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I've been looking over all of the editing tutorials and other resources but I can't seem to get my questions answered. I'd just like to be able to open up the Battlefield 1985 mission and be able to edit a new version for my friends and I to try. I'd like to see some different elements and settings put into it but I'm at a loss for how you even get access to the files. I can't seem to load anything with the ofp mission editor.

I just finished with a frustrating game and I was wondering what kind of cheats people are capable of doing in a game? As an example I was playing Riverbattle and I was defending Skalice with a sniper rifle. I went far out from the town where I could see the flag and then awaited the enemy who I knew were coming as we only owned this one town. So the town starts getting shelled and I just keep an eye on the flag, eventually a guy runs up to the flag and I take him out. Now a couple of minutes go by and I hear another vehicle rumble up. In the mean time I've shifted my position a little and I'm awaiting a new target. Then a tank rolls up right next to the flag and even before I have a chance to start pulling out my anti-tank weapon the turret turns to face me, lowers the main gun and blows me away. Now I could say it was just plain luck but it's hard to belive that they could pick me out from the distance I was at, hidden within bushes, and pop me in just a couple of seconds. There were other moments in the game where it was hard to believe that anyone could have spotted me and yet I was blown away despite every effort to be inconspicous, approach from irregular directions, and intending on firing at extreme range.

My friends and I have been playing OFP for several months now and we really like all the detailed sim aspects to the game, however we all stink when it comes to performance and so we were just wondering what it is that people are doing who rack up top scores in games? We play a lot of Battlefield 1985 and on our most brilliant of days one of us will get perhaps two to three kills. All of us are 30 year olds who have been playing games forever and quite competent at anything else we play, but with OFP we just move along, trying to be as cautious as possible and out of the blue we get shot. We all have teamspeak and try and coordinate our efforts but ultimately we are baffled as to how every other player in game can pick us out of these vast fields and forests and drop us without any hint as to where they are. We do use cover and don't just wander around in the open, we try and be as stealthy as possible but it just doesn't seem to work. One big problem we have observed is that if you are too cautious then you'll hardly see anyone to shoot at the whole game, but if you don't take enough caution then you'll get cut down on your way to a target. One thing that really confounds us is tank usage. We'll have three of us in a tank, scanning the horizon, making sure we don't hit bushes and trees, trying to use the landscape to the best of our ability and we still get felled from out of nowhere. It would be great if there was some kind of chase camera in OFP so that you could follow the top players around and see what the heck they are doing. In CTF games we just can't comprehend people that are racking up 10+ kills. If you move around you just get shot, if you camp you never see anyone. We all like this game a lot but lately the feeling is more of going on because we are gluttons for punshiment more than anything else, offering up target practice for the vets. Any secret techniques to this? Like I said, we think we've covered every element that one needs to do. Coordinate your effort, use cover and terrain to your benefit, try and balance between caution and intitative. What are we missing?