PMC Ranger Path campaign

[Snake Man 401]

PMC Ranger Path OFP Campaign

Featuring excellent BAS addons Delta/Rangers.

You can find basic details on the PMC OFP Campaigns Page and PMC Tactical Forums PMC Ranger Path Area, but briefly you need BAS Delta/Ranger, Littlebird and Chinook along with ColMoore's C-130 Hercules and finally CoC Mines pack.

PMC Ranger Path Campaign background

PMC Ranger Path campaign is US Army Ranger specific using Laser's Delta/Ranger, bas Blackhawk, Littlebird and Chinook addons. Missions are somewhat special in nature and you dont find same kind of basic infantry grunt action here as in PMC Fury. The lame storyline is much like in the other campaign where US forces fight off Russians from the four (official BIS) islands.

Some facts of PMC Ranger Path campaign:

- Radio messages without voice files, you'll see radio text but not hear a voice.

- Two cutscenes on every mission, these aren't that hot (sorry, don't expect BIS quality here).

- Thorough briefings, small section + detailed section.

- Over 20 missions and two standalone cutscenes.

- Islands used: Everon, Malden, Kolgujev and Nogova.

- Some missions might require lot CPU power (more or less 1ghz).

- Requires some addons; C-130, CoC UA/Mines, LSR Delta/Ranger, Bn880 Tracers, JAM3 etc.

- Optimized for 1500 meter viewdistance.

- Missions are designed for COOP multiplayer compatibility (MP versions will be released later).

PMC_Ranger_Path_v1.0b.r15.rar - 319kb.

Edited July 19, 2012 by Snake Man

[NorthenNat 0]

Is this an update of the original?

[imutep 0]

2 Campaigns released in 1 week. Respect

Now i playing this Campaign too.

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If anybody need a Mirror:

Look at OFP.4players for download the listed reqired addons

Mirror: PMC Ranger Path Kampagne v1.0b.r15 / 1.57 MB

Thanks and greetings

Imutep

[cornhelium 0]

Great work Snakeman,

I enjoyed this campaign before - sure I'll enjoy it even more with the LSR Rangers

Cheers,

CH

[-SWAT- 1]

The name of the campaign sounds very well known in my ears. Is it a new one?

[Snake Man 401]

Quote[/b] ]Is this an update of the original?

Umm yes, v1.0b revision 15. A new version of the same old campaign...

Here is the complete changelog:

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May 6th, 2006. v1.0b rev 15

- tweaked target markers on mission complete status.

- mh47e has unfit weapon loadout, fixed.

- ranger morning, movie-end shows water on 4 times at least, fixed.

- changed from JAM2 to JAM3, which is now reguired to play.

- changed tracers to 3rds for rifleman 5th for MGs and no tracers for snipers.

- ranger pow, make the POW to aware, unitpos auto etc.

- ranger POW, added invisible helopad for MH60 extract.

- ranger pow, added small bit of opfor, heh.

- ranger pow, added music for extract.

- ranger pow, ending cutscene did not play music, fixed.

Sep 15th, 2005. v1.0b rev 14

- invasion, added officer + few soldiers in the big open building near ural.

- invasion, uh60 engine sound audible at mission start. fixed.

- added bn880 tracers.

- changed bas ranger/delta units to LSR units.

- changed bas weapons to LSR US weapons.

- changed C-130 Hercules cargo plane addon v1a (C130v1a) to v2 (C130v2).

- units perhaps wounded at mission start, fixed (at least I hope so).

- fixed ammodrop cutscene saveVar stuff for the ammo box.

- ranger bridge, briefing says MH-47E but we ride in Blackhawk, fixed.

- ranger path, briefing says MH-47E but we ride in Blackhawk. sigh, fixed.

Aug 12th, 2004. v1.0b rev 13

- ranger bait, helo combat mode to never fire.

- ranger decapitate, helo combat mode to never fire.

- ranger juice, helo combat mode to never fire.

- ranger pilots, helo combat mode to never fire.

- ranger data, helo combat mode to never fire.

- ranger morning, helo combat mode to never fire.

- ranger pow, helo combat mode to never fire.

- ranger snatch, helo combat mode to never fire.

- ranger bridge, helo combat mode to never fire.

- ranger path, helo combat mode to never fire.

- added Ranger Shining, a brand new mission.

- ranger wmd, helo combat mode to never fire.

- ranger wmd too easy after objective 1, added some punch to it...

- ranger serpent, you can hear the chinook engines at start. fixed.

- ranger pow, added some twists.

- ranger morning, added some links/markers to briefing.

- ranger intro cutscene flashes. Fixed.

- ranger ammos, objectives can be completed from far away, fixed.

- ranger bridge, objectives can be completed from far away, fixed.

- ranger nocomms, objectives can be completed from far away, fixed.

- ranger mountain, objectives can be completed from far away, fixed.

- ranger invasion, objectives can be completed from far away, fixed.

- ranger butcher, objectives can be completed from far away, fixed.

- ranger baseblast, objectives can be completed from far away, fixed.

- ranger bait, objectives can be completed from far away, fixed.

- ranger airbase, objectives can be completed from far away, fixed.

- ranger morning, objectives can be completed from far away, fixed.

- ranger action 2, objectives can be completed from far away, fixed.

- ranger action 2, fixed the airstrike, yeah for good.

- ranger serpent, reinf chinook changed to careless or he will engage.

- ranger serpent, brifing "sen" typo, fixed.

- ranger serpent, added briefing text of ammo box.

- ranger serpent, changed ammobox weapons for JAM stuff.

- ranger serpent, changed the reinf guys to patrol in loop with limited speed.

Mar 7th, 2004. v1.0b rev 12

- Changed the old Rangers & weapons to the new v1.50 JAM 2 Ranger units & weapons.

- Ranger Invasion, reinf helo is BIS uh60. Changed to BAS UH-60L.

- Ranger Invasion, briefing "fiel" typo, no mention of fast rope. Fixed.

- Added GPS display for all missions!

- NoComms, added certain east unit to good tactical position ...

- Ranger NoComms, briefing "uperations" typo, fixed.

- Ammos & Serpent briefings, removed the tactical part.

- Baseblast, changed BIS UH60 to BAS UH-60L.

- All missions validated so there is no old BIS units (all JAM2 now).

- Ammos removed gear from mission briefing, because you are behind enemy lines.

- Serpent, added ranger ammo boxes from last nights resupply drop.

- Data, changed east ammo boxes to JAM ones.

- Morning, ending cutscene, camera shots of nothing but the ocean, fixed.

- Morning, briefings War situation said Chinook instead of Blackhawk, fixed.

- NoComms, briefing orders typo "yourw", fixed.

Sep 4th, 2003. v1.0b rev 11

- Bait, Bridge, Pilots... added radio reply for helo extract.

- Bridge and Path helo extract didn't run a script, fixed.

- Bridge, tweak to russian reinforcements timing.

- Action 2, changed the ammodrop helo to MH-60K.

- Pilots, mission still continues even if the pilots are dead.

- Airbase, missiong ends, yet fight is going on. Fixed (I hope).

- NoComms, added two soft vehicles to the comm tower, they must be destroyed.

- Pilots, no more medic to run to the pilots.

- Upgraded to Bremmer's Improved AI script v1.1

- Pilots, medic replaced by normal unit (if pilots wounded, runs off to them).

- Serpent, empty vehicles locked. No Ranger should drive T-80.

- Action 2, airstrike setup bugged, adjusted to only one working strike call.

Aug 24th, 2003. v1.0b rev 10

- changed ending credits to include ladies too. :)

- Ranger Juice helo to careless mode, no more wandering around.

- campaign save-status hopefully fixed.

- added MH-60 to 6 missions.

- removed artillery from all missions, unrealistic crap.

- changed all non Ranger/Delta units to JAM HD units, cool!

- made new Ranger Action 2 ending cutscene.

- Invasion, reinf blackhawk is deleted after its used.

- added music to Ranger POW, on helo flight.

- Ranger Baseblast end cutscene, west units died, fixed.

- Ranger Airbase didn't end easily, reduced ending trigger size.

Jul 5th, 2003. v1.0b rev 9

- ranger butcher too fast ending trigger, fixed.

- ranger serpent russian tank engines humming, hopefully more distant now.

- ranger serpent won't end, fixed.

- ranger data, radiomsg says A-10 but apaches appear, fixed.

- ranger bridge wont end, objectives arent done, fixed.

- Ranger Morning error message "script exit.sqs not found", fixed.

- ranger path: radio message ReastDead not found, fixed.

- ranger path: if russian major dead, mission failed.

- ranger nocomms, commtower needs to be destroyed.

Jul 2nd, 2003. v1.0b rev 8

- ranger bridge, cutscene OH58 replaced by Blackhawk, no more addon errors.

- ranger butcher, tweaks and more tweaks for ending trigger. sigh. should work, again.

Jun 16th, 2003. v1.0b rev 7

- players units might get killed in outtro cutscene, fixed.

- helo lands at airbase shutting down its engine and waits for extract call.

- ranger snatch, if colonel is dead there will be radio + briefing update.

- debug message removed from Ammos. haha... so sad :(

- artillery too darn deadly, first tweak made, more later if needed.

- ranger data, added extract radio reply. added enemies Muhaha!, added gunships.

- ranger pow, bait and butcher AI backups fixed.

Jun 15th, 2003. v1.0b rev 6

- ranger pilots, Charlie (chinook) callsign was announced as Bravo, fixed.

- all missions have their ranger solider skills set to 60% and AT to 75%.

- ranger snatch wrong helo called upon fast rope, fixed.

- ranger snatch colonel random pos not active, fixed.

- ranger morning radio calls (assault & extract) wrong, fixed.

- ranger morning insertion LZ position changed, no more splashes in the water.

- ranger morning briefing "typo" said blackhawk instead chinook, fixed.

- ranger morning chinook radio callsign wrong, fixed.

- ranger data objective triggers tweaked.

- ranger pow chinook callsign wrong, fixed.

- All fast rope insertions double checked, they should (I repeat should) work now.

Jun 6th, 2003. v1.0b rev 5

- AI Control script removed from players team (Sieg Heil! Aryan!).

- previous mission dead team members appearing dead in helicopter, fixed (I hope).

- version number added into the overview screen (campaign Start).

- ranger invasion briefing typos :)

- ranger bait mission extract LZ moved further out. also enemies tweaked.

- ranger bait cutscene touched up, bit more activity.

May 31st, 2003.

- ranger data typo on radio trigger/message, fixed.

- ranger decapitate used editorupdate102 addon, removed. Extract LZ moved bit further.

- ending cutscene had LSD (dock landing ship) addon, removed.

- ranger bait extract LZ moved bit further.

May 22nd, 2003.

- ranger butcher mission tweaked for ending trigger.

May 16th, 2003.

- sideARdio typo on mission 5, fixed.

- mission 5 had alpha black wearing bravo's identity, changed.

- added A-10 Airstrikes for mission 5 for some more balance to US side.

- Some tweaks to second missions ending possibility.

- Added BAS weapons and ammo to the briefing gear selection.

- Removed the nasty debug hint box "deleted" from the first mission.

- Added high dispersion ak-74's for the enemy grunts. Gotta love the high dispersion.

Quote[/b] ]The name of the campaign sounds very well known in my ears. Is it a new one?

No.

Look closely:

PMC Ranger Path <-- campaign on all BIS islands.

PMC Hero's Path <-- campaign on PMC Rugen island with various addons.

See the difference?

[Shashman 0]

Sounds interesting. I like all PMC releases

One thing though ; Why use Cpt.Moore's C-130 when Hawk's is up to date and much better in every way?

Capt.Moore's Herc:

Hawk's Herc:

[Snake Man 401]

Quote[/b] ]Why use Cpt.Moore's C-130 when Hawk's is up to date and much better in every way?

Ok this is the LAST time I'll answer this question; I like Adammos C130v2, its not causing any slowdowns, it works, it flies... its good.

I use it on many of my missions and will be using it, unless something better comes along (and by better I mean CPU friendly, better looking, more working/flying etc).

[Shashman 0]

Quote[/b] ]Why use Cpt.Moore's C-130 when Hawk's is up to date and much better in every way?

I use it on many of my missions and will be using it, unless something better comes along (and by better I mean CPU friendly, better looking, more working/flying etc).

What part of, "Hawk's is up to date and much better in every way?" did you not understand? The texture quality is better, it has more features (reverse thrust, cargo drop, static line drop, group bail) and it is more recent.

[Snake Man 401]

I am not going to argue with you about this C130 topic so just drop it okay.

[Snake Man 401]

Does anyone have any suggestions about CoC Unified Artillery usage for the existing missions. Right now its only used on the one (1) mission which was the new bonus mission, UA should be used on the other missions too.

So lets take one example, PMC Ranger Action, that is very very small mission and even adding the M252 mortars to it would ... well be quite devastating as player could just sit behind the hill and shoot the tubes empty and then go and count bodies

But also I do not want to re-make all the old missions either to maintain them in the original form... so somesort of balance should be found. All suggestions are highly appreciated.

[bardosy 154]

Where can I download the CoC Tomahawk? I didn't find...

[pecel2u 0]

for the SAR mission, rescuing downed apache pilot, i don't find that pilot or wrecked apache, i've circling around the blue area but i still can't find the pilot...search the woods, bushes, cities, villages. still can find him...any suggestion?

[Snake Man 401]

for the SAR mission, rescuing downed apache pilot, i don't find that pilot or wrecked apache

The downed helo makes a huge smokestack, its easy to see, as long as you get close enough...

[pecel2u 0]

Ok, i've found it, but the helo did't smoke. maybe the pilot has put out the fire , so the enemy can't find them.

Thanks for the campaign

[zulu1 145]

I've only made it through the first two missions and I'm having a blast. With HD weapons you're not taken out at 1200 meters with one shot from an AK47.  With the terrian set at normal you get to hide a little. I statred to see that the RPG solders have RPG7's and they shoot at you, in the second mission I had an SR25 and looking through the sight I see an RPG soldier pop up, take aim at me and fire. I saw the rocket flying right at me through the sight and land in front of me and explode. It was wild. I got to the town and the T72 was damaged but still running. My AT guys were out of ammo, so I ran around and gathered up all the RPG rounds I could find, I damaged the T72 more , but still not dead. I finished it off with some grenades finally and ended the mission. Trying to find the right strategy to finish the third mission.

[hit-man 0]

Hi,

like the campaign, good work! But now i got stuck at the "Pilots"-mission. Whatever i do, it wont start. I now de-pbo-ed the campaign and tried to save it as a single mission but an error occured: "bas_m4soa.p3d missing".

Need your help to bring the boys back home !

thanks guys!

[bardosy 154]

Hello Snake,

I want write some "feedback" now...

I hope you don't mind the bad one!

Well:

- I studied from this campaign, how can I make a mission without the lagged big battle, but the player feel the big battle. So your small team fight in the wing of the big battle and only the player imagine the great war, not the OFP-engine. It's great!

- I hate those mines!!! I really hate. Sometimes it's positioned correctly where I put it, if I were the russain HQ. But sometimes you just put it, because you know I will go there, but the russians had no idea about my way.

- Intro/ourto: I think your movies are not really intro/outro. You showed the starting position and starting forces and later you show the way, where we was. But a real intro/outro give the player some additional: eg. show the enemy, or show a short story about my men, some joke or drama.

[hit-man 0]

Hi Snake Man,

i didn't find a topic for your "Hero's path campaign", so i hope it's ok to post this here:

-OFP save-game-bug-  

Great campaign, i love it! I don't need much eye-candy, i need this hell of an enemy ! Keep up the great work!

Bad luck, when i was right in the "surf the beach"-mission, i got the save-game-bug too (error-message: "cannot load continue.fps", "no entry at... value.data"). Other player's attempts by avoiding this by renaming the save-files didn't work, in fact, nothing worked at all.

Like others, i think "one mission one try" is no solution. After enjoying this campaign for days now, i didn't care how a solution looks like. All i wanted now, was to restore my status in the mission/campaign.

However, i'm just happy that something worked at all: Simply restore it by modifying the mission in the editor. You then can't continue the campaign in the usual way but i don't feel that i've lost anything now. This way i got my game-state back about maybe 95% and Saving/Loading seems to work fine.

1) Download a pbo-decrypter, e.g. PBO-decrypter v1.5 (by Amalfi).

2) Un-pbo the campaign. Now you got all missions of the campaign ready to edit in the OFP-editor.

3) Open the editor and load the mission you were playing.

-To keep up the tense, only look at the area you've been already!

-Move your team to the last positon you remember.

-Adjust the time afa you remember.

-Delete any enemy-units you remember you have already killed.

-Optionally, add or remove weapons/magazines to your team.

4) Save the mission as Single-Player mission.

5) Play the missions and get the job done...

If any player here never worked with the editor or is a beginner, just let me / us know...

P.S.: By the way, the pilots didn't enter the chopper to get me to the drop-zone...  

[zulu1 145]

I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong, but at the start of parachuting in the desrt during the storm half of my squad is injured or killed.

Any ideas?

[Snake Man 401]

Restart the mission then. Its normal OFP behaviour that sometimes when ejecting units from plane they get killed.