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The fact that someone made a SOG "game" was enough for me to support them. It may not be everyone's cup-o-tea, but I couldn't pass it up. Reading all the SOG and SEAL nam books over the years always had me hoping for a game that recreates the experience. YMMV.

If it had a SP campaign I would get it ASAP but if I have to convert existing missions and campaigns for this I'll wait a bit. It looks amazing though and I'll eventually get it. Hopefully someone will create some SP content for it... but I bet MP will be amazing though.

Is there anyone around here that can speak to the SP viability of this DLC? I mean I will get it, but from what I read the only SP portion is a few familiarization missions? The campaign is co-op but can you play much of anything in SP? I haven't played ARMA in nearly a decade and all my old OFP/ARMA/VBS1 buddies have moved on so finding and fitting into a MP group would be some work. I am just hoping for more SP than what I am seeing in on the site/list/

Yeah, thanks, I remember what a time suck creating and modding was (haven't touched it in about 10 years lol), I can't imagine the scope of work it took to get this made. If it had more SP missions/campaigns it would be amazing. I hate relying on other people for anything 🙂

I think this looks absolutely fantastic. I have been waiting for a SOG game forever and went back and bought Elite Warriors: Vietnam a couple of years ago since the campaign was actually fun even though the graphics are old. I think focusing on a small part of the conflict and trying to do it well is way better than trying to cover every single branch of every service on all sides. From the screenshots it still looks like they are going to broad in scope but that's just me. Also the MP focus will be lost on me, I am SP only kinda player. Man, I still cannot wait.

It's hard to look at it now and see how innovative it was at the time. Complete new factions, new islands, full history, missions on top of missions, music, voice files, etc. at the time it was a giant task, now it would almost be impossible. My fav was the Redux TSF zombie killing mission. Damn that was fun.

I'm so getting ARMA 3 now :) I can't wait to see this happen. If you need any help let me know ;)

Wow, these are all simply stunning and it's nice to see some creativity. Looking forward to finally getting a new PC after 7 years so I can take a look at these in a couple of weeks. Well done.

Nice release :) I haven't played OFP in ages but with this release I quickly DL'd the old Tonal remake, installed and played a while. So much fun! So many memories :)

I don't get it either. What is funny about watching some idiot play a game poorly while he complains about it loudly? How is that funny at all? I guess I don't "get it" for the same reason I don't "get" MTV anymore, or youtube comments, or Justin Beeber, or Lady Gaga or hipster bands. I'm just too old :j:

I can't believe I wasted a couple minutes of my life watching part of that. People like that guy really make me lose hope for society. I guess I'm pretty lucky that I've yet to see or meet people that act like this idiot offline, but I know they're out there. Thank god they just stay at home and post on Youtube.

Yeah it will be interesting to see what comes out of that. A lot of companies at IITSEC want a piece of that pie but creating a "jack of all trades" sim is not as easy as all those upper management people think. "We'll just make a replacement for VBS2. It shouldn't be too hard right? You could have that in 6 months right? OH and we want it to run wirelessly, be accessible by any machine on a DOD network and work via cloud computing." I heard that one at least once a year for the last several years, and when they see/hear what it would actually take to do it they look at you like you just told them aliens landed outside :p So either way it should be neat to see what happens :)

Yeah, it will suck but Orlando has a lot of opportunities in the sim market. Now if I had just been a scripter all these years instead of doing addons/terrains I'd be golden :) More than a few jobs out there for VBS2 scripting.

I know all about those deadlines and how they work, I'll be unemployed by Feb because of them, so trust me I know how they can be flexible or tight as a drum. My point was, it's interesting to me that they like change for the sake of change. I'm also 100% positive that there are also a lot of politics and back scratching involved with this.

I gotta laugh when I read articles like this one http://tsjonline.com/story.php?F=4995898 So by 2014 the Army wants to replace VBS2 with something that does everything VBS2 can do AS WELL AS a laundry list of features. Lol, this should be interesting to see who promises what and what is actually delivered. Another funny thing is that I know people working on contracts that will go out a few more years converting years and years of old simulator content to VBS2 usable content. So by the time it's all done it will be obsolete. Lots of companies are JUST getting into VBS2. Lol, I'm really glad I'm hopefully getting out of mil contracting. All you can do is laugh :)

Holy crap I think I may need to actually buy ARMA2 just to play this mod. Looking pretty sweet.

I've been playing the PC version and I'm getting shot right and left... I'm not playing on the easy setting, but not hardcore or whatever it's called in this game either. I'm only at mission 3 but so far it runs like a dream for me and I have yet to see anything that makes me dislike the game other than no lean and drab PP. I have to turn ARMA and ARMAII down so much to play that OFPDR looks much better by comparison. I'm enjoying it enough to make a post anyway. It's not better by any means but at least it's something new and I can run it well with 0 work and I don't do MP so this game isn't horrible for me atm.

I'll bet it's just a ploy to help with immediate sales and buzz and then down the line just let it die off instead of actually releasing any tools/plugins/etc.

Borrowed a copy to try it out on the PC. Runs really well at least. LOVE the interface and overall front end production values... really, really well designed at least with the style, typography and graphics. In-game... just played one mission and it runs really well on higher settings at least for my now lower end system. Feels similar to GRAW but not as "tight". I'm enjoying it at least "as is" and looking at it in a vacuum. Again, at least I can play it straight away with 0 need to adjust anything. Nothing. Just install and play. Biases aside, it'll be a fun one time playthough to kill some time which is all COD4/GRAW2/etc was for me as well and I enjoyed that diversion a lot. OFPDR isn't great and I'll hold off judgement til I play it through, but I don't see it as being nearly as bad as some are suggesting, but then again I see it as just a shooter game to kill a few hours with, not something that will keep me occupied for years on end. With that in mind I think I can enjoy playing it a few hours. LOL at the vid showing the LOD popping. That's a good engine stress test but not a good indication of how gameplay is. At least it forces you to design missions with good FPS in mind.

Actually I can't wait to rent this game for the 360. I don't have to mess with settings, don't have to tweak my machine and the game for hours on end to try and make it run well on my somewhat crappy machine. Nowadays all I want to do is play. I've been tweaking games and my machines since the early 90s and I'm done with it. Either it runs well or not. ARMA2 won't run for me so I'll try this one and see. If I like the rental I'll buy the PC version and I've been a BI fan quite a while. It's like renting a car on vacation.

It'll get to you. I had to stop modding around a year ago as it just sucks your life away. I do suggest though to clean everything off your plate so you don't have to even think about modding for a while. If not, those projects on hold will pick at you until you finish them. Good luck Stalker, many have been in the same situation. Modding just sucks you in, lol.

Nope... you can tell by the rhythm and inflection, but I agree that if it's distorted enough it would cover up all traces of ethnicity and regional dialect. The problem is that in-game voices aren't that distorted. <edit: Yes they are> I haven't used a military radio in over 20 years so no, I don't remember what anyone sounded like back then, and all I used was flightline radios in the trucks and the bricks we used so my experience is totally unrelated. We can go 'round and 'round all day about this though and pointing out ethnic differences is not racist. Maybe I should have just said "In my experience...." <edit> After opening hundreds of the voice and mission conversation files and see that the actual radio files in game have a pretty generic dialect.

WTF are you going on about? Are you honestly saying that if you were on the radio and 50 african americans and 50 white americans spoke 1-2 sentences that you could not tell who was black or who was white in most cases? There is a difference in the way MANY white and blacks speak in america... it's a fact. That's not racist, it's just true. How you react to that is a different story.

You are wrong and there are mountains of data, countless lawsuits and countless studies that disagree with you. Someone does not have to speak like Master P or Jesse to "sound black". Also your two examples have nothing to do with location but social standing and education yet when you hear them speak... they sound black. You can argue this all day but you would be wrong. I can prove my point, you cannot.

If shooting on the move would be anything like this then I'd rather not have it at all. Looks like fun, but not what I look for in this series. Don't really care how realistic it is or not. It just doesn't feel "right"... like I know what "right" is :rolleyes: ZBJcOy6iuUc