WarGames League v.5 (WGL 5) Full Release

[.kju 3245]

<span style='font-size:15pt;line-height:100%'>Welcome fellow soldiers !</span>

We proudly present you:

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#<span style='font-size:15pt;line-height:100%'>WarGames MOD v.5</span> #

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a WarGames Development Production.

<span style='font-size:15pt;line-height:100%'>Announcement</span>

The WGL Mod team is proud to present the full release of WGL 5.  

WGL 5 provides the most realistic, comprehensive, and tactical first-person military simulation

available for the civilian PC market.  WGL 5 is the premier tactical military simulation

incorporating true combined arms in a believable virtual world – not only that, but it is FREE.  

Its closest competitor, VBS1, is, admittedly, more realistic, but it is also hundreds of dollars

to purchase and is not designed for entertainment.  

WGL 5 allows casual to hard-core gamers the opportunity to experience realistic military weapons,

equipment, and tactics while still maintaining an environment that is enjoyable to play.

<span style='font-size:15pt;line-height:100%'>History</span>

The WGL project began years ago when AngusHeaf and Tactician decided to improve some balancing

and gameplay issues specifically related to online PvP gaming.  

Since its inception, the WGL Mod has placed a large focus on realism and enhanced squad based gameplay.  

After the release of WGL 2, Phaeden joined the team. Shortly thereafter, Dinger created the WGL

mortar system.  Like its predecessors, WGL 3 and 4 were released to a relatively small group of

PvP tournament players and teams.  

In November 2005, a small group of WGL fans asked for a few minor tweaks to the latest build of WGL.

This became WGLZ and its aims were to tweak WGL AI as best as possible. These few minor tweaks have

in the last year and a half become a hundreds of modifications, additions, and improvements.

On a special note, this is also thanks to these WGL fans, like Bn880, Jinef, lwlooz, Terox and the

other Zeus community members !

During this time, many new members have joined the WGL 5 staff, most notably Q and Killswitch.  

<span style='font-size:15pt;line-height:100%'>Introduction</span>

WGL 5 is a complete conversion for Operation Flashpoint.  

Its main goal is to create a highly realistic military simulation while still allowing for

entertaining and enjoyable single player, cooperative, and multiplayer gameplay.  

We have painstakingly researched real-world documentation, conducted interviews with real military

members, and thoroughly play-tested this Mod to present you with something more than a game and

something less than a true simulation.  

The gameplay that you will experience in WGL 5 is significantly different than standard

OFP - firefights are more intensive, squad tactics play a much greater role, and use of true

combined arms is more important.  

However, we also understand that you want to spend your time enjoying the gameplay.  

A true simulation is significantly different in that it replicates the real world to a much higher

degree.  This, in turn, often makes less than enjoyable gameplay.  While you could conceivably use

WGL 5 as a training tool (proper authorization must be obtained first), we have not lost sight of

the fact that it is a game at heart – even though our prime focus is on realism.  

Learn more about Wargames

The WGL 5 Experience:  

As soon as you load WGL, you will notice things are different.  

The user interface is streamlined.  

The in-game mission editor is also significantly changed.  

These simple changes are indicative of the overall changes within the Mod.  

WGL 5 cuts through the fluff to bring you to the heart of the action.  

In default OFP, one man’s actions can drastically alter the course of the battle.  It is possible

for a lone gunman (a.k.a. Rambo) to decimate a much larger opposition force.  

If you attempt similar Rambo tactics in WGL 5, you will quickly find yourself inside a coffin.  

WGL 5 “highly encourages†you to work as an effective member of a team.  You now need to use tactics

and firepower to overwhelm and destroy your enemy.  In the past, you could leave your teammates

behind as you located, closed with, and destroyed the enemy single-handedly – such a mission in

WGL 5 is tantamount to suicide.  

In order to successfully complete your mission in WGL 5, you will need scouts/recon units to locate

the enemy, advance your assaulting and support forces, carefully place your medical support units

(as you will definitely need them), coordinate you attack, conduct your attack, and

prepare for counterattack.  

<span style='font-size:15pt;line-height:100%'>Road to Petrovice - A WGL Flashpoint Mini-AAR</span>

(AfterActionReport)

Quote[/b] ]Without the zoom possible with normal OFP mounted machineguns, I found myself firing at

suspected positions versus simply zooming in and picking off the enemy one by one.

It was a refreshing and gameplay-enhancing change, all things considered.

After a few 100-round boxes of ammo were expended, I ditched the vehicle and moved up to see

what the situation was at the first HMMWV.

As it turns out, we had already taken some casualties.

One soldier was KIA and lay dead at the left-rear of the first vehicle, while the machinegunner

on it was slumped dead over his weapon. Dismounted Goon machinegunners poured fire onto the

opposite bank as bullets whooshed over us and thunked into the ground around us.

I went prone behind right-rear wheel, using it for cover, and began firing at any visible

enemy across the bridge.

The realistic tracers in WGL had a dramatic impact on how easy it was to locate enemy positions -

instead of every bullet leaving a very visible tracer, the tracers only appeared every few rounds

and were much more difficult to follow back to the source weapon. The amount of dust kicked up by

our rounds, combined with the ricocheting tracers, made the whole scene all the more visceral.

Here you can see dust exploding from the ground while tracers flicker into the sky as myself and

two machinegunners light up a running enemy soldier.

Road to Petrovice AAR - Read the whole story here

June 4th AAR

Medic! Medic!!! AAR

credits to  dslyecxi and  Shack Tactical !

<span style='font-size:15pt;line-height:100%'>WarGames v5 Release - Promotional Video</span>

Download it here [90mb, 17mins]

special thanks again to Kenwort from OFP  MoiveMakers !

<span style='font-size:15pt;line-height:100%'>More WGL Media</span>

Visit the WGL gallery or  check out more ingame footage

<span style='font-size:15pt;line-height:100%'>WGL 5 Features</span>

• Custom damage system

• Improved AI

• New effects (explosion, smoke, etc.)

• New sounds

• New GUI

• Rucksack system

• Mortar system

• Countermeasure system for air units

• New binoculars / compass / nightvision goggles

• Reworked target locking system

• Config_Base and Models_Base system

(dynamic adjustment of certain settings and models)

• No crumble destructionType for tanks

• No kill messages

• No MP 'P' scores overview

• DMA unigen animation pack and leaning

and much more !

<span style='font-size:15pt;line-height:100%'>WGL User Input and Feedback</span>

WarGames was and will always be very open for suggestion to further improve the MOD.  

We listen to our “customers†and strive to use all feedback to make subsequent versions of WGL

even better.  

We highly encourage you to provide feedback – obviously, positive feedback is easier to read,

but even negative constructive criticism is highly helpful.

Yet please note these three things:  WarGames = realism AND gameplay

WarGames will never be 100 percent realistic - that is not our primary goal!

One thing you may notice about WGL 5 is that it is not really that “pretty.† 

We purposefully avoid using the best looking models as they demand large amounts of CPU power.  

Instead, we prefer “uglier†but more efficient models and scripts that allow us to use larger

numbers of troops and vehicles (even into the hundreds) on the battlefield.  We highly recommended

that you check out Zeus missions to see what we are talking about!  However, it is possible for

you to convert your favorite models for use in the WGL 5 combat environment.  

With WGL5 Models_Base System you can easily exchange models by yourself.

There is DMA Army and Naval config available with the MOD itself.

Even more you can make up your own model config quite easily !

Even more we have developed the  WGL Texture / Vegetation Replacement Packs for your enjoyment.

Third please drop your comment either in the BIS thread (link) or in the WarGames forum.

Otherwise your comment might not be read or noticed. Thanks.

<span style='font-size:15pt;line-height:100%'>WGL Missions and Campaign Conversions</span>

Before we finally come to the link for the MOD itself - the most important part:

Something to play with !

Campaign Conversions like

• CWC 1985

• Retaliation

• Shadows of the Motherland

• Revolution1983

• ULTOC

• and more

as well as various Single/Multiplayer Missions like

• Zeus Community's WarGames MP Missions

• Shackbattle Community Servers Converted MP Missions

• BIS Single and MP Missions

• DAC Coops

• DMA DynamicWar

• Sinews of War - The New Resistance MP Campaign

• various assorted MP Missions (misc & misc2)

• and more

In addition we are proud to present you:

<span style='font-size:15pt;line-height:100%'>WGL Islandpack</span>

This pack contains  20+ of best islands available in OFP (terrain- and performance-wise).

Like almost everyone of them features those missions:

• DAC Tankwars

• DMA CCE

• DMA Last Fight

Also available are training and test missions to demonstrate the weapons, units, vehicles

and features of the WarGames MOD, as well as BIS SP and MP Templates to create new missions

easily and BIS SP Missionpack for Gaia, Samak Hills, Occasus and Messor.

<span style='font-size:15pt;line-height:100%'>WGL Links</span>

WGL site  

Download WGL 5 full

WGL wiki

There you find help with the installation and you are able to learn more about the MOD and its features.

<span style='font-size:15pt;line-height:100%'>WGL Credits</span>

A special thanks to the addon authors who graciously allowed us to use their work:

<span style='font-size:12pt;line-height:100%'>WGL 5 Credits</span>

• Aeon - for his new Nature Sounds

• DMA - Sanctuary, !TacRod and honcho (too much outstanding stuff to list)

• ECP Team - for various help

• JAM, !DynamicRange for great sounds

• Kegetys for his excellent Spectating Script

• Llauma for his great Llaumax Sky Pack

• Locke@Germany for his true awesome OFP Animations Enchancement

• Mikero for his persistent updating of Editor Upgrade102

• DPS for his great OSV96 Model and Textures

• Hoyt for his excellent SV98 Model and Textures

<span style='font-size:12pt;line-height:100%'>WGL 4 Credits</span>

• Laser/ORC for his fantastic russian units

• Edge for his fantastic resistance units

• Inquisitor for his weapons

• AKM74 for his excellent Russian APC pack and Konkurs ATGM

• The guys at MapFact.net who created the best base buildings, ever.

• BAS for allowing us to use some scripts and units

• Marfy and Sebastian for their excellent MTLB pack

• DPS, Sour and KerdTo (Our Weapon) for their Mi2, great addon!

• Dinger for porting many of his UA scripts to our mortar system

• Jostapo for his lovely MON200 and Claymore models (sorry about the delayed thank-you dude!)

• Kegetys for his sky installer

• Kegetys again for his AGS-17 and RPG7/7VL models

Our deepest thanks goes to the former WGL staff and all the contributors:

<span style='font-size:12pt;line-height:100%'>WGL 5 Supporters</span>

. F

. granQ

. ML

. Sanctuary

. John Smith

. Jinef, Terox, lwlooz, bn880 (Zeus folks)

. Grey, IandC, pablo, twiggy, russin

. Dinger

<span style='font-size:12pt;line-height:100%'>Former WGL Core Team (1-4)</span>

. AngusHeaf

. Phaeden

. Tactician

<span style='font-size:13pt;line-height:100%'>Get involved</span>

New challanges and opportunities lie ahead - share your ideas and take the chance to realize them.

The development of WarGames will continue in the future and

we are looking for decent and dedicated people !

WGL is based on a strong PvP and Coop Community and is supported by various groups and people.

Based on a good internal development surrounding (subversion, bugzilla, ftp, irc, forum) everyone

contributes to the development as far as ones own available time, motivation and skills in

an organised and coordinated process.

Yet we are not solely looking for core developers - anyone's help is appreciated.

Take the opportunity and join the ranks.

Get more information  here.

So we wish you a lot of fun and a good time with the WarGames MOD !

best regards

<span style='font-size:13pt;line-height:100%'>WGL 5 Core Team</span>

. Phaeden

. Killswitch

. Q

Enjoy it the next five days ... or (hopefully) more ... ;-)

(22th june)

[.kju 3245]

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[.kju 3245]

Mirrors

WGL5 June 18th 2006 Release

WGL Islands (Gaia and Samak Hills)

WGL MOD Island Texture Replacement Packs

BIG thanks !

to http://www.gotf.net/ and Rhodite.

WGL5 June 18th 2006 Release (wgl5_2006-06-18)

WGL USMC Gaia Island

WGL Samak Hills Island

WGL Vegetation Replacement Pack

WGL CWC Islands Texture Replacement Pack

WGL O Texture Replacement Pack

BIG thanks !

to http://www.roughnecks.org/ and russin.

WarGames_MOD_v5

WGL_Gaia

WGL_Samak_Hills

_Texture_Replacement_Pack

BIG thanks !

to http://operationflashpoint.filefront.com/ and scotchsoldier.

[sanctuary 19]

Superb work WGL5 team, thanks for your time in building this fine piece of mod

(edit : oops i hope i have not broken a reserved slot)

[smiley nick 51]

Fantastic news!

Thankyou ever so much for all your hard efforts.

[Empath 0]

finally ... we've all been waiting for.

[Nathan Bedford Forrest 0]

WGL5 + Final = head scratching

:P Nice to see a proper public released version.

[-DsO- ShapeShifter 0]

nice, thx !

[Nathan Bedford Forrest 0]

<span style='font-size:25pt;line-height:100%'><span style='font-family:Script'><span style='color:yellow'>Well, it's not bad although the font is a bit of an arse. It's quite unreadable and completely ruins the 'wargamey' atmosphere. I prefer the old one myself. Good day!</span></span></span>

[Ukraineboy 0]

Have you added custom sights for the AK line of weapons? The M16 has nice custom ones, while the AK-74 and AK-47 is stuck with old default ones.

But otherwise, great work!

[echo1 0]

I was wondering when I was gona see the full version, nice one lads

[Shashman 0]

Having been in the select few who enjoyed the WGL mod from the very beginning (Phaeden and Angusheaf, you may remember me if you're reading this ) I don't have to hesitate for a split second when it comes to downloading and immersing myself into this masterpiece.

Congratulations guys for keeping the WGL mod alive and kicking.

[william1 0]

thank you very much ! i have downloaded all your betas and now at last the final release , incredible the amount of work and quality that can be found here , congratulations masters !

[-Snafu- 78]

Sounds interesting, i'll definitely give this a try!

[MEDICUS 0]

Looking forward to play this on Zeus

Thx for the work!

MfG

Medicus

[Jblack 0]

Really thinking about downloading this and getting into MP... only thing I don't like is how they still use old units. Can a mod change this?

Also what is the most played mod online?

[phaeden 0]

We have created a "bridge" system that will allow any user to use their favorite models with WGL.  Our default models are "low quality" (read as low poly count) so that we can use computer resources for gameplay instead of appearance.  However, you can use any model(s) you want - it is not too difficult to convert any model to use WGL values.

Below is a picture taken from a Coop MP Mission on the WGL Enhanced Everon (textures and vegetation packs).

[chipper 0]

dude this looks awesome!!

[nubbin77 0]

Congratulations on a great release.

You guys deserve all the praise you receive. I've been following your work closely and it never ceases to amaze me the great efforts the OFP community puts out.

From what I can gather, every decision that you all make as to what goes into the mod is carefully thought out well before any work is done. So please don't take the following comments as criticisms, rather I am curious as to a couple of your design decisions:

The default BIS stuff:

Why not incorporate all the enhancements that you made directly into the default BIS units? (ie weapon sites, weapons, models, handgrenade time simulation, smoke effects) all the things you put so much effort into to make the wgl experience absolutely amazing, yet you can't play any default missions with the enhancements without replacing all the units and redoing the mission. Seems almost illogical since you start out with such large base of great missions right from the start. I can only assume either:

a) you didn't want to mess up any of the default BIS missions, therefore just keep it all the same, or

b) To incorporate the effects / enhancements into the default BIS stuff would have required too much time, since the original concept was strictly to have "wgl" units.

Multiplayer:

I rarely play multiplayer since I have limited time or I just play coops with my brother and our own modificiation. That said, I think I'd really like to join up with the wgl guys and play since what you do is right up my alley. So pardon my ignorance on this next question - If I use the improved textures and vegetation replacement packs, does that mean I won't be able to join in a multiplayer game? That would really suck, because I can't imagine why anyone wouldn't want to use those packs. Taking it a step further since I really hate the default BIS weapon sites and some of the gun models, I replaced them within the data3d.pbo with the wgl one's (that was in response to some of the first item above, but I still don't get the effects with the BIS units). If I have done that does that also mean I would be labled a cheater as I join an MP game? That would suck, but I guess I could live without those things. I would hope at a minimum that most wgl servers would at least use / require the texture and vegetation packs.

Again, great job. The effects are top notch. Certain things take a little getting used to, but its all worth it and almost always for the better (I wish my eyes were better LOL for the lack of zoom).

I just wish I could enjoy ever aspect of this thing including the BIS stuff even if it breaks half the missions.

[chipper 0]

The default BIS stuff:

Why not incorporate all the enhancements that you made directly into the default BIS units? (ie weapon sites, weapons, models, handgrenade time simulation, smoke effects) all the things you put so much effort into to make the wgl experience absolutely amazing, yet you can't play any default missions with the enhancements without replacing all the units and redoing the mission.  Seems almost illogical since you start out with such large base of great missions right from the start.  I can only assume either:

a)  you didn't want to mess up any of the default BIS missions, therefore just keep it all the same, or

b)  To incorporate the effects / enhancements into the default BIS stuff would have required too much time, since the original concept was strictly to have "wgl" units.

Multiplayer:

I rarely play multiplayer since I have limited time or I just play coops with my brother and our own modificiation.  That said, I think I'd really like to join up with the wgl guys and play since what you do is right up my alley.  So pardon my ignorance on this next question - If I use the improved textures and vegetation replacement packs, does that mean I won't be able to join in a multiplayer game?  That would really suck, because I can't imagine why anyone wouldn't want to use those packs.  Taking it a step further since I really hate the default BIS weapon sites and some of the gun models, I replaced them within the data3d.pbo with the wgl one's (that was in response to some of the first item above, but I still don't get the effects with the BIS units).  If I have done that does that also mean I would be labled a cheater as I join an MP game?  That would suck, but I guess I could live without those things.  I would hope at a minimum that most wgl servers would at least use  / require the texture and vegetation packs.

As for the replacement idea I think that would be good to do, but in the mean time you can use a tool to replace the units in the mission with the ones you want without having to do it all yourself. But I forgot what it was called maybe someone else knows.

And about the multiplayer problems, don't worry when you enter the game with motified textures it will display a message saying that you are using them. Just tell them it's the wgl texture replacements if they ask.

EDIT: I found the tool. It's called OFP Replacer v1.0

http://ofp.gamepark.cz/index.php?showthis=8180

[phaeden 0]

Thanks for the input.

As for default BIS units/missions, you can download all of the BIS missions can campaigns that have been converted to WGL standard.

Regarding multiplayer, it will depend on each server, but you should not have any problem using texture/vegetation packs (I played a mission yesterday with a different pack than my teammate with no problems).

I recommend the Zues server/missions as they really highlight WGL's benefit of tactics and teamwork.

[Jblack 0]

can i use the OPF Replacer in MP?

[chipper 0]

Not sure on that b/c you'd have to unpbo the mp mission open the mission.sqm and modify it then repbo. After you modify the mp mission .pbo file the server might make you download the original copy w/o the changes u made.

but lets not go to off-topic here.

Also I can't seem to be able to install any of those extra texture replacements that require use of the pbo-patcher program.

I get this error when I start the game.

Warning: preNLOD format in object data3d\hoizont.p3d

[Shinbusan 0]

Hooah! My most beloved mod at last as full release. I am really happy and regards for all WGL team members and all WGL fans like me.

[Shinbusan 0]

And about the multiplayer problems, don't worry when you enter the game with motified textures it will display a message saying that you are using them. Just tell them it's the wgl texture replacements if they ask.

Well, unfortunetly it is not so easy with replaced islands. We had to go back to standard islands and not all of us have so powerful computers to use them, and a lot things look different on both packs of islands (WGL and BIS) and something what was clear and visible for me, was not seen by people using BIS islands, and often they saw as one INSIDE a tree. So if we are going to play in realistic manner (very detailed orders) then we have to use only one pack in MP, and due to performance, it will be BIS ones

Sorry for double post