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i had the demo since day 1 when it came out (somewhere around february 2001, if i remember correctly) and then i preordered the game so i got it a couple days after it came out i remember listening to everyones compliments about the game and not being able to stand listening because i still didnt have OPF lol on my old computer i still have like dozens of videos and HUNDREDS (yes HUNDREDS) of screenies of OPF before it came out. thats how much i couldnt wait

funny i see this on the forum. i remember seeing the same thing on the darkspace forum (which i play actively as well) first asking to vote for darkspace as the number 1 game. i went there and saw OPF:R on the list and i couldnt help but vote for this game gotta love it!

i remember back when i first was waiting for OPF, a year before it game out and i was checking the website everyday for new updates everyday and looking at the forums how i would've kiled to play that game as well as many other people like me (vikingo ) now it almost feels as if i was waiting for a different game....funny how when you look at a game through screenshots and videos it looks so incredible and once you are ingame and you play it for a long while it almost seems as if it always existed and that never happened. i mean i seriously remember when we would drool over screenshots of the ZSU sights or of the A10 cockpit...and now over 1 year after its release and a while after its expansions release and we dont even give a second thought about it. (we all take it for granted hehe) thinking about that helps me reconnect with the eager side of my brain that wants to play.... speaking of waiting for games, when are we gonna see some OPF2 screenies?

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operation-flashpoint.net is gone. coldwar is gone. where is andone anyway? the ammount of people i see playing has gone severly down. the ammount of people posting within days is only a couple posts, rather than the around 10 posts it used to be. what happpeneddddddd????

vikingo!! where did u go lol!!?? you like disappeared for a while...nice to hear from you again OPF es muy bueno, no?

you have to remember though that BIS is doing (or did) an overhaul on the networking code....for all we know in its completed state maybe it does support join in progress. after all i thought it was the original code that prevented them from doing that? not saying that it will be implemented but IMO i wouldnt rule it out...

i always go to my local small comp store where they build it themselves, that way i can tell them EXACTLY what i want. sure, it may be a bit more expensive than if you get a brand name computer but A) at least you dont have to send the comp out for tech support and B) the prices (at least for me) are negotiable and after he gives me discounts off some of the prices they prices go down about to the ammount an average brand name computer costs. and about building a comp, hell i cant install a modem without having to open up the computer 5 times to figure out its working....(but i still do it anyway) but i mean putting in ALL the components of the computer!? first of all id always mess up anyway and second of all your playing with very expensive parts...one little mistake and there goes your $500 processor, a fragile piece of silicon and all it has to do is hit the floor. i wouldnt want to take that responsibility anyway. not to mention if you screw up installing stuff you could fry a few things...

yea rasta is definitely right, whenever you want to place units at a certain spot MAKE SURE "in formation" is off, else it will put them in whatever the default formation is, usually a wedge. also be sure that the choppers arent too close together like what was mentioned...

one thing i love about OPF is how it IS so personal in some ways. i mean when you join a 4 player co-op game theres an 80% chance that you all will communicate and a low chance of there being llamas in the game. in dedicated servers i also see lots of teamwork, people playing roles and requesting some kind of assistance which their teamates give. i have never seen more "friendly" gamers in my life (tho there are still those lamers who play OPF who try to mess things up...i dont find them frequently tho)

i know this arguement has been made before but i found nothing was really done about it. tanks such as the T72, M60 and T55 have decent armour in my opinion, but the T80 and M1A1 have INSANELY resistant armour. it gets to be useless trying to fire heavy anti tank rounds at the 2 of them due to the ammount of them needed to destroy one. BIS please, if possible lower the ammount of AT rounds needed to kill them to like 2 if possible, same with explosives and sabot rounds. i shot an m1a1 with 5 sabots and it still wasnt too dammaged. five! i hate to put them in missions because of how impossible they are to destroy. nobody ever thinks about how to use them because there is no significant counter; people just charge in with the T80 or M1A1 and destroy whatever base they are after, not caring about AT because no rounds or shells are powerful enough to total them in a few shots. bis please fix if possible...that ok if u dont tho, still good job on game most kickass game out there by far IMO

i was thinking there are so many good things about OPF and the best thing about it is the bringing of all these aspects together and more, but in your opinion what is the greatest aspect OPF has?

icefire i dont think you notice the difference; if you have ever played rogue spear, soldier of fortune, halflife, quake, mohaa, or any game like that you are confined. you cannot go out and explore because it is not possible. the game engine cant handle it in and it is not possible in the game. however, in OPF it IS possible. if you want to go out and explore the nearby area, do so. if you want to use a certain vehicle, go use it. there are no coding limitations that limit you from doing so like in all the games mentioned above. HOWEVER, if the mission designer DOESNT want you to do any of the above, they can choose to prevent you from doing so. THAT i find is one of the freedoms of the mission editor as well. not only do you have the options to do what other games dont allow, but you also have the option to prevent that if it would debase your mission

heh i dont think you read my post i said that all of those together are what made OPF so great but in your opinion which is the greatest of all those? (the most important)

"you looking at me", thats the whole point (what u mentioned about tank battles). tanks are so resistant to firing that people just go barge in on the other tank and whoever fires the fastest wins. in real life the tanks wouldnt dare do that because they know one shell hit will do serious dammage probabably...

one thing i found kinda odd was with the m1a1 first it took 4-5 shots to take out the T80, then afterwords i tried again and it took me 2 shots! and BTW im talking heavy AT rounds not light; trying to take out an M1A1 with light AT rounds would require a whole ammo truck lmao...

planes are good its just the problem is they do the job too fast. i mean really if your suposed to give air support to some ground units and there are some tanks you need to tail all you do is tab-fire-tab-fire-tab-fire unit all the tanks are dead. even with many of them they are usually all dead on the second pass and you always kill the shilka before it can even fire on you. targetting needs to be made harder,shilka radar longer, a10 radar longer, and shilka fire range longer IMO

thx a ton!

i want heavy grenadiers to fire on a target, without a direct line of sight. but how? i tried revealing it, having him target on him, then dofire, but that didnt work. i tried using fire but all that does is make him point up and fire the nade as far as he can. how how how?

yea putting a grenade where i want bombed would be reasonable, too. how do you do that thing you mentioned?

because it wont work for me; the keypad look will but hitting alt wont allow me to look around freely. also you cant control planes with your keyboard or joystick when theyre on the ground

the only way i can control planes on the ground in 1.46 is with mouse

well just look at it the simple way then lol; there is 1 east MG and 1 west MG and i want them to fire on the enemies soldiers, but they will also be close enough to fire on each other (because they are enemies). how do i prevent that?

how? i have 12 bunkers, 6 on each side (at the moment) and i want the people in the bunkers to fire on the people outside, NOT the opposing bunker. anyone know how to achieve this? ps. what i meant was the 6 bunkers were of east and west, so the bunkers will fire on the other bunkers because they are of the other side, rather than the opposing sides soldiers around them

i have a sidewinder joystick AND gamepad, both plugged into USB. only the gamepad will work;even if i switch the plugs in the USB ports. there is an option in windows to select the default controller for programs that cant and it doesnt even work for OPF. why wont that work and if its an inability of OPF, could u make it so it would use the default controller selected in windows that it uses? thanks!