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Hello all. I would like to thank all those who voted on Respawns Game of the year poll. I know we got off to a dodgy start but the results cannot be argued with. The vote was fair and honest and victory goes to the best game of year. Operation flashpoint Resistance wins Respawns Game of year for BIS. This is a second time in a Row OFP has won this award at Respawn. There are 3 things worth mentioning at this point. 1) Resistance is a mission pack and still won. 2) Bis have consistantly produced very good games. 3) This years games where all excellent too. For this reason Respawn has awarded BIS its outstanding achievement award for pulling of the double in winning Game of the year for the second time in a row. All the more so because its still the same game and the fans still love it even after nearly 18 months. A Classic in its own right. Please pass on my congratulations to the team and my thanks as a player for producing such a fine game. The award is well deserved and the fans stood by you loyally throughout the vote. Well done all. You can read the entire game of the year awards article here. http://www.respawn.co.uk/modules....thold=0 Giskard

Whats a Classic ? A Classic is a game you still love after playing it for a year. The players clearly believe OFP is a classic and their votes told everybody it is too. Giskard

Hello all.:) Respawns currently running a game of the year vote to find out which one on several games will be this years game of the year for the site. Voting started today and will continue until November the 10th. IF you believe Flashpoint resistance is a worth winner cast your votes at the link below. http://www.respawn.co.uk BTW Last years winner was OFP. So this could be 2 in row for OFP but the compition this year is much tougher. Giskard

You enter your own password when you register mate. The forum doesnt create one for you. However email me at [email protected] with your login name and i'll make sure you get a new password so you can vote. OFP:R is doing well, as i expected. I my eyes it would make a worthy winner but to be honest both leaders would. So im pleased the voting is going in favour of 2 of the best 3 games. I wish MTW was doing better though, thats a fine game too. Giskard

Oh no..... Cerberus will be unbareable if you do that placebo lol BTW you wont get an email. You should be able to vote though. I switched it off to make registering quicker for the vote. Some users mispell their email addys and then end up complaining their not validated you see. Wish i had remembered to turn of the email new registrations too me feature too. my mail box is packed. Anyway, just be careful when you vote. Its rather sensative and will cast a null vote if make a mistake and once that happens you have lost your vote completely. Giskard

I have taken Placebos advice and switched to another polling booth that is not so open to abuse. Voting as restarted and the results should be fair now. I feel this is only way OFP can win fairly now without being accused of vote rigging. I should have thought about this earlier. My appologies. You will have to Register on the forums to vote but this is a painless process and can be completed in less than a minute. Thank you Placebos for the advice mate. OFP stands a good chance of winning anyway so this action should make any victory unquestionable in the future. If OFP wins. Giskard

Edit: I am currently retreating multiple votes spread over a period of days as a fact of life and living with it. My concern is only for the delibrate and casting of multiple votes within a short space of time. This applies to all games involved. OFP is winning now because it deserves to be in the lead. Giskard

Unbelievable, there still on site. One is on the site 6 times right now. Though they don't seem to be voting anymore. Giskard

My logs have the IP's of those involved and Im watching for those IPs now. Sorry to all you honest guys, it makes you look bad I know but I also know you have been trying hard so rather than punish and entire community because of 2 prats I have taken the action mentioned on the site. This sort of behavour undermines the entire vote and really pisses me off. Excuse the language. Giskard

Looks like some people dont listen. Let me rephase my last post. How many votes would OFP:R get if i reset the OFP:R score to 0 for cheating ? Or better yet removed OFP:R from the vote entirely. I hope that makes it very clear. I too like OFP:R and I feel it deserves to win but so do at least 2 other games on that list. OFP doesnt need someone cheating in order to win. Its doing perfectly well on its own. Many of the honest fans would be deeping annoyed to see OFP:R disqualified after they have spent so much time trying to drum up support and get more votes. Right now OFP is 15mins away from being removed from the vote for that reason. If the person on now persists. Giskard

Calm down guys my logs show a Rat at work. I Don't mind you voting more than once but lets not go mad in a single hour. You have enough votes pooring in from this forum alone to keep you in the lead right now. Trust me on this, I know. The nearest compition is getting a third as many visitors to vote. Giskard

The site does allow some users to cast more than one vote. Its some bug thats not been fixed. But everybody can do it and if a fan feels a games good enough to vote for more than once than great. Perhaps the game deserves to be number. Nobody votes more than once for bad games if they vote at all. However, any attempt to automatically cast thousands of votes will result in my logs showing it and that will lead to ban for the offending game or an ip ban for the player/group. But Game of the year is supposed to the players chance to say which game they enjoyed the most this year and chance to tell others about the games they enjoyed too. Many fans of other games are now watching the leaders with interest. Â A little cross community curiosity if taking place. Even though the leaders are totally different games entirely. You guys have done well to come back and take first place. MTW has dropped behind and now its just OFP and DS. Still 9 days to go though. BTW, check out the downloads section of Respawn. Its not exactly a site that has ignored OFP so far so you may find something of interest in there Giskard

OFP is making a run at second place guys, Coming from no where. Looks like it might actually stand a chance of being top game for the second time in a row. Still we have until 10 Nov to find out. Giskard

Im in the unfortunate position of being very keen on over half those games. Giskard

There are currently a lot of players making multiplayer missions for OFP Resistance. My self included. Coops are on my list things to do just after Capture & Hold. My next mission. I will not start a coop until I have a good idea for it. The initial idea makes or breaks the mission so thats one area you cannot rush. I also have to update my old coop missions. One of the patches broke them slightly. Giskard

Hello all. I made a mission where the vehicles respawn. Everything is working except i was forced to make the motorbikes not respawnable because they crashed the game out when they did respawn. Here is the script i used in case you want to test it. ;[unitName,respawndelay,"VehicleType"] exec "respawnv.sqs" ;example- [car1,20,"HMMWV"] exec "respawnv.sqs" ;create a game logic called 'Server' ?!(local Server): Goto "end" _unit = _this select 0 _delay = _this select 1 _type = _this select 2 _pos = getPos _unit _dir = getDir _unit #loop ~1 @(!canMove _unit AND !alive _unit) ~_delay _unit setdammage 0.01 deleteVehicle _unit ~5 _unit = _type createVehicle _pos _unit setdir _dir goto "loop" #end exit Giskard

Hello all. Respawn Bridge CTF is a new multiplayer mission for Resistance users. Its based around a location I am sure lots of other mission makers will use in time. This mission takes CTF and combines it with Assault. So say good by to the long run to the enemy base alone. This requires a team assault on the enemy flag to win. Both teams can see each others flags across the river. Vehicles have been provided to allow each team to shell the enemy side of the river. Air power is included to help break any stalemate and Anti Air is provided to protect against that. 10 men per side, multiple vehicles. Not enough men to crew them all. You choose. http://www.respawn.co.uk/modules....&lid=93 Visite my site for more OFP missions. My earliest missions are my worst ones as you might expect. So if your little funny about your missions stick to the paintball and CTF ones and you will do fine. http://www.respawn.co.uk I this mission was a lot of fun to test. Thats why it took so long to release lol Giskard

Thanks Nicebag What is your server name anyway ? Giskard

Hello all Please excuse me if this is not the right place to post news of new missions being available. My new Lipany Team Paintball mission is ready. It requires the resistance pack and supports up to 20 players. Features include respawning vehicles. Here is the link to get it. http://www.respawn.co.uk/index.php Just click on the big banner named after this mission to get it. Its available thanks to the users and staff at OFP Editing Center who have shared their knowledge with the rest of this community. Many thanks to those guys. http://www.ofpeditingcenter.com/ Giskard

I have updated the Lipany Team Paintball mission. Version 2 is now available. It fixes the M1A1 respawn problem. EG it stopped respawning for some reason giving a Bad Vehicle Type error. Nothing serious though, the game continued anyway but without the M1A1. The new version respawns all the vehicles correctly. The new version does not over write the old version. So just delete the old one which does not contain the _v2 at the end of the name. But it did last time too until 2 days after release :/ Anyway im using a different respawn script now which works in a different manner so hopefully thats the end of that problem. The above link should still work. A CTF mission is currently in the works for Resistance users too. The flag capping is already working dispite the highly inaccurate/outdated or simply mission information on the various sites. Also (HINT) theres no CTF wizard on the resistance pack for setting one up. Expect it soon. Giskard

I added a game logic object with a name of server. Im still getting the same error. Im not exactly familar with game logic stuff though. But you have given me something to look into, thanks for that. Giskard

Hello. Yesterday i had vehicles respawning on command, everything worked just fine. Today the M1A1, Shulka, Ch47 and T55 refuse to respawn giving a bad vehicle type error when i try and make them. Whilst all this is happening the M60 and several other vehicles are respawning. In fact just this morning the M1a1 was respawning too. Since I placed all items required to get CTf working on my map I have started having problems. Does anybody know whats wrong here or has a fix because its driving me nuts. My idea for CTF depends on the vehicles all respawning. Another problem, id like that to respawn with a full crew in some cases too. Any ideas on how i might do that ? BTW im using the resistance pack and the only addon i installed was the officals flags pack. Which i didnt use anyway so i move the flags.pbo out of the addons directory 5 mins ago incase that was the cause of the problems. It didnt help. All errors appear in the editor's preview, i have not tested it on a server yet but i do have a mission that uses respawning vehicles which was tested and working yesterday. In the editor i no long respawns the vehicles, it just gives the bad vehicle type message and they vanish. Edit: I just tested on a server using a mission I know was working and even that now has this error. Giskard

The script i used required a object name eg the vehicles real name in the game and my name for it. So thats all i used. I have not set up any gamelogic stuff my self, I have just been using the vehicles own init fields to do the work. I just uninstalled and deleted the entire ofp folder and reinstalled and Im still getting the error on both missions. The first worked perfectly until yesterday. The second worked fine until yesterday too then half the vehicles stopped respawning. Why some will respawn and others wont is beyond me. I have 4 M60's respawning on command, a group fo T80's and T72s respawning. An apache respawning, but the M1a1, T55, Ch47 and Shulka are causing this error. It has me stumped. Giskard

Be sure to let me know what you think. Im hoping to do a CTF and Capture and Hold mission next. Once Im back in the swing of making OFP missions again, Im hoping to get more adventurous and start so special op missions, you know the sort, Hostage rescue, Sabotage, that sort of thing. Giskard

Sorry about the spoiler, I was not thinking. My fault. I thought the first bunch of missions where pretty heard my self. Especially the hostage one. They do seem to have gotten a lot easier now though. Giskard