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of course, as long as it isnt a stupid xbox360 whine thread i can... i should add a "give consoleros their own whine forum" statement in my profile. You whined in a topic that you didn’t have to click, and you seem to whine a lot on the CM forums too. Ill be sure to warn the mods about you starting flame wars if you needlessly bitch on the CM forums. Some people need to get a life, you know there are some people who play on consoles out of ease, sorry most of us are not sad enough to go around ignorantly whining about peoples gaming choices on forums. if i check your 7! posts, i see alot of non contructive stuff too and about starting them, look in the mirror and stop telling me where and what to post, i basically just said the same like you did, that console gamers are play it out of ease. i dont need a 19 year old to tell me when to shut up lol. What does that even mean? I have made about 3 posts this year, you’ll see I was looking for an answer in someone’s topic, im not the one who starting going on about PC’s in the topic. To be honest I can barley understand your post, I would be surprised if you’re over 19 with grammar like that. Anyway, in future if you can’t make a decent post, don’t post at all. Thanks.

of course, as long as it isnt a stupid xbox360 whine thread i can... i should add a "give consoleros their own whine forum" statement in my profile. You whined in a topic that you didn’t have to click, and you seem to whine a lot on the CM forums too. Ill be sure to warn the mods about you starting flame wars if you needlessly bitch on the CM forums. Some people need to get a life, you know there are some people who play on consoles out of ease, sorry most of us are not sad enough to go around ignorantly whining about peoples gaming choices on forums.

What has this got to do with the topic? Â Why does every question about a console have a poster going on why the PC is better? How about we keep this one ontopic.

Do we know this? Where did you get that info from? What limitations? (bar the obvious) If you havent got anything decent to say shut up. Im an old PC gamer who now uses consoles out of ease.

I have had Elite for ages and i absolutely love it, apart from a few drawbacks (mainly the view distance) i have played it like hell. Im now looking to get the pc version (only so many times you can take out the same old BMP with the same old LAW) and mod it up but i have alot of questions. Â My first concern is the version, im thinking of getting this GOTY version: http://www.play.com/Games....ct.html But after all thse years and changes i am worried about whether all mod are going to work. Â I have purchased Gold or GOTY versions in the past only to discover thet fundamental changes in the programming due to expansions etc means that most mods wont work. Â Is this the case with Flashpoint? But whats also real important to me is whether my PC can handle this game with mods and it decent to high setting, i know it old but the mods seem to take alot more. Â Here my specs: 2500 AMD Athlon 1 Gig of ram 128 Radeon FX2000 That ok to run mods, and perhaps maxed out? The main mod im interested in if FFUR, but i have questions about that. Â What i want to know is this a complete update. Â I mean new graphics, up to date weapons, equipment and uniforms? O and is this FFUR this is the kinda look and sounds im going for: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=vWzi5pHkSrA And im looking for it to be something like this (amazing how well the modders have done with this game) Im also interested in a Vietnam mod, i have seen Experience Vietnam and this looks great, is this the mod the most complete? Â And does anyone know the latest version of this. Theres so many different version of thing after this many years its hard to know where to start. Another question i have is concerning mods again, how do you activate them , im guessing a mod like FFUR have there own shortcut created on the desktop, but if i install say "custom iraqi army and tanks addon" how to i activate and deactivate it? Â Is there some king of generic mod enabler? Thanks...

"As for the number of units (i.e. a BMP and tanks have a crew of 3, so it's 3 units; for M113 it's 2, for jeep 1 etc.) you can have ingame... 4 sides, 63 squads per side, 12 units per squad. 3042 units, in total, plus all the objects and such things "not alive". I've made few very simple missions where you have a dozen Russian squads coming at you and you have shit loads of ammo... Â With big-ish firefight missions there might be 6-10 squads (up to about 150) of units around at the same time." Awesome! Â Thats frikin amazing compared to elite, so let me get this right, it not how many people you have but sqauds? Â So 63 Sqauds of 12!!! Â If that is right, amazing! Â And how can you have four sides? Â I mean West, East and Resistance? Â What else, Civillian? O yea and does adding objects like tent, flags, fires etc take points, they did in elite, put me of adding camps and decent road blocks for my black op misions, or making a decent base for my mission starting point. This just keeps getting better. Â The thing with Elite is you get like 7300 points, no matter what side it is they take a certain amount of points , thus you could only have 3 side if they were tiny. Â So i guess ill now be able to add civilians and spread my missions out a bit. Its actually really weird in Elite, a single person is i think 100 points but a tank with crew is 150 odd? Â Meaning you can have Huge tank battles but very little foot soldiers or aircraft (there expensive to). Â Must be something to do with what the Xbox can handle. Â I should put tons of tanks in, tell em all to get out, and have a huge firefight. And btw why do you say "effectively you see about 650-700 metres", does the frame rate drop after that? Â So keep it about there, Â or you only actually notice or units only render at that distance if the setting higher. Thanks for answering the questions, i know im asking alot lol

And one other thing, whats SLX, looks awesome, can i intall it with FFUR, are they compatable?

Thanks for the replies The mods to this game are awesome, im kicking myself for not getting the pc version earlier, but seeing screen shots of the original unmodded game i have to say put me off. Thanks for answering my questions, but i got a few more. Â Mainly what are the limits for building missio, i mean number of units per mod. Â It was pretty low on Elite, i can understand the reason of stopping to many things in one place, but if you wanted to make a Black Op mission you want patrols ect all of the place not about 20 guys and the odd BMP! Can this be increased with a mod or changing files? Â Or is the stock amount satisfactory? Also do airstrikes work with this game? Â I have seen some amazing footage on YouTube of a napalm strike in Vietnam the experience (think thats right) and was wondering if you can call em in or if you just give the jets a target to destroy in editor. Â In elite getting an A10 to drop it LGB was nearly impossible, didnt happen unless the circumstances were absolutely perfect? O yea and the view distance? is it satisfactory, if you want more units in Elite, less view distance. Â Means getting used to fighting in the fog alot. Thanks for all the help, i gota lot of Downloading to do before i get this, non of the mods seem over 700mb which is perfect.