The Official Operation Flashpoint Awesomeness thread

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I bought Operation Flashpoint preowned for 99p a few weeks ago and have just started playing it, its absolutely the most awesome thing to come to gaming...ever.

The realism and the radio commands, its a proper military simulator, its still got a ocmplete atmosphere with the agin graphics, but its pulls of vegtation and trees excellantly.

I was just playign a mission where youre stranded in the forest, and you have 20 minutes to get to the rendevous point,the forest is crawling with patrols, and you have to leave the forest into open ground and go into another forest to get to the point, after saving way too early and gettng quite far my heart was beating as I crawled through the undergrowth and could hear soldiers running, I stoppe dead still and crawled into a bush to see a patrol run right past me, jesus I was scared!

What an awesome game, the multiplayers cool as well.

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It is awesome - the most emotion inducing experience (apart from real life of course)
its scarier than a horror game/movie, its so intense and you can set your watch ny how realistic it is

I can't wait for Armed Assault (OpFlash 1.5 for those not in the know ;) see my sig ) and its join in progress multiplayer goodness - ai assisted battles for as many as 40 human players *drools
 
it was certainly more realistic than most games, and I applaud that, but it's not that realistic when it comes down to it - i do give it credit for the way it dleas with death, and the atmosphere was good, but it's still very much a game and not a simulation of the military
 
I've put off buying it cuz I'm waiting for armed assualt ..what the hell is taking so long?
 
Solaris said:
I bought Operation Flashpoint preowned for 99p a few weeks ago and have just started playing it, its absolutely the most awesome thing to come to gaming...ever.

The realism and the radio commands, its a proper military simulator, its still got a ocmplete atmosphere with the agin graphics, but its pulls of vegtation and trees excellantly.

I was just playign a mission where youre stranded in the forest, and you have 20 minutes to get to the rendevous point,the forest is crawling with patrols, and you have to leave the forest into open ground and go into another forest to get to the point, after saving way too early and gettng quite far my heart was beating as I crawled through the undergrowth and could hear soldiers running, I stoppe dead still and crawled into a bush to see a patrol run right past me, jesus I was scared!

What an awesome game, the multiplayers cool as well.

Discuss
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That's one of the coolest missions. I remember trying to go a bit further north, to avoid the patrols. "I'm a genious", i though. Until i was ambushed by a Hind. I had to hide out, and it took me a good ten minutes to get back into the forest unnoticed (it only took 1 minute to leave it). Then i got killed by 5 Spetznatz hiding in the bushes.

I only wish the graphics were better.

Oh, and it's damn well a simulation. As close as you can get with a computer (until Flashpoint 2).
 
Apparently its so real the developers moved into houses in the towns.

Subsequently they are confused on the release date.
 
Icarusintel said:
it was certainly more realistic than most games, and I applaud that, but it's not that realistic when it comes down to it - i do give it credit for the way it dleas with death, and the atmosphere was good, but it's still very much a game and not a simulation of the military
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well a game will be always limited by the technology of the day and opflash was released in 2001 iirc
no other military sim can hold a candle to it with the exception of VBS2 (made by the makers of opflash) and Hostile waters 3 (sic? the recent submarine sim)
 
clarky003 said:
Apparently its so real the developers moved into houses in the towns and went to work fighting everyday.

Subsequently they are confused on the release date.
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plus when their numbers continaully dwindle due to fatalities and serious injuries new staff must be hired ..and the interview process is a bitch
 
Yea OPF is awesome...I mean the sp was awesome...and the multiplayer co op was infinintly awesome (nothing like having your team mates several km away while youre running on foot using a compass to try to find where youre going)..

..too bad I lost my cd key for it tho I still have the disc
 
yeah that mission after Montignac is awesome - so ****ing intense, i can still remember the total immersion and fear i felt - have you tried escaping in the tractor yet? - its hilarity :D
 
clarky003 said:
Apparently its so real the developers moved into houses in the towns.

Subsequently they are confused on the release date.
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Well, that's what makes it a simulator, isn't it? If it were 100% real, it would no longer be a simulator. And it sure as hell wouldn't be a videogame. If you want it more life like than a computer, you should join the army.
 
That mission is teh hawt. I was able to escape with the tractor, and stole a car from a nearby village. I then saved, and was completely lost. I just drove up the street and after a short level loading progress, I was thrilled to have made it out alive. I drove along into a small village. Suddenly, four enemy soldiers appear. My character says "Oh no..." and gets riddled with bullets D:
 
I will never, ever be more terrified by a game than two missions in OFP; when your convoy gets destroyed while fleeing Malden, and you have to find your way to the safety of another squad while being tailed by about 40 soldiers, and that mission in the valley of Kolgugev where you pretend to be civilians, but it goes wrong and you're ultimately forced to scale the very steep hillside to get to the resistance's fort.

Simply put, OFP is fantastic.
 
and that mission in the valley of Kolgugev where you pretend to be civilians, but it goes wrong and you're ultimately forced to scale the very steep hillside to get to the resistance's fort.
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Oh yeah... That mission was hard but worth it ;)
 
GRR! I must get this game! This thread is getting me so pumped, just from the descriptions...
 
just wait for Armed Assault the 2006 version of opflash
i loved some of the practice one map missions - like the one where you are a special forces team dropped into a russian occupied town or learning to fly the chopper brings a smile to my face :)
 
Beerdude26 said:
Oh yeah... That mission was hard but worth it ;)
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Heh, the worst part is when you're like 15 metres from the peak and it gets so steep you have to start crawling while bullets are thudding into the ground 10 centimetres away from youohgodgetupthemountain ****ING HELL GO MAN GO DAMM- ah that's better!
 
It got shit towards the end though, especially with the character switch to the special ops guy.
 
Hmm, I didn't even hit post once, let alone twice. Screwy server.
 
John, VBS2 is the sequel to the original VBS(Which I've tried btw).:)
VBS1 is great, and btw, you'll get alot more out off OFP if you check out mods etc, the Dynamic Alliance made mods, are some great dynamic campaign/missions, they're very replayable and enjoyable.:)

http://www.flashpoint1985.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard311/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST;f=55;t=45538

Anyway, I'm a huge OFP fan, I own the PC vers+all the expansion, XB vers which in many aspects is superior to the PC vers imatdo(In my and the developers opinion)

I really look forward to ArmA and "Game2"(We won't see a "real" OFP2 unless Codemasters gives the name back to Bohemia.:))

Oh, and there's also a great dynamic zombie survival mod for OFP.. But I can't remember it's name, google OFPEC and look for it at that site, great OFP resource.
 
i've also played vbs1 - its not all that different from operation flashpoint except for the level of extra options ingame and the price (€200 to buy the no-frills pack lol)
VBS2 i havent heard much of
 
Operation Flashpoint is the best. Thing. Ever. My story:

By the time I got with the resistance I had completely lost faith in the chain of command and in the entire war. I had been shot at a lot, stranded in places, seen comrades blown apart due to poor leadership (an AI failure on the part of my sergeant that actually made sense in context: my leaders were idiots! We were lions lead by donkeys!) and on one mission been left utterly alone and terrified when our APC got RPG'd and our sergeant decided on a suicidal charge at the treeline. After dying a lot I finally made it out alive and was rescued by a truckfull of dudes but from that day forth I would never again trust my commanding officers, especially after the retreat from Malden. The Resistance was liberation for me. I would have stayed if I could.

Slowly my confidence grew, and as a special forces soldier I did some amazing shit like blowing up an ammo dump and escaping, Bond-style, on a tractor, or planting bombs under all but one grounded Hind-D gunships, having my cover broken, jumping in the safe chopper and my squad racing to join me as the rotors wound up, one being cut down in a hail of fire, the other diving into the gunner's seat, lifting off and seeing the satisfying boom as I blew the charges on my pursuers. Eradicating every vehicle in a one-mile radius, getting shot at by other helicopters, crash-landing on the edge of a forest and limping to the extraction point.

When the command wouldn't help the resistance I was pissed. But when I was given my first squad, I pissed myself. I had seen entire platoons cut down by poor leadership...how could I possibly face that chance of failure? I couldn't look my men in the eye. I couldn't stomach the possibility that they might die because of me. I wouldn't have been able to live with myself and my mind was tortured all through the boring first two thirds of the mission...what if one of my men was ambushed as he drove to get the truck? When it came to the crunch, I managed to get through the village defence losing only two men. I was pretty shook up but I hadn't gotten them all killed - I wasn't one of those idiot officers who had abandoned me as a rookie.

Well, things continued. As an ace tank driver, chopper pilot and smart luitenant, my confidence as a squad leader growing, we pushed the bastards off the middle island. The next night was one of the tensest of my life as I infiltrated the final island, taking out gun emplacements in preparation for the final push. The corrupt rogue Russian had to be taken out or taken down else his only punishment would be a comfortable retirement in Siberia with a comely Slavic mistress. Not today, you warmongering ****o!

Morning dawned with the crazy adrenaline rush of a low-level A-10 flight, flashing over trees and hills and houses to hose the tiny, toy-like tanks with hot rotary death. Then I was shot down - shit, captured! As my infantry luitenant dropped from the sky over Island-That-Begins-With-A-K, my resolve was iron.

The game broke permanently and I never got past that point. :(
 
Axyon said:
I will never, ever be more terrified by a game than two missions in OFP; when your convoy gets destroyed while fleeing Malden, and you have to find your way to the safety of another squad while being tailed by about 40 soldiers, and that mission in the valley of Kolgugev where you pretend to be civilians, but it goes wrong and you're ultimately forced to scale the very steep hillside to get to the resistance's fort.

Simply put, OFP is fantastic.
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oh hell yea man I remeber that mission from OPF (the first one you stated) I was like holy hell and ran away so fast...all my buddies got shot and it was like a movie me running through the woods shooting as I went finally breaking through...then running across the field through the road where you meet those rebels...what a game
 
Axyon said:
I will never, ever be more terrified by a game than two missions in OFP; when your convoy gets destroyed while fleeing Malden, and you have to find your way to the safety of another squad while being tailed by about 40 soldiers, and that mission in the valley of Kolgugev where you pretend to be civilians, but it goes wrong and you're ultimately forced to scale the very steep hillside to get to the resistance's fort.

Simply put, OFP is fantastic.
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Love that level. Its so damn scary hearing a tank roll past and not being able to see it. What i did in that level was
kept running till i got to the south of the woods, all the way to the edge. Can't remember now if it was the south or north of them, but anyway, when you come across UAV sitting on the road next to a tree, make a dash for it as soon as its safe and then drive like the dickens
.

Eventually i made it to the rendevous point, nervous as hell from the tank that was hugging my ass all the way back.

The best mission though was one of the last ones where you have to
destroy those two SCUD missiles. Man that was hard. Go all the way around, scale the mountain, kill the patrol squad that has the RPG, pick up RPG, keep going up and up until you can see both SCUDs which then followed by an evening prayer of "Oh my ****ing god i hope these don't miss". (Because if they did......oh boy...) Then running back down the mountain as fast as humanly possible with bullets landing all over the place. Man was that fun.
Shit now i'm gonna install it again. Thanks guys.
 
Man, this thread has made me want to get the game. What version is better xbox or pc. I heard the xbox version includes the pc version and the expansion pack.
 
ALL! Move To. House! Eleven O' Clock.

2! Engage! T72!

2! Engaging!

Fond memories :p

Also am I the only one that makes custom missions at night because they look so damn awesome? Tank battles are really awesome at night. It all lights up and stuff.
 
OFP is a ****ing amazing game, it was our no1 network game for more than a year, with all the community add ons available we came up with some excellent missions.
We spent an unbelievable amount of time just putting different add ons on a runway and then enemies on another island.....just bugger about with different things.

I wish they made a game that had the realistic feel of flashpoint but refined physics and graphics.
Flashpoint 2 screenshots have put me off so far.
 
short recoil said:
I wish they made a game that had the realistic feel of flashpoint but refined physics and graphics.
Flashpoint 2 screenshots have put me off so far.
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You've gotta remember that Flashpoint was never about the graphics. The graphics were awful even back then. But the gameplay is still ****ing great. Also, where can i find the patches for the game?
 
Sparta said:
You've gotta remember that Flashpoint was never about the graphics. The graphics were awful even back then. But the gameplay is still ****ing great. Also, where can i find the patches for the game?
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Yeah but to get realism you need "realistic" graphics.
I.e if explosions look shit then they arn't going to have the same effect on you mentally.
Graphics 25% gameply 75% make a good game imo.
http://ofp.gamezone.cz/index.php?newlang=eng
Thats where i used to get all my ofp patches and stuff....check out the unofficial addons as well, theres literally thousands, some are pro, some are awful but amusing.
 
Axyon, me too.

I have never been more scared by a film or a game than Operation Flashpoint.
It wasnt just fear, my blood was flowing really fast, I began to sweat, it was an extreme adreneline rush.

What a cool game, can't wait to play some more of it.

Nice story sulkdods :p
 
That mission where you where on your own and had to make it back to base was pretty scary. Getting stalked by tanks and enemy soldier's in the woods, it was difficult too.
 
Operation Flashpoint is typical great game from Czech Republic :D
 
ChiChi said:
Man, this thread has made me want to get the game. What version is better xbox or pc. I heard the xbox version includes the pc version and the expansion pack.
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Keep in mind that you need 11 keys just to issue orders to your soldiers. Unless you have a keyboard and mouse for your Xbox, it's not that practical. Besides, the PC version is more customisable.

And, the PC versions are so cheap now that you could probably get the game and expansion for half the price of the Xbox game.

I really enjoy the full scale attack missions in flashpoint, where you have all different troops at your disposal and have to attack the enemy. It's like Command and Conquer mixed with Battlefield 2 and Ghost Recon.
 
short recoil said:
Yeah but to get realism you need "realistic" graphics.
I.e if explosions look shit then they arn't going to have the same effect on you mentally.
Graphics 25% gameply 75% make a good game imo.
http://ofp.gamezone.cz/index.php?newlang=eng
Thats where i used to get all my ofp patches and stuff....check out the unofficial addons as well, theres literally thousands, some are pro, some are awful but amusing.
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You should try out the FFUR replacemant packs, each one replaces all the models, skins, effects, sounds etc. I personally like the Modern 2005 pack the most but if you want to keep it true to the original then the 1985 Woodland pack is the way to go.

http://ofp.gamezone.cz/index.php?showthis=9120

I think HL2.net should really get some multiplayer games going :)
 
Loc-Dog, the controls on the XB works surprisingly well, and when you play it it's obvious that it ain't no half-arsed port, but the PC vers is worth it for the mods.:)
 
Ok i'm confused as to what patch i need to download if i've got vanilla OFP. Not the GOTY version and i don't have Resistance either. Just download 1.96 anyway? or do i need all the big updates?
 
Ive got the original cold war melting point with the latest official patch version 4.12 I belive.

Others do the same and add me on xfire, solaris152000, we can then get a game together and the awesomeness will commence.

Short recoil shall lead us to glory. Having a Mike would add to the fun as well.
 
I've never played this game before. I think I tried the demo once in the past. Think I should try picking it up? <ponders>
 
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