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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Suave on May 11, 2004, 09:00:25 PM
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We're looking for a few good men.
http://www.northoltwing.com/wing/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1755
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You guys ever get this thing going? By the looks of that thread, seems it fell through.
I was watching Clear and Present Danger tonight and felt the urge to reinstall OpFlash and Resistance. Spent the last 2 hours finding, downloading, and installing a CRAPLOAD of addons. I am very surprised this game is still ticking!
still busy over here: http://ofp.gamezone.cz/
I'm also cruising through Dinger's stuff (http://www.thechainofcommand.com) - having fun with his claymores :D
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Love to.
Drop me an email or something.
Swoop@hitechcreations.com
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I would but i don't own any of the add-ons.:(
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Actually I've been jonesing for some ofp lately. I loaned my cd's out. I hope to get them back this week and reinstall the game. Once I get it up and running again I'll shoot ya some emails.
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Anyone know if operation falklands mod ever got released?
Hmmmm...i may see if i can buy the add-ons cheap somewhere.
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Dude all the ofp addons are free. It's illegal for a third party to sell addons and mods.
I thought you were refering to the expansion CDs in your first reply.
Not sure about the falklands mod.
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The Falklands mod died unfortunately.
Best addons I've seen lately are the BAS soldier addons (great new M4s with both ACOG and reflex sights), new AT launchers that do proper damage to vehicles instead of just destroying them outright or bouncing off ala LAWs and RPGs.
And yeah, no need to pay for addons. Everyone must have the expansion (OFP:resistance) though, makes the game so much better it just aint funny. And the official patch v1.96 removes the need for the CD to be in the drive.
The only trouble I ever had with OFP was making sure everyone had the right addons installed. It's a pain in the backside when you're all set up to play and someone doesnt have the right addons.......especially when you've been using the same addons for months and cant remember where you got em in the first place.
I used to have a CD full of WW2 addons for OFP but lost them ages ago. Funked may still have the CD I gave Fatty to give to him at the 2002 con.
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Sweet.
octavius at hitechcreations.com
I downloaded FDF Mod (http://koti.mbnet.fi/~fdfmod/) - which adds just a TON of stuff... but weighs in at 400+ mb.
SEB Nam Pack2 (http://www.filefront.com/?filepath=/theofpfaq/addons/OFPR_Addon_SEB_NamPack2.zip) (100mb)
And a bunch of other things.
BAS seems to be out of business. I'm looking for some DL spots now.
[edit]: BAS links (http://www.theavonlady.org/theofpfaq/misc/basfiles.htm) [/edit]
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Yeah, Seb nam pack2 , the BAS addons and the CoC unified artillery are must haves.
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The more I play Joint Operations, the more I miss Operation Flashpoint.
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The Falklands mod is supposed to be 71% done. By the time they finish, OFP II will be out lol (ok, unlikely)
I'm still playing MFCTI a LOT, although my computer has trouble unless I play the "less units" variant of 1.16. On of the Shills modded the mod, and added a Kawasaki Motorcycle that REALLY improves the Early phase gameplay.
If you haven't played MFCTI, it basically turns OFP into a Hybrid FPS/RTS game, where two sides fight for control of Everon. It's one of the best games I've ever played, and has a replayability that I've never seen in a FPS before. The Combined Arms aspects are just crazy, I love using Airborne Infantry to take and hold towns Behind enemy lines.
Every December I get a hankering to play lol.
Anyhow, I'll see if I can find the url for the Motorcycle version of mfcti
-Sik
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Falklands is still underway; I've spoken to CBFASI (alsoo his AH name) just in the past month about it.
Well, it's not illegal to sell addons for OFP, but you'd have to do it through Codemasters or something. So a third party could conceivably sell stuff, especially if they were under contract to do so. Of course, with the OFP addon scene, it wouldn't really make sense, since those commercial addons would be available to all. (Unlike VBS1 which encrypts addons to individual keys... of course, someone could pirate those, but what's the point?)
I haven't played OFP in something like six months, but am always willing to try. My little OFP mod group is still alive, but we're "pursuing other opportunities" at the moment.
Anyway, I'd be game, but the time zone and net difficulties might throw a wrench in it. At the very least, I can supply some sweet-ass CM tools to make it all work better. I don't think I part with the "military-grade" stuff, but the general release goodies are pretty nice.
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bump!
found it!
Think i got confused with the add-on/expansion cd's- i have the expansions. Hmmm....what add-ons to download....
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Thanks for punting this, I forgot. Here's the url for the Capture the Island Add On with the Kawasaki Motorcycle:
http://killbilly.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13&Itemid=41
-Sik
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Ok I've got it re-installed along with the requisite addons. Just moved into a new place and got a new job and got my intardnet cable back on friday. I should wait untill my situation stablizes a bit before I commit %100. I don't know what my work schedule is beyond the next two week.
I've got the barebones of that mission mentioned in the linked thread back up and running. So I'm ready to start adding a plan to the mission.
First thing we should do is get together and hash out the basics, server, voice etc., on yahoo or something. I'm suaveogorek on yahoo.
Jan 20th after 5pm will work for me.
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Wanted to buy them again,, but Amazon.co.uk won't ship it to Lululand...
Anyone knows a good (web based) place to get those?
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Saw,
do you ever make it back to Blighty?
If so then I'm sure I can help ya out here.......if not then I'm still sure I can help ya out here by posting on stuff.
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Swoop, was in UK for new year's eve... so no plans to go there soon. (At least not untill march).
Maybe we can work something out? Can you please shoot me an email at saw AT onpoi DOT net ?
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Suave lookee here. (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000E2FLB?v=glance)
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My kid broke the cd i likedthat game.
And im not the person that gets into shooters.
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Bug if you've still got it installed,a nd are running OFP:Res., patch to the latest version (1.96) -- iot doesn't require a CD in drive.
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just found my cds, where do you guys play at?
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Sweet, moosey!
Check here :) (http://forums.checksix.net/forum_posts.asp?TID=3382&PN=1)
Tonight at 10 est.
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moose ? did you get lost ?
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yes, yes i did...
been playing on an old old old online friends server -- karillion.. using ofpwatch... let me know when you guys are playing again and i'll try to make it tho!
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I just got mine installed with the addons.
So, I can play now.
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LE PUNT
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Funked craves to be French, I KNEW IT :D
I's spelled "Ze Point" ! I'm sure Straffo will agree.
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Originally posted by Estes
I just got mine installed with the addons.
So, I can play now.
Outstanding Estes. I got your yahoo, you get mine?
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Talk about commercial retail shelf space shortage. You would think with the new small boxes, and "Classic" games where they just shrink wrap the CD and stack them by the hundreds, there would be a game of the year FP copy somewhere local. Nope, had to order it from Amazon. Sheesh.
OFP any good on LAN btw?
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The MP Code for OFP is ideal for a LAN (well, it could be better, but it's pretty good). In fact, for the USMC, US National Guard, Australian Defense Forces, US Secret Services, DARPA, Swedish Armed Forces, Singapore Army, French Army, there are clear accounts on the web that they have LANs running some form of the OFP engine.
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The LAN guys are worried it's a "killed, your out of the session" Dinger. They are used to playing "Cat and Mouse" in Call of Duty United Offensive, which is a blast on LAN.
OFP is good stuff LAN then?
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You can have infinite respawns in ofp, or you can have just one life. OFP isn't really the game, the game is the addons, of which there are a huge amount, you could think of OFP as an operating system.
Look at some of the addons, and readup on them.
http://ofp.gamezone.cz/
I love ofp, but I know there are people who hate it.
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I used to play OFP a lot, sorta stopped after that WWII mod came out, what was that, 3 years ago now? I've still got my CDs around somewhere, looking at the list of new mods this thing might be worth getting back into. I always loved the sytle of that game.
Speaking of WWII mods any of you guys play Red Orchestra?
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I'm not much into wwII stuff unless it's strategic or flying. The tempo of addon releases for ofp has actually been increasing.
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FPS games make me dizzy.
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Try OFP, I bet ya it doesn't.
FPS games in small arenas like HL, CS, Doom, etc, all make a friend of mine dizzy, so dizzy he throws up. OFP doesn't cos it's not based in a 300ft x 300ft arena........it's based on a 12mile x 12mile island.
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yes, there are many games built around various respawn systems. The big limitation right now is on join in progress, which is not supported (but has been promised for ofp2).
Well, actually, the other limitation is on mission design. As suave says, the OFP engine is like an operating system. well, it's a little more limited than that... but that's what makes it tricky.
Mission design depends on the units placed in there, so a mission is made specifically for addons and mods. For example, let's say you wanted to have some sort of vietnam scenario where the human players make up a LRRP squad on a mission to locate an enemy base. You insert via Huey 4 klicks from the search area, then hump it in. Once you locate the base, record the location, pull back, and call an airstrike. If needed, some M101s at a FB will prove a couple 105mm fire missions. Call it in, then withdraw to base.
Okay, for such a mission you would need:
a Vietnamese terrain (such as the 12x12km Ia Drang Valley map, or the 25x25km PMC Vietnam Map, or something else)
a set of vietnam-era soldiers and equipment (SEB NP2)
Some appropriate aircraft (e.g., DKMM's Vietnam-era paintjob OV-10)
The howitzers (CoC M101s)
Some effects scripts (say napalm for the OV-10s)
You would build the mission up specifying these units, and you can't replace them at game time. The disadvantage is that everyone has to have the addons downloaded (Tehre are some auto-downloaders that automate this process on some public servers), and installed. the advantage is that you can have addons that add entirely new features to the game through heavy use of the built-in programming language (such as my howitzers).
The problem is that, with so many factors in play, missions can go bad/out of balance quite easily, especially multiplayer missions, where designers don't always have a handle on what the engine does and doesn't share between clients (and how to work around these limitations). So when you download MP missions you get a real mixed bag: everything from MP free for all deathmatches, to capture the flag, to combined-arms CTF. to RTS games, to realistic cooperative missions, to BS coop missions. And you get stuff that works and stuff that doesn't.
The advantage of Suave's system is that the OFP mission environment allows an editor to develop a "one off" mission quite easily, and will even give the designer some surprises.
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Originally posted by Dinger
The MP Code for OFP is ideal for a LAN (well, it could be better, but it's pretty good). In fact, for the USMC, US National Guard, Australian Defense Forces, US Secret Services, DARPA, Swedish Armed Forces, Singapore Army, French Army, there are clear accounts on the web that they have LANs running some form of the OFP engine.
Dinger, it's called VBS1 and it will set you back around $300-$500 depending what you want to do with it. It's a lot like OFP (basic engine is the same but with a few updates, for the rest well, it's Not OFP but take the "Game ouf of OFP" and put in Millitary Sim and that is what you have with VBS1
check http://www.vbsresources.com/
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Well kinda.
I have VBS1 and I'm playing OFP:R instead.
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Swoop,
We (SES) have put up a server. 195.20.109.77:2302 check it out you will need all the addons
Cheers
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I'll see if I can find the USB key for it, it's around here somewhere I just havn't been bothered to find it since I moved house.
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I said "some form" of the OFP engine. To be precise, DARPA, the swedes, singapore and the French are only using OFP. But that doesn't mean there are other groups out there that use VBS.
Hmmm, so Swoop, you've got VBS1? Heater do you own a copy or just look at the site?
I think all the modules for VBS1 will run you around $700 now;
(don't worry suave, it's not worth converting from OFP to VBS1)
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ah yes, SES. Tell Junker the answer is "two weeks"
but I didn't just say that (and it ain't cheap).
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Figured I'd post this:
Runny has added the Motorcycle to the Malden and Nogova MFCTI missions. Nogova has some great terrain, though it's a pain in the bellybutton to get around some parts of the Island. Having someone fly a Chopper is recomended, and since Airborne Operations are what I like best about MFCTI it just works out nicely.
-Sik
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http://www.freeroleentertainment.com/files/guns.wmv
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New ofp forum so that we don't need to spam HTC's
http://r0013636.hostultra.com//index.php?act=idx
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Give Amazon credit, my copy arrived several days early. GOTY edition $20, - the 1.96 patch but that was easily found and applied. Almost quicker and cheaper than trying to find it local at the stores, i'm impressed.
I installed the FDF mod and am trying to just complete a mission or 2, really enjoyng single player till I get the hang of it again. Love the menu music in FDF too.
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Damn, I miss OFP so much. I used to play it all the time a couple years ago but you really need a strong secure squad to keep ya in the fights... I can't wait til OFP 2 comes out! Can't believe they delayed it by two years!
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I am a member of the Falklands Mod Community. Check it out at http://www.flashpoint1982.co.uk It is an Awesome Mod and it is being done exactly! to the real Conflict in 1982 in which claimed the lives of many in a short period of time. Anyway, the Mod will be Released Completely by Q2 of 2005. Meaning around April. They are hoping to have it released by the Anniversary of the April 2nd Invasion of the Islands off the edge of Argentina.
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Good to hear Airwolf! Can't wait to play it :)
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Been playing LAN with the Y2K3 mod and having a blast. For instance, the Malden map "Shadowkiller" via Multiplayer, it really shows off the y2k3 mod enhancements.
What would you suggest for our LAN group Dinger to get more out of it? We are having a riot, but seem to want better weapons on various maps. There is only so much plinking with the M16’s on the stock MP missions till we want to add (read:cheat) with better weapons.
Suggestions?
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Any BAS (Ballistic Addon Studios) rock the house.
Check this sticky (http://r0013636.hostultra.com//index.php?showtopic=12) - links to the addons we use. Higher quality sounds, improved "stock" garbage. The M249 SPW alone is worth the download.