Thunderbird

This pack has been done to thank all european people (mostly respresented in OFP's community) before I live for a while 'for some real life duties', and it's the last release of FFUR for OFP. (except the enhanced versions of the previous packs that will be released later). BTW Even being that interesting, It's impossible to involve all countries represented in OFP in order to replace BIS units, there was 1 occidental side, the US one and it was already very hard to implement 3 countries in order to replace US units by still keeping a sense of realism, because each chosen unit intended to replace BIS ones underwent much research at several levels (authenticity, compatibility to replace the previous units, the quality of the addon...etc). So we concluded that Regular infantry troops would be represented by Germans, Special forces by British, Armored and APC units by British, Sam units by Germans, Choppers by both, jet fighters by both and naval units by Swedish. Regards TB84

Indeed, I didn't forget it, but considering the new realistic weapons values we implemented, ~2 7.62mm bullets to the torso should kill you even at quite long distances, so best to keep machine gunners with such a low accuracy in order to increase 'the chances of survival'. Christmas mate. Regards TB84

Means you don't want'em, right? :-p *kiddin* Infos about some AI enhancements -You can Fix the enemy in place using suppressive fire, but when you stop it, enemy soldiers immediately stand up and advance to your position. -Increased a bit the dispersion of light machine guns in order to make combats longer and more intensive. (Even at 50 meters, the machine gunner would spend a couple of bullets before he'd hit you down). Infos about the new 'scripting method' Even being satisfied of the current framerate level of FFUR packs, We decided to decrease it more by using a smart way to reduce the constant use of scripts (mainly infantry ones) by making'em 10% random. So don't be astonished if grenades sometimes won't bounce, (plus this adds more realism cuz grenades don't always bounce :-p). Stay tuned. Regards TB84

Hi, Indeed, sorry got confused between both mods, Thanks. We fixed it, 95% of BIS ironsights have been replaced by better and more realistic ones. Even don't know about that, always thought that sweden was a former member of NATO forces, will fix it by replacing 'NATO' by 'Europe', thanks for the info. Minor misunderstanding, in any way, this morning we got Popenker Max authorization to use "...guns.ru/" data. -will post more screenshots within the next hours. Best Regards Thunderbird84

BLUEFOR Model Changes That's how these sections would be defined in the mission editor All units of the 3 countries would work together in a close cooperation during this conflict against russians, as you may see, each country is involved with the best of its units. ------------------------------------------- British- Armored units British- Royal Air Force British- Special Air Service British- Support Units German- Infantry Personnel German- Air Force German- Armored Units German- Cars German- Support Units Swedish- Naval Units ------------------------------------------- Infantry -> BWMOD German infantry (Bundeswehr) Special forces -> BlackBlood Special Air Service units British crews -> UKF units. German crews -> BWMOD Tanks crews. Pilots -> Fishkopp Pilots. M16 -> InQ G36 M16 M203 ->NorFor & UKF G36kHK79 M24 -> BW Mod G22 M4 -> UKF SA-80 XMS -> SJB Marksman M4 Bipod. M60 -> NorFor MG3 HK -> SJB M4(sd acog) Stinger ->FliegerFaust Handgrenade -> FFUR DM51 BIS ironsights -> FFUR Ironsights (special thanks to benus) Law ->BW Mod PanzerFaust 3 Carl Gustav ->OFPL_RC Leuchtbüchse 84mm (was forced to use it even if it's currently not used that much). M113 ->DKM FV-432 M163 ->BW MOD Gepard M2A2 ->Enhanced DKM MCV-80 MILAN M1A2 ->DKM Challenger 2 M60 ->FFUR/Hawk Challenger 1 Hummer -> BW MOD Unimog (transport) Ah-1 ->BW MOD Tiger Ah-64 ->Helifreak AH-1 MK (modified) Oh-58 ->BW MOD EC-135 UH-60 ->Falklands Mod Lynx UH-60MG ->Falklands Mod Lynx CH-47 ->FFUR RAF Ch-47 A10 -> ColorChanger RAF Tornado Brimstone A10Bomber -> Footmunch German F4 Jeep -> BW MOD wolf JeepMG -> BW MOD wolf MG3 Truck5t -> BW MOD Man5t Ilgl Truck5tOpen -> Man5t Ilgl Ambulance ->BW MOD Man5t Ilgl Ambulance Repair ->BW MOD Man5t Ilgl Repair Fuel ->BW MOD Man5t Ilgl Fuel Ammo ->BW MOD Man5t Ilgl Ammo PBR -> SFP Mod Strb 90H LSD -> SFP Mod HMS Visby & implemented a couple of extra units as well. ... Special thanks to all Community's people behind all of these great addons, though. BWmod, UKF, DKM, Falklands Mod, SFP, RHS, ORCS...etc. A detailed list of credits would be published once the pack's released. We usually use Fas.org for this purpose, I have been impressed by the quality of those detailed descriptions on the russian website, that's why we decided to use it as main information source. Heh, never thought about contacting the authors of the website to ask'em to use their content, I hope you don't see that as a sign of disrespect or something... but just because of lack of time. But will inform'em as well, though. G'night again. Regards TB84

Don't take me wrong but I was expecting to add all people involved in FFUR with their great addons once the pack's released, sorry I'm still quite busy right now, didn't find time to update the list of credits, though. But will do it asap, Had a long day today (4h00 am -> 1h41 am). In any way,' Hope you would appreciate this pack. Good night Regards TB84

FFUR European Crisis pack annoucement After a couple of weeks of hard work, the new FFUR European Crisis project is nearing completion, and after the FFUR Asian Crisis and the 3 other themes the FFUR team released 2 months ago here's a new concept inspired from real life conflicts that happened the last 10 years. Because this is the first time that a coallition of countries are opposed to one big nation and for the first time, 3 european countries would represent NATO forces (Germany, United Kingdom and Sweden), the OPFOR would still be represented by former renegade russian forces. A lot of enhancements and improvements have been done, however it should be released on Christmas day. Here are its main contents: *New theme inspired on real life events that happened the last 10 years. (Several countries involved) *Very realistic weapons values. *Improve gameplay. *Enhanced Dynamic reflection effects. *All units, weapons, vehicles, boats and aircrafts have been replaced by the best addons of the community that are suited to the theme and the theme era as well. some addons have even been enhanced by the FFUR team. *New effects. *Designed new firearms ironsights and made’em the authentic possible. *New sounds and new Custom GUI (inspired on VBS1). *Established the ability to use ‘extra’ addons with FFUR. *Only relevant and required P3D models and textures have been retained for the mod. *Incorporated realistic clouds that appear when you're flying quite high with planes and jet fighters. (Thanks to NIM mod) Best Regards Thunderbird84

You can't run any of FFUR mods with other mods using this way, the same goes for FDF, CSLA...etc because this way might cause a lot of problems. Plus there are a couple of addons that can't be used with the FFUR 2005 (in order to avoid duplicated addons -> this has been fixed for the next release, though). ...will perfectly work. N.B: Don't rename, don't move and don't delete any of the FFUR files to avoid issues. Regards TB84

Tanks don't shine, but feature stunning effects such as light refraction, and metallic surfaces all have reflection effects, though... (even with dust and dirt on'em). Default OFP has 'fictionnal' reflection effects applied directly on textures with photoshop, a bit like what Inquisitor did on his weapons textures, those reflections are static, not dynamic. So rather than paiting textures to add on'em 'fictionnal and static reflection effects', I modified some values in 'materials' in order to make the reflection effect more dynamic for more than 2500 textures, after a lot of tests and changes, I finally defined this feature as it should be in real life. This effect brings a nice addition to OFP and allows to people who can't run dxdll to get some decent reflection effects, though. The pics posted yesterday show you 'this reflection effect' in sunny conditions. (Saint-pierre (Everon), 15h00, 30th August) They will definitely look less 'shiney' in game. Best Regards TB84

Frankly the previous pistol animations were looking perfect to me, what a perfectionist. Keep it up as usual. Regards TB84

The Tanks look less shiney in game, plus these shots have been done especially in order to emphasize the reflection effect. Indeed :-) Please take a look on these pics, they show how looks the reflection effect on tanks in real life. -Image 1 -Image 2 -Image 3 -Image 4 -Image 5 -Image 6 They are even more shiney than FFUR tanks with the 'dynamic reflection effects', nah? Berghoff previous trees pack & WGL last updated island pack. Sorry,' still don't have enough of time to focuse on the islands because we're currently working quite hard on the european pack, but we'd try to do that asap. Regards Thunderbird84

Hi, A couple of screenshots of the 'Dynamic reflection effect' of some tanks. WGL islands pack. Will post a few ones a few hours before the release. ;-) Regards TB84

Update: Special thanks to DPS for sending us an exclusive piece of his stuff (the public .pbo is locked, though). I applied the 'dynamic reflection effect' on it. Here's the new Mi-17 (even if it's a Mi-8MTV :-p). Regards TB84

The previous infantry ammunitions values weren't that realistic, the incoming ones will be, though. Please check out the previous pages of this thread to get more infos about the expected enhancements. Regards Thunderbird84

You have to be sure that VME AI scripts won't be that smooth, because they use the nearestobject command, and there's no other way to enhance the AI by making it that efficient using another commands, though. OFP's engine is limited at this level. Regards Thunderbird84

Just noticed a minor problem, the BTR has no commander, and the bmp has one, so replacing the bmp by the btr might cause a lot of problems, especially in missions which start with crews outside of their bmps, finally we'll keep the bmp-2 because of some unfortunate technical problems. I'm sincerely sorry. Regards TB84

It has been removed for the Next release. This list has been carried out 11 months ago, several songs names have been lost since, but if you check out carefully the 20 first pages of this thread you may notice a couple of songs titles. ------------------------------------------ Funny to see how people try to defend their favorite russian vehicle, great poems so far...lol... All CWC 1985 missions which have bmps will be tested out using the BTR instead of the BMP. If everything would work perfectly exactly as wanted then we'll go for the BTR. The bmp was more or less one one of the most used vehicles during the afghani war, mainly because of its tough armor which doesn't suffer of 7.62mm impacts. A few years laters, the BTR-80 became the main transport troop vehicle in chechenya, first because of its regular fast speed in and outside urban areas and secondly, because of its ability to carry a considerable number of soldiers... we conclude that the BMP will be kept in 1985 packs and it will be replaced by the BTR in 2005 (only if everything would work as it should). -1 : No, it makes more realism, plus it reminds me several military documentaries...not you?:-) (the mp config won't have'em, though). -2: The recoil has been updated a bit on the basis of the fact it adds more realism and gives you more chance to escape from enemy's bullets. -3: Unfortunately Manfred's still experiencing some problems due to his low russian connection and he's still unable to upload the shilka. In any way, BIS shilka is so far the less uglier vehicle that BIS did. Best Regards Thunderbird84

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He meant movies... Btw, following the fact that the BTR-80 has been used a lot during the chechenian war, plus it's one of the most popular russian vehicles, I envisage to use it instead of the BMP for the FFUR 2005 but I'd like to get your opinion about this expected replacement, first. Advantages: -Carries more troops. -Faster than the BMP. -Looks better than the BMP. -Used more than the BMP in the current russian army. Disadvantages: -Light armor -Less powerful (But the BMP in OFP isn't that efficient against tanks and armored units because of its long reloading time and the low power of its shells, the btr might even be more efficient in some situations, though). Sincerely sorry mate, the addons selection list has been established a while ago and making some changes at 4 days from the release day might cause some problems. Best Regards Thunderbird84

Thanks for the kind comments, I really hope you'd appreciate the upcoming FFUR European Crisis pack as well, I'll post a couple of screenshots once the whole pack's totally accomplished. Best Regards TB84

Because All addons have been decompressed to further reduce lag and framerate difficulties and only relevant and required P3D models and textures have been retained for the FFUR mod. Regards TB84

No, this movie has been carried out without the use of the European pack. will get a look on'em but we have to do the faster possible if you'd like to get the pack this christmas. more than 30 days 5 hours a day he said me. Best to keep the surprise for Christmas, nah? Best Regards Thunderbird84

He used the FFUR 2005 for that sequence, americans fight against russians, 'fictionnal' conflict as in 'the sum of all fears', though... it's a bit like if you say 'Fiji islands vs New Zealand'... it never happened and hopefully won't never happen. Regards TB84

Russian mate, russian... some of them even play the play station in Chechenian Barracks, you know... What's that boring dude? This guy spent more than 30 days 5 hours a day to make this movie, with no offense...I'm not sure that 'boring' would be quite enough to argue about your point of view. Regards TB84

I even not thought about involving france to this virtual conflict, in fact this FFUR European pack has been carried out especially to thank all european people (mostly respresented in OFP's community) who supported us, who supported FFUR project and who're still supporting us before I leave to a 'governmental agency' for a while. Best Regards Thunderbird84