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</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (shernt250 @ July 13 2002,00:21)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Plus, you can use the doors as cover from enemy fire.<span id='postcolor'> Don't be stupid. Â Bullets would whip right through doors. At least, they do in real life. Other than that, those are good ideas. [Edit: Oh wait, windows that go up and down are pointless and would take too much time to program for the little value they would add to the game.]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (moerty @ July 13 2002,15:07)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">I think the flight model is pretty good in Operation Flashpoint, considering it's made to be closer to an arcade level.<span id='postcolor'> The flight model is terrible on the fixed wing aircraft. Even if we are not talking about realism, you cannot hit anything with the cannon. As for the arcade aspect, don't you think that Operation Flashpoint should have a realistic flight model, considering that none of the other parts of the game are arcade? Operation Flashpoint is currently the most realistic game in existence. Keep it that way, please.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Eviscerator @ July 13 2002,11:53)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">The gun on the V-80 isn't auto; it follows the cursor up and down.<span id='postcolor'> So how does it work on the real life Hokum? Does it point whichever way the pilot's helmet turns?

Literally no information exists on Idependence Lost other than the fact that it is made by Bohemia Interactive Studios. The official web page has nothing but a few pictures.

And there is a good reason why. Â Have you ever seen a program that recognizes text, figures out the phonics, and turns it into voice? Â The most advanced ones sound very stupid and very fake. Â Weather radio broadcasters, I think, use them. Â My old Amiga had a built-in one. Â Trust me, it sounds nothing like a human voice. Â It sounds very much like a robot from an old, cheesy science fiction movie. [Edit: Spelling]

Add "make all helicopters have breakable glass" to Professor Wizard's list. Since the Hind and others have bullet-"proof" glass, perhaps they should only be penetrable by heavier calibers, such as three-oh-eight and fifty caliber.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (DayGlow @ July 11 2002,22:29)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">What would be nice is a short range IR sam system such as the SA-13. That way the ground would have a way to reach out and strike the aircraft. Handhelds wouldn't do it and I think they are reflected well in the sim.<span id='postcolor'> I agree. Sniper, that is true. However, in other realistic aerial combat games, the radar isn't that much less effective. Real life radars are pretty effective. The only thing that's really wrong is that Operation Flashpoint's radar can detect things it shouldn't be able to, like Jeeps and trucks. Me, I use my eyes, for the most part.

Thank you, Eviscerator. The page Murder linked me to (which is the one everyone links me to) said nothing about an A-10 by Aaron Ash.

While I have not yet tried it and do not think that Operation Flashpoint was meant for this, I commend you on your work. That last feature especially is interesting. Now if only I had a monitor for my gaming computer...

It may be more helpful to look at the key binds in the options if you ever forget a key again. It took me a while to find the chat keys, too.

The solution to that is to not fly over five meters above the ground. Real chopper pilots fly that low to avoid anti aircraft fire. It's hard, but that's what makes Operation Flashpoint fun, right?

Actually, this is the first flight game I have ever played in which I do not need the rudder pedals. The fixed wing aircraft have no rudder control, and the helicopters are easily flown without joystick altogether. It's best to have a stick, but as far as I know there is no difference with the helicopters in Operation Flashpoint between using the rudder pedals and shoving the stick to the side. In real life, using the pedals on a helicopter should make it turn around without without changing the currect velocity (in other words, without changing the speed or the direction the helicopter is traveling in), so it would be flying backwards or to the side. However, in Operation Flashpoint, using the pedals just causes it to make a bank. Does that make sense?

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Hindhunter @ July 11 2002,10:42)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Cars have realisitic damage model in OPF?! Pfffft! So that´s why my Skoda get´s all messed up, trashed,  as I bump into a tree in 20km/h? Windows smashed and all....=)<span id='postcolor'> You know nothing of this, being yet another who has been deceived by stupid, unrealistic jock movies such as "The Fast and the Furious."  I have a suggestion.  In real life, take your car and drive it at twenty five miles an hour into a tree or a telephone pole.  Have fun fixing your car.  While it may not shatter your windows, it won't be that much less than what Operation Flashpoint depicts. [Edit: I removed a jab at his grammar and punctuation.  As I wrote it, I did not think of the fact that English is not the primary language of many of the people who attend this forum.  If English is not Hindhunter's primary language, then I apologize.  If it is his primary language, then I say he is a stupid git.]

Your pathetic opinion has been noted. Try fighting an aircraft from the ground in real life. I'll see you from the air.

That's true.

Plebian? Â I think not. Â You see, while you are correct in that there is too much deathmatch and capture the flag, there are a few maps (and a lot of possibilities) for strategic warfare between humans alone. There was an excellent one I saw, complete with campaign-like objectives and a necessity for many players, but that was the problem. Â There just aren't enough players for that sort of thing. Â Plus, all of the tanks and such made my frame rate die and go to hell. Â There were a lot of units. Â I'm talking about possibly several hundred of them. Then there are the strategy maps which follow the tradition started for us by Battlezone. Â I played one or two of those maps where you have to conquer and hold territories in order to raise money to build an army. Â Once more, this is not yet practical due to lack of interest and number of players, among other reasons, but it still beats what you call cooperation, which is the same sort of thing only against the computer. [Edit: By the way, don't ever again imply that I am a Counterstrike player or an ex-Quaker. I enjoy Operation Flashpoint for its realism, and I look for the same realism in my online gaming.]

What, is this Grand Theft Auto? There is no reason to make the cars stronger. The damage for cars in Operation Flashpoint is very realistic. In most racing games, you can slam a car into a wall at ninety miles an hour and not only survive, but keep driving. Is this what you want? I've always thought that Operation Flashpoint strives for realism. You are taking a step backwards.

What, is this Grand Theft Auto? There is no reason to make the cars stronger. The damage for cars in Operation Flashpoint is very realistic. In most racing games, you can slam a car into a wall at ninety miles an hour and not only survive, but keep driving. Is this what you want? I've always thought that Operation Flashpoint strives for realism. You are taking a step backwards.

It's over. And I still cannot find that A-10.

This is a Resistance question, isn't it? In Operation Flashpoint, once someone falls down, they stay down. Unless, that is, they merely went to prone position and then got up. But then you should have been able to see that they were still alive while in prone position. Do people get blown down while still alive in Resistance?

That's not quite as bad as my post count on another forum (TTLG). It was a much more alive forum, though. I switched nicks several times, so I'm not quite sure of my total post count, but I had a little under four thousand posts. I was a bit of a threadhog, to be honest. At least I didn't spam, though. Towards the end, the forum started to die down, and my post rate dropped to about six posts per day.

That's a whole lot of shit, surely. *Snicker* I wouldn't download it for my own reasons. I don't think Flashpoint was meant to be this sort of game. Still, other people may not think so.

You only have to pay for the full version, which contains more features than the free one. I use the free one, of course.

Why can they not handle two jobs? In single seat fighter planes, they have to do it that way.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (USMC Sniper @ July 09 2002,22:19)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">In Operation Flashpoint the sabot shells do not have splash damage.<span id='postcolor'> I didn't know that. Â That's interesting. Â However, I don't think that it's so very unrealistic; in real life, sabot shells probably wouldn't hurt a huge group of soldiers. Â But then again, I'm just speculating. [Edit: I rephrased it. Â My first post wasn't very understandable. I hate this "HEY EVERYONE! EDITED BY SO-AND-SO" function. But then, I suppose it's necessary to prevent people from changing their posts' meanings.]