D.murphy man

Holy mother of christ I hope hes correct but im guessing he got confused with 'players' and 'AI players'. Surely 200 real players couldnt play..at the same time..on one server

funnly enough as i read that im currently sitting here in merry old wales in with a thunderstorm right above my town as i speak...Er.. should i turn my pc off or somthing?

Well if any ones intrested ive got an old mission which iv just got off of playing for the last two hours. Guerilla tatics! one i made some time ago. The basic idea is us players (8 in total) have to liberate an intire islland of madlen from the russians by scavanging for ammo and vehicles and scouting areas of the map for enemys and convoys to scavange and attack. We start with one respawn truck that if destroyed means the missions failed. Iv just been playing it for the last two hours by my self. only managed to liberate quater of the island (areas show green/red on the map if there occupied or not). So could possibly be good for a coop with just a few of us (doesnt require all 8 slots filled) where we gotta work together, set up ambushes for convoys, and decide which areas of the map to assualt next. If i get some free time i might touch the mission up a bit, its still a bit rough around the edges.

Hmm wounder if we could hold some sort of record attempt? we could ask for some one to kindly donate us a server and organise a time and date when a bunch of us are free for an entire day.(Maybe in the summer holidays for us younger folk) and get some one to make a large dynamice coop with spawning AI and maybe a few nifty features. Im thinking maybe veitnam setting? Then we all stock up on coke, coffee, and energy drinks, meet in the server early in the day, and play non stop intill we brake some insanly stupid time record for playing OFP. What you think guys?

well we already know that the bridge is destructible. Which means the ability for addon makers to give there buildings destroyble properties IS there. Which means i wouldnt be suprised that a while after release we'll be seeing custom islands made entirly of custom usermade destroyble buildings.

Loving that crazy buggy I would love to see some fallout 1 & 2 power armour units! with increased health values. What would also be cool is some weapons from the fallout universe. Also maybe you could ask permission to use phillilcomandos animation and bow script for some post apocalyptice bows and arrows made from left of scrap ect... Link

I remeber not long ago some one made a 'sheild' that prevented bullets from passing but let units (and maybe objects) pass. It was made for MP safe zones at respawns. Ill see if i can find it. Edit: Here it is

From what im guessing id say the buildings are going to be just like they are in OFP now. Some will be accessible, some will not.

hmm maybe you could create a simple "bubble" object that would have a slight blue tint to it but is other wise see threw. This bubble would stop bullets but only have a certain amount of health. Then create a simple script that just loops a setpos script to make sure it stays covering the unit, and also checks its health. Once its !alive it simple exits the loop and Deletevechicle. Shouldnt be too much of a proplem inless you have a lot of protoss units on the map with all Loop scripts running it might cause some lag. Then again protoss's strength wasnt ment to be in there sheer numbers like the zerg.

I kinda think a starcraft mod would be damn cool we could use see if we could lend the scripts and animations from the jurrastic park mod, which has already been adapted to be used with that aliens addon. Shouldnt be that hard to convert it to be used on a the little zerg units (the small basic melee ones that come out of the eggs in 3's) as for the other zerg units it might be a bit harder. as for the terran units, well shouldnt be too difficult? im not sure about the protoss though.

For me it all began back when the demo was released, when i was about 12. I was just really impressed by the non liniear mission and the fact i wasnt walking down corridoors and being led into things. It was a really refreshing experience from things like quake 2 and halflife. Then i got the game some time around the release and have been hooked ever since. This was the first comunity, and forum i had ever joined. And to this day its been the only one i really keep active in. I remember back in the day skimming threw the old forums mission editing section and saving all the scripts and codes into a notepad file and then playing around in the editor. I also remember the first time we was able to make new models, and the first addons being released. Thats when things really started getting exciting, then the first islands started coming! i use to download every one that was released. Before allthat i also remember the joys of MP back in gamespy (its pretty dead now last time i checked) and being part of a small clan (101th airborn or somthing) and forcing them to try out all of my early versions of Skye Virus which where all horribly buged with corpses floating across the ground at you (didnt relise setdammag 0 didnt work in MP so well) then i released the finalised version of Skye Virus which was pretty popular for a time. Then later the clan split up, sadly they where a great bunch of guys which i havnt heard from since. We use to have a great time playing Desert Rats CTF. since then i havnt been part of any clan and only play online occasionaly, although iv been playing more often lately due to getting a new router and not loosing connection every 30 mins. I also remember the incredibly fun mission Cops and Robbers. where we use to role play and set the bank up with satchels and make demands whiles the police planed to storm the buildings sadly i never see that mission on servers any more, its just crime city (which sadly hasnt got the tall enterble sky scraper for the bank) I also remember seeing nogovaville rising and falling in popularity. My other fond memory was the release of the veitnam mod (i forget the name) where just about every sever was running and having crazy fire fights in dense jungles Any way, this post has gone on long enough. if youve reched this far to read this line, cheers for ready guys

OFP, VBS1, and OFP:E you where able to see your legs and body by looking down. So yes, id presume armed assault will have legs

Again, very nice addon pack! Iv been playing with it for a few hours. Getting a bunch of punks and Max's to run at each other in a town results in a very nice, drawn out, and intense fire fight i find especially with the shotguns being not too accurate and limited ammo. Also, yay! my islands finally being used for somthing

Just like a few people said. There both completely different games. Ones a action FPS, the others a Sim (like a the numerous flight sims, tank sims, ect..) Plus OFP has a LOT of variety in MP and SP missions due to the fact it has an extreamly flexible, yet easy to use built in mission editor and even more flexible engine. Meaning if you get bored of playing C&H or CTF you can just as easily find a server playing coop, or even somthing completely out the norm. For example iv just come back from playing a mission called 'Crime City'. where players play either a civilian or police. And can rob banks, sell drugs, become pimp, buy cars, planes, boats, guns, role play, and hundreds of other things. Makes a nice change from the usuall death and destruction.

Just took the other test: You scored as Special Ops. Im not a loner! i have lots of friends which is the reason for this incredible hang over.

recon sniper here too!

If you had a 1GB LAN connection and everyone with top of the line machines, maybe... but I don't know if 60 people on standard internet connections with older machines could pull off having 11 AI each... ok maybe i was a bit optimistic but still! wow!

Well it just keeps getting better and better BIS have created the ultimate soldier sim, once again. Well done guys! Edit: Also it says 60 players mininum Just imagine! 30 vs 30, with each player having 12 AI units to command... It could possibly be the largest MP battle ever....

it all looks great! no complaints here. Just keeps getting better and better.

Right click and save as, should work. that did the trick Most properly is, i noticed a few old animations in the movie (like the death animations)

Hmm i cant seem to be able to play the video in windows media player, it says file scheme not reconised. Any help?

Id rather fit my tanks with a system costing $300,000 then loosing them and costing a lot more to replace the tank, train new crew, ect... edit: got in there before me JdB Edit 2: I wounder if a similiar system could be set up as a static defence and used to deflect artillery and mortars from fortifactions and bases?

ooo wales! i live there!, make sure to include Barry! (large town not far from cardiff). I can provide an excelent 'Barry accent' to (not quiet welsh, with over top prenouciations of A's and hardly any use of the letter T if its on the end of a word) Heh, i remember reading some survey recently dubing england and wales the most violent country in the developed world compared to population only beaten by scottland which doesnt suprise me. Since christmas my brother as been ran over on perpose (with survear injuries, police never caught any one), one friend has been bottled, another stabed,one head butted, and 2 survealy beaten up (all undrelated, all involving alchol, police not involved/failed to catch any one, all but one unprovoked) and my parents car been vanalised, twice. And i live in the nice part of town any way, we need british riot police and football yobs armed with bottles, bats, and bricks! (resking of gimbals tossers?) and of course, new animations for drunks! (for thoughs saturday night town centers)

Nope, i dont belive any body has made any british style buildings. Sadly... Its mostly US and arabic stuff. Be fun to have a councel estate and chav units "oi bruv, tick us a fag like before i spark you out with my berburry baseball cap and trackys from primark" (BTW im aware fag as many different meanings, in this case i ment ciggerete. just incase any one got offended)

*stands up and walks to the middle of the circle of 'addicts' in self help session* Iv been addicted since i played the first demo released oh so long ago... then brought it as soon as it came out ever since then no game has satisfied me quiet like OFP. Although now i dont have much time for gaming OFP is usually my first choice when i do. Every other game since OFP has jus seemed bland and linier.. the only other game i got on my HD at the moment is X-COM (ufo defence) half-life 2 (for the mods ect...) and OFP with several other OFP mod shortcuts on my desktop (15 )