Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising DLC only 'weeks' away

So you pirated it on the PC then? Let's say you didn't have a PC, only a 360 or PS3 but it could play pirated games with full functionality, full online play, etc. Would you pirate on them instead?

I freaking hate pirates. They're responsible for the failure of the Dreamcast. Stupid lazy scum.

Protip: Don't declare yourself a pirate on the Joystiq boards.

The commmenters will hate you for it.

Maybe he meant he doubted he would pay for the dlc?

we already hate him, so that's not an issue.

Nintendo frowns upon you.

Tip for Pirates: If you comment on here, know one thing:

IT'S A TRAP!

Hi Joystiq, I was a pirate back in the PS2 days. I was a kid back then who had no ambitions to get a job and if I had a job, I doubt I would have spent it on games as there were other things in life that interested me. I didn't acquire such a library of games, but I had quite the amount. Oh, and I wasn't even legal to work. Right up when I got a little bit older and when the PS3 was released, though, I thought to myself "Oh shit, how am I going to pay for $59.99 games now?" because the PS3 was unhackable at its time. I thought this was a turning point to get my broke ass a job, and so I eventually got one and started paying for games. I'm telling you, it feels much more rewarding paying for games rather than pirating them, but at the same time I also felt the wallet when I bought a pretty shitty game. Well, there goes my two cents!

I remember the conversations in law class we had about justifying piracy.

Guess what, it's just not possible. No matter how hard you try, you will never be able to justify piracy. However, you can just ignore the consequences.

It only costs $39.99 on the PC you douche. I personally loved the game so much I bought it on both the 360 and the PC.

Umm.. Any of you guys ever heard of game rentals? WTF is up with the whole "pirate inquisition brigade" thing?

I honestly think there are just ArmA II fanboys (butthurt bunch they are over purchasing a buggy disgusting mess) are the ones trolling every forum on the internet claiming how buggy OFP:DR is. I have the game on PC and 360 but have yet to experience any lag, bugs or glitches (except one where a dead enemy didn't fall over). That is in singleplayer, co-op and multiplayer.

I honestly think you are full of ****.

1. I lag more on OFPDR more than any other game on my xbox. In fact, its the ONLY game I experience REGULAR lag on while playing over xbox live.

2. only a sample of the issues I have experienced with OFP so far:

1.Enemies in MP take 3-4 headshots to die

2. Vehicle physics are a JOKE. (hit a rock and bounce 15 feet backwards, turn at more than 30 mph and flip over every time.

3. floating bodies

4. invisible guns

5.HORRIBLE friendly AI (constantly getting stuck and they do not respond to my orders at least 50% of the time.)

6. poor enemy AI

7. HUD disappears and reappears randomly

8. constant disconnections and lag on MP

9. to put it simply, MP just ISNT FUN compared to OFP1. Especially with no mission editor on consoles

10. CM advertised 60+ weapons, when really there is only 20 or so, just with different scopes on each.

11. Where the hell are all the vehicles?

12. NO FREE ROAM, (god that pisses me off) even though CM advertised free roam on OFP2 over and over again.

Also, I am not an arma fanboy, having never played Arma 1 or 2. (my computer cant handle it). so dont go blindly calling people ARMA fanboys because they think this game is bad.

Hell, my comp can barely even handle OFP1 with max settings

the main reason why I am so pissed over this is because CODEMASTERS completely stole the OFP name from bohemia and then ruined the franchise, releasing a buggy, unfinished, piece of sh*t game. I do plan to buy ARMA2 asap once I get a new comp, which should be really soon.

So basically in a nutshell:

OFPDR is trash. Codemasters has royally pissed me off and I will never buy another CM product again.


If you have experienced ZERO issues with the game, I HIGHLY DOUBT you have ever played it. So GTFO.

This game was gimped profusely compared to the original for the PC and Xbox. Bodies disappear in seconds, no civilian activity, most of the vehicles aren't drivable and the Mission editor is COMPLETELY MISSING. This is like what Ghost Recon would've naturally evolved into if GRAW didn't release.
You get this massive world to fight in , but you can't go more than a few meters from where the mission is , or you get called for going AWOL. And in co op you're in this weird invisible barrier to keep you close, even though its supposed to be a military sim. I knew i should've just got Arma 2 but i figured they couldn't have messed it up this bad.
Compared to the original version, this game is shit. But on its own merits its like a 6/10. Either way don't buy it.

i had such high hopes for this game :(

the original flashpoint was one of the coolest games i have ever played, huge maps, everything that moves you can drive, and dont forget the hours and hours of CTI games that were just the coolest multiplayer experience EVER.

/sigh ... all i wanted was CTI in this version

I also thought the game was a messy unfinished unplayable mess. I picked up the PS3 version without having every played any game in the series and it was one of the absolute worst games I've ever seen or played. The graphics were muddy and looked like dog shit, the color palette was that next gen combination or grey, brown and dark green and the menu system for issuing commands was unnecessarily difficult and it didn't have a true tutorial for issuing different commands. Not only that but the gameplay itself was beyond rigid ... it didn't feel realistic as much as it felt restricted and unfinished. I went to go trade it in at Gamestop for store credit and the store clerk told me he would return it as new just this once because he had played it as well and felt sorry that anyone would have to suffer through it! The game is just complete garbage on the PS3 ... can't see it being different on other platforms.

Codemasters lied pre-release about the content.

This game is like older Ghost Recon games. Which is far beyond being a bad game.

BUT!!!

It was advertised as a Flashpoint game, not a Ubi-Release.

No free roam!!!!
Not every vehicle is drivable as they promised.
Campaign is Infantery only, w/ a few chances to hop into a humvee.
No tank specific or helo specific missions at all.

Epic fail, codemasters

"I had an AI teammate run me over with a truck. As soon as I got the medic to revive me the same guy backed the truck back over me before I got up to finish me off."

Made me lol. Retarded AI can be funny as hell sometimes.

Totally agree. Legendary had a very original plot line, which is always something special. What a darn shame that it pretty much failed.

So the developer gets none of the blame?

They get a good deal of the blame, of course.

it takes people 3 weeks to beat a game?

Well, you know some people get busy. Besides, I like spanning the time I play a game, so that it's more of a long term memory. Speeding through a game just doesn't work for me. I'm sure some people would agree.

there's nothing wrong with game based ranking up, Halo does it and it works fine. You can get shitloads of kills by being and asshole and not helping your team with an objective, which is why getting rewarded only when your whole team succeeds is a good thing.

Sounds like you've never even played the game. I'm on a 32" screen and enemies 200 meters away aren't a problem to spot at all, just because this isn't COD where the game has a giant neon sign that says, "OMFG ENIMEZ RITE HUR GOGOGOGOGO" doesn't mean it's bad design. Not only that but co-op doesn't have checkpoints because they toss in a respawn system and if you still need checkpoints ontop of that YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG.

I keep hearing aboutt his paranormal god-like enemy AI but honestly I cut through them on hardcore without issue. Perhaps you should stop standing with your LMG running through the bushes shooting it in the sky, because when 15 NPC's see that and fire at you chances are you'll die within a second. I haven't experienced any cheep enemy shots in the campaign though I have died alot from being stupid but in a standard firefight I do get hit on occasion but I just move to cover, stop my bleeding and wait for a medic to get me back in fighting shape. And this bug issue... yeah on neither the PC or 360 have I seen any real issues save one instance where an enemy didn't fall over dead and clipped into a tree.

Sounds like someone is just mad because the game is "too hard."

@Silicon Siren

stop being a fucking douche bag and accept that the game is a alright at best. No one complains that the game is "too hard" dumbass, the same thing is said about Demon's Souls and it gets high regards for that. The game suffers from bugs, terrible graphics for a game based on distance and limitations.

For a game that looks just as good as Far Cry 2 but with better character models I hardly see how it "looks terrible." It also has a 35km draw distance, find me another game that does that while looking as good as it does. People keep listing "bugs" as a glaring flaw but I've yet to hear/see any of such issues. Like I said I own it on both PC and 360 and have yet to experience such an issue.

And yes people complain it is "too hard." Making false accusations over the enemy AI being a perfect god-like shot is code for "too hard." They AI is perfectly fair and at 200 meters the shot spreads they have are entirely believable and relative to real life, and works both for you and the enemy AI. Now of course if you play it like a theatrical shooter like COD you're going to get buried and I can see how someone who is use to such a game would come to such moronic conclusions. The game does what it advertised and it does it superbly in a dying genre.

@Silicon Siren

No need to be some combative over someone elses opinion on the damn game. I played and I had never played any previous iteration in the series. I bought into the hype about being realistic, unforgiving and taking place in an on-going war. The problem is that the island was barely populated, the squad commands were unnecessarily complicated, the graphics were muddy as shit, everything blended in with those colors of brown, grey and green and the game itself simply wasn't fun. I thought it was one of the worst playing and worst looking games I've played this generation. It was fucking terrible.

If you like it then more power to you ... but, just because others don't like it doesn't mean they are arma 2 fanboys (whatever that is) or because the game is too difficult. The bottom line for me is the game simply sucked.

I don't know on what planet that this looks as good as far cry 2. The game looked like shit and the developers compltely oversold and underdelivered with what was promised. The game simply isn't fun to play at all.

Awesome.