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  1. Posted

    I agree whisper - I hope that DR makes BIS raise their game, which is good for us, the paying customer. Ive still got ARMA installed, but I only play it again when new patches are released - the game has great potential and I had that one day it realises its potential.

    Also I may not have been registered here for long, but I am a long time lurker. Some of you have short memories regarding what happened on this forum when ARMA2 was released.

  2. Posted · Edited by space

    forget those review read the one from the guy thats actually played it, he was asked about 10 times is it better than Arma2.

    Ok fine dismiss all the reviewers opinions who have pretty much consistently given it 80% - 90% . The guy you refer to was asked twice about comparing it to ArmA2.

    Q. Would you recommend it to someone who has always played the BIS series, and spends most hours in game: patrolling a windy dark forest path at 1AM both in game and IRL. Securing photographs on an enemies position and reporting that on a forum before coming back two nights later (ie persistent mission, never ended) with about 10 more people to raid it for a VIP?

    ...and is looking for a similar experience with this game.

    A. Yes. Yes I can.

    Q.How is it compared to ArmA2

    A.Flashpoint loses some of the cool features of Arma II but has FAR superior animations and environments. Ambience noises and such, which all help to make the game FEEL better, even if you cant tell your A.I. to perform a backflip-axe-throwing-sommersault-ammo-gathering-vehicle-entering-manouver.

    Q. Marks out of 10?

    A.

    Gameplay- 9

    Sound- 10

    Graphics- 9

    I tried putting a few arma2 lies straight on the CM fourms got so many infractions so quick it was unreal.

    Do you think its any different here?

    And sorry if you guys dont like me posting links to reviews. I realise that the only "defence" about them is "reviews don't means crap", but what are you going to do about the players reviews later in the week? No doubt you'll pick the 10% of bad reviews as the truth and dismiss the other 90% as COD players?

    I think we all know that some of you will do that, but you wont be able to prevent fans of the genre from seeing the truth and going out to buy the game.

  3. Posted

    I sense that some of you are upset that OFP : DR has turned out so well, particularly after the disappointment of ArmA2. Some of you need to swallow your pride and look at both games (without considering mods/future releases) and have a long hard think about which is the best overall package. Considering that everyone has played ArmA2, some of the criticisms of DR are pretty ironic, but the people making these criticisms cant cant see that.

    A big factor in realism is the immersion, which is very hard to judge from screenshots and youtube clips. Many people on this forum will be trying the game later in the week, so I guess that we will get a better idea of how it is when people post up their opinions, but if they're positive, then no doubt they will be dismissed as somehow not being true ArmA fans. I think we're going to be hearing alot of this tbh :

    While ArmA II had the potential to be superb Dragon Rising actually is
    Some people will doubtless hate it, saying it's not a par on ArmA II, moaning about how it isn't realistic enough or that the PLA don't have accurate uniforms, but I advise you to ignore the naysayers and play the game.

    Review: Operation Flashpoint 2: Dragon Rising Review - ComputerAndVideoGames.com

  5. Posted

    Phantom tank crews are not helping your case ,sorry.

    I'm really worried about this 63 entity count thing. So how would you go about building a believable base for instance -empty vehicles also count as an entity- So once you left your base (saying you have 40 or so entities there) would you have to delete the base to make room for more entities on the map?

    Yes it works on spawning and despawning. So really the 63 limit is just in whatever area you happen to be in at anytime. According to the editor guide the limit isn't actually fixed - 64 entities ia s guideline number, to make sure all missions work on the minimum recommended spec machines.

  9. Posted

    -Ballistics- Bullets are REAL objects, if you hit print screen fast enough you can see them

    Oh, saw a few ricochets, VERY cool VERY realistic, AI shooting at long range, watched a tracer bullet fly, dip after distance and hit the floor flat, so it bounced at about a 20 degree angle from the floor, dipped again and then stopped.

    http://community.codemasters.com/forum/showpost.php?p=5680728&postcount=199

    Sounds very cool

  10. Posted

    It’s definitely not better looking than ArmA2, DR is way behind in that area.

    I see you have a Sapphire 4890. I can "only" afford a 4850, and trust me, to get ArmA running on my PC, it doesn't look quite as pretty as all the promo screenshots for ArmA. So Id say yes - with the highest spec hardware ArmA most probably does have the better graphics, but if you took your average PC gamer, and set each game to run smoothly, then I think it maybe OFP that has the edge.

  11. Posted

    So it just almost the same to A2, except that it is smaller in scale, better looking then A2, limited in MP, and we have no idea if it is modable or not:j:

    Thats pretty much how I see it right now, plus it seems to be pretty much bug free, and has far lower hardware requirements (probably due to its smaller scale)

    The golden question is how are the MP and modding capabilities. Noone has played MP yet for obvious reasons, and CM are being suspiciously quiet about modding ( apparently the guy who deal with modding it is on holiday - it would make sense as they have no doubt been working hard to recently, but they can only use that excuse for so long )

  12. Posted

    DM - he said it was his partners friend who works in the industry that has the game - he said that him and 6 of his mates went round to their house to play it. Im sure he wants to play it, but he cant buy it yet! :D

    And if you want to quote sections from his thread, how about this bit when Rommel350 from this forum asked :

    Would you recommend it to someone who has always played the BIS series, and spends most hours in game: patrolling a windy dark forest path at 1AM both in game and IRL. Securing photographs on an enemies position and reporting that on a forum before coming back two nights later (ie persistent mission, never ended) with about 10 more people to raid it for a VIP?

    ...and is looking for a similar experience with this game.

    The reply was :

    Rommel - Yes. Yes I can.

  13. Posted

    Zipper thats not talking about the game - thats thinly veiled trolling. In my experience ArmA has plenty of hackers and kiddies too, and to have a discussion about potential hacks that may or may not appear for OFP : DR in the future isn't really much of a discussion about the game. That would be like speculating what BIS may or may not break with their next patch.

    Also DM - get a life - you completely misrepresent facts, and constantly take quotes out of context. You know you do this, so ask yourself why you feel the need to do that? eg :

    The guy who played it said:

    I just got Empire Total War so I may be retiring from this thread

    And you say :

    So it seems more of a "dip-in-and-out" game than a "dedicate the next 7 years of your life to it" game... Read from that what you will...

    You obviously read the whole thread, so you know full well that the guy didn't actually have the game himself, but he had played it at a friends house.

  15. Posted

    Well DM I cant be bothered to individually respond to every piece of misinformation you typed there, but almost every negative thing you typed there is in fact confirmed as the opposite. Anyway, we'll all find out how the game plays this week.

    As I said earlier in the thread, some of you are painting yourself into a corner.

  16. Posted · Edited by space

    Game looks to be short, well from the mission list - only 11. I guess that lovely DLC thing will provide more, heh.

    I expect most people here would play the game on hardcore mode, which will make the game last much longer. It sounds like the mission editor is pretty cool though - One of the reviewers with ArmA experience had this to say on that

    What makes me remember Operation Flashpoint today with such joy is the tools. I've spent many nights trying to create the perfect mission for a lonely soldier and his stupid AI friends. Bohemia deserves an applaud for delivering the game with the tools. But as usual someone should have told their programmers that user friendly things isn't something you should fear. The editor was a disaster and worst of it all was the scripting that would never tell you when something was wrong. Sure, it was a lovely feeling to alt-tab out to notepad and hack, but it's funnier if you don't have to fight the editor.

    Codemasters work puts Bohemias work to shame here. Dragon Rising is shipped with a wonderful and intuitive editor. After just a few minutes I was ready to go and started planning a a mission involving a big military convoy and attack helicopters. The editor warns you of errors and as icing on the cake the script-language LUA is used instead of some homemade and bad documented crap. This makes it possible for skilled modders to throw themselves into the design at once. The process of making a pretty good mission is fairly fast, but players that become really good at this can bind several missions together and create their own campaign.Codemasters have to get the modding going here. It's a great editor but lots of supportwork and learning material will be required to get the ball rolling.

    To knock the game for things like not having rabbits is frankly absurd. The biggest problem by a mile with OFP : DR is the lack of info about modding and dedi server. With the release so close its not looking good. Most of the other criticism of OFP : DR in this thread are minor realism features really, which can equally be said about ArmA2.

    And guys quit the personal attacks against each other. Supposedly ArmA has a more mature crowd?

  17. Posted

    Do you get many people trolling the OFPDR forums about ArmA like this?

    Yes you do - I post there as well, often to point of the problems in OFP : DR. Both games have compromises and deficiencies, but I just think its crazy that pn this forum so many supposed mil-sim fans completely dismiss OFP : DR for the smallest of details.

    It seems that some of you are BIS fans more than mil-sim fans. Why does it seem like you can only like one game or the other on this forum? ArmA2 has great potential, and one day it may achieve it. Who knows how OFP : DR will turn out, but so far you cant deny that it looks promising.

  18. Posted

    Flarma

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    This applies to them as well. Obviously you will get bias on the BI forum. Everyone here knows the truth about ArmA2 because we've all played it, but some of them have painted themselves into a corner, and they're starting to realise it.

    How can you make statements on the realism of ArmA2 based on a (unreleased) addon?

    because half of the argument against the problems in ArmA2 are defended with "the ACE mod will fix it"

  19. Posted

    CM really shouldn't have used the OFP name - all this ArmA2 vs DR crap is stupid - the game is obviously good enough to stand on its own feet. Despite the undeniable compromises they have made, it looks like a very solid mil-sim/tactical shooter.

    The augment about which is more mil-sim is full of holes on both sides as my previous post pointed out :

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    Basically ArmA may gain a few more players by OFP : DR attracting new players to the genre, but realistically I think that ArmA will probably lose a few players ( probably the ones who have pretty much given up on ArmA already.

  20. Posted

    Well we have less than a week to wait and find out. Its hard to discuss a game that no one here has played, but we do have several reviews where we can pick up details. Yes they may be biased/paid off by CM/lying, but when you read the same thing in several reviews, then it does start to form a pattern.

    Also some of you knocking Flarmapoint for fanboism, really should get out of your glasshouses first.

    get back to you basic, plain, boring world of arma 2 ;)

    Surely you mean fictional land of Chernarus?

  21. Posted · Edited by space
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    A game that works would be a big step forward for BI.

    Ive just made a game with 10 billion units, and 10 000 player pvp - oh but it doesn't actually work. Does that make my game the best mil-sim game you can buy?

    I was bitterly disappointed with ArmA2 - everyone said it would be a bugfest, and BI did nothing to stop that prophesy from coming true. We are all clinging to the hope that a future patch will fix ArmA2 ( and not make it worse ) or that the ACE mod will fix it. Instead BI have moved on to their next game to try and get us to pay to beta test for them again.

    As one of the reviewers has said :

    While ArmA II had the potential to be superb, Dragon Rising actually is Source

    Btw - talking about ACE :

    39841844.jpg

    How come their changes for gameplay aren't cried about as being unrealistic, along with many other things in ArmA that aren't realistic? And why is it upto a free mod to fix a game that I paid BI to give me?? Its easy to nitpick over tiny things, but its the overall experience that matters, and everyone who has played OFP : DR has said that the production values are very high.

  23. Posted

    People keep saying its trying to draw the cod and BF2 but it wont no dedicated server and the game sucks soon cod MW2 will be out and everyone will have forgotten about it.

    COD wont have dedicated servers at launch either apparently, plus all the reviews have said OFP is superb, so its sounds like you're just hoping it sucks. I get the impression from my friends that its ArmA2 thats been forgotten about. Alot of people are sick of clinging to the hope of the next patch or the ACE mod. I know alot of people will be moving over to OFP.

    Review: Operation Flashpoint 2: Dragon Rising Review - ComputerAndVideoGames.com

    While ArmA II had the potential to be superb Dragon Rising actually is
    Some people will doubtless hate it, saying it's not a par on ArmA II, moaning about how it isn't realistic enough or that the PLA don't have accurate uniforms, but I advise you to ignore the naysayers and play the game.

    Personally I think that with comments like that, to just dismiss this game is crazy - a few weeks ago it looked like CM might have messed things up, but from all the reviews and clips that are coming out now, it looks like this game is going to be awesome if played on hardcore mode.

  24. Posted

    DR isnt made for OFP veterans.

    DR isnt made for simulations or realism fans.

    DR isnt made to introduce something new and groundbreaking.

    DR seems to be a shooter - mainly developed for consoles.

    Which console games can actually compete with DR?

    http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=224624

    That review and most of the other ones disprove what you say. Isn't it a good thing that more games in this genre are being produced, especially when its accessible therefore attracting new players? Is there some secret rule that you can only like ArmA, and you must summarily dismiss any other similar game? Sure OFP is not the same as ArmA, but its not a million miles off. Its obvious by the fact that this thread has 185 000 views, and is by far the most popular thread on this forum, that many ArmA fans are going to be buying OFP, which will hopefully make BI raise its game - thats the beauty of competition - its good for gamers.

  25. Posted

    Well the review does say this :

    While ArmA II had the potential to be superb Dragon Rising actually is

    I presume that most people here like ArmA, so how many of you guys are going to be trying it, to see if its better? The vast majority of the reviews so far have been great, with the main complaints being that at times its too hardcore. Does this put you off it? Surely all the reviewers cant be wrong?

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