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Yeah i mean i remember seeing independence day at the cinema when i was like 12 and obviously loved it, back then i thought it had to have a sequel, however now im all grown up i can see that it wouldn't work, not unless they go down the planet of the apes/invasion earth route and enslave us. However that seems unlikely as they said through telepathy that the alien race wanted us all dead.

I could give you an address where you can get some domination.... it does cost a bit though

Well its all fun and Games where I live. Yesterday The loca lcouncil builders who are renevating our little pond next to us dug up a live WW 2 grenade. They cordened off the whole area covering 175 meteres. The army bomb disposal were called to destroy it via controlled explosion. I managed to get the whole incident on film with my camera. Some may notice a previous video in the same location where soom loony tried to jump off the multi story. Another video i captured lol

Sorry I should have been more specific, I would love to make one and i have the time to do it, however I am one of the people who struggle with the editing side of things. I have found my biggest problems being mission briefing setting up objectives External script (notepad) files creating the actual mission so its not just some saved file in the editor and the usual internal scripts, codes and triggers

I am a video editor and 3d animator, I make and sell tutorial dvds so people can follow along with me and learn how to use the software. I really think that someone with enough time and experience could put together a lenghty tutorial dvd on the mission editor. Covering pretty much everything needed for anyone to really pick up what is needed to know. Not only will this cut down the amount of frequent questions in the editing forum but will also help people much easier when the have something they can follow along with on screen. I'm talknig the very basics from triggers and waypoints right up to creating a full campaign with all the scripts (internal and notepad) and covering some of the really complicated things that really frighten most people off. You may find that there could be a huge burst in campins and missions to keep us all busy. Now i have looked on youtube and there are really only a handfull of half decent tutorials out there mainly covering the very basics so i thikn its what is needed.

yeah that was the original plan but after inspecting it they found it was really rusty really old and wasn't sure how stable it was. Here in the UK its health and safety mad

none that is literally a hit or miss luck objective depending on which part the enemy base is located

thats the problem with world war 2. soo many bombs were dropped all over europe including germany france and england, that soo many of the 'duds' were just forgotten about and buried. then housing estates were built over them years later. its the same with mine fields. unless you know exactly how many were layed and where, they are pretty much labelled as dangerous zones forever. I know for a fact there are still some active fenced off mine fields over in the falklands from 1980 simply because they cant guarantee its safe

I think if it was a shell we would all have been evacuated simply because ofthe size and the chances are we would all need new windows

it was like a bad day in afghanistan yesterday it really was. And the worst thing is, myself my wife and my 4 year old have played on that grass bit where they dug up and found it

An observation of mine has revealed that there are no decent if any World War 1 games. I know world war 2 has been murdered by game companies and now they are starting to get more modern, but never has there been any games based in the great war. This goes for films too. except the old black and white films. Its probably known to be the most brutal and bloodiest war of the last century so im surprised about this. For one i guess it hasnt been done because of the limited weapons of the first world war, but I don't see this as a restriction. The second thing is it seems because it was a war that the americans were not involved in, they don't seem interested in taking it on for a game. I may be wrong on this front, however true it may be that most combat games i have played always has a strong american presence as a players point of view. Anyone who hasnt taken the time to read up some true history on the great war or look online for real diaries of soldiers on the western front, i tell you, it really is an eye opener and a very frightening war to be a part of.

On our regional news here in the UK the other day, some army top brass wanted the new call of duty banned because a level in the game required you to kill coalition troops. I mean yeah its perfectly okay to shoot everyone else, but as so long as the holy coalition forces aren't touched its okay. as soon as i saw that news report the first thing i thought was "well done, you just gave this game all the controversial advertisement it needs to sell out right away." if theres anything people like more than a good open ended fps game its controverisal offensive games that give kids bonors. Back on topic. I think a story surrounding 2 brothers would be a great idea. one wants to be a doctor, the other gets brainwashed by the local takiban/taliban. Both follow different paths and we actually see some geniune reasons why the taliban are so angry and the actual reasons why they are fighting. after all its not like "theres nothing better to do" they actual have a reason they believe is justifiable for their actions. anyhow later in the story, the new jihadist taliban ends up coming face to face with his now doctor brother. Does he press the button as he is required by his new taliban friends, or does he give in to reason and give in to his brother, betraying the taliban and end up becoming an enemy of the enemy. That on its own could be a great campaign with a lot of story telling even if it holds little action. You can make the most action packed game an emotional ride if scripted right and the correct dialogue is used.

I like seeing the scenario from the enemies point of view, but how do you define enemy? Both sides believe they are fighting for the greater good and their own cause. Its a bit annoying playing what we define as the good guys, and the taliban (takiban lol) being the evil. However i think it would be a breath of fresh air to do something like that.

no its okay, i updated my patch to 1.54 and all the required addons and it works now.

Right this is a walkthrough which has taken me many attempts to do. Due to bugs you won't always get to complete it, so it may take a couple of times to do this. It is also possible to complete this mission without firing a single shot from your own weapons and return to base fully armed. I will give you map co ordinates in this guide but to use them you have to zoom all the way out in the map and use the numbers on the outside of the map and you do it like this go along the bottom then up for example 10, 03 you need to find the number 10 at the bottom of the map then go up til you find 03 on the left hand side and your location will be in the box where the 2 numbers meet up.

If you need some voice work done, would be lovely to get some regional UK voices in there. Pm me if needed im pert of the voice acting guild. Havent been able to record anything for weeks as my microphone has been broken but i just got a new one in

Just a quck one. I love the "expansion" tab in the options and the ability to use arma 2 addons and mods with arrowhead. However I have a huge list of mods from performance tweaks, to sound packs etc... that i find critical. That said there is one or 2 of them that causes OA to crash to desktop after 5 minutes does anyone know what addons have issues with OA? To make it easier I am going to list the active mods I am using, all are the arma 2 mods. @ACE-1.3.0.373 (The version advertised as current stable on armoholic) @ACEX -1.3.0.252 @ACE_PLA @ACE_SM @CBA @CRA @FullNVGS @GL4 @GL4_LHD @Gtdmod_grass @Nims_Dynamic_weather @No_sunglare @Tracers @Warparticles (not sure which version) The rest of the mods i have are mainly required for particular missions like the seal team 6 camps and unless used are switched off.

lol well it works if it is. I mean with the awesome dialogue and the actual missions i was beginning to think this actually was a bis made campaign, but with the arrowhead let down, im actually loving this one more

Loving the campaign, was stunned by the professionally recorded vice acting. did you hire people for that? secondly, I am having a big problem with the halo instertion mission. When the map appears i get an error saying that "theres a bad link with a static object, resaving in the editor will fix this." however if i continue the mission, the second i jump out the plane i get a failed mission saying the warehouse wasnt searched.

as i just got OA and now have to update all my addons and download new ones, is it possible to add multiple addons from the same author into one folder? for instance rather than having @ukweapons @uklandrover @ukforces @ukbits say all the above is made by the same person, cant we just put all the pbos into just one folder so it looks tidier, for example @UKeverything Or will it not work?

excellent thanks for that.

i got the game about 4pm and completed the campaign about 11pm. i was very disapointed on how short it actually is. Im finally happy its not all about a small squad that has to survive every mission and it was good to get to fly and use tanks bt come on £24.99 for this? I thought harvest red was short, it really does seem like the games are really getting smaller and smaller when you look back at the origianl operation flashpoint that had nearly 50 missions. and now we got the british forces expansion coming out which is said to be a "mini campaign." i do hope by mini its not 2 missions like the long awaited quickly completed Eagle Wing.

Surprised he would do that, being as he hates all nationalities except australian and women

again i just dont see why people cant hold their opinions until they at least see something of the new game. Fine keep your expectations low, but at least give it a chance before making your minds up, which seems to be the case already

A revised image from todays comic from penny arcade. lol [ig]http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/3071/979299305wsmkvl.png[/img]