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That blows.
The "one sitting" line really killed it. If he didn't add in that simple phrase, they could have said "well technically, it COULD take you 9 and a half hours, but you have to stay on mission".
This game kind of had my attention, so are you always on a mission? There is no open world sandbox type play? Because if not that is a fucking oversight, why bother making that huge island if you are always forced to stay in a certain area?
What a stupid design decision. I was really under the impression that the entire game was going to be more freeform, allowing you to take things on as you felt were appropriate.
It would actually be pretty cool to have a realistic, tactical military game that plays like Crackdown. Not with superpowers or whatever, but in that you sort of drop down at a base and decide how you want to go about completing various objectives around the battlefield.
Personally I don't care about the Singleplayer campaign with this game, or playing with AI Squadmates, all I wanted from Operation Flashpoint DR was its mission editor so my friends and I can play endless coop missions. And that's what we are doing.. The fact that I have this huge open world to create a mission anywhere, with any asset that is in the game has been quite satisfying. Granted it is no ArmA or ArmA2 which are FAR more realistic than OFP:DR, but this game does have a bit better performance than the other 2 so all of my friends can play it.
Yes the game has some major AI issues, and the lack of a dedicated server is very unfortunate, but we make due. My friends have rather fast internet connections which offer us a stable experience in the game. And so far we have had endlessly different experiences playing the custom coop missions that we are making for this game. With the release of the patch that's in the works now, hopefully a lot of the issues that are holding this game back (that should have been fixed in the first place) will be solved for the most part.
I think the biggest problem is that their statements of one huge open world were taken by those who have not played ofp or arma and thought of it as a 'crackdown' / 'gta' type world where you could go anywhere and fight in a conflict at any time. Unfortunately that's not the case, the world is open and free to roam.. but you will run into conflict only where the developer of that mission put units.
However, with that being said, if you use the mission editor, you can easily make a mission that does such a thing. The greatest thing about having such an open world environment, and a beautiful mission editor like OFP / ArmA is that you have endless possibilities.
I am currently working on a mission that takes my friends and I from one side of the island to the other.. and will last approximately 3-4 hours. We start off coming in on helicopter, land on a coast line.. move inland and fight combatants, and then we get into light armored vehicles and push with a small armor column which then gets ambushed. We then move on foot from that location and work our way towards an oil refinery and destroy it. Hunt down sam sights so our birds in the air can take out armor that's in our way. After which we split up into two groups of two, rendezvous with some ammunition drops that I had set up on a mountain side.. get our sniper equipment and then hunt down two generals on the island. Afterwords we have to get to the extraction and be airlifted out of the island without dieing.
None of this was part of the story of the game, none of this was pre-configured for me. This is something I am building in the mission editor with simple clicks of the mouse button. Its a drag and drop experience with creating any type of mission you want, and approaching the mission in any way you want. We can completely avoid the armor column if we want, we can go straight to the oil refinery and destroy it. That's the beauty of this game, is that you CAN do whatever you want, it all depends on the size and scope of the mission.
Is the experience much better in ArmA / ArmA 2, in some cases yes it is. But as I said, my friends have performance issues with those games, so this is our fallback, and its a satisfying one. I just hope the patch they are working on currently will fix alot of issues with the game.
@Wasted
Wow, that actually sounds fucking bad ass. I may have to look into it then.
@ Wasted
Dude, is there anyway you could hook me up with that mission you're making? It sounds fuckin awesome. I'm having tons of fun with this game, so it's nice to hear of someone else that enjoys it...
PM me if you want to share that mission
@Mourning Orange - I'm not sure when I'll be done with the mission, it might be a month or so because I'm busy as hell with school and theres a lot of work going into the mission itself. But I will make a blog post once it is completed.