Dionysos

Do we prefer a fictional Cold War simulation or a 'real' World War two experience, which is most appealing. I actually like the idea of Romans, Greeks, Egyptians and Vikings and mythology, may be B.I.S could may something along the lines of Operation Golden Fleece or something where you travel with Jason & the Argonauts to Colchis, or fight against Hannibal and his elephants, or play as the Great Herakles, or follow the wine drinking horde of Dionysos, or play as a deity or fight great battles to become immortal etc. With all the monsters and deities from ancient mythologies this would be great, imagine the tension even when running through an eerie mist-shrouded forest, and Medusa jumps out at you! Fighting in chariots and Triremes. A first person Age of Empires!

http://www.gamespy.com/previews/april02/bf1942/1.jpg The greatest Flashpoint mod ever made, with pure photo realism, decent skin textures, B-17s and knives? Not, its the forth coming Battlefield: 1942. This game is amazing by its preview videos allowing any theatre of the second world war, battle ships submarines, fight on the beaches at D-Day but for either side, or fight at Guadalcanal or at the bloodbath of Stalingrad. Any weapon, any vehicle, total freedom. I think its authors copied Flashpoint and corrected all its faults. Â Â Â Â Â No this is not an anti-Flashpoint topic, it is just encouragement for BIS to put in some proper textures, not just for the new resistance, but, take the hand textures for example, or the "water" textures, awful, ugly, hideous they were, not even ancient Hidden and Dangerous was that bad. What we need is more attention to detail. All us gamers want is knives, flamethrowers, submarines, hovercrafts, decent water (like in the Delta Force series.)

"OFP is an INFANTRY game, not a naval simulator." THERE ARE NO RULES AS TO WHAT FLASHPOINT SHOULD BE. It can be whatever people want it to be. Make it not a simulator but more of "an alternate reality"

"the submarine is useless since there isn't any underwater combat" If Flashpoint really is as good as we say it is we should have vast fully manned battleships which should be sunk by the submarines. Who says we should stick to simple islands, why not great seas and countries and whole continents! We could even make the entire world! More choice is more realism if BF:1942 offers it, why doesn't Flashpoint?

"Hmm isn't this the game where the video shows a plane being shot down by a rifle?" I've done this with the sniper rifle a few times in flashpoint too and the little things make up everything!

Why not make a prequel to Red Hammer which could feature Dmitri Lukin in Afghanistan? With lots of desert based combat and show his terrible offence which got him demoted to private. Would a civilian campaign be a possiblility. Suggestions for an upgrade or patch; The "water effect" should be got rid off and changed to that similar of Unreal Tournament/ Deus Ex, or the Delta Force series. Allowing diving and exploration of sunken marine vehicles and crashed aircraft which you've just shot down using a diving suit. This new water effect would also allow submarines and battleships, like in the forth coming Battlefield: 1942, and it would enable the player to swim. The number of units per squad needs to be increased as does the total number of units per map. The present buildings have a nasty cardboard effect, there made of paper-thin walls and you don't get bullet holes in them or realistic damage effect either. Add new buildings, giant structures, and don't allow the player to stumber over all the furniture inside or allow the player to fall through those rubbish ceilings and walls. Similarly, putting your your weapon-throuh-the-terrain should also be remedied. Knives must be added.

I think it would be an nice contrast to make a mod featuring Roman, Greek, Egyptian, Norse, Persian, Oriental ancient civilisations. Imagine the possibilties, instead of blowing up a fuel station you could take part in Viking raids, fighting the Persian fleet at Salamis, slaughtering Celts as a Roman soldier, invading Israel as the Egyptians etc. Then perhaps a mythological side could be added. The player would be attacked Giants, Hydras, Minotaurs, Medusa, the Kraken, Maenads, Triton, Giant scarabs and lots more. It would be brilliant. What do you think?

They are making a V.B.S for the public now they announced the otherday and they are also making Independance Lost and lets not forget Resistance.

"BIS can't keep giving free addons" I didn't say free, they can be put in upgrades like Red Hammer and Resistance.

Sorry Dawdler if you had posted in news, but it has now been moved into General Discussion. As for those of you who think this is an April Fools joke, it isn't and I find it very rude to call it one since they are very constructive comments which some, many people have suggested in the forums of almost all Flashpoint sites. I just wanted Bohemia Interactive to take note and to make new sequels, patches and addons for the game. I know the present code does'nt support many of these features! But Bohemia is revising the code for Resistance, or so they have claimed, and I dare say they will change it again after that too, so we will have decent water (which can be dived into and swum in), melee weapons flamethrowers, more than 12 people per group etc and the like. The purpose of my message was for someone from Bohemia Interactive to read and see what we want in are addons, patches and upgrades which they release and they will undoubtedly do it.

I think it would be an nice contrast to make a mod featuring Roman, Greek, Egyptian, Norse, Persian, Oriental ancient civilisations. Imagine the possibilties, instead of blowing up a fuel station you could take part in Viking raids, fighting the Persian fleet at Salamis, slaughtering Celts as a Roman soldier, invading Israel as the Egyptians etc. Then perhaps a mythological side could be added. The player would be attacked Giants, Hydras, Minotaurs, Medusa, the Kraken, Maenads, Triton, Giant scarabs and lots more. It would be brilliant. What do you think?

"Soo... Wheres the news? " Wrong forum I think Dawdler, this is not Flashnews, this is General Discussion. Actually they were ideas aimed at Bohemia Interactive to look into and design new campaigns like the Red Hammer Campaign addon, (Not all in one patch as I had initially intended for the first line of suggestions, but some of the weapons at least. For only they can rewrite the code of the game.) I wanted them to change the giant kill zone into something which resembles water.

Flashpoint should at least be like Hidden and Dangeous, allowing dismemberment. Entry enad exit wounds should be included, shooting fingers and glasses off, teeth out. Use of wire to pull of heads (happened during one incident between a commando and a German soldier in Normandy, or so I'm told) When you die in a tank you should be grilled in the heat to the metal (I've seen this in a photograph from the Iraq conflict.)

Ideas for the next Flashpoint upgrade, add knives and handguns. Add flamethrowers. Add hovercraft. Add vans and lorries. Add submarines. Change that big blue kill-zone into decent water, like in Delta Force etc; which allows diving and swimming. (Imagine that shooting down a helicopter/ sinking a boat then swimming down to the bottom and examining the wreckage! Harpoons and Divers should be added. A giant transporter plane should be added. A two person fighter jet. A civilian jumbo jet plane. These are all essentials, plus upgrade the graphics engine for all the islands not just for the new Resistance island. Ideas for new addon Campaigns. Add a prequel to Red Hammer, (where you fight in Afghanistan) the career of Gastowski and another unique one where you play General Guba. Then try to make some official modifications, one featuring World War 2 and another the Ancient World (Romans, Greeks, Norse, Egyptians and mythology) These would make Flashpoint far better. By the way a strange ommision from Flashpoint was women (excluding Guba's secretary) and children (they will be in resistance won't they with the motorbikes? Add a schoolbus for the children)

By "Battlefield" are you refering to Battlefield: 1942? I did'nt think that was out yet. Shogun Totalwar is not vey good graphically, as Operation Flashpoint, besides Flashpoint has modern soldiers and weaponry as well, but the point is Flashpoint so is easy to develop addons for and mods. Nothing says Flashpoint has to be; set in Everon, Malden and Koljugev in 1985; it could be be at Stalingrad at 1942, El Alamein 1942, Normandy 1944, Ardennes 1944, Vietnam, Korea, Battle of Salamis, Battle of Hastings, Battle of Agincourt any time, any place the possibilities are infinite. New tools enable Flashpoint to be made into whatever people want it to be. In time Bohemia Interactive will probably upgrade their Mission Editing, allowing drinking, eating, smoking, sleeping, swimming, dying, buying, it will all happen eventually. In answer to Dawdler's point, 10Ghz PCs will probably be out in about 5 years or less, the pentium of new PCs is reaching phenominal figures, not to mention the RAM. Personally I have no troubles whatsoever with speed, I normally set the number of units to the maximum. Is there away to raise the number of units per squad to beyond twelve? Or do we have to wait for a patch. "Yesterday" Flashpoint was a set game in 1985 set on Malden, Everon and Kolgujev, but tomorrow it will be wherever you want it to be.

I think it was in the addons_editing section but it was a very long time ago. The file was called CATfist.pbo and its author had a swearword written in his name.I'll have another look for it. But here's a link for the G8 mod; http://ofp.gamezone.cz/G8/

Still its possible there are the tools if the melee weapons were kept to last. But I've seen some good addons for Operation Flashpoint already which allow punching and kicking. Which can be downloaded from a forum page on the Operation Flashpoint Editing Center. Also the G:8 mod uses riot shields and batons very well. What's the problem?

We need both trains and buses, the more the better. Another idea is to add postmen and milkmen and see if they run on time. A new idea would be for Bohemia Interactive or someone with the "Visitor" tool to make larger islands, not like the vast one in resistance, far bigger than that, with motorways and another large island on the same world but separated by a vast sea. Think of the possibilities, passenger ferries crossing the water, civilian hovercraft all running on timetables. We need a large mountain with caves inside and cable cars. The houses need to be improved. I don't believe that anyone in Eastern Europe could have lived in such low conditions as that. Women and children should be added. Dawdler, when will any form of Beta be released for Invasion 1944, or at least a few vehicles? Update the site abit, the information you have so far is ancient!

We need both trains and buses, the more the better. Another idea is to add postmen and milkmen and see if they run on time. A new idea would be for Bohemia Interactive or someone with the "Visitor" tool to make larger islands, not like the vast one in resistance, far bigger than that, with motorways and another large island on the same world but separated by a vast sea. Think of the possibilities, passenger ferries crossing the water, civilian hovercraft all running on timetables. We need a large mountain with caves inside and cable cars. The houses need to be improved. I don't believe that anyone in Eastern Europe could have lived in such low conditions as that. Women and children should be added. Dawdler, when will any form of Beta be released for Invasion 1944, or at least a few vehicles? Update the site abit, the information you have so far is ancient!

Buses would go really nice. School buses could be added to and tour buses. You cou pick lot of people up and then drive towards a fuel station before detonating a bomb hidden underneath like these mad terrorists do. Carbombs are an essential addon. Or change the game into some form of Grand Theft Auto conversion. By the way WKK Gimbal the plane addon was brilliant, as was the "Tossers addon" try adding an American plane/ changing the planes into World War one/ two fighter planes.

I think the best rain effects I've seen in a game would have to be in Commandos 2, Flashpoint needs to immitate that, in Sound effects and in Graphics and with rippling water effects.

But there are tools like Oxygen which would make the melee weapons, perhaps Bohemia Studios would change the code abit. But imagine the possibilities.