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[Nilocy]

The ultimate military sim, or so everyone says, to date. Its one of the most atmospheric, cinematic, unlucky, unfair, downright stupid and best FPS there is out there.

You play as a soldier, a soldier who like every other soldier, if they had unlimited lives, would die constantly over and over and over and over again. This soldier is your viewpoint in the world, sometimes you get to see him in 3rd person if you so choose, but on the servers I like to visit there is none of that nonsense 3rd person unrealismistic combat. You have just your eyes and ears to see this world, and goddamn is it a beautiful world at that.

Take a 10x10km map, populate it with an enemy army all doing their own thing, working as a cohesive unit and gunning to take you down out of their skies with their ungodly accuracy at firing shilkas. Some of the best experiences of my gaming life have come from this game and its company (Bohemia interactive). From hot-LZ landings under enemy triple-A fire, being lucky that the pilot had enough flares to dodge death 120 times in a 2 minute journey sadly not having enough stock for the return trip. To riding in a tank platoon over the desert clashing head on with another unstoppable force charging at us. This game has it all, you can be a foot soldier, tank gunner, chopper pilot, Apache gunner, artillery observer, mechanic, medic and a whole load more.

This game is great by yourself, but even better when playing with your friends or a bunch of other people. The squad AI needs some serious sorting out (you're pretty much left in charge of them and control everything they do, and by everything I mean absolutely everything.) There's no simple way of getting anything done when you have AI squaddies to look after. So I highly suggest you play it with friends.

Anyway, if you already have the game it'd be great to play it with you. If you don't I suggest you download the demo (on Steam I believe) and check it out.

Also the PC blog Rock Paper Shotgun has a server currently, but its due to go offline early Sunday morning. They're having a send off party of sorts for folks on Saturday at 8pm GMT I think.

Anyhoo, stories from this game are great, do you have any to share?

I'll try to get some pics up at some point from my experiences.

Edit: RPS link for pass on the day

[Sowelu]

The voices killed it for me.  I can understand bad voice acting, but this had the worst stitched-together voices I have EVER heard.  The earliest SNES Madden Football games had better-stitched-together voices than this.  It's like every single word in any one sentence is spoken by a DIFFERENT VOICE ACTOR.

Completely annihilated the atmosphere for me.  Couldn't play it.

[Nilocy]

The voices killed it for me.  I can understand bad voice acting, but this had the worst stitched-together voices I have EVER heard.  The earliest SNES Madden Football games had better-stitched-together voices than this.  It's like every single word in any one sentence is spoken by a DIFFERENT VOICE ACTOR.

Completely annihilated the atmosphere for me.  Couldn't play it.

Heh yeah, that isn't exactly a game killer but I do understand that its pretty crazy. But try it multiplayer, you never notice them.

[Sowelu]

Some people are wild for graphics.  For me, bad sounds are the real experience-killer.  It makes me pretty out-of-the-ordinary, but I seriously can't play it because of the terrible voice.  I'm weird like that.

I was also a little nonplussed at how hard I got killed during the tutorial in the demo.

I agree that it's a totally awesome looking game in concept though!

[Vattic]

I have ARMAII but not the expansion. I played and enjoyed the original operation flashpoint, liked to make cutscenes with it. Getting online is something I've not done yet, I keep meaning to.

[Nikov]

Fuck. You hate the voice acting? Play multiplayer. Play with my boys at Tactical Gamer.

http://www.youtube.com/v/NpIQ9mNwKeA?fs=1&hl=en_US

And yes. You will get killed hard.

[Ozyton]

Disable the voices if you hate them so much. Seriously guys...? Alternatively: ACE mod

Operation Flashpoint is just an awesome game/series, I really wish I could go to the event (RPS event) but apparently we have plans that day. Maybe if I get back and they're still playing I'll join, in but...

Well, if that fails, the people at TG play a bunch, unfortunately the activity has seemed to die down after school has started. They still hold sunday events, which i have never been to, but can get... what, 50 or so players all cooperating on the same server?

EDIT: Also, ACE mod makes this game infinitely more awesome.

EDIT2: If anything you should complain bout the HDR which makes it so everything is really dark if there's 1 pixel of the sky on your screen, and otherwise everything is super bright and hurts your eyes. I have to use a mod to manually adjust it.

[Nilocy]

ACE mod is awesome, also I'll try to pop into the TG server, I've been there a coupla' times before.

[Ozyton]

Alright, looks like I made it back in time to join the RPS event. Now I just gotta wait for the password to be posted....

[Nilocy]

I'll be posting pictures of tonights adventures

http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/C.Moncrieff/Arma2OA?feat=directlink

[dogstile]

I'll be posting pictures of tonights adventures

http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/C.Moncrieff/Arma2OA?feat=directlink

No offense, but most of those images look like "HEY LOOK, A DESERT!"

[Ozyton]

People wanted a desert, so they got one. I much prefer Chernarus myself, but everybody wanted a #$&%@ desert so that's what we got...

At least it's not as bad as the desert maps for ARMA 1, these actually have some green in places.

[Nilocy]

I'll be posting pictures of tonights adventures

http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/C.Moncrieff/Arma2OA?feat=directlink

No offense, but most of those images look like "HEY LOOK, A DESERT!"

Well, that's cause we were playing on a desert map...

Anyway, these pictures did the game we had no justice. I was part of the engineer team keeping the side moving, we had some truly awesome moments such as:
"YES! I HIT HIM! Oh shit! He's flying straight towards me! AHHHH!" As the helicopter wreck smashes onto the mountain where we had our stole ZU's (AA guns) parked, the chopper landed about 7 metres away from my squad leader

[AussieGuy]

I only have ArmA II but it is still heaps of fun. Too bad im too young to join a squad though, I had heaps of fun until the squad I was in found out I wasn't 18.

Im planing to get OA though when I have enough money.

[Zai]

Which is better? Arma 2 or Operation Arrowhead?