Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising

[stemot]

Not sure if I read that right. If I did, it's obvious you never served in the Military. Would you "Edge Out" or use cover? :sniper:

Not sure if I read you right because I'm sure I wouldn't be able to push my back against a wall to switch to an out of body experience to safely survey my surroundings without fear of taking a bullet. I would have to peek from behind cover like you must do in this game.

Besides, I never served in the "military" and never would.

 

[bam23]

first-person cover ala Killzone 2 or lean/peek buttons

 

[Dalamari]

Too bad you can't actually aim in Killzone 2, just sway your gun around hoping you can eventually trick the lag into pointing you in the right direction

 

[MRG]

Not sure if I read you right because I'm sure I wouldn't be able to push my back against a wall to switch to an out of body experience to safely survey my surroundings without fear of taking a bullet. I would have to peek from behind cover like you must do in this game.

Besides, I never served in the "military" and never would.

LOL... touché

-MRG

 

[Kinslayer]

Y'all best be trollin'.

Hardcore does have map markers for objectives; they're the (1), (2), and (3) respectively, based on their position in the list. There's no compass, but they're definitely on the map. Secondary objectives are grayed out. You can also check your ammo count, type of ammo, and fire mode via scrolling the mouse wheel; the weapons list shows up and it shows the current weapon's details along with the list.

If you've ever played FPS before, experienced is probably where to start. It's forgiving, but it doesn't give you hit indicators or allow you to sprint across a field with 40 people shooting at you and still live.

I must say I am enjoying it quite a bit.

 

[Dalamari]

I'm enjoying it, but I'm getting my ass kicked on a mission where I need to defend a town. Seems that your friendly AI goes from being amazing one mission and then totally worthless the next.

 

[Sparta]

Too bad you can't actually aim in Killzone 2, just sway your gun around hoping you can eventually trick the lag into pointing you in the right direction

God the controls in that game sucks.

 

[Bob_Marley]

first-person cover ala Killzone 2 or lean/peek buttons

Leaning exists in the game (the AI can do it), for some reason the PC can't though.

Probably due to lack of buttons on console controllers and being too lazy to add an extra couple of controls for PC.

 

[Kinslayer]

I'm enjoying it, but I'm getting my ass kicked on a mission where I need to defend a town. Seems that your friendly AI goes from being amazing one mission and then totally worthless the next.

If we're thinking about the same mission, then put one guy on the mounted gun, the other two in the trees to his right, and you yourself sit in the house and take potshots at people. Make sure you have enough ammo to go beserk with it.

Completed the campaign on Experienced today. I think I'll have a go at hardcore, looks interesting to say the least.

 

[Dynasty]

Or turn around and hop in the gunner position of the APC and watch the treeline dead-ahead with your heat-seeking mode so guys appear in white and blow the crap out of them with the APCs 50cal or grenade launcher? Oh and watch the trees on the right of the road too, they come down there.

I had my first smile from this game yesterday. Specops mission and I set the alarm off, which was always going to happen in the mission, so falling back to an LZ with a ***t load of guys on my ass, ripping up the ground around me with machinegun fire. Sprinting through the treeline with mud flying up everywhere, the snaps and hisses of bullets flying past...it was awesome.

 

[highlander]

My editor doesn't work for some reason. is this happening for anyone else?

 

[Evo]

Review is up on The Reticule and there is also one in the new PC Gamer. It got 69% with the words: An attractive and powerful sim that spoils itself by trying too hard to be a straightforward shooter.

 

[Gargantou]

I enjoy playing OFPDR on my 360, no idea how the PC version is.

 

[Pulse]

Is there a demo out for this bad boy yet?

 

[stemot]

I enjoy playing OFPDR on my 360, no idea how the PC version is.

Identical to the 360 version in every way.

 

[Tagaziel]

Nothing beats the originals.

 

[Pulse]

Le bump, anyone know if there are any demos out? Can't find a gosh darn thing and I want to test it out before buying it.

 

[Dalamari]

Got stuck on a mission where I've gotta defend a town from a counter-attack, gave up

Too much action, not enough nerdy realism

Also, I'm pretty sure if you can't easily find a demo on their site of through a quick google search that a demo doesn't exist.

 

[OmegaX]

Got stuck on a mission where I've gotta defend a town from a counter-attack, gave up

Too much action, not enough nerdy realism

Also, I'm pretty sure if you can't easily find a demo on their site of through a quick google search that a demo doesn't exist.

You need an APC from prior in the mission. You just set it up on a hill beside the village and turn on thermal view. Pretty easy to defend with the APC's two guns. I managed to do it all by myself when my co-op buddies died.

 

[Sparta]

Nothing beats the originals.

Which is such a shame when you think about it. Operation Flashpoint was absolutely fantastic, and everything BIS has done since then has been spoilt by their lofty ambitions. I can't blame them for trying, but I'd kill for a straight-up, linear campaign in a war sim like the original.