dd787f No.15245390
Operation Flashpoint is the best Arma game.
8c5add No.15245398
they're all autistic this one just looks like shit and is autistic
dd787f No.15245407
>>15245398
>just looks like shit
part of the charm desu
000000 No.15245543
Ok what makes it better then? I'd assume the ARMA games are more active, isn't the fun of those games larping with nerd online?
dd787f No.15245645
>>15245543
>Ok what makes it better then?
The setting. Cold War always wins over modern day, and especially near future.
>isn't the fun of those games larping with nerd online?
Only if you're a normalfag who can easily chat up complete strangers. I find the AI soldiers make good enough teammates.
34971d No.15246332
>underaged fags have never played Operation Flashpoint
What is this fucking board becoming, goddamn
e663d4 No.15246363
>>15245398
>>15245543
>not knowing what ARMA actually is
Get in the oven, "neurotypical" faggots.
dd787f No.15246399
Jeep doesn't start with "G" you meathead!
6ba31d No.15246408
ARMA 2 was the best because of the massive community support, ARMA 3 is slowly catching up as official updates are released and mods are patched to suit.
I would say with the current ARMA build (released yesterday) when all the good mods fully support the new features it'll take the title of best ARMA.
dd787f No.15246413
>>15246408
>needs mods to make it good
>"best arma"
Umm, no sweetie. Vanilla Cold War Crisis was always perfect.
6ba31d No.15246415
>>15246413
>not running tfar or acre
>not running ACE
How casual you you?
dd787f No.15246428
>>15246415
>not buying a license for Virtual Battlespace 2
6ba31d No.15246435
>>15246428
>mfw when they won't sell to me
dd787f No.15246439
>>15246435
I was being a smart ass. They actually sell consumer licenses? How many hundreds of dollars are they?
6ba31d No.15246450
>>15246439
Here in rooland you need the military to say you need it before you can buy it so PMCs are the only non-government organizations that would get approval.
34971d No.15246532
>>15246439
You can't get VBS, basically, unless some rogue mad man were to leak it to the public but I don't ever see that happening
444e67 No.15246605
>>15245390
Give me an illegal download OP
dd787f No.15246619
>>15246605
It's like five dollars, it was just one dollar this last summer sale. You have no excuse to not own it already.
8f462f No.15246654
i flash banged your mom last night
59ba6d No.15246662
>>15246654
Go lick a toilet's rim you slimy dipshit
8f462f No.15246676
>>15246662
the real flash point was when your mom flashed her tits at me
47d932 No.15246711
>>15246619
I agree, fellow independent consumer - you should all purchase copies of Arma 3.
Don't forget to buy all the on-disk DLC, too - currently available for the low, low price of only US$103!
Remember, goyim - it's on-disk DLC or no DLC. Even though every Arma game until Arma 3 had actual expansion packs instead.
fe2d0e No.15246763
>>15245390
I remember this game had no bullet drop. Destroying tanks from 500 metres with an RPG was fun.
dd787f No.15246772
>>15246711
>fucking GO KARTS
dd787f No.15246780
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RoRT4yYb4g
>cold war crisis was ported to the Xbox with almost all of it's functionality intact
>success
>Dragon Rising and especially Red River are casualized to hell by Codemasters, hoping to get attention from COD/Battlefield crowd
>miserable failure, both fans of original Flashpoint and casuals don't like
3421b6 No.15246791
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>>15245390
Operation Flashpoint was the best war game ever made.
88937d No.15246796
I'd argue that it's the only good ARMA game, the other ones being clunky pieces of shit wrapped in a terrible engine with spaghetti code. The only redeeming thing about the subsequent ARMA games are the mods and even then they're often ruined by the terrible engine.
dd787f No.15246867
Currently stuck on the mission where your whole squad is wiped out and you have to get to Morton by walking through a forest full of Russians, with a Hind flying overhead. I suppose it's realistic, I don't imagine that would be an easy situation to get through in real life.
ca54dc No.15246899
>>15246867
crawl nigga.
I just ran like hell through a forest and rode a tracktor to the base
a1b2cd No.15246958
>>15246763
It did though. You must be thinking of something else. Granted it was a lot harder to notice given that it was quite realistic.
123b7c No.15246967
Pretty well accurate, your OP is shit, however. The expansions were better too.
123b7c No.15246969
>>15246867
If I am remember correctly, check your map, nigger. There is a town with cars, I belieb.
a1b2cd No.15247001
>>15246967
The Russian one felt flat to me. Resistance was great. Actually having to scavenge as much shit as you could during a mission and avoid losing any of you veterans really added to it.
79a4ae No.15247983
>>15246619
I don't think steam has the expansions though
99a057 No.15248033
>>15246867
>pick up LAW from dead guy in the previous mission and destroy Hind
>it's back in the next mission anyway
f99f4d No.15248083
~# This is two taking command, i say again this is two taking command #~
~# Oh no! Two is down#~
f99f4d No.15248094
>>15246532
you can download VBS quite easily, just cannot crack it. they tell people to try and lol
b1fb7c No.15248109
Speaking of Bohemia, did you know Dayz is coming to Xbox? The game they promised would be finished and then ported to consoles but is still in alpha after like 6 years?
6ba31d No.15248400
>>15246711
>implying Apex isn't an expansion pack in all but name
Sure some of the DLC (snipers and fucking go carts) have been piles of shit but the rest have fundamentally changed the way the engine handles something be it better flight models, fully functional interiors or new lighting / foliage systems.
>>15248094
V&?
>>15248109
That was their biggest fuckup to date by far, they should have brought the concept from Andy and made it themselves instead of taking him on as a lead dev.
dd787f No.15253208
>>15247983
It has Resistance, but not Red Hammer.
dd787f No.15253939
>>15246899
You lie. Everyone at Morton got killed, so they gave a secondary evacuation point. When I got there, I was captured by the communists.
d19adb No.15253959
>>15246428
>stuck using VBS2
VBS3 is where it's at fucko.
78d40a No.15253967
Why dont we get a server up and running in Operation Flashpoint?
dd787f No.15254047
dd787f No.15254128
>>15253959
iirc Bohemia was selling civilians copies of VBS1 for about $100 after Operation Flashpoint was a success, maybe you can find it on a disk somewhere. Though I doubt anyone would want to part with their copy.
dd787f No.15254139
>>15254128
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9d_ndYNOZaM
You can't even buy personal edition anymore.
>Bohemia: "Fuck making money!"
78d40a No.15254144
>>15254047
I have to download the key I got from humble bundle first, I never played it.
dd787f No.15254147
>>15254144
Well post in this thread when you want to play. I don't think co op campaign is available, so it will have to be adversarial.
78d40a No.15254164
>>15254147
I only have operation arrowhead.
dd787f No.15254193
>>15254164
>game features US army
>main rifle is Mk16, not M16
>""""realism""""
06363e No.15254200
>>15245543
It's arma with a Campaign with multiple endings and the ability to play as 3 different factions.
78d40a No.15254205
>>15254193
You might have to get permission to use the real name of weapons?
dd787f No.15254218
>>15254205
That is the real name of the weapon. The FN SCAR Mk16. The M16A4 is featured in the base Arma 2 game, used by the USMC faction. The only reason why the SCAR is the US Army's main rifle is to provide weapon diversity, sacrificing realism.
dd787f No.15254458
Bohemia must abandon the near future setting and go back to the cold war. It's probably no coincidence that it's when their best game took place.
The viper suit looks like it's pulled straight from Deus Ex.
78d40a No.15254478
>>15254458
>Not just doing 90's cold war or 00's cold war instead.
78d40a No.15254543
Should we get a Arma 2 or 3 server up? Im down to play.
b38ea4 No.15254605
>>15248094
Source? I know Bohemia does have some internal DRM tech. Maybe VBS uses physical USB keys that you need to play the game.
b38ea4 No.15254656
>>15254458
A lot of it because licensing. If you have your game set in the future you can get away with a lot more when it comes to guns, vehicles and their likeness. Weapons companies are hawks today, looking out for anything that "violates" their IP.
dd787f No.15254680
>>15254656
>Weapons companies are hawks today, looking out for anything that "violates" their IP.
Then why is Bohemia still allowed to sell their older games that feature real weapons with their real names?
b38ea4 No.15254690
>>15254680
Less attention and focus on them, I presume. Or something weird about the law not being retroactive.
dd787f No.15254694
>>15254680
>>15254656
And with so many different companies making AR-15 derivatives, how is it that much to ask that an American faction be given an M16 that looks like, and is called an M16?
b38ea4 No.15254708
>>15254694
No idea. At least Rising Storm 2, Insurgency, Squad and other "tactical" FPS of the sort all call it M16.
dd787f No.15254717
>>15254708
It really is a damn shame. For me, realistic equipment is required for immersion.
b38ea4 No.15254728
>>15254717
True, but I am more or less willing to ignore some of it. As long as the guns aren't straight up nonsense I'll live with it.
c4ae53 No.15254733
>>15254680
Because their pussy company caves to quasi legit legal pressure instead of ignoring it.
dd787f No.15254866
>>15254728
>As long as the guns aren't straight up nonsense
This is a 100 round magazine according to Bohemia. Sure it's quad stack, I still don't buy it.
dd787f No.15255141
>have to lay mines in road to destroy Soviet tanks before they reach a town
>also have AT rockets in case the mines don't destroy all the tanks
>after all the mines are set, sergeant tells me to grab a rocket launcher and hide in a bush by the road
>we're sat in the bush for about two or three minutes, the first UAZ rolls by and doesn't see us
>the tanks follow close behind it, only two are destroyed by the mines and the rest are unharmed (we set six mines)
>sergeant tells me to take out the rest with AT rockets
>destroy one, the rest start heading down the road to the town I was supposed to defend
>sergeant radios for an M113 to pick us up
>fire rocket at another tank
>second tank I hit is merely disabled, the crew hops out and shoots my sergeant to death
>I destroy the tank and kill it's crew with another rocket
>M113 shows up and it's driver shouts over the radio for me to get in, but a loose Soviet tank destroys it before he can finish his sentence
>all by myself now
>instead of restarting, decide to walk to the town and destroy as many Soviets as I can
>manage to destroy one more Soviet tank before being shot to death by infantry
It turns out, boarding that M113 was the only way I could complete the mission. For some reason, it's actually quite fun to fuck up in this game. It's as if as I screw things up, things play out as they actually would in real life. Bad situations become worse ones.
God, Bohemia used to be so good.
6ba31d No.15255538
>>15255141
All my favorite missions have been massive fuckups we somehow recovered or fled .
My favorite to date was:
>taking BTR convoy to an airfield to secure it
>300m into a 1500m drive get ambushed by DShK technicals
>glorious 12.7 x 108mm shreds armor killing 5 of the 7 in the back of a BTR-60 with me
>other survivor and I flee into the bush
>take heavy infantry contact for ~300m until we lose them
>contact 1-1
>find out there are 4 more survivors from another BTR pinned down back at the road
>go to try and break them out
>30 minutes of brutal fighting later we capture a technical and extract with the one guy we managed to rescue
Funny thing is the mission maker didn't know DShK's would punch through a BTR and thought it would be a minor hurdle on the way to the real objective.
a64bc3 No.15255744
I read about this game as a kid and thought it sounded awesome, then tried to play it 10 years later and couldn't figure out how to move. I don't have patience for this shit anymore.
6ba31d No.15255767
>>15255744
>getting less patient with age
You are doing it wrong.
35eafe No.15255818
>>15255767
tbh, you have got to be very autistic to play arma
6ba31d No.15255821
>>15255818
It takes between 4/10 and 10/10 tism levels depending if you are having fun with mates or playing RP as a cop so you can be a cunt.
9de6b4 No.15255826
>>15254543
I actually made a little download package for Arma 2 that includes a bunch of AI mods, ACE and stuff. I'm down to host but my mission only handles about 8 anons and I imagine we'd fail it because it's a stealth-based DAC mission. If you fags are interested I will post the mods and the IP to join
ACRE for Arma 2 has been broken for a long time, I'm not sure if TFAR works or not though.
>>15254605
>Maybe VBS uses physical USB keys that you need to play the game.
Wouldn't surprise me, that's why Steel Beasts PE hasn't been cracked, need the dongle to play. I imagine flight sims will be doing this soon, too, since they're a niche market with generally high-quality content it's not hard to imagine them requiring a dongle to stop people from pirating an 80-120 dollar game.
390579 No.15255832
While we're on the topic, are there any mods that overhaul the official single player campaign of Operation Flashpoint? Are there any good single player mods/campaigns worth a spin?
I'm asking because I missed out on the whole modding aspect of the game when I was younger (and had shitty internet) and nowadays the communities are largely dead and it's difficult to figure out what the good mods are.
9de6b4 No.15255839
>>15255832
FFUR85
It replaces all the models in the base game with higher quality RHS stuff, basically a total overhaul, but it also fucks with the AI, removes the voices so all radio comms is faster which means the AI reaction timing is alot faster and more responsive as well as including the extremely popular AImod SLX, which in OFP was not multi-player capable.
6ba31d No.15255904
>>15255826
It pisses me off that people who enjoy sims won't pay for them, it's such a small market piracy actually can hurt it.
663dfa No.15255932
>>15245645
it absolutely is the best setting, I started with ofp and have played every game in the series since. I'm hoping Arma 4 is in the cold war setting. That said ofp had the worst GUI, scrolling to do anything, just to drop or pick up guns you had to scroll, you couldn't join games in progress either.
47d932 No.15255994
>>15254089
>VBS gets this
>Arma gets on-disk DLC Go-Karts
Okay then.
2f7bf4 No.15256014
>>15255994
I wonder if VBS vehicles can drive on a road for more than 500 meters without crashing.
938798 No.15256016
>>15255826
Are the USB dongles really that much of a hurdle to bypass? I am illiterate in this field, but I have installed a few pirated applications which would have required the dongle and that step was neatly taken care of via software emulation. I just find it weird that that would be so much more demanding than cracking any of these modern copy-protections.
47d932 No.15256027
>>15256016
Surely there'd be the equivalent of a keylogger you could use to track what data the dongle sends and receives and crack the game by setting up a system to send and receive the same data without the dongle.
b38ea4 No.15256109
>>15256016
It depends on how lazy the developers of the dongle software are. If it was online only and had a one key per computer rule that had an encrypted key tied to it along with the online DRM it'd basically be nigh unbreakable.
6ba31d No.15260219
>>15256016
In the case of VBS it's probably more likely that anyone with access would be committing treason by releasing it rather than the copy protecting itself.
34971d No.15260364
>>15255904
No it's not, they can just sell to companies and shit and make bank, they don't need pleb consumers for sims
ca54dc No.15261122
>>15253939
then that was another mission then.
it was a long time ago, can't remember correctly
e4f796 No.15261914
Fuck, I had great memories with Operation Flashpoint and its Resistance expansion. Thanks for reminding me of it, OP.
5312ec No.15261956
>>15246413
Arma 2 needs less mods than Arma 3
Arma 2 is like oblivion of Armas
5312ec No.15261960
>>15254458
>>15254656
>>15254680
>>15254694
Not because of licenses, you forget about VBS. VBS is bought by fucking US intelligence war services, they train soldiers with it. Its hard to convert VBS into a game, but they keep doing it.
175947 No.15262066
>>15254656
>>15254680
So what's the truth? Are you allowed to put real guns in a game without paying a license from the manufacturer or what? Maybe it only applies to guns that are still patented?
175947 No.15262067
>>15262066
real guns with their real names*
eb2c13 No.15262176
>>15246796
I'd say that I hope that Arma 4 with DayZ Standalone's APPARENTLY made-from-scratch engine will remedy some of the Real Virtuality's core issues, but of course they will fuck it up.
>>15261122
Yeah, there are two possible outcomes of Montignac Must Fall - either the other squads eat shit before you even reach the town or all of you eat shit a bit later. In the first case you get into a truck and spend the mission with your squadmates before eventually having to sneak to the secondary evac point alone, otherwise you just start the mission alone.
>>15246532
>>15254128
I've seen VBS1 pirated somewhere, let me look for it.
>>15247001
Red Hammer wasn't made by Bohemia, so its flatness makes sense.
>>15248083
PAPA BEAR
>>15255994
>barely any of the VBS features carry over to Arma 3
It still hurts.
>>15255141
>have to destroy at least one tank in the base
>optional: destroy ammo cache
>fuck that I want to destroy everything I see
>sneak into the base, the braindead AI doesn't even notice their guys getting killed one by one
>holy shit the tanks are empty
>hop into a T80
>statistics: 3xT80, 1xT72, 1xShilka, 1xMi17, 1xMi24, 2xBMP, and a fuckton of Soviet soldiers
Smug Gastovski.jpg
48f28c No.15263151
>>15255839
>FFUR85
where do you get it? i can only find really virus-y looking links
2627ca No.15264000
>>15255839
>removes the voices
But that's part of what makes OFP comfy.
2627ca No.15264002
>>15263151
Also ECP redux is pretty great
616a49 No.15264026
>>15246415
>expanded universe