Taconic

Question for the BAS guys: Will this island contain any cool embedded scripts like kegetys did with the snow and aurora borealis on Winter Nogojev? You guys always seem to raise the bar for everyone, so I can't help but wonder if you have something like that planned. Obviously snow isn't going to work, but I suppose sandstorms would.

It would appear to be a Pavehawk.

It's not coming from anything you've downloaded by choice. It's coming in by itself on TCP 135. Infected systems randomly probe IPs while looking for the vulnerability. When it finds a vulnerable system, it attempts to establish a connection to the system on TCP 135 and send it "msblaster.exe," which is the worm. Once a system is infected, the worm runs at startup and it will do the same thing as the system that infected it. So basically if you aren't patched, you don't have to worry about finding it. It will find you. (sorry to take this OT, but it kind of bugged me to see BAS blamed for this)

Yeh thanks for the 'extra' gift BAS. I think I'll come out of lurking for this one. This "virus" that you're up in arms about isn't a virus at all. It's a worm that takes advantage of a vulnerability in the RPC service of NT-based OSes. It is not coming from anything that BAS has put out. It spreads through machines that have already been compromised by it, and the only way that you can be affected by it is if you have not kept current with patches (a patch was available a month ago.) In other words: If you've been hit by this, don't blame BAS, because they have nothing to do with it. Blame yourself, because it really isn't BAS' fault that you haven't patched your system. Anyway, great work, BAS. This is my first post here in spite of registering long ago and lurking for even longer. You guys have completely outdone yourselves once again. I'm floored by your work. You've really raised the bar in what is to be expected of future addons. I'm actually wondering if BIS can top you in OFP2 at this point. JAM is also excelent. I was looking forward to it from a pure mission design standpoint, but after playing your demo missions, I can see that it affects gameplay in a big way. I can see JAM becoming very big. Any word on anybody but Suchey and Earl jumping on board yet? Don't you keep ties with RSS...? Once again, great work. You definetely deserve a break, but I'll add that I'm eagerly awaiting everything else that you've announced. Don't worry about the guys that nitpick and complain - for every one of them, there's 20 like me who, while quiet, are truly thankful for your contributions to the OFP community.