As an old fan of the BI games (don't know how many hours I spent with the original Flashpoint) this thread had me starting up Arma2 again which has been idle on my drive for a couple of months now. It really is a hog on hardware and as I switched rig this week I was amazed how much better Arma2 ran on my new rig! The aiming has always been a bit of a problem on my old rig as you often fire from very long range so aiming a pixel or two "wrong" misses the target... The game was rather smooth on medium high on my E8400/GTX275/6Gb RAM but there was almost always a bit of micro "lag" while precision aiming. On my new computer I set everything to max and it runs as smooth as Call of Duty does
A whole new experience! Damn I love that game series... Bought Arrowhead on a Steam sale two weeks ago so it's time to put my teeth into that game again!
One of my gaming hall of fame moments is a night on LAN with two friends playing Flashpoint 1. We tried a co op mission where you should secure a village and then there was a counter attack by the reds with a BMP or two. We played the same mission a whole evening trying to get it right but as the AI is very unscripted it came up with new ideas every darn time! When we tried to surprise them as we had played the mission 15 times they came a whole new route to attack us
The only problem in the series is naturally that it has always been buggy as hell (or northern Sweden in summertime). People that can't see the gem beneath the surface because the driving AI many times go nuts better go back to Call of Duty and the AI that spawns hordes of zombies at you until you reach a certain trigger point... I remember all the forum discussions about campaign missions in FP1. No one had done it the same way, and if you tried to copy a "walk through" you where always in for a nice surprise (or bug
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