FOOKIN' SWEET!!!  

I loved OFP / OFP Resistance, and all the expansions / addons!  I used to make maps & missions for OFP/r and played them all the time up until about a year ago...

Now the new OFP2 is coming out, and I've gotta have it!  

And with a relatively NEW PC, I think my system can likely handle it too!  

Quoted: Quoted: The original was awesome, I spent HOURS upon hours playing custom missions that guys posted on the net. I think my favorite mission custom from resistance was one where you had to ambush a bus full of Russian soldiers and you are on a hill with a few guys and women too.  Armed with a mix of long guns and pistols, as well as C4. I must have blew up that bus 1000 times, bc I would have to restart the mission after dying from square 1. Awesome game, Im in.  I remember playing this one.. Gosh it feels like 15 years ago, but I guess it hasnt been that long.. Yea I remeber playing the same scenerio hundreds of times trying to get it right...  Now I think I am much more looking forward to multiplayer...

I loved playing that mission too...  Pretty difficult!

I like my own maps/missions a little bit better though. My friend and I wrote add-on Missions downloadable for OFP and OFP Resistance, and we'd send them to each other (along with relavent 'addons' to make it work), and we'd play each other's missions.

My favorite was one we made together called 'Hell Breaks Loose'.  We made a SWEET mission where you were a Special Ops sniper with M-40 sniper rifle, Silenced Glock 9mm, and laser designator.  The mission was to infiltrate pretty deep into enemy lines on a KLR-650 dirt bike - at night.  Keeping off the roads, avoiding enemy patrols & camps, and going deeper into enemy territory driving mostly with NVG's because some lights might draw some unwanted Infantry, BMP, or HIND attention.  (Note the KLR-650 CAN go through wooded areas if you go carefully and play the whole mission 1st-person)

Eventually you near your AO and have to dismount.

Sneak up on the crew of a Shilka on a hilltop where they're they're hanging out at a campfire beside their AA gun.  Take out the crew with a Silenced Glock pistol to keep nearby infantry sleeping calmly in their basecamp below.  Stealthily crawl into and occupy a decent observation / sniping spot overlooking the large town.  Time fast-forwards to morning, and you see the town is occupied with several platoons, mechanized infantry, some BMP2's and four T-80 tanks.  Setup your laser designator, mark the first T-80 and call in the A-10 Warthogs for a precision airstrike.

That sure puts the 'pucker factor' on the T-80 crews which start up and head out on an attack mission to take out the FOB from which you just came in the 'green zone' many miles away.  You have to somehow get the A-10's to come around on another pass & take out the other 3 tanks ASAP before they get away - if your FOB is destroyed, the mission is failed.

By now a squad of enemies on patrol has discovered the dead Shilka Crew and starts hunting your ass down.  While you're designating the remaining T-80's for air strike, the enemy patrol is crawling up your ass - you'd best have picked a good position with LOTS of concealment or you're gonna die!

Hopefully the airstrike(s) will have taken out the T-80's so you have a home to go back to (if you live).  If the T-80's are down, your main objective is completed.  In theory you can try like hell to escape back to your KLR-650...

If you do good, the patrolling squad passes you by unaware, but the town is riled up, and a Mechanized (BMP2) infantry squad is patrolling rather 'lazily' with the BMP crew hanging their heads out their hatches.  They're headed right your way, if you leave your concealment, that BMP will pop you faster than you can run, and you can bet they'll find you this time - even if you stay put.  You're forced to delay/impair/snipe them.  Your first shot should take their BMP gunner in the head at a pretty far distance!  You'd best account for leading your moving target and not miss or it's the last mistake you'll ever make - mission over - you're dead.

If you DO hit the gunner, try for the driver or commander next before they can duck into the APC.  You can choose to keep sniping to slow the infantry down faster -- or RUN LIKE HELL back to your KLR-650 and hope you can ZIG-ZAG to dodge bullets long enough to get to your bike hidden in the trees.  I always next aimed for the squad's Officer & Machinegunner, whatever appears to be the next best target.  With them down, it usually buys enough time to run to the bike.

GTFOOD.  Get the f(_)ck out of dodge.  Drive that KLR-650 back north to go home.  It's daylight, so patrolling squads will open fire on you if spotted, keep to low/deadzone ground and drive as fast as you can off-road.  Upon nearing the front lines, enemy presence grows, you might be able to stop and help out an M113 US Mechanized infantry squad by sniping the enemy in the back or try to drive straight through their lines and return to base.

Each of my old missions also had what I called a 'Hidden Objective'.  Each mission had a 'hidden command post' tucked way off in some pretty remote, highly concealed, stealthily guarded location.  I'd have 'The General' (Guba) hiding out there, typically under a camo net/tent by a table with maps and a radio.  There'd sometimes be a Shilka or a T-80 nearby hidden in some trees with Spetznaz hiding nearby to help guard him.  If you were lucky enough to find the base, and get a lucky shot - Mission over, you've won.  Same with Helo/A-10 missions.  If you spotted something remote, hidden, and discover Guba's hiding spot, a well-placed air-strike could potentially win the mission as well.  Kind of a "Cut the head off the snake" option.

I can't wait to see what the mission builder options allow in OFP2!!!  Especially with those graphics!!!  

Quoted: Quoted: ARMA sucked for many reasons and one of which was going for hyper realism.. If you don't want 'hyper-realism', play COD4 or something like that. Leave the OFP/ARMA franchise alone.

+1  The Hyper Realism is what made it so revolutionary!  It's not your typical pre-scripted Run & Gun game!

Stick with running around COD4 Servers with your PS90 with power-ups if that's what you're into...  The full battlefield realism of OFP/ARMA is what's so great!  I can't stand games with bunny-hopping RPG Snipers in CQB fights!  

COD for is okay on Hardcore servers, where you can kill a guy with 1-3 decently placed shots, but the arcade-mode bunny-hopping physics exploiting communists with Rail-gun-like PS90s able to shoot through several steel walls on a ship don't exist in real combat.

I like the full-battlefield style of OFP/OFPR/ArmA and I'm really looking forward to OFP2!!!

There's something realistic about the building suspense of the storyline as you progress though OFP.  Driving to a staging area, finding the hidden-goodies, meeting up in the assembly area, and then killing some commies!  Dialogue and suspense building as you go...

If my personal life allowed more free-time, I'd go reinstall OFP/R again and have some more fun playing the resistance fighter, wiping out Russian convoys and stealing as many of their guns/ammo as I can to equip my men.

I agree, it's TOUGH at first to get used to the 'command' controls of OFP/R, but once you learn little tricks to do it better, it can be done with relative ease.  I always setup my men in concealed positions (bushes, etc.) for ambush, and it really allows you the flexibility needed to exploit small-unit assault tactics!

What was that in-game Single Player level, you've scouted an enemy camp with BMP's on the previous mission, and now you're fighting down a hill/valley toward the camp to capture the enemy encampment...  I LOVED that mission for the use of small-unit tactics can be GREAT!

Arm yourself with the M24 (M14) Sniper rifle, an LAW with 2-3 rockets...  Take out the patrol that comes at you from the south (be ready for them), and then split up my unit.  Send a few men over the left (south) hill, send a MG and two men down the middle (lagging behind slowly), and take the medic and maybe 1 more with you over the north side of the valley/hill (right).  From the hilltop you can snipe down into the valley to confuse the enemy, which is surrounded on 3 sides, and it flushes them right toward the machinegunner.  Eventually you go over your own hill, take out the BMP's from concealment positions with your rockets, and stage your 2 other groups.  Call in the backup force on the radio to come in from the southwest, wait a little while, and send in your men.  Snipe as many people as you can see escaping camp while your up on the hilltop, and then go down into the camp.  By now your ammo is likely low, pickup an AK, and patrol around the camp to clean up any left-over badguys and a small counter-attack force.  Mission over.

Awe crap.  Guess I'm getting hooked again just thinking about how fun OFP was...  Guess I'm going to have to reinstall it too.  

Cool!