands on ofp i tested it and i lovd it though it was hard as hell for someone who was not used at all to that kind of gameplay closest thing to realism game i had played before had to be rainbow six 1 on my playstation 1

It felt like a game that had no barriers almost and when the addon community started to pull up stuff i was like whoa...

I was so ofp'ed that i wanted to spread the message that was ofp to the non ofp'ers around the world. I went to internet cafées from nearby where i live to stockholm city and got them to install ofp and played with friends and others.

that only took an end when i was in a small it cafée at some "hoood" and i had given out the ofp disk to everyone therre so they could install it and then pass it on to the next computer to install it and we played lan. Had a real blast playing ofp pwning Cs boys and feeling like i had done a good thing spreading the word of ofp. But when the day was at the end and the owner of the place had to kick us out and close for the day i searched for my ofp discs, they where gone

i never went to that place again after i got my ofp stolen. funny thing was i had my box still with the cd-key and all but no discs..

I then bought myself new ofp and continued with my life always with ofp in the back of my mind.

Spreading the word telling people all about every new addon that came or expansion pack. practically driving some people nuts

Always been doing mission editing, if it wasn't for the mission editor and the addons and new stuff getting released almost daily i've probably would have starting to play something else..

right now i just wait for armed assault and soemtimes ocasioanly play ofp in coop or in the editor testing stuff.

[rundll.exe 12]

Reading this thread makes all the things posted terrifying recognizable...

Damn, I played ofp 1.00 for long time offline, then we got "internet" (on 56k ) and I discovered the updates, wich made it possible to play online in a normal way. Then things went too fast, I was asked in a CTI squad 2~3 years ago, and now I play CTI every day, refresh the forums every free hour, make new missions or create websites for ofp stuff...

The funny thing is, I look forward to every free evening so I can play a good CTI or Coop. You can say OFP changed my life yes

[BloodOmen 0]

I have played OFP since it was released, ive been hooked on it forever, its really took over most of my life lol, when i started i sometimes would play it 12 hours a day when i didnt have school, i know how aweful, But im more cut down on it now But im STILL FUCKING BRILLIENT, i class myself as a one man army veteran now

[zootso 0]

Once, I tried to 'right click' and 'zoom in' in RL, like you do in Flashpoint. It was kinda sad, heh.

[sektor 2]

I remember,back in 2001, my friend and i were playing this new game i got. We opened the editor, and put some men and objects on the map. You could drive everything, fly a plane, jump out, land the parachute and drive back with sports car! Damn! So we are checking what can be done, we're shooting and RPG-ing all arround, so i say "You can do anything here, try shooting the tires, see if they can go flat." They could. We were in shock. Can this be true? I this game or what?

I have played it since. Sometimes more and sometimes less, but my homepage stays Ofp.info. Dang, i have to make some missions...

[j w 0]

Enough to uninstall it

[FatNinjaKid 0]

Some days ago my company offered to transfer me to Shanghai. I always wanted to go to there and I thought this was a fantastic opportunity.

The next thought I had was that I probably wont be able to play ArmedAssault when it first comes out, since I wont be having access to a decent computer over there. That was kind of ... weird

[j w 0]

Order one online then, and get it shipped to shanghai

[DBR_ONIX 0]

Laptops! Pretty much any recent laptop will play Armed Assault fine.. Mine used to play OFP better than my desktop (till I upgraded the graphics card)

- Ben

[Chris Death 0]

How much has OFP affected you?

Good question - well, i'm divorced  

To be honnest i'm not sad about it, but it's been for

sure a great help by OFP that this happened.

I got married on 7th July 2001 - bought OFP on release

21. June, and got internet about one week after OFP.

My excessive night-life - i joined DV-Squad in August 2001

which was later changed in BF (Brutal Force) + mission editing

was just too much for her. I don't cry anyone tear after her,

'cause it's been just a bad decision to engage this target,

but that's another story.  

OFP made me join a new world - the comunity - everyday

not only once i'm still checking several forums (BIS - OFPEC - mapfact) or websites (ofp.info the most recent one).

I came back into programing, as i didn't touch it after school

anymore - thx to ofp-editor and scripting.

I've learned html - 3d modelling - photoshop texturing, and

also i've met a bunch of nice peeps from all over the world

(virtually off course).

Ah almost forgot: my english got improved hell of a lot, since

i've learned that in school but never really used that too much.

Thx OFP for such a nice time with you  

~S~ CD