TwIce

Thanks for your input, DayGlow. It's posters like you who prevent the discussion from degenarating into namecalling.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">He's the one that should be running!<span id='postcolor'> No argument here Avonlady. I'm a lover not a fighter.

It's so obvious that I felt compelled to question it.

AvonLady is actually a lady! Isn't that great?

Uh, you don't think this is about OFP? Are you a moderator?

Okay, I'm probably going to regret this, but if anyone fancies a spirited (and hopefully constructive) debate over the holidays, here is a (slightly tongue-in-cheek) message I posted on the SimHQ GHOST RECON board. Dont get me wrong, please: I love OFP and at its best I'm dazzled by it. Â I just cannot make up my mind whether or not to try GR. Â All (constructive) opinions welcomed: The battle in my head between OFP and GR goes something like this: 1. Every time I get hung up in OFP, i.e. when a mission trigger does not work or the APPALLING scoring system (which, luckily, doesn't count for much in the end) snatches defeat from the jaws of a very well-fought victory, I say to myself, "I'm going to get GR today." It will hopefully enable me to be Mapping Tool"l, whereas tactics in OFP, decent though the Command options are, are essentially about survival and gaining ground, inch by inch. That's not bad, in fact it's rendered beautifully, it's just not Mapping Tool"l. Â And in GR I won't get penalised for not killing a larger number of oblivious enemy soldiers while on a scouting mission, grrrr. 2. Then I read about GR's defects, such as lobotomized friendly AI and the need to hold your buddies' hands if you want them actually to accomplish anything. 3. Next, I finish the aggravating OFP Campaign mission I'm stuck on (I HATE the GUARDIAN convoy mission) and stumble into something insanely great, like the RETURN TO EDEN mission, which is about the best, most immersive simulation of a small-unit infantry action conceivable to a layman like myself and knocks my socks off every time I play it. 4. Restart process. So I'm still undecided about GR. (Edited by TwIce at 8:24 pm on Dec. 21, 2001)

I think it must be about the different screen resolutions for Win98 and OFP. Thanks everyone for all the help. Just for the record: PIII 450MHZ NVidia 32MB Diamond Viper V770D w/the latest drivers 128 MB RAM Yamaha DS/XG audio configuration Win98 2nd edition 4.10.2222 A

Hmmm, 128 MB not enough RAM to Alt-tab successfully?

I'm running v1.40 but Alt-tab has never worked since I first bought the game pre-1.30. It will minimize OFP to the toolbar but I cannot restore it; I get a black screen and seemingly a hung PC. It's no biggie but does anyone have a solution?

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Quote: from medvidek on 12:32 pm on Dec. 6, 2001 If you was kicked from US Army you can go back in Campaign and revert it (for example 3 missions back) and continue to play as good as you can.<span id='postcolor'> I know, and I HATE to cheat but I'd have to go very far back to replay the missions in which I got my first two reprimands and the SCOUTING mission simply pisses me off because I get reprimanded for accomplishing the goals to the letter. Were it not for theavonlady's valuable work, this reprimand business would have been a total game-killer for me. It can only work when the scoring sytem makes some sense and right now it doesn't.

I got three reprimands from the Col. (usuually with no justification, IMO, as I had followed mission orders to the letter) so on the 4th one (after succesfully completing the SCOUTING mission) I edited the "Penalties" text in the User/***/temp file as suggested in the AvonLady's brilliant FAQ. However... Not only did this not appear to adjust the number of penalties I have incurred but it also made the game behave in strange ways, i.e. when replaying the SCOUTING mission, my #2 always gets killed for no apparent reason. I can revert to the saved file but I just don't have time to restart the campaign having been kicked out of the army. Any suggestions? Could it matter that the file I altered now shows as a MS Word file in the OFP directory?

It doesn't affect the gameplay -- which is terrific -- but the system by which OFP tallies mission scores is mysterious to me. I scored 3800 in the Pathfinder campaign mission yet got three red x's. I achieved all of my mission goals and even though most of my team died, they were not directly under the player's control, so why would I be penalised for their demise? In the subsequent tank mission, I took out a T-80 plus crew and a soldier: 3000 and one red x. All mission goals accomplished, no fatalities. Again, when escorting the Spec. Ops guy to Everon: Got him there, met the resistance leader, got the map, returned with it, pat on the back from the Colonel, a promotion and... 3 red x's with a score of (i think) 200! This is not a complaint. Just a request for enlightenment. Thanks!

Whenever I really like a game but begin to feel the frustration mounting, I ask myself the same question: Is this game really difficult or is it me? I applaud the thinking behind the one-save rule but I've been up till 2:00am two nights running trying to complete SHADOW KILLER. I just cannot afford the time. Is the campaign as demanding as this? I don't want to use cheats or even work around the one-save rule unless the alternative is not playing the game at all because I do not have literally hours to complete missions. So, advice, please: Is this game really difficult or is it me?

Yeas, I had to shoot someone to trigger the next event but my question is: What am I supposed to do in the battle itself? Correct me if I'm wrong but you can only play the driver in this mission. This seems to mean that you cannot target or fire a weapon or order a weapon to be fired. You just have to drive where you are ordered and hope to stay alive. I couldn't interest my gunner in a T-72 in plain sight, 50m away. Am I missing something?