kiska / skira ,does anyone want to see this island in A2 ? (the OFPDR island)

[Alex72 1]

What he says ^^

ARMA can produce and play much much bigger maps than Chernarus (roughly the same size as that OFP DR game). DR is in the shadow here my friend not the other way around. ;)

[rstratton 0]

my skarikiska at 20kmx20km is 10 km smaller than skira from ofdr

[vasmkd 12]

@rstratton

Will the island have more buildings and villages than that boring one from cm?

[max power 21]

I think Kiskira would be the more natural portmanteau...

[stegman 3]

I think Kiskira would be the more natural portmanteau...

could call it 'Dragon island' if you like... :)

[ffs 10]

Haha

AFAIK the word "Kiska" in russian means "Kitty".

skarikiska = scary kitty.

[das attorney 858]

Freaky amber and green eyes!;)

[STALKERGB 6]

Make sure you have a shipwreck on one of the beaches with "Codemasters" written along the side of the boat :)

Looking good so far, can't wait to see it when its finished, will be awesome :)

Is there a reason you didn't want to go with the islands proper name?

[Darkhorse 1-6 16]

Make sure you have a shipwreck on one of the beaches with "Codemasters" written along the side of the boat :)

Would it be very hard to add the name to the standard shipwreck that's already in-game? Because I really think said shipwreck should be included.

[Defunkt 431]

Suggest "Dragon Rising" as the sort of thing one might actually use to name a boat.

[das attorney 858]

Suggest "Dragon Rising" as the sort of thing one might actually use to name a boat.

Lol - yeah, that wasn't a great game. :) It had a lot of promise but ultimately failed to deliver. I only spent £10 on it as I got given some vouchers at work, but even so, it wasn't a good purchase. I got five increasingly disappointing evenings worth of of gaming out of it, just to lend it out to a mate at work. He can't even be bothered to play it now, and I can't be bothered to ask for it back. :)

Maybe that should be the tagline: " OFP Dragon Rising: OK as a rental"

[vasmkd 12]

It could say "consolemasters"

That way they won't be able to take legal action

And make it so u cant have more than 63 units at once on top of the wrecked ship ;)

[Uglyboy 10]

And make sure to put a big 2x2 km barbed wire fence and write " world ends beyond this" on the top of it :)

[vasmkd 12]

And make sure to put a big 2x2 km barbed wire fence and write " world ends beyond this" on the top of it :)

Haha

now that is brilliant

also on the island somewhere it should say "for best multiplayer experience use dedicated servers" :)

Edited November 24, 2009 by vasmkd

[clawhammer 10]

Haha

now that is brilliant

also on the island somewhere it should say "for best multiplayer experience use dedicated servers" :)

You can do it like consolemasters did it in his trailer: http://www.gametrailers.com/video/welcome-to-operation-flashpoint/48948

Welcom to skira island :D.... (0:21)

[Uglyboy 10]

A bird's eye view of the most technologically advanced war game in the making.

:rolleyes:

[myshaak 0]

You can do it like consolemasters did it in his trailer: http://www.gametrailers.com/video/welcome-to-operation-flashpoint/48948

Welcom to skira island :D.... (0:21)

Hilarious idea! :D I'd love to see more of those.. especially the one about "220km2 of open world" and the "Think you're ready?" line :p

[[GLT] Legislator 66]

Well ... I wasn't ready for 4 km²-only battle terrain and I guess I never will be :D I'm glad we can use whole island.

Maybe someone is making the Kiska vulcano active with particle effects, BI functions and scripts?

[clawhammer 10]

Well ... I wasn't ready for 4 km²-only battle terrain and I guess I never will be :D I'm glad we can use whole island.

Maybe someone is making the Kiska vulcano active with particle effects, BI functions and scripts?

I believe if something like that works -> http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=7217 than Vulcanos works too with some sweet scripts :-)

[Uglyboy 10]

I also remember a little script that mandoble did to add fountains and waterfall in sahrani a lot time ago, brilliant stuff :)

[[GLT] Legislator 66]

Yeah that was an amazing script, but can do some fancy thingswith it too :D

We want vulcano! :D

[stegman 3]

I also remember a little script that mandoble did to add fountains and waterfall in sahrani a lot time ago, brilliant stuff :)

I never saw that!

could you make a river or stream too?

[[GLT] Legislator 66]

It's not that easy. The script was meant to be used for leaking barrels. However, we're going too offtopic now. Let's get back to Kiska, the new hope for the land of the rising sun :D

[AnimalMother92 10]

Found an amusing article about Kiska on cracked.com

The U.S. Attacks an Empty Island, Loses More Than 100 Men

When a Japanese task force of 500 marines swiftly invaded the U.S. occupied island of Kiska, the Americans decided to take it back with 35,000 men, having done the math and determined that bringing 70 times more troops than the enemy is the precise amount to say "fuck off."

On August 17, 1943, The U.S. Army stormed the beach of Kiska with a force of 95 ships, 168 aircraft and thousands of Captain Americas. They bombed the beaches with planes, destroyed the garrisons with heavy artillery and then the soldiers charged in, shooting everything that somehow still stood.

The allies took the island and suffered 122 casualties.

When the dust settled and the Americans stopped to reload, pat themselves on the back, count the bodies and have the compulsory talk about their girls waiting for them back home, they suddenly realized that they couldn't find any enemy corpses. Either that Japanese task force was comprised entirely of Predators or they had been bamboozled.

Who Fucked Up?

The U.S. intelligence officers win the prize. After sending a plane and taking photos over Kiska, it looked a whole lot like it had been abandoned. And it had been--the Japanese had left the island two weeks before. Still, the decision was made to send in the troops and bring that nothing to justice rather than delaying the operation and checking to see that the enemy were actually fucking there. Good job, gentlemen.

It all could have been an amusing mistake, but only if you forget about the 122 dead. How do you lose over a hundred men in a battle with no enemy? Well, the losses included 24 from friendly fire, a stray mine destroying a ship and 47 men vanishing in the dense jungle. Though that last one actually lends credence to the Predator theory...

from http://www.cracked.com/article/208_5-battlefield-screw-ups-that-were-hilarious-until-people-died_p2

Interesting history to this island!

[Darkhorse 1-6 16]

Predator mod anybody? :D