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Downloading right now at 440-450 Kb/s, would like to express my appreciation for you guys doing this for the community! Thank you so much for keeping the best war game ever alive! (yes I am a bit late, but have not been playing for a while).

That video looked awesome. I don't care one bit what it is called, but it looks great nonetheless. *Me pops Poser to create new custom animations*

There's a lot of interesting reading in this forum, thanks for the contributions from those of you who actually have purchased the game and have hands-on experience with it. I am pretty sure Armed Assault will mature and improve, just as OFP 1985 did. I am not worried about that at all. As for all the bugs and various issues, I am not going to comment on it simply because I do not have the game yet, so I would have no idea what I was talking about. As for system requirements, I need another gig of RAM anyway, and I can always O/C the 3.0Ghz CPU a bit. The 7800GT graphics cards should be good enough, really. I love the fact that there is a team of developers to create games (simulations) such as OFP 1985 and Armed Assault. Treasure them, because they are few and far between. Look at how many realistic car sims there are left. Count them on one hand if you can even find one anymore. The rest is all about completely unrealistic arcade fun. Same thing with most "flight sims" and war games. I loved the slower pace in OFP 1985, I could spend a whole night with a mission in complete immersion if it was done well. That I am looking forward to experience again, with Armed Assault. Thanks again for your contributions, it is nice to see something other than pre-doom posts

Thank you BIS for still letting us de-activate that annoying floating aiming cross. When I turned it off in OFP 1985 and got used to using the iron sights / scopes, I never went back

Oh.. hadn't seen those shots until now. Looks good, almost too good. Wait and see.

I am most definitly considering the Track IR Pro, after seing some of the videos on their website. Check out those car and flight sim videos! It would really add a lot to the immersion of a wargame as well, I am sure of it.

They will keep it as it was in OFP 1985. Anything else would be stupid, and as far as I know, the guys at BIS are anything but stupid

That video looks gorgeous. The soldiers look much better, the landscape is breathtakingly beautiful, the view distance ...

I am hoping and believing that it will indeed be more realistic than OFP 1985 was, although I also have to say that as a foot soldier sim, OFP 1985 is still king of the hill. I am currently playing Battlefield 2 (arcade shooter, but with a well working squad it can be great fun), but my heart belongs to Operation Flashpoint (or any title that comes from the hands of the wizards at BIS, for that matter), so I am really looking forward to Armed Assault. If AA turns out to be less realistic, oh well, a MOD can always do something about that, but from what I have read about AA so far, it seems to be more realistic than OFP 1985. Ballistics, collision detection, it all sounds promising. The main reason I believe it will have those features, is that it comes from BIS. They've shown us they are not just using big words. Thank you BIS for OFP 1985, which kept me busy for about two years straight after launch. I really cannot say that about any other game that I have ever played in my life

Have a look at the tech demo from Avalanche Studios in Sweden, which will be used in the game called "Just cause". Needless to say, I will buy that game as soon as it is out, and the engine looks really promising. http://www.justcausegame.com This isn't so bad looking, is it? [im]http://www.justcausegame.com/images/Just-Cause_11.jpg[/img]>100kb

Nutz have a point, but he should instead talk about MMORPG games, not SP games with MP. MMORPG games are truly addictive. So much in fact, it is not good for anybody's mental or physical health. And yet, this is only the beginning. Experts have recently said they believe this wave of MMORPG addiction will continue for at least 15 years from now. With the nice looking MMORPG titles of today, imagine what it will look like in 2010 - 2020. We cannot even imagine, due to the bliztering speed of game technology development. The phys-X card is hitting the market by 2006, and it will bring an oustanding level of realism into games. Imagine that kind of physics in a MMORPG. Who would want to leave a gorgeous looking online world with "more real than life" graphics and physics, where you can fly whenever and wherever you want, kick some serious butt with uber weapons, make real money in the game (Second Life and Project Entropia already do this), do naughty things with the most beatiful .. (you sick bastards!. Just a thought. Games are addictive, some more than others. I don't think SP games such as OFP 1985 and soon to come AA will ever be as addictive as MMORPG games are, though.

Nutz have a point, but he should instead talk about MMORPG games, not SP games with MP. MMORPG games are truly addictive. So much in fact, it is not good for anybody's mental or physical health. And yet, this is only the beginning. Experts have recently said they believe this wave of MMORPG addiction will continue for at least 15 years from now. With the nice looking MMORPG titles of today, imagine what it will look like in 2010 - 2020. We cannot even imagine, due to the bliztering speed of game technology development. The phys-X card is hitting the market by 2006, and it will bring an oustanding level of realism into games. Imagine that kind of physics in a MMORPG. Who would want to leave a gorgeous looking online world with "more real than life" graphics and physics, where you can fly whenever and wherever you want, kick some serious butt with uber weapons, make real money in the game (Second Life and Project Entropia already do this), do naughty things with the most beatiful .. (you sick bastards!. Just a thought. Games are addictive, some more than others. I don't think SP games such as OFP 1985 and soon to come AA will ever be as addictive as MMORPG games are, though.

Reminds me of a missions that I did in the campaign. I positioned my group in some bushes around a village, then suddenly one of those BMP's approached us from behind. I froze at the sound and knew I was dead if I dared to stick my head out of the bush. The thing came up on my left. Slowly.. sqeek, sqeek. Then, a horrible scream.. one of my team mates were run over by the BMP and faced a gruesome death. It was one of the times when I for a moment forgot it was a game

I do not remember the exact date, but I received my copy of OFP 1985 3 days before the official release date in Europe. I still remember people not believing me until I posted pics of the CD, cover and manual . I played OFP 1985 and Resistance straight for about 2 years before I started looking for something different. I have never played such a realistic soldiersim ever since, and many FPS titles today seem to have been inspired by Operation Flashpoint 1985. Will I return to OFP 1985? Most likely, yes. I never really got around to learning to make my own landscape, and then there's all those MOD's released after I stopped playing.. very tempting indeed! I still recommend this game to people asking what it is, and they usually fall in love with it pretty soon. Not bad for a game that has been around for a couple of years. I recently re-built my PC with a phat graphics card, fast memory and all, in order to run Battlefield 2 efficiently. After a couple of days, I was bored enough to put BF2 in the closet, and I have not installed it again since. OFP 1985 kept me playing just about every day for about 2 years.

I for one welcome the PPU. It is the next logical step in games and simulations, really. As for CPU's, how great is the progress in CPU developement the past couple of years? Not that great. The PC that I own now, I put together some 2 years ago, using a P4 2.8. Today's most efficiant Intel CPU's with a pricetag you and me can afford, is a 3.66. Not much of a difference, really. The focus has been moved onto the GPU for some years now, and it has become insanely powerful and so hot, you can forget about heating expenses during winter (just close the window every now and then) <- joke. When I first read about the PPU, my initial thoughts were those of a madman who finally realize his fantasy world is real. Or to put it in other words: I had a feeling all along it could come some day. I welcome the PPU with open arms, and if I can afford it when it is out, I would like to buy one, too. Of course they will be pretty expensive in the beginning; all new technology cost an arm and leg until it goes mass production. Then prices will go down. Microsoft will be interested in this, I cannot see any valid reason why not. Anything that makes the game and entertainment scene move forward should be of interest to them.

I have read a little bit on the PPU, and it seems very interesting so far.

And why is that Hidden? Hi   I did not mean that in a bad way, it's just that I do not own an Xbox, nor am I planning on purchasing one. Anyway, when I wrote that, I was haunted by the thought that perhaps BIS was spending so much time and resources devoted to developing the Xbox version, it was the cause of the extended delay of OFP 2. That was then, (this is now). I decided to just give it a good rest and see what comes out of it. Until then, there are so many other games to play and things to do. I still have 100% faith in the guys at BIS. They rocked my world with Operation Flashpoint 1985 and Resistance, and I am sure they will do it again.

Hmm I will still be here when OFP 2 is out, unless I get hit by a truck or die in other ways. You will, too, almost all of you. An excellent game such as OFP 1985 is -very- hard to forget. We will have to wait a bit longer, but it will pay off in the end. I am sure of it. As for the Xbox, I don't want to talk about it.

Hi all. I haven't dropped by a lot or been playing OFP for a long time now. I started playing at release point in Europe, and had so many great hours with this fantastic war game. I recently bought the GOTY version from Play.com. At first, everything worked perfectly, then I had to format for other reasons, and installed it again. Worked perfectly the second time as well. I formatted the C: partition again 2 days ago, and installed it last night. This time it did not install correctly. Please forgive me if this problem has been brought up before, although I somehow doubt it. Like I said, I haven't been here much at all in a long time. I have been treating the CD's very carefully, as I always do with game and application CD's in general, no visible scratches big enough to cause any kind of problems. What happens after the installation (3 discs), is that I can not launch OFP, it gives me an error message. I tried uninstalling it (Control Panel wouldn't let me uninstall, so it simply removed the uninstall icon instead), and ended up having to manually remove the registry after removing the folders. I then tried again, and the very same thing happened. My computer specs: Windows 2000 Professional, SP4 Intel P4 2.8 PC800 w/MIST Frostbite cooler Twinmos 2x512 dual channel DDR RAM Abit IS7 motherboard (don't recall I flashed it, demo version) Abit Siluro Geforce 4 Ti4200 graphics card Audiophile 2496 soundcard (being replaced with E-mu 1820) Enermax 350W PSU (never had any kind of issues with it) Your average BenQ CD-RW, cheapest there is (and good at it) Please tell me if I left out any important information, and please don't chop my head off, Avonlady, as I am now going to inlude the error log message.. Ok, here goes:

As I have said before, I bought the GOTY from Play.com - here: Play.com link here It was on their top seller list not long ago, actually. No wonder, with a pricetag showing only Å7.99 - shipping included.

People.. I've been sitting here all night browsing this thread and playing OFP (GOTY, although I have the original 1985 as well, good old OFP 1985..). Let's just say I am breathless from all these magnificant screenshots, and I honestly did not except to find so many Photoshop and screenshot capturing (it really is a kind of art after all, staged or not) talents in here. I started playing OFP 1985 by release in Europe, and played it a -lot- until I, at some point, stopped playing. Am not sure exactly why, could be that I had been playing OFP only for a long time. When I came back recently and finally got around to install that GOTY pack from play.com, I must admit I was thinking "well, the community probably is pretty much dead by now". But no, I see the work of true artists here, screenshots, new models, mods and addons, islands and more. The community is very much still alive and doing good! I, like you all, look forward to OFP 2 with warm and fuzzy feelings, we all know it will be even better (if that can be done) than OFP 1985 and Resistance. Thank you so much for all those incredible pictures, and keep the good stuff coming! I will not smalltalk anymore in this thread, promise! I will probably even post some screenshots myself when I get my hand on some of the newer addons. -THUMBS UP-

I copied the disks to 3 folders called disk1, disk2 and disk3 on the C: partition, but it keep telling me to insert disk2, so I have just renamed them disc1, disc2 and disc3, hope that helps. I checked the CRC file, and it mentioned "Disc2" with a capital D. Pathy: This happened before installing a patch, and like I said, I could not even install the 192 GOTY patch, as the main installation failed, both times. I checked the CD's again, and they are smooth, no scratches save for the usual microscopic ones that you find on all CD's. I always erase all remaining folders and registry files when I uninstall a game. EDIT: Doesn't help, it still keeps telling me to insert Disc2, even though I copied all of it's content (yes, I always have "show hidden files" activated) to a folder called "Disc2" on the C: partition. EDIT #2 FINALLY! I tried putting in the second (and then third) disc after the initial setup that started in the Disc 1 folder on the C: partition, and this time it worked flawlessly Thanks again for all your help! Feels good to be back  EDIT #3 ... It had to be too good to last, neither Red Hammer nor Resistance patches can be applied, they both give me different error messages. Think I will just rip out GOTY and re-install the old version.

Thanks a lot, Avonlady, I will try that now. Have a great day!

Not a problem. Just got myself a PS2, and will get the XBOX soon too. Besides, Resistance is good enough to last a while longer, just like Falcon 4.0 did/do. Am currently talking friends into buying OFP as well showing them videos and screenshots, and they go "wooow!".

This game is like fine wine, it just keep getting better the more you play it. Promise.