Dragon Rising has been released

[Whiskey_Tango 10]

wouldnt doubt it if he goes undercover and sneaks in here like nothing ever happened

[Colt45_GTO 10]

lol some poor guy is trying to get a tech answer from an official....must be one of a million, he posted it first in tech then in general. i replied and he replied back then i gave him a real reply..

thread..

http://community.codemasters.com/forum/showthread.php?t=397278

some of you guys might find it entertaining

[schaefsky 0]

Poor guy. I had bought Race Driver GRID in 2008 (partly to check the engine, yeah I know it's stupid), and I just checked, CM has managed to put out a third patch in October this year (which fixes some gamebreaking issues for multi-player)! Only about 3/4 of a year after they got reported...

Now compare that to the support from BIS.

[bascule42 10]

wouldnt doubt it if he goes undercover and sneaks in here like nothing ever happened

If he did join these forums, we should welcome him. After all where do we think we are. The CM DR forums or something? ;)

[Whiskey_Tango 10]

If he did join these forums, we should welcome him. After all where do we think we are. The CM DR forums or something? ;)

i dont think anyone would know its him....hes probably already on these forums crying reading the truth about dr

[Stryker_1 10]

I'm not saying DR is a bad game, I didn't play full game, so I don't wanna bash it. I don't care that much for graphics, DR gfx is good enough for me. Gameplay, that's a different story. I played through demo mission without the fear of dying. Anyone remember Ambush mission? (CWC demo).When I played it for the first time, I died a lot. Then I mend my foolish ways, started crawling and taking cover.Bottom line: there is no fear of dying in DR.

That is the bottom line with DR, there is no challenge and the enemy AI couldn't hit their way out of a wet paper bag. There was video I saw on Youtube and someone used the DR editor and placed a pile of AI AT soldiers that were to take out a small boat. They couldn't hit the dam thing and it reminded me of that scene in Predator where the guys blew away the jungle with all their arsenal and they hit nothing....lol...

Edited November 20, 2009 by Stryker_1

[riffleman 20]

For me demo is 3/5 rating

[Soldier of Anarchy 10]

I finally got to play the demo.

A few of my dislikes:

Few options in graphics and game world settings. Is it just me or should bodies actually stay where you killed them? They need a setting for that on the PC version.

Without the corpse looting it just doesn't feel like OFP. And by that I mean, I want weapons and ammo to be available until the end of mission....not disappearing seconds after I kill them. All so, is there a way to find out what gear I'm looting from a corpse? The guns/ pistol / rocket launcher I understand, but the other stuff, It just says " equipment".....?

Only played the demo , but that island seems pretty sparse with trees , didn't notice any animals or even animal sounds until nightfall.

Some vehicles can't be used??? Boats/civilian cars ,are they playable in the full version?

"AI scripts" felt like I was playing crysis again, where no AI is capable of independent thought and totally relies on scripting .....

"check points" Have no idea how they work, 1 time I sneak into base camp full of enemies, trip check point then get killed. Load check point and all enemies are gone...?

Night and day...kinda felt weird seeing the transition from day into night...not like OFP or ARMA/2. More like JOINT OPERATIONS TYPHOON RISING...matter of fact much of this game reminds me of JOTR..not a bad thing JOTR was a good game.

WORST MENU SYSTEM EVER / COMMAND / WEAPONS / SUPPORT. I have to stop what I'm doing just to navigate them...I blame consoles for this.

Likes:

It's not COD MW/2

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All in all it's not a bad game, it's just not OFP....so I'll just call it DR. I might buy it some day depending on the modding scene later on...IF there is one.

Until then it's OFP/ARMA/ARMA2 for me ,and I might just reinstall JOTR to.

[Whiskey_Tango 10]

^^ the full game is basically no different then everything you mentioned ^^

[Deadfast 43]

Few options in graphics and game world settings.

There are more settings hidden under F1.

Is it just me or should bodies actually stay where you killed them? They need a setting for that on the PC version.

There is a limit for active entities the game can handle. It's 64 including the player. Anything above and the game goes boom. That's why you have enemies despawning after you killed them and more spawning as soon as you turn away.

All so, is there a way to find out what gear I'm looting from a corpse? The guns/ pistol / rocket launcher I understand, but the other stuff, It just says " equipment".....?

I've never figured out what equipment is either.

Only played the demo , but that island seems pretty sparse with trees , didn't notice any animals or even animal sounds until nightfall.

You didn't notice any because there aren't any to begin with. The island is dead.

Some vehicles can't be used??? Boats/civilian cars ,are they playable in the full version?

You can't use them in the full game either.

Night and day...kinda felt weird seeing the transition from day into night...not like OFP or ARMA/2. More like JOINT OPERATIONS TYPHOON RISING...matter of fact much of this game reminds me of JOTR..not a bad thing JOTR was a good game.

I don't recall seeing the transition.

All in all it's not a bad game, it's just not OFP....so I'll just call it DR. I might buy it some day depending on the modding scene later on...IF there is one.

There is no modding support. The few mods there have been were basically hacks. They don't work with the latest patch anyway.

[gulag 10]

All so, is there a way to find out what gear I'm looting from a corpse? The guns/ pistol / rocket launcher I understand, but the other stuff, It just says " equipment".....?

socks, napkins, matches, cigarettes, underwear exchange, toothpaste, toothbrush, shaving blades, poker cards, you know... stuff like this.:cool:

[myshaak 0]

socks, napkins, matches, cigarettes, underwear exchange, toothpaste, toothbrush, shaving blades, poker cards, you know... stuff like this.:cool:

Cool, there's the realism Sion has been talking about! ArmA2 loses big time! :)

[Zipper5 74]

If I recall correctly, you have an option to take two weapons, two of either a pistol, rifle or launcher, then you can take the ammunition from the unit if you have the appropriate weapons, and then you have an option that "takes all", which takes everything that he's got on him.

I'm surprised people get stuck in the looting screen. I never did. It's been a while since I played it, so I can't remember what I did differently to get out of it, if anything.

Edit: http://community.codemasters.com/forum/showthread.php?t=397124

My God, that made me laugh. :D

Apparently we have to tell CM exactly what we want them to do. As if CM has no idea what's wrong with their game. I'm sure they know full well what's wrong with it now, and what was wrong with it before it was even released.

Edited November 20, 2009 by Zipper5

[RaXz 0]

Pff..my view on the game became even worse after I played the demo, I thought demo's were supposed to promote the game. I played for 10 minutes and couldn't wait to fire up ArmA again.

[Colt45_GTO 10]

damn that site gets worse!

regarding my original post on the poor guy with alt+tab problems, helios replied and moved the thread to technical (where he posted the original).

helios has told him to send an email with a copy of his original question to customer services.

now whats the point of a technical section on a companies forum if ALL technical questions are not checked and you have to email CC (which is the wrong part of the company) in the first place?

lol conmasters

[vilas 477]

Edit: http://community.codemasters.com/forum/showthread.php?t=397124

My God, that made me laugh. :D

i have learned new word today "arbitrary"

how i wish some (few 2-3) members from this community gone to CM, where all is arbitrary :)

i wonder if for CM 2 + 2 = 4 and 2+ 2 != 3 or 5 is also arbitrary ?

DR sucks :D

[S-M 10]

I still have not even finished the campaign :p

Got up to around mission 10, lost intrest, had loads of problems with co-op dropping connections, the vs multiplayer seamed crap.

I downloaded the "DLC/title update" for it, and have yet to even try it :rolleyes:

I fired it up, went to co-op mode to try and attempt mission 11, got dropped from the game as soon as it started and then switched the POS off :D

[jw custom 56]

I still have not even finished the campaign :p

Got up to around mission 10, lost intrest, had loads of problems with co-op dropping connections, the vs multiplayer seamed crap.

I downloaded the "DLC/title update" for it, and have yet to even try it :rolleyes:

I fired it up, went to co-op mode to try and attempt mission 11, got dropped from the game as soon as it started and then switched the POS off :D

Wow you got so far, i almost quit when i saw "Press Enter" :D

[S-M 10]

Do you mean "Press Start" ?

Maybe i got so far because i played it with a 360 pad plugged in :D :p

[jw custom 56]

Do you mean "Press Start" ?

Maybe i got so far because i played it with a 360 pad plugged in :D :p

It does say PRESS ENTER my end :p

[-RIP- Luhgnut 10]

Sir Polaris is closing his Dragon Rising Community Services too: http://community.codemasters.com/forum/showpost.php?p=5859044&postcount=1

Yeah I saw that. Basically everything he states on that site was pre-release information and B.S. and then after post release, it's obvious that he was totally disconnected with the development team (even though that's his "job").

I found it hilarious that he would do a comparison of an unreleased DR, to a released Arma2. How it would blow arma2 out of the water, and the "unsurpassed realism." The game launches and within 30 days, tanks. People then go back to Arma2 or discover Arma2 from reading the thousands and thousands of Rants comparing it to Arma2 and how it doesn't shine a light to Arma2. So the game tanks, and people leave the forums all cheezed off at CM and Him for the hype. Then he sort of whines that the community that he helped "develop" abandoned him. My thoughts are "Dude, it wasn't YOUR community, it was OFP Originals community that was pinning it's interest in the name." That community got crapped on and lied to, so they leave you alone to be the lone champion of a failed game.

Then to crawl onto the BIS forums, and see a thriving community, then crawl back and claim we are all nothing but "Elitists", when he feels he is THEE authoritarian of all things video gaming.

"It appears my hypocrisy knows no bounds."

---------- Post added at 11:47 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:41 AM ----------

Originally Posted by Soldier of Anarchy View Post

Some vehicles can't be used??? Boats/civilian cars ,are they playable in the full version?

You can't use them in the full game either.

This is NOT TRUE. I know this to be a fact, because one month prior to release, Sion Lenton was on national tv stating that you can go everywhere, and get in any vehicle because the game is all about choice. (extreme sarcasm injected here). See for yourself! Click

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i have learned new word today "arbitrary"

how i wish some (few 2-3) members from this community gone to CM, where all is arbitrary :)

i wonder if for CM 2 + 2 = 4 and 2+ 2 != 3 or 5 is also arbitrary ?

DR sucks :D

[Soldier of Anarchy 10]

Zipper5

I'm surprised people get stuck in the looting screen. I never did. It's been a while since I played it, so I can't remember what I did differently to get out of it, if anything.

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That would be helpful to know, I got stuck looting because the button that gets you into that menu won't get you out...without the right combo.

I had to press ENTER to loot, then ENTER + CAPS LOCK repeatedly to get out. :confused:

Just wondering is this game easier to play on the consoles? Seeing the complaints, I don't see how they can fix all the problems on a cross platform game like this.

PC GAMER U.S. Just gave it a 69% with a 4 page review highlighting it's pros and cons..cons...cons.....and no Evan didn't write it :)

[kklownboy 43]

Soo the contest. The Intel one. Only 12maps, and they finally opened it up for euro countrys (must have been embarrassing with so few maps/missions). Thne they will let regular players play them into Dec to vote, then the 'jury( http://www.intelofpdrcontest.com/fr/intel-mission-contest.html )" will play and pick the winner, end of Dec. funny if it was all MP missions and the 'Jury' guys saw the complete fail PvP is.Now if Intel had a contest here, and you could win a i7 box and swag.. how many maps would there be in the first 48hrs... 150?

[Zipper5 74]

What the? My posts on the DR forums only show up if I'm logged in. Otherwise they're not there.

What? They have a post-approval requirement now or something? Guess they don't want anything bad sad about the game anymore. I wonder when they'll just throw in the towel. Hopefully soon.

[-RIP- Luhgnut 10]

What the? My posts on the DR forums only show up if I'm logged in. Otherwise they're not there.

What? They have a post-approval requirement now or something? Guess they don't want anything bad sad about the game anymore. I wonder when they'll just throw in the towel. Hopefully soon.

ya know, I was wondering the same thing. I thought it was just me. I posted something then linked it to a friend and he said he couldn't load it. So without logging in, I tried, and it wouldn't load. But when I logged in it linked.